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Bitfury Is The Latest Cryptocurrency Industry Player To Join COVID-19 Research Project

Janelle Fox

Summary: Bitfury, the blockchain development firm, has re-assigned the computing power it uses for digital currency transaction processing to COVID-19 research. According to an announcement on March 31, the firm has been reallocating its high-powered GPU-enabled computing nodes to run COVID-19 calculations since March 20. The reallocation of Bitfury’s resources are contributing to Folding@Home’s (F@H) project, ...

Bitfury, the blockchain development firm, has re-assigned the computing power it uses for digital currency transaction processing to COVID-19 research.

According to an announcement on March 31, the firm has been reallocating its high-powered GPU-enabled computing nodes to run COVID-19 calculations since March 20.

The reallocation of Bitfury’s resources are contributing to Folding@Home’s (F@H) project, which run simulations of the virus’ molecular structure in an effort to contribute to the development of effective therapeutics.

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