Re:GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge
by toomuchtodo on Friday September 16, 2022 @09:00PM
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This is how BOINC and similar distributed computing projects work: a unit of work is distributed to multiple workers to confirm the work and discourage malicious actors.
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Re:GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge
by ithinkso on Saturday September 17, 2022 @05:30AM
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The other very important part of BOINC and the like is that they offer no monetary gains for your contribution. That's how you eliminate 99,9% of malicious actors and the rest can be eliminated the way you described
It won't work in the PoW scheme because there is presumably some cryptocurrency involved as a reward