Dnia środa, 9 września 2015 21:48:56 jim bell pisze:
About Repbin:
Repbin is an encrypted pastebin for the command line that runs over Tor!
Repbin servers form a distributed network where nodes sync posts with
each other (like in Usenet or BBS/Fido systems). This makes Repbin
resilient and scalable. Repbin focuses on privacy (encrypted messages)
and anonymity (padding and repost chains). To limit spam and
denial-of-service attacks, Repbin uses the Hashcash proof-of-work
algorithm which is widely known from Bitcoin mining.
Learn more about Repbin here:
https://github.com/repbin/repbin/blob/master/README.md
Has anybody ever considered the idea of doing otherwise-useful CPU work with
the power currently expended by computing hashes in Bitcoin mining?
My dream would be a distributed github replacement (a'la gitchain) where
proof-of-work is somehow related to compilation, running tests, or somesuch.
The most obvious application would be weather forecasting: It could use a
huge amount of computation, on a continuously ongoing basis, and is valuable
to every nation on earth. Whether it can be lasso'ed into a bitcoin-mining
engine, I don't know.
Probably not -- the "thing" mined has to be easily verifiable by other nodes.
How does one verify a weather forecast in such a setting? ;)