On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:12 PM, David Vorick <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > Nobody cares how many petaflops the network is pulling, because the > petaflops can't be put to use somewhere else... > But if the mining was based on cloud storage, a dramatic drop in the > price of the currency would result in a dramatic drop in the cost of > storing data on the network.
i like the idea of "proof of _useful_ work" applied here to storage. if only mining had been applied to BOINC, GIMPS, or *@home efforts... surely there is prior art?
