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Title: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: gigabytecoin on May 09, 2011, 11:32:44 PM So I imagine in a few more weeks I will either be turning off my miners and/or joining a pool.
I am curious, what are other people's plans for their GPU power once bitcoin difficulty goes through the roof? Sell them on ebay/craiglist? I have heard you can possibly unlock phones? (That would require setting up a business entity however I would imagine? Or could you sell that service through ebay as well?) Create Namecoins? Anything else? Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: rezin777 on May 09, 2011, 11:42:07 PM Play crysis at reasonable fps? ;D
Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: TehZomB on May 09, 2011, 11:47:53 PM Compute my way into heaven by contributing to Folding@Home.
Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: gigabytecoin on May 09, 2011, 11:48:54 PM Compute my way into heaven by contributing to Folding@Home. That's true, I wouldn't mind donating it to science. What exactly is going to come of all that folding anyways? Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: TehZomB on May 09, 2011, 11:51:43 PM Compute my way into heaven by contributing to Folding@Home. That's true, I wouldn't mind donating it to science. What exactly is going to come of all that folding anyways? Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: grue on May 10, 2011, 12:45:58 AM too bad you don't get any money from that. Unless you can sell that "warm fuzzy feeling" to someone else :p
Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: Dayofswords on May 10, 2011, 01:40:17 AM too bad you don't get any money from that. Unless you can sell that "warm fuzzy feeling" to someone else :p People like living. I'm sure many will pay in truck loads of fuzzy feelings every time more and more progress is made. Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: nster on May 10, 2011, 01:55:47 AM too bad you don't get any money from that. Unless you can sell that "warm fuzzy feeling" to someone else :p you cant buy the warm and fuzzy feeling.... the same way you cant buy real love and priceless moments.... now, live with a few hundred $ less in your bank but feel good and happy and have a meaning to your life, or be driven by computer generated money and die of unhappiness or cancer, knowing you could have helped cure the disease you are dying from instead of making fake money Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: Kluge on May 10, 2011, 02:57:02 PM you cant buy the warm and fuzzy feeling.... the same way you cant buy real love and priceless moments.... Woohoo, I'm killing the planet for marginal (if any) contribution in curing mans' diseases so they can live on to consume more energy and create sigpics showing their pollution per day stats. I wonder how many people have died from the added pollution of tens of thousands of computers running at full throttle 24/7. This doesn't even take into account the actual research which could have been done if the electricity bill $ amount had instead gone to a legitimate charity. But that adds meaning to peoples' lives? Well congratulations! (not that I'm trying to justify Bitcoin.... ;) )now, live with a few hundred $ less in your bank but feel good and happy and have a meaning to your life, or be driven by computer generated money and die of unhappiness or cancer, knowing you could have helped cure the disease you are dying from instead of making fake money Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: allinvain on May 10, 2011, 03:01:55 PM Computers are absolutely crucial to humanity's survival..thus I'd say whatever pollution the produce either directly or indirectly (externalities) is completely justified....now pardon me while I add more power hungry computers to my hashing cluster..*pets mining rigs*
Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: warweed on May 10, 2011, 03:07:15 PM I have alot invested in 5870's and 5850 Riggs I'm going to continue to dump 25 % of my mining profit back into new rigs to battle difficulty personally then when the end is near sell my cards back to miners or use them for wpa cracking
Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: TehZomB on May 10, 2011, 03:10:57 PM Woohoo, I'm killing the planet for marginal (if any) contribution in curing mans' diseases so they can live on to consume more energy and create sigpics showing their pollution per day stats. I wonder how many people have died from the added pollution of tens of thousands of computers running at full throttle 24/7. This doesn't even take into account the actual research which could have been done if the electricity bill $ amount had instead gone to a legitimate charity. But that adds meaning to peoples' lives? Well congratulations! (not that I'm trying to justify Bitcoin.... ;) ) The money from donations... would just go to more protein folding experiments anyway. Besides, if you are worried about the environment, you can get solar or wind power.Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: shooter_mcgavin on May 10, 2011, 03:24:53 PM I have alot invested in 5870's and 5850 Riggs I'm going to continue to dump 25 % of my mining profit back into new rigs to battle difficulty personally then when the end is near sell my cards back to miners or use them for wpa cracking Spend your money on 2tb hard drives and just use salted rainbow tables...WPA cracking with brute force is outdated. Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: Nicksasa on May 10, 2011, 05:29:05 PM Compute my way into heaven by contributing to Folding@Home. Good luck doing that with ati cards ... ;)Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: gigabytecoin on May 10, 2011, 07:05:39 PM Computers are absolutely crucial to humanity's survival..thus I'd say whatever pollution the produce either directly or indirectly (externalities) is completely justified....now pardon me while I add more power hungry computers to my hashing cluster..*pets mining rigs* Oh god allinvain :P I'm a bit sick over here, and reading that post almost made me cough up a lung! Hilarious stuff. Title: Re: What Else Can You Use Your GPU Power To Profit From? Post by: allinvain on May 11, 2011, 12:23:20 AM Computers are absolutely crucial to humanity's survival..thus I'd say whatever pollution the produce either directly or indirectly (externalities) is completely justified....now pardon me while I add more power hungry computers to my hashing cluster..*pets mining rigs* Oh god allinvain :P I'm a bit sick over here, and reading that post almost made me cough up a lung! Hilarious stuff. Glad you got a chuckle out of it :P I am to entertain as well as educate. Also remember that all men who accomplished great things were borderline obsessed :) Can someone make a motivational poster with this quote? lol |