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Title: Possible alternative for miners/idle hardaware? Post by: k on July 15, 2011, 08:30:34 PM http://gigaom.com/cloud/need-cash-forget-plasma-and-donate-cpu-time-instead/ (http://gigaom.com/cloud/need-cash-forget-plasma-and-donate-cpu-time-instead/)
Quote Do you sleep? Have a laptop or desktop that sits idle during those eight hours? Need an extra $20 a month? If so, startup CPUsage has a proposition that you should hear. The eight-month-old startup wants to pay folks so it can harness their idle compute time to sell to corporations. CEO and co-founder Jeff Martens estimates an average user donating four hours of compute time every day could score about $10 a month. May be worth it for people with idle hardware, especially if you don't have the best mining cards. Title: Re: Possible alternative for miners/idle hardaware? Post by: kokojie on July 18, 2011, 01:39:11 PM ONLY if you have free electricity. An idle laptop use a lot less power than a 100% usage laptop.
Title: Re: Possible alternative for miners/idle hardaware? Post by: Meni Rosenfeld on July 18, 2011, 02:12:07 PM Finally, a competitor to http://parabon.com/ which accommodates individuals. I've been waiting for this for years. (Not that I'm sure I'll actually do anything with it now.)
Title: Re: Possible alternative for miners/idle hardaware? Post by: myhoho on July 18, 2011, 05:16:43 PM May be worth it for people with idle hardware, especially if you don't have the best mining cards. + it maybe more useful for society :D Title: Re: Possible alternative for miners/idle hardaware? Post by: NetTecture on July 18, 2011, 05:42:51 PM May be worth it for people with idle hardware, especially if you don't have the best mining cards. + it maybe more useful for society :D One has to see waht they pay. Has to be worth it after lets say 15 US cents power / 10 euro cents. Yes, many people pay less, but many also more. Title: Re: Possible alternative for miners/idle hardaware? Post by: chungenhung on July 18, 2011, 07:33:18 PM by switching to F@H or and BOINC projects. It is time to donate after you've made big bucks with ur hardware.
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