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Miles: Salad has tens of thousands of nodes on its network

Bob Miles · Gamers contribute GPU To this SaaS Marketplace Raising $15m at $70m Valuation with $5m in Revenue · Nov 26, 2021 · at 4:46

Bob Miles, founder of Salad.com, describes the scale of consumer PC nodes generating compute and stored balance across the platform.

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“You know, the tens of thousands of nodes on the network right now, we are the custodians for all the value.”

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