Yeah.
I made some phone calls to put some pennies into AMD a couple of years ago but no online service was managing it in italy.
Intel co course, NVIDIA of course but no AMD.
Adding insult to injury, a few minutes ago Intel posted an additional modification to their EULA barring users from laying Intel CPUs empty boxes on the second shelf to the right of their monitor.
In case of breach they'll sue and lock user's drawer nearest to the floor.
I think the point lies elsewere.
The case for Cryptos is the decentralization and deregulation of value; cutting out central banks, governments, big circuit players from the equation of money transfer.
When 2 companies place order for millions of custom ASIC to take control of the blockchain...
Look more carefully buddy.
You are misjudging AF.
EDIT: The plate in blue is rising 1 mm over the base plate with screws, hence the different reflection.
If someone in here has a significant amount of BTC in their wallet, I suggest to buy real goods or services with that.
The blockchain as a verification technology is something we could use in day to day transactions, but I think that assigning a value to it's constituents is not going to be...
Seriously though, when there will be nothing left to mine, they will charge a fraction of a bitcoin for every transaction to pay the verificator(miner) of that transaction.
So to pay a bitcoin you need to pay 1.0005BTC.
Exactly how banks do it today.
Probably, they will eventually grow the block...
NOT paranoia?
You are implying that the typing and inking data is correlated in some ways to the context on the user screen to produce a breach in user security.
So MS somewhere has a big text file that reads: "user A visiting site B typed "user" in username field and "password" in password...
You can disable cortana completely and choose the telemetry level.
Switch off windows recognition of Cameras, microphones and the likes and turn off location awarness.
There is control over your personal data.
The rest is telemetry data used to track global e regional threats.