> edit: Given that it doesn't make sense, does anybody know what they are really doing?
I'm guessing they're chasing after the vague idea that money, energy, and computation are all somewhat interchangable and building chips that offer low-level features to trade between these, so that a device can exchange any of these three for the others, i.e. "I'll do this computation for you for 0.0001 bitcoins" or "I'll give you 5 watts of power if you calculate this for me" etc etc.
I'm guessing they're chasing after the vague idea that money, energy, and computation are all somewhat interchangable and building chips that offer low-level features to trade between these, so that a device can exchange any of these three for the others, i.e. "I'll do this computation for you for 0.0001 bitcoins" or "I'll give you 5 watts of power if you calculate this for me" etc etc.
Still not a very convincing idea.