While some hide in quarantine, and others deny the existence of the virus as a hoax, still a third group strives to do something positive and make the world a better place with technology. This third group is filled with researchers, doctors, scientists .... and You. 

Multiple currencies are currently offering bounties and rewards for helping Folding @ Home, the worlds largest supercomputer ever in existence (2.4 ExaFlops!), and it's entirely crowd-sourced. (just the way crypto should be).

Folding@Home is a super-computer that is dedicated to running simulations of protein folding since 2000. It accomplishes this by breaking down each part into a tiny piece (called a 'Work Unit' that a single home-user computer can handle) and 'distributing' all the pieces. Each solution is then combined, and you get in minutes what would have taken years for even the most advanced research computers to process.

You can install it on however many computers you want, (win/mac/linux) and it'll run in the background. You can select to run all the time or only when idle. You can also tell it to use High, Medium, or Low power.

Saving the world is all well and good ... but where does earning crypto come in? ... a few different 'team's have formed that allow you to automatically exchange your points awarded from running folding @ home direct into their cryptocurrencies! Two main players are CureCoin and Banano

Banano is a meme-focused coin forked off of NANO. It has a strong user community, active development, and is a FAST coin! It's based on a block lattice system, (where each user keeps their own personal blockchain, opposed to a single centralized chain) which makes the transactions happen lightning fast! Banano is only on a few exchanges, but is easily able to be atomic-swapped to regular NANO which is accepted very easily.  Both NANO and Banano are low-energy impact coins ... the Energy cost of 12BT transactions (3MWh) is enough to power 25,200,000 Banano/NANO transactions!

CureCoin is on about 5 exchanges currently, it is based on scientific research mining. it's mission is to :

Curecoin aims to increase the maximum potential of Distributed Computing Networks (DCN) around the world that are searching for important answers to medical, scientific, and mathematical problems by incentivizing the donation of computational resources, such as GPU’s and CPU’s. Incentivization is done through the creation of a unique blockchain which rewards this research.

Both Alt-Coins have a strong following on the folding ranks. Each beating out Amazon AWS, VMWare, Tom's Hardware, and Overclockers! .... CureCoin is also beating CERN, and the entire NVIDIA Corp!  Who says there isn't power in co-operation! 

You can even earn Coin while you sleep.

Folding at Home as a solid track record of security as well as actually making a difference in the medical community. Helping to find new treatments and medicine, they have published over 225 scientific research papers under the names Pande Lab since their launch on October 1, 2000. 

You can also visualize the protein folding as it happens in a rotating 3D model while you work:

Please consider joining this great project (no affiliate links have been given). It's worth helping to join the more than 2.4 EXAFLOPS of super-computer power provided by regular users like you to help scientists understand this new virus. As a bonus you gain crypto from machines that would never be good miners for any other type of coin.... and who knows,  maybe your machine will be the one to crack that final piece of knowledge that changes our entire world!