TehBamski@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoYSK: There is a list of volunteer computing projects where you can donate CPU/GPU time to help researchers globally with their scientific problems.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1356arrow-down13
arrow-up1353arrow-down1external-linkYSK: There is a list of volunteer computing projects where you can donate CPU/GPU time to help researchers globally with their scientific problems.en.wikipedia.orgTehBamski@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-squarex00z@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoAny Proof of Work coin is just stupid when you can use that power to do something better.
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·3 days agoIts doing something pretty fucking useful. Verifying transactions using wayyyy less energy than banks use
minus-squareafk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoBut you would contribute less than nothing with a normal pc for this. If you’ve got an ASIC miner that supports sha256 you’re probably already mining bitcoin so why even mention it here?
Any Proof of Work coin is just stupid when you can use that power to do something better.
Its doing something pretty fucking useful. Verifying transactions using wayyyy less energy than banks use
But you would contribute less than nothing with a normal pc for this. If you’ve got an ASIC miner that supports sha256 you’re probably already mining bitcoin so why even mention it here?