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You just described time-sharing. Cryptocurrency mining is much different, in that you can commit computation resources and never get paid.
by bdcravens 7mo ago
You just described time-sharing. Cryptocurrency mining is much different, in that you can commit computation resources and never get paid.
- groundzeros2015 7mo agoIndeed it’s much more similar to time sharing than cloud compute. But time sharing was never as global and accessible. It was a group in a company or in a university sharing a specific machine. The currency discussion is different too. Time sharing was just a local fee. Now people are talking about the tokens themselves can do for them.
- hparadiz 7mo agoHN is generally sleeping on the next big tech that is coming for running this stuff locally. Which is quite performant and will soon be in everything.