Gridcoin Community Hangout #022 - 21th Jan 2017 @ 9PM GMT (RSVP & Suggest topics!)
Gridcoin Community Hangout #022
A massive shout out to the BeyondBitcoin community & @officialfuzzy for providing the Gridcoin community a room in their mumble server for free.
Another massive thanks to @peppernrino for editing the hangout recordings! Follow him on Steem! :D
What is Gridcoin?
Gridcoin securely rewards BOINC computation on top of Proof of Stake. Reward allocation is distributed, not centralized unlike other distributed computing related cryptocurrencies.
Where can I listen to past hangouts?
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Past episode details
021 RSVP & Topic suggestion thread
Why are we holding these hangouts?
- A mumble conference call can provide significant advantages over communicating via forums and IRC.
- To create opportunities to inform the public of new Gridcoin, BOINC and related services & their development progress.
- To bridge relations between the cryptocurrency & BOINC communities.
How long will the hangout last?
If there are not many topics suggested then hangouts won't last longer than an hour, on the other hand if there are many topic suggested then the hangout may last 2-3 hours!
When the Gridcoin Community Hangouts start really picking up traction we can become more strict with allocated speaking time if need be (so you're not waiting hours to talk).
Want to suggest a topic to discuss?
Reply with your suggestions in this Steem post & order of discussion will be from highest to lowest voted suggestions.
Can we discuss anything?
It's advisable to stay generally on topic, attendees are distributed around the world so they may not (likely won't) share the same views regarding controversial topics not related to Gridcoin/BOINC/Cryptocurrency.
That said, this 'on topic' guideline fizzles away once official recording has ended & the hangout becomes a more relaxed environment.
Proposed time for Gridcoin Hangout #021:
9PM GMT 21th Jan 2017.
Compare 9PM GMT to your time zone!.
How to join the Gridcoin hangout
Step 1: Download Mumble. [Windows Client, Android Client]
Step 2:
Step 3: Configure Mumble & join the server!
Label: BeyondBitcoin - Gridcoin
Address: mumble.beyondbitcoinshow.com
Port: 64738
Username: Enter your username
Password: w0rldCh@NG3rsUN!t3
Step 4: Join the Gridcoin channel!
Step 5: Configure your audio wizard & setup Push-To-Talk. Join 10-15 mins before the hangout starts to test your audio configuration.
I hope you decide to attend the hangout - everyone is welcome to join, especially those who suggest topics of discussion in this thread.
Best regards,
CM.
Decentralized Exchanges!
Applied:
Lykke: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/51655-lykke-exchange/
We should apply to:
https://cosmos.network/
https://interledger.org/ (Hangouts: https://soundcloud.com/user-878991006 )
http://heatledger.com/ (CCEDK associated)
https://komodoplatform.com/dex-whitepaper/ (Just a whitepaper for now? SuperNet's EasyDEX)
https://www.instantdex.org/2016/09/28/forum-disabled-easydex-soon/ (InstantDEX vs EasyDEX vs Iguana?)
https://bcexchange.org/ ( Unsure of validity, but they mention the addition of altcoins).
https://etherex.org/ (Site down!)
https://wavesplatform.com/ (If we partnered with one of their gateways then GRC may be traded with tokens on their platform, low likelihood though).
Any more anyone knows of?
Some of these platforms could result in whales moving into GRC from major alts.
Speaking of decentralized exchanges, I have begun customizing the Bitshares web wallet for Gridcoin; the customization set OPEN.GRC as the main trading pair with a large quantity of popular assets as well as FIAT smartcoins (USD, CNY, GBP, etc).
https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@cm-steem/gridcoin-s-customised-bitshares-web-wallet-dex
I need to uplift the repo to the latest bitshares gui release then will try adding new drop-down menus to the navigation bar (links to GRC, BOINC, BTS websites).
Formula Boinc:
only half of the 1st month of 2017 and we are already at #1
http://formula-boinc.org
https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@cm-steem/team-gridcoin-came-1st-in-the-2016-formulaboinc-challenge
The potential of adding or raising bounties to fund projects. Also to think about different projects to potentially fund bounties for. I think that since there has been another faucet site that got foundation funds then there could also be a portion of some raised funds donated to bounties. We could discuss maybe putting this towards a vote for finding interest before actually specific bounty funding of a project, example given, open source mining pool.
task: "POOL: open sourcing it" https://github.com/Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks/issues/2
there is now a 40k GRC bounty for this task:
https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/get-bounties-for-helping-team-gridcoin
and $50 (or $100) for PoSv3
Cryptocointalk thread: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/49262-open-source-project-gridcoin-pool-boinc-account-manager/page-3
The faucet received funds to be distributed to users, not to fund the website itself.
https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-Research/issues/184 This issue details a large git commit backlog of similar crypto code bases, a large amount of development bounties likely need assigned to its tasks.
The open source mining pool should have a bounty, sure, but thus far no planning has gone into the project. Katiee isn't likely to open source her pool neither.
Ideally we would wait until GRC was worth more before setting massive bounties, but we've got to start somewhere, eh?
Recent upgrades to gridcoinstats.eu:
https://steemit.com/gridcoinstats/@sc-steemit/gridcoinstats-updated-with-project-news-historical-graphs-more-accurate-voting-and-more
https://steemit.com/gridcoinstats/@sc-steemit/gridcoinstats-now-powered-with-steemit-better-news-section-and-some-nice-improvements
I want to raise a concern about the age of open pull requests on github.
I know that reviewing code takes a lot of time but it would be nice if more people could have the power to review and accept pull requests. As a developer it's discouraging to make a fix and submit a PR when you know it might take weeks or months before anything happens, and in the meantime you have to maintain the change to avoid conflicts.
This is especially important when the PR is denied (for whatever reasons).
Additional github administration rights being distributed could probably improve this process.
see task: "get additional github administration rights for bugtracker"
https://github.com/Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks/issues/41
i dunno... i've recently seen more community pulls accepted than ever. keep up the good work, ravonn!
Community pulls on my/erkan/other repos, yes. On the official gridcoin-research repo, no.
Voting on the removal of vLHC from the whitelist due to the project retiring (they're condensing 3 projects into 2).
http://gridcoinstats.eu/voting.php?a=view&id=Whitelist_poll_:_Should_vLHCatHome_be_removed_from_the_whitelist?
https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/gridcoin-poll-should-vlhcathome-be-removed-from-the-whitelist-vote-until-february-1
Working towards open-sourcing the Gridcoin website for future collaborative/distributed development.
Sounds good. Maybe it is also a good idea to move content that changes frequently to the wiki. The whitelist for example. Then the focus of the website could be to provide a simple and informative overview of the coin and link to the wiki for the more in depth knowledge.
I also noticed that some coins have an official blog on their website. I think that could be nice for posting important stuff like announcing project additions or removals. Or mandatory upgrades.
Yeah, sounds like a good idea re:wiki-link.
Perhaps we could do a blog, but I don't have the ability to install additional software on the gridcoin server, it would have to be either external or static.
In the mean time, I've open-sourced the gridcoin website (Sans paid kit): https://github.com/grctest/Gridcoin-Site
Cool! I think a static page would do fine since there are not that many posts if the focus is on the important stuff. Or it could be like a monthly summary of whats going on in the gridcoin space. I believe there is also less overhead with a static page.
gridcoinstats.eu has steemit integration and also pulls boinc news notices, this is a pretty good source of news in the mean time.
the DrugDiscovery admin will join this mumble session
Excellent to hear!
For anyone that's not aware of drugdiscovery@home:
http://www.drugdiscoveryathome.com/
http://boinc.drugdiscoveryathome.com/
http://www.drugdiscoveryathome.com/index.php/dd-token/
https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/51590-drugdiscoveryhome/
DrugDiscovery has been added to the whitelist. Still no workunits. SSL not working in the scheduler.
Work units are now available:
Cryptocointalk thread
DD@H forum notice
Getting Gridcoin added to coinpayments.net
Erkan and i worked on a form letter yesterday that we can basically copy-paste to all the vendors on coinpayments.net. :)
Alright, action stations everyone!
We've got to get places to accept GRC via coinpayments.net !
We should reach out to BOINC projects, asking them to add a donate button (or one of those 'one-name' things) to their website so that we can easily donate GRC to them.
We should reach out to every store within the store directory, asking them to accept Gridcoin: https://www.coinpayments.net/store-directory
I have paid the $700 for integration into coinpayments.net https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/50486-should-we-get-gridcoin-integrated-into-coinpaymentsnet/#entry231217
We will likely have to pay $100/month for continued support unless we can maintain more than $5000/month transaction volume on coinpayments (we have to get services to add Gridcoin as options, and users have to start spending their GRC haha!).
I really think this should be one of the main targets. The quam, the Avalon of all the crypto coins: Usability.
I think Gridcoin is great in the way it generates and stabilizes, how it creates a solid miner/holder/verifier net, but i think we need to make this fine group of gentlement to spend their GRCs other than simply hodl or echange for BTCs. Is there any initiative going on currently? thx
I've paid for the integration to take place, so we'll be added to coinpayments.net soon!
We'll need to contact shops that currently use coinpayments (there's a handy store directory on their site) to accept Gridcoin once it's integrated.
We should also try to get each whitelisted BOINC project to add a GRC donate button which uses coinpayments. That'll help with meeting the min trading volume.
https://twitter.com/customminer/status/819210756113727488