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RE: I am in San Francisco / the Bay Area; How Should I Promote GRIDCOIN?
Sounds very promising! We should try to spread the word that this can be really a platform for serious science crunching. In the end a project could really rent computational powers by investing in gridcoin and setting things up and this would most likely be much cheaper than to try to host this power by oneself. This is just my idea though I think iam not the first one with this in mind. (Since I joined gridcoin only a few months back I would really really doubt this).
Go gridcoin
Agree. Did anyone consider founding a legit non-profit to further that cause yet? I have a little bit of experience with California non-profits and I think such a structure might be nice to facilitate growth (looking at Mozilla for example) ... if the org. would for example host a donate button that converts dollar donations to GRC behind the scenes that might even make this form of giving tax-deductible...
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Thanks for the pointer. Is Alien on steemit? Else I might contact him through the board.
I don't think he is here, best is to use the forum for that
There is more and more talk about putting together some sort of donation based project funding structure/organization, but I think most of it revolves around building something outside of Gridcoin, for now. To make the whole of Gridcoin a registered non-profit would require a few things that are still just a bit out of reach, I think.
Yeah sure ... there can easily be a non-profit (of the same or similar name even) while the technology is retained as a crowd-based asset.
If the bylaws of the nonprofit are forged the right way, the primary cause would still be to serve the purposes of BOINC through Gridcoin ... this is a unique advantage compared to other cryptos as it would make nonprofit status much easier to argue.
I have been trying to push this angle, but the overall reaction to it has not been positive from the community. That is disappointing, as I view the ability to purchase compute as the GRC trump card.
Still planning on setting up a project for my lab regardless.