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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN]CureCoin - Protein Folding Research based Proof of Work on: May 05, 2017, 04:24:21 AM
I made an account here because I can't stand the hate on curecoin.

As a former computational biologist the work CureCoin is doing is absolutely stellar in bringing awareness to this issue. They are not a  directly affiliated with Stanford, of course! They never pretend to be. What they do is incentivize people to further donate resources to help researchers study proteins - something we know very very little about.

I can tell you straight up I was in one of the most well-funded labs in the country and we had our own power substation. No way any smaller lab could afford to do this. What F@H is doing is solving that problem. What CURE is doing is helping incentivize people to donate their time.

This is an alt coin with its own development team and framework in place, secondly they seem to be innovating to make a quantum-resistant block chain. Now I know little about this space, but CURE and FLDC are what got me into crypto, so I apologize if I'm butchering here, but that sounds pretty incredible to me.

And frankly, I love these research updates because it helps me know I'm making a difference and is important to the "miners" of this coin. I care knowing that I'm helping democratize this research and I want to know the devs are listening to the research community.

It's not "bribing" its creating a mechanism to reward people. Maybe they could change their method for allocating coins to something similar of FLDC, although without counterparty, but I still care about their research updates.

Curecoin Dev people - a lot of people appreciate what you're doing and, being on the other side of research, I know how important it is to incentivize people to do this
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