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Re:Boinc lets you help cutting-edge science research using y... by Rayston on Sunday March 17, 2024 @03:35PM (#39737298)
Anyone interested should also look into Gridcoin, you can get some crypto back in addition to doing some good science.

https://gridcoin.us/

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Re:Boinc lets you help cutting-edge science research using y... by monkeydust on Sunday March 17, 2024 @04:40PM (#39737861)
+1 probably closest thing to a useful crypto you can find.
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Re:Boinc lets you help cutting-edge science research using y... by Rayston on Sunday March 17, 2024 @05:44PM (#39738320)
agreed, I am in general not a huge fan of Crypto.
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Re:Boinc lets you help cutting-edge science research using y... by willquack on Sunday March 17, 2024 @05:23PM (#39738182)
For a non-crypto alternative, check out Distributive DCP [1]. You deploy compute workloads which are executed in secure wasm sandboxes (even in your browser [2]). People computing get paid to compute other people's workloads.

1. https://distributive.network/ 2. https://dcp.work/

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