Folding@Home Surpasses 400,000 Users Amid Crypto Contribution

In a recent Reddit ask-me-anything (AMA) Gregory Bowman, Folding@Home’s (F@H) director, revealed that the project currently has 400,000 computers actively contributing to research. “We had about 30K users before the pandemic started,” he stated, adding: “In the past two weeks, 400K volunteers have joined Folding@home.” The number of F@H donors has increased 1200% in four weeks Folding@Home is a platform that diverts donations of spare computational power toward medical and scientific research.

F@H also designates computing power for research into breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and epigenetics. In recent weeks, the F@H platform received endorsements from decentralized computing network, Golem, and blockchain platform, Tezos — who have organized a donation pool of several hundred XTZ that will be awarded to the largest F@H donor as of the end of this month.

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