[VMG]

> Except the miners don't gain value from discovering a protein fit, so they have no incentive to mine the wrong chain.

Well then they are doing useless work too, and the criticism of wasteful mining applies. You gain value from doing useful things.

[bduerst]

Protein fit is only useless for the miners, but they have coin rewards on completion, so the work on new blocks isn't useless to them.

You do understand how a blockchain works, right?

[VMG]

You picked protein fit as an example of useful PoW. How can you now claim it's useless?

[bduerst]

Useful for cancer researchers, not miners.

I can claim it's useless for miners and useful for researchers because I understand blockchains and proteonomics.

Do you understand either, VMG? Because it's fast becoming apparent otherwise.