Just some observations:<p>- I don't have any info on how this works from the repo. 99% of people will click on the repo and click back because of the lack of this. I went on google and found a [this](<a href="https://sideprojects.net/posts/NB697xnBrWQioywoP/rentmycpu-rent-your-cpu-power-and-get-rewarded" rel="nofollow">https://sideprojects.net/posts/NB697xnBrWQioywoP/rentmycpu-r...</a>) link, but still no information.<p>- How are payments processed? Do you need to trust the other party a good amount? As a cpu cycle seller, how do I know I'll get money for time I process? How does a cpu buyer know they aren't getting scammed?<p>- How are computations done? If I have to re-write my existing software to leverage this, I might as well rent a VPS to save a lot of time.<p>- Do I need to select user by user at a granular level to run my tasks, or can I just throw a task + $ at a pool and have the system figure it out?<p>I love the idea though, it's really been a bit of a pipe dream for the past 20 or so years. It's just a very tough problem to execute correctly. Best of luck.
With the right malware, your CPU rents itself as part of a Botnet.<p>I remember doing the Seti at Home and Folding at Home projects as a screen saver that used CPU time to solve problems. That was for charity.<p>How is this different than mining for Bitcoin or any other virtual currency? I want to make sure my CPU is not used for illegal means and then the FBI busted down my door because my CPU was part of a peer to peer network serving kiddie porn?
In 2007 when distributed computing was still a New Kid On The Block, I shared an idea with a colleague for what I considered to be a good idea at the time:<p>Distributed computing for hire.<p>Families around the world have reasonable amounts of computing power that sits mostly unused; why not make a few bucks doing things similar to Folding@Home Seti@Home, but for a price? Get paid for your computations.<p>Of course this was before Bitcoin was a thing, and looking back, it feels naïve to have thought it could be successful. I certainly lacked the expertise to build such a thing. But I wasn't the only one thinking of it. Others tried it and appear to have failed. From 2011:<p>Ask HN: Is there a paid Distributed Computing service?
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2499466" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2499466</a><p>These days I'd be concerned to run somebody else's workload on my own equipment, lest the FBI/CIA/KGB/FSB/Interpol/SecretService/GRU show up at my door.<p>Still, an interesting thought especially given how powerful so many devices have become.
Well done OP, Congratulations on the launch!<p>Several others have pointed out why they wouldn't use such a service, I would definitely use this; Not to make money per se but to distribute my compute load within my network across the computers, smartphones, tablets, TVs i.e. whatever with a browser capable of running web assembly.<p>Consumer level distributed computing is my pet peeve and I'm obsessively power conscious about my computing needs. I use low power, silent computing systems in my house that means Intel U/ AMD G series CPU, loads of ARM SoCs, Consoles for gaming etc. and for anything demanding I compute using cloud.<p>Considering I use only low power systems, I could really use distributed computing to improve my productivity and that's been currently limited to some data science loads using Dask, Modin and occasional use of programming languages designed for DC.<p>Update: I have added your project link to a distributed computing problem thread on my problem validation platform. Hopefully those who are looking for such a solution would be able to find it there.<p>[1] <a href="https://needgap.com/problems/218-distributing-computing-loads-across-all-devices-distributedcomputing-computation" rel="nofollow">https://needgap.com/problems/218-distributing-computing-load...</a>
There is under a header written: "Rent your CPU power and win money !"
I'm not sure if I understand it right, but "WIN MONEY" is not the same as "EARN MONEY" :D
No TOS, Docs, anything. To me this looks like a good Clickbait :/
<a href="https://rentmycpu.azurewebsites.net/download" rel="nofollow">https://rentmycpu.azurewebsites.net/download</a> has a little more info
<a href="https://www.golem.network/" rel="nofollow">https://www.golem.network/</a><p>Haven’t thought of these guys in a while.
Funny sidebar, I had an idea for something like this as a feature to a larger product. The scope creep of this concept eventually wound up consuming the entire project and it had to be surgically removed to save the original project. I'd like to revisit the idea someday. Maybe this is my chance?<p>I will be exitedly following this closely.
Last time I met John Maddog, he had a similar idea, already implemented and the whole "ecosystem" used it's own cryptocurrency. Project Cauã or something. Because I can't seem to find new news, I'm guessing that it's perhaps going downhill.
>"RentMyCPU<p>An app made to compute tasks from other nodes in the network using your CPU and you earn money for that.<p>[...]<p>How it works<p>This app works with webassembly files. These files are executed in a sandboxed environment (because uwp apps are sandboxed by default). You have the ability to execute a webassembly file on many nodes. To differentiate the node on which the webassembly file is executed, a numeric parameter is passed."<p>What's the story with WebAssembly and sockets/API calls?<p>I assume that WebAssembly prevents whatever it is running from opening sockets and making API calls...<p>If it doesn't -- then how will you prevent Black Hats / ill-intentioned people -- from creating Bot and DDoS networks, and other mayhem?
See also Popular Power from 2001: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Power" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Power</a>
When integrated with RentMyRAM and RentMyDisk, we have Ethereum back, except the computation don't have to be repeated on every nodes in the network.
I think this would only work if a known company backs this up and control the workload/program/users. Otherwise, it is a heaven for hackers/spammers