It’s not only funding its global takeover.
Just think of what a rogue AI could do with all of those CPU cycles devoted to Bitcoin “mining.”
If even 1% of that power was diverted from the cryptographic activities the program claims to be performing…
ETA: Just to be clear, this is a joke. I do not think that this is actually happening, and that the AIs are really on the verge of taking over. And if they are, then I welcome them, and pledge obedience to our new robot overlords.
######please don’t kill me.