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

Verge - https://vergecurrency.com/. Source: over 2 years ago

Derek Capó and his team had released TokenPay and the $TPAY coin 👛 in May of the previous year. They were an ambitious start-up 🐱‍🏍 with a lot of play money 🤑. They got their blockchain 🔲⛓🔳⛓ off the ground and then partnered with the Litecoin foundation to buy 9.09% of a small German bank 🇩🇪🏛 with the option to complete acquisition following regulatory approvals. Another very interesting move was buying a stake in... Source: over 3 years ago