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> I'd be more OK with this if crypto in fact solved a problem for most people. see: https://foldingathome.org/ https://foldingathome.org/

• Kye 5y ago
  What does this have to do with cryptocurrencies/cryptoassets? It's almost a decade older than Bitcoin. The inspiration (SETI@Home) is even older.
  • Snitch-Thursday 5y ago
    I think parent is advocating doing folding@home over stuff like PoW crypto since the former advances science and the latter (handwaves vaguely) doesn't.
    • nneonneo 5y ago
      Unless someone manages to turn out a hash collision or an all-zeros hash (spoiler: they won’t), there is absolutely no scientific value in the PoW process itself. (Whether the resulting cryptocurrency has scientific value is left as an exercise to the reader).
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