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Originally Posted by aschen
If you will humor me with what is probably a dumb question. All this decentralized computing is enabled by the fact that the computer owners are rewarded with whatever curency for doing the heavy lifting. This is the mining process as I understand it. Does this create an issue when we are closer to the fundamental limitation on number of coins and nobody is willing to support the computing costs for the last few coins?
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quite possibly really don't know what gives the coins any value overall you can't use the hash is it generates or anything else for any other real purpose
other forms of distributed computing like seti at home or genome at home have social benefit for the world and for humanity in general so there's some altruistic reasons to assist with those distributed computing projects