homebrew-golem VS darknode-cli

Golem, develop Docker applications and make use of their (now) very limited features. It's best suited for heavy calculations, or calculations you can split up between dozens or hundreds of nodes through sharding. A fork is working on bringing GPU & internet access, but it can be hard otherwise. They have a GLM Rewards Program that - generously rewards up to 20 users per month under regular conditions.

For compute, my experience has been the best with Akash, then Golem, then I have been unsuccessful with any other project as of yet. Both of these supports Docker images, but Golem is painfully thorough with securing providers with sandboxing in both networking and workloads. This makes Akash easier to use right now when wanting to run something more advanced such as a custom backend or a Minecraft Server.

If you want to run scientific calculations or similar, I highly recommend Golem. Right now, its best applications are ones that can scale by sharding, to use parallel computations. Think doing 100 similar small jobs on 100 computers instead of 1 large job on 1 computer. One average CPU-month costs $3.17, or you can rent 100 CPU-hours for $0.44. Notable examples are blender_cuda which runs on a GPU, and the entirety of awesome-golem.

Website: http://golem.network/

if you're not using your computer, you can consider letting other people use it! come checkout golem, a distributed super computer similar to Folding@Home, but for all kinds of computation not just protein research. You even earn some money and it's really easy to get started.

This is where the math of VPS on demand for testing vs home starts to matter. OR higher buy in but lower ongoing is SBC boards. Raspberry pi, turingpi, ION whatever boards from nvidia. All have higher cost, more limited abilities (in some ways) but FOR SURE are way lower power/heat than traditional low initial cost/higher ongoing. It's a common issue. Getting yourself a NAS or ESOS or SAN or whatever as an always on, mount it on the projects you need as storage. Depends on what you want, but an always on computer can do a hell of allot. golem.network, idle mining, BOINC for science, etc etc. Dunno, GLHF

It is public and been running for a bit now, seeing as you asked I assume its ok for me to say its golem.network ? Definitely open though if you want to join

Run a golem.network node to rent out some pi's to others who can purchase their compute power, isn't much but glad to help someone when I'm not using it

WBTC is centralized. you give your bitcoins to a company and they create a ERC-20 token to match them and they give that to you. if you want your bitcoins back you have to return to them the ERC-20 token and they burn it or something. obviously this is not so good if you don't want to trust the custodian. renBTC is decentralized and it relies on the same hash time locked contracts that enable bitcoins to be deposited into the lightning network. there is more info at https://renproject.io/ including some documentation but it's not very good.

Let's say you're a business that accepts crypto and what if someone sends you ETH or some coins like USDC. Is it your job to check that these coins didn't come from Tornado? It's quite hard to do that. What if account A got their ETH from Tornado, then sent to account B, which then exchanged the ETH to USDC, which then sent the USDC to account C, which then sent the USDC to you.

This is a problem for Bitcoin as well. What if someone got ETH from Tornado. Then converted the ETH to renBTC (https://renproject.io/). Then converted the renBTC to BTC. Are those Bitcoins now somehow tainted?

use renBTC https://renproject.io/ https://bridge.renproject.io/mint

Here ya go https://renproject.io/

> That involves a trusted third party, doesn't it?

For most cases, yes. Binance, Gemini and some others provide a version of their token that can run in multiple chains. You have to trust them fully.

It's a little bit better for WBTC [0]. WBTC is a consortium of 30+ crypto projects who keep the BTC under their control through a multi-sig wallet, and that can be audited on-chain. In this case, the majority of the signers would have to conspire in order to steal the funds or do anything malicious.

renBTC is even more decentralized. It is part of the ren "network" [1], which provides inter-blockchain applications. I haven't looked yet how it works exactly, but my understanding is custody of BTC happens though a proper dapp.

[0]: https://wbtc.network

[1]: https://renproject.io

Badger Bridge is under maintenance at the moment and will probably be shut down and replaced by a new product in the near future. For the meantime if you don't have any stuck transactions that you need help and are just looking for a similar bridge you can use the https://renproject.io/ one, which uses the same technology that Badger Bridge did (RenVM).

In 2019, investors were introduced to the first wrapped Bitcoin product, WrappedBTC (wBTC). The creation of wBTC by BitGo, Kyber Network, and Ren, formerly known as Republic Protocol was revolutionary in its own right, but wBTC is entirely centralized due to BitGo being the sole custodian for wBTC and this entity, partly owned by Goldman Sachs, has full legal control of all locked Bitcoin wrapped in wBTC.

Solana has turned into a bit of a juggernaut, with huge financial backing, and TVL only behind Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. It has been attracting dapps and protocols that were previously EVM-only, like Lido and RenVM; but it also has a strong stable of its own Solana-native dapps.

renproject.io is probably the purest way to switch BTC to Ethereum, though you will pay a a pretty hefty ETH gas fee, and it's somewhat complicated for a beginner, though it has the added benefit of teaching you how bridges work in crypto.