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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Making fake money by burning real hydrocarbons is a loud business, Maureen. So loud I can't hear you complaining over the noise of all this binary industry.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What?!! I can't hear you. Just think of all the lives we'll save with this waste heat the next time a winter storm overwhelms the power grid!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If the power grid is overwhelmed, they won't be producing any more heat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Psssh, git outta here wit yer high falootin logic!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As long as people accept the money and it can be converted into money that people accept, is it really any more fake than any other money?

[–] Yggnar 1 points 2 months ago

Years ago I would've argued real money is backed by something like gold, but here we are now, basing most currency globally off the USD which is just fiat money. So yeah, there really isn't anything making USD more legitimate than Bitcoin as long as humans are associating value to it.

[–] FlyingSquid 8 points 2 months ago

But think about how much warmer they're making the Earth! Canada should thank them!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Rock and roll ain't noise pollution, but this certainly is.