I'm Dan. Chef, punk-rocker, punter, BOINC and Gridcoin enthusiast. I started off with SETI@Home back in 1999. I discovered Bitcoin by accident while looking for Boinc a few years ago, it's nice to see the 2 concepts now connected through Gridcoin. You should try it out. It's excellent.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.