I represented the #Gridcoin community during the 216th BeyondBitcoin hangout episode & donated 12500 GRC (~$500) for sharedrop onto the BeyondBitcoin community!

@Officialfuzzy will be distributing the OPEN.GRC (GRC on the BTS DEX) at his discretion, thanks to everyone that attends and contributes towards the #BeyondBitcoin and #Gridcoin steemit communities!

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About Gridcoin

Gridcoin is a cryptocurrency which securely rewards BOINC computation on top of proof of stake.

What's BOINC? BOINC is an open-source volunteer distributed computing platform which utilizes the spare computer resources on 500k+ computers to attempt to cure diseases, map the milkyway, search for extraterrestrial life, and any other kind of distributable computation.

Anyone who needs a serious amount of distributed computing power (100k+ CPUs) almost entirely for free can create a BOINC project to create a distributed cloud service of their own desire (fairly easily) whilst the Gridcoin network potentially rewards your project's volunteers on your behalf.

I covered the following topics during hangout #216

Community

Voting

Trading

In the last fortnight, Gricoin has been trading between $0.02 and $0.04, down from an average value of $0.06 my last appearance on beyondbitcoin #213

Gridcoin is currently listed ranked 31st on Coingecko!

When filtering Coinmarketcap by non-premined/non-minable, Gridcoin is ranked 41st!

Development

Continued superblock downtime

Three leisure updates have been released to patch multiple superblock issues, there have been additional issues observed which are actively being worked on by the Gridcoin volunteer developers. Don't stop crunching though it shouldn't be too long before we've sorted this all out!

The development branches are far further ahead in terms of development than the current production (even latest leisure) releases. The dev branch will require a mandatory upgrade so we can't release the change without a testnet phase and a large notice period, thus many of the issues in the current production client have been fixed but aren't live yet (so we're currently in a bit of a grey area before the mandatory upgrade).

Recent leisure updates (non-mandatory)

'Neural Network' fixes: Folder restructuring, superblock stake inability, minimum project count in superblocks, timezone sync issues.

Fix speech bug

Added checkpoint

Gridcoin developers are working on:

Removal of the mandatory team requirement within the Gridcoin network.

Massively reworking the superblock & BOINC statistics tracking mechanisms.

Improved staking, voting, security mechanisms (eta several weeks before we begin large scale testnet phases)

Improved translations (chinese translation included in the latest client release)

Improved GUI & branding

And much more on Github!

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