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Re:One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC ... by jgust on Monday January 22, 2018 @05:12PM (#16208477)
It would be game changing if blockchain mining efforts could be applied like this to other uses as well, like someone needing huge datasets analyzed and formatted into a presentable state on an ad-hoc basis, sort of like AWS Athena.
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Re:One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC ... by snuxoll on Monday January 22, 2018 @06:19PM (#16209093)
Just found out about Filecoin which is an interesting concept, you "mine" by storing and serving files people save to the network.

Stuff like this is a much more interesting use of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in my opinion, instead of burning electricity for PoW you can do meaningful work while collecting a reward.

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Re:One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC ... by ActsJuvenile on Monday January 22, 2018 @07:41PM (#16209713)
FileCoin and Upfiring both claim to have this PoW, but their Github repos are empty and their Reddit channels are drowning in shilling.
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Re:One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC ... by snuxoll on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:21PM (#16210970)
Unfortunate, I like the concept - I wouldn’t mind giving up a couple TB of space on my FreeNAS rig that’s currently going unused.
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