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Using the Ethereum Proof-of-work HW to help science (twitter.com)
1 points by klhugo 1606 days ago
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> Hey @VitalikButerin, instead of doing proof of work with useless puzzles, why don't we use that massive GPU compute power to help science with numerical computation? We could wrap the problem using @HomomorphicEnc techniques. Efficiency would improve overtime. ASICs are welcome.

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