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Is this possible: the "crypto hype" and the "ai hype" and this nvidia quarterly earnings all intersecting at the need for high-end chips running on a bunch of servers.

In a supposed down economy c. early next year, offering processor power and hard disk space from home machines as a source of passive income could be the next OnlyFans.

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I don't see how crowdsourcing compute would be possible without giving access to all the data being crunched, which would be a complete deal-breaker for many (most?) businesses, I would imagine. So unless someone can figure that part out, it's probably a non-starter.

With disk space, you have the issue of liability—what happens when someone decides to store child pornography on my hard drive? That's a more solvable problem, but I'm certainly not envious of anyone who wants to tackle it.

Vast.ai already does that, it's fine if you're working on public datasets, but big no-no if you're working with private/expensive datasets imo.

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