From jsalsman at gmail.com  Thu Apr 12 10:16:44 2018
From: jsalsman at gmail.com (James Salsman)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:16:44 -0600
Subject: [opensource] FoldingCoin,
	a cryptocurrency based on proofs of useful work
Message-ID: <CAD4=uZa0yUtErm7x=Xe=tOEfGH1-7-w6wBHJCkvBFHmeFaiCOw@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Professor Athey,

I was thrilled to see today's announcement of your May 30th talk at
SVOD: http://www.svod.org/susan-athey/

Only two days ago I found out about the FoldingCoin (FLDC) cryptocurrency;
refs.: http://foldingcoin.net and please see also its whitepaper:
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4MV9AwGLTRFqD-kjC4uN0AX59kHOpO1OWsabnxxUIs

FoldingCoin and other cryptocurrencies based on proofs of useful work,
instead of proofs of wasted electricity like bitcoin, have the
potential to revolutionize cryptocurrencies (whether they make use of
blockchain ledgers or not) by repurposing mining gear to solve useful
problems instead of finding hash collisions. In the case of
FoldingCoin, the proof of work is a cryptographically signed
indication that correct authentic work was submitted to Stanford's
hybrid open source and proprietary Folding at Home
(http://folding.stanford.edu please see also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding at home) project to advance medical
science by predicting the configurations of amino acids in chains of
proteins, run by your colleague Professor Vijay Pande, who is also a
partner at Andreessen Horowitz. The applications include
computer-aided antibody design (e.g.
http://www.asmscience.org/content/book/10.1128/9781555817411.chap10)
which in turn is used for cancer and virus therapies as well as many
other kinds of medicines and medical research.

I have recently suggested that the Wikimedia Foundation convert from
Bitcoin to FoldingCoin:
 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-April/089998.html

Would you please ask Dr. Pande if he approves of the FoldingCoin
whitepaper? Thank you.

Best regards,
Jim Salsman