Crypto has so many amazing uses – it can bull and bear, moon and dip, even get you food to dip in sauce. But today I’m here to talk to you about something even more incredible: how crypto can help us cure cancer.
The World Community Grid is a volunteer research project which is working on mapping the relationship between genes and health outcomes. Recently, they’ve made some exciting news: they’ve identified 26 new genes associated with lung cancer. To do this, they crunch billions of data points over many years, using the computers of volunteers. That’s a huge amount of computing power – every day they burn through about 240 years of computation on just one computer!
But the really cool thing about this is that World Community Grid is one of a dozen projects which is incentivized by r/Gridcoin. Instead of paying miners to calculate hashes, Gridcoin pays them to contribute their processing power to science projects. This includes World Community Grid, Folding@Home, Alzheimer’s research, pulsar mapping, and more. It’s been doing this since 2013 when they asked “What if all that hashpower going towards Bitcoin went to science?”
So if you want to learn more about how crypto can help with science, take a look at the coin-neutral space at /r/cryptoforscience. I’m always so amazed by all the incredible things crypto can do!