Have you ever wondered what Gridcoin has done for BOINC in terms of numbers? Here are three charts from boincstats that help illustrate just that!

Gridcoin switched from GRC-Classic (PoW) to GRC-ResearchMint (Various combinations of PoS and PoR -- currently PoS) on October 11th, 2014. I have added arrows on the charts that approximate this date.

As you can see, Gridcoin has brought an increase in earned credits, which may correlate to more completed Work Units, depending on data regarding how projects calculate credits and whether these processes have changed over time.

Gridcoin has likely increased the rate of user adoption, though this correlation is not as strong. Then again, it appears that Gridcoin may have reversed a flattening trend and is beginning to increase the rate of user adoption even further. Time, and the data it brings, will tell.

And with respect to the third chart, it seems like Gridcoin may have had an effect on the number of hosts working on BOINC tasks, however this chart seems to have some errors and awkward trends.

With chart 1 and 3, you can see that something happened in June of 2017. The total number of credits produced plateaus while the total number of hosts drops dramatically.

June 2017 was about the time that crypto began its resurgence (BTC broke 2,000 USD), so this may be a factor. People may have switched their processing to mine more profitable coins, as GRC has only just become profitable again.

While a drop of over 10 million hosts would definitely cause a plateau in credits earned, it is hard to imagine that the total number of hosts dropped from about 16 million to under 5 million in less than a month.

Perhaps there was a change in the stats collection and organization processes at around this time.

Does anyone have more information on what happened in June 2017?

Any other ideas?