Gridcoin State of the Network Report #18

July 23th, 2018

Welcome to the 18th Gridcoin State of the Network Report. The SotN Report is a fortnightly report organized by @parejan and @jringo. It compiles useful news and statistics for the Gridcoin community.

We have added a graph for "Computational Performance" of the Gridcoin Network in the "BOINC Statistics" section. Take a look!

Community and News

Development

Gridcoin leisure update 3.7.14.0 has been released! There are lot of backend improvements and cleanup in this release.

You can find the full release notes here

Shout-out to the developers who contributed to this release:

@thecharlatan, @ravonn, @jamescowens, @tomasbrod, @rsparlin, @ifoggz, @Peppernrino, Pythonix, and Lenni

News

It has been a busy two weeks!

We are currently in first place in the poll to be listed on SouthXchange. If we maintain our position through Wednesday, we should be added in the coming weeks. You can follow the poll here. Thank you to everyone who has contributed!

World Community Grid has finished their GDPR review. This means that WCG has been rewhitelisted!

More Information.

[email protected] is still GDPR'd. We have everything we need from them (thank you [email protected]!), though we need some more time to get everything in order on our end before we can rewhitelist them. Follow the Gridcoin twitter for news as soon as we rewhitelist the project.

There is a new BOINC release! It is mostly fixes so, while it is recommended to stay up to date, there is no need to rush.

More Information

The 2018 BOINC workshop is taking place this week! The BOINC workshop is a gathering of project managers, administrators, developers, and contributors, and hosts events and discussions on the continuing development and direction of BOINC. Gridcoin community member @cm-steem will be presenting one of their PR's and representing Gridcoin at the workshop. Good luck CM!

More Information

Finally, there is one more Gridcoin BOINC team challenge for July. If you wish to contribute, crunch [email protected] until July 29th.

More Information

Polls

The GUI funding request, proposal, and poll continues until August 1st. Development continues and more features are constantly being added to the design.

More Information:

Update 2

Update 1

Development Forum -- Image Heavy

Main Discussion Forum

Marketing and Outreach

Gridcoin has been featured in a new video by @altcoin-analysis! Watch.

GRCPool, hosted by @bgb, has broken 10,000 active users. This is a great milestone to reach. Welcome to all new participants!

More Information.

@Sau412 has written an article on how to install a php pool. Sau412 is the developer of a new GRC pool, Arikado. You can read the article here. You can visit the pool here.

There have been three more recorded community discussions. Follow along below:

The Fireside Chat 16 - The Gridcoin Roadmap

The Fireside Chat 17 - Side-Staking and Stake-Splitting

Hangout #67

Statistics Update

The stats update is divided into 3 sections: Blockchain Statistics, BOINC Statistics, and Project Statistics.

Every other week we bring you the most up to date statistics regarding the operation of the Gridcoin blockchain and Gridcoin BOINC projects. The information is gathered from Thursday to Wednesday on fortnightly basis and compiled from the getblockstats RPC command in the Gridcoin wallet, BOINCStats, GRCPool, Gridcoin Stats and from individual project websites.





Blockchain Statistics

Blockchain statistics from 08/July to 21/July

The table below contains the blockchain statistics and covers blocks 1,298,289 to 1,311,790.

Blockchain charts

The charts below contain the longer term blockchain trends.







BOINC Statistics

Team and pool statistics from 08/July to 21/July

The table below contains BOINC team and pool statistics of the last 2 weeks.

Team and pool charts

The team and pool charts contain the longer term team and pool trends.







Project Statistics

Project tables from 08/July to 21/July

Project charts from 08/July to 21/July

The table below contains the project statistics of the last 2 weeks.The charts below contain the project contribution breakdown of the last 2 weeks.