Gridcoin community hangout #036
Gridcoin Community Hangout #036
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
035 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 5th August 2017.
Compare 9PM BST 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.
Dev news:
After some bumps in the road with the superblocks we now have a deeper understanding on why we have had such problems getting to the blocks lately. A stat cache proxy has been implemented to take some strain off of the project servers and to increase the consensus rate until we get to NN2.0.
After the superblock issues settled down, staging was finally merged to master and just got released as 3.5.9.9. Expect lower CPU usage, vastly improved translations, crash fixes and RPC command improvements. See full changelog for details.
Coming up is reviewing and testing Tomas' V8 stake kernel and additional UI improvements from @huppdiwupp, but we'll get to those in the next hangout.
In this regard, I'd love to hear what the process is like when getting things added to prod... nothing in terms of personal opinion, just what it requires to find problems, test, and getting them into a release. Also, maybe an update on how the new payment system seems to be working so far -- yes there's only 1 month of record keeping so far but just general first impressions maybe?
hugs'n'kisses
I usually do a code review to see if I can find any errors or simpler ways of doing things, adding comments to the PR as I go along. Then I pull the actual branch and see if it works as intended. When I see that it works and the comments are sorted out the PR is merged to staging to mature. At that point we have no routines to follow up the tests. It's mostly to each their own where people test whatever problems they have report. This is an definitely an improvement area though I'm not sure how to do it without making it cumbersome.
Regarding the payment system I have no idea. I assumed it would kick in after the poll, then I forgot about it :D
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).
Completed polls
Ongoing polls:
I will be there to give a Branding update! Will be short and sweet = ).
https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@jringo/gridcoin-branding-update-2
I really like the topic of searching for extraterrestrial life ! There's so many possibilities and I'm very interested in it :)
team challenge situation:
A good weekend start:
challenges in August
today was my first time listening on my comp as opposed to just listening over @peppernrino shoulder =D
115 open issues + 127 tasks (marketing, exchanges, tutorials, bounties, ...)!
How to avoid problems as these in the future?
Mistake?
Proposed time for Gridcoin Hangout #035: - Should be #36?
9PM BST 5th August 2017.
Above ..
polls status (see list):
in July:
August + longer:
August 5: see ongoing voting situation here: