I agree with Alicea
It is more a way of mirroring your BOINC stats into Ripple while hoping that someone might want to donate money by paying for these (essentially useless) points.
Show me why are you
hoping that someone might want to donate money by paying for ABC2, AID, ARCH, AU, BSTY, BTLS, BTQ, BURST, CANN, CCI, CESC, CHILD, CKC, CRACK, CRTV, CRW, CUM, DARKB, DCN, DD, DGR, DOGE and so on... the rest of the coins (the list has been taken from c-cex alphabetically).
We have (or had) about 500 different cryptocoins. Show me those, which are
not "useless points". RSC is as "useless" as most other cryptos are.
There's no difference.
Well, there is one: being useful for practical things and real life. Here: the medical research. I've found only a few coins that are useful for real projects.