Ask HN: Pros and cons placing idle computers to use outside business hours?

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Sia

Anyone have experience placing 10s-100s of computers into paid service (e.g. MQL5 [1], Digital Coin Generation [2], Golem P2P network [3], MinePrize [4], etc) with distributed decentralized storage (SiaCoin [5] vs Storj [6] vs Filecoin [7])? Is it worth the effort? Beest practices? Any exacerbated security or support concerns? What about altruistic grid computing through BOINC, Rosetta@home etc? Assume enterprise class computers and netwoking with tier 1 gigabit Internet. [1] https://cloud.mql5.com/en [2] http://digitalcoingeneration.weebly.com/ [3] https://www.golem.network/ [4] https://mineprize.com/ [5] https://sia.tech/ [6] https://www.storj.io/ [7] https://filecoin.io/.

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FileCoin

Anyone have experience placing 10s-100s of computers into paid service (e.g. MQL5 [1], Digital Coin Generation [2], Golem P2P network [3], MinePrize [4], etc) with distributed decentralized storage (SiaCoin [5] vs Storj [6] vs Filecoin [7])? Is it worth the effort? Beest practices? Any exacerbated security or support concerns? What about altruistic grid computing through BOINC, Rosetta@home etc? Assume enterprise class computers and netwoking with tier 1 gigabit Internet. [1] https://cloud.mql5.com/en [2] http://digitalcoingeneration.weebly.com/ [3] https://www.golem.network/ [4] https://mineprize.com/ [5] https://sia.tech/ [6] https://www.storj.io/ [7] https://filecoin.io/.

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