<p><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=156072" rel="nofollow">On Bitcoin and Red Balloons</a> suggests a method to incentivize network nodes, however no cryptocurrency implements it.</p>

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2014-03-27T21:11:44.917Z
2014-03-27T21:11:44.917Z
Meni Rosenfeld
<p>The up and coming <a href="http://www.safecoin.io/" rel="nofollow">Safecoin</a> will reward users for donating their bandwith and harddrive space, so they'd be "mining" by just leaving their computers on and connected, being compensated in safecoins.</p>

<p>To a lesser extent, the way <a href="http://www.nxtcommunity.org/nxt-coin/transparent-forging" rel="nofollow">forging in NXT</a> works you also need to leave your computer turned on and connected the whole time so as to be taken into account for the raffle of who generates the next coin, though that doesn't ensure you'll receive any NXTcoins: since it's a 100% Proof-of-Stake coin the more coins you have the higher your probabilities of forging the next block.</p>

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2014-04-27T11:24:55.503Z
2014-04-27T11:24:55.503Z
Joe Pineda
<p><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=405483.0" rel="nofollow">Cuckoo Cycle</a> is close. It is a memory-hard proof of work system - substituting random memory access for CPU power.</p>

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2014-02-25T20:57:30.777Z
2014-02-25T20:57:30.777Z
Terrence Brannon
<p>I mean something where just participation in the decentralized network gives you coins somehow and you cannot do anything beyond (excluding more participation, of course, by having multiple PCs and IPs, for example) to increase the rate of achieving those coins. At the moment I have completely no motivation to leave my bitcoin or litecoin client on, because it doesn't gives me anything back for using me as a node in this network of hardcore miners. I'd rather find some ways to use it occasionally only when I need to do some transactions (few times a month, for example). I'm newbie in this topic, but doesn't this harm the network, when lot of people become using it this way?</p>

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2014-02-18T17:36:00.140Z
Are you referring to Proof-of-Stake schemes such as used with [Peercoin](http://www.peercoin.net/)?
Greg Hewgill
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2014-02-18T18:31:58.023Z
@GregHewgill, thanks, I didn't know about PoS schemes. That's interesting, but it would be even better to not have benefit of holding large amount of coins. Something like Proof-of-Work where "work" is being connected to network and doing some transactions, calculations and verifications, but not having possibility to invest more computing power to get more profit.
aemxdp
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2014-04-27T11:25:47.127Z
@Gracchus Mining signatures? Pardon my ignorance, what is that? Can you provide links to white-papers or the like?
Joe Pineda
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Are there any cryptocurrencies with no mining beyond participation?
aemxdp
# Are there any cryptocurrencies with no mining beyond participation?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-02-18)

I mean something where just participation in the decentralized network gives you coins somehow and you cannot do anything beyond (excluding more participation, of course, by having multiple PCs and IPs, for example) to increase the rate of achieving those coins. At the moment I have completely no motivation to leave my bitcoin or litecoin client on, because it doesn't gives me anything back for using me as a node in this network of hardcore miners. I'd rather find some ways to use it occasionally only when I need to do some transactions (few times a month, for example). I'm newbie in this topic, but doesn't this harm the network, when lot of people become using it this way?

**Tags:** alternatives, synchronization, altcoin

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Are you referring to Proof-of-Stake schemes such as used with [Peercoin](http://www.peercoin.net/)?  
> **username_0**: @username_1, thanks, I didn't know about PoS schemes. That's interesting, but it would be even better to not have benefit of holding large amount of coins. Something like Proof-of-Work where "work" is being connected to network and doing some transactions, calculations and verifications, but not having possibility to invest more computing power to get more profit.  
> **username_2**: @Gracchus Mining signatures? Pardon my ignorance, what is that? Can you provide links to white-papers or the like?  

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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2014-03-27. Score: 1

[On Bitcoin and Red Balloons](http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=156072) suggests a method to incentivize network nodes, however no cryptocurrency implements it.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2014-04-27. Score: 0

The up and coming [Safecoin](http://www.safecoin.io/) will reward users for donating their bandwith and harddrive space, so they'd be "mining" by just leaving their computers on and connected, being compensated in safecoins.

To a lesser extent, the way [forging in NXT](http://www.nxtcommunity.org/nxt-coin/transparent-forging) works you also need to leave your computer turned on and connected the whole time so as to be taken into account for the raffle of who generates the next coin, though that doesn't ensure you'll receive any NXTcoins: since it's a 100% Proof-of-Stake coin the more coins you have the higher your probabilities of forging the next block.


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### Answer by username_4 on 2014-02-25. Score: 0

[Cuckoo Cycle](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=405483.0) is close. It is a memory-hard proof of work system - substituting random memory access for CPU power.


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