BinaryMage:
Means that they have found something interesting for gpugrid AND they used it to make the side project donate@home
aka: they discovered bitcoin and said "wow, what if we make a side project and ask ppl to mine there to help fund us?"
Posters have no idea cause like no one of them, normal partecipants, know what bitcoin is. GDF is the project administrators and he know what it is of course.
How can this be fishy? GDF is the administrator of GPUGRID, and opened a thread on the GPUGRID forum.
As for how it work, the screenshot of slaveindebt clearly show how the application specify "internet connection required"
I still think this: you say that WU doesn't connect, but why not? WU just start a .exe application that crunch them. What the .exe do is not related to boinc or the wu. If the application happens to be a miner with the info to mine for a pool, it will just mine. Once wu reach 100% boinc shut it down and send it back for credits
Means that they have found something interesting for gpugrid AND they used it to make the side project donate@home
aka: they discovered bitcoin and said "wow, what if we make a side project and ask ppl to mine there to help fund us?"
Posters have no idea cause like no one of them, normal partecipants, know what bitcoin is. GDF is the project administrators and he know what it is of course.
How can this be fishy? GDF is the administrator of GPUGRID, and opened a thread on the GPUGRID forum.
As for how it work, the screenshot of slaveindebt clearly show how the application specify "internet connection required"
I still think this: you say that WU doesn't connect, but why not? WU just start a .exe application that crunch them. What the .exe do is not related to boinc or the wu. If the application happens to be a miner with the info to mine for a pool, it will just mine. Once wu reach 100% boinc shut it down and send it back for credits
Fair point. I didn't look that screenshot over carefully enough; my own research on their website didn't pull up anything indicating that a constant net connection was required, but if it is, I can see how this would work. I stand corrected, thanks for illuminating me.
I don't think it will have large adoption, though. I crunched for BOINC before I discovered Bitcoin, and the general attitude is quite anti-Bitcoin. Some believe it a scam, many don't know much about it - but most importantly, a vast majority consider it "unethical" compared to computing for science, which they do. On the GPUGRID thread, many responders were criticizing GPUGRID for associating with Bitcoin. I think likely that the majority of crunchers would rather just donate directly than run this project.
