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So there's currently a poll that would remove Primegrid and Einstein@home from the whitelist. It's about how projects handle stats exporting. The poll is calling to exclude all projects whose stats files cannot be downloaded fully openly in unlimited amount.

I say openness is good, DDOSing the servers of BOINC projects is not. See the post by Primegrid's admin in the poll's thread: https://cryptocurrencytalk.com/topic/51660-requesting-peer-review-boinc-project-whitelist-guidelineschecklist/?do=findComment&comment=483910

Excluding these well-established projects just because the volunteers at the project make some small changes to prevent DDOS on the servers is very, very short-sighted. (Note: the stats files are still available, just in a different way)

This poll is also very harmful for the stability of gridcoin, because it sends the message to BOINC projects that "if you do not do everything exactly as we want, we'll exclude you!". We should find solutions together (as has already been done in this case), and try to work with all different kinds of projects. Just building a list of requirements and looking at them like robots will just kill Gridcoin. We do need rules and guidelines, but the ability to DDOS a volunteer boinc project is not something I'm rooting for. This whole ordeal sends a horrible and malicious message from Gridcoin to the whole BOINC community, and this is the last thing we need.

Please vote "No" on the poll and show the BOINC community that we are not an arrogant folk as this whole poll paints us to be. Even if there should be some rule about stats, I mainly see that this poll is an attack on these specific volunteer projects, who are doing their work for the project, not for the whims of gridcoin. The main reason for this feeling of attack is this comment by the poll starter: "I'd rather see a dozen small BOINC projects replace BOINC projects which chose to cut us off with minimal notice despite being one of their largest sources of compute power. ". I think the response by the admin shows that there was no animosity against gridcoin in this case, just a problem that needed solving. If anything, I think we'd need to be the ones to change our behaviour and system to accomodate the scientific projects, not the other way around. We are not entitled to be served like lords by boinc volunteers, just because we produce computing power for them.

Sorry for the long rant, but this is definately not the way forward.

Expanding on recently posted "Gridcoin 2019 Budget", I created a New Marketing Initiative for Gridcoin which I believe could help us regain some of the value we lost during 2018. Counting on your support.

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@vortac/new-marketing-initiative-for-gridcoin

I just synced my Gridcoin Wallet, and it looks like I started getting (much) more than 5GRC each payout in September.

https://i.imgur.com/EykuDKD.png

I only have one computer running BOINC, and I don't enable any GPU Task, it's impossible that my computer can generate that much GRC, my estimated GRC per day is 0.4GRC.

So like many of you, I stumbled into this community and ended up just loving what I found, however, I got here in a very odd way.

As many of you know I worked for a large tech company (who will remain nameless) for a few years; along with a badge and my paycheck they also gave us a decently powerful laptop for running virtual machines and doing work needed while remote.

After a year of pretending I was hearing things, I gave in and decided to look into the significant amount of noise coming from the laptop's fan when the computer would go to sleep (and then turn off when I would wake it up). Eventually, I started digging into the processes and program on the machine and found this thing called "Boinc" running a project called World Community Grid (After turning this off I found a small decrease in my electric bill) and it solved the problem. Woo!

After a few months, while I was getting more into Cryptos (around early-2016) I had noted one major thing. I studied crypto's in 2013, I knew Bitcoin... but I hated it. So much wasted power, cool idea, but so unresponsible. My friend said if I wanted to use my CPU for good I should try this new thing he found which was Folding@Home, which I did for a number of months helping the Reddit team get points.... still I wanted something different.

After a bit of searching, I found a crypto that rewarded for stuff similar to Folding@Home... using that thing that was already installed on my work computer. So, I turned it back on, and just put in my account number as opposed to the company generic one that was set up when they handed me the computer. This happened pretty quick in large part because of the GRCPool videos that walked me through what I needed to do.

So that's how I got here, that was around Feb 2017(??) I cannot find any trace of me commenting on old /r/gridcoin posts so I can't get a good date.

So yes, the short is that I found GRC because of Boic floatware that my employer pushed on me. As payback I would leave my computer running at the office for days.... if they want to add to my electric bill for 15 months without telling me, then I feel no remore.

However, the story of how I got so involved in this community is much more straightforward. I needed a hobby and something I could be passionate about. I always loved science and wanted to give to it any way I could. Most of my friends are academics and one time I even paid for my friend's flight to a convention so he could show off his thesis because I wanted people to see his work! I can't code well, but I would stay on Reddit and try to answer little questions to help, I tried to search for every method I could to make an impact and get this community to grow and help the rest of the sciences.

One fine day, I saw a Reddit post by a Mr. 'Jringo_' asking "Are there any Economists that want to help with GridCoin". I got my degree in it, and thought I might be able to help... and was then presented with "Ok guys, I found an economist" to the team on Slack. I ran with it and help made graphs, edit a couple lines on a paper or two and eventually attended the FireSide Chat. I used that as a chance to meet a few of the devs and learn more about the people that keep GridCoin working. It was awesome to meet everyone.

After meeting a few of them I decided to attend a podcast, the Fire Side Chat (which happens every Thursday at 8pm EST on discord [this is totally not a plug]) I would find out the topic, research it and enjoy the discussion. After I finally got used to chiming in occasionally, I started talking more and more.

After getting to the point where I was talking for a large portion of an episode, I was invited to be a co-host by jringo_ and have loved every minute of it. I want to help grow the community and help GridCoin. Given my skill set I didn't really think I could help much, but I did even if its a simple silly way.

If I have learned nothing else about GridCoin, it is that this is a group of people who want to improve the world through science, some can help through coding and others can't, but that doesn't mean you have nothing to offer... it just means you have to look for ways to help. It won't be obvious, but I believe there are ways for everyone here to help grow this thing.

Edit: By the way, my current amazing rig is a single Rasberry Pi 3b. I net almost exactly 1 GRC a day. I also love the idea of donating my bandwidth so I have a second 3b Pi dedicated for my wallet and given as much connectivity as I can manage.

On BOINCStats, I tried adding WCG to the Gridcoin team but every time I try, it says "no response from project." On WCG's website and settings I have the same username as every other project, same email and password, and the Gridcoin team is added there. On BOINCStats its says "P4L" and when I try to change it to Gridcoin (International), it says "no response from project."

All other projects have attached and setup fine as per the guides. WCG is the only one that has given me trouble.

As such, when I "cpids" in the Gridcoin app, it tells me: "Project Settings Valid for Gridcoin": false

My main concern is that my computing for WCG won't be counted towards my ability to earn Gridcoin.

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On another side note, I have been staking almost 24/7 for the past 2 weeks now and my "time to next reward" is 100+ days. I've seen for others on this forum and other places that they are usually able to stake in a week or two. Over 3 months seems like a bit much? I have 5k Gridcoins deposited and a mag of 6 (this is mag is what im assuming is the reason why im at 100+ days?). An explanation of this would also be very helpful.

I am definitely a new BOINC user and very new to Gridcoin. Thank you for your time!

What are the requirements to stake a superblock?

Both in terms of gridcoin and hardware resource.

Do I NEED an email from gridcoin to get started receiving payments? I tried going to the forum linked on the side bar, but the forum was down.

Task: Make a publicly visible post on your social media account describing why you support gridcoin with a link to http://gridcoin.us .

When complete, reply to this thread with your receiving address and a link to the post. If you do not feel comfortable posting the link here, just send it to me in a private message but please still post the receiving address here so other folks know i'm paying out.

Edit: One payout per person please. :)

Thanks!

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Hey hey hey, it's Kennybll. So about 3 months ago I was search for Christian blockchains. I was hoping to find something awesome. Which I did. Biblepay was my first exposure to BOINC. As I was reading all of the guides I learned that BOINC is actually really cool. See I've always wanted to do good in the world. I wanted to do something big, but also be private, as in not doing something out in public. I found some projects like WCG which I signed up for and started crunching but then stopped soon after. I then go into it a couple of weeks ago again.

A couple of weeks ago I found out about ByteBall through a friend I had worked with. I saw they used WCG, and I was like wow I have an account for that. So I setup boinc again on one of my vps' and hooked it up to WCG. I then started getting rewards for crunching. I was so excited. I setup my Biblepay wallet and set it up for that too. But then while doing research found Gridcoin. I was interested, so I joined the Discord. I then joined a fireside chat. When I entered the voice channel people were talking about raspberry pi's, os', and running Gridcoin. Immediately I was impressed by the group there. Everyone knew each other, and were extremely nice and inviting to me.

Then about ten days ago I changed from Biblepay to Gridcoin. So I've been running my RAC up, but I didn't realize I need to stake a block first to earn anything. So the other day I bought around 1444 GRC to get my first stake in. And I don't regret paying higher prices too. I believe this project will be a big part of the future, more that it has been.

Where to go from here? Well since I'm a developer I plan on squeezing my way into helping on development. xD No, but I would like to help with different development things. I hope to build on my gridcoin story, and next year have a even bigger, and better experience.

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My rigs, if you can call them that :P

I have an android phone: BLU R2 running BOINC

I have an android tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 running BOINC

I have a vps with Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz [Family 6 Model 62 Stepping 4]: running BOINC

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Thanks for reading my gridcoin story,

Kennybll

I added faucet to my pool. You can claim 0.1 GRC every day if your magnitute is greater than 1 (one) on the pool.

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Faucet link (visible for registered users): https://grc.arikado.ru/#faucet

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Also there is more updates implemended (mobile version and graphs), you can read my steemit article here.

the year was 2018, february - a long, long while ago.
i was wasting my time on reddit, as you do, when i came across one of these comments decrying how bitcoin was such a waste of energy. not an unusual occurrence of course, but this time it was accompanied by a response talking about a crypto that's mined by donating processing power to science. i was intrigued by the concept and followed the rabbit hole all the way to its discord server.
well actually, i initially just followed it to this subreddit, where after crunching in the pool for a while, i bought my first "few" gridcoin from /u/NeuralMiner, right in the middle of the forkpocalypse (that was a fun time..). he told me about the fireside chat, prompting me to create a discord account and check it out and, well, i've been sticking around the discord server ever since.
it's been a nice little distraction from the crap in my personal life and it's motivated me to kind of ^{sortofnotreally} give learning c++ another go (still in the introduction chapters), as well as getting all my old machines up and running again crunching for science 24/7 (full stats). it's a neat way to help advance our state of technology a little, by helping scientists run their experiments a bit faster and getting a little something in return.
anyway, its not the most exciting story but it is how i got here and i plan to stick around.

cheers people, happy gridcoin day!

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Hi everyone, I've been using Gridcoin for about 2.5 years and been crunching for 3! Here is how I got to where I am now:

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My story starts as a kid still in secondary school. At the time I was obsessed with computers, so much so that I decided to start teaching myself computer science at the age of 12 so that I could understand how the monster that my computer was worked. Also during this time was the slowly rising price of Bitcoin, I think I still have a screenshot on my phone of when it was around $500!

I never knew of any alternate currencies at that time other than Ethereum until I was browsing the E@H forums and checking out my sick RAC when I found a currency called Gridcoin mentioned in one of the posts. Upon searching, I landed on the o' great and powerful www.gridcoin.us where I downloaded the wallet and took it for a spin.

This was the very first time that I ever laid hands on a cryptocurrency (I was about 14-15 years old at the time) and it was quite a phenomenal journey. Unlike many others, I followed the instructions on the site and everything worked extremely well without issue and I was well on my way to utilising the blockchain for its full potential.

I started out with a measly 20 GRC. This was back in the day when you could reasonably stake with that much. Sooner I started working my way up and found myself harbouring a small bank account of my own digital assets. By using Gridcoin I came to understand the fundamentals of a blockchain from an extremely early age, and this has enabled me to create presentations to teach others how cryptocurrency really works. I am extremely honored to have gained this knowledge from a project I so loved.

I used to (and still to this day) crunch half on the pool and half solo. My first project was E@H which was soon followed by rosetta@home which I ran on my mac using my school's electricity, then choosing GPUgrid while on the older GRC pool (http://gridcoin.co/) before exploring many other projects. You can still see how well I did on E@H back in the day just by looking at the proportions of credit:

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https://i.redd.it/cefencxnh8r11.png

Now, as you can see, I solo crunch Primegrid (with a success in finding a 388k digit prime!) along with Rosetta occasionally, SRBase (which is a horror when it comes to getting tasks before everyone else does) and DHEP which I am currently in a craze about.

On my other machines crunching for the pool, I put all earnings into the GRC Wallet Bot that I own in order to give out as starter coins or to top-up the faucet. I crunch WCG (for those amazing GBYTE rewards) along with Milkyway@home and recently GPUgrid which nicely keep my faucet topped-up.

Gridcoin and BOINC have done so much for me, even gone as far as to provide me with something to put on my resume, and I hope I can give as much back to the community too. You guys have been amazing and I hope to work with you a lot more in the future. <3