The BOINC Project is making a call to cryptominers that have shutdown their operations to donate computing power, and/or GPUs to help them with their scientific projects
BOINC was originally developed to manage the SETI@home project. The original SETI client was a non-BOINC software exclusively for SETI@home. As one of the first volunteer grid computing projects, it was not designed with a high level of security. As a result, some participants in the project attempted to cheat the project to gain "credits," while some others submitted entirely falsified work. BOINC was designed, in part, to combat these security breaches.
The BOINC project started in February 2002, and the first version was released on April 10, 2002. The first BOINC-based project was Predictor@home launched on June 9, 2004. In 2009, AQUA@home deployed multi-threaded CPU applications for the first time, followed by the first OpenCL application in 2010.
BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer (Windows, Mac, Linux) or Android device. BOINC downloads scientific computing jobs to your computer and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe. About 30 science projects use BOINC; examples include Einstein@Home, IBM World Community Grid, and SETI@home. These projects investigate diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.
While the project sounds amazing I am still going to run my mining operation as I am not giving up yet. Though the US Dollar value of my holdings has plummeted I will keep mining away as I still get "free" electricity. Hopefully, Bitcoin will go back up in price one day.
The interesting thing to note is the discussions that continue to rage that cryptomining is bad for the environment.
I am HODLing all the way.