<i>The scale of the Bitcoin mining buildout indicates that grid computing may indeed be feasible after all given the appropriate compensation, and potentially better than or competitive with cloud computing for some applications.<p>Now that we have a quick way to set up a fine-grained bitcoin micropayments channel between any two machines, an obvious next step is to start generalizing this to the renting out of other compute resources beyond just storage.</i> [1]<p>Can anyone provide an example of a problem that would be better solved with grid computing&#x2F;micropayments instead of cloud computing?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;21.co&#x2F;learn&#x2F;grid-computing-with-bitcoin-micropayments&#x2F;#bitcoin-mining-as-grid-computing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;21.co&#x2F;learn&#x2F;grid-computing-with-bitcoin-micropayment...</a>