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Re:BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin compet... by nerdponx on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @07:18PM (#15658542)
There were some attempts at actually doing useful work with all that proof of work:

https://curecoin.net/

http://foldingcoin.net/

https://golem.network/

http://primecoin.io/ and a detailed article about it https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/primecoin-the-cryptocur...

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Re:BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin compet... by chrisallenlane on Thursday November 09, 2017 @08:38AM (#15662209)
I'll add Gridcoin, which is a cryptocurrency that rewards BOINC participation:

http://www.gridcoin.us/

I really wish coins like these would catch on more than they have. Proof-of-work is, to the best of my knowledge, the only system that provably works. If we could just harness that computational power to do useful work, we'd be in a great place.

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Re:BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin compet... by civilian on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @07:46PM (#15658698)
Aren't curecoin and foldingcoin both centralized? Isn't that a bad property to have as a cryptocurrency?
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