[tor-bugs] #4666 [Company]: Write proposal for proof-of-work service

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#4666: Write proposal for proof-of-work service
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 Reporter:  mikeperry       |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  task            |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal          |      Milestone:           
Component:  Company         |        Version:           
 Keywords:  SponsorZ-large  |         Parent:           
   Points:                  |   Actualpoints:           
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Changes (by dusty):

 * cc: pebbles@… (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:11 mikeperry]:
 > The problem with both Folding at Home and Bitcoin are that the units of
 work are waaaay up there, on the order of a day to days.

 Work units do not have to be large to be monetizable for Bitcoin and
 related networks, see for example https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool .

 One may find bitcoin as a solution here has a wide variety of other
 notable (but solveable) problems.

 Really if my browser is forcing me to do random proof of work in the
 background, I'd like to be able to decide what kind of work it's doing
 myself, even if that means writing some kind of authenticated plugin.

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