Unfortunately it looks like they had the intern type the story:

An example is gridcoin, a cryptocurrency mined by a global network of in excess 23000 computers which are linked to scientists at the University of California at Berkeley.

I'm sure it should read "in excess of..."

Gridcoins are awarded in return for joining the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Networking Computing or BIONIC.

Erm... It's BIONIC instead of BOINC?

Still, I guess the exposure will be good for Gridcoin.