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I wonder if anyone thought of making a distributed operating system where 1-2 million people could all run a NINTENDO console or something else extremely primit
by logicallee 10y ago
I wonder if anyone thought of making a distributed operating system where 1-2 million people could all run a NINTENDO console or something else extremely primitive - but in way that they KNOW no one is pulling any shenanigans.
Can you imagine how cool it would be if a million or, say, a hundred million people joined forces to do what a $60 mobile phone can do?
This is absolutely the future. No doubt about it. No one can ever conceivably come up with a paradigm as cool as this level of redundancy. And on top of all of this, it even works. (Not as designed, because 51% of miners may be controlled by one entity, but in practice it totally works.)
- frik 10y agosounds like Ethereum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum "Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). This virtual machine can execute Turing-complete scripts using an international network of public nodes and a token called ether. Gas, an internal transaction pricing mechanism, is used to prevent spam on the network and allocate resources proportionally to the incentive offered by the request" Unrelated, I remember an experiment on Twitch, where hundreds of viewers controlled/played Pokémon Yellow (Gameboy emulator) live on Twitch via chat commands like "left", "right". It more or less worked out fine, but was rather slow progress.
- JoshTriplett 10y ago> Unrelated, I remember an experiment on Twitch, where hundreds of viewers controlled/played Pokémon Yellow (Gameboy emulator) live on Twitch via chat commands like "left", "right". It more or less worked out fine, but was rather slow progress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_Plays_Pok%C3%A9mon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_Plays_Pok%C3%A9mon
- wayn3 10y agoexcept twitch plays pokemon was meant for entertainment. the purposeless waste of resources on bitcoin is a cult, believed to enlighten the world.
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- gcr 10y agoBOINC pioneered this sort of shared computation to do massively data parallel experiments for astrophysics research in the early 00s. I think they still do. These days, I think the hardware investment is much lower than the software+infrastructure+social investment of running your experiment on BOINC.
- tech_man7 10y agoThe Golem team (https://golem.network/ https://golem.network/) got their inspiration from BOINC. But now more people will have incentive to share their compute power because they will be paid.
- Lev1a 10y agoIIRC the focus of these kinds of infrastructures has shifted towards protein folding [1] which could IMO prove more useful than astrophysics. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding
- tech_man7 10y agoThat is what Golem is building (https://golem.network/ https://golem.network/). Decentralized compute power that is a global P2P network of PCs. The platform will allow software developers to put their software on top as long as its approved (e.g. to make sure it's not malicious).
- logicallee 10y agoFor anyone reading this later: the above was sarcastic but I left off the /s. I don't think blockchains are that great of a fundamental primitive. Though, independent of application, they were extemely novel.
- tech_man7 10y agoyou don't need a blockchain for computations; only for transferring value from buyer to seller.