The only thing the CI cryptomining abuse we've been seeing lately proves, is that pursuing ASIC resistance was a mistake

(In case you somehow missed it, the Internet is full of pages discussing the thing, so much that i couldn't pick a single source to use reference.)

Then again, i am seeing some parallels between this and the evolution of email, which could once be sent without any form of authentication through an open mail relay server. Perhaps, all technology is doomed to go through the same phases.

Come to think of it, the concept of a CI service itself seems rather naïve; just imagine receiving a patch from somewhere and immediately running it on your machine without auditing it first, or even checking what it does! But you can be sure it's cryptocurrencies that will be named as the reason we can't have nice things.

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