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Introducing a service that rewards Emercoin (http://emercoin.com) for participating in distributed computing project Folding @ Home.
 
What is Folding @ Home?
 
Folding @ Home is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. Launched in October 1, 2000 by scientists from Stanford University, the project uses the idle processing resources of thousands of personal computers owned by volunteers who have installed the software on their systems. Both CPU and GPU resources are employed, with GPU being the most effective. The F@H software client is available for most major operating systems including Windows (x86 and x64), Mac OS X (Intel processors), Linux (x86 and x64).
 
What benefit from the project?
 
Immediate goal - getting a clearer idea of the diseases caused by defective proteins. Study of proteins is of significant academic interest with major implications for medical research into Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, many forms of cancer, and other diseases including Parkinson's disease. To a lesser extent, Folding @ Home also tries to predict a protein's final structure and determine how other molecules may interact with it, which has applications in drug design and nanotechnology.

How can I join?
 
Go to the http://folding.stanford.edu and click the START FOLDING link at the bottom of the page.
 
1. Download, install and run the Folding @ Home client software. The client will open a browser tab for you to enter your details.
2. Click on "Configure an Identity" (do not choose "Contribute Anonymously")
3. Enter the following details:

Nickname: username_<EmercoinAddress> (e.g. IloveEMC_EW3uMrGWQrq8hKZN9iwkrSarebL4ByuwDZ)

Team: #43003 (#43003 is Team Transhumans - the team has existed for some time but older participants don't have an advantage over new)

Passkey: Choose "Get a passkey" to get one. Passkeys are used as an extra level of security and will also allow you to earn bonus points. Use the exact same name that you used above, and have your passkey sent to you by email.
 
Remember to click Save when you have entered all details.

Now you can choose your computational load ( Off - Light Idle - Idle - Light - Medium - Full )
You can also choose what kind of disease you want to help eradicate.
The interface will also indicate your Points Per Day. The first time you run the software this will show as "Unknown".

On the same page is a table of devices found on your system. Basically, the system will immediately recognize all devices on your computer that can do the folding calculations. If you have an AMD graphics card it is necessary to move the slider switch to Full load before the card will contribute. For nVidia cards this is not required as they are run immediately.
 
How can I tell what my computer is working on?
 
On the page it will say which project you are contributing towards. e.g. "You are contributing to project 6364". You can learn about the specifics of the project including scientific values and rewards by looking it up at http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummaryC.html You can also see a cool 3D model of the molecule being processed by right-clicking the F@H icon in the system tray and choosing the "Protein Viewer" option.

How much will I earn?
 
HD7970 graphics card produces about 70,000 F@H points per day. Processors range from 1,000 to 80,000 (dual Xeon system - 32 cores). nVidia card gives 5 times more than CPU but are inferior to AMD graphics cards. Bitcoin ASIC, of course, do not apply. You can look up your hardware in this F@H Statistics database (http://compdewddevelopment.com/projects/fah-gpu-statistics-database/index.php).
 
The team initially decided to equate 1000 F@H points to one EMC and plans to remunerate automatically one once a month, but while the system is being tested we aim to remunerate once per day. Please note the reward ratio may be subject to change. For the latest information about EMC rewards please check with the EmerCoin team.
 
Join now and start earning Emercoins while helping to eradicate some of the world's most terrible diseases!

Thank you!

If you require assistance then please provide your F@H username and configuration of machines with your comment, so it is easier to assist.

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I should say that I am not the developer of this project but have assisted in translation only. I will be happy to try and answer any questions but may need to defer to someone more involved.

NOTE: The Transhumans F@H stats can be found at http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&t=43003 and http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=43003 as you can see, several using their EMC address.

Cool! ASIC-scrypt will be soon, and these huge farm with GPU will be stop.
Maybe even 1% start counting the F@H - scientific progress in this area will increase many times!

Yes it's a good goal and I think a nice way to earn some Emercoins :)

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There was a bounty "Creating script to parse stats for the Transhumans Folding@Home team monthly every first day of a month and transferring coins to members of the team" (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=403718.msg4371477).

Bounty says "IN PROGRESS"... so, is someone working on this?

EDIT: Yes apparently it's complete.

It appears people have already invested in scam.

"This is a self-moderated topic."

Scam.

What's the scam? The project F@H? So it is more ancient of all crypto-currencies combined.
Or that for free initially volunteer work will give a bit of crypto-currencies?

Good work here guys !

I used to participate in the Grid Republic http://www.gridrepublic.org / World Community Grid.

I'll look to get a lower-end box set-up to do my Emercoin PoS minting on and bung a DDR3 Nvidia card into it.

I guess a 2GB GT 640 is probably good enough to do some Folding ?

Perhaps I didn't need to choose "self moderated topic" but that's just what I picked.

As I'm not 100% familiar with Folding @ Home I'd be interested to know what the Team Transhumans has to gain from the additional F@H team ranking, but it all looks legitimate to me.

F@H is an amazing distributed computing project that predates Bitcoin, and lends it's resources to science.

That you can now also earn Emercoin doing so is pretty damn awesome too I think. :)

MessyCoin, Fixx, congratulations! Great job, guys!

Found this F@H GPU comparison chart:
http://compdewddevelopment.com/projects/fah-gpu-statistics-database/index.php

If I read correctly, seems GT 640 earns about 10000-11000 F@H Points per day.

Fabulous! During the day, we produced 800,000 F@H points!

Is there a compiled Windows client for Emercoin?

emercoin.com provides link to pre-compiled for both linux and windows: http://emercoin.com/downloads/

Oh I see, both the compiled version and the source are at github. Thanks, friend!

isnt the main coin for fold@home curecoin ?

Perhaps, but this does not prevent further reward F@H volunteers.

Member romar777 - you EMC address wrong!  :-[

I see still several are folding with EMC address. ( http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&srt=1&t=43003 )

Is this project going well, and are EMC being paid out every month/day?

Reward now paid automatically every day.

Is the reward still "working"? I didn't receive any coins since 20 May 2015. My wallet is EPKvUg9dz1ELPx2H6uwXeafhWsmCoFptH7

You may change your EMC-address?

Hi,

I cannot find any announcement that reward does not pay any more.
If it does then why I have not received any since 25th November?

Here  is my F@H profile http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=knowgod_EeKNeVyB6n5gxKHxZYYtgZKvxEd2v6gKNN

I have been changing my F@H password but not sure if it was before or after Nov. 25th.
I did not change my EMC address but add a new one to the same wallet. May this affect F@H rewards receiving?

Watching this , doing some reserach when I xcan , looks kind of interesting to me and prices look decent too for mining or folding to earn.

I understood was has been wrong: I had to leave my wallet unlocked for minting blocks.
As I'm new with cryptocoins that was a trick for me.

After I've unlocked the wallet the F@H rewards are dropping in.

You have to change symbol to prevent continued crashes, mass disillusionment and exodus from the network.  Change it to something else, there is already a coin with the "emc" abbreviation. Einsteinium.

Isn't Einsteinium symbol 'emc2'?

http://coingain.com/price/emc2/emc

What is the current F@H points to EMC reward amount?

15000 F@H points to one EMC from the 5th november 2015

And start 01.01.2016 We will not recharge service. Everything will be on an individual initiative!

Domen name change to - http://folding.emercoin.com/

Ok, so not much point in starting now then, other than to be a good guy  ;)

Thanks for the reply Fixx

Service has stopped?

http://folding.emercoin.com/folding_home/about_en.php

can switch to curecoin and foldingcoin...
(sorry for spam)

Hi all,

Can someone tell why I was earning more than 1,473,062  points when I first started, using just a name without the Emercoin attached to it (e.g. myusrname_EW3uMrGWQrq8hKZN9iwkrSarebL4ByuwDZ) and without a team assigned other than the default assigned by the system, and when I did attach the Emercoin address to my name then I started earning less points, about 1,000 points in about 12 hours. How can I improve that and set it back as it was performing before?

In the first time, without the Emercoin address attached the team group wasn't showing any points, and in the second one with the Emercoin address attached was showing the points earn from the team.

How can I get those 1,473,062 points to my Emercoin address?

Should I keep using the user without the Emercoin address because it gives more points or should I use the username with Emercoin address and why? or any?

Also what is the criteria in order to choose a team? based on the credits (does this mean the user earn more points?) or let the system to assign one?

Thank you!

Can somebody advise me please i own EMC and its on POLO sitting there. Is there a benefit to transferring them to a wallet to earn value.. Is that possible.. If so can you instruct me or provide a link as to how this is done..

Yes there is a benefit of earning proof-of-stake (POS) when the coins are in your own wallet ... download the wallet from:

https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/2144-emercoin-emc-information/

Skip down to downloads. After installing create a receiver address and send your coins from POLO to the address.

With proper redundant backups (throw one into your safety deposit box) you coins are probably safer than sitting on an exchange - esp if they gain in value and the exchange gets hacked (like what happened to Cryptsy although POLO I think is pretty tight - you just never know after Gox)

Staking with Emercoin gives approx. 6% interest/year. If that pays for the cost of running your own full node then you can justify staking with your own wallet. There's a POS guide at http://emercoin.com/MINING_GUIDE

If not then there are other options for staking. There are some online wallets such as https://emercoin.mintr.org/wallet and https://coinwallet.co/en/currency/EMC which offer to give you the POS interest.

This shares the same risk as with exchanges that the service will die or be dishonest and you lose your coins, but at least they offer to stake them for you and give you the interest. So do your research :)