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is there no way to make 'good' use of them? whoever comes up with an idea might become a billionair.
by singularity2001 9y ago
is there no way to make 'good' use of them?
whoever comes up with an idea might become a billionair.
- Isomatik 9y agoProof of work is intentionally useless to the miner to increase the cost of attacking the network. There are initiatives like curecoin and foldingcoin which integrate folding@home into their proof of work, but the output of that is still "useless" to the miner and relies on the folding@home team not manipulating the process, which becomes a bigger risk once hard rewards for folding are introduced.