Today, 15 years ago #OTD the person or group with the fictive name of “Satoshi Nakamoto” created the first cryptocurrency named Bitcoin with the thought of it becoming a secure and fast alternative to fiat currency.

Now it's known as the most wasteful use of electricity, inefficient and limiting capability/functionality, as well as being among the most insecure and de-anonymizing ways to transfer money.

However, what Satoshi Nakamoto probably hasn't expected is how many scam-currencies would come after theirs, and how their invention would create a new breed of the most annoying people known to our species: crypto-bros.

PLEASE STAND ON THE RIGHT!

I had a lot of fun recreating this old 1944 poster by Fougasse. I needed Charles Holden architecture with uplighters, so Northern line towards Morden. Geoff Marshall is the 'learner' with a trilby hat & Colliers Wood best matched Kenneth Bird's poster!

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So, I messed about with "The Cloud". And I really don't get the appeal. Regular dedicated and virtual servers are SO much cheaper and they do exactly the same things. And hoooly crap how they overengineered simple virtual machines.

Usually there are machines and there are images. That's it. But they turned it into this whole landscape of made-up terms and whatnot and made it so fucking complex you need another VM (the "shell") and probably an extra employee just to control the damn thing. And don't get me started on cloud storage, that's just FTP with extra steps!

I mean, I'm sure there are *some* applications where it's absolutely neccessary to basically have an (almost) infinitely powerful computer, *cough* NodeJS *cough* but I don't understand why it's so trendy. Just get a regular server guys. Don't want to mess with hard drive failures? Fine, get a virtual one then.

#Google #Cloud #Amazon #AWS #Microsoft #Azure #VM #Server #VPS #Hosting #NodeJS