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Any chance there's some way, going forwards, to dual-purpose these webserver PoW's, so they solve some socially beneficial compute problem at the same time? I r
by perihelions 2y ago
Any chance there's some way, going forwards, to dual-purpose these webserver PoW's, so they solve some socially beneficial compute problem at the same time? I recall reading ideas like that in the early days of cryptocurrency, before humans ruined it.
- Server: here's a bit of a cancer protein
- Client: okay, here's some compute
- Verifier: the compute checks out
- Server: okay, you are authorized to access cat.gif
- wizzwizz4 2y agoIt's difficult to break important problems down into NP-hard problems. Search problems are, afaik, the current state-of-the-art; but to my knowledge "a bit of a cancer protein" isn't useful, and "an entire cancer protein" would take a few hours at least.
- xnx 2y agoVery true. Perhaps a better system would be to credit "points" for solving fewer/larger problems that could be spent a bit at a time? That sounds even more complex than charging regular money though.
- xmcqdpt2 2y agoYou could do like a captcha but for computers. Here are some molecule, find the ground state geometry of all of them. You give some you already solved just to root out whether the solver is actually solving or faking it.