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RE: Byteball & Gridcoin: Double Earning from Crunching World Community Grid
If I am following this correctly, do you have to temporarily change your WCG user ID to link the Byteball wallet?
If I am following this correctly, do you have to temporarily change your WCG user ID to link the Byteball wallet?
Yes, that is how you prove the ownership of the account you want to link. If you have the password to rename the account, you are definitely entitled to claim the earnings. Don't worry, it will only take only 2 minutes. The old account name remains reserved for you, you even get an email from WCG informing about the change and you have anyway 24h to revert any changes.
Awesome. Linked up now!
Damn, very impolite implementation - something that BOINC project admins have opposed in the past, it's a shame that my BOINC PR isn't getting much attention: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/2134
In fact, monetizing historical RAC makes WCG & other BOINC projects a target for malicious actors - unfair to impose this just for a distribution :/
Actually, the long term target of Byteball is not to monetize WCG contributions. It is actually a payment platform, and their tokens (BYTES) are used to pay for the fees and reward users that are confirming the transactions. Part of the roll out strategy, they decided to distribute 99% of all the BYTES, and they started to get inventive about how to distribute free coins. They have several ways to distribute, and one of them is to reward WCG users, including for historical contribution.