Launching BioCoin: Validated Proof of Work

【Interest Check】 BioCoin Proof-of-Useful-Biology (PoUB) that's verifiable on-chain So here’s the scoop: I’m working on a coin where miners perform verifiable "useful work" specifically for biomedical research like docking and screening tasks. Each set of work is logged using Merkle roots, with verifiers conducting audits. The most reputable and fully audited batch gets to be the block candidate. No token sale happening, just checking if there’s community interest, need for a security audit, and looking for early testers. What's BioCoin all about? It's a PoW-type chain where the "work" involves actual computing for bio and chem research while keeping it verifiable, deterministic, and open to everyone. The aim is to preserve the good aspects of Bitcoin, like open competition in block production and straightforward verification, but replace hash-churn with tasks that can be audited and reproduced, alongside concise commitments on-chain. Why is this a good time? We've got plenty of GPU and CPU cycles available, but most PoW cycles don't serve any real purpose right now. A lot of bio workloads can run deterministically through public test harnesses, delivering verifiable results. With proper commitments and audits in place, we can achieve both open mining and reliable verification. How's the prototype working right now? Miners grab a public task seed (job or epoch ID). They run a big batch of candidate outcomes (like 100k attempts). Full outputs are committed to a Merkle tree, but only the root is shared in the header. Verifiers take a fixed number of audits from that batch (for instance, 192 random indices), run them again deterministically, and confirm the Merkle proofs. There's a scoring system that evaluates batches based on top docking scores or objective values; the best ones get prioritized.