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1. 🆎 (bloor@bloor.tw)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 12:08:49 UTC 🆎

   I've been running my mining rig flat out this week. It's doing really well. Producing quite a bit of heat, but producing sometimes £2 in value per day, reliably.

   Oh sorry, not my mining rig, because cryptocurrency is shit, no, what I meant to say was my solar inverter. My solar inverter has made £2 per day. Thanks "the sun".

   Cryptobros, maybe consider this when your folly inevitably implodes on itself.

   • Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 12:08:45 UTC Charlie Stross

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     @bloor Coming next: SunCoin, a cryptocurrency where the proof of work is provided by confirmed solar PV production—the more PV panels you install and keep operational, the more currency you earn.

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   • Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 12:08:52 UTC Charlie Stross

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     @bloor Would need to figure out how to authenticate the proof-of-work panels and ownership. That's the hard bit. There's no DRM on electrons …

   • Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 12:08:52 UTC Terence Eden

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     • Charlie Stross

     @cstross @bloor
     I hate to tell you, but there is a weird UK startup which is trying to do this.
     https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/05/a-weird-solar-blockchain-thing-rowan-energy/
     They're using a Raspberry Pi energy monitor to "certify" your solar generation on their blockchain.
     It is deeply stupid.

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   • 🆎 (bloor@bloor.tw)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 12:08:53 UTC 🆎

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     • Charlie Stross

     @cstross Some government should actually do this, you know.