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I had to upvote this post because this is exactly the type of out-of-the-box thinking that we need to differentiate PrimeCoin from all of the other crypto-coins out there. I ran [email protected] for several years, and one of the main things that attracted me to it was the fantastic graphical client that showed a visual representation of the client's work. I would imagine that millions of other people downloaded the client for the exact same reason. Will there be a performance hit? Definitely. But I think that it would ultimately be worth it because a lot of people would become interested in PrimeCoin that would not have otherwise. I would never have downloaded [email protected] initially if it had not been for the graphical client. I encourage you and others to keep thinking along these same lines: things that will make PrimeCoin attractive to laypeople, and that will differentiate it from the other crypto-coins. The hard core geeks can always run the command-line or non-graphical version if they want maximum performance, just like they did in the [email protected] project. Please keep the great ideas coming!
I sent an email to Eric J. Korpela and Andrew Siemion of the [email protected] project explaining your idea to them. I also included a link to this thread. Perhaps they might know developers who could help to bring this idea to life. As I thought about it more, perhaps a Primecoin pool mining project could be added to Boinc, and people who donate their cpu cycles to Boinc projects could earn a small amount of XPM for the donated computer time.
I just added this comment to the Reddit/r/primecoin thread on this idea: Quote I sent an email to Eric J. Korpela and Andrew Siemion of the [email protected] project explaining your idea to them. I also included a link to this thread. Perhaps they might know developers who could help to bring this idea to life. As I thought about it more, perhaps a Primecoin pool mining project could be added to Boinc, and people who donate their cpu cycles to Boinc projects could earn a small amount of XPM for the donated computer time.