• Joelk111@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Also folding at home. I basically figure you’re donating your power consumption costs to science. I don’t know that there will ever be a way to make that profitable to the user renting their computer, considering power costs.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 hours ago

      There are some crypto projects attached to boinc and f@h, like Gridcoin, that provide rewards for compute power. They are very much an added on layer that isn’t really worth much in real world dollars though.