Hi everyone,
I'm a SolarCoin supporter and always looking for other cryptocurrencies that have a positive mission to help the world. There are very few.
I recently heard of CureCoin and am impressed with your idea.
I read a couple of articles on CoinDesk from just a few days ago which mention the concept of CureCoin -- mining for proteins via the Folding@home project -- but which say that this idea has not yet been implemented. These articles do not actually mention CureCoin, so it sounds like they've never heard of it.
Computational power can be used for other things, such as distributed protein folding and searching for patterns in extraterrestrial radio signals. The problem is that computing tasks like these aren’t the same types of task as solving the cryptography problems intrinsic to cryptocurrency production, and no one seems to have worked out a way to marry the two so far. This means curing cancer or AIDS, while also mining digital coins isn’t a reality.
Source:
http://www.coindesk.com/cryptocurrency-mining-help-archive-societys-important-data/Stanford University professor Vijay Pande would like coin miners’ help with his scientific project, Folding@home, which uses donated computing power to help find cures for devastating diseases. He also helps run the Stanford Bitcoin Group, which conducts research into Bitcoin theory and applications.
“There are multiple people emailing me describing the natural synergies between Folding@home and the way Bitcoin works,” he said. ...
Ultimately, as one bright spot on a Reddit thread suggested, someone would develop a crypto currency that could solve scientific problems during the mining process – effectively solving problems for professors while also finding coins. This is much harder than it looks, warns Pande.
Source:
http://www.coindesk.com/should-you-mine-for-profit-or-proteins/Based on reading these articles, I must ask, has CureCoin already implemented this great leap forward and CoinDesk just doesn't know about it yet? Or is CureCoin advertising itself as something that it's really not? Do people really get mining rewards of CureCoins while using their computing power for Folding@home?
I look forward to replies from the CureCoin community. Thank you!