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Re:Wind energy used to mine cryptocurrency to fund climate r... by gaius on Sunday September 17, 2017 @12:23PM (#15270333)
This seems a very roundabout way to do things - climate modelling is CPU-intensive enough already, why not use the wind energy to power those computations instead of this extra step in the middle?
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Re:Wind energy used to mine cryptocurrency to fund climate r... by kens on Sunday September 17, 2017 @12:28PM (#15270352)
It's an art project. The idea isn't to efficiently create money but to be thought-provoking.
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