This seems to be one of the few projects out there not where the dev isn't doing this for personal gain, and even if they were, the good this project does by making actual contributions to research offsets any of that in the grand scheme of things.
Nice one.
Thank you for your kind words
we do love doing this for multiple reasons. It started with just trying to find a way to keep GPUs busy now that ASIC took over the market, but it has evolved to so much more. Now that I see the full power of grid computing beyond just BTC, i think many projects like this will start to pop up all over the place. The funny thing is, FAH and BOINC are the original Grid computing projects, they just never got as popular becuase people couldnt make money. Now making money isnt a bad thing, especially in BTC case where you can make money AND find a better financial system that the entire world can depend on. That gave a reason to develop hardware that could do SHA256 at an astronomical rate, otherwise it would have never been needed.
How great would it be if FoldingCoin followed suite. What if this coin became great enough where people develop an ASIC for folding proteins. This already exists, its called an Anton Supercomputer, but it is expensive and not public ready anytime soon. But with enough popularity, antons could be developed for people to fold with and make money, and at the same time increase the FAH network to limits nobody thought possible.
FLDC would be nowhere without the great positive feedback that the FLDC community has given, and of course the Devs who also arent looking to make a quick buck, but rather do something cool and interesting that not only gives us something fun to do in our off time, but possibly change the world. Thanks everybody!