If Curecoin was worth $5 a coin or more, it would be profitable to mine right now.
Curecoin was profitable to mine at 3c/coin - it's just not *AS* profitable to mine the past month or so as ETH ETC or ZEC have been the past few weeks even on NVidia hardware that is optimal for folding.
The price jump the last 2 days has been nice, but it's still not enough to make my 1070s competative on Curecoin profitability to ETH. Right now that would take a jump to over 11k satoshi (8c per Curecoin or close, perhaps 7c after factoring in the tiny FoldingCoin value since that coin dumped out HARD this past month).
IMO rather than that charity "funding a cloud folding site" they should buy up and burn (or buy up and long term hold) Curecoin to drive the price up and LET THE MARKET DECIDE TO MASS SHIFT TO FOLDING.
Wouldn't take all that much - just make it competative with other options for profitability and the many already existing rigs would shift back over and start multiplying.
I'm not in Ed O's league (yet or even all that close) but I could easily exceed 7 Million PPD on 24 hour average (and might be able to push with just my current 1070-based rigs if I had the incentive to do so.
Unfortunately, I need the money for living expenses and electric so I have to chase the higher profitability coins.
As far as quantum computing on cryptocoins - the don't work worth beans. Quantum computing is excellent at figuring out MULTIPLE VARIABLE equations quickly, it is not good at all on "serial very simple computations" as all Crypto is based on.