The article: http://www.dailytech.com/GPU+Roaring...ticle22474.htm

Has anyone heard of this type of development in generating revenue having crunchers do the work and you settle on an income from finding these data bits?

I could use an income like this. And do you think it is illegal or not?

If someone puts these Bit Coins on the internet to be found and is willing to pay the person who finds them the pay for doing so. Then I see no reason why this could not be acceptable practice for us Distributed Crunchers to charge after a way to make money crunching data!