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by ThePhysicist 1635 days ago
I'm not saying you can't do it, I'm saying it won't help you because nobody will want to "play" with you. Open protocols mean nothing if the playing field is not level and the big guys can just bully around smaller players in whichever way they wont. That's not a problem that can be solved by technology (IMHO).
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I have my own domains and people play with me all the time?

The big players are going to get pretty mean when electricity costs rise.

So the playing field will level by itself.

I use Raspberry 2/4 in my home cloud that I can keep powered through a 48 hour power failure.

There is no economic power, there is only energy (coal, oil and gas that is turned into electricity (the grid, wind, solar and hydro requires hydrocarbons to make/sustain)); the way to compete is to lower your energy costs by making better systems.