How geeks do charity: Use your GPU to churn out goats
Todd Bishop
2012-12-20
http://www.geekwire.com/2012/geeks-charity-bitcoin-mining-give-goat/...
CoinLab, a Seattle-based tech startup that focuses on the Bitcoin digital currency, has come up with a way for PC users to take advantage of their spare GPU cycles to raise money to buy goats for impoverished families around the world.
Yes, real goats. This is not FarmVille. The software program is grounded in the mechanics of the Bitcoin system — in which units of the digital currency are generated in exchange for adding computational power to the Bitcoin network.
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