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Can we build such a blockchain, where instead of spending energy on calculating useless crypto hashes, miners actually solve parts of some gigantic distributed
by pacavaca 9y ago
Can we build such a blockchain, where instead of spending energy on calculating useless crypto hashes, miners actually solve parts of some gigantic distributed optimization problem? Let’s say fitting a NN to extract high-level concepts from all the internet data (and conquer the world).
- pacavaca 9y agoOr we could make all the bitcoin/blockchain craze solve at least one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_...