
BOB Armstrong
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Outsourced Computations in Qubic **Why a Compute Network Needs an Economy, Not a Puzzle** 🧵👇 **1/ The Real Point of Computation** Most distributed networks solve artificial problems. Hashing. Staking. Lottery mechanics. The work sustains the network but produces nothing of external value. Qubic asks a different question: If you already have thousands of machines online, why not use them for something people actually want? **2/ From Hashing to Real Jobs** Qubic’s compute layer is not tied to a single purpose. It is a pool of hardware that can be redirected. Outsourced Computations formalize this redirection. External tasks become first-class economic events, settled through the same system that runs the network. **3/ The Custom Mining Test** To prove the mechanism works, Qubic ran its Custom Mining test (the first Outsourced Computations POC): redirecting unused compute to Monero. The result surprised everyone. The network delivered substantial hashrate, at times a major portion of Monero's total, showing it can absorb, route, and sustain external work without breaking its internal cadence. It was not about Monero. It was about elasticity. **4/ Useful Proof of Work as a Resource Market** UPoW changes what “mining” means. Miners do not just solve one puzzle. They supply raw compute that the system can reassign. Aigarth (AI training) is one destination. External workloads are another. The miner is paid either way. The resource is compute. The market is Qubic. **5/ Why External Work Needs a Settlement Layer** Any open compute market faces the same problems: * Who gets paid? * Who performed the work? * Who verifies the result? * How do you prevent freeloading? Qubic’s architecture already answers these questions. Ranking, burns, attestations, and epoch boundaries turn compute into an accountable economic unit. **6/ The Next Step: Dogecoin Integration** While the early tests proved the routing model, the Dogecoin integration is now scaling the concept into entirely new territory. Dogecoin uses the Scrypt algorithm, requiring ASIC hardware. Qubic’s AI training runs on CPUs and GPUs. Because they don't compete for the same hardware, they operate fundamentally differently. **7/ Parallel Compute Streams** Doge mining will not run in alternating blocks or time-sliced cycles. It runs simultaneously with AI training. A Dispatcher translates external tasks from a Doge pool, routes them to Qubic miners, and returns completed work, all while UPoW continues uninterrupted. **8/ Decentralizing Share Verification** Instead of trusting a single pool operator to confirm that a share is legitimate, Qubic routes validation through its Oracle Machines. Computors independently confirm valid shares, creating a trustless, decentralized verification layer for external computational work. **9/ The Difference Between Now and Later** The earlier tests were existence proofs. Standard Outsourced Computations will integrate deeply. They will directly contribute to Computor rankings, quorum selection, and form an economic pillar of the network's security and incentive flow. **10/ A Decentralized Compute Surface** The goal is simple: Anyone should be able to submit work and have a distributed network execute it with accountable incentives and predictable settlement. Not a cloud. Not a rollup. A compute surface. Qubic is not outsourcing compute. It is turning compute into an open market. 🔗 Read more about the architecture here: * Dogecoin Mining: qubic.org/blog-detail/qu… * Outsourced Computations: qubic.org/blog-detail/ou…

Dogecoin active addresses have spiked to over 73,000, hitting a 3-month high. Indicating underlying network strength.















