One of the most infuriating things about this is we've cooked the planet with this for nothing. Imagine if all that compute could have gone to BOINC projects like @RosettaAtHome or @WCGrid. 😔
The greed is literally killing us, both through global warming and opportunity cost for better public research into things like cancer and pandemics.
My BOINC credits are worth absolutely nothing as a currency, but I have no regrets that I have them to my name instead of MemeCoins.
If you have compute to spare, why not use it to potentially bless those you'll never meet? This is a far better longterm investment than mining Bitcoin.
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Cryptocurrencies are pyramid schemes. It's Amway for tech bros.
It's often the same wishy language and hypotheticals given by MLM salespeople. Yes, it does make some people very rich - at the expense of a whole lot of other people.
Some people are convinced that if they can just get enough pennies together to buy an NFT, that things will work out better for them financially. It is unethical, immoral, evil, and wrong.
This is a great analogy. All that to say, there's no problem with at all with learning python first, but you'll understand how python works much better coming from C.
For example, when learning python, which is a strongly typed language, a beginner will likely be surprised to learn that you can iterate over a string. Shouldn't this be a type error? In C, a string is an array or chars and that carries over into python.