I have been a long term BOINC supporter, but began to mine Bitcoin in 2011 with my GPUs instead of contributing to BOINC projects on them.  I was thinking about the real world impact that could happen if the blockchain technology was integrated with BOINC work rather than SHA-256 hashing.  Now, that idea is a reality.  Over the past year Gridcoin has been fine tuned by a passionate community and devoted developer.  If you are a member of the Gridcoin BOINC team, you can receive Gridcoin as a reward for your BOINC contribution.  These coins are exchangeable for Bitcoin on several coin exchanges.  The blockchain is secured by both Proof-of-Stake and Proof-of-Research algorithms rather than wasteful Proof-of-Work hashing.

If you are interested in earning Cryptocurrency for running BOINC, please reference these links or visit us on IRC at irc.freenode.net #gridcoin - (Web IRC):
*Coin Announcement Thread
*Wiki
*Proof of Research Algorithm
*Whitelisted Projects
*Gridcoin Team BOINCStats
*C-CEX Coin Exchange
*BITTREX Coin Exchange