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Bitcoin rival rewards you for archiving history instead of doing useless math

04
Jun
2014

Other than generating lucre, Bitcoin mining does nothing but waste of time and energy. Thats why researchers from Microsoft and the University of Maryland have developed Permacoins which reward you for actually doing something useful: backing up important data to your hard drives. For instance, you could earn crypto-coins by helping store, say, the 200TB US Library of Congress to your own disks.

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