Rayston

Just to clarify, they are from the early days, but they are also from the now days. They are still publishing. A link to their official site is in the above Wikipedia article.

agreed, I am in general not a huge fan of Crypto.

Very cool. Link?

not all (or even most) of them are profit ventures, like at all. There are some along those lines.

I do Asteroids at home, they need help figuring out the shape and size of asteroids. The data is published for public use.

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For the majority of boinc projects its just citizen science, they results are published for free. No money is involved.

I donate my computer time (and corresponding electricity costs) to projects I believe in or find interesting.