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The Fireside Chat 20 - The Gridcoin Superblock

Links From the News

GUI Development Thread

SotN August 6th

@Ravonn's Optimization Post

@CM-Steem's BOINC Workshop Post

Arikado Pool Update

Jim's Post on UTXO Optimization

Summary

This week we dive into the Gridcoin superblock:

The Gridcoin superblock is a unique tool that aggregates and stores data pertaining to participant computation contributions. It is the decentralized version of what might otherwise require centralized management. It replaces the middleman Gridcoin helps push to the side. How does it work? How can it be improved? What else can it do?

Time Topic 0:00 - 18:00 News 18:00 - 30:00 What is a superblock - conceptual 30:00 - 39:00 Superblock Scalability 39:00 - 42:00 Quorum Selection

Dynamic Witness Participation Reading 42:00 - 50:45 General Questions 50:45 - END How do superblocks work? - Deep dive

Next Episode

Join us for the next episode on Thursday, August 16th, at 8:00pm EST, midnight UTC, on the Gridcoin discord.

Topic: Why, What, and How We Crunch

Bring your crunching rig specs, your favorite projects, and the reasons why you crunch BOINC and let's share!

See you soon!

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What is Gridcoin?

Gridcoin is an open-source blockchain that mints and distributes cryptocurrency in relation to the processing power a network participant directs toward data-driven analysis and scientific discovery. Currently, the Gridcoin blockchain is secured through a proof-of-stake protocol and monitors processing contributions to 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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GridcoinNetwork

Discord: https://discord.me/page/gridcoin

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

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

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

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