Quote from: cygnusxi on May 13, 2013, 01:42:11 AM

what almost everyone here has failed to take note of..

1)Bitcoin was an experiment... so is this... im not promising miracles.

2) This is something for people who want to donate their gpu / cpu power to help find cures, if you dont like the idea of there being a possible 5% miscalculation in you share because the system isnt perfect, then you can continue to mine your greedcoins.

3) The main idea behind this is to encourage larger distributed research networks, not to make you rich from a pump n dump.

These things being said, im trusting more in what the professors and doctors are telling me and not the bitcoin junkies. ill be going with the recommendation of professors and doctors as for launch method.

This WILL NOT BE designed to make bitcoin junkies money ( although, bitcoin was just an experiment, cant say it enough because you have all seem to forgotten that )

This WILL contribute to research networks, possibly making the world a better place to live.

If you cant understand the driving idea is to promote research, and not to make money, then your greed has surely passed you good will.

When the project is ready bitcointalk.org will probably not be included, universities will put it to much better use then a world of self admitted scammers. If you want to prove your dedication to actually helping the world instead of wasting electricity, please join my folding team and starts getting points, as the beta launch (CDCCoin) will be tested only by a small group of students and my folding team as well.

Enter, Bitcointalk FLAME MODE ... please show your frustration in the following blank space. Ill be communicating with a slightly more helpful, peaceful, and honest group of people getting together that actually see through the bitcoin trash talk and see that im trying to do something useful. Ill be done here on bitcointalk as soon as i know my folding team knows were to go to contact me.

And to think i was almost naive enough to release curecoin here... maybe the next time someone comes up with something like this you wont spend so much time crying scam. you can cry scam till your ass bleeds if it makes you feel better. but its a system to encourage research. not really sure how thats a scam.

Cheers

You are the perfect example of how much people are missing in an overspecialized world, that is, that you might be a good programmer or at whatever you do, but you miss the fact that the design of a currency must be multidisciplinary. You clearly lack of fundamental economic understanding to even understand the implications of a design of a currency, and I think that you also lack understanding of the psychological impact that a monetary incentive will have on the existing altruistic networks.

Originally I also thought about about using CPU/GPU power in doing something useful as a proof of work, WAY BEFORE you came onboard.
Of course the first projects that came to my mind were brain mapping, protein folding, and other distributed computing projects. But as I told you on page 5 of this thread: there are risks, and there are plenty of case studies that support what experimental psychology has taught us decades ago.

Look, folding@home is already achieving 9 petaflops by themselves, it doesn't really need to be disturbed with your half-baked experimentation. As I stated before, you might harm the project altogether.

I wouldn't have any reservations if you actually created a standalone protein folding project, in that case go ahead and I would wish you the best of the lucks.
BUT if you are going to be linking your experimental cryptocurrency to an already mature and existing IMPORTANT PROJECTS, you may just end up dragging them down along with your project when it fails (either by poor design or by bad implementation or market failure)

Now considering that you use epithets such as "greedcoin" to address the bitcoins, it is clear to me now that you lack of fundamental economical concepts and I would feel terribly uncomfortable with someone handling this project with such a limited understanding of economics, monetary policies, and social psychology. Right now I feel that allowing you to go ahead with curecoins is like allowing a 12 year old kid to connect a science fair project to a nuclear plant.

I am not against the idea of creating actual value with the proof of work, but it must be studied with a multidisciplinary group of capable people.
With the limited interactions you had in the forum unfortunately I see that you are an ideal candidate for being a prisoner of his own prejudices, a victim of the DunningKruger effect, and definitely those failing at critical thinking shouldn't be on top of such projects.

Sorry bud, I say yes to the idea, but no to the execution. Not by you at least.
If you want to experiment, do it by your own and create your own protein folding simulator.
And I don't care if you meet "a" PhD, specialization in academia (and in the sciences, in general) made the left hand to not know what the right one does. You need at least a dozen from every field possible.
And if you go ahead with this, you might do more harm than good.

If you reply to me with an appeal to authority, you definitely are not up to the task.