![]() I disagree, reputation has no influence on my ability to pay a small VPS bill each month. Without this reputation all projects, including Project Rain and Gridcoin, would suffer if not fail outright. It is critical that BOINC maintain its scientific reputation. It is associated with greed, scams, hacks, and volatility. Yes and no, many people know of the main projects (seti, wcg, etc) however it's not mainstream, there has been a large downtrend in user retention over the last decade and we aren't seeing new projects being created by large hardware manufacturers nor scientific organizations.Ĭrypto is, at the moment, money based. Its reputation is outstanding in the scientific community. ![]() That's the thing though, the BOINC middleware software is unbiased and not solely made for scientific computation - you can distribute anything through BOINC, not just scientific projects. The following screenshots show the old project-rain version, the pull request version auto-hides the fields when blank (so as to not immediately spam the profile view with crypto links). Old screenshots (don't have the latest version running at the very moment, sorry): ![]() ![]() The 'rain maker' planning on 'raining' an asset is fully responsible for picking the projects and/or teams to target as well as the desired 'rain weight' for each project. Who decides upon asset distribution details? There is no mandatory team requirement for joining the website, all BOINC teams/users are welcome to join!Īssets may however be distributed by rain makers to specific teams since they have full freedom of choice to do so. Gridcoin, Steem, Bitshares, Peerplays, Storj, NEM, IBM Bluemix Blockchain, ColoredCoins, Antshares, Lisk, Decent, Synereo, LBRY, Wings, BoardRoom, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Expanse, Golem, NXT, Ardor, Hyperledger Sawtooth Lake (Intel), Hyperledger Fabric (IBM), Waves, Peershares, Omnilayer, CounterParty, Hyperledger (MISC), Stratis, Metaverse, Cosmos, Stratis, Zcash & Heat Ledger. What cryptocurrencies are currently supported? If it is merged then all future or updated BOINC projects will have project-rain functionality. Rather than running my own BOINC project solely for the purpose of providing the project-rain functionality, I have created a pull request to merge the changes into the BOINC GitHub repo. Rather than earning one token for your BOINC computation, you could be merge crunching many BOINC distributed tokens! Project-Rain merging into the BOINC repo? Think of Project Rain as a new share-dropping vector that doesn't require end-users handling wallet private keys nor providing proof of IRL identity. 'Project Rain' is the practice of distributing crypto assets to BOINC users based on their verified BOINC computation it was initially devised within the Gridcoin network and has been expanded to multiple cryptocurrencies and all BOINC teams through the proposed BOINC web server changes. BOINC is an open-source volunteer distributed computing platform which utilizes the spare computer resources on 500k+ computers to attempt to cure diseases, map the milkyway, search for extraterrestrial life, and any other kind of distributable computation.Īnyone who needs a serious amount of distributed computing power (100k+ CPUs) almost entirely for free can create a BOINC project to create a distributed cloud service of their own desire (fairly easily) whilst the Gridcoin network potentially rewards your project's volunteers on your behalf.
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