Gridcoin State of the Network Report #14

May 12th, 2018

Welcome to the 14th Gridcoin State of the Network Report. The SotN Report is a fortnightly report organized by @parejan and @jringo. It compiles useful news and statistics that the community can use as they see fit.

Following a request by @zigzagoonballoon, we have added the min and max time for superblock creation. If you have any other requests please let us know and we will be sure to look into them!

Community and News

Development

Thanks to @barton26 for another developer update. Link

News

@dudebaker has updated their rainmeter.

@grider has added SSL to their faucet.

@zipity will be hosting taverne de gridcoin, a meeting for the french speaking Gridcoin community.

Polls

The CBR poll continues until June 6th. Don’t forget to vote! Follow the results in the client or on Gridcoinstats. Link.

Projects

Team Gridcoin has moved to 13th place for Credits in World Community Grid, check out the Project Statistics section below!

Tn-Grid was whitelisted again on Sun 6-May after being greylisted for one week.

POGS and sourcefinder are closing down and have been taken off the whitelist for the last time on 8-May.

Collatz conjecture has added linux applications to their project.

Marketing and Outreach

@mdosev has written an article on [email protected]

@ulqu3 has written an introduction to BOINC.

@jedigeiss put together a post on their project building a pi crunching rig in an old floppy disk container.

Art and Design

@dr-frankenstein has started a new initiative making posters free to be used by the community.

Data, Trends, and Resources

@nexusprime presented a hardware survey of whitelisted projects.

@parejan continues their calculated RAC project with calculated RAC for CPUs on [email protected] and for CPUs on [email protected]

@gregan has compiled stats on team Gridcoin. It looks like we’ve tripled our total RAC in a year!

Tutorials and Guides

Nothing for this report.

Cruncher Stats

@steemmillionaire earned a gold badge for WCG’s microbiome project. They also gave us two updates on their crunching. Update 1 | Update 2

@agentjuno gave us an update on “the beast”.

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 26/Apr to 09/May

The table below contains the blockchain statistics of the last 2 weeks and covers blocks 1230548 to 1242144.

Blockchain charts

The charts below contain the longer term blockchain trends.







BOINC Statistics

Team and pool statistics from 25/Apr to 8/May

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 25/Apr to 8/May

Project charts from 25/Apr to 8/May

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.