

Considering that it cost him nothing to create the coins, I’d say he and his fellow top-holders have gained $4.8B. The 20% they’ve already converted to cash, mostly in the beginning, north of $25, is another $6B. When you’re selling a stock of free bytes, it really doesn’t matter what the rubes are willing to pay each other in the secondary market. They’ve already cashed out: anything left is just gravy.


I got my Pi4 to be a media player - LibreElec or Kodi - for my old, not-smart TV. It plays my library of CDs&DVDs, frontend for OTA TV, and a variety of streaming services. Fanless, so it doesn’t distract from audio, low power, so I don’t mind leaving it on 24/7. You can configure it to listen to a USB IR receiver, but I control mine from phone via web. The actual media library/NAS and tvheaded run on an old desktop in another room.
My favorite thing is all the sensors you can hook up. Adafruit & Sparkfun have a wide array of sensors with breakout boards for simplicity and well documented python libraries. I started just logging temperature, humidity, then air quality, CO2 to my own database and web page, but eventually expanded to full HomeAssisstant system.
Pihole.