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Ping21: Earn Bitcoin by Monitoring Uptime and Latency (medium.com/21)
2 points by johngrantuk on March 16, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I understand the business model here.

What I don't understand is the competitive advantage. It seems to me that this could be deployed for just about any computing hardware, such as Raspberry Pi. With a marketplace and something like Resin.io you could spin this up pretty quickly. The benefit being that you don't need extra hardware, you can just use a spare Pi or an extra SD card.

So what is 21's advantage here? Or am I just speaking to a similar usability challenge that Dropbox began with?




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