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RE: Gridcoin; a currency that benefits us all
seems cool but... I dont see a Mac platform and also Im not a scientist just an investor and a freedom fighter, can I still use this coin? even thou bitcoin doesnt give back as you say, its still the strongest and only rising. I find all that these smaller coins dont seem to be gaining as much momentum other than I think Dash, Ethereum and maybe Monero? I could be wrong thou
You don't need to be a scientist to use this coin. All you have to do is check which projects are currently approved by the community to earn Gridcoin reward and join to a project you'd like to contribute, be it in the medicine field (World Community Grid, GPUGrid, Rosetta@Home, etc) to Number Crunching (Collatz Conjecture, PrimeGrid, Amicable Numbers, etc) to Space and Extraterrestrial Exploration (SETI@Home, Milyway@Home, Universe@Home, etc). As you can see, there's a variety of projects you can contribute and earn Gridcoin reward, and don't forget those coins earned earns 1.5% interest.
I'm not a user of Mac and are quite unsure about this. There is a Wiki article on the subject http://wiki.gridcoin.us/OS_X_Guide
There are Binaries for windows and source code for compiling linux wallet. Maybe you can run the client in a virtual machine on mac?
To earn coins for scientific work you can just download thr BOINC client on any computer, or you just invest in the coin to earn interest. You still have to receive your coins somewhere tough.
In principle, source codes can always be compiled. It may be enough to install XCode on your system to have all the compilers available.