First crypto was used to buy pizza, now it's being used to find pulsars and black holes

Crypto can do lots of things. It can bull and bear, moon and dip, and even obtain food to dip in sauce. But did you know it can also help us find new pulsars and astronomical objects?

Some exciting news came out of the Einstein @ home project today, which is a volunteer research project to find pulsars and other astronomical objects using data from LIGO and other data collection sources. To do this, they use the computers of volunteers to crunch the data. To date, they have discovered 80 new pulsars and identified several billion more data points which need further analysis.

The cool thing about this? Einstein @ home is one of about a dozen projects which is incentivized by /r/Gridcoin. Instead of paying miners to just calculate hashes, Gridcoin pays miners to contribute their processing power to science projects, including to Einstein @ home, Alzheimer's research, and more all in a decentralized, automated manner. And it's been doing this since 2013, making it one of the longer-lived cryptos out there that still has an active development team and user base.

I love all the cool things crypto can do. Cool to be here with y'all. Excited to see what it does next, after it's done exploring the universe, of course.