0x18h - A Fireside Chat: Episode 5

An open Forum

Every Thursday at 8:00pm EST, 1:00am UTC

On the Gridcoin discord server

The Link

Youtube

DSound

Overview

This week was an open forum that we kicked off by discussing the following article:

Crypto-currency craze 'hinders search for alien life'

We also discussed:

PoS vs. PoW

Gridcoin Profitability

BOINC and superblocks

Incentives

The Principal of Forking and Synergy in the Blockchain Ecosystem (major hard-forks, not related to soft-forks)

Open Access

Open-source

Economics

Thank you to everyone for participating in this wide-ranging conversation!

Thoughts on Production

I have set up youtube playlist to host episodes alongside IPFS.

Join us on Thursday, February 22nd For the Next Episode

Want to reserve a block?

Reach out to jringo on the Gridcoin discord server or here on steemit.

I will be hosting a block on open-source.

Past Episodes

Episode 1: Open Access, Mainstreaming Distributed Systems, and A World Built On Science - I lost this one = (Episode 0: Introduction and IPP - Not hosted. Keep an eye out for an IPP episode in the near future.