Can you actually point out the misinformation?
This article is not proposing to 'waste energy' on folding proteins.
This article points out that other systems may also consume a lot of energy, but they give our societies a ton of value in return.
This article is not proposing to 'waste energy' on folding proteins.
This article points out that other systems may also consume a lot of energy, but they give our societies a ton of value in return.
Yes. I submit to you this article. Consider the framing of bitcoin's utility and the immovability of the status quo.
> This article is not proposing to 'waste energy' on folding proteins.
No, that accompanies the handwringing about POW - you can substitute an number of other silly suggestions: SETI, fusion reactor modeling, etc.
> This article points out that other systems may also consume a lot of energy, but they give our societies a ton of value in return.
Have you maybe considered the possibility that, I dunno, bitcoin replaces the fiat currency - as intended from the outset of the entire endeavor?
"BOINC superblocks fetch a participant’s BOINC recent average credit, also called researcher RAC. RAC is based on a participant’s earned BOINC credits. !!!>>>*Credits and RAC are defined by BOINC*<<<!!!"
Eventually, credit may reflect network transfer and disk storage as well as computation.
Credit has no monetary or other value; it's just a measure of how much work your computers have done.
Total credit: The total number of Cobblestones performed and granted.
Recent average credit: The average number of Cobblestones per day granted recently. This average decreases by a factor of two every week.