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It's a valid point, but for most collectors, it's a store of value. With the shallow kudos attached of being able to say you own it It's essentially Bitcoin but without the horrible and needless environmental impact of coin mining - and you can actually gaze upon it and perhaps get some aesthetic pleasure from it, rather than just getting wood over some 1s and 0s that you "own"

Yup - our Guy Fawkes mask-wearing pal has made himself look a chump yet again, but at least now we know what jejune means

Most importantly PW has pledged to start the bounce if we get promoted 😁

Ignoring Hourihane as he's already said he is retiring next season apparently - that's 9 players I'm not great at maths but in a 21 man first team squad, I'd probably describe 9 as "less than half" rather than "the vast majority"

100% - that's really disappointing from Radio Derby. Trying to cause controversy where literally none exists I came away thinking that, for once, there was nothing really controversial said. The only bits even vaguely contentious were Matt Hale saying that they taught the academy players to "cheat" and PW saying that he completely respects the rights of the fans to boo his players off the pitch at full time if you feel that they haven't performed well enough

care to list them? Some - yes, but "vast majority"? really? Behave

Worse than that - he just trotted out the exact same speech he gave twice at the previous forum in september. It's clear he's not going go own it, or admit any culpability - so at this point I'd just give it up. Time to move forward. If we end up in another financial mess under his stewardship there will be a lot of "I told you so's" but I have to say there is a very different air to his comments under DC (frugal and considered) than those he made under MM (cavalier and cocky). And that's hardly a surprise - probably answers the question about "what lessons have you learned" more than his actual (non) answer

There was a good question on "would Paul Warne at the height of his playing days get into the current Derby team?" He gave a good answer, but the subtext was that he likes athletic players, and that he knows whether a player is Championship standard or not (saying he has no idea why he got games in the Championship because he wasn't good enough!) In the context of the later comment about contract renewals and changes - I think we just have to trust that he will make the right choices (within whatever financial restraints he has)

I was there, and it was a flippant short answer "no" - because all of his other answers had been lengthy and light-hearted The context was actually that they don't plan to make any more decisions on contracts until they know what division we are in next season. That the focus is 100% on the seven remaining games The bit added on the tweet about "lots of changes" was not, as I remember it, said in the direct context of answering that question. FWIW I recommend everyone watch the replay tomorrow, but only Warne's bits - the rest was really, really dull

I like the political intent behind a lot of his work, much more than I like his artistic style (stencilled graffiti art is not exactly original)

Certainly the idea in TBL's letter of a "personal online data store" which the user has control over and not the tech companies would be a good start, and education from a young age is ultimately the only way to change the mindset

https://webfoundation.org/2024/03/marking-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter/ Tim Berners Lee's open letter is a thought-provoking read

Nope but I guess that all the stars are being awarded by the K-Pop fans who fancy their leading men to look like young boys 😂

Parklife!

Yeah fair enough. I can see the benefits - but it's easy to look at it through the lens of a privileged BTC devotee from the developed world. White saviours and all that. People have been living in Malawi without electricity for literally thousands of years. It's funny how giving it to them now - when there is muchos bitcoin to be made using their land and their resources, that we suddenly get so benevolent Another laughing emoji incoming for me from the resident blackshirts 😂

Doesn't seem a very balanced one - it is classic colonialism whichever way you look at it

Well, yeah I get all that, but are you really saying that ALL the BTC that these villages mine = the exact cost of the maintenance of the equipment? Whatever - the BTC ends up in the wallets of the people who supply and maintain the equipment. They will be making a huge profit - especially given the current trajectory of BTC value I guess that I naively thought these third world villages were getting electricity AND a good chunk of the BTC they mine It's classic colonialism

I think they will aim to kick the ball into our goal net

Wow - so it's pure exploitation? The "saviours" in the developed world give them some free electricity, and in return they get a constant source of free BTC. That's pretty grim

It's at this point that it becomes clear it's a total cult. Do they even hear the words they are saying??

It's a little light in detail, but seems to be saying that they have installed three hydro turbines that give the village electricity. Whatever excess electricity they generate is used to run a BTC mining rig, but it doesn't really explain what happens to any BTC they successfully mine. Who owns it? How much can they realistically mine? After halving there will only be around 400 BTC mined daily across the whole globe, so how much one village with a water powered generator can mine is probably going to be quite small If you scale this up, it just means the rewards are spread more thinly Not convinced

It's certainly the largest flaw in the bitcoin design, that it takes such massive amounts of energy to mine, so I hope they can figure it out. That and the fact that it's just 0s and 1s on a computer at the end of the day. Come the next Carrington event, they will all just disappear. At least gold as a store of value actually exists!

where can you watch it? Sounds good! scratch that - I see it on Disney Plus. Added to watchlist

Good article about Voyager 1 here, and how they think they may be able to issue a Jet Set Willy-style poke to get the computer working again, but it at least demonstrates the problem of how long it takes to send and receive messages https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/voyager_1_not_dead/ That's going to be heaps of fun for Johnny Martian - sat there holding his breath, waiting for an answer to the request he's sent back to earth to ask how he fixes the oxygen system...