GRIDCOIN - STATE of the NETWORK

Report #39 - July 22nd, 2019

Welcome to another Gridcoin State of the Network! The SotN is published on the 3rd Monday of every month. For more information on the happenings within the Gridcoin network be sure to check out the other reports put together by the community!

@crypto-swiss’s monthly reports

@parejan’s weekly project updates

Development

Elizabeth Milestone Progress

Progress on the next planned release, Elizabeth, continues.

The best way to keep track of progress is by taking a look at the milestone on the repo.

As always, massive respect to the developers driving the Gridcoin protocol forward. The appreciation we have for their investments can not be fully put into words, but thank you.

News

New White Paper Proposal

Proposal Link

An updated version of the white paper has been submitted to the community for approval. This new White Paper has been almost completely rewritten. It details the recent addition of the Gridcoin Oracle and makes the paper more encompassing and accessible.

This paper is the result of the work of:

Additional contributions were made by:

@roboticmind

@jamescowens

Several people in the #marketing channel on Gridcoin’s slack

Discussions from participants of The Gridcoin Fireside

Don’t forget to vote by August 15th!

Gridcoin Presentations at 2019 BOINC Workshop

There were two presentations from three Gridcoin contributors at the 2019 BOINC Workshop.

The Open Systems of Science - jringo

Gridcoin, Bitcoin and BOINC - fkinglag and loadedanvils

There has been a poll made seeking permission to reimburse these contributors from the foundation wallet.

You can view the poll here.

You can vote in the poll until August 19th.

GRC Delisted from Bittrex

Gridcoin was delisted from Bittrex on July 19th 2019.

Keep an eye out for a notification from Bittrex regarding wallet removals.

GRC Listed on QBTC

GRC has been listed on the Chinese exchange, QBTC. Happy trading!

QBTC.

Top Threads

Below are the top discussion threads from the last month.

Why do you use/not use the Gridcoin pools?

A bit confused on how to maximize GRC

Some Thoughts On the Bittrex Delist and Gridcoin

8 Raspberry Pi 3s Up and Running - Monitoring using Cayenne Mydevices

Unpopular Opinion

Live Community Discussions

The Gridcoin Fireside

There are four new Gridcoin Fireside episodes titled:

The Gridcoin Fireside #10 - Voting

The Gridcoin Fireside #11 - Gridcoin Incentives

The Gridcoin Fireside #12 - The Future of Gridcoin; Project Brief: DHEP

The Gridcoin Fireside #13 - Democratized Expertise; Project Brief: [email protected]

You can listen to them all on podbean, spotify, or iTunes.

The Gridcoin Hangouts

The Gridcoin Hangout has hosted hangouts #111 and #112.

You can listen to them all on fkinglag's youtube channel.

STATISTICS UPDATE

The stats update is divided into 2 sections: Blockchain Statistics and BOINC Statistics.

Every month we bring you the most up to date statistics regarding the operation of the Gridcoin blockchain and Gridcoin BOINC projects. The information is gathered from Sunday to Saturday on a fortnightly basis and compiled from the getblockstats RPC command in the Gridcoin wallet, BOINCStats, GRCPool, Gridcoin Stats, and from individual project websites.





BLOCKCHAIN STATISTICS

Blockchain statistics from 1/June to 30/June

The table below contains the blockchain statistics and covers blocks 1,616,914 to 1,644,057.

Blockchain charts

The charts below contain the longer term blockchain trends.







BOINC STATISTICS

Team and pool statistics from 1/June to 30/June

The table below contains BOINC team and pool statistics for the month of June.

Team and pool charts

The team and pool charts contain the longer term team and pool trends.







This concludes the 39th Gridcoin State of the Network Report. We’ll see you in a month. Happy crunching!

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