Topic: alternate coin - for science? (Read 639 times)
Well, this is not a cryptocurrency, but Folding@Home allows you to contribute to curing diseases by "folding" proteins using your computing power.
Thank you for the input.
"There must be a way to make a program that can prove a user is doing some eco-friendly task."
How is this achieved today?
Based on research I've conducted since the OP, it might be better to come up with some way to reward 'citizen scientists' with bitcoin for their computer-use (say, for climate model simulations) rather than develop an alt-coin. Would love to hear thoughts for and against this.
Thank you.
Temuujin.
"There must be a way to make a program that can prove a user is doing some eco-friendly task."
How is this achieved today?
Based on research I've conducted since the OP, it might be better to come up with some way to reward 'citizen scientists' with bitcoin for their computer-use (say, for climate model simulations) rather than develop an alt-coin. Would love to hear thoughts for and against this.
Thank you.
Temuujin.
Primecoin, sciencecoin, curecoin
You may be interested in Orbitcoin (orbitcoin.org). It was founded to help "open source scientists" by donating a large portion of the pre-mined currency to them.
I like ORB because it implements 0% proof of stake. In my mind, 0% pos allows owners of the currency to "donate" their coinage to the security of the network.
Also, There must be a way to make a program that can prove a user is doing some eco-friendly task. Like using clean energy, or offsetting their carbon footprint.
I like ORB because it implements 0% proof of stake. In my mind, 0% pos allows owners of the currency to "donate" their coinage to the security of the network.
Also, There must be a way to make a program that can prove a user is doing some eco-friendly task. Like using clean energy, or offsetting their carbon footprint.
Hi all. I am a newbie to this forum, generally speaking, but I have been mining different coins for a while now.
I am also a scientist.
One theme I keep reading is that people like the idea of crypto-mining serving a real-world purpose.
I would love to get a discussion going about a coin for science. What about coin development serving as a platform for scientific research? If such developments were made, would there be any interest to create trading value from it?
SETI launched the idea of citizen-science computing. There have been others.
For instance, NASA and the the UK Hadley Centre are still involved with implementing citizen-science programs where volunteers can opt to use their personal computers to help make a cluster for climate-model simulations and long-range forecasting (see climateprediction.net and NASA's Climate@Home). I was personally involved with the development of the Climate@Home project. The idea of these programs are to create a virtual supercomputing networks that spreads the data-processing chores across thousands of computers. Such a task-sharing initiative eliminates the need to buy additional supercomputers for modeling, which consume enormous amounts of energy, and reduces the "carbon footprint" of running these calculations. The idea is that volunteers are able to download the climate-computer model to run on their computers as a background process whenever the computers are on, but not used to their full capacity.
So the interest is there. I am trying to brainstorm how a project like the two above could work with the cryptomining world. Currently there are schemes like PPCoin that centers around mining prime-numbers. I also see Eco-coin. But I am trying to think beyond what is currently available.
It would be great if volunteer mining-rigs could be used to perform calculations, say for a climate model, and rewards users with a coin that the crypto community created value for.
Possible names for a coin:
esgcoin - environmental , social, and governance coin
csscoin: climate-systems-science coin
(some names I've already received interest on):
PPE coin: "partial-perturbed-physics coin"
xes coin: "earth-science coin"
esc coin: "Earth-systems-science coin" (registered)
I just want to gauge interest. Healthy discussion is most welcome.
Thank you.
I am also a scientist.
One theme I keep reading is that people like the idea of crypto-mining serving a real-world purpose.
I would love to get a discussion going about a coin for science. What about coin development serving as a platform for scientific research? If such developments were made, would there be any interest to create trading value from it?
SETI launched the idea of citizen-science computing. There have been others.
For instance, NASA and the the UK Hadley Centre are still involved with implementing citizen-science programs where volunteers can opt to use their personal computers to help make a cluster for climate-model simulations and long-range forecasting (see climateprediction.net and NASA's Climate@Home). I was personally involved with the development of the Climate@Home project. The idea of these programs are to create a virtual supercomputing networks that spreads the data-processing chores across thousands of computers. Such a task-sharing initiative eliminates the need to buy additional supercomputers for modeling, which consume enormous amounts of energy, and reduces the "carbon footprint" of running these calculations. The idea is that volunteers are able to download the climate-computer model to run on their computers as a background process whenever the computers are on, but not used to their full capacity.
So the interest is there. I am trying to brainstorm how a project like the two above could work with the cryptomining world. Currently there are schemes like PPCoin that centers around mining prime-numbers. I also see Eco-coin. But I am trying to think beyond what is currently available.
It would be great if volunteer mining-rigs could be used to perform calculations, say for a climate model, and rewards users with a coin that the crypto community created value for.
Possible names for a coin:
esgcoin - environmental , social, and governance coin
csscoin: climate-systems-science coin
(some names I've already received interest on):
PPE coin: "partial-perturbed-physics coin"
xes coin: "earth-science coin"
esc coin: "Earth-systems-science coin" (registered)
I just want to gauge interest. Healthy discussion is most welcome.
Thank you.
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