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		Cthulhu_ 44 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SETI@home is in hiberation And yet, distributed computing only became huge when people could earn / generate money off of it. Seti / Folding walked so that bitcoin could run?

b3lvedere 44 days ago [–]

I can't really condemn people trying to earn money with their cpu cycles, but good causes sometimes still exist.

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