LOL Bitch I had to bare-metal restore a fucking Wordpress instance for my wife to purge a Bitcoin miner in 2011. It was on Hostgator because it was so long ago, Hostgator didn't suck yet. I fuckin' put a PiHole on the network at work to keep the Monero-injecting ad networks off my shit in 2016. If you're seeing illicit crypto miners show up now rather than when Obama was President you're some kind of rare-ass hothouse flower. Well technically they're worms, but whatevs Maybe keep better track of your shit. If you don't notice something stealing all your cycles you're careless. If you can't restore back to where something wasn't stealing all your cycles you're hopeless. And I say this as a man who has "man who hack at root soon kill tree" tattooed on the back of his forehead. They're fucking Russian hackers, have always been Russian hackers, will always be Russian hackers. Wait, "Sourcehut - the Hacker's Forge" - that Sourcehut? You realize "hacker" is a pejorative for a programmer who cuts corners and operates in an illegal or quasi-legal fashion, right? Right it was a fuckin' bastion of principled altruism before that damn Satoshi guy showed up. Phone phreaking... for good! Nasdaq crashing... for justice! Sony put a rootkit on their CDs to fill everyone's computers with vitamins! You made it through e-everything without developing skepticism? "We put a chip in it" with your idealism intact? IoT4ErryThing without growing cynical? Fuckin' 8 years after Silk Road ate shit and NOW you're salty about crypto? What you let your emails age four goddamn years before opening them and getting mad? No wonder this is hitting you now. Right - 'cuz if they didn't, Ethereum wouldn't be able to do all the cool shit you can do with Ethereum. This is like getting mad at Honda for recalling anything with a Takata airbag. I mean... it's the word "currency" with a prefix. Yeah little nothing countries like Turkey and Argentina. Funny thing about Turkey. They banned Bitcoin last Sunday. Today they announced the Turkish Central Bank is opening its own exchange. No, cryptocurrency is either a bearer instrument or a settlement network depending on what you do with it. And, I mean, capitalism is fundamentally a way for those with capital to increase their capital. So... Something like 80% of all crypto out there is being HODL'd. To be a Ponzi scheme the income of the newbs has to pay back the vets but since the vets largely haven't cashed out, this perpetual insistance on using the word "Ponzi" because it's the only understanding you have of scams is tiresome. If you want a more accurate, but equally pejorative description, you want to look to the British East India Crash or the Florida Land Boom, in which poorly-understood assets were overbid by overleveraged amateurs to the advantage of the initial experts, who got out ahead of the crash in both instances. Except in both instances, the lack of understanding was due to secrecy, fraud and imperfect information, all of which are mathematically negated by - wait for it - cryptocurrency. 75% of crypto mining is in China. I mean yeah - sucks to be in Sukhumi but yeah, it sucks to be in Sukhumi. When they could be teabagging n00bs in GTAIV! Think of the children Said the guy railing about ICOs while everyone else is busily dunking on NFTs Can we... pause for a moment to observe the broad brush being used here? It's like that time I went to a financial advisor to see whether I should pay my house off or not and was told that he would happily deal with drug dealers but he wouldn't touch crypto. It's like that time my father told me that the only people invested in crypto are criminals... all while paying for the methadone for my step brother, the snitch with five convictions. hey - 'member when everyone showed Wikileaks what's what and banned them from Paypal? And forced them to accept Bitcoin? When it was at 23 cents? Good times. Proof of stake lets you earn interest without a bank. Those with the money are all over it. I dunno I mean, yer right, it's no Squatty Potty No you're not, you're angry that it shares an industry with you. Obviously the promise of the printing press and steam engine took less than ten years... Cough I dunno man I am up... five orders of magnitude and I grew up with food stamps and Rit dye. I dunno man it's no Netflix We're against proof-of-stake why, again? LIST EXAMPLES OF OTHERWISE PROMISING PROJECTS HERE______________________________________ LOL there's easily a thousand shitcoins out there, most of which have long since grenaded. Meanwhile, So buy a fuckin' laptop you elitist piece of shit. You can buy a laptop with a hot-shit video card for the price of the hot-shit video card. My cousin bought a fuckin' Dell with a GTX 3060 last month for the price of a GTX 3060. Just 'cuz you're an idiot who doesn't know how to arbitrage the PC Master Race doesn't mean it's hard.Over the past several months, everyone in the industry who provides any kind of free CPU resources has been dealing with a massive outbreak of abuse for cryptocurrency mining.
Cryptocurrency has invented an entirely new category of internet abuse.
Someone found a way of monetizing stolen CPU cycles directly, so everyone who offered free CPU cycles for legitimate use-cases is now unable to provide those services.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that these are a bunch of script kiddies. There are large, talented teams of engineers across several organizations working together to combat this abuse, and they’re losing.
I would give more examples, but secrecy is a necessary part of defending against this — which really sucks for an organization that otherwise strives to be as open and transparent as sourcehut does.
The integrity and trust of the entire software industry has sharply declined due to cryptocurrency.
I’ve had to develop a special radar for reading product pages now: a mounting feeling of dread as a promising technology is introduced while I inevitably arrive at the buried lede: it’s more crypto bullshit.
“Hi! How’ve you been? Long time no see! Oh, I’ve been working on this cool distributed database file store archive thing. We’re doing an ICO next week.”
Remember the DAO? They wanted to avoid social arbitration entirely for financial contracts, but when the chips are down and their money was walking out the door, they forked the blockchain.
That’s what cryptocurrency is all about: not novel technology, not empowerment, but making money.
It has failed as an actual currency outside of some isolated examples of failed national economies.
No, cryptocurrency is not a currency at all: it’s an investment vehicle. A tool for making the rich richer.
And that’s putting it nicely; in reality it has a lot more in common with a Ponzi scheme than a genuine investment.
Those make for a good headline, but how about the rural communities whose tax dollars subsidized the power plants which the miners have flocked to?
Even those in the (allegedly) working economies of the first world have been impacted by cryptocurrency. The price of consumer GPUs have gone sharply up in the past few months. And, again, what are these GPUs being used for? Running SHA-256 in a loop, as fast as possible.
Maybe your cryptocurrency is different. But look: you’re in really poor company. When you’re the only honest person in the room, maybe you should be in a different room. It is impossible to trust you.
Every comment online about cryptocurrency is tainted by the fact that the commenter has probably invested thousands of dollars into a Ponzi scheme and is depending on your agreement to make their money back
Not to mention that any attempts at reform, like proof-of-stake, are viciously blocked by those in power (i.e. those with the money) because of any risk it poses to reduce their bottom line.
Cryptocurrency is one of the worst inventions of the 21st century.
I am ashamed to share an industry with this exploitative grift.
It has failed to be a useful currency
invented a new class of internet abuse,
further enriched the rich,
wasted staggering amounts of electricity,
hastened climate change,
ruined hundreds of otherwise promising projects,
provided a climate for hundreds of scams to flourish,
created shortages and price hikes for consumer hardware,