Topic: Calling the Bitcoin community to help battle COVID-19 - page 4. (Read 852 times)

It's literally at the top of the front page: https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/10/covid19-update/

They also posted everything that is being researched on Github, see the post above yours.

I've heard of Folding home before, I remember that this project succeeded in finding out something via community efforts that scientists could not figure out. I did not know they were working on COVID-19 these days. I can see that people are complaining that some things are buggy and, more importantly, that COVID-19 isn't even an option there, a person has to choose 'ANY' and believe them when they say that COVID-19 is prioritized... These complaints are from yesterday on their official Twitter account and my inability to find anything on their website that is dedicated specifically to COVID-19 is frankly what got me looking for their Twitter in the first place. I'm hesitating now, I'll see how they react and decide to proceed. But that's a good initiative from you, op!

Great to see these reactions! As some already said, F@H is a legit project that has been around since the early 2000's. Here is all COVID-19 related material on their Github: https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/coronavirus

Should you decide to help out, don't forget to enter team number 238906 to join team 'BuyBitcoin'. The higher we are ranked in the leaderboard, the more people we'll expose to Bitcoin!

Check out their website. Folding@Home is a Stanford University project and has been around for many years. Regarding their source code:

If this is going to be my little way of contributing to combat this deadly virus, then I'm taking that opportunity in leaps and bounds, it's an ingenious dea and the 'brains' behind this deserves commendation. This virus is yet to reach the shores of my country, but if I can help others from the comfort of my home, I'll take it up and I'll enjoin others to do the same, once I verify all the security issues and possible breaches I'll download it asap.

I agree with that. Of course that is good and noble thing to support such initiative to fight corona virus but we also need to think about security and safety in the cyber world, so check everything before you start to download something on your computer.

Be careful what you download, even if it is claimed that it is for a good cause. It wouldn't be the first time someone has misused a time of crisis to gain profit for themselves. Not saying that is the case here but like always: "Don't trust. Verify"!

Great initiative, downloading it now. I remember running Folding@Home on my PS3, I think it came pre-installed. At some point the published statistics of the amount of data analyzed by all PS3 owners, was pretty impressive.

I came across this tweet, calling the Bitcoin community to help battle COVID-19: https://twitter.com/m__btc/status/1239095140356165632


What is it?
Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project, created by Stanford University, for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. As of today, the project is using the idle resources of personal computers owned by volunteers from all over the world. Thousands of people contribute to the success of this project. More information can be found on their website: https://foldingathome.org/

How does it work?
You simply download Folding@Home and use your unused CPU/GPU power to analyze data from Stanford.

What happens with the data?
Folding@home is run by an academic institution (specifically the Pande Group, at Stanford University’s Chemistry Department), which is a nonprofit institution dedicated to science research and education. We will not sell the data or make any money from it. Moreover, we will make the data available for others to use. In particular, the results from Folding@home will be made available on several levels. Most importantly, analysis of the simulations will be submitted to scientific journals for publication, and these journal articles will be posted on the web page after publication.

Following the publications of these scientific articles, we will make the raw data of the folding runs available to other researchers upon request. The data sets from some of our most prominent simulations are already publicly available. We’ve also striven to share our key technologies with other scientists, to assist their research as well.

How can I help

• Retweet/like/share the this tweet to help spread the word: https://twitter.com/m__btc/status/1239095140356165632
• Download Folding@Home here: https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/
• Join team number 238906 to join team 'BuyBitcoin'. The more points, the higher the position in the global leaderboard. Help fight COVID-19 and shill Bitcoin!

@Moderators, I know this might not be posted in the right section but this definitely deserves a lot of attention imo. Folding@Home has been proven very effective in the past and this is a great opportunity for the Bitcoin community to contribute. We have a lot of CPU/GPU power that can be put to good use!