now, cryptocurrency miners aren't exactly a great model to follow, not only because they're so wasteful, but because they're time-sensitive: whatever goes into computing a hash with slowish computers at high latency is likely to be PoWaste as well. protein folding, signal detection, and other massive computations that can be broken into smallish verifiable pieces would be more reasonable. and we don't even need a source of funding to "micropay" for such computing: websites that adopt such PoW access controls could refer users (transparently or not) to distributed computing platforms that issue tokens that can be used to micropay for access

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