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The Fireside Chat 21 - How, What, and Why We Crunch

Summary

This week we discuss our crunching gear, the projects we crunch, and why we crunch. We end on a question about what might happen if a large volume of compute moves to the network.

Time Topic 1:15 - 3:00 News

Developer Update August 13 3:00 - 38:18 Our rigs, What we crunch, Why we crunch 38:18 - 49:22 Effects of Large Computation Entities Joining the Network

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Next Episode

Join us for the next episode on Thursday, August 23rd, at 8:00pm EST, midnight UTC, on the Gridcoin discord.

Topic: The Neural Net is a critical part of the Gridcoin protocol. The final product of its process is the superblock. How does the Neural Net work? How can it be improved?

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