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  • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Personally, I’d be less hateful of Cryptos if instead of uselessly computing hashes and therefore wasting energy, they made users compute protein folding, or crunch numbers for astrophysics or particle accelerators or something as proof of work. You know, stuff that also needs tons of energy to compute, but are actually useful for humanity.

    • @wazowski@lemmy.ml
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      22 years ago

      sure, i agree, but these are virtually impossible to verify in some kind of consistent/independently executed manner

      by the way, if any of y’all have a crypto friend who mines some currency, just show them the prices for rending their gpu for things like ml compute or some other type of compute, it pays literally several times better, idk why ppl with gpus still bother with cryptocurrencies 🤷‍♀️

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      12 years ago

      Look into gridcoin which does exactly that and coins that don’t use proof of work