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by ganzuul 1560 days ago
Yeah, it's a good term to use when testing the waters for blockchain acceptance. =)

Bitcoin is as inefficient as everyone but the cultists claim. The tech I have been looking at resides in another ecosystem with a more academic bent and a much more careful approach to engineering the global economy.

The use case isn't really for utilizing all the compute of the grid for a single task, but instead finding resources for your workload in an efficient manner. E.g. paying your neighbors to generate Minecraft chunks for you without hassle or even speaking with them.