But hey, cheap hardware when it’s all over. Not like we’ll have any money to buy it, but it’s something.

God I can't wait

And even worse Chia is most likely what caused the glut of counterfeit Seatgate “new” drives that flooded the market.

For those that weren’t aware, after Chia basically failed, all the miners took the drives, edited their SMART values and sold them as new. This also caused massive hit to Seagate’s reliability metrics because so many “new” drives of theirs were failing.

The ended up discovering and shutting the operation down and have locked down their new and refurbished channels to try to reduce counterfeiting.

Yeah, it was Chia.

The marketing team

Mainly tech bros and large companies whose goal is to do away with that pesky “personnel” line item that costs their company so much and prevents them from hoarding more money.

Though that being said, I firmly believe that LLMs and ML are not the way to AGI and it’ll have to be discovered via a different route.

Investors. It's the only way they can possibly recoup their sunk costs.