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The DeanBeat: How Salad lets you earn rewards from your idle gaming PC

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 4 min

Salad helps you earn rewards from your gaming PC’s idle time. Then you can use those rewards to buy products or make donations, while Salad uses the PC to mine cryptocurrency. And now it is about to broadly increase the things you can buy with those rewards through a new payment gateway called SaladPay.

It’s like a blast out of the past, when everyone was using gaming computers to mine Bitcoin during its, uh, salad days. Salad lets gamers create value from their computers by turning their idle compute cycles on high-end gaming PCs into gaming items they can use. That’s a big deal, as the number of available high-end gaming PCs is currently about 400 million .

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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.