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by mindhash 3190 days ago
For personal use: Mine bitcoins. Run as VPS. Host websites for local businesses. Charge for usage. If you have GPU, then sell usage by hour for Deep learning students.

For social good: Donate to old age home.. arrange a sharing schedule between a group of students who can't afford.. mine bitcoins and donate what you earn.. work with a local shop to arrange internet access and support unprivileged people to find jobs online .. donate to a prison .. lotsa options though I am not sure if you meant give away ..

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Mining bitcoins on a modern laptop is utterly useless. All of the mining is done on specialized hardware nowadays. Revenue would be less than pennies per year on a CPU.