folding@home has been doing this for 20+ years. They already did all the smart research and tech development. Just use that until somebody comes up with a workable DrugDiscoveryAtHome or CureCancerAtHome.
There is no incentive to run this other than good feelings. Unfortunately, that isn't enough in the business world to spend millions on cap/opx.
What I'm looking for is incentivized options. Even better if they come from a web3 situation where a business can operate without having actual customers.
"Mining", but with not such "wasteful" work.
[1] https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/10/14/how-foldinghome-identifie...
I'm just saying there is no direct financial incentive for 32 million GPUs to move over to it. If there was, they'd be on that instead of ETH.
"direct financial" is correct when you're giving examples that are not direct.
If a company invests in research specifically because the fruits of that research will reduce expenses, that is direct financial benefit.
1. They sell a useful product
2. They do not charge people to be affiliates.
3. They do not sell a token/security that you buy with the intent of making future gains, funded only by other people buying the token expecting more people will do the same.
If anyone uses the link ... I haven't checked ... I get some DO credit, not even money, which I will use for hobby projects. If I get $5 in credit in a year, I would be pretty suprised.
By large crypto has no MLM style referral system where the product is the business opportunity to sell the product.
However it does have a feature where crypto gains are only funded by newer people coming in and buying at a higher price. But no cashflows are produced other than selling the investment tokens. This is almost identical to a ponzi except it has decentralisation that makes it probably legally not a ponzi.
Imagine I did an IPO of a company I incorporated last night but hid behind a panama shell. That’s crypto.
"only" is inaccurate. This was true early on before there were markets and contracts. Now we have DeFi which allows for gains on trades by anyone who wants to provide liquidity. Similar to any sort of commodity market where people buy and sell what they own (or even don't own with margin and options).
Are you kidding? Shallow dismissals masquerading as insight are easily the most popular genre of comment on Hacker News.
Or did you mean something more fundamental, like "the biophysics of protein folding is primarily determined by entropic-driven hydrophobic collapse, not enthalpic contributions from hydrogen bonding?"
How was this demonstration done? Or are you referring to building a better high throughput screening mechanism? I'm by no means a protein expert, but I am trying to learn more about them.
>Or did you mean something more fundamental, like "the biophysics of protein folding is primarily determined by entropic-driven hydrophobic collapse, not enthalpic contributions from hydrogen bonding?"
I don't want to minimize anything or anyones work. But conformation of experimental observations via molecular dynamics simulation isn't what I was thinking of - but maybe I am misunderstanding your claim. Its my own ignorance.