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[โ€“] stink_pickle@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

i love crypto.. I've always asked what the calculations are searching for from the myriad of cpu & gpu's... and no one has really ever given me a straight answer for why it has value. *edit: to the last guy that tried to sell me a photo of a monkey... thanks for the downvote, yet again

It's the final form of artificial scarcity, scarcity alone without even a thing to be made scarce.