I wish every crypto miner a very broke as fuck

"Even gold could fall victim to the recent downturn as “physical metals may break from the trend on safe haven demand,” Burry speculated, if “tokenized metals futures” were to collapse."

@SallyStrange Press ‚$‘ to pay respects …

@SallyStrange I second that emotion.

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Who could have seen this coming???!!?

@csstrowbridge @SallyStrange

I considered buying some when it was $10 but considered that the supply of greater fools was probably close to exhaustion. Apparently I underestimated the idiot supply by several orders of magnitude.

@SallyStrange And when the total amount of compute dedicated to rats races is low enough, a single actor can swoop in and perform a 51% attack.

If you close your eyes and yell loud enough to not hear anything, crypto is truly amazing.

@SallyStrange cheap gpus flooding the market when

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"According to Coindesk, the average cost to mine one Bitcoin is currently around $87,000 — far higher than its current going rate, making it an extremely unprofitable proposition."

It's a broken concept. Crypto-coins are not currencies but systems for speculators & criminals.

@SallyStrange The notion that much 'work' and 'profit made' in the Capitalist system is just about moving money as numbers around. There is no work done. There is no sustained investment in the company whose shares you briefly own. Yet the poor have to grind themselves into the ground for paltry sums.

@SallyStrange bring it down, crypto crash, burn and die.

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> reaching historic lows of well below the $70,000 mark

Historic lows would be more like $0

@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe @lieter@mastodon.lieter.nl or the unfealing tears of commuters :v

@SallyStrange until the difficulty algorithm adjusts... It's not rocket science guys.

@licho fuck crypto miners. They're all horrible people

@SallyStrange @lieter right after they use them for the current grift, "AI"