I would like to announce the release of BitWrk 0.5.1 "Moon".

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BitWrk is an open marketplace for computing power, fueled by Bitcoin. I've been working on it since 2013 (see the original announcement post). At Chaos Communication Conference, I even held a Lightning Talk. What makes BitWrk special is that participant can not only buy computing power, but also sell it for Bitcoin.

BitWrk is now running in BETA phase and its first use case, rendering 3d imagery with Blender, is working quite well. Accepting payments in Bitcoin has been implemented in August's 0.5.0 release. Withdrawals are not implemented yet.

The 0.5.1 release brings the following changes:

• Support for Blender 2.76
• Work data compression reduces uploads to BitWrk peers
• Transaction fee is now always 3% of price
• ... and a couple of small enhancements and bug fixes.

Both server and client are Open Source Software, released under the GPLv3. There are binaries for Windows and Mac OS X.

If you happen to be a Bitcoin fan and you use Blender for your projects, please try out BitWrk!

I'd love to hear your questions, experiences and criticism. I'll also grant 20 mBTC of BitWrk credit to the first five participants who post their BitWrk account IDs here.