Gridcoin community hangout #035
Gridcoin Community Hangout #035
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 is a cryptocurrency which securely rewards BOINC computation on top of proof of stake.
What's BOINC? BOINC is an open-source volunteer distributed computing platform which utilizes the spare computer resources on 500k+ computers to attempt to cure diseases, map the milkyway, search for extraterrestrial life, and any other kind of distributable computation.
Anyone who needs a serious amount of distributed computing power (100k+ CPUs) almost entirely for free can create a BOINC project to create a distributed cloud service of their own desire (fairly easily) whilst the Gridcoin network potentially rewards your project's volunteers on your behalf.
Where can I listen to past hangouts?
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Past episode details
034 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 #035:
9PM BST 22nd July 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 (or mumble.grcnode.co.uk or mumble.beyondboinc.net)
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.
Can't wait! Just listened to your talk on #beyondbitcoin. Found here. Thank you for representing us to such an amazing community!
@joshoeah and I (and anyone else from #branding who can make it!) hope to give an update on what's going on with Branding -- Logo, the coin, client icons/gui/ux, ideas for future projects that are being tossed around -- how to get involved, and what we're thinking in terms of presenting the commemorative coin to the larger gridcoin community. We also want to answer as many questions the community might have regarding Branding and its projects!
Some sources to get started:
https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@me-shell/gridcoin-millionth-block-commemorative-coin
https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@dutch/the-first-physical-gridcoin-3d-printed-plastic
https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@joshoeah/gridcoin-branding-update-1
Yep, I'll be there to field any questions folks might have regarding the new logo and branding - I even have my mic' set up ready to actually talk.. Hoorah! If you have any specific questions regarding the commemorative coin please do mention them here so I can pass them on to @dutch, who is handling the printing of the actual coin.
I'd like to know how the coins would be sent out later on ?
The postal addresses of the winners (two people I believe) would certainly be required, or at least a postal address (I know I, for one, have most things shipped to my workplace.)
These addresses would, as expected, be handled with absolute care with regards to data protection. If either of the winners are uncomfortable with this, then alternative arrangements can be looked into. In the unlikely event that an agreement cannot be reached then the community would have to discuss and decide upon an alternative course of action.
To avoid these privacy concerns, how about uploading the design to a 3d printing website where the designer gets a commission/referral? That way an individual isn't receiving addresses rather a trusted company?
That could certainly work - issue is, we currently have @dutch producing them, since he has access to some really nifty equipment that can produce quite fine detail. We'll chat about it and come up with something that allays privacy concerns and keeps all parties happy for sure.
Direct links to Polls on Gridcoinstats
Did you know that the Gridcoin client has inbuild decentralized voting? Anyone with the min 100k GRC can create any poll they desire including whitelist polls (addition/removal).
Poll situation:
Ongoing polls:
"For the betterment of BOINC"
User 'Ageless' (Long time BOINC user/volunteer/moderator/project-admin) has asked the community for input regarding the improvement of BOINC!
I have quoted his post:
Perhaps this is a little beyond the scope, but would it be worthwhile to make a heavy investment in the GUI / Backend of BOINC/Gridcoin?
My mom (65 year old former music teacher with little tech capabilities) was able to download Minergate software and start mining XMR on her own. I'm not sure she could do the same with GRC.
If we can make it THAT easy, the expense/headache might be worth it.
BOINC and Gridcoin should be worked on seperately, however pools can and have provided (suchflex) simplified mining interfaces for earning GRC via a pool in the past.
I believe that David Anderson (Lead BOINC dev) is working on the simplification of the BOINC client right now: https://steemit.com/boinc/@cm-steem/tbd-a-new-model-for-volunteer-computing-david-anderson
the ongoing superblock problems since >4 weeks:
affected BOINC projects:
2 forks happened in the last 13 days:
further info:
Got any links to Github issues investigating these mitigated forks instead of Steemit posts?
I posted investigation results to the July8-fork in the OPs channel (where you and ravon also are) and to Tomas - they were not posted on steemit or so.
My general activity in the bugtracker can be seen here (e.g. reported crash yesterday)
If you experience any instability within the Gridcoin client, the most productive action is to copy the debug.log (core client debug) and debug2.log (NN debug) outside the appdata folder then go through the logs close to the timestamp of the experienced issue. Any detected anomalies within the debug logs should be reported to github (not steemit) within an issue, it doesn't require a developer such as Thomas to spot blatant issues in the logs worthy of reporting.
downvoting of posts by Erkan:
a comment to this:
I've replied to this same copy pasted content across multiple websites, quality of content over quantity, mate.
Rather than spam this snippet everywhere, perhaps you could respond to the /r/gridcoin Reddit thread you created which was received fairly negatively? There are several users clearly arguing against your stances there that you are failing to acknowledge.
Regardless, complaining about downvoting of steemit content is entirely irrelevant to Gridcoin, I'm acting entirely within my rights as a Steemit user when I downvote low-quality Steemit content and it's important to clarify that downvoting is not a form of censorship (where as the absolute deletion of content say on /r/boinc is censorship).
If you want to actually be productive then post your concerns/findings directly to the Gridcoin GitHub repo where I have zero authority to influence the visibility of your posts & where developers will notice it immediately (Rob likely isn't following your every post on Steemit for debugging information).
I will also copy-paste my reply here, hoping that more people will get some insight into how Steemit really works and how ridiculous are those censorship claims: