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The Gridcoin Fireside

Tonight! May 2nd at 8:00pm EDT

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.

Tonight!

BOINC!

Tonight we talk about the platform which enables Gridcoin, BOINC. From visualizations to gamification, SETI and BOINC were light-years ahead of their time. They helped pave the road to popularization of science, exploration, and distributed data analysis. BOINC contributors continue to lead the way in this regard by continuing to develop umbrella projects such as Science United, improving the core-network of contributors, and increasing project visibility.

BOINC currently hosts over 30 data driven projects with tasks from fields including physics and astrophysics, mathematics, biochemistry and molecular biology, computer science, climate and weather science, electrical engineering, cognitive science, seismology, and cryptography.

Let's talk about the history of BOINC, where it succeeds, where it fails, and what role Gridcoin plays and could play in its ecosystem.

See you soon!

Gridcoin Discord

Don't forget about the bounties!

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

Submission: Submit your sounds by pming jringo on discord

Winner: Chosen by jringo

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