BOINC Radio 43 - Incentivized Crunching
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Recorded on November 27th
We introduce incentivized crunching in preparation for our discussion with LeyLine next week!
| Time | Subject |
|---|---|
| 2:50 | Open Pandemics |
| 6:00 | Smash Childhood Cancer |
| 7:00 | Mapping Cancer Markers |
| 9:15 | SRBase |
| 10:00 | MLC@Home |
| 12:30 | PrimeGrid |
| 14:10 | GPUGrid |
| 15:10 | Asteroids@Home |
| 15:50 | Universe@Home |
| 16:30 | Gamification vs. Social Networks vs. Incentivized Crunching |
| 18:00 | The costs of contributing to BOINC |
| 20:00 | Covering the costs of crunching |
| 22:30 | User adoption and retention |
| 23:30 | Different implementations of incentivization mechanisms |
| 31:00 | Incentivizing major entities to do BOINC |
| 33:30 | Comments |
| 36:20 | Can there be incentivized crunching with fiat instead of crypto? |
| 37:00 | How does real money affect cheating? |
| 41:45 | Does incentivization need to be profitable? |
| 44:30 | Incentivization and hardware equality |
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