I'd like to talk about
folding@home for a bit. It has been in the news a lot recently and seen huge increases in contributions, so if you already know what it is or are even folding yourself already, that's great.
If not, let me quickly describe what it is about: folding@home uses your hardware while it is idle to perform scientific computations. Hardware in this regard includes CPUs and GPUs (eg an altcoin mining rig or your gaming PC, but also regular office PCs and workstations).
Among the top priorities for those projects right now is also one addressing covid-19. A more detailed explanation can be found
here.
But to put it in dangerously brief terms: If you run folding@home right now, you help fight covid-19.
So where does CryptoGames come in? We've created a folding@home team and a lot of us started contributing themselves. You'll find some familiar names on the
team page.
We've also started a contest with that team and you can join the contest on either
our discord server or via the
thread in Games&Rounds.
As a little incentive, we have allocated
0.5 BTC that will be used as rewards for all those that choose to join the team and donate their computing power.
Just a quick update on our Folding@Home event.
We've been running strong for the last month and a lot of your already have reached the reward cap.
But those of you that have not, or those that haven't even joined yet, don't worry, there still is time (and there also still is important research being done that you are supporting by folding).
We initially set up the event with a one month target, but since we still have some allocated rewards left,
we'd like to continue rewarding those of you that fold and promoting Folding@Home as we think it is now as important a cause as it has been when we started.
Long story short, the folding event is still ongoing and will be running for a few more weeks. If you haven't joined, take a look.
You can find all the
important information here.Thanks.
