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I think this question is important to whatever emerges as the “survivor” blockchain that emerges out of this as the one we all use (like the internet companies that survived past all the garbage of 99/2000 before the pop).

People need to compute things asynchronously. And they are probably willing to pay. Being able to distribute those out as part of the the mining/validation process would make the energy less “wasted.”

I’m not sure why the grid computing schemes of the 00s didn’t pan out, I suspect aws was just simpler and cheaper than trying to assemble networks of nodes using Globus or whatever.