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> There are billions of computers out there that are idle most of the time. They will remain idle unltil untethered energy and bandwidth become free. I won't
by ohazi 7y ago
> There are billions of computers out there that are idle most of the time.
They will remain idle unltil untethered energy and bandwidth become free.
I won't let you use my phone's spare cycles and murder my battery while we're still using lipo cells that degrade after 2 years with regular use.
- hanniabu 7y ago> They will remain idle unltil untethered energy and bandwidth become free unless you tie it to an incentive, and thus you arrive at cryptocurrencies
- stickfigure 7y agoFunny you mention that, since we've seen cryptocurrency processing concentrated in big data centers... for all the same reasons everything else is located in big data centers - energy and bandwidth are cheaper.
- hanniabu 7y agoThat's up to whoever is supplying the services. While many may be outsourcing this to data centers, I'm sure it's not the case for everyone and there are people operating their own hardware.