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The idle cycles on your CPU in

2000s : aid search for extra terrestrials

2010s : help search for cancer cures

2020s : help planet incinerating ponzi grifters (h/t: jwz)

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Extraterrestrials: no money

Cancer research: some money

Crypto: more money

I don't know why you didn't make any money from the SETI search. It worked out nice for me once I'd established contact; I'm now get 20 DogeCoin for every anal probe they administer.

20 Dogecoin is only a little over $3.

You're getting scammed.

Don’t yuck someone else’s yum.

You're only getting scammed if you convert it to fiat. 1 Doge = 1 Doge, always.

I read it as every anal probe they administer to anyone. That's probably a pretty sweet deal.

Not if you'd do it for free ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

It's like a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy plot...

It does remind me of the Shoe Event Horizon. Except, what we have constructed with Proof of Work is probably more like The Paperclip Game, at the end of this we will be converting matter to energy to coins.

So just money in general.

Since China banned crypto mining is there a sort of accidental arms race to find which civilization depleds its energy resources? Let's see who gets burned first?

Nah I'm convinced that all the nations should get together, build a big quantum CPU and mine the rest of the bitcoin in one shot - that will help save the planet

All three of them being pointless and wasteful.

Why for the cancer research use?

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