Topic: Altcoins and distributed computing projects (Read 737 times)
If you want to raise other projects then go for it, I won't stop you. I was only using them as examples because they are well known.
That link also speak only about seti and folding. It seems only these 2 projects exists in the world.
That's told you Gabi 
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This argument is cyclical, too cyclic. Periodically someone open a thread asking if mining power can be used for projects like Folding or SETI (and only these 2 projects, NEVER other projects, never)
As always the answer is no.
You seem very sure. As mentioned above, while Primecoin does not give ground-breaking results, it's still different than Bitcoin(apart from re-used source code). So yeah, you have no proof that it can't be done. As always the answer is no.
This argument is cyclical, too cyclic. Periodically someone open a thread asking if mining power can be used for projects like Folding or SETI (and only these 2 projects, NEVER other projects, never)
As always the answer is no.
As always the answer is no.
It's not that easy to do that, I guess.
Mining is not computing power that could be used in all ways you want, it needs to have similar traits to the math problems that are solved right now in mining.
Primecoin is trying to do that right now (I don't know how useful the results are though).
Mining is not computing power that could be used in all ways you want, it needs to have similar traits to the math problems that are solved right now in mining.
Primecoin is trying to do that right now (I don't know how useful the results are though).
I wonder what relationship cryptocurrencies could have to distributed computing projects like folding at home http://folding.stanford.edu/ or SETI. A lot of underused mining power could be used for useful projects such as this.
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