What is the "WuProp@Home" BOINC project?

WUProp@home is a non-intensive project that uses Internet-connected computers to collect workunits properties of BOINC projects such as computation time, memory requirements, checkpointing interval or report limit.

Why are users requesting WuProp's removal?

It's being manipulated

Recently it's come to the Gridcoin community's attention that individuals within team Gridcoin are exploiting WuProp's credit system to inflate their magnitude significantly in an attempt to earn Gridcoin fraudulently.

If you look at the WuProp team leaderboard on Boincstats, you will notice that the individual "HackerChai" has a RAC 37.83 times higher than the entire pool (which is made up of 1247 individuals). Check his magnitude too.

It doesn't provide useful data

The data provided by WuProp is measured in seconds instead of RAC and it doesn't provide an API for 3rd party reference - this means that collected data can't be used for profitability generators, only for simply comparing hardware for work units on an individual project basis.

More useful information is provided by each BOINC project's Host.xml file - it provides RAC for hardware/software, which could be used for profitability calculators.

It doesn't utilise SSL encryption properly

Check out wuprop's SSL test.
Effectively, this means that your BOINC credentials could potentially be intercepted by a man in the middle (if on a public wifi/insecure network/etc).

How can I vote?

Windows users:

1. Launch Gridcoin client & fully sync the blockchain.
2. If your wallet is encrypted, fully unlock the wallet (not just for 'staking only').
3. Click "Advanced" , then click "Voting".
4. Right click on the poll with the Question "Should WuProp be removed from the whitelist?"
5. Click the "Vote" button in the context menu that appears. A voting window should appear.
6. Check one of the checkboxes (Yes/No).
7. Click the "Place Vote" button. If you get a warning/error, fully unlock your wallet and repeat the above steps.

Linux users:

QT Wallet:

1. Launch the Gridcoin wallet (QT) & fully sync the blockchain.
2. Fully unlock your wallet.
3. Navigate to the Debug Console (Help - Debug Window - Console (tab) )
4. Enter one of the following commands:

• For yes (to remove it): execute vote Remove_WuProp_from_whitelist yes
• For no (to keep it): execute vote Remove_WuProp_from_whitelist no

Terminal:

1. Launch the Gridcoin wallet (QT) & fully sync the blockchain.
2. Fully unlock your wallet.
   e. Enter one of the following commands:

• For yes (to remove it): gridcoinresearchd execute vote Remove_WuProp_from_whitelist yes
• For no (to keep it): gridcoinresearchd execute vote Remove_WuProp_from_whitelist no

Extra info

• The poll lasts 2 weeks from today.
• The vote weight type used is 'mag+balance'.