Submission + - Can it be a force for good? (bitcoin.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Currently Bitcoin is generated by solving otherwise worthless number puzzles. I appreciate the value of the currency as it is but it seems to me that having all that computing power crunching away to solve otherwise pointless puzzles is a waste of potential energy. So I want to ask the slashdot community, can we find a way to harness the calculative power of the bitcoin community for a common good?