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The Gridcoin Fireside #08

Funding For and By the Blockchain

The Gridcoin Fireside is a participatory podcast brought to you by the Gridcoin community. It is intended to introduce and explore DLT, cryptocurrency, and crypto-economics from a science oriented perspective.

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.

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Recorded on May 30th

Listen to or download the episode here.

This week we continue the conversation that ended last week's episode. How can blockchains and cryptocurrency protocols serve to fund initiatives, projects, and possibly even more?

We touch on blockchain-based crowdfunding, decentralized banking systems, and protocol based treasury systems along with some interesting ideas on how this technology could help science and research funding in the future.

Time Subject 3:15 News:

Polls and removal of projects from the whitelist

What happened with [email protected]?

[email protected]

GUI Implementation Bounty

Gridcoin.us changes 10:50 Putting science publication metadata on the blockchain

Referenced Thread 13:50 Crowdfunding 16:15 Side-staking and decentralized banking concepts 32:00 Treasury systems on the blockchain, fee-splitting, and utility through network services 36:30 Network/Protocol/Economic service and utility vs. Business/Demand layers 47:30 Why outreach is important, how it works, and what we should be doing

What is Gridcoin?

Gridcoin is a multi-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

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