Gwern's article on folding @home https://www.gwern.net/Charity-is-not-about-helping https://www.gwern.net/Charity-is-not-about-helping TLDR - As of 2015 it's b

Gwern's article on folding @home https://www.gwern.net/Charity-is-not-about-helping https://www.gwern.net/Charity-is-not-about-helping TLDR - As of 2015 it's been pretty useless for the amount of electricity and computing power it burns through. Nothing particularly noteworthy listed on wikipedia either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home Seems like if you have a huge cluster of computing and free electricity and want to help out it might be more useful to mine bitcoins and donate them to covid-19 charities.