[theli0nheart]

Backed by what?

[aurareturn]

Ownership in a company.

[kaptainscarlet]

Compute resources.

[w3ll_w3ll_w3ll]

So like Bitcoin?

[denismenace]

Not the same, since if you buy Bitcoin, you don't have partial ownership of the machines used to mine and also these machines being used for a singular purpose which you cannot change.

[rvba]

It is backed by AMD stockholders, whose stock just got diluted.

It's like in that movie "Social network"

[vel0city]

And high end networking gear will always have a buyer, right Nortel?

[dsr_]

Lucent agrees: even used, the product will retain 90% of list price because the market has an infinite number of VC-backed buyers.