Not trolling, but I'm trying to understand the monetization of this coin. I'm looking to make a big investment in GRC as I very much like that the energy expended serves a useful purpose, but I can't understand what drives the "value" of this coin. Is it just remittance with a side effect of PoW benefit? Or is there an intention to have projects "purchase/rent" CPU time on the network through some sort of portal (using the tokens/coins for the chain)? I understand there is a BOINC white list, and that is great, but is it still "free" like Seti@home? Clearly folks are willing to donate free cpu time historically to scientific projects, but beyond remittance I don't see what would drive value for this coin at that point. If remittance is your use case, there are a lot of other block chains with more momentum and visibility. Just trying to wrap my head around this project, sorry for all the questions.
What you propose, commercial projects, that rent the computing power of the Gridcoin network, will be the end game of Gridcoin.
If this is achieved, each Gridcoin has an intrinsic value, the amount of computing power given to the useful/commercial project needed to create this coin.
The first project as mentioned by traderman is Gridcoin Finance, that uses the computing power of the Gridcoin network to run finance simulations to find the best options/combination of options to trade.
This is the project of the developer of Gridcoin himself, so this has very high priority.
