Calling the Bitcoin community to help battle COVID-19

[KingOfBeans]

I came across this tweet, calling the Bitcoin community to help battle COVID-19: https://twitter.com/m__btc/status/1239095140356165632

Let's unite the #Bitcoin community to battle #COVID19!

Download Folding@home and use unused GPU/CPU power to help
@Stanford
 analyze important COVID-19 data like potential drug targets.

Join team 'BuyBitcoin' (#238906). Select 'Any disease' for COVID-19

https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

What is it?
Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project, created by Stanford University, for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. As of today, the project is using the idle resources of personal computers owned by volunteers from all over the world. Thousands of people contribute to the success of this project. More information can be found on their website: https://foldingathome.org/

How does it work?
You simply download Folding@Home and use your unused CPU/GPU power to analyze data from Stanford.

What happens with the data?
Folding@home is run by an academic institution (specifically the Pande Group, at Stanford University’s Chemistry Department), which is a nonprofit institution dedicated to science research and education. We will not sell the data or make any money from it. Moreover, we will make the data available for others to use. In particular, the results from Folding@home will be made available on several levels. Most importantly, analysis of the simulations will be submitted to scientific journals for publication, and these journal articles will be posted on the web page after publication.

Following the publications of these scientific articles, we will make the raw data of the folding runs available to other researchers upon request. The data sets from some of our most prominent simulations are already publicly available. We’ve also striven to share our key technologies with other scientists, to assist their research as well.

How can I help

• Retweet/like/share the this tweet to help spread the word: https://twitter.com/m__btc/status/1239095140356165632
• Download Folding@Home here: https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/
• Join team number 238906 to join team 'BuyBitcoin'. The more points, the higher the position in the global leaderboard. Help fight COVID-19 and shill Bitcoin!

@Moderators, I know this might not be posted in the right section but this definitely deserves a lot of attention imo. Folding@Home has been proven very effective in the past and this is a great opportunity for the Bitcoin community to contribute. We have a lot of CPU/GPU power that can be put to good use!

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[TheNewAnon135246]

Great initiative, downloading it now. I remember running Folding@Home on my PS3, I think it came pre-installed. At some point the published statistics of the amount of data analyzed by all PS3 owners, was pretty impressive.

[Pmalek]

Be careful what you download, even if it is claimed that it is for a good cause. It wouldn't be the first time someone has misused a time of crisis to gain profit for themselves. Not saying that is the case here but like always: "Don't trust. Verify"!

[bitbunnny]

Be careful what you download, even if it is claimed that it is for a good cause. It wouldn't be the first time someone has misused a time of crisis to gain profit for themselves. Not saying that is the case here but like always: "Don't trust. Verify"!

I agree with that. Of course that is good and noble thing to support such initiative to fight corona virus but we also need to think about security and safety in the cyber world, so check everything before you start to download something on your computer.

[Coyster]

If this is going to be my little way of contributing to combat this deadly virus, then I'm taking that opportunity in leaps and bounds, it's an ingenious dea and the 'brains' behind this deserves commendation. This virus is yet to reach the shores of my country, but if I can help others from the comfort of my home, I'll take it up and I'll enjoin others to do the same, once I verify all the security issues and possible breaches I'll download it asap.

[TheNewAnon135246]

Be careful what you download, even if it is claimed that it is for a good cause. It wouldn't be the first time someone has misused a time of crisis to gain profit for themselves. Not saying that is the case here but like always: "Don't trust. Verify"!

Check out their website. Folding@Home is a Stanford University project and has been around for many years. Regarding their source code:

FAH is built from several open source tools, namely Gromacs (http://www.gromacs.org), TINKER (http://dasher.wustl.edu), and AMBER (http://ambermd.org/) for MD packages and MPICH for MPI (http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/). If you’re interested in checking out these codes, you should feel free to download them and check them out. One can compile a SMP version of Gromacs by using the latest Gromacs with MPICH. This would reproduce the SMP clients we have on FAH.

Most of the critical parts of FAH are publicly available. The Tinker and Gromacs source codes can be downloaded and run. Unlike many computer projects, the paramount concern is not functionality, but the scientific integrity, and posting the source code in a way that would allow people to reverse engineer the code to produce bogus scientific results would make the whole project pointless. However, we stress that the vast majority of our code is already open source. We have an Open Source FAQ with more details.

[KingOfBeans]

Great to see these reactions! As some already said, F@H is a legit project that has been around since the early 2000's. Here is all COVID-19 related material on their Github: https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/coronavirus

Should you decide to help out, don't forget to enter team number 238906 to join team 'BuyBitcoin'. The higher we are ranked in the leaderboard, the more people we'll expose to Bitcoin!

[kryptqnick]

I've heard of Folding home before, I remember that this project succeeded in finding out something via community efforts that scientists could not figure out. I did not know they were working on COVID-19 these days. I can see that people are complaining that some things are buggy and, more importantly, that COVID-19 isn't even an option there, a person has to choose 'ANY' and believe them when they say that COVID-19 is prioritized... These complaints are from yesterday on their official Twitter account and my inability to find anything on their website that is dedicated specifically to COVID-19 is frankly what got me looking for their Twitter in the first place. I'm hesitating now, I'll see how they react and decide to proceed. But that's a good initiative from you, op!

[TheNewAnon135246]

My inability to find anything on their website that is dedicated specifically to COVID-19 is frankly what got me looking for their Twitter in the first place.

It's literally at the top of the front page: https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/10/covid19-update/

They also posted everything that is being researched on Github, see the post above yours.

[Artemis3]

Is there a folding@home linux distro, that can be flashed to a usb for easy use on gpu mining rigs? I doubt many of us are actually running windows or a full ubuntu and not some highly customized mining os, so we would need an easy way to apply this to rigs.

I'm familiar with folding@home, it uses free and open source clients. Most distros should have it in their official repositories, so i doubt you need any specific distro for it. You might even be able to run binaries, but i cannot say for sure if there is an specific distro just for folding@home (its probably possible to just run it in your mining distro, as long as you stop the mining process).

For Arch based distros, the AUR package name is "foldingathome". They also have Debian and Ubuntu official packages, i think for example HiveOS is Ubuntu based. Of course you'd need to do things like installing and running it in the console or via ssh on each rig (it will want to install and start its own service, so be aware).

As for joining groups, it doesn't really matter. You could make a bitcointalk group if you wanted, makes no difference. Stat bragging? There are several groups named Bitcoin and Corona...

While the humble group made by OP only has 2 workers, Reddit's "PC Master Race" group (225605) which called gamers worldwide to contribute their gpus to fight corona, currently has 2128805 workers. Not bad huh?

Also I'm not to sure who ends benefiting from this "volunteer help". Universities/research is the official tale, but does it go to big pharma in the end? I'd rather be something that cannot be patented.

PS: Joined OP's group, so make it 3.

[buwaytress]

User of Folding and SETI and all those @home projects since 2004 here;)

But good to be reminded every now and then to switch it on and contribute to a different, more urgent cause.

If anyone wants, as well, do check out the Italian Red Cross's campaign here: They've reached the target but I'm sure more won't hurt: https://app.helperbit.com/project/5e6a64ee84cb8662d901a29c/covid19-advanced-medical-post-for-pretriage-in-italy

Most importantly, stay home and stay safe everyone!

[TheNewAnon135246]

So far team 'BuyBitcoin' has already earned 78,335 points! Very cool to see the Bitcoin community unite and contribute to battling COVID-19.

[TheBeardedBaby]

Maybe you guys have to move this thread in the Mining section (or open a new one there). Not many miners are reading this section, they are active only in Mining.
This is a good cause, I have taken a part my rig long time ago. I'll see how I can join.

[alexsandria]

How can we help right now? If thete would be some fundraising that will happen in this forum that may help the community then let me know in order for me to help also for those person that are rally in need.
I also want to help my fellow people in order for them to have some goods also that may able to last them until the virus will ends. I hope everyone is doing good and staying at home so that there will be lessen the number of infected on the country that you guys are belong.

[buwaytress]

Haven't been able to get work units most of the past two or three days so I guess this means a lot of people are using this project now. That's a good thing! Looking on the FAH forums confirms most people get little or nothing in terms of work units too. I've never really experienced this before, FAH must be peaking in users.

Silver linings, right guys? I've switched to low config for now, yet to contribute a single point to team BuyBitcoin haha.

[buwaytress]

Just an update, and hoping to see more people sign up, it's not like we're getting any joy mining real crypto on our lousy devices right guys? Anywya, finally getting some work units today, but still a high failure rate when receiving the WU, though once connected, it's fine. Submitted my first units to Team Buy Bitcoin, yay! Second WU wasn't for coronavirus though but =)

[TheBeardedBaby]

Just joined so I'm here as well, working exaclty on the coronavirus. I can share only CPU power for now.
Viva Bitcoin!!! It's a good way to advertise it btw and show the world that we are helping too.
Just share this in twitter too, maybe more to come.

[buwaytress]

Be careful what you download, even if it is claimed that it is for a good cause. It wouldn't be the first time someone has misused a time of crisis to gain profit for themselves. Not saying that is the case here but like always: "Don't trust. Verify"!

I agree with that. Of course that is good and noble thing to support such initiative to fight corona virus but we also need to think about security and safety in the cyber world, so check everything before you start to download something on your computer.

Agree with it. Who knows what actually happens behind the scenes until they provide a public display of their process.
You never know if they are actually using the CPU/GPU power for data analytics or mining cryptocurrencies.
We should research in detail and verify before we actually take part in it.

It's a really old project and you can look it up yourself... which I would hope anyone would self-verify on their own.

I'll admit, I have no true idea of what happens behind the scenes, but there have been hundreds verifying the datalogs and this is a super old method (I myself used Seti@Home and then IBM's World Community Grid for very long time as well on a project related to mapping the human genome project.

It also existed long before crypto mining so... maybe it doesn't deserve this level of criticism.

Welcome @iasenko!

[buwaytress]

He has no idea what he's talking about. These kinds of posts are only made because of their signature campaigns.

Very cool to see 11 contributors so far, hopefully more will join! https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/238906

I know right? I see some guy there with so many WUs (is that you OP?), must be an old home rig he's now putting to a hopefully good cause;)

I'm running into work unit issues right now, and I see I'm still bottom of the pile, but that's expected on an old computer that I only connect to F@H when I'm working. I actually thought this flu virus was more or less like normal flu but it's getting more apparent that it's a little more than that right now.

Cheers team BuyBitcoin;)

[Chlotide]

It seems Linus (Linus tech tips) is getting involved and will soon host a server for F@H in his studio/house
https://youtu.be/KU4qOebhkfs
Not sure what actual breakthroughs these guys have helped achieve until now but will start donating my pc power too

[KingOfBeans]

I don't like censorship but I removed all pointless posts, made purely for signature campaigns.

Thanks everybody for the support and for joining it. It might not be much, but everything helps. So far 19 people have joined, I'll do my best to get more on board!

[camito]

I came across this tweet, calling the Bitcoin community to help battle COVID-19: https://twitter.com/m__btc/status/1239095140356165632

Let's unite the #Bitcoin community to battle #COVID19!

Download Folding@home and use unused GPU/CPU power to help
@Stanford
 analyze important COVID-19 data like potential drug targets.

Join team 'BuyBitcoin' (#238906). Select 'Any disease' for COVID-19

https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

What is it?
Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project, created by Stanford University, for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. As of today, the project is using the idle resources of personal computers owned by volunteers from all over the world. Thousands of people contribute to the success of this project. More information can be found on their website: https://foldingathome.org/

How does it work?
You simply download Folding@Home and use your unused CPU/GPU power to analyze data from Stanford.

What happens with the data?
Folding@home is run by an academic institution (specifically the Pande Group, at Stanford University’s Chemistry Department), which is a nonprofit institution dedicated to science research and education. We will not sell the data or make any money from it. Moreover, we will make the data available for others to use. In particular, the results from Folding@home will be made available on several levels. Most importantly, analysis of the simulations will be submitted to scientific journals for publication, and these journal articles will be posted on the web page after publication.

Following the publications of these scientific articles, we will make the raw data of the folding runs available to other researchers upon request. The data sets from some of our most prominent simulations are already publicly available. We’ve also striven to share our key technologies with other scientists, to assist their research as well.

How can I help

• Retweet/like/share the this tweet to help spread the word: https://twitter.com/m__btc/status/1239095140356165632
• Download Folding@Home here: https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/
• Join team number 238906 to join team 'BuyBitcoin'. The more points, the higher the position in the global leaderboard. Help fight COVID-19 and shill Bitcoin!

@Moderators, I know this might not be posted in the right section but this definitely deserves a lot of attention imo. Folding@Home has been proven very effective in the past and this is a great opportunity for the Bitcoin community to contribute. We have a lot of CPU/GPU power that can be put to good use!

This major step from Stanford University to call out Bitcoin users is very much helpful for the COVID-19 patients as well as the medical community. There is of course no harm in doing a little deed after what we earned here in Bitcoin - to share and give whatever aid we can. The caution we must employ is that of checking the security of the address as well as verifying the legibility and credibility of the one who posted this. Let's aim for zero casualty!

[TheBeardedBaby]

I don't like censorship but I removed all pointless posts, made purely for signature campaigns.

Thanks everybody for the support and for joining it. It might not be much, but everything helps. So far 19 people have joined, I'll do my best to get more on board!

That's great! There were like 8 or 9 people when I last checked. I'm part of a few big Bitcoin related Telegram groups, I'll see if I can 'recruit' more people .

If anyone have Twitter, sharing the info can really help gather more people I did it already but I don't have enough followers do the impact was almost zero.
Until now this is what I have :
Points earned
8,788
8,788 go to Team BuyBitcoin's total of 379,610.

[BTCLife.global]

How can I help

Also anyone can join Rosetta@home distributed computing project since they are fighting COVID-19 too.

[TheBeardedBaby]

Just wondering is there something wrong with the software? It's been up for like 5 days not but the last 3 haven't done any work at all. Stays still at 8,788.
On the other hand the stats of the bitcoin team have increased from 379,610 ( that's from my yesterday's post) til 448,277 ( as per now).

[QuestionAuthority]

At the moment, cryptocurrency owners can help in the fight against COVID19 by donating to one of the dozen funds that accept crypto.

That’s the best suggestion yet. Modern bitcoin miners need special software to run F@H. But you could dedicate some or all of your proceeds from mining to fight SARS CoV-2 (Covid-19, Coronavirus).

[Bitcoinislife09]

That's a great idea but I will not risk it, also it might be dangerous to download this files at all.

I'm not saying that this is not helpful but I think it would be great if you are going to donate in other ways since you wanted to help the community from the COVID-19 virus it would be more trusted than this applications.

[QuestionAuthority]

To help you justify donating if you think you’re too young to care about Covid-19. I’ve read too many posts on various forums from young people that don’t believe this effects them and even joking about thinning out the old people they don’t like anyway. The time span between the OG SARS and the current coronavirus is 16 years. If you are too young now you will be in the high risk group about the time the next major variant of SARS hits the world. SARS CoV-2 is a variant of the original 2003 SARS. SARS (killed 1 in 8 to 10 people that caught it) and MERS (killed 1 in 3 people that caught it) are close relatives of the current coronavirus that’s keeping the world off the streets. The current mutation is more worrisome because SARS has now figured out how to jump from person to person more easily. Look to the future and realize the next variant or mutation could remain just as or become more communicable and have the lethality of MERS (killing 1 in 3). Money donated to research now could help develop treatments and vaccines that could keep that from happening. 

TLDR; Don’t be a dumbass and refuse to donate because you think you can’t die from this one. You grow older every day you live. You’re going to be old sooner than you think fool. The next one might kill you if this one fails to do it. Help the medical community keep that from happening.

[Meowth05]

This is really great though I don't have a PC, the least I can do to help is not go out and risk contracting the virus or spreading if I have it unknowingly. That goes too for other in this forum, wash your hands. This is the the time you can save the world by just being a couch potato.

[LEON331300]

This is the period where Medical Organizations  really need any fund they can get their hands on to fight this spreading virus. Donations from  the Cryto world would also be of great assistance to this course,

[aysg76]

This is what needed these days. I am very much interested in projects like this which are making real life use of our computational power through digital networking. The technology and biology is at its best and it can be seen from the #StanfordUniversity initiative clearly. So our GPU/CPU power can't just be used for the earning of bitcoin or alts but empowering the knowledge of scientist around the globe. This can in turn help scientists workout antidotes on Covid19 like dangerous viruses. May be this project will move on to next stage if it receives huge support from the community. Well, all you have to do is share your computing power and do nothing so its smooth project.

[LeGaulois]

Hi guys

After how many time the software starts to be active? Because I'm unable to make it work so far.
In the client advanced control>>selected work untit>>status download>>progress 0%

and it never changes. in the log, I can see several lines with

 No WUs available for this configuration
09:20:09:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment
09:20:46:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Failed to connect to xxxxxxxx

On the page https://client.foldingathome.org/ everything is at 0

I have 2 machines that I can use, so if it can help a bit...

edit: ok it seems to work now, I'm in

[joinfree]

This is a great initiative and I would contribute my quota as well. Moreover this ain't any demanding task that everyone should have a problem with. Also, this would help expose the bitcoin community hence in a way contributing to its adoption in the long run. Don't see any reason why anybody would not like tot join.

[Arcas]

We need help many countries have lock down and give their some food and drink because there are not possibility for them looking for much money, their government stop for make other activities out home and always stay at home until lock down end.

[cutesgirl]

I wanna get donation to my country first because until today more than 800 people got corona and more than 55 people pass away with corona virus, right my country looks terrible with many people can't looking for job and give their family food, how ever many rich person and influence in my country not care about each other.

[Kupid002]

We need help many countries have lock down and give their some food and drink because there are not possibility for them looking for much money, their government stop for make other activities out home and always stay at home until lock down end.

They should follow the government rules so they will not have any problem. The government on that country affected will provide all thier needs and besides thats thier job to help people in thier constituents.
Every body needs help now even economy affected so you need to do your job as a good citizen to stay at your home so the virus will not spread any more.

[Rodeo02]

I wanna get donation to my country first because until today more than 800 people got corona and more than 55 people pass away with corona virus, right my country looks terrible with many people can't looking for job and give their family food, how ever many rich person and influence in my country not care about each other.

there are country morethan that amount is infected like in italy ,spain and even USA which is morethan thousands people has been infected and dead is more fatal in italy which 2x more dead compare to china Where the virus start.

[Latviand]

How can we help right now? If thete would be some fundraising that will happen in this forum that may help the community then let me know in order for me to help also for those person that are rally in need.

The most prone to Covid-19 here are those who are in a lower class, I mean those poor people. They can't go to work because of the quarantine and most of them are "no work, no pay" employee. Now, they don't have any idea where they will get their budget to live during this quarantine as they need to stock a lot of food, medicine, face masks, and etc. Also most of them are homeless and have nothing but to stay on the streets sleeping and their environment is not that safe.

Maybe, your fundraising request will help them to have some little donation in order to grant their necessities just to fight the poverty and this virus. Donation should be flexible, no matter what it is either fiat currency or cryptocurrency because crypto can be converted through exchange so it is not a problem. The problem here is that we need to gain more power and people to make this fundraising worth while and legit.

I also want to help my fellow people in order for them to have some goods also that may able to last them until the virus will ends. I hope everyone is doing good and staying at home so that there will be lessen the number of infected on the country that you guys are belong.

Let us continuously remind our loved ones, friends, families, classmates to stay at home as their government told them. Always wash your hands, use alcohol, eat fruits to gain Vitamin C. Also tell them to give some help if they can so that we can help each other fight the virus and back to normal again. Unfortunately, the number of infected is still increasing and hoping that the number of people recovering will be 100x times more than infected. Don't forget to inform our government, community to join our fundraising program to help those people who are in need. 

[kpllvd]

How can we help right now? If thete would be some fundraising that will happen in this forum that may help the community then let me know in order for me to help also for those person that are rally in need.
I also want to help my fellow people in order for them to have some goods also that may able to last them until the virus will ends. I hope everyone is doing good and staying at home so that there will be lessen the number of infected on the country that you guys are belong.

A good thing to do for now is to stay at home, remind your family to keep your house clean, your body and your thoughts. Don't panic and pray for healing for the victims of COVID-19 also for everything to be back to normal. Helping others especially the poor people would be a nice move but how? You can lead a charity or fundraising with the help of your friends and family. Donate some food like can goods, water, and noodles or even just donate directly to your government so that they will be the one to allocate your donations and it's a good thing you don't have to go outside.

Sadly, the virus is still rapidly spreading which result to hundreds or even thousands of people being affected. Everyday the number of cases is increasing so better stay at home, understand and listen to the government's advisories so that everyone of us is updated. Also, if you want to donate some btc, do it don't hesitate it would be a big help to others.

[Assface16678]

How can we help right now? If thete would be some fundraising that will happen in this forum that may help the community then let me know in order for me to help also for those person that are rally in need.
I also want to help my fellow people in order for them to have some goods also that may able to last them until the virus will ends. I hope everyone is doing good and staying at home so that there will be lessen the number of infected on the country that you guys are belong.

A good thing to do for now is to stay at home, remind your family to keep your house clean, your body and your thoughts. Don't panic and pray for healing for the victims of COVID-19 also for everything to be back to normal. Helping others especially the poor people would be a nice move but how? You can lead a charity or fundraising with the help of your friends and family. Donate some food like can goods, water, and noodles or even just donate directly to your government so that they will be the one to allocate your donations and it's a good thing you don't have to go outside.

Sadly, the virus is still rapidly spreading which result to hundreds or even thousands of people being affected. Everyday the number of cases is increasing so better stay at home, understand and listen to the government's advisories so that everyone of us is updated. Also, if you want to donate some btc, do it don't hesitate it would be a big help to others.

Today there are a lot of people making projects about the cryptocurrency and fighting the coronavirus and many people today make fundraising and it is only to those people who have time to do it and capable to make more time to help other people still it is a good project helping towards to the people getting affected by the virus also we can send funds to them through online and if you are still doubting it is better if you make a research about the projects first and also if you do not have the capability to help them it is better to stay at your home and keep safe against the virus health is more important than money because you cannot bring does when you dead hoping to keep safe guys.

[Kurokonobasuke]

Bitcoin is a nationwide currency and I hope that it is easy to collect donations through bitcoins because it is a digital money so that it was easy to transfer money to other currencies. All hospitals and front liners are need those donations because many of them has a scarcity with their equipment so that the other front liners have been infected of the virus just because of the scarcity of their personal protective equipment.

[LeGaulois]

Look like the latest posts on this topic the users aren't reading the original post. Or they do but they still want to post their generic posts.

We're not talking about donations here, it's a matter to install a software to help. Why are you turning it about a topic on donations?

Like the guy talking about cleaning your house, soon he will make a tutorial to know how to clean your toilets. Or the other one telling there are organizations accepting cryptocurrencies as donations

Wikileaks!!! thanks for telling us, we didn't know

[TheBeardedBaby]

Look like the latest posts on this topic the users aren't reading the original post. Or they do but they still want to post their generic posts.

We're not talking about donations here, it's a matter to install a software to help. Why are you turning it about a topic on donations?

Like the guy talking about cleaning your house, soon he will make a tutorial to know how to clean your toilets. Or the other one telling there are organizations accepting cryptocurrencies as donations

Wikileaks!!! thanks for telling us, we didn't know

Those are just spambots I already reported them. On the other hand little update on the Team BuyBitcon if someone is interested
23 members, contributing, total score is > 526,292
189 Work units finished.
More stats here :
https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/238906

[Exolix]

Cool initiative. I hope this project has only noble intentions. Unfortunately, I can't share the CPU power, as this will affect the work of Exolix.
But the retweet has already done! Take care of yourself

[LeGaulois]

Look like the latest posts on this topic the users aren't reading the original post. Or they do but they still want to post their generic posts.

We're not talking about donations here, it's a matter to install a software to help. Why are you turning it about a topic on donations?

Like the guy talking about cleaning your house, soon he will make a tutorial to know how to clean your toilets. Or the other one telling there are organizations accepting cryptocurrencies as donations

Wikileaks!!! thanks for telling us, we didn't know

Those are just spambots I already reported them. On the other hand little update on the Team BuyBitcon if someone is interested
23 members, contributing, total score is > 526,292
189 Work units finished.
More stats here :
https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/238906

It's so irritating to read them.  Any interesting conversation is quickly turned into a shithole

As for the stats, I believe it's not updated for some days? I see me with only 327 credits and 2 WU, is it done every x days or week?

[Reid]

I will agree with the tweeter share but not with the download thing.
I want to keep my computer clean or even my smartphone if it is an android application.
Sorry about that.

Well, I do share battling COVID by staying at home and just follow what the government says about time management of just when to go out.
Also sharing this with my family so that they will stay at home keep themselves safe and their neighbors.

[Tiews223]

I came across this tweet, calling the Bitcoin community to help battle COVID-19: https://twitter.com/m__btc/status/1239095140356165632

Let's unite the #Bitcoin community to battle #COVID19!

Download Folding@home and use unused GPU/CPU power to help
@Stanford
 analyze important COVID-19 data like potential drug targets.

Join team 'BuyBitcoin' (#238906). Select 'Any disease' for COVID-19

https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

What is it?
Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project, created by Stanford University, for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. As of today, the project is using the idle resources of personal computers owned by volunteers from all over the world. Thousands of people contribute to the success of this project. More information can be found on their website: https://foldingathome.org/

How does it work?
You simply download Folding@Home and use your unused CPU/GPU power to analyze data from Stanford.

What happens with the data?
Folding@home is run by an academic institution (specifically the Pande Group, at Stanford University’s Chemistry Department), which is a nonprofit institution dedicated to science research and education. We will not sell the data or make any money from it. Moreover, we will make the data available for others to use. In particular, the results from Folding@home will be made available on several levels. Most importantly, analysis of the simulations will be submitted to scientific journals for publication, and these journal articles will be posted on the web page after publication.

Following the publications of these scientific articles, we will make the raw data of the folding runs available to other researchers upon request. The data sets from some of our most prominent simulations are already publicly available. We’ve also striven to share our key technologies with other scientists, to assist their research as well.

How can I help

• Retweet/like/share the this tweet to help spread the word: https://twitter.com/m__btc/status/1239095140356165632
• Download Folding@Home here: https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/
• Join team number 238906 to join team 'BuyBitcoin'. The more points, the higher the position in the global leaderboard. Help fight COVID-19 and shill Bitcoin!

@Moderators, I know this might not be posted in the right section but this definitely deserves a lot of attention imo. Folding@Home has been proven very effective in the past and this is a great opportunity for the Bitcoin community to contribute. We have a lot of CPU/GPU power that can be put to good use!

Personally, I think this is a great initiative. We need not to personally donate or physically hand over bills to help those who are affected by this global crisis. Let’s stand together as a community and give back to those who are in need. As we do this, let us make sure that this would really be going to those who are in need and not those who are taking advantage of the situation. I think this is a good idea. Our prior concern now is that we need to lessen actual physical contact with people and one of the daily activities that require actual contact is when we purchase goods everyday. When we use physical money to purchase these goods, we do not only have contact with the person we are handing the money to but we also make contact with the people who’ve held the bills itself. According to research one of the greatest transmitters of the virus is untraceable contact through money. If, for example, many  of us outside the bitcoin trading community will start using this as a means to buy their everyday commodities, cashless transactions, aside from using credits or debit cards. Bitcoins are another option for cashless transactions.

[TheBeardedBaby]

As for the stats, I believe it's not updated for some days? I see me with only 327 credits and 2 WU, is it done every x days or week?

That's weird, my stats are correct, I guess it takes some time to update them, now you have 2,205 credits and 6 WUs and it should be fine. Not so many jobs right now, my CPU was idle for many days until yesterday.

[LeGaulois]

As for the stats, I believe it's not updated for some days? I see me with only 327 credits and 2 WU, is it done every x days or week?

That's weird, my stats are correct, I guess it takes some time to update them, now you have 2,205 credits and 6 WUs and it should be fine. Not so many jobs right now, my CPU was idle for many days until yesterday.

Humm, the stats were updated yesterday, look like it's updated every x days only. Also, it often shows messages like 'bad gateway'. I wonder if it's because their servers are too busy so the stats aren't in real-time.
It's like with https://client.foldingathome.org/ which I've been able to access 2 times only

As for me, since I installed it, It was working only a few hours per day, but for 2-3 days it's working a lot more, I've always 2 works in the queue.

[Chrystora123]

did not find the choice for COVID-19!!  currently, the US is heading to 300 thousand infected.  

[TheBeardedBaby]

did not find the choice for COVID-19!!  currently, the US is heading to 300 thousand infected.  

You have to choose "Any diseases" and wait to get a COVID-19 WUs. If you go to the news section of the site you can find what are the latest projects published and see what you can expect to work on.

[camito]

I came across this tweet, calling the Bitcoin community to help battle COVID-19: https://twitter.com/m__btc/status/1239095140356165632

Let's unite the #Bitcoin community to battle #COVID19!

Download Folding@home and use unused GPU/CPU power to help
@Stanford
 analyze important COVID-19 data like potential drug targets.

Join team 'BuyBitcoin' (#238906). Select 'Any disease' for COVID-19

https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

What is it?
Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project, created by Stanford University, for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. As of today, the project is using the idle resources of personal computers owned by volunteers from all over the world. Thousands of people contribute to the success of this project. More information can be found on their website: https://foldingathome.org/

How does it work?
You simply download Folding@Home and use your unused CPU/GPU power to analyze data from Stanford.

What happens with the data?
Folding@home is run by an academic institution (specifically the Pande Group, at Stanford University’s Chemistry Department), which is a nonprofit institution dedicated to science research and education. We will not sell the data or make any money from it. Moreover, we will make the data available for others to use. In particular, the results from Folding@home will be made available on several levels. Most importantly, analysis of the simulations will be submitted to scientific journals for publication, and these journal articles will be posted on the web page after publication.

Following the publications of these scientific articles, we will make the raw data of the folding runs available to other researchers upon request. The data sets from some of our most prominent simulations are already publicly available. We’ve also striven to share our key technologies with other scientists, to assist their research as well.

How can I help

• Retweet/like/share the this tweet to help spread the word: https://twitter.com/m__btc/status/1239095140356165632
• Download Folding@Home here: https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/
• Join team number 238906 to join team 'BuyBitcoin'. The more points, the higher the position in the global leaderboard. Help fight COVID-19 and shill Bitcoin!

@Moderators, I know this might not be posted in the right section but this definitely deserves a lot of attention imo. Folding@Home has been proven very effective in the past and this is a great opportunity for the Bitcoin community to contribute. We have a lot of CPU/GPU power that can be put to good use!

We need all the help we can get especially in this pandemic. Only us humans can care for each other. However, even though there are humane people, there will still be individuals who sill take advantage of the situation thinking there will be something for them. So at situation like this we need to verify and assess its legitimacy. It is best to see people of high status or reputation or even real accomplishments of the project. Not because we do not want to give away our coins, but because we just want our coins to be put into something useful and to something that would benefit the people.

[TheBeardedBaby]

Bumping this with a little bit of stats and info.
Team BuyBitcoin is doing a good job >
You can see the stats here
If you don't want to open the link here they are >

Date of last work unit: 2020-04-16 07:52:00
Active CPUs within 50 days: 31
Team Id: 238906
Grand Score: 1,363,985
Work Unit Count: 601
Team Ranking: 14970 of 250768
Homepage: https://bitcoin.org

I'm currently working on this project

I'm contributing to
Project 16403
This project is studying the NSP10 (Non-structural-protein-10) of SARS-CoV-2! NSP10 is an "activator" protein for critical viral function. Two other proteins, NSP14, and NSP16 are important enzymes for viral function, but they both require NSP10 to bind them and "activate" them. Without NSP10, these two enzymes would not function which would inhibit the virus from being able to replicate and transmit the infection COVID19. ...

Let's keep fighting the Covid-19

[TheBeardedBaby]

Not so many active bitcoiners in the team.
I'm posting some stats in a hope of getting more people involved. Everyone is welcome
There is another team attracting people for money.
I prefer to stay @BuyBitcoin.

Link to our team > https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/238906
My personal stats >


Team Stats>

[Chlotide]

First proposed target would be Top 12.000

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php

A small difference to catch up from 337.778^th place but doable !

[TheBeardedBaby]

First proposed target would be Top 12.000

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php

A small difference to catch up from 337.778^th place but doable !

Hopefully more active users can join and we can rank up faster, when I joined we were with team rank below 15000. Only 3-4 active users and we managed to go 2000 places, I think it's doable for sure.
Just spread the word

[angelvic73]

Be careful what you download, even if it is claimed that it is for a good cause. It wouldn't be the first time someone has misused a time of crisis to gain profit for themselves. Not saying that is the case here but like always: "Don't trust. Verify"!

I agree with that. Of course that is good and noble thing to support such initiative to fight corona virus but we also need to think about security and safety in the cyber world, so check everything before you start to download something on your computer.

I fully support you. After all, in the first days of the quarantine, fraud was increased by 60%. It's terrible that people get paid this way

[LeGaulois]

...I fully support you. After all, in the first days of the quarantine, fraud was increased by 60%. It's terrible that people get paid this way...

There is no risk as long as you download the client from the official source. Well, like everything you download

Not so many active bitcoiners in the team.
I'm posting some stats in a hope of getting more people involved. Everyone is welcome
There is another team attracting people for money.
I prefer to stay @BuyBitcoin.

Link to our team > https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/238906
My personal stats >
https://i.imgur.com/T4gfsFJ.png
Team Stats>
https://i.imgur.com/d3hwokq.png

I needed to turn off the software and then forgot to use it again, sorry. I restarted it now and will probably install it on my second machine before the end of the week.
At the same time, I see @Chlotide is now in the top 3 while she joined the team after me @Chlotide, what machine are you using?

[TheBeardedBaby]

I needed to turn off the software and then forgot to use it again, sorry. I restarted it now and will probably install it on my second machine before the end of the week.
At the same time, I see @Chlotide is now in the top 3 while she joined the team after me @Chlotide, what machine are you using?

Chlotide has two active cliets working the past seven days.
Are you guys using GPUs or CPUs to calculate? I have i7 on which I'm running the software but I was thinking maybe start my mining rig as I it just sits in a box righ now.
Another thing I noticed, when you are still fresh to find a WUs it takes some time, now my CPU is busy almost all the time

[LeGaulois]

I needed to turn off the software and then forgot to use it again, sorry. I restarted it now and will probably install it on my second machine before the end of the week.
At the same time, I see @Chlotide is now in the top 3 while she joined the team after me @Chlotide, what machine are you using?

Chlotide has two active cliets working the past seven days.
Are you guys using GPUs or CPUs to calculate? I have i7 on which I'm running the software but I was thinking maybe start my mining rig as I it just sits in a box righ now.
Another thing I noticed, when you are still fresh to find a WUs it takes some time, now my CPU is busy almost all the time

I'm using CPUs, the GPU is never active. And yeah I noticed it too with the WUs compared to the first week I used.
Besides this, the number of active clients seems inaccurate, for example in my case, it says 2 Active clients within 50 days, while I never used more than 1

[Chlotide]

At the same time, I see @Chlotide is now in the top 3 while she joined the team after me @Chlotide, what machine are you using?

I have a cheap old relic of a gpu so most of the heavy lifting is done by my cpu, intel 9600k

Recently installed the new Ubuntu release as dual boot and have not installed f@h on linux yet. Will do that in the next few days. Did iasenko catch up? :p

[LeGaulois]

At the same time, I see @Chlotide is now in the top 3 while she joined the team after me @Chlotide, what machine are you using?

I have a cheap old relic of a gpu so most of the heavy lifting is done by my cpu, intel 9600k

Recently installed the new Ubuntu release as dual boot and have not installed f@h on linux yet. Will do that in the next few days. Did iasenko catch up? :p

I see...
Iasenko is just behind you but halfway with the credits. I checked the stats to see who's active and I noticed some persons join teams after team, they participated in over 20 teams. I wonder what's the reason behind it. Are they trying to play Coinjoin?

We're 5 persons left.

[Chlotide]

I see...
Iasenko is just behind you but halfway with the credits. I checked the stats to see who's active and I noticed some persons join teams after team, they participated in over 20 teams. I wonder what's the reason behind it. Are they trying to play Coinjoin?

We're 5 persons left.

It's like in poker. Some days you just fold, others you are all-in )
Or just some very undecided fellows folding where the wind takes them.

[TheBeardedBaby]

Time for another update, and hopefully get some new help on board.
my personal stats here :

Code:

Date of last Work Unit           2020-05-08 05:05:48
Total score                      320,674
Total WUs                        347
Overall rank (if points are combined)   295,443 of 2,680,286
Active clients (within 50 days)         1
Active clients (within 7 days)          1

Our team BuyBitcoin

Code:

Date of last work unit          2020-05-08 05:36:21
Active CPUs within 50 days      28
Team Id                         238906
Grand Score                     2,744,503
Work Unit Count                 1,131
Team Ranking                    13447 of 252928
Homepage                        https://bitcoin.org

Link to the stats and the most active participants :

https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/238906

How to join, go to -> https://foldingathome.org/
Click Start Folding, download and install the software ( I know everyone has the securty consens these days, I decided to trust the producer and install it on a clean computer I'm not using)
Then you add your username and join a team. Use the ID 238906.
There you go, you are welcome

This is what I'm working on at the moment.

[sureshverma]

The crypto community I think helped in the fight against COVID-19 enough, although the konencho problem is not solved, but there are already positive changes

[TheBeardedBaby]

Due to low inactivity of most of the users, the project to popularize the bitcoin in the fight with the corona seems like failed.
Even tho I have my PC working 24/7, we keep falling in the rank list.

[LeGaulois]

We're 3 users left. Since the lockdown is over in a lot of countries, a lot of people think the virus is gone and all is back to normal. There are also forum users who moved to another team since money was involved.

We will go nowhere promoting Bitcoin but the most important thing is we're helping