• galoisghost@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Cryptocurrency-powered? Is it a hot air balloon? Or is the fraud so extreme it creates it’s own electricity?

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    3 months ago

    Everyone knows, the absolute best value add to a power hungry mobile device is the ability to use that power to inefficiently mine some random junk cryptocurrency.

    So I hope it’s that. (No I didn’t read the article. There’s no version of this that isn’t a scam.)

  • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    imagine being a year deep into the NFT eternal winter and thinking a consumer hardware product is a great business idea.

    You can currently get almost any handheld emulator device from $20-$200, or just buy a controller that’s designed to hold your phone.

    There are no good NFT games, and nobody wants to pay $500 to own an AI generated knock-off pokemon just to get started.

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    3 months ago

    I guess the market for this is people who… um… it’s for someone that… uh…

    Who the fuck would buy this?

    Like, is it for people who don’t know about literally any other PC handheld?

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    3 months ago

    Ah okay. So no refund or re-wind if my account gets hacked and someone spends all my money. Because you know that’s blockchain