Saturday, July 18, 2020
First, recently I heard about the following related to one of my BOINC research projects rosetta@home:
“We have some BIG NEWS: Researchers
@UWproteindesign have succeeded in creating antiviral proteins that neutralize the new coronavirus in the lab. (These experimental drugs are being optimized for animal trials now)”
The heck with Gridcoin as long as the research counts and gets positive results.
And now, an update after my first week of Gridcoin mining . . .
Gridcoin value and my share so far-
I have to laugh. I thought that doing this Gridcoin mining thing would be worth more than just the points that I usually get. Ha! As of July 18, the price of ONE Gridcoin is $0.004677460.
This means the guy who leads in Gridcoin production has earned around- wait. I had to make a spreadsheet. This is too complicated and I want to get it right for you. And not complicated because it is a large amount, but it is so small it will show more easily with Excel formatting. Drumroll, please. The leader in Gridcoin production today, at just under 178,000 Gridcoins produced, has earned $827.
And in the first week of my participation, considering I have produced .26 of one Gridcoin, (pausing to have Excel do the math and formatting) I have earned $0.001220264. Yep. This is worthwhile. Not. Better than points? Maybe. But I feel the best knowing that I may have contributed to a covid-19 treatment.
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