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Join a company working in the space. There is a need at all of them for good UI, automation, and database engineers.

Happen to know of any off the top of your head?

I don’t think a blockchain would really help with task specific protein folding simulation stuff?

There's projects that use blockchain and cryptocurrency as a form of incentives and payment for resources that people are putting forward for computing power.

Money that would be better spend on super computers i think

I think any contributions are be welcomed.

You don’t need either of those for incentives and payment for resources that people put forward.

What other alternatives are there?

Cryptocurrency isn’t exactly the only way to transfer money.

Nice dodge from answering the question.

Well, you could just use regular old bank transfers. I just assumed that I don’t need to tell you this.

And even if you were using cryptocurrency for payouts, that hardly requires any blockchain stuff on the side consuming the computing power.

...you mistyped an extra word in that sentence: "blockchain".