This is how miners can lend a hand against the Covid-19 pandemic

NVIDIA recently shared a tweet that urged gamers to install the Folding @ home app, which leverages the redundant computing power to study epidemics, now known as Covid-19.

In fact, Folding @ home has been researched and developed since 2000 by Stanford University's Pande lab, leveraging the processing power of computers around the world to accelerate work. study conditions like cancer, unilateral atrophy or Parkinson's. However, with the spread of a post on PC Master Race's subreddit (running PC hardware), this application is really well known.

With the complicated disease situation of Covid-19 with over 6000 deaths, scientists around the world are working frantically to find a cure vaccine. Thanks to the power of computing from the community, scientists can easily try out more data samples to accelerate the research process.

However, it's not just gamers who own huge graphics cards. New miners are those who own powerful graphics cards in large to very large numbers. The computing power that comes from mining is not to be underestimated. According to data from Digiconomist, the total value of electricity consumed in a year to serve for Bitcoin mining has reached $ 3.66 billion.

The "plowing coins", especially Reddit participants, are calling on their fellow members to deduct a portion of their "buffalo" power to contribute to the Folding @ home project.

"Contributing a part of the virtual power to support the research of the COVID-19 vaccine is an act of the spirit of early Bitcoin mining" - redditor Fiach_Dub shared. Another redditor also commented: "I believe that contributing to this research will make Satoshi (who is said to be the father of Bitcoin) proud. The small community he has built so hard is now brave enough. feel to stand up against the "monster" COVID-19 in one way or another. "

In a different development, with the situation of Bitcoin price head down, anyway, the "plowing plow" will be used for other purposes only.