[The Einsteinium Foundation (EMC2) Press Release]

The Einsteinium Foundation has given their first financial contribution to an important scientific research program using EMC2, a new cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. Every month, projects are nominated and voted on by a public EMC2 worldwide community at www.einsteinium.org

The Einsteinium Foundation (EMC2):

David Black - Chief of Public Relations (david@einsteinium.org)

Christine Paluch – Scientific Liaison (christine@einsteinium.org)

Ryan Wright - Marketing and Communications Officer (ryan@einsteinium.org)

Daron Thomas – Social Media and Marketing Director (daron@einsteinium.org)


To raise awareness that the Einsteinium Foundation has made its first financial donation to a scientific research program, nominated and selected by the process of worldwide users, voting online at www.einsteinium.org.

Voting took place Thursday March 20th - Tuesday March 25. Polls opened up at (12:00 AM) and closed officially at (12:00 PM)

The Einsteinium Foundations first ever, official financial donation in the amount of (526314.56 of EMC2) or the value of (approx. $1,000 in USD) has been made on 3/29/14 to Walter Moss, a post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Prof. Joan A. Steitz at Yale University, for his work finding out if viral molecular structures can cause cancer.

The Einsteinium Foundation will be delivering the funding to Walter Moss through a crowd source funding site he has subscribed on known as Experiment.com for more information on his work, please visit https://experiment.com/projects/can-viral-molecular-structures-cause-cancer

Their first official donation took place on March 29th 2014 in the amount of $1,000. Their second donation will take place on April 29th with a total sum that is yet to be determined. Donation totals are based on the amount of coins mined as well as the current market value.

For more information, please visit:
http://einsteinium.org/the-fund/

www.einsteinium.org 



We believe scientific research is an essential long-term investment in our future, and the future of our planet. Global funding for the ‘big ideas’ has fallen dramatically in recent years. On average less than half a percent of a nation's GDP is spent on science and technological research.

Ideas that would profoundly change our lives, are woefully underfunded. Advancement is stifled, and promising new projects abandoned - not for lack of vision or scope, but the simple lack of funding. Worldwide the number of students choosing to study physical sciences is also rapidly declining.

We at the Einsteinium Foundation believe raising awareness, and engaging future generations in the sciences at an early age, is a key factor in halting this decline.To that end we have created the Einsteinium digital currency (EMC2), which automatically donates 2%  of every block mined, to the Foundation Fund at the point of being mined. The Foundation then selects various scientific research programs and science education programs, that are nominated by our social media community on public forums such as, Reddit, Bitcointalk.org, Twitter and Facebook and posts these different causes on our website www.einsteinium.org where community members will then have the chance to sign up and vote for which worthy cause they believe should receive the funds.

The mining of Einsteinium is divided into Epochs, each Epoch mines 36000 blocks of coins and is targeted to last approximately 25 days. Every 25 days a new Scientific cause will be selected and giving funding.

Like Bitcoin and its siblings, Litecoin, Primecoin and DogeCoin, Einsteinium is a distributed peer-2-peer digital currency.


For more information about The Einsteinium Foundation please visit www.Einsteinium.org

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From the information they have on their website, the team and their field of knowledge, now it is impossible unless they aren't sharing all the informations

Most of the team are young Engineers like my self (M.Sc, M. Arth ...ect), with only one of the team members that worked in space agency (ESA and worked on telescopes), this doesn't mean they are incompetent people, the issue I have hear, is the lack of expertise in almost every single domain concerned in a space mission to Mars and this is critical!

2023 is also impossible, in the measure that everything needs to be developed, a space capsule or an environment that will allow people to live for 6 months + in deep space with all the challenges that it comes with) landing technology on mars with such a weight..... the spacecraft/rocket that will put such a heavy load, into trans mars injection orbit....

Such a program requires the collaboration of whole in several space agencies, dozens of billions (if you want to build a minimum living environment on Mars and not sent people to their immediate demise ...)

... there are tons of other problems, and I'm very skeptical about this, while it's not Impossible if space agencies are really backing this project with their expertise and platforms and there are billions of dollars of investment ready from the information I saw on their website there aren't such commitments so far, maybe the website doesn't have all the informations, and to make sure I've sent an email to Mars One team, for more informations, also asking if they are recruiting.

I've seen new Cosmos, while I like Neil Degrasse Tyson is a great host, the content is the exact same content as any other space documentary the same examples, the same presentation and what's not (this part was disappointing for me).

As for the debate between Nye and Ham, Nye and I share almost the same background (Mechanical Engineer) and I appreciate the personality he built to teach children about science but I found his arguments during that show kind of weak, and I wasn't convinced, and I didn't watch the whole show.

As for Mars, No....no and No, there is not a single solid project to colonize anywhere other than our city suburbs, not even a solid feasability steady and requirement book is being built for this. the Talk about Mars nowadays is just a political tool or buzz button for some companies, there is nothing concrete being built to realise that.

I dont really find that it matters if it is indeed optimized or not. If it was optimized it would mean generally speaking a same perentage increase of hash for every miner, meaning they still get the same proportional reward. Can you explain what you mean by cpu being as fast as gpu?

I have been watching the latest Cosmos.
While it is very high level and nothing new to better informed viewers, it is a nice introduction of scientific topics and history to a general audience. It is something that presents clear facts to viewers, in a easy to digest, high production method. It is loyal to the original series and the messages it was trying to communicate.

Cosmos was always designed more to be a launching point, rather than an end to the journey. A point of inspiration.

The good thing is Tyson is probably the best person to communicate this message in the present day.

Will this be the most important piece of media Tyson will produce, it is hard to say, he has already been prolific as a public educator and advocate regarding scientific issue. It is hard to say, the Naming rights speech is probably one of the most powerful pieces regarding both a well informed society and science funding. It will likely be watched for generations into the future. Tyson's Cosmos may hold up just as well as Sagan's original.

In terms of the mars project, I am a bit skeptical of it's chances of success. While I do think we should be looking more into space funding, our resources may be better allocated to space telescopes and unmanned exploration like voyager. With the success of the voyager missions, I am surprised Voyager 3 have not been put forth as a possibility.

Ham Vs. Nye....

I watched the majority of this, but nothing more than the opening was needed.

Bill Nye although used scientific fact referencing the layers of fossil in the Grand Canyon obliterated Ham going into his bow tie speech by basically saying:

In paraphrase: I wear a bow tie therefore your argument is invalid.

Many people do not know him outside of his tv show or books, but he was a masterful speaker and presenter during this debate that was all but over after the opening statement.

So are you disputing the facts I presented about Gore and Hansen?  I assume you are since you attempt to place in conspiracy category.

But you are wrong, as that is what happened.  So now if I read your trend correctly you would ban me from stating that.  But those things are true, so you'd be banning stuff that was real.

And that's the problem.

However I will take it one step further and note that your assertion that "deniers believe"...

The Claim, that climate change is a hoax, and naturally occurring. Not caused by man.

...is an outright lie, until and if you produce evidence from the major names and published work by the scientists skeptical of global warming....

In other words, I believe you've fallen for a made up demonization of certain people, which is without basis in fact and does not represent their views.  Therefore, you don't know what you are talking about.  But feel free to quote from Spencer, Lindzen, Watts, as you like, to support your position.

Coin2 is different, most greenest and ecofriendly coin ever

Tolarance and free speech as long as you agree with my side. Sounds like a political party I know of in the US. You know "there is a war on woman" but sara palin is a cunt folks.

Really?




But of course there is a component of the whole of assertions and argument concerning climate change which is in fact a hoax, and of course there is a component of the arguments against which calls the hoax out as a hoax.

As an example, Dr. James Hansen and Al Gore's rigging of the air conditioners so they did not work, prior to the August 1988 Senate hearings on man made climate change, was a hoax.  I'm quite happy to call it out as a hoax.

Do you have a problem with that?  Why would anyone want to prevent me from shouting "Hoax" on that?  I can provide many other examples like that, where lies, mis statements should be pointed out.

And of course climate change occurs naturally, not caused by man.  Night and day.  Winter and summer.  Ice ages and interglacials.   There is a controversy over whether man has a major or minor part in one small area of the totality of "climate change".

I am not seeing from what you have written that you are very knowledgeable on the subject.

Just to be clear, Coin 2 being: Einsteinium (EMC2)!!
Einsteinium (EMC2) has alot going for it.

What claims would you be referring to?