On 3 April 2013 15:25, Nick M. Daly <[email protected]> wrote: > Melvin Carvalho writes: > > > On 2 April 2013 20:59, Nick Daly wrote: > >> could each FreedomBox offer a small part (10%?) of its unused > >> resources for other systems? It'd essentially make them a sort of a > >> SETI@home distributed computing mesh, but for user freedom. > >> > >> Does anybody know of any projects that offer that sort of > >> infrastructure that we could use? > > > > bitcoin is the biggest distributed computing project in the world > > I was actually thinking of something more along the line of BOINC: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boinc > > Where nodes contribute resources for one another's calculations to avoid > duplicate work, not the BitCoin model where nodes race to duplicate the > work as fast as possible. That would allow each FBX that needed it the > power of its own hardware + the available resources of other boxen. >
Bitcoin should not duplicate work, unless the nonces collide when creating hashes. It does a proof of work to A) make the ledger more attack resilient B) solve the race condition of double spend via a solution to the byzantine generals' problem In a sense all bitcoin miners are incentivized to increase the security of the overall network in collaboration. Links: http://alvarofeito.com/articles/the-big-book-of-bitcoin/ http://peculium.net/2013/03/30/satoshi-nakamoto-explains-the-blockchain/ The reason I suggested economic hacking is to lower the cost of hardware, in order to bring FBX to a wider audience > > That idea would need lots of work to make it viable, but it'd be mighty > interesting. > > Nick >
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