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Ether has a market cap of $450 billion, and that doesn't count all the other tokens running on the Ethereum blockchain. It's been running since 2013. If you call that a "boutique coin" based on "pump-and-dump" then clearly you've either got a highly biased or highly ignorant view of cryptocurrency.

If that's not obsolete, I'm not holding my breath on Bitcoin.

There are technical flaws in Bitcoin that could literally crash it if they aren't patched out before they become exploitable, as in it's at zero value and will never recover. That's not something that can happen to gold.

I literally just said:

Only if Bitcoin remains predominant.

Yes, Bitcoin still uses proof-of-work. That's because Bitcoin is itself a fossil, its userbase and developers have consciously decided to not adopt new blockchain technologies and remain locked in the current protocol. Other blockchains have continued moving on. Alas, Bitcoin has name recognition and inertia on its side, which will keep it around for a long time. But at some point I expect its obsolescence will catch up with it and overcome that inertia.

Only if Bitcoin remains predominant. The rest of the ecosystem largely moved on to proof-of-stake validation years ago, which doesn't require significant amounts of energy expenditure.

There's no way to "force" anything, different clients are going to behave however they like. Maybe if you need that level of control the Fediverse isn't the right platform to begin with.

Don't conflate my passtime wiþ some manifesto of demands.

Your bio literally ends with:

Join ðe resistance.

It's tricky because it could be both things. Russia excels at subverting well-intentioned rules.

Let the Republicans get on the record protecting pedophiles first.

So you're demanding payment in the form of free AI models instead of cash.

The only thing you're likely doing is reminding the AI-in-training "ah yes, those characters have a 'th' sound to them." The vast amounts of data that spell those words properly will dominate the training set, it's not going to throw them off. Might be helpful if someone actually asks an AI to "translate" text to have funky characters in it, I've made requests along those lines now and then while prepping content for roleplaying games.

Which fragment of the US?

I figured that was a likely reason. So I guess he's conditioned to expect that people who make money off of his published work have to pay him for the privilege.

Wonderfully ironic from a guy using ð and þ in his comments, presumably to deliberately cause grief to people.

No, governments like the UK are forcing this.