Yet another reason we will not be offering bulk discounts on our Compacs, Amitas and TypeZeros - the price is the price no matter how much money you do or do not already have.
- sidehack
Apologies for the long kind of off-topic post, but I do talk about sidehack and the new mining gear
I have done a small amount of business with sidehack.
I have read this thread and others where sidehack posts frequently as most of you have.
I always imagined sidehack as a 50+ yr old Engineer who was fed up with the way certain politicians and ceos have ruined our world and decided to do what he could the way he knew best.
I read a reply by him the other day stating he was twenty-something, but the quote above speaks volumes coming from anyone of any age.
I believe in the hobby miner concept and am one myself. I've taught my daughters not to be afraid of anything electrical but to respect it, and enjoy it. They understand how to learn about things they don't understand.
I spent what is a large amount of money for me doing so.
I have also had an intense amount of fun. This past weekend I worked all day at the day job, came home and my oldest and me started at 6: PM Friday night, she went to bed about 2: AM; I had a few cups of Joe and stayed at it. She got up on her own and helped me mount a fan at 8: AM and we worked until about 10: PM that night. She was given the pleasure of bringing all the breakers on, and then flipping the power supplys on one by one and for the first time I saw that intense twinkle of amazement and accomplishment of her realizing what we had done together. I have a small setup by far losing money, for now. I am not an EE, but that doesn't stop me from bothering quite a few from time to time with questions way below what would stress their abilities (and sidehack as well, thanks for tolerating some of my off the wall, basic, redundant questions.)
I said all of that to say the quote by sidehack speaks to many people in a way politicians and most ceos can never say and be honest because of their position. They are beholden to shareholders no matter what, and the most profit is the name of the game.
When we teach our children and others in our personal lives it is not all about the profit. It is about a thing called happiness, sometimes called pride, some may say humble, but whatever word you use it is about the true meaning of life and helping each other. Truly what P2P means and I believe it is why bitcoin and the blockchain were created.
I do not think we will stop the centralization of the mining world but I know that with people like sidehack and hopefully my daughter being involved we will always have people with priorities a bit different than politicians and ceos. People that understand, and people that "get it".
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a bunch of money, giant mining farm to putter around in all day, send my kids to Harvard, Yale, or wherever they want, and decide when I work for two or three days straight rather than it being something I have to do to get ahead at the day job, but that isn't the place I put myself. I hope I have taught my girls to say what is on their minds, be independant, and not work 20 years off their lives for a bit of money. We are planning to take skydiving lessons this fall and go on our first solo by next summer. That is the freedom I want them to experience. The oldests last couple of birthday parties were bring donations for the SPCA, no presents. The stuff you cannot fake. Sometimes I have to reel her back in because she is too giving and I tell her she does need to lookout for herself. Growing up with only me, a hardass who says yes sir and no sir, who works every day with a man who has lived and breathed the company for the last 20 years after selling his first chain of companies for more money than anyone knows she has done pretty well. What I hear in comments like the above quote from sidehack motivates me to show her more about what is right and how to change the world one person at a time.
We may never have thousands of people using their PCs to mine bitcoin again, or have the hashrate spread around thousands of people, but that doesn't mean we are heading down the wrong path. Every Time someone starts a project like Sidehack and Novak have done with the goals they set it shows someone what they can do and if they feel that way they are not alone. It helps justify some little boy or girl who wants to think of a way to power the world but lowers the priority to monetize it. It is what makes many teachers teach, and helps some teachers teach the right things, and the right way. Some of the brightest minds of the human race are yet to be born, and if even a small percentage are shown that they can teach the world to fish and stop giving them fish it will have an immense impact on our society because of the network effect and others before them who have set goals of teaching people to fish, one person - one pole, at a time. Our technology advances will always make someone somewhere rich until the advances of decentralization are either understood on a level anyone can not only understand but implement, or systems are designed for each person's role to have the same impact as anyone else regardless of the contribution. I do not mean Socialistic over Capitalistic, I mean decentralization as a way of life. I do not mean Government public school systems, I mean world wide school systems where we leapfrog our current education in a way which allows the contributions of some of the smartest people int he world to reach our children and they are able to assimilate that knowledge in half the time. I mean a way of life where technological advances are the way of life because we do things in a way where a form of decentralized darwinism changes our way of thinking and acting because a level of understanding is provided where we no longer need corrupt politicians and corrupt ceos calling the shots. WE no longer need police forces because society attains an ability and understanding far surpassing the need to steal, rob, or kill and victimless crime is not seen as a crime. Again, I am far from socialist so please do not think I am down that road, I am speaking of an understanding stemming from technology which makes the most sense. The same way a miner would never attack the network because by the time they amassed enough resources to do so it makes more sense to belong to the "right" group. Bitcoin and the blockchain have already changed the world, but wait until it really shines. It is a new way of life.
This is one of the biggest reasons I've requested so many times to be on sidehacks list of customers. Thanks man, and if Novac has that same streak (as it sounds) thanks to him as well. I hope you guys let me buy you burgers in person one day soon. I would take a vacation day to come over and thank you in person. You are a motivating person with his head screwed on about as straight as it gets most of the time heh
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