RE: In Response to @appliepiie's Post "Long Term Goal of Gridcoin"
I mean to say that I do not support rented computing. This means that I think that the volunteer structure of BOINC is beautiful. You should not have to pay to gain access to the Gridcoin/BOINC super computer. We are in agreement on this = ). Our competitors are the ones which operate on a rent-based business model.
Our differences are mostly in where we think crypto will be in the short term -- i see an inevitable wave of adoption due to blockchain utility while you see difficulties with adoption due to technical barriers. Both very valid and supported perspectives.
I think you should check out @cm-steem's "Project Rain" idea. There are a few posts floating around on steemit. Is this something like what you're talking about?
Project rain posts here, here, and here. There are a few others but I can't find them ATM. @cm-steem. Could what @applepiie is proposing be done with your project rain?
People seem to be entirely unaware that all the functionality for anyone to 'buy' compute on the Gridcoin blockchain with GRC is already implemented.
I could go and rain my entire balance onto any project of my choosing right now - right from the wallet client.
I am aware of that, however, it is not done as of now (or at least not that I know of). My idea was partially, that it might be a good idea on focusing to advertise this opportunity.
Furthermore, I am concerned, that just letting everyone rain as much as they want on a project may cause too much imbalance between the projects. This might lead to projects that are not yielding a lot of financial gain, like searching aliens, to suffer a lot.
it definitely holds the potential to create imbalance in the BOINC project economy. something to be considered. if it becomes an issue it would have to be regulated somehow, either through code or law. preferably code.