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by whoisterencelee 1870 days ago
These here might want to check out Gridcoin https://gridcoin.us:

... while Bitcoin secures its network through an energy intensive[2] proof-of-work scheme, Gridcoin uses a more energy efficient proof-of-stake system. ... nearly all of the energy goes to science - https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/GridCoin ... Gridcoin compensates researchers for contributing computational power towards BOINC research using an energy-efficient Proof-of-Stake process, instead of generating heat and using computational power for a Proof-of-Work algorithm ... nearly all of the energy goes to science - https://gridcoin.us/wiki/ ... do not require huge amounts of energy consumption to be mined. This makes PoS coins such as Gridcoin a more eco-friendly alternative .. - https://coincentral.com/what-is-gridcoin/ Altcoins like SolarCoin and GridCoin are better for the environment - https://medium.com/@johnniec/altcoins-like-solarcoin-and-gri... What if we could mine cryptocurrency using meaningful calculations with additional real-world benefits?- https://medium.com/adventures-in-volunteer-computing/cryptoc... Sustainable, efficient technology - With its unique PoR/PoS hybrid technology, the GRC blockchain uses PoS to secure its blockchain, while the entire computational capacity is devoted to performing computations for scientific research via PoR. This leads to a very efficient, and lean network, whose computational power is used for a noble purpose. - https://coinswitch.co/info/gridcoin/what-is-gridcoin One of the main advantages of Gridcoin is that crunching (“mining”) does useful scientific research - https://gridcoin.us/wiki/advantages-and-features Gridcoin attempts to address and ease the environmental energy impact of cryptocurrency mining through its proof-of-research and proof-of-stake protocols, as compared to the proof of work system used by Bitcoin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridcoin

The project can be found at https://gridcoin.us

p.s. the wallet can run on all major OS, the database will sync before you can finish you lunch and research crunching can be done on almost all devices including raspberrypi, android and old pcs

1 comments

Interesting, i know eth and cardano are moving to pos method and i feel like all cryptos have to inevitably move in this direction if they want to scale