For many years now, I have been a fan and supporter of a project called folding@home, if you have not yet heard about this project here is the minimum of what you should know:

F@h was created by Pande Lab ( part of Stanford University and Stanford University Medical Center )

Pande Lab has produced more than 200 scientific papers as a result of F@h

F@h lets you install a program on your computer to help scientific research

That program tries to calculate protein folding, it is like Mining but for something useful

If we understand Protein folding, we can cure a ton of diseases, including covid19

In the last few days I have seen many people in the crypto community become very concerned about covid19, I thought that a good amount of them probably have gaming pcs or old mining rigs, so I encouraged people to start F@h with this tweet:

Link here

A lot of Tezos community Members saw that and added a few of their Tez to the pot, I set up a dedicated Donation Address, that at the time of writing, contains more than 150 Tezos!

The address is:

tz1WcCGBxxPq61ddkp8X7vYMrWsBFMCxe5RD

And all of those Tez will be paid out to lucky Tezonians that contribute to Folding@Home, So here is how to do that:

How to get started With F@h

First, go to this Website and download the Programm:

After installing and starting, you will be greeted by a screen like this:

The most important thing here is “Change Identity”, this lets you change the name of your Worker, and join a Team, in order to qualify for the bounty-tezos, you need to make a new team, and set the team name to a tz Address, so create a new team here:

https://apps.foldingathome.org/team

After registering a new Team, you get a Team-Number that you have to enter in the Client, and you are all ready to go!

After About a Day or so, your Team will appear in this list here:

And on March 30, just like I promised in the Tweet, I will pick the Tz Address with the most credits on this List, and send them the bounty!

( Depending on how many people contribute, and how may donations I get, I might send tezos to the top-3 or 5 and not just one Address )

This is all you need to know to earn some Tezos and do something useful in the process….so you better start folding!

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