Hmm that sounds promising. Could be really good if done right.Next-gen PoW coins, using PoUW, will solve DC problems, and you can get paid.
Dynex coin is a leader right now in that.
Huh? I thought SETI@home's work distribution was shut down because they have piled up a large backlog of contributors' results which they have yet to post-process. And even if this will "find nothing", that's a scientific finding too.Ars Technica said:Twenty-one years later, SETI@home shut down, having found nothing. An incalculable amount of PC cycles and electricity wasted for nothing.
I'd say, as long as there are problems which can be approached via distributed computing, some of them will be turned into DC projects by scientists and will find a smaller or larger pool of computer time donors."Distributed computing is not dying any more than chemistry or mathematics are dying," he said.
That's me. This recent Pentathlon was my first. It was interesting being in a competition, but i'm more interested in doing some good. Cancer can go jump off a cliffAnother possibility, based on the fact that DC did have an effect on covid research, and was popular for a while, we may have less people, but more dedicated people, and less people doing it for fun, but more people doing it for the research that may cure cancer, or save the planet from a rogue asteroid.
You all know I got serious about my contribution to medical research in 2019, when I lost my bladder, prostate, hearing and balance to cancer.
Hey guys. Arsian here. Its been so long that I forgot the user credentials I used when I would come taunt you about the early projects. Well,, anyway, DC at Ars is dead. Maybe 5 total people post about it maybe once a month. Those of us left mostly fold and run Einstein. The front page article wasn't written by one of the usual contributors, and kind of came out of left field. Almost everybody that commented on the news article are people I've never heard of, and I've been there 22 years. There's absolutely no competitive DC team there. We just plug along and occasionally pass or get passed. I'm just there out of pure inertia.
Well, anyway... Howdy.
Ah is that where some of you hang out?
I already have Discord, although I rarely use it, and usually only to co-ordinate with people playing Elite Dangerous.
Thanks for the welcome and the invite. Sometimes I really miss talking about DC, participating in gauntlets (or whatever this site calls them), and bitching and moaning about Stanford or whoever the target du jour is.