Gridcoin Makes Remarkable Recovery...

 

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Gridcoin Science debut

The decade of aimless hashing is ending.
Meet the research blockchain. Gridcoin Science

Quote from dutch

"Einstein is great because it is one of the projects with obvious scientific merit. The staff are great, genuinely care, and are very active with the community. Any key discoveries made get the cruncher published in the Journal of Astrophysics, as well as a letter and framed certificate from the Einstein Institute." ~ dutch - 2017

Einstein@home

Quote from BOINCer

"I contribute to World Community Grid as a wide range of beneficial projects that benefit the human condition are available." ~ BOINCer _ 2017

World Community Grid

Quote from Roboticmind on a project

"I run theSkyNet Pogs because I want the field of astronomy to keep moving forwards. I want to be a part of that progress" ~ Roboticmind - 2017

Skynet POGS

currently whitelisted boinc projects

List of White Listed BOINC Projects on Gridcoin Stats (DrugDiscovery and Sourcefinder may be de-listed soon)

Here

Special Report, Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program, then Peter Davenpo...

Gridcoin Whitelist Process Proposal - Update V2 (16 Dec 17)

 

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Gridcoin Hangout on YouTube

Gridcoin Hangout

Gridcoin Hangout Live

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On Twitch TV.

Martin Kemp, on Leonardo da Vinci's Epic $450 Million, Salvator Mundi

Gridcoin Community Hangout #044 raw and uncut.

World Community Grid Help Fight Diseases

Join World Community Grid

Volunteer Computing Power

 

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RMR: Special Guest - Vin Armani - The Vin Armani Show (11/17/2017)

Walter Bosley on The Empire of the Wheel - Part 1 of 2 - November 11, 2017

A long overdue list of all the stores currently supporting $GRC as a payment option!

Here

List of Gridcoin Addnodes

The List of Gridcoin Addnodes has been updated. Click here.

Summary of Discussion - Gridcoin Proposals & Preliminary Polls

Overall the discussion regarding the Gridcoin Research 4.0 proposal post (a highly recommended, technical read) on Saturday the 4th of November 2017 was a huge success!

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BOINCOS v2.0 Beta Release

BOINC OS has made it to the Beta stage and is ready to be opened to the public. The project is beginning to gain traction and I hope to see it be greeted by more.

BOINCOS Article

Gridcoin: Getting paid to advance science and saving energy in the process

Gridcoin Community Classroom #001

Classroom 001

Gridcoin Hangouts

Gridcoin Hangouts on YouTube

Gridcoin Hangouts 

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@barton26/new-gridcoin-leisure-update-3-6-3-0-released

ODROID XU4 Gridcoin mining farm: The "Bumblebee Hive"

Gridcoin version 3.6.1.0

Gridcoin version 3.6.1.0 is available!

Full article Here

Gridcoin Mandatory v3.6.0.2 - V8 Staking Time Estimate Update

To recap, the V8 stake engine is set to come live in just over 2000 blocks, and will remove mag based stake weight, thus preventing researchers from securing the network. This job will now be solely on the shoulders of investors in a classic POS system. Such a change was required to patch several security vulnerabilities uncovered by the dev team. An unfortunate side effect is that it will now be much harder for miners to get paid for their research by staking a block if they are 'mining' solo (instead of in a pool). The question over the last few weeks has been how much harder.

So, How Much Harder is 'Harder'?

In the last article I used the network stake weight to estimate how often anyone will stake a block on the Gridcoin blockchain, based on their balance. When comparing the numbers with @denravonska's (Ravon's) empirical data, we found a significant gap between the two predictions. Ravon contacted the Blackcoin dev team asking about the network weight, as Gridcoin is based on the Blackcoin architecture, who replied with:

There is no way to observe directly how many coins are staking. The network weight is just an estimator for the unobservable total staking funds. It is calculated from the difficulty. The network weight you see in the GUI is a function of a running average of the difficulty.

What this means is that the number that we have been assuming to be the total number of coins staking, is in fact not that at all. The number of coins staking will be lower. The implications are twofold:

• We have been vastly overestimating how much of the total GRC in existence is actually staking and securing the network.
• My estimates provided were overestimates of the time/balance required to stake. We have no way of knowing by how much.

That being said, the upper bound figures provided still hold true. If we assume all coins are actively staking (390 million GRC), then the required balances to stake at frequency X is:

• 432,000 GRC (USD$17280 of GRC) to stake daily
• 63,000 GRC (USD$2520 of GRC) to stake weekly
• 15,000 GRC (USD$600 of GRC) to stake monthly
• 2400 GRC (USD$96 of GRC) to stake every 6 months

The fact that we have been overestimating the number of coins staking is another good reason to only allow investors to earn interest when their wallets are online. Interest is paid in return for securing the network, and clearly most investors are not securing the network - instead only popping online for a few blocks every blue moon to collect their owed GRC. The side effect of this is that such a change will bring the reality of staking times far closer to the above estimate.

Some Final Notes Before V8

• Make sure that you upgrade your client to the latest version, which is currently v3.6.0.2. If you do not, you will end up on the abandoned fork of the Gridcoin blockchain when it reaches block 1010001.
• V8 will drop your stake rate if you are primarily a miner. If you are not staking often enough for your liking, I recommend joining a pool. There is currently only one pool, which charges zero fees aside from a withdrawal fee.
• While I am critical of the changes affecting miners in V8, I want to reiterate that the change as a whole is good and necessary for the Gridcoin network. There are already ideas being fielded to benefit the miners, such as integrating research payment into superblocks.

Remember that this is the environment all successful crypto investors passed through. If you get in early on a coin, you deal with hiccups such as this, and if you get lucky it pays off. For all intents and purposes, it is still very early days for Gridcoin. Lets see where this journey takes us, and I'm looking forward to the many more valuable contributions we make to science.

Full article here.

Exchanges Halt Transactions for GRC

Mandatory Releases

As many of you that run Gridcoin wallets have noticed, or hopefully will see now, there was a mandatory update rolled out on the 22nd of August. Since then there has been another Mandatory Update Released. We are now at the latest mandatory release of 3.6.0.2.
You can find a Release note and the source code on the Gridcoin GitHub Repository.

Exchanges halting during this process

An update for exchanges requires at least two weeks’ notice. On August 21st, the day before the new Mandatory was released, all exchanges and services were notified of this. During the process of updating the wallets and rolling out the new mandatory version, most exchanges have halted their wallets.
We’ve had confirmations of the following exchanges or services:

• Cointopay
• C-CEX
• Coinpayments
• Cryptogames
• OpenLedger
• HolyTransactions

Notified exchanges or services without confirmation responses

• Bittrex
• Poloniex
• Coinomi
• Eobot

Block 1010001 – On 1st of September

At block 1010001 the Gridcoin wallets will require the latest mandatory version. On this date, all exchanges and services can guarantee that there is no old client on the network and start their transaction wallets once again.
If the production of blocks continues at the current rate of 900 blocks per day, we can expect this to occur on 1st of September around 2-4 PM UTC.

Full article here

New Release version 3.6.0.1 Gridcoin Research Wallet Mandatory

New Release version 3.6.0.1 Gridcoin Research Wallet Mandatory

Keep in mind:  

• before you upgrade, make a !backup

For Windows users specifically:                      

• the new Windows installer 3.6.0.1 is soon downloadable from here,
• or you can update from within your Windows client

All other users (Linux, Mac, ...):

• can find the source code here, OR: 
• upgrade from their used location (e.g. package managers, once the  responsible person for those package managers made the new version  available)

Changes in this version are (more detailed here, changelog, commit and forum):

added:

• V8 stake engine: set to start producing V8 blocks at block 1010000. This fixes several security issues, see wiki for details.
• Blocks can now carry identification from the "org" argument/configuration option
• Add "reorganize" RPC command

changed:

• Improved security on NeuralNet votes, #496
• Berkeley DB V6+ compatibility, #451
• Improved poll loading speeds, #497
• Versions now contain the git hash, #500
• Improved RPC help. It now supports "execute help" and "list help", #512
• Voting is now integrated in wallet as a tab and cleaned up, #416
• Improve low-peer mining ability on testnet
• Improve poll error message when low on funds, #415
• Code cleanup

Removed

• Remove RPC commands:  
  • DAO, #486
  • volatilecode, testnet0917, testboinckey, chainrsa, testcpidv2, testcpid, windows error report disabling, list betatest, fDebug4/fDebug5 flags

Fixed

• Fixed security issue where superblocks could be injected, #526
• Fix poll sorting bug, #512

Please tell us when you experience problems!

• e.g. in our bugtracker (forum, reddit, IRC, slack, telegram (can be accessed via IRC also), twitter, ...)

Gridcoin US site update

Gridcoin US

New Gridcoin Intro

GRCStarter Proposal

GRCStarter@Home Proposal

 

This proposal describes a project called GRCStarter@home. GRCStarter's operation is similar to that of WCG -- it is a single project that works on many projects. The difference between GRCStarter and WCG is in their priorities and how they distribute magnitude to their crunchers.

Full Proposal here. 

 

Gridcoin Research v3.5.9.9 / MSI=43.3 - Leisure Wallet Upgrade

 

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@peppernrino/gridcoin-research-v3-5-9-9-msi-43-3-leisure-wallet-upgrade

Twitch Event

ZenMercenary - Friday at 6pm Central time

Twitch Event  (Click to go to Twitch or copy link)

EVENT: "Drinkin' Whiskey and Building ThreadRipper"

What I'm Doing: Upgrading my 1800x BOINC rig to ThreadRipper 1950x.
Specs of new build: TR 1950X, AORUS Gaming 7 Motherboard, 32GB RAM, Three GEFORCE GTX 1080 GPUs, Corsair H115i AIO Cooler.

Who am I?: Nobody, honestly. I'm just a guy willing to share his ThreadRipper build live on Twitch. I am not an expert, so don't expect this build to be greatly methodical or to feel like a YouTube review video. I'm gonna drink some whiskey, build this computer, and have a good time chatting with whoever wants to watch
.
Other Details: I'll be streaming 1080p @ 60FPS, there will be lots of lighting so you will be able to see everything in the case in great detail. I've got a Blue Yeti microphone so audio should be good as well. If the build goes smoothly, I'd be happy to stick around and run some benchmarks. If you can't make it, I believe Twitch saves the streams so you'll be able to tune in another time.

rain large GRC amount when Gridcoin stakes its 1-million-block

 

Steven Callahan, Adrift 76 Days Alone at Sea, a Story of Survival 04-09-...

Gridcoin Hangout #30

#027 - 01/04/2017

E206 2017-05-12 Beyond Bitcoin - PeerPlays, Zappl, Gridcoin, Virgrow and...

Gridcoin Interview #004 - YOYO@Home

Gridcoin Interview #005 - POGS

Gridcoin Skyrockets

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@cm-steem/14th-april-2017-gridcoin-30-spike-in-24hr

Gridcoin Whitelisted Projects

Gridcoin's Whitelist & Whitelist Justification: Here

#024 - 18/02/2017

Use BOINC on multiple devices

A guide for using BOINC on multiple devices. Guide.

#023 - 04/02/2017

Gridcoin and the 8th BOINC Pentathlon (May 5-19)

We're participating in the 8th BOINC Pentathlon by SETI.Germany (starts on May 5, and goes over 2 weeks).

• See here for all the signed up BOINC teams.
• FAQ
• Here's a summary of last year's Pentathlon (we were #7 from 33 teams)

Each team can now provide desired BOINC projects for the disciplines (see here) until April 27:

• we can suggest 3 BOINC projects (see I.) and one World Community Grid subproject (see II.).

The question now is, should we do a

• a1) poll on I. and II. or 
• a2) select those projects where we have massive hardware power or 
• a3) the most Gridcoin users or
• a4) some other criteria ?

Please suggest your choice below in the comments or in the forum here.
If a poll is desired (a1)), I think we can do a 10-day poll duration? (we could also do a poll in parallel over a1-a4)

I.
a.) GPU support

• Amicable Numbers
• Asteroids@home
• Collatz Conjecture
• Einstein@Home
• GPUGRID
• MilkyWay@home
• Moo! Wrapper
• SETI@Home

b.) CPU-only

• Cosmology@Home
• LHC@Home
• NFS@Home
• NumberFields@home
• SRBase
• VGTU@Home
• YAFU
• yoyo@home

c.) "excluded" by Erkan:

• Enigma@Home (this poll and not having any WUs since March 23 indicates it will be removed from whitelist, and likely from the Pentathlon)
• not whitelisted: DENIS@Home, Stop@home

II. WCG projects:

• FightAIDS@Home - Phase 1
• Mapping Cancer Markers
• OpenZika

World Community Grid

World Community Grid is a project that uses Distributed Volunteer Computing to help fight cancer, find a cure for the Zika Virus, mapping cancer markers and other projects.

Read about World Community Grid Here. You can join by clicking here.

New Game - Grow your Hive

http://growhive.io/

Bad news at DrugDiscovery@home

https://boinc.drugdiscoveryathome.com/forum_thread.php?id=2091

Gridcoin Research 3.5.8.8/MSI=42.2
Mandatory Upgrade

- Resolve syncing problem with beacon business logic.
- Mandatory upgrade block : 860500

E200 2017-03-24 Beyond Bitcoin - PeerPlays, Gridcoin, Virgrow

Big List Of Best Backlinks For Your Website

Free-Web-submission Blog

Big List Of Best Backlinks For Your Website Read the Article

Choosing BOINC Projects

BOINC is used by many volunteer computing projects. Some are based at universities and research labs, others are run by companies and individuals. You can participate in any number of these projects.

The following projects are known to us at BOINC, and we believe that their descriptions are accurate.

Click here to see the projects list.

See A list of scientific publications of BOINC projects. 

 

Gridcoin Research 3.5.8.7/MSI=42.1 Mandatory Upgrade

From Cryptocointalk forum

Gridcoin Research 3.5.8.7/MSI=42.1 Mandatory Upgrade - 

Added checkpoint at 850000 - Enforce beacon age; beacons over 6 months are discarded network wide. Beacons may be re-sent without restarting if they are expired. - 

To sync: From the command line on windows: grcrestarter downloadblocks. 

NOTE ** We still need 51% to upgrade to stay in sync. After block 855000, clients enforce the mandatory upgrade.

Trying a Manual Traffic Exchange

I don't use traffic exchanges much any more but I'm trying one now called BitsSurfer. Like most traffic systems it has page viewing from 15 - 45 seconds, you click matching icons (capcha's) and move on, earning you points. This particular one also earns you small amounts of Bitcoins (BTC).

How It Works

Bitssurfer.com is manual traffic exchange where members earn credits by viewing others website and in return they can advertise their websites for free. Also they earn upto 10 satoshi for each website surf. Not only that member will also earn upto 50% Referral earning even if their referrals click, upgrade or purchase credits. 

Ad packs can also be purchased using Bitcoin, earning you more per view.

I won't get rich off this but it's a way to get a little traffic and invest some BTC. We'll see what the future brings.

03-15-2017 Dr Lynne Kitei, Steve Lance & Frances Barwood, Phoenix Ligh...

Feb 11th 2017 - Travis Desell (Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of North Dakota) was interviewed by the Gridcoin community regarding his BOINC project "Citizen Science Grid"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HFjDhX3riw

If you're looking to invest in Cryptocurrency, a good starting point is Eobot . Purchase some BTC, invest in 24 hour mining, make a little profit, rinse and repeat. Many types of coins are supported.

It's been working good so far and I plan to invest larger amounts next week.

Cryptocointalk -

" Stats for this newsletter: 1432 users received the message, 900 are currently inactive. We may see 900 more users crunching WCG again - the #1 world position is in sight! "

A few weeks ago, I was researching BOINC (Open-software for volunteer computing) when I came across Gridcoin. I have since joined in Gridcoin mining pool and the points earned using BOINC go toward staking (Investing) in GRC.

How to earn Gridcoin for BOINC computation

Approximately 48,000 Gridcoins are generated each day through the DPOR reward mechanism.

Solo-crunching or Pool Crunching

From the site

" Gridcoin (Ticker: GRC) is a decentralized, open source math-based digital asset (cryptocurrency). It performs transactions peer-to-peer cryptographically without the need for a central issuing authority.
    Gridcoin was the first block chain protocol that delivered a working algorithm that equally rewards and cryptographically proves solving BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) hosted work, which can be virtually any kind of distributed computing process (GPU/CPU/Sensor/Etc).
    BOINC is an open-source volunteer oriented computing grid that combines the processing power of all individual users for the purposes of scientific research. It's free, and harnesses the unused clock cycles from processors and graphics cards to attempt to cure cancer/aids/ebola/malaria, map the milkyway, crack enigma codes, etc..
    Gridcoin rewards BOINC computation using the Distributed Proof of Research (DPOR) reward mechanism, which is a combination of Proof of BOINC (POB) and Proof of Stake (POSv2).
    Proof of Work (POW) consensus mechanisms are not utilised by the Gridcoin network, making the Gridcoin cryptocurrency network far more energy efficient than any existing POW cryptocurrencies. "