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Interesting way to earn BTC. Instead of "just" investing [GC]PU power, you invest CPU power and then sell the result. In this sense, it's probably more efficie

by xrstf 12y ago

Interesting way to earn BTC. Instead of "just" investing [GC]PU power, you invest CPU power and then sell the result. In this sense, it's probably more efficient (both power and money wise) than mining for BTC directly, but it still feels like a waste of energy to me. Waste, because I don't think anyone with security in mind would buy a private key off some random website and anyone with no security in mind would never get the idea to buy a GPG key. Also, I'm still wondering why "FF8243E1" costs 5$. Because it's only 7 out of 8 possible different characters?

yuvadam 12y ago
$5 is the lowest tier of keys with no actual significance. I believe that's a reasonable price when you consider the overhead of running this operation.
- xrstf 12y ago
  "5$ is the price for something worthless." -- Did I read this correctly? I can see how you would sell keys with fingerprints like "1234BEEF" for 100 bucks, but those 5$ keys are just ... I don't get it. But that's okay, it's not the first time I don't understand why people spend money on something ;-)