So, is twitter gonna turn into a clustermusk?
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the Twitter network (it would be found quickly) as it would quickly degrade performance and he would be ruined (and in a lot of legal trouble as well) once it was discovered he was doing it. The 1000's of network engineers and network admins at Twitter could never engage in such a mass conspiracy, many would quickly whistleblow.
Also do the maths.
There are only around 1.97 million (out of the total 21 million ever possible (at current rates the last bitcoin will be mined in 2140, so 118 years from now, so unless I live to be 144 years of age, I am not going to see that, lol), with 5 to 7 million of the 21m lost forever due non availability for a multiplicity of reasons, ie death, lost passwords, destroyed hard drives, etc etc) left to be mined
As the supply of unmined BTC goes down, the harder it gets to mine (the system adjusts the complexity of the computations (called proof of work ie PoW) needed to mine a new block to keep new block creation in a balanced state).
The difficulty level for mining in March 2022 was 27.55 trillion. That is, the chances of a computer producing a hash below the target is 1 in 27.55 trillion. To put that in perspective, you are about 91,655 times more likely to win the Powerball jackpot with a single lottery ticket than you are to pick the correct hash on a single try.
There are also millions of other people trying to mine.
At current valuation, even IF Musk was able to mine half of all remaining BTC (basically impossible and would take YEARS, but I will use that figure for my example), the value of that 1 million BTC is LESS (around 40 billion USD) than what he is paying for Twitter itself.
Even if BTC increases by 250%, and hits 100K usd per BTC, you are talking 100 billion usd total value, or only around 29% of what Musk was worth at peak a while back, on November 4, 2021 (340 billion usd, which made him the richest person ever in modern times, passing John D. Rockefeller's inflation adjusted peak net worth)
was publicly launched on July 15, 2006 (it was then called Twttr, which was soon changed to Twitter)
https://techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/
Or when it started to became more widely used in 2007 and 2008.
The first internet (ARPANET back then) message was sent October 29, 1969, from UCLA, almost 27 years before I was born,
and the first web server (by Tim Berners-Lee) went online in December 1990, at CERN, in Switzerland, close to 6 years before I was born.
I have no real time exposure to a non web world, and almost none to a non broadband world, as my parents have had broadband in London since late 2000. They got it right around my 4th birthday (I have had this discussion with my father multiple times before in the past, for some academic papers I have written for uni, plus I am just extremely interested in the first 15, 20 years of the world wide web. especially 1992 to 2007 or so, and lately the next 5 years, 2008 to 2012, after which there was a huge change as social media became truly weaponised starting in 2013 or so, and I always want to understand the root foundations of things).
...which has its own issues some folks object to (e.g., it blocks several countries, such as Russia, China, NK, et al., for security purposes, with which I agree), but it's a very familiar format, and has the sort of rules Musk rails against (but are welcomed by anyone who agrees with DU's rules, as do I), and I'm seeing a ton of new (lefty) users joining by the minute.
There are Android and iOS apps, but here's the website:
https://counter.social/index.html
Look me up. 
I more than dislike the guy. He's everything that makes me despair for humanity: wildly narcissistic, unbearably juvenile (fart sounds from a Tesla? really?), completely lacking in empathy, and just too fucking rich.
I wasn't completely sold on the idea of wealth redistribution until the Unholy Trinity of Billionaires came along. Now I want an "Eat the Rich" bumper sticker.
From all the people leaving Twitter. I tried registering this afternoon and still haven't gotten the confirmation email from them. Tried the resend button a couple times but nothing yet. They're probably overwhelmed. (Good!) I'll try again tomorrow and I'll definitely look you up! Thanks!
See ya later.
