In a nutshell, Gridcoin is a cryptocurrency awarded to people who do research with their computers. This is facilitated by the software BOINC.
Here is a getting started guide for solo mining from a cold start. Here is a guide on pool mining. If you have any questions after your reading, feel free to drop a comment or post under the Gridcoin tag and we will do our best to help. =)
Yes my friend. When you "mine" you essentially contribute to the BOINC project helping find treatments for various ailments, decode ww2 enigma messages, discover aliens with seti and other cool things :)
In a nutshell, Gridcoin is a cryptocurrency awarded to people who do research with their computers. This is facilitated by the software BOINC.
Here is a getting started guide for solo mining from a cold start. Here is a guide on pool mining. If you have any questions after your reading, feel free to drop a comment or post under the Gridcoin tag and we will do our best to help. =)
Read through that link and then the three following links on cpu optimization. Im going to do this, this weekend! Great info by the way.
Yes my friend. When you "mine" you essentially contribute to the BOINC project helping find treatments for various ailments, decode ww2 enigma messages, discover aliens with seti and other cool things :)
Love it. So we're basically "renting" our idle cpu power. I'm gonna check it out. Any idea what the exchange rate is, in USD?