<story><title>GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-mining-is-now-unprofitable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d like to see some PoW scheme for public good projects like SETI or Folding@Home or even CGI for a fan fiction, where there&amp;#x27;s perhaps something more than just bragging rights for contributing. I&amp;#x27;m not sure what that would look like exactly.</text></item><item><author>stuntkite</author><text>There is so much interesting stuff going on in GPU compute that isn&amp;#x27;t crypto. I&amp;#x27;m really excited about this because there are SO MANY gpus that are now going to be cheaper than sand. There is A LOT that can be made of that and I intend to get mine. I think the crypto boom really covered up what we can really, really do with GPU compute and possibly stifled adoption and innovation but now we&amp;#x27;ve got so many just sitting around. Which is super useful as we move more into a world after being able to get things manufactured and shipped world wide in what feels like an instant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bawolff</author><text>It doesn&amp;#x27;t really work that way.&lt;p&gt;For PoW you dont just need work, you need work that can be easily verified, easily scaled difficulty levels, and difficult to cheat with - all with no centralized trusted authority.&lt;p&gt;Even when SETI&amp;#x2F;F@H was worth only fake internet points they already had problems with people cheating. What happens when its worth real money?</text></comment>
<story><title>GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-mining-is-now-unprofitable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d like to see some PoW scheme for public good projects like SETI or Folding@Home or even CGI for a fan fiction, where there&amp;#x27;s perhaps something more than just bragging rights for contributing. I&amp;#x27;m not sure what that would look like exactly.</text></item><item><author>stuntkite</author><text>There is so much interesting stuff going on in GPU compute that isn&amp;#x27;t crypto. I&amp;#x27;m really excited about this because there are SO MANY gpus that are now going to be cheaper than sand. There is A LOT that can be made of that and I intend to get mine. I think the crypto boom really covered up what we can really, really do with GPU compute and possibly stifled adoption and innovation but now we&amp;#x27;ve got so many just sitting around. Which is super useful as we move more into a world after being able to get things manufactured and shipped world wide in what feels like an instant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roboticmind</author><text>Gridcoin rewarded seti@home when seti@home was operating and still rewards a number of other BOINC projects. It is proof of stake based and the rewards are layered on top.&lt;p&gt;There is a similar cryptocurrency called curecoin for folding@home although I think they do use SHA-256 mining (i.e not useful computations) for part of the rewards</text></comment>