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25 Aug 2026, 3:40 AM	The Register	5.5	Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg Eigen Labs' Darkbloom project has become a paid inference provider on OpenRouter, letting Apple Silicon Mac owners earn an estimated $120-200/month per machine by contributing idle compute. The network currently has 250 machines online, has served ~4.5B tokens, and reports $102K ARR. The inference engine runs in a single hardened Swift process using mlx-swift-lm, with macOS kernel-level protections (PT_DENY_ATTACH, Hardened Runtime) to prevent prompt/response data leakage, routed through a Go coordinator in an AMD SEV-SNP confidential VM. Why: If you have idle Apple Silicon Macs (M1 MacBook Pro or better, Mac mini preferred), you can sign up at darkbloom.dev to monetize them as inference nodes—but cloud-rental arbitrage is explicitly banned. The privacy architecture is worth studying if you build distributed inference or edge AI systems: the single-process hardened Swift model with kernel-level debugger denial is a concrete pattern for running untrusted inference workloads safely. distributed-inference apple-silicon mlx edge-compute privacy

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25 Aug 2026, 3:40 AM

The Register

5.5

Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg

Eigen Labs' Darkbloom project has become a paid inference provider on OpenRouter, letting Apple Silicon Mac owners earn an estimated $120-200/month per machine by contributing idle compute. The network currently has 250 machines online, has served ~4.5B tokens, and reports $102K ARR. The inference engine runs in a single hardened Swift process using mlx-swift-lm, with macOS kernel-level protections (PT_DENY_ATTACH, Hardened Runtime) to prevent prompt/response data leakage, routed through a Go coordinator in an AMD SEV-SNP confidential VM.

Why: If you have idle Apple Silicon Macs (M1 MacBook Pro or better, Mac mini preferred), you can sign up at darkbloom.dev to monetize them as inference nodes—but cloud-rental arbitrage is explicitly banned. The privacy architecture is worth studying if you build distributed inference or edge AI systems: the single-process hardened Swift model with kernel-level debugger denial is a concrete pattern for running untrusted inference workloads safely.