It's fairly easy to get started. 1. Get the right Folding@Home client for your system 2. Add the proper info for your DOGE wallet / DOGEfah team number 3. Set client to Medium or Full load to make sure your system kicks in if you're set to run on Idle 4. Wait for luck. There are only so many payouts that can happen every week as they can only pay out 1 DOGE at a time and there are thousands of folders and only a few dozen coins to pay out and it largely only happens for those at the top.
Well, I don't know if it'll work, but here's what I did.
1) Install Folding at Home. Make sure it works. Probably fiddle with the light-medium-full slider until you get a combination that keeps your computer from melting down. I run mine at full because fuck it, it's February.
2) Get a Dogecoin wallet. I messed with Multidoge for a while for a couple of days and it kept dying on me and losing my wallets, so I gave up and got a paper wallet from walletgenerator.net. I've never tested this with dogecoin before, but I've used a paper wallet from here with bitcoin before a couple years ago when I thought about yoloing up a mining rig (I got nothing out of it). Follow the directions on their page. It all makes sense and is pretty self-explanatory, just DON'T LOSE THE KEYS.
3) In the Folding at Home web control console, click "Change Identity", then set your team to 226715 and your nickname to your public address on your wallet. That's the shorter one of the two.
4) Run Folding at Home, accumulate points, wait for the deposit in a week (this is where I'm at -- as far as I can tell I've followed all the directions correctly). If all goes well, they'll deposit doge to the address you set as your nickname, in proportion to the number of points you earn for the Folding at Home team.
5) While waiting, enjoy the sauna that is now the room where your computer lives. Maybe roast some marshmallows on your CPU fan, fry a couple eggs, soak in the hot tub if you watercool, etc.
We'll see next week how well it works.
Thanks SoCo, appreciate your efforts immensely. Encouraging FAH with some coin is a nice bonus on top of the importance of participating in an awesome crowd sourced endeavor. I folded 100mill points since March 2020. Get in the group https://foldingathome.org/