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The Gridcoin Fireside #4

BOINC

The Gridcoin Fireside is a participatory podcast intended to introduce and explore DLT, cryptocurrency, and crypto-economics from a perspective of the sciences.

The audience is welcome to participate through voice-comms or via the discord text chat.

Join us every Thursday at 8:00pm EDT on the Gridcoin discord server.

Catch up on past episodes here.

Recorded on May 2nd

Listen to or download the episode here.

This week we discuss the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) - past, present, and future.

Relevant Links:

Roboticmind's work on BOINC contribution history: https://roboticmind.github.io/BOINC-Statistics-Visualization/

Time Subject 0:00 Intro, housekeeping, and Gridcoin news 11:00 Introduction to BOINC 22:00 BOINC cost savings 35:00 Value proposition of Gridcoin 41:00 Why people BOINC 54:00 Future of BOINC 1:18:00 Baskets and eggs

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Bounty 1: Image

We need an image that we can use as a header for posting.

Bounty: 1000 GRC

Themes(you don't need to hit all of them): Data, science, distributed computing, fire,... sides?

Submission: Submit your image by pming jringo on discord

Winner: Chosen by jringo

Bounty 2: Intro/Outro

We need some music to play as an intro and outro to the podcast!

Bounty: 5000 GRC

Requirements: 10-30 seconds each; no vocals

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What is Gridcoin?

Gridcoin is a dual-incentive open-source blockchain. Incentive one, stake rewards, rewards participants for securing the ledger through a proof-of-stake protocol. Incentive two, research rewards, rewards participants for contributing to approved projects hosted on the distributed computing infrastructure, BOINC.

BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, hosts major institutional computing projects such as IBM’s World Community Grid, SETI, and data from the Large Hadron Collider, alongside projects developed by students, enthusiasts, mathematicians, researchers, and citizen scientists.

Want to Learn More?

Website: https://gridcoin.us

Discord: https://discord.gg/jf9XX4a

Steemit: https://steemit.com/created/gridcoin

White Paper: https://gridcoin.us/assets/img/whitepaper.pdf

-- Github --

Codebase: https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-Research

Community: https://github.com/gridcoin-community