Seems like history repeats itself in this subject... remember Gridfinity?

http://www.amdusers.com/forum/showth...paid-to-crunch

I couldn't join it back then either, as I wrote, it felt "unnatural" getting paid to crunch. Here's my quote on it on a thread about 11 years ago:
Quote Originally Posted by NeoGen View Post
I don't think I'll crunch for this even if it works someday and is legit...

To me it feels unnatural... the concept of distributed computing started with scientists/mathematicians/investigators that had very complex problems and few resources and reached out to the public to volunteer to help them.

I hope this concept doesn't pick up or someday we'll refer to projects as paying, and non-paying... as we do nowadays for Boinc and non-boinc... can you imagine that? Even worse... all projects would have to have financial backing and/or commercial purpose or they wouldn't survive... Capitalism at its best?