RE: A new feature on GRCpool.com?
Thanks for the heads-up - I have not heard of SPARC, only of Golem, Iex.ec
I checked out the project and it seems worthy of backing IMO. They have a presale ending Sunday (I think) that is giving out double rewards - 20,000 SPARC per ETH so this is a great tip. And if you participate in the main sale starting October you can get a 100% bonus up to the limit of the amount you got in the pre-sale. Basically its an opportunity to get more at the pre-sale price.
The key things about SPARC based on my reading of the website:
- It utilizes OpenGL features of your browser to do computations
- It plays nicely with BOINC so you can do work of BOINC and get rewarded
- They are already handing out SPARC to those participating in Gridcoin Pool
- The team is based in Kingston, Ontario
- There is an alpha already up and running since late July
- It won't go live doing the first class of computations until Q1 2018
Since this seems like a great opportunity to get in early I'm chipping in 1 ETH - so far the pre-sale has only raised 75 ETH so it is clearly not widely know about. You can check the address here https://etherscan.io/address/0x013FBAED9c80CC4422FF50D71F4Dc622bC7c8AE2
Thanks for the great tip - upvoted to the max!
I think it's probably important to point out their roadmap calls for eventually dropping BOINC support for more propriety distributed computing products.
Full disclosure: I signed up for an alpha account and have been in contact several times with the developers; as @Dutch said, they are extremely responsive to bugs in the online wallet and have taken some suggestions too.
Thanks for the upvote! Did you check out @dutch 's reservations though? Although I suppose if you have 1 eth lying around to gamble with it's worth a shot. 1 eth should get you 10,000 SPARC from what I saw.
More likely, it utilizes the naivety of people who believe such absurd statements
I'm sorry, I just had to laugh out loud at the naivety of people. lol
The use of technical jargon to bamboozle people.