Bitcoins

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http://www.bitcoin.org/

Cryptocurrency. Also an actual GPGPU application, although it does relatively useless work. (Just calculating valid SHA hashes until one is found that meets an arbitrary fitness function.)


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Would be nice if it actually calculated something useful, like primes or dna folding or something like that.

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Yes, it certainly would be. That's a lot of electricity.

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