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 / 4 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 / 6 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 / 6 months ago

I have heard vast.ai is cheap but I haven't tried it out. https://websiteinvesting.com/reviews/vast-ai-review/. Source: 6 months ago

Https://bitinfocharts.com has pretty useful info. Source: about 1 year ago

Here is a thought. What if BCH developers can ditch the anonymity and make the routing 100% reliable? I would convert one third of my BTC to BCH the same day. How many developers do you have? Why this page shows only 69 Github stars? https://bitinfocharts.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

However in the case of crypto, the biggest use case it has is as an alternative currency in incredibly poor economies. Using BTC for example, since it represents the largest portion of crypto users and has reliable data. Source: over 1 year ago

Blockchain size is more important than hashrate. You can compare the current sizes here. https://bitinfocharts.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

Bitinfocharts.com says that 2% of all BTC wallets have between 1-10 BTC in them. Source: over 1 year ago