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Bandwidth doesn't help much with bitcoin mining, I have a few questions for your friend. There's not some program you can "donate" bandwidth to and make money

Bandwidth doesn't help much with bitcoin mining, I have a few questions for your friend. There's not some program you can "donate" bandwidth to and make money off of it. Closest thing would be to self-host media and stop paying for all the streaming services you probably have right now. That will save you money, at least.

kirillzubovsky 5y ago
Are there any hosting companies not named Amazon or Google? I could see how for a small-scale operation it could be beneficial to host a redundant server for backups... but even then, I am not sure how much that is really worth.
- GauntletWizard 5y ago
  DigitalOcean and Backspace are still doing brisk business, and very competitive for some segments (Gameservers and the like)
  - Shared404 5y ago
    Also check out Linode and Hetzner.
    - Komodai 5y ago
      ^ Vultr also exists
- hatware 5y ago
  If it's just backups there are tons of options out there. Backblaze for example. The security implications of running your own AWS cloud infrastructure with API building blocks for people to use to build their own infra sounds like too much for a one man shop.
newsbinator 5y ago
Isn't one (or more?) of the alt cryptocurrencies about distributed bandwidth sharing? I recall something using that combo of buzzwords from 2018 or so, but I can't think of specifics.
- St_Alfonzo 5y ago
  "PacketCrypt is a bandwidth hard proof of work, this means it requires lots of bandwidth to mine. Miners collaborate with one another by sending small messages (called Announcements) and the sending of these messages requires a large amount of bandwidth." https://docs.pkt.cash/en/latest/mining/ https://docs.pkt.cash/en/latest/mining/ https://pkt.cash/ https://pkt.cash/
nix23 5y ago
>There's not some program you can "donate" bandwidth to and make money off of it. There is one: https://pkt.cash/ https://pkt.cash/ from the maker of https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns And there is https://sia.tech/ https://sia.tech/ (Network too but mostly about storage)

kirillzubovsky 5y ago

Are there any hosting companies not named Amazon or Google? I could see how for a small-scale operation it could be beneficial to host a redundant server for backups... but even then, I am not sure how much that is really worth.

GauntletWizard 5y ago
DigitalOcean and Backspace are still doing brisk business, and very competitive for some segments (Gameservers and the like)
- Shared404 5y ago
  Also check out Linode and Hetzner.
  - Komodai 5y ago
    ^ Vultr also exists
hatware 5y ago
If it's just backups there are tons of options out there. Backblaze for example. The security implications of running your own AWS cloud infrastructure with API building blocks for people to use to build their own infra sounds like too much for a one man shop.

newsbinator 5y ago

Isn't one (or more?) of the alt cryptocurrencies about distributed bandwidth sharing? I recall something using that combo of buzzwords from 2018 or so, but I can't think of specifics.

St_Alfonzo 5y ago
"PacketCrypt is a bandwidth hard proof of work, this means it requires lots of bandwidth to mine. Miners collaborate with one another by sending small messages (called Announcements) and the sending of these messages requires a large amount of bandwidth." https://docs.pkt.cash/en/latest/mining/ https://docs.pkt.cash/en/latest/mining/ https://pkt.cash/ https://pkt.cash/

nix23 5y ago

>There's not some program you can "donate" bandwidth to and make money off of it. There is one: https://pkt.cash/ https://pkt.cash/ from the maker of https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns And there is https://sia.tech/ https://sia.tech/ (Network too but mostly about storage)