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Does anyone have any experiences with these services like gollum Network? Is it safe? Does it earn you a net monetary gain compared to your electric bill? I have a pretty nice desktop that sits around for most of the day, just wondering what else I can do with it while I'm at work.

Please note, I'm asking specifically for people who have actually done this and what their experiences were, good and bad. I understand I'm not going to make tons of (or possibly any) money or start a business.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can donate the time to science:

Boinc

I've been doing this for severl years without any issues. Currently chugging along in a docker instance on my headless linux server, and I've found it runs well on most any OS.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I donated my CPU time during COVID pandemic.

I saw there is LTT pool also donating theirs.

Though I don't know how much benefit, it makes me feel great.

[–] axzxc1236 8 points 1 year ago

I do this in winter, warms my room a little while doing (what I think is) good.

[–] Tippon 5 points 1 year ago

If you're running the Folding@Home project through it, it might be worth looking at the Banano project. It runs the F@H program in the same way, but using credentials that they give you, and you get Banano as a reward.

On the one hand it's a cryptocurrency, so take it with a pinch of salt, but on the other hand you get it for doing what you're already doing.