Hey bgb, thank you very much for the detailed update. The pool is definitely the key driver to Gridcoin adoption right now and I am a big fan of your work.

If you want to have items added to the SPARC whitelist, you should contact the SPARC team.

I got in touch with the SPARC team a few weeks ago about the mismatch between the whitelists, and they said:

We have no direct plans to follow the gridcoin whitelist

Successive emails discussing this did not change that stance. Anyone crunching Yafu and Enigma is unlikely to be paid SPARC in the near future (if at all). Anyone running SZTAKI is going to be earning significantly more SPARC due to the way it is distributed, at the cost of earning no GRC.

I would also like to reiterate here that the SPARC team will be discontinuing BOINC support in early-mid 2018 if they stick to their roadmap.