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It could be used for decentralized cloud computing.

• rbanffy 9y ago
  Yes, but it's numerics-heavy, so the workload would be very specific. Think SETI@Home on steroids. If we could solve the trust issues, pooling retired mining rigs into distributed supercomputers for rent would be viable.
  • z3t4 9y ago
    About trust: You could distribute the load randomly, and do double work, if two data sets doesn't give the same output you do the calculation again and blacklist the node that was wrong.
    • rbanffy 9y ago
      Yes, but you won't want any sensitive data to be processed on the platform unless an irreversibly unrecognizable transformed version of it is what is processed.