Quote from: anti-scam on May 10, 2013, 04:27:18 PM

Quote from: cygnusxi on May 10, 2013, 03:00:12 AM

1. Since work units are distributed through universities, or eventually any other distributed research network, there is no way around some level centralization.

Will this centralization only extend to the provisioning of the work units, or will the management of accounts and balances also be centralized? How are the rewards for folding handled from a technical perspective? Is it simply one private key held by whoever controls the folding that has the ability to inject an arbitrary amount of coins into the system as a reward? Will there be a trust-fee way for users to verify from a global perspective that coins are only being rewarded specifically for folding and not simply being created out of thin air?

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2. Protien folding will not effect the blockchain. hashers will secure the blockchain (confirm in previous post). Hashers will be sharing a portion measured by bench marking hardware of similar value.

What incentive is there for hashers to not just eventually kick the folders out of the blockchain? They don't do anything to secure it but do take away rewards that could go to the hashers. It sounds like you have an incentive problem.

Since the system is already fairly centralized, do you even need a blockchain?

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3. Yes, the popular demand for Bionc (and others) added to this might not be far away.

Assuming the system is opened up to general distributed computation, will anybody be able to send out work units to be used for generating CureCoins or will you have to register with a centralized entity to do so? How do you intend on keeping the varied participants in this scheme honest?

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4. I think what you asking is about : difficulty rises will be similar to other coins, but not as extreme, and the starting difficulty and retargets designed to prevent huge swings in difficulty. If this isnt what your after , sorry, i try to study many fields but economics bores the hell out of me. Thats why im listening closely to the economists giving me advice about this.

What I was asking is how many CureCoins will there be, and how quickly will they be generated?

You're pretending like CureCoin is anything but a half-baked and poorly-thought-through idea that borders on scam territory. I don't think the OP has any idea about your questions. None of the idea, as written in the first post, makes any sense.