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Protein fit is only useless for the miners, but they have coin rewards on completion, so the work on new blocks isn't useless to them.

You do understand how a blockchain works, right?




You picked protein fit as an example of useful PoW. How can you now claim it's useless?


Useful for cancer researchers, not miners.

I can claim it's useless for miners and useful for researchers because I understand blockchains and proteonomics.

Do you understand either, VMG? Because it's fast becoming apparent otherwise.




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