On: Imagine your computer as a wallet full of Bitcoins

[jaysonelliot]

It's tied to computing power in the sense that one could run the app on multiple machines, or even multiple virtual machines, but it seems like you'd be doing an awful lot of work for a relatively minimal return.

It seems like it would be a lot easier to simply trade for bitcoins.

[jeromec → jaysonelliot]

It seems like it would be a lot easier to simply trade for bitcoins.

That depends on who you are, and what kind of value you can get out of bitcoins. ;)