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RE: The Eternal Conflict Between Altruistic Science and The Bottom Line - Gridcoin and BOINC

in #gridcoin7 years ago

Great Post @dutch and at least partly exactly what iam also doing. There are a lot of BOINC projects out there that are somehow more important than others for instance it's nice to have the enimga codes but it's far more advancing humanity if we are to have a breakthrough in the medicine or biological field regarding some projects in BOINC. Sometimes I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that we are equally distributing coins to absolutely not equal projects... I don't know if that is the best way to deal with the problem at hand. Should we not encourage more research in medicine or biological things or even physics than decoding enigma ? But yeah I know it is hard to decide in the end which project is more important than the other... Anyways thanks alot for your thoughts

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And thank you for yours! =)

You make a very good point - I would love to see reward geared more towards the projects that can make a real difference to a lot of people. Enigma is cool, but there is utterly no real world use for it.