welcome to steemit! great post.
I think it's inspiring to see the progresses from so many people accomplishing little tasks which all work toward a common goal, even if that goal might not be reached for years. Though the more people BOINCing, the faster these goals can be reached. Look at the HCEP and how in three years they have done for solar panel efficiency what would take 17,000 years on a single PC.
As a suggestion for steemit posting: if you want to add a little visibility you could insert any image and the post will get a thumbnail. Really helps it from getting lost in the feed.
Jringo, I appreciate that you took the time to read my article. You're right, I need to put an image on it, I will attempt to create something and post it. My intention for the article was to link two disparate groups together, for the benefit of each. For Gridcoin my hope was to expose an entirely different group of people to it, and to explain the benefits, so that they could then get involved. More Gridcoin articles need to cross-pollinate to new audiences to get different people interested in it that have no idea it exists. For the survivalists out there, Gridcoin, for the reasons I stated in the article, can be an important option for both short and medium-term gains, and for long-term wealth protection, and by BOINCing, helping science solve pandemics and other disturbing scenarios.