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Unless you plan on purchasing 2-3k coins to be able to reliably stake solo its usually recommended that you start mining in the pool.

Sent ya a few coins too :)

There is actually a quasi-BOINC alternative being developed right now by one of the original developers of BOINC.

https://steemit.com/boinc/@cm-steem/tbd-a-new-model-for-volunteer-computing-david-anderson

I suggested in the comments of that story that it would be a great idea for Gridcoin to work with Dr. Anderson to incorporate Gridcoin into his new project. It is my belief that we will ultimately do this.

Keep in mind, though, that BOINC is an open-source project. UC Berkeley could decide it no longer wants to support the program but BOINC itself could always be move to a new set of servers and run independently. In fact, the team at SETI@Home recently came out and said, essentially, that Berkeley doesn't have any active involvement with BOINC anyway. It is simply there where some of the servers are currently hosted.

You can use poloniex API, they return information about BTC/USDT and GRC/BTC asks and bids in json format. Bittrex API can work too.

Edit: Poloniex API URL: https://poloniex.com/public?command=returnTicker

Bittrex API requires specific ticker: https://bittrex.com/api/v1.1/public/getticker?market=BTC-GRC

The choice of 'mining' vs 'investing and mining' depends a lot on your own situation. I have personally not invested any money into GRC - every coin I have is mined. That being said, I think the price of GRC will go up, so I have also not sold a single coin. If you look at similar coins or tokens, such as GNT, you see almost identical purpose to GRC but with no underlying platform that is actually functional. On the other hand, Gridcoin is built on top of BOINC, which has coming up on 2 decades of development and is actually outputting colossal amounts of research.

With regard to investing to accelerate your progress from pool to solo, there are arguments both way. We are very, very lucky to have a pool with zero fees (other than the transaction gas) and an active pool dev, so financially there is little reason to leave the pool. On the other hand, going solo allows you to use your magnitude to increase your vote weight in network polls. when pool mining, this weight is controlled by the pool, which abstains from all votes.

Yes, but you can't use the BOINC version on the Playstore to do it. You either need to use the latest version on the BOINC website, install from F-Droid, or to use an earlier version of BOINC you can install a modified APK on a GitHub repository of mine

For those who haven't seen/heard, and are following this thread, ThomasBrod did indeed accomplish this using an exploit. More information here:

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@jringo/1-millionth-block-commemorative-coin-goes-to-block-999998-pomegranate-an-update

Cute way to bring attention to an exploit, but I'd rather it have been disclosed in another way. Using it to steal the millionth block does not exactly instill a ton of confidence/trust with the community of miners who use Gridcoin, considering this was done by a dev. I'm disappointed with how this was handled...but it probably doesn't matter!

From startail who runs Gridcoinstats.eu on slack: > The wallet recently started to allow side staking for block rewards, which gridcoinstats doesn't correctly handle. The site is down for maintenance until this is fixed. I will do my best to make sure this is done as quick as possible.

For gridcoin.us/guides/whitelist.htm you accidentally put a lowercase g in the URL (or it might just be what it was before). https://www.gridcoin.us/Guides/whitelist.htm works just fine

I think that logo is an improvement, but it's still orders of magnitude too complex.

If you look through CoinMarketCap.com you will find perhaps one other coin with a similar level of complexity to even that logo.

I'd like to see a vote to submit to 99Designs or something to find a new logo. I think that would cost $200. I think it would do a lot for the market cap. If we could get a simple, recognizable logo made cheaper or free I'd be all for it.

I once saw a documentary where the point was made that thew world's most iconic buildings are those you can draw with very few lines and have people recognize the building from even that rough sketch. Eiffel Tower, Sydney Opera House, Pyramids, The Burj Al Arab.

Simplicity has always been a key, but in the modern world of information overload and growing minimalist and (Google) Material design, I think we really need to find an extremely simple logo for Gridcoin. Ideally, something someone could draw out on a piece of paper with very little effort, attention or artistic skill, well enough for it to be recognizable.

Thank you for the AMA!

What are your thoughts on the current proposals regarding the future of Gridcoin?

Particularly the switch to masternodes vs. alternatives

Resources:

Gridcoin 4.0-2018 Roadmap

Rob Halford's Masternode Proposal

There are other proposals on the Gridcoin substeem, but these are the big ones.

That's why I raised the questions above. 8 projects missing seems to be an issue with superblock generation and not with the project systems.

EDIT: This just happened a few days ago as well. https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/new-superblock-august-26-block-1004226-45h-birth-time-38-boinc-projects-missing

Hi there complete and random stranger!

I'd very much appreciate it if I could get a response to my concerns:

I left a comment over on steemit, and since you didn't go through the trouble of researching GRC before posting here I'm not going to go through the trouble of reformatting my response for reddit.

You can find the comment here:

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@nuad01/start-collecting-ethereum-tokens-for-boinc-work

Thanks for your whole hearted attention!

Thankyou i am just an investor now, i like to buy some every 2 weeks very easy on flyp.me, i like the work you guys do for science so its more a donation thing. I have tried to mine with grc pool but it stopped giving me, so now i just have my orangepi 3 on for world community project running 24/7 only uses 7watts with no GRC pool.

Winter is coming. Everybody with a powerful PC can mine Gridcoin profitably during winter. Just turn off your heater and ramp up your GPUs. You will save a fortune on your heating bill and earn a lot of Gridcoins :)

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@vortac/gridcoin-gpu-mining-heating-up-your-living-room-with-computational-science

You haven't really provided enough information to identify what is going on.

To get your research rewards you need to stake a block. Blocks are assigned based on wallet balance and magnitude. To get a block regularly 1 or 2 thousand Gridcoin is recommended. (I get one weekly with 3000 GRC and 80 magnitude, though I do not stake 24/7)

If you don't want to purchase that much you can use a pool such as www.grcpool.com though that means that your past two months of research will be lost.

If you do have a large enough balance then maybe your wallet isn't set up correctly. There should be a little up arrow surrounded by a green circle if everything is working correctly. If the wallet isn't set up this guide takes you through the step by step of how to set up the wallet.

Hopefully this helped. Good luck :)

I far prefer posting to Steemit than reddit, there are far less trolls and aggressive individuals (plus you get paid to post).

That said, your post would have been more appropriate within /r/cryptomarkets where as articles/threads are relevant in /r/cryptocurrency. Not that there aren't many other users talking about price movements on /r/cryptocurrency without being harrassed.

Right jringo, besides metadata we could include many open access journals under creative commons licenses so long as we fulfill the conditions.

For anybody else with noob questions... we are introducing the first ever Gridcoin Community Classroom!

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@peppernrino/gridcoin-community-classroom-001

All are welcome to join, and if all goes well, we intend to offer 24/7 voice chat with some of our most helpful members. :)

there was a good increase sometime between June - September 2017

see table here

You have to look for a project that runs on ARM. I am currently using an Odroid XU4 and it's crunching Universe@home with all 8 Cores :) I was thinking about a cluster as well, but haven't found the time to do the necessary research yet.

Jimbo88 wrote an interesting article on Steemit about SBCs for Boinc. You can find it here: https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@jimbo88/i-just-wanna-boinc-part-3-alternative-single-board-computers

I collected some links that I thought would be useful for other beginners like me. There are some articles about pis and SBCs in general as well. You might want to check them out as well: https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@thorondor/gridcoin-link-collection

As long as there is no real drawback/incentive, people won't do it.

I suggested to implement some sort of achievement/reward system, and one aspect of that could be virtual rewards/achievements/badges/whatever for keeping the wallets open. I think with such a mechanic we could "seduce" people to do certain things that are really beneficial to GRC, BOINC and both communities.

I really don't see why we shouldn't implement a reward system GRC-side as part of the wallet or to the gridcoinstats CPID profile or whatever works out best.

It certainly is not a high priority feature, but we shouldn't dismiss it either imho.

Thanks for gathering this info. I have reposted it on the ann and here: https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@trumpman/let-s-hit-the-chinese-markets giving you of course credit. I hope you don't mind. If you have a steemit account let me know, any money I make from that post I would be glad to send them to you.

Yes, it's a known issue, affecting many new users (thousands every day now). Apparently, patience is the only solution, for the time being.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@alphacore/steemit-problems-new-user-waiting-list

It wont go to the moon if those huge wallet holders dont release some so i could buy, flyp.me just ran out of GRC

See the pyramid further down the article https://suiteki.medium.com/gridcoin-a-simple-investment-thesis-a4fb3f83daed

GRC is so cheap to buy you can use flyp.me and use 10 ADA to get 1800GRC which is like $10. But for science if your interested in helping but using less electricity a raspberry pi uses 6watts max, so in my country Australia its about $14 a year in electricity in one month i have solved OpenPandemics - COVID-19 54,983 96 0:072:21:51:06 Silver Badge (45 days) for OpenPandemics - COVID-19
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You can pull your stats from boinc projects via rpc. Use this stats to calculate rewards.

Parameter expavg_credit: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/WebRpc

Also some time ago I wrote my pool developing expirience: https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@sau412/how-gridcoin-pool-works-if-you-want-to-write-or-own-yours

BOINC is an open platform, meaning anybody (from universities to businesses to ordinary people) can make a project and distribute work to people running the client - https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Like most other coins with their own unique blockchain, Gridcoin itself is a community effort rather than a specific company or organization. You can check out the main forum or the Gridcoin Slack channels at teamgridcoin.slack.com if you want to get a sense of what's going on day-to-day.

RAC is based on a weekly calculation, the most recent week being given as 100% of BOINC credit, then halving each week further back in time. So if you had been producing 100 credit per week every week, your RAC would look like: week1, 100 + week 2, 50 (half of actual) + week 3, 25 (quarter of actual) + week 4, 12.5 + week 5, 6.25 + ect. Im not aware of a set number of weeks but as you see the older the credit the less it counts towards your RAC. If you keep a stable production rate you RAC should be most of the way there in a month. Source: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Computation_credit

It's true that it's marketed as for scientific research, but there are already a couple of non-scientific projects whitelisted & anyone can create a BOINC project.

We promote the brainstorming of new BOINC projects: https://steemit.com/@cm-steem/brainstorming-boinc-projects-006

We can't market on /r/BOINC due to unjustifiable censorship.

Ultimately, through the BOINC platform you can distribute any kind of computation task, and the Gridcoin network will pay your volunteers - you can create a cloud computing service without contributing more computing power than that needed to run the web server.

>We've got advertising campaigns ongoing on cryptocurrency websites, trying to recruit outside the BOINC Community.

True! In fact, majority of visitors to www.gridcoin.us are brought there through ongoing advertising campaigns (meaning that they clicked our ad on some crypto-website).

More info here: https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@vortac/gridcoin-advertising-4-the-crypto-campaign

First, CPDN is not anymore in the whitelist, so you should switch to another project: (A)

Your dpor weight depends on your balance amount, read more with: !dpor (if you have more GRC it will also increase)

With your current magnitude (I looked it up with !stats) and let's say a low amount of GRC (<100 or so), it will take quite long, but it will work. Gridcoin remembers past BOINC work for like 6 months: just keep your wallet running 24/7

The terms above starting with ! are commands which the fediverse-bot accepts and provides further info on

(see point I. in https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/50958-dpp-and-dpr/ )

(A) https://steemit.com/boinc/@erkan/gridcoin-whitelist-should-boinc-project-climateprediction-be-removed-poll-until-januar-8-2017

You may wish to speed up your syncing process by clicking "Download Blocks " under "advanced". An article was written recently that mentions what happens when you do this: https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@geebell/grc-classroom-002-wallet-tour-part-two-includes-backup-and-encryption

> I still feel like The larger BOINC community still isn’t really in the know on Gridcoin. Are there any side channel ways we can inform and draw in these users?

Any Gridcoin content gets censored on /r/boinc by +/u/Pi31415926 (a mod of 36 other subs..). So reddit is out of bounds. We've been making a decent effort establishing a presence on steemit, otherwise we're talking about posting within project forums and the neutral BOINC messaging forum.

You do not have to build it on your own just use the packages here: https://launchpad.net/~gridcoin/+archive/ubuntu/gridcoin-daily

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gridcoin/gridcoin-daily or manually with the source.list line

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gridcoin/gridcoin-daily/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main

as a side note:

last chance still to vote today:

• Should there be &quot;Abstain/Retract&quot; option available on all future actionable polls?

There was the following post made on Steemit about the relative effectiveness on crunching with various Nvidia GPUs. As of the article's posting a 1070/1080 will get you 14/20 GRC/Day respectively.

Relevant RE: Poloniex issues: https://poloniex.com/press-releases/2018.04.06-Circle-Poloniex-Journey-Six-Weeks-In/

In particular ---> "When the Poloniex-Circle integration began in late February, together we faced a backlog of 159,000 customer issues. Over the past 6 weeks, we have resolved 76,000 of those issues and added 6 new agents to our support team."

Not sure that counts as an excuse. But maybe something of an explanation at least.

OK so on there they have the EC2 service where you can setup a Linux or Windows virtual machine. Install BOINC on that VM and you can use it to crunch additional BOINC Work Units for your projects, which will increase your RAC. Be careful the Free Usage Tier applies to low power machines, but you know, every little helps. https://aws.amazon.com/free/

If you arent familiar with SSH and remoting into machines, it may take you a while to get it working. I think someone published a guide, but dont know where it is.

Another handy tip is to join some NCI (Non-CPU-Intensive) projects, they use tiny amounts of CPU to do their work, so are almost like 'free' Magnitude, WUPROP and Gridcoin Finance are a couple I know. I must be going mad today giving away all my secrets ;)

You are indeed on the latest version. Updates are always announced on the Steemit platform, which is probably the best place to get up to date news on development short of subscribing to the git repo or reading the dev Slack. Here is the link to the Gridcoin Steemit sub:

https://steemit.com/trending/gridcoin

I. get the snapshot! Search in here after this:

• case 2: sync problems?

II. also, there is now the new 3.5.9.5 version: if you have windows, also use it. thx

Which BOINC projects are you crunching ?

The current superblock includes only 68% of the whitelisted BOINC projects, please check if yours is missing or not.

• more info here

there is ongoing problems for >4 weeks :-( see here

• Gridcoin + its troublesome superblocks (in the last 4 weeks)

Best I can do:

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@dutch/hardware-and-project-selection-part-2-gpu-projects

Essentially, there are so many variables. There is no 'best' project for any hardware as the answer would change all the time. Project competition changes, the WUs available for the projects change, etc.

Ah, yeah the columns you want are under 'Processing power (GFLOPS)'. If you want more detail behind FP32 vs FP64, I wrote an article on GPU project selection.

Known issue, more info here

Seems like common response is sit back and wait for the dev's to work it out.

Just sharing two links that help understand the current situation imho:

Will Bitcoin Tear Itself Apart?

The problem BTC is currently facing

There are no limitations. You can use BOINC for any distributed computing you like, even for commercial and for-profit stuff. Even some BOINC research projects are run by individuals, as a hobby (for example, Collatz Conjecture).

More details here:

https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@cm-steem/brainstorming-boinc-projects-006

Yes, in fact I just decided to write a post about it: Why Gridcoin is worth holding on to / Why it’s not too late to invest yet — Steemit

And I completely agree with your points

Doubtful. They claim low volume is "never" the reason they delist, and we had a pretty big volume spike of ~17BTC a couple of weeks ago that would be hard to beat.

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And for the record, anyone giving up can feel free to send me their coins: SLPS8bBpYT1YmTcJcQpavGq8qc5QqmrwpE ;)

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More seriously, delistings are negative press, but we will be fine. Remember that BTC was trading around $0.05USD in 2010 before any crypto exchanges existed, so value doesn't depend on exchange listings. We've been rebuilding everything from the ground up over the last 18-24 months, so this is bad for optics but I don't think the loss of ~0.05 BTC of daily trading volume (like ~$500 at current rates) is really going to change anything fundamental about Gridcoin. Basically nobody was trading it even when it was still on Poloniex.

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The people who believe in it are holding it, there are still places to buy it (SouthXChange, flyp.me, rudex.org), and we are working on marketing mechanisms and outreach for use cases to help build demand now that the coin has somewhat stabilized technologically and we approach the removal of the team requirement. This is a long journey with potential to go far beyond a simple BOINC reward mechanism, and hopefully we'll all be hearing more about that later this year. It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out.

I had been thinking of something like that myself - wondering if a web app that simply bought and sold GRC for a tiny commission could survive if it used something convenient like PayPal. Charge backs seem to be what stops that from happening. But if the site only bought GRC, maybe it could work.

But there needs to be a better way to sell too. The issue is trust. The way I have been thinking of it is, if I want to buy GRC from someone, even just the age of my reddit account should justify some amount of trust. Maybe only a little - say $5 worth. So I should be able to find someone willing to accept the risk that if I buy just $5 of GRC from them using PayPal I won't charge it back. I don't know if charge backs have a time limit, but if there is then I should be able to make that same purchase that often. With patience that might enable someone to collect enough GRC to receive their solo payout before the six month deadline. And without having to upload their driver's license to hackme.com. Plus buying BTC feels unpleasant because of its associations with silk road, etc.

Edit 7/12/18: Another Redditor mentioned https://flyp.me where cryptocurrencies, including GRC, can be exchanged without having to register. I hate sending personal information to an exchange, so the lack of registration removes a big barrier for me. Of course it doesn't solve the main problem of getting GRC to and from dollars.

You can if you mine on the Eobot pool. You mine bitcoin but it's immediately transferred into gridcoin which you can withdraw to your wallet.

Edit: Here is my referral link to eobot https://www.eobot.com/new.aspx?referid=274124. Use it if you want. You make an account and get the pool information then you can run cgminer (or your program of choice) with the appropriate credentials. Just like a normal pool mining bitcoin, except your payout gets transferred to Gridcoin with no fee, just remember to set your mining currency to gridcoin in your profile!

BOINC projects must be approved into the whitelist before being eligible to receive credit.

>I am concerned that if gridcoin stays only within the realm of research projects it won't move beyond a very small hobbiest community

I think you underestimate the size of the BOINC community and their dedication. These people have been mining away without being paid a cent for 20 years. I see the hobbiest part of this as a big plus actually. Anyone who is interested in BOINC who learns they could be getting paid for their work is going to be on board in a second. The biggest difficulty is making those people aware of the project en mass.

This gives GRC a lot more stability and support than other coins I feel.

https://shapeshift.io

It's like a vending machine for crypto. Coin goes in coin goes out. A bit off topic since this requires you to already have BTC, but once you have it, this is the easiest way to buy small/medium amounts of crypto. GridCoin should be on there.

Well I dont want to make any promises on price, just look at the history https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/gridcoin/ Each project has different amounts of Gridcoin team members, as its a % share reward system the less crunchers there are typically means you have a bigger shot at getting a slice, see the number of researchers http://www.gridresearchcorp.com/gridcoin/?result&amp;t=Whitelisted_Project_Leaderboard

Now you are in the pool, so you have an extra layer to consider about how the pool distributes and Im not familiar with that.

Im not going to promise you riches, and if you need money then there might be better coins in the short term. Good luck!

Agreed on that point. What we need is to put together is a "brand board" (there's another probably more popular name slipping my mind at the moment)

Consistent color schemes, logos, fonts, and color palettes will go a long long ways for taking our beloved GRC from niche coin with fanatical following to a mainstream coin with a fanatical following.

https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/ is a great place to start in terms of creating a color palette that is harmonious.

I'd love to help out with Gridcoin branding. I am not qualified enough to do it alone, and I think it hinges on a simplified, recognizable logo as the first step.

In my experience it seems to be much easier to design a brand image around a logo than to create a brand image and then make a logo to fit all your existing design work.

Would this be the sort of thing that would be discussed on the Github or is that only for technical concerns? Where would be the best place to be having a discussion about this?

The best place to manage those project specific parameters is always from the project pages themselves.

That and you can also control them from an app_config.xml and cc_config.xml as explained at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration

If you need more help just ask :)

You can change the resource share of WCG, I have mine set to 10 for example, you just need to find the setting, I dont have time to look now, I think its in 'device profiles' or something and its not called resource share from memory, try googling it. Also setting to 100 or 10 isnt a percentage, 2 prohects both set at 100 will get a 50% share. Are you certain your other project has tasks available for your machine?

Dont give up on WCG because of this.

EDIT: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=10910

I dont run Leiden but this is how it works in most projects: Most projects use a consensus system meaning the project sends the same work to two participants and when they both return the results compares them and if they match grants credit. If the results dont match it will be sent to a third then the two that match will be granted credit. The credit granted is based on the cpu time used and the lower figure is often used. So you can already see here a number of ways that your RAC can be impacted, its not just the processing power of your machine but that of the other consensus machines, also the time taken to reach consensus is variable depending on how quickly the other machines return. Couple this with the fact that the work units from projects can also change in difficulty over time and RAC starts to become a tricky propsition to understand.

This is the wiki page where its explained https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Computation_credit as you see its light on detail so we have to make some guesses on how many weeks RAC is actually calculated over.

The 5 weeks you heard about is something I have been telling people new to BOINC who are wondering why they arent getting bigger rewards after running 24/7 for 4 days; wait 5 weeks then your RAC will be near to its upper levels; as you see that isnt completely true but re-explaining the details of RAC calculation gets time consuming.

So in the first weeks RAC will increase quickly then start to tail off, but factoring all the other variables you are unlikely to see a neat curve.

The only thing to check is that the work you are returning is being validated properly in the consensus, log into your project account page, ususally scrolling down the page you will find a Tasks link where you can see the tasks you returned, if they were valid, waiting or invalid and the varying credit granted.

The short answer is: dont stress about it, its the same for everyone on the project and Gridcoin awards fairly.

If you crunch for Einstein@home and happen to discover a new pulsar, they will send you a Discovery Certificate which looks even better :)

More details here: https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@vortac/gridcoin-gpu-mining-5-looking-at-the-sky

/u/PKJY as /u/petriach mentioned, here is the vote

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/gridcoin-poll-should-distributeddatamining-ddm-be-removed-from-the-whitelist-vote-until-january-29

currently DDM is still in the whitelist

Gridcoin users can vote until January 8 on:

"Will you join the Gridcoin Telegram group?"

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/gridcoin-poll-will-you-join-the-gridcoin-telegram-group-vote-until-january-8

Asteroids@home requires FP64 and GTX 1060 has severely restricted performance there. For that GPU, I recommend PrimeGrid or . Einstein@home has plenty of crunchers, but average RAC is kinda low, your GTX 1060 will surely be able to top it easily (yielding higher magnitude in the end). And their science is certainly very interesting stuff:

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@vortac/gridcoin-gpu-mining-4-searching-for-gravitational-waves

If you are interested in Tesla, I guess you are aiming at double precision computations (FP64)? In that case, HD7970 and R9 280X are vastly cheaper and still packing a decent amount of FP64 power.

For a more detailed analysis, check here:

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@vortac/gridcoin-gpu-mining-3-blast-from-the-past

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@cm-steem/gridcoin-community-hangout-016-19th-nov-2016-9pm-gmt-rsvp-and-suggest-topics#@cm-steem/re-cm-steem-gridcoin-community-hangout-016-19th-nov-2016-9pm-gmt-rsvp-and-suggest-topics-20161119t011010549z

I am not really sure what do you mean. PrimeGrid can be your long-term project by all standards - it's been around for a long time, it's very stable and well-managed. And it's not like that they can run out of primes to find. Chances are you will find one of them too (long-term) and be recognized as its discoverer.

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@vortac/gridcoin-gpu-mining-2-37919898-32768-1-is-prime

Current status: 9 BOINC projects have no SSL and it looks like they will be purged, if people don't "pressure" the BOINC projects/admins.

See info/link to each forum thread at:

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/soon-less-boinc-projects-rewarded-with-gridcoin-due-to-lack-of-ssl

Also, please consider upvoting the post I made to steemit.com here: https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@fuzzyvest/beyond-bitcoin-community-allstar-outreach-gridcoin--help-us-reach-out so I can help boost the payouts that I can give to these gridcoin allstar community members. Planning to use a large portion of any funds I earn to help pay back those who have helped Gridcoin at significant cost to themselves.

> Ɖ5-1000/week in funding: Onarbor takes 30% (similar to Apple) Ɖ1001-Ɖ100,000/week in funding: Onarbor takes 20% Ɖ100,001-Ɖ10,000,000/week in funding: Onarbor takes 10% Ɖ10,000,001 or more/week in funding: Onarbor takes 5%

Wow, those are some pretty hefty fees.

In comparison, kickstarter only has 10% fees, of which 5% is made up by payment processing and vat fees.

https://www.kickstarter.com/help/fees?country=GB

Can you justify a 30% fee? Apple can justify such fees because they deliver a serious content delivery system.

>BOINC requires manual approval of projects, because BOINC agent is not containerized/virtualized, computing code could present malware threat to host.

Not strictly true. The manual approval is an intentional part of the security of BOINC, not a shortcoming. Manual approval means the BOINC program only runs programs that have been checked to be valid and not malicious. The default config uses unprivileged accounts to provide security on all OSs other than windows. Manual approval does slow down project deployment but some groups like WCG are essentially a wrapper that can add and remove projects without going through BOINCs vetting, similar to what you're proposing I think.

BOINC Security

• Do not compare RAC between project. To get 1000 RAC in one project might be of the same difficulty as 100 000 in another.

• Have a look a rac-and-grc-rewards-for-dummies

• Try Amicable on GPU and yoyo or universe on CPU

Made a quick python script to do it: https://hastebin.com/serobikiqo.py

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One thing to note is that if you make a transaction where you have zero change, it will not appear in `listtransactions` (according to what I observed).

The Ubuntu PPA already has armhf builds, and the RPi 2 is armhf. You could install it now if you wish. There are no builds that I know of for the RPi 1 which is armel, unless the PiGrid folk have released one.

There is now in total 2023 GRC in prizes!

Thanks to the sponsors:

• jamezz (1000 GRC)

• ravon (500 GRC)

• iFoggz (250 GRC)

• barton26 (100 GRC)

• Tomáš Brod (73 GRC)

• BullShark (50 GRC)

• nxtgencowboy (50 GRC)

1201 blocks left

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/who-will-be-the-lucky-one-to-stake-gridcoin-s-very-first-stake-v8-kernel-block-1010001

Yesterday Universe did not have WUs anymore :-(

• https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/boinc-project-universe-home-no-tasks-available

but that got fixed

and looking at fedi's report now... they have enough WUs available

No, 3.5.8.9 was released on May 15. I don't have 3.5.8.8 unfortunately.

You can try using MSI repair tool or Windows Installer Cleanup Utility.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/Tweaking-com-Repair-MSI-Windows-Installer.shtml

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/windows_installer_cleanup_utility.html

> Did I miss an update?

very likely, what version you have now?

And when you were using a quite old version, very likely you are on a fork now, since we had a few mandatory versions meanwhile.

Then best would be to apply also a !snapshot/!bootstrap

Find the 3.5.9.9 version here

I am still investigating but it seems:

• with this new superblock the total magnitude for SourceFinder seems to have risen about 400 points to total 5771 magnitude

• for less users (8 instead of 9 users)

see picture here

for the people who didn't follow all the conversations on IRC since yesterday:

• here is a summary : "adding Sourcefinder (with no WUs) to the Gridcoin whitelist and its effects" (on steemit)

command line instructions:

• see e.g. section: "2. Linux users (QT Wallet/daemon):" in this poll

You can check these excellent guides on Steemit:

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@dutch/want-to-earn-usdusdusd-using-the-cpu-of-your-mining-rigs-or-home-computers-gridcoin-grc-mining-revenue-in-usd-up-to-usdusd70-m

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@dutch/gridcoin-grc-mining-profitability-in-usd-nvidia-gpu-mining-up-to-usdusd254-m-per-card

You can find all the latest details on the proposed updated logo here - give me a shout on here if there's any more info you need :)

Why has Gridcoin such a low price ?

• Someone or something is responsible for all coins' price drops. Could it be Erkan ?

> inflationary

comment by main dev Rob:

"... One more comment I wanted to elaborate on: Someone on reddit said GRC is just inflationary, and does not get harder to mine like other coins do. The inflation is only 1.5% and that is much lower than central banks print. The Boinc emissions are capped at 40000 GRC per day (thats fixed). Its true that you dont get LESS coins over time for boincing, but, the more researchers online are sharing in the same amount of coins are making it harder to earn more coins per magnitude as popularity grows. So in a sense, it is harder to 'research' as popularity increases. Regardless the true subsidy has a strong relationship to the exchange price and the electric rate."

read his full comment here

To the people who were yesterday on the fork:

• could you give some short info ? thx

Gridcoin users: we need feedback about yesterday's fork situation from you

me: that msg is too general, could be anything, you need to see if your !debug.log has more info

me: or you could check if a new blockchain fixes it

me: most often it happens when the chain is corrupted

me: if you don't find any useful info in the debug.log

me: do case 2 in here: https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/howto-fix-your-gridcoin-wallet-make-it-run-again-get-in-sync

me: "case 2: sync problems? get yourself on the uptodate block: "do all steps, BUT leave out step4 (deinstall) + step7 (reinstall)""

above was quoted from irc, come and join us there also!

!debug

fediverse: Gridcoin's 'debug.log' file gives you more info when you have problems. It is located in Windows: %appdata%\GridcoinResearch (and for linux: home/your_user/.GridcoinResearch/ )

fediverse: There is also a debug console in the Gridcoin wallet: go to menu Help > Debug window. There you can enter commands like: list explainmagnitude, see all commands there by typing: help

<Erkan_Yilmaz> that msg is too general, could be anything, you need to see if your !debug.log has more info

<Erkan_Yilmaz> or you could check if a new blockchain fixes it

<Erkan_Yilmaz> most often it happens when the chain is corrupted

<Erkan_Yilmaz> if you don't find any useful info in the debug.log

<Erkan_Yilmaz> do case 2 in here: https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/howto-fix-your-gridcoin-wallet-make-it-run-again-get-in-sync

<Erkan_Yilmaz> "case 2: sync problems? get yourself on the uptodate block: "do all steps, BUT leave out step4 (deinstall) + step7 (reinstall)""

(the above is quoted from irc... come join us there)

!debug

<fediverse> Gridcoin's 'debug.log' file gives you more info when you have problems. It is located in Windows: %appdata%\GridcoinResearch (and for linux: home/your_user/.GridcoinResearch/ )

<fediverse> There is also a debug console in the Gridcoin wallet: go to menu Help > Debug window. There you can enter commands like: list explainmagnitude, see all commands there by typing: help

Thanks for the reply. I was reading your steemit post and was wondering if given that I'm using both GPUs for one task it would actually be advantageous to have SLI enabled or do you think it will still cause computational errors and slow performance?

I have three 1080's on this system. I wrote a little bit about it here if you are interested and want to see pictures: https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@xaqfields/i-m-a-boincer-not-a-miner-how-i-built-two-gridcoin-boinc-powerhouses

Does pretty well on PrimeGrid. I just got the 3rd GPU going today. I had been running on two 1080's until now.

This has been fixed with the latest version, 3.5.9.0. My CPU usage for running the wallet used to be between 10% and 30%, now it floats between 0.5% and 3%.

Generally, looking at task runtimes, machine specs, awarded credits and total RAC, it's possible to deduce if the user is running 24/7 or not.

For example, if average runtime per task is 120 secs and awarded credit per task is 1000 and the machine has 2 GPUs, then maximum possible GPU RAC is 1,440,000. Of course, it's possible to do the same math for CPU tasks. In the end, you get pretty good idea if the machine in question is running 24/7 or not.

Regarding overclocking, I also overclock to the max (and beyond), so at worst it's a draw :)

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@vortac/gridcoin-gpu-mining-8-to-the-edge-and-beyond

Hi GridcoinMan, thanks for the feedback. Our database has been updated and now has PoR as the hash. If you have any feature requests or other comments, please let us know on our Trello board https://trello.com/b/7wj8cin2/raistone-io-beta-feedback

5000 Gridcoin is a good starting point and is usually what's recommended now. On SouthXChange and Txbit.io, most trading happens on the BTC/GRC pair. Flyp.me only does Crypto -> Crypto and it doesn't use a market book type system

Technically SouthXChange and Txbit.io have a USD/GRC pair, but it is not used very much so trading on those would be difficult.

I thought Flyp.me dropped Gridcoin over a year and a half ago. I'd keep using them as they don't require an account to do any exchanges from other currencies, but atm, SouthXchange has been my go-to.

flyp.me adds and removes any/all their coins depending on stock on hand and profit margin. If they think the current price of a coin is going to fall they might delist until they can make a profit on it. They operate more as a "shopping mall exchange" than a "stock trading exchange".

I used to use Flyp.me (or rather HolyTransaction which is the same company, but cheaper), however now I use Bittrex which is far cheaper than both (for crypto exchanges).

People should be aware that Flype sold their own tokens so now tokens holders get a share of the profits, which is often why you see people promote it even though it is more expensive than HolyTransaction.

If you go to Poloniex (https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_grc) you can select "All" and "1 day" for zoom/candlesticks on their chart and see at least 6 months - screenshot: https://gyazo.com/4285ec2a37e8629f87898d04eac5e8bb

I don't buy I mine it using my asic miner which is ofc faster than a cpu or gpu. my mining stats: https://www.eobot.com/user/222203 Just converted grid to doge to keep it stable in case it fall back down, and mining more!!!

Ok, First of all, The Community has move away from cryptocurrencytalk.com, It is an obsolete system for dynamic conversation involving the project. Even if you do not use discord we are on Rocketchat, GitHub, slack, an IIRC, that are bridge to Discord. All of that information is on the GRC website. So, I do not understand why you are using a platform that has not seen any activity from the community for years. NickParl post it an invitation to discord so come an see what we are doing there, and you can also ask for an invitation to slack, so you can share your idea with the dev's. Another suggestion is to join our GitHub page and add your ideas there. You state below "It was basically a brainstorming from me and a couple of people that never got much attention," Well if you are in a place where there is no interaction from the active members of the community you need to find them. And to tell you the truth I do not frequent Reddit, a member post-it this thread on Discord that is the way I found out about your post. We are not hard to find you just needed to look a little closer. Once again come to Discord, slack, rocketchat or https://www.gridcoin.us/. Where you will find tons of information.

Im a long time BOINCer so it definately doesnt matter to me, but there are some things you could do. 5-600watts suggests to me you are running overclocked with at least 1 GPU - my system runs at 420W thats with an i7-6700k oc 4.2Ghz and a GTX 780Ti superclocked (at stock). I have a platinum PSU and live in the UK where 240v circuiting allows for higher AC/DC power conversion efficiency. Overclocking is not power efficient, so go back to stock. GPU returns are low as well and for the ~100watts they use thats not efficient. My GPU gets me ~20 Mag my CPU gets ~100 Mag. But by far the biggest variable is GRC price, the last month we are at a lower end in the price and I would expect another price rally soon https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/gridcoin/ So if you believe in the future of the project and that the value will continue to grow as we attract more participants, it doesnt matter what your ROI is today, its what it is when you actually sell your GRC in the future. So for me running OC'd and running GPU is worth it.

oh sorry, i dont know this because i only test it on Windows.

Maybe this helps:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_on_Linux

Much success!

We hear about potential with every crypto project. Ears perk up when I talk about what Gridcoin is today:

A top-10 blockchain project when it comes to online nodes and developer activity. Fellow users have been a major factor, and are sometimes individually thanked in top scientific journals detailing the discovery of pulsars, research for cancer, AIDS, tuberculosis, and countless other research projects.

If you want to talk potential, just realize this has all been done with small market cap coin. There are plans for much more, but right now it's world changing.

If you are following the ArchWiki exactly, you might have the files in the wrong location.

The BOINC installs things to <code>/etc/boinc-client</code> instead of /var/lib/boinc/ on Arch.

What exactly have you done. It's hard to try and fix something when there isn't enough information to tell what could be wrong.