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[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

oh absolutely, I saw exactly that play out but for crypto before that bubble burst

“uhm professor what if we did the NP-complete algorithm on an ASIC, theoretically wouldn’t that let us increase our hashrate uhm I mean”

and of course the classic: getting kicked out of school because you used one of the GPU servers to mine ethereum and one of the grad students noticed