[Arm-netbook] EOMA68 / Libre RISC-V team financing

[Sam Huntress]

Currently Bitcoin is an insane gold-rush bubble that is frivolous and
wasteful but it has the potential to balance out into the secure,
distributed, democratized digital currency it was designed to be and I
think that is something worth spending energy on.

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Julie Marchant <onpon4 at riseup.net> wrote:

> Ugh, did it again. Sorry.
>
> On 2017年12月28日 04:13, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > it's
> > too close to the exploitation i've witnessed - and my friend has
> > recently uncovered clear and blatant evidence of.  mining however is
> > *completely* different, not least because it, in no way, *actually*
> > involves actual cash, and it is not directly related to "exchange
> > rates" or the trading of currencies, at all.
>
> So, you're somehow ethically opposed to trading Bitcoin for money, and
> yet not ethically opposed to trading it for goods? That doesn't make a
> lick of sense, Luke. Money is just a representation of how many goods
> and services you have produced for others. Economically, there is *no
> difference* between giving someone Bitcoin for USD and giving someone
> Bitcoin for food.
>
> You know what's unethical? Mining Bitcoin. Because as has already been
> mentioned, mining Bitcoin uses a *ton* of energy, and it doesn't
> actually produce anything in the end. Isn't one of the main features of
> EOMA68 being environmentally responsible? Well, using Bitcoin mining
> (through a scheme like this, no less) to fund something that is supposed
> to be environmentally responsible is the height of hypocrisy. (And yes,
> it would be funding EOMA68, regardless of whatever kind of weaseling you
> might do to say it isn't. If you depend on it to work on EOMA68, it's
> funding EOMA68.)
>
> Just one question: is canceling support for the CrowdSupply campaign an
> option if you go through with this?
>
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