• Dave.@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    There may have to be fundamental engineering breakthroughs before what these systems do can be more than a very expensive and inefficient worldwide proof of concept.

    Controversial thought after reading this sentence: It’s cryptocoins all over again.

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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      2 days ago

      That’d be fine. Cryptocurrency as a whole is still going strong (total market cap is around 3 trillion dollars) and most of the major ones have switched over to energy-free proof-of-stake validation.

      • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
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        2 days ago

        Sadly most Crypto nowadays is really just for either speculation or buying things on the dark web. Wish there were more legitimate uses for it, although i am fine using it for the spicier things in life.

    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
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      2 days ago

      Cryptocoins deliberately burn more energy doing useless calculations to prevent inflation. That’s a little bit of an oversimplification, but I don’t feel like explaining the full thing and the vibes are there.