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Cake day: May 7th, 2023

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  • an expanded explanation of your first paragraph would have been useful for general discussion.

    your el salvador paragraph absolutely killed the mojo.

    December, 2024, El Salvador, in an agreement for a $1.4 billion loan from the IMF, agreed to reduce bitcoin purchases, removed the mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin requirement on merchants, will no longer accept tax payments with the asset, and will wind-down its involvement in the Chivo wallet.

    Based on the available data from the Instituto Universitario de Opinión Pública (Iudop) of the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA), here is the percentage of Salvadorans who reported using Bitcoin for transactions from 2021 to 2024: 2021: 25.7%, 2022: 21%, 2023: 12%, 2024: 8.1%.

    el salvador was always going to be an example of the very worst tendencies of hard-currency (anti-inflationary, proof of work, etc) crypto, specifically because the very worst of the cryptobro “community” was involved in it.

    as of now, some of the worst people on earth are the face of cryptocurrency. major “L”, even for the arguably useful chains.

    edit: bunny ears for community



  • depending on specs it will be a little power hungry, but a good virtualization platform.

    yes, the power supplies are likely redundant and the server will complain if they are not both powered.

    it will use a VGA connection, but you should be ale to find cheap VGA monitors or cheap adapters.

    RAID controllerfor those drives? how many processors and cores? how much RAM? what OS are you planning on running on it? iDRAC included? (if so, likely idrac6, but still usable)

    this hardware is very well supported by linux - I have used these older servers extensively. your boss was right to be excited for you. its a great exploration platform that you will be able to do lots of things with.

    fire up a live linux distro and get detailed specs on the box - that will guide what you can play with right away.