The Gridcoin Fireside #3 - Blockchain Communities

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The Gridcoin Fireside #3

Blockchain Communities

The Gridcoin Fireside is a participatory podcast intended to introduce and explore DLT, cryptocurrency, and crypto-economics from a perspective of the sciences.

The audience is welcome to participate through voice-comms or via the discord text chat.

Join us every Thursday at 8:00pm EST on the Gridcoin discord server.

Catch up on past episodes here.

Recorded on April 18th

Listen to or download the episode here.

This week we continue a conversation started last week on the importance of the communities behind permissionless blockchains. We explore their roots, the different ways they operate, and their role in the larger network.

We also discuss poll definitions, requirements, and validation parameters proposal.

Time	Subject
2:15	BTCSV Removed from Binance
16:45	Blockchain Communities
21:00	Open-source history
27:00	How to contribute to open-source projects
33:00	Trusting open-source software vs Trusting proprietary software
40:00	Blockchain and the open-source model
53:00	Non-fungible tokens
57:00	Proposal and poll: Poll definitions, requirements, and validation parameters

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What is Gridcoin?

Gridcoin is a dual-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.