BOINC is definitely amazing, from space, to simulations, to cures for disease.

Just a quick clarification:

Boinc also awards participators with gridcoins(as if the feeling of being an angel wasn't good enough).

BOINC and Gridcoin are two separate entities. Gridcoin rewards participants for BOINC contributions and is not directly supported by BOINC. Gridcoin can also be built for use on other platforms.

For more information, here are some links:

Website: https://gridcoin.us
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GridcoinNetwork
Discord: https://discord.me/gridcoin
Steemit: https://steemit.com/created/gridcoin
White Paper: https://gridcoin.us/assets/img/whitepaper.pdf

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Codebase: https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-Research
Community: https://github.com/gridcoin-community