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I'm not sure I'm following what you're proposing. What's the model you're envisioning?
by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
I'm not sure I'm following what you're proposing. What's the model you're envisioning?
- dpcheng2003 13y agoDistributed computing to mine bitcoins for charity. If it's a platform, then you can plug whatever charity you want to support and share the unique identifier in the software so whatever you (and your friends) mine, it goes to that charity. Another poor analogy: Crowdfunding via distributed computing.
- Patrick_Devine 13y agoI think GigabyteCoin said it best. Given that most mining rigs have moved on to ASICs, I just don't see how you're going to be able to generate enough money via GPUs to make this succeed. That said, there are already a lot of mining pools out there, and also a lot of pool software which you can choose from to use. Here's a list: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Poolservers https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Poolservers
- taternuts 13y agoI assume he means build something similar to SETI that uses people's idle CPU time to mine for bitcoin, giving you the option to place the proceeds into a wallet owned by a charity of your choice
- dpcheng2003 13y agoBingo. Sorry... didn't really flesh it out better. Was just bullshitting w/ my cofounder about this and was genuinely curious if anyone's done it.