I am for finding a way to open CureCoin folding rewards to members of ANY team. People need to understand, some of these teams are very old, very passionate, and very dedicated to their teams and about *volunteering* their *donations* to the fold at home project. Please understand that FAH has been going for 14 years. [H]ardOCP has been doing it since 2000. The EVGA team has been doing it for 7 years. We've been doing it for one week.
We're the bull in the china shop right now, and when you talk about recruiting from other teams, you're talking about destroying other teams that have had to work a thousand times harder than us to accomplish what they have accomplished. That's wrong, and believe it or not - it will drive people in the FAH community away, because we've killed it for them.
Now suppose the value of CureCoin does fall. Will you still be folding? Because that's what many of them are talking about when they talk about us. Cheating. Dropping units in the hunt for higher payouts. That we'll just move on to something else three months from now. The best thing about us, to them, is that we're introducing new people to the Folding@Home program that might just stick around after the tide of CureCoin miners leave.
The reactions to us haven't exactly been brilliant. They're floored, for sure, about the hash-power we've managed to drum up. But we're hurting the huge communities that have been built up by dividing them and forcing them to break ranks and join our team if they want to take part in our coin. If everyone joins our team, what's the point of having teams in the first place. Eh?
No. No recruiting from other teams. And until the devs find a way to include members from *any* team, I would encourage people in other teams to KEEP donating what they can afford to their teams, and to utilize the CureCoin program to facilitate their ability to donate more.
For sure. If people jump teams there's nothing we can do to stop that, but it's certainly not behavior we are encouraging or discouraging, it's simply personal choice. If Curecoin enables people to contribute additional computing power, then that's awesome, but if that is at the cost of what they've been working on for years, and of the communities they built up over the years, then that is destructive.
The main issue I see is what you mentioned, people dropping WUs, and doing questionable things to see higher points. I feel this is a small portion of the community that is doing this, but certainly something concerning none-the-less. In good news, the new oCore that Stanford is working on looks very promising (it is a streaming core, which means no WUs, but rather continuous computation) but is in very early stages of development, so it could be 6 months or a year, or even longer before we see it rolled out. Stanford has not given any type of time estimate, and they want to make sure they have a very polished product when they push it into mainstream.
