Quite ridiculous if you ask me. Articles like these only reflect the greediness of mankind. All that wasted material being used to calculate meaningless equations for some number to show up on your computer for something that just so happens to be of value now. Too bad ripple (XPR) is centralized.. They had a good idea to include BOINC with their projects to help people. To imagine this person would have dedicated his money and creativity towards the health sector.