1-million block event with prize: tell your story... why do you like BOINC and Gridcoin ?

erkan (60)in #gridcoin • 7 years ago (edited)

The 1-million block of Gridcoin is approaching (see here)...

Tell us your story:

why do you like BOINC and Gridcoin ?

The more you mix in... the better chances to "win", e.g. add when did you join? did you convert others already to BOINC/Gridcoin? ...

Make it an interesting story!

Keep in mind it's ideal when it can motivate a non-Gridcoin user to also join Gridcoin!

The top5 stories will get a prize (see GRC addresses below)...

Please post your stories below or link to them (can also be past stories):

it's important they are in the comments below.
If you don't have a steemit account: come to IRC and ask me to post it below for you.

Some open questions are

until when people can post their stories and still get a prize? e.g. 1000 blocks before the 1 million block arrives? less, more? Or even until an extended period after the 1 million block arrived? ...
Is upvoting the best criteria ? Steemit users who have more "power" can influence too much? I mark this line with (A) to refer from below.

Send your donations to the below GRC addresses please (they are from my wallet):

donate to the best (A) story from below comments: SArB6JHa1qzaLw9a2HQZyD1QjzEkRZ8pw7
donate to the 2nd best (A) story from below comments: SEsPCuRFTfBghNYjtJ1i7aPt7FZKhDcH5R
donate to the 3rd best (A) story from below comments: S4Wo3DTkmdzDikozFjzmEbPonQ9LwATJej
donate to the 4th best (A) story from below comments: SAMaTHJLCC82yuvZyXKYF9hD2F7DjQy9tQ
donate to the 5th best (A) story from below comments: S2Tipa9g7A1Pf15YoFwR4oRD6NQYMtyRie

As public sponsor your name will be listed in all related announcements:

(e.g. you could also come to IRC and tell me in private beforehand how much you will donate, it might be hard to get your details otherwise. My IRC nick is: Erkan_Yilmaz)

You can of course also donate anonymously.

This is one of the ideas for the 1 million block event... see soon all listed here.

Please reply below with comments, further suggestions... Thank you!

#beyondbitcoin #prize #boinc #story

7 years ago in #gridcoin by erkan (60)

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ropaga (56) 7 years ago

The first time I knew about Gridcoin was when I saw an advertisement in boincstats.com during november 2016 I think. Before that I was using BOINC during several years, my favourite projects was Collatz Conjecture for my Radeon HD5450 and Rossetta for my Core 2 Quad Q6600.

So I joined and earned my first GRC in the Gridcoin IRC. I loved playing the decrypt game there, for those that did not know about it was a game run by a bot that was giving clues for discovering a code number, the first user who discovered the code received a GRC reward.

So when my Gridcoin wallet sent the beacon I started to look for the most profitable projects, those that I crunched the most were PrimeGrid for the GPU and YAFU for the CPU.

As more and more users started to join Gridcoin, with much newer GPUs and CPUs my staking times started to increase and increase. Fortunately the first Gridcoin pool was created soon, and I joined it.

Then the spring arrived so I stopped crunching as usual, because my bedroom is already too hot without my computer crunching. But with the experience obtained by using Gridcoin I started to join another coins, obtaining little amounts of coins from faucets and doing small tasks like filling surveys and downloading smartphone apps for trying them.

And now I am here, trying to get some Steem during summer and trying to get a new computer for start mining Gridcoin again this autum. I am holding around 60% of my total Gridcoin earnings and I hope price will rise soon now that the superblocks problems are solved.

So in conclusion I like Gridcoin because it promotes BOINC crunching, which is much more useful than other mining algorithms, and also because it was my entrance in cryptocurrency world. I encourage everyone to give BOINC and Gridcoin a try.

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ropaga (56) 7 years ago

until when people can post their stories and still get a prize?

It depends of how many people take part. When a minimum of stories has been submitted, you may submit another post as reminder and set the time limit.