In a hypothetical scenario where the consensus mechanism has become too centralized, a move to POS instead of another POW mechanism would be beneficial for BTC, IMO.

I don't see any point in Litecoin anymore.. they had faster blocktimes/conf times & ASIC resistance over Bitcoin, now none of those are selling points over many of the new altcoins.

Gridcoin https://gridcoin.us and Bitshares are my main two altcoins I'm invested in.

Why not open curecoin up to all teams?

Foldingcoin has a central issuing authority though.

It'd be very cool if we could port folding@home's user statistics to the BOINC scoring system in order to earn GRC for folding.

On one hand, the burn period was 6 months long during a switch from proof of work to proof of stake, it was pretty difficult not to know it was going on.

On the other, lessons learned - proof of burn should be performed via snapshot & import wallet sharedrop method (like BTS).

There will be no such transition again though, so you should get crunching again using the pool.

I've been looking into proof of burn on Gridcoin to project rain custom assets onto Gridcoin users: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/44611-monitoring-selfburn-addresses-for-custom-beacons/

Mainly Bitshares and Gridcoin.

Launch an user issued asset on Bitshares.

So what were you scammed out of?

Nor am I.. two guys who left crypti & ran a successful ICO off the back of crypti's work. It's the same as forking BTC and creating an ICO for it.
Not confident in LISK at all.

ICO/IPO/Crowdsales are the cancer killing cryptocurrency. Snapshot/Sharedrop or GTFO.

Litecoin doesn't even have a counterparty fork.. it's a dead clonecoin. There are dozens of new cryptocurrencies that dwarf litecoin in functionality and innovation. Litecoin had faster block times than bitcoin and ASIC resistance - now ASIC resistance is gone and block timings are a joke compared to Bitshare's 5 second block timing.

The only thing it's got going for it is the current liquidity & ranking on coinmarketcap. The bubble will pop.

You could use azure/google/amazon free cloud trials to earn Gridcoin by crunching BOINC work units on behalf of team gridcoin.

Dead clonecoin is dead. It only has liquidity going for it now.

I'd vote for Gridcoin http://www.gridcoin.us

Gridcoin rewards BOINC computation (CPU/GPU/ASIC - 26 projects & individually rewarded). BOINC has existed for more than a decade, and will continue to exist well into the future - that seems pretty stable to me.

You can solo crunch Gridcoin pretty easily. There's guides on how to do so on the main website: http://www.gridcoin.us

Gridcoin is a pretty decent crypto to contribute towards - you could crunch BOINC work units using the pool and earn Gridcoin for the next couple decades. BOINC has existed for like.. 15 years now? CPU work will always be available.

Yeah, you can earn Gridcoin http://www.gridcoin.us by crunching CPU BOINC projects with a laptop's CPU.

Gridcoin http://www.gridcoin.us (rewards BOINC computation) has had GPU support for a while now. Why waste electricity on hashing with your GPU when you could be contributing to real scientific research?

If you've got Nvidia you can crunch:
GPUgrid: Full-atom molecular simulations of proteins
Asteroids@home: Asteroid research - it uses photometric measurements of asteroids observed by professional big all-sky surveys as well as 'backyard' astronomers. The data is processed using the lightcurve inversion method and a 3D shape model of an asteroid together with the rotation period and the direction of the spin axis are derived.

If you've got AMD you can crunch:
Milkyway@home: Creation of a 3d map of the milkyway galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This project enables research in both astroinformatics and computer science.
POEM@HOME: Models protein folding using Anfinsen's dogma

There's also some multi-gpu compatible projects:
Collatz Conjecture: Attempting to disprove the Collatz Conjecture
Einstein@home: Search for spinning neutron (pulsars) stars using data from the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, the Arecibo radio telescope, and the Fermi gamma-ray satellite
PrimeGrid: Search for prime numbers. Primes play a central role in the cryptographic systems which are used for computer security. Through the study of prime numbers it can be shown whether current security schemes are sufficiently secure.
SETI@home: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

Gridcoin rewards BOINC computation - there are dozens of CPU projects & a few GPU projects (all projects are rewarded on an individual project basis). Worth looking into - it's funner crunching BOINC because you're contributing to scientific advancement/research instead of burning electricity on POW.