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I also realized that I should have mention that I'm not sure you could always identify which tasks were the checks you were looking for For that scenario you m
by roboticmind 6y ago
I also realized that I should have mention that I'm not sure you could always identify which tasks were the checks you were looking for
For that scenario you mentioned, you'd not get any more tasks, as projects have limits on how many tasks they send out to people with tasks in progress. If you tried to spoof a bunch of hosts, they would see a very suspicious account that has a ton of tasks in progress but almost none completed. If you were spoofing users, I think the project would notice that half of their tasks are running way longer than normal all of a sudden or at least creeping that way if done slowly. Projects could make the tasks deadlines tighter and then make it harder for someone to try to hoard tasks. As well if you were running in virtual machines or something like that, they could tell that suddenly they have way more VMs "running" tasks and limit and even abort tasks just for those. If you try to spoof as a real machine, then you can look at IP addresses, etc. Having to do all that ends up taking more and more work try to do. If you have actual hardware running it, well that's fairy similar to having a large amount of processing power, and they could still limit the deadlines and all. You'd still have to compete against the other tens of thousands of users getting tasks on the project meaning that the project would have to see a massive increase in hosts and users on the project.
As well, if you were trying to earn Gridcoin for all that and were spoofing users, you'd also have to be creating tens of thousands of beacons (tie BOINC accounts to Gridcoin rewards) which need for each user which cost 0.5 GRC each plus transaction fees, and those beacons take some time to verify which would give the projects a chance to stop it if they see it before you ever got any Gridcoin. You'd also have to stake on each account
which would take a while and likely require a really really high balance to try to pull anything like that off and earn much
Lastly some project have a literal either a very high number or some cases an infinite amount of tasks possible like some of the mathematical projects, so most of your tasks would not be the checks you'd be hoping to have