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Machines Preserved from E-Waste
Vintage iron. Modern purpose. Zero landfill.
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Est. CO₂ Saved (kg)
~50 kg per machine vs. manufacturing new
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E-Waste Prevented (kg)
~15 kg average per preserved machine
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Total RAM (GB)
Across the entire preserved fleet
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CPU Cores Alive
From 386 to POWER8 — all working
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GPU VRAM (GB)
V100s, M40s, RTX, FirePro — all serving
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0
Oldest Machine (years)
Still running. Still useful.
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Internal Fleet
16 machines
Machines owned and operated by Elyan Labs. Datacenter pulls, pawn shop finds, and vintage treasures.
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Community Miners
3+ nodes
External contributors running RustChain attestation nodes and miners around the world.
"The greenest computer is the one that already exists. We don't buy new silicon to chase benchmarks — we give old iron new purpose. A 2003 Power Mac G4 earns RustChain tokens alongside a 2024 Ryzen. A 1993 486 laptop sits preserved, ready for the day it's needed. Nothing gets thrown away."
— Elyan Labs, Proof of Antiquity
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🔄 Flip the Script
"The greenest computation is the one that already exists."
🌱 Elyan Labs Fleet
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watts total (16+ machines)
☘ 0 kg CO₂ saved
♻ ~250 kg e-waste prevented
⏰ 0 combined years beyond "obsolete"
🚫 Zero rare earth mining required
vs
🔥 Single GPU Mining Rig
1,500-2,000W
watts (ONE machine)
💨 150-300 kg CO₂ to manufacture
🗑 Replaced every 2-3 years
⛏ New coltan, lithium, cobalt each cycle
🌍 Shipped from Shenzhen to you
The industry measures efficiency in FLOPS per watt. We measure it in carbon per computation.
A PowerBook G4 drawing 30 watts has zero manufacturing footprint — it's already built. A new RTX 4090 draws 450 watts AND required mining rare earth metals, smelting, international shipping, and packaging.
Proof-of-Antiquity rewards machines for surviving, not for being replaced. The antiquity multiplier (G4 = 2.5x, G5 = 2.0x) isn't nostalgia — it's a carbon incentive.
How We Calculate Impact
CO₂ saved: Manufacturing a new computer generates approximately 300-800 kg of CO₂. We use a conservative estimate of 50 kg per machine for the emissions avoided by extending its useful life rather than replacing it.
E-waste prevented: The average desktop weighs 10-25 kg; laptops 2-5 kg. We use ~15 kg average across the fleet mix of towers, laptops, and rack servers.
Machines counted: Every physical machine that is either actively computing (mining, inference, builds) or being preserved in working condition counts. VMs do not count — only real hardware with real silicon.