Tonight! on the Gridcoin Fireside -- Blockchain Communities

jringo (63)in #gridcoin • 5 years ago

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The Gridcoin Fireside

Tonight! April 18th at 8:00pm EDT

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.

Tonight!

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

We will also be discussing the new voting protocol proposal.

See you soon!

Gridcoin Discord

Don't forget about the bounties!

Bounty 1: Image

We need an image that we can use as a header for posting.

Bounty: 1000 GRC
Themes(you don't need to hit all of them): Data, science, distributed computing, fire,... sides?
Due by: April 11th
Submission: Submit your image by pming jringo on discord
Winner: Chosen by jringo

Bounty 2: Intro/Outro

We need some music to play as an intro and outro to the podcast!

Bounty: 5000 GRC
Requirements: 10-30 seconds each; no vocals
Due by: April 18th
Submission: Submit your sounds by pming jringo on discord
Winner: Chosen by jringo

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.