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It's a shame they cannot figure out how to make a SETIcoin or folding@home coin, where you earn based on how much data you process for the cause. Would be bett
by ck2 13y ago
It's a shame they cannot figure out how to make a SETIcoin or folding@home coin, where you earn based on how much data you process for the cause.
Would be better than just burning electrons for scrypt.
- tromp 13y agoWhile they haven't yet figured out how to make a proof-of-work do useful work, one can make a relatively low-power one that mostly (95%) substitutes memory latency for computation, as in my https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo
- sitkack 13y agoIf I were smarter, I would make a folding@home encryption algorithm so that when the NSA is breaking our https encrypted cat photos, they would be curing cancer. Afaik, they have over half the super computer power in the world and always have. Think about that, integrate under that curve, hell of a lot of wasted flops.