Salad Technologies lets you earn rewards like a Discord Nitro subscription in exchange for your idle computer time.
Salad Technologies lets you earn rewards like a Discord Nitro subscription in exchange for your idle computer time.
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Salad Technologies raises $3.2 million so you can reap rewards from your PC’s idle time

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Salad Technologies has raised $3.2 million to help you earn rewards from your PC’s idle time. You can then use those rewards to buy products, make donations, or fill your bank account.

In return, Salad uses your PC to mine for cryptocurrency. Salad hopes this plan will position it to define the future of distributed computing at a time when the industry has a voracious appetite for computing power. The new round of funding for the company means that we are making real progress in getting paid to play games, or what I call the Leisure Economy.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.