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Topic: Useful Coins (Read 451 times)

sr. member
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July 11, 2013, 02:06:08 PM
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So we now have Primecoin which I think is the first coin to have a mining function that has benefits outside the cryptocurrency world.

Could we now have a protein folding coin, for example?

It will be interesting to see if Primecoin starts a new wave of 'useful coins'; coins that serve a specific purpose.

The exciting thing is that in order to help promote a coin that is helping cure a disease, all you have to do is buy and use that coin. The greater the value the more people will mine.

 Smiley

I'm helping out some guy who wants to build a coin where protein folding is rewarded by the coin.
legendary
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Merit: 1000
July 11, 2013, 01:29:39 PM
#1
So we now have Primecoin which I think is the first coin to have a mining function that has benefits outside the cryptocurrency world.

Could we now have a protein folding coin, for example?

It will be interesting to see if Primecoin starts a new wave of 'useful coins'; coins that serve a specific purpose.

The exciting thing is that in order to help promote a coin that is helping cure a disease, all you have to do is buy and use that coin. The greater the value the more people will mine.

 Smiley
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