Obyte and World Community Grid join the fight against SARS-CoV-2
With Folding @ Home already crunching numbers to help researchers speed up the possible development of a treatment for COVID-19 and a vaccine for the novel Coronavirus, the World Community Grid now joins the effort and adds significant computing power.
As things stand right now, there is no treatment, no cure and no vaccine. It’s the grim fact after the virus was successfully isolated more than 5 months ago. Over the course of the past two months, the world has felt the devastating force that a global pandemic has with thousands of lives lost, countries’ economies headed for unprecedented recession and scientists all over the world scrambling to come up with the miracle we all hope for.
The IBM backed World Community Grid that utilizes users’ excess computing power to crunch numbers and test combinations on a massive scale, is now joining the global fight against the pandemic in a hope to speed up science and research. Hundreds of thousands of users are joining forces contributing more computing power per day than even the largest supercomputers would be able to in a year.
Obyte rewards participants
Since April 2018, Obyte has actively supported the efforts of WCG by rewarding those who donate their excess computing power to the project.
Team Obyte currently contributes more than 17 years of total computing time every single day
12,591 years of total computing time has been contributed to the project of “mapping cancer markers” and more than 500 years for the project aiming to “smash childhood cancer”
Having won the past 2 annual global challenges — the Thor Challenge — on providing most computing power as a team, Team Obyte is determined to become the largest contributor in this new effort that does not only benefit entire human kind, but also proves how processing power can be used for much more important things than mining cryptocurrency. And with Bitcoin’s halving of block rewards and a lot of mining equipment probably destined to be shut down, why not put it to good use?
Join Team Obyte
While we cannot offer participants to make a profit, the reward should be considered a respectful tip of the hat to all those deciding to join the effort in the fight against this pandemic. While the rates are outdated and have been updated since the start back in 2018, the instructions on how to join and be eligible for rewards can be found in this article.
The entire Obyte community wants to thank everyone who has contributed so far, and wish that, together, we will be strong and come out on top of this pandemic that is already turning into a massive global humanitarian crisis.
While it isn’t required to join Team Obyte to be rewarded, we highly encourage you to do so, to earn an additional bonus with every WCG-point you generate. And do keep in mind — we do all this for the good of humanity, not to buy you the next lambo!
