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Just wanted to add that when talking about funding, you may want to consider Gridcoin (gridcoin.us). It's a way to incentivize citizen science projects and is currently used for many BOINC (boinc.berkeley.edu) projects, but realistically can work with any project that publishes user stats in the form of a leaderboard.

Many BOINC projects (boinc.berkeley.edu) have gamified mechanics in the form of badges and rankings. Their participants are also rewarded with Gridcoin, which is a cryptocurrency that rewards participation in distributed computing/citizen science projects at no cost to the project admins. Gridcoin can work with any citizen science project that publishes a leaderboard and might be a simple way for you to integrate gamification without needing to do any of the legwork :). Feel free to send me a PM if you're interested, I'm passionate about BOINC and Gridcoin and blockchain in general and would be glad to share some expertise on it.

I wonder, could you not just automatically grab temperature data from the user's phone (or other smart sensors on things like PurpleAir) and use that? Seems simpler than having people manually input it.

For me personally for participation in such a project, I'd want to know how the data is being used and where it's being published, and being able to see my contribution in a clear way.

Hey! So, right off the bat, DCP is able to run existing BOINC projects, like Asteroids@home (if you haven't checked them out, they're pretty cool. We're really excited to be working with other researchers and innovators as well though - Dr. Spekkens at Queen's University is already running a closed network just using the computers in her lab to speed up galaxy simulations. DCP allows anyone to develop and run their project using the power of a distributed system with our API.

Much like Folding@Home (Link here for anyone who wants to support them), you can contribute power to the network just using your browser - no download necessary. This works on any device that can open a browser - your phone, tablet, you name it.

The big difference is that the credits you earn by contributing your excess CPU and GPU are a currency that you can use to buy other people's computing power off the network for your own projects. This means you can sell excess compute power when you don't need it, and buy it when you do. You will also be able to exchange these credits for other crypto currencies on exchanges.