Good points Dutch, but one thing
Gridcoin is about money. BOINC is about research. Despite that fact that lots of Gridcoin users are long time BOINC veterans, I am willing to wager that a massive portion of new Gridcoin members will be in it for the money. This is what crypto is - a currency. Unfortunate? Yes. But it needs to be a vital consideration in any marketing. Most of humanity is far from altruistic.
I can't agree. Bitcoin is also about money, but yet a maaaasive amount of people are mining this coin. If Gridcoin get the same synergy effect it will be a huge leap for distributed computing as well. They are not separate, they are both equally important in the Gridcoin ecosystem.
I wholeheartedly agree that BTC is about money too, and that the amount of BTC mining happening is insane. What I mean to say is that while the philanthropic research aspect of GRC through BOINC is fantastic, I don't think it will draw anywhere near as many people as the chance to make money would. BOINC already had philanthropic research. GRC adds the potential to profit from it.
Exactly why Gridcoin came to life and I support the coin wholehearted 👏👍