>Like if your computer folds a correct protein that solves a problem re cancer or aids, you get 1 "humanity coin" ? There have been a couple of attempts. Grid

>Like if your computer folds a correct protein that solves a problem re cancer or aids, you get 1 "humanity coin" ? There have been a couple of attempts. GridCoin comes to mind. It works like a regular coin but you get a huge speedup in mining from Boinc credits. Probably easy to abuse and depends on a centralized server though so I'm not sure it could actually work.