Based on our record, Vast.ai seems to be a lot more popular than Monero. While we know about 223 links to Vast.ai, we've tracked only 3 mentions of Monero. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
A concrete show case: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monero/ ("sort by volume"). Or see it here: https://i.imgur.com/XWe1SJ1.png. Source: 6 months ago
A crypto coin is simply a digital coin, created for making payments. Coins are created to act like money: in other words, they represent a unit of account, store of value, and medium of transfer. Crypto coins tend to take the form of their native blockchain, like with Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC) and Monero (XMR). Source: about 1 year ago
I also recommend https://web.getmonero.org/ as well as https://xmrig.com/ regarding step by step configuration. Source: over 1 year ago
Why is monero's 24 hour trading volume down 35.17% today? https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monero/. Source: over 1 year ago
Monero has a market cap just shy of $3 billion as of this writing, that seems a bit more than "niche" to me. Source: over 1 year ago
There are already ways to get around this. For example, renting compute from people who aren't in datacenters. Which is already a thing: https://vast.ai. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
By "SETI" I assume you mean the SETI@Home distributed computing project. There's a two-way market where you can rent out your GPU here: https://vast.ai/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
- https://vast.ai/ (linked by gchadwick above). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Have you considered running on a cloud machine instead? You can rent machines on https://vast.ai/ for under $1 an hour that should work for small/medium models (I've mostly been playing with stable diffusion so I don't know what you'd need for an LLM off hand). Good GPUs and Apple hardware is pricey. Get a bit of automation setup with some cloud storage (e.g backblaze B2) and you can have a machine ready to run... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
I have heard vast.ai is cheap but I haven't tried it out. https://websiteinvesting.com/reviews/vast-ai-review/. Source: 5 months ago
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