Ethereum VS Golem

After my first open-source contribution, I looked for other projects where I could contribute. One of those projects was Ethereum, which is a blockchain network that enables Decentralized Finance, tokenization of assets, and an open internet. While reading through their contributing guidelines, I found an issue in their documentation and ended up fixing it, making my second open-source contribution. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

Keep up to date with Bitcoin on Bitcoin.org Keep up to date with Ethereum news on Ethereum.org. Source: 6 months ago

Ethereum - The second biggest cryptocurrency platform after Bitcoin, with its own blockchain and smart contract functionality through Solidity. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

Coinbase makes use of the Extended Message Transfer Protocol (XMTP) communication protocol to allow messaging between Ethereum addresses. Source: 10 months ago

Elsewhere, The Sandbox is a blockchain-based virtual world built on Ethereum where players can build, own and monetise their gaming experiences. The platform utilises a ‘play-to-earn’ model to incentivise players for time spent in the metaverse, and is building an open metaverse to enable greater collaboration with creators and brands alike. Source: 10 months ago

Golem, develop Docker applications and make use of their (now) very limited features. It's best suited for heavy calculations, or calculations you can split up between dozens or hundreds of nodes through sharding. A fork is working on bringing GPU & internet access, but it can be hard otherwise. They have a GLM Rewards Program that - generously rewards up to 20 users per month under regular conditions. Source: over 1 year ago

For compute, my experience has been the best with Akash, then Golem, then I have been unsuccessful with any other project as of yet. Both of these supports Docker images, but Golem is painfully thorough with securing providers with sandboxing in both networking and workloads. This makes Akash easier to use right now when wanting to run something more advanced such as a custom backend or a Minecraft Server. Source: over 1 year ago

If you want to run scientific calculations or similar, I highly recommend Golem. Right now, its best applications are ones that can scale by sharding, to use parallel computations. Think doing 100 similar small jobs on 100 computers instead of 1 large job on 1 computer. One average CPU-month costs $3.17, or you can rent 100 CPU-hours for $0.44. Notable examples are blender_cuda which runs on a GPU, and the... Source: over 1 year ago

If you're not using your computer, you can consider letting other people use it! Come checkout golem, a distributed super computer similar to Folding@Home, but for all kinds of computation not just protein research. You even earn some money and it's really easy to get started. Source: over 2 years ago

This is where the math of VPS on demand for testing vs home starts to matter. OR higher buy in but lower ongoing is SBC boards. Raspberry pi, turingpi, ION whatever boards from nvidia. All have higher cost, more limited abilities (in some ways) but FOR SURE are way lower power/heat than traditional low initial cost/higher ongoing. It's a common issue. Getting yourself a NAS or ESOS or SAN or whatever as an always... Source: over 2 years ago