• @Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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      31 year ago

      But I wonder: doesn’t it need to be accessible to be read locally? If I mine like 1 petabytes of stuff, then I can upload somewhere else and forget about it?

      Otherwise they could mine on a disk, then wipe, start again.

      IMHO they found a scapegoat, everyone (me included) loves to blame crypto bros for anything bad, but I don’t see how here can happen

        • @Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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          21 year ago

          Yes but it should be needed to read it constantly, otherwise it would download petabytes of stuff

          And that mined file would be accessed slowly

    • @notnotapotato@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      That’s… Not how that works?.. You just need to show you have physical hard drive space on your computer. Dropbox doesn’t magically give you extra storage…

      • rastilin
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        21 year ago

        There was an API floating around ages ago that let you mount a Gmail instance as a virtual hard drive and use it like block device. Dropbox does have an API for file access, so it’s entirely possible to write a miner that talks to Dropbox and not your local drive.