I don't want to troll here, but why are you wasting your time on the internets instead of giving your time and effort to the starving communities around the world. Even that may not be a great enough good if you think of the food you'll be eating for the little change you'll do in the world...

I mean, better to be "wasting" cycles on something that may very well become an alternative economy system, or at least put a little leverage into forcing the governmental controlled currencies be managed more fairly, than folding proteins for the big pharma, although I'm sure the drugs they'll patent and sell with your help will be a greater good to the world, as a whole.

I've often heard these lines of reasoning when I was working for the OLPC initiative... Why waste time and resources trying to create a tool of education, i.e. a computer with a very connected nature, targeting communities that have very little or nothing of their own? Isn't, you know, food more important? Keep feeding them and that will certainly solve all the problems in the world quickly, I'm sure.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, I've done seti, folding@home and a few more, but bitcoin? bitcoin is not about philanthropic egos or greater goods of scales we aren't really equipped to grasp. It's all about the fairness and privacy of community markets, something all of us below the age of, what, 120 don't really understand and have been taught to loath.