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I've taken the liberty of setting up an official folding@home team for Soylent News. In case you aren't familiar with folding@home, it's a distributed computing project that simulates protein folding in an attempt to better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's.
There is more information on the project here, which explains it much better than I could.
Clients are available for Linux, OSX, and even Windows (if you swing that way), so come join our botnet!
That Other Site's team is ranked at 1817, so we've got some catching up to do.
On a personal note, my Dad carries the gene markers for Huntington's disease, and will eventually succumb to it. Research like this is very helpful for understanding, and hopefully developing treatments for it.
tl;dr Our Soylent News team ID is 230319
(Score: 5, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Friday February 12 2016, @05:57PM
This gives me an idea: Would it be possible to create a crypto currency where the proof of work involved some useful stuff like folding@home, instead of otherwise useless calculation of hashes? Imagine this: You would at the same time help solving important science problems and keeping the payment infrastructure working, and you'd even get paid for it!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @07:47PM
The only one I know of is Primecoin [wikipedia.org] and I'm not sure how useful its computations actually are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @09:31PM
See also gridcoin if they're still around.
I have a design I'm working on for a crypto currency that solves the problems gridcoin had by doing things a bit different under the hood, haven't named it or announced it yet because I want to make sure it's fool proof before I do. However stay tuned, maybe I can get an ann on soylent if folks here are interested in that sort of thing.