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		gaius on Sept 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wind energy used to mine cryptocurrency to fund cl... This seems a very roundabout way to do things - climate modelling is CPU-intensive enough already, why not use the wind energy to power those computations instead of this extra step in the middle?

kens on Sept 17, 2017 [–]

It's an art project. The idea isn't to efficiently create money but to be thought-provoking.

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