It feels like wasted power. You could at least be earning something off it. The creator can either take a cut if it’s free or lump sum for paid.

I’ve seen a few idle games take up a lot CPU resources, not necessarily GPU so it had me wondering. Why not make it mine?

  • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Right… Hence why idle games draw significantly more power than when a computer isn’t running it.

    This is about idle games. Not a PC at idle.

    • Sirence@feddit.deEnglish
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      8 months ago

      If the idle game is running at 100% there is no power left to also crypto mine. If the idle game runs at 10% you could use 90% for mining but then you would pay for 100% energy usage instead of 10%. You’d probably end up paying more than you’d mine.

      • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Yeah I was mostly thinking of it as some clever way to mine. Somehow linking the mining engine into the gameplay itself. That’s a proper point though when just looking at the efficiency side of things.