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Re: Official Poll for "CureCoin" has been requested by Stanford University
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clownengineering
on 01/05/2013, 17:34:38 UTC
This idea doesn't make any sense.

Protein folding simulation is indeed very computationally expensive, but the results of such a simulation are not efficiently verifiable. Therefore, you cannot base a "proof of work" system on this, and the entire idea of CureCoin is meaningless.