RE: While crypto is booming, scientists across the world lack the computing power to find a cure for diseases which can affect us all

[vortac]

It's already possible to distribute Gridcoin to miners who run your BOINC project (so called 'rain' function). We use it internally to reward crunchers participating in various crunching competitions (i.e. BOINC Pentathlon) but an enterprising scientist might also use it to reward its cruncher base and to boost computations (more reward->more crunchers->more computing power).

Comments

[leongkhan]

I think that feature should be advertised heavily and possibly developed further to make it easy to use. I think there is a significant block to investment right now because there isn't a clear demand side use case for Gridcoin.

[cm-steem]

Python: https://github.com/Scalextrix/GRCNN
MapReduce (Proof of concept): https://github.com/grctest/GRC-Magnitude-MapReduce-Hadoop
Project rain: https://github.com/grctest/project-rain-site

[leongkhan]

Excellent. Great to see the code exists. Let's spread the word.