> FoldingCoin is the one where you give fake results to Folding@home > (since the maths is NP hard there is no real time way to check if your > results are real or not)
Proof is stochastic, by random audit of submitted results, as I understand the situation. I'm not sure whether that understanding is congruent with their whitepaper, but that's the only way I can figure out how it could work with intelligibility remediation tasks. Improvements to the encyclopedia is a harder problem than attempted pronunciation or transcription. In regard to the earlier responses, I the Foundation should offer to convert Bitcoin to FoldingCoin for those who wish to contribute Bitcoin. Best regards, Jim On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 3:24 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 April 2018 at 22:45, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: >> The Foundation has been accepting BitCoin donations. Unfortunately, >> BitCoin is very wasteful in terms of electricity, and is therefore a >> dirty cryptocurrency. > > They all are. The only difference is that bitcoin is Asic mined so > doesn't directly drive up the price of graphics cards. > >> I recommend that the Foundation immediately cease accepting BitCoin, >> and require donors who wish to donate in cryptocurrency to convert to >> FoldingCoin instead. Please see: FoldingCoin (FLDC) > > > FoldingCoin is the one where you give fake results to Folding@home > (since the maths is NP hard there is no real time way to check if your > results are real or not) in return for tokens that have little in the > way of actual value. > > >> This conversion will place the Foundation at the forefront of >> cryptocurrency technology, > > > The forefront of cryptocurrency technology is coming up with new and > exciting ways to scam people. The Foundation should not be getting > involved. > > >> As other cryptocurrencies based on proofs of useful work >> instead of useless work emerge, > > Is gaming a Proof-of-Research useful? Because if so Gridcoin exist. In > theory burstcoin could be used to provide archival storage although > there are a bunch of ways of doing that without driving up hard disc > prices. > > >> the Foundation should consider those. >> FoldingCoin is based on proofs of useful prediction of protein >> folding, > > No it isn't. The problem is it is based off the old folding@home which > works on the basis that most people aren't trying to scam the system. > If FoldingCoin ever became popular that would no longer be the case at > which point it becomes proof of results given to results to > Folding@home with no requirement that those results be real. > > > > -- > geni > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
