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Remember when computer nerds the world over pooled their spare compute resources for Folding@Home and Seti@Home, in exchange for nothing but leaderboard positio
by RodgerTheGreat 7y ago
Remember when computer nerds the world over pooled their spare compute resources for Folding@Home and Seti@Home, in exchange for nothing but leaderboard positions and bragging rights?
The real tragedy of the cryptocurrency gold rush is that by providing a profit motive it decimated these kinds of collaborative computing projects.
- fastball 7y agoThere are initiatives to perform useful computations with cryptocurrency.
- jolmg 7y agoI remember Folding@Home on the PS3. The visualizations were pretty cool looking. I didn't know there was a leaderboard.
- nyolfen 7y agothese were mostly done on PCs, right? i don't think that many people are mining on their desktops these days