Originally Posted by Seth Manson

The thing that bothers me most about this bitcoin crap is that they dont tell you what its doing. They say its just solving math problems, they dont serve a useful purpose other than giving the bitcoin market some value.

That, is bullshit. Its doing something. And if its not something useful or entertaining, then its something malicious. Nothing else is worth any value. They are using your CPU or GPU processes for SOMETHING and its not just because they like doing complicated math problems.