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feature: mining via BOINC #277

Open Erkan-Yilmaz opened 10 years ago

Erkan-Yilmaz commented 10 years ago

@3mi ... generate #blocks in backgroud like #boinc + use only the not-used ressources of the computer. otherwise old computers can not participate really... (mine: temp. 103°C while generating blocks with 1 cpu)

I investigated this shortly and there seems a possibility:

"Gridcoin is a new peer-to-peer cryptocurrency that uses distributed computing (BOINC)" (1) "Gridcoin is based on the Bitcoin protocol" (2) it seems active: last commit 3 weeks ago (3)

@all: help investigate further, thx

currently mining for twister is possibla via (4)

(1) http://www.gridcoin.us/ (2) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=324118.0 (3) https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-master (4) https://github.com/miguelfreitas/twister-core/wiki/mining

iShift commented 10 years ago

twister - not about money, its about blogging, we need true gpu miner first...

miguelfreitas commented 10 years ago

gpu miner is already working with twister:

https://github.com/miguelfreitas/CudaMiner-twister