[philwelch]

Is bitcoin mining even the most profitable way to convert other people's CPU or even GPU time into money?

[namityadav]

What are the other options to convert CPU/GPU processing to money?

[philwelch]

That's the million dollar question. I could imagine someone is willing to pay by the cycle for distributed computing, like a commercialized version of folding@home or something. The question is who and how do you turn it into a marketplace.