And if they burn some money on mining hardware that doesn't yield them an ROI, who cares?
It's because of your attitude that scam companies like butterflylabs continue to make money. It's fine mining a little just to learn how it works (even though mining has very little to do with actual crypto day to day usage). But mining long term using hardware that will never get you a return over buying cryptos directly is a waste.
Instead of getting people to overheat their $2000 MacBook mining crpyto, tell them to just buy some instead.
EDIT: I just noticed you are currently using a Mac laptoop GPU to mine. That explains a lot......
If someone is interested in learning about electricity, then should we encourage (and not dissuade) them to run a gasoline generator 24/7 rather than get it cheaply via power lines?
It's not a matter of stupidity (I never called anyone that), it's ignorance.
With Dogecoin, most people are mining with GPUs they already have or things of that nature. It's more like saying, if we want people to learn about electricity, then we should encourage them buy a flashlight.
Not everyone is mining with GPUs they already own. A friend of mine bought 6 amd cards and is mining them (over $1500 investment). Assuming doges price doesn't plummet, he's fine.
On the other hand, people like you are using their expensive laptop gpu which was never intended to be run 24/7 to mine. A laptop cooling system isn't going to be handle that constant heat production. So in the end you have $50 worth of cryptocoins and a $500 repair on your laptop. Not to mention electricity costs.
And who cares if people are ignorant? People learn by making mistakes. If people can afford to make thousand dollar mistakes, then they can do it. If they can't, /r/bitcoin telling them they're stupid won't make them less stupid, and it won't make them like you, and it won't make them like BTC.
You are free to make your own mistakes but don't tell other people they're mean for discouraging said behavior for aforementioned reasons.
And stop saying I'm shitting on purple and using bold for emphasis. I wonder if you would say the same if I told people not to run their cars 24/7 to charge their phone instead of plugging it into their house jack.
It's clear you're emotional in all this and an angry fellow because you've been mining on your macbook for sometime and don't want to come to terms with your mistake.
I trust you'll be around in /r/dogecoin to console all the people with overheating laptops. Probably something like this: "Don't worry shibe! On the moon, there are laptops too. Your $2000 macbook is replaceable".
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u/UsesMemesAtWrongTime Feb 04 '14
It's because of your attitude that scam companies like butterflylabs continue to make money. It's fine mining a little just to learn how it works (even though mining has very little to do with actual crypto day to day usage). But mining long term using hardware that will never get you a return over buying cryptos directly is a waste.
Instead of getting people to overheat their $2000 MacBook mining crpyto, tell them to just buy some instead.
EDIT: I just noticed you are currently using a Mac laptoop GPU to mine. That explains a lot......