nice!
This sums up Gridcoin pretty well.
Could flourish inside a niche like CPU mining, since Boinc seems pretty resistant against botnets from my observation. Professional GPU rigs might stick with X11 algo coins.
and what about the actual science being done, is this not more important than being in a "cpu mining niche"?
This is a totally different paradigm than classical solving of hash function to mine cryptocurrency.