Gridcoin Community Hangout #071
Gridcoin Community Hangout #071
What is Gridcoin?
Gridcoin securely rewards BOINC computation on top of Proof of Stake. Reward allocation is distributed, not centralized unlike other distributed computing related cryptocurrencies.
Why are we holding these hangouts?
- A conference call can provide significant advantages over communicating via text.
- To inform the public of new Gridcoin & BOINC (and related services) development progress.
- To bridge relations between the cryptocurrency & BOINC communities, and our users.
- To be transparent in our actions.
Want to suggest a topic to discuss?
Reply with your suggestions in this Steemit post, or on the Reddit repost, and we will discuss your topic in chronological order of submission.
Want to host a Hangout in another language?
Please let me know if you'd like to add your expertise to the Gridcoin University. :)
Gridcoin University Event Calendar
To keep track of all of our events, I have begun construction of a Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=gridcoinofficial%40gmail.com&ctz=UTC
If you have something you'd like to add to the calendar, even your birthday, let me know and I'll do my best to add it in a timely manner.
"Where can I listen to the raw live stream?"
"Where can I listen after they are over?"
Past episode details
Gridcoin Hangout #071 will be held on:
August 18, 2018 @ 7pm UTC
Compare 7pm UTC to your time zone!
How to participate:
Step 1: Download Mumble. [Desktop, Android, iOS]
Step 2:
Step 3: Configure Mumble & join the server! You will be initially greeted by a series of servers. Ignore them, and add ours manually. :)
Label: Gridcoin
Address: 207.148.10.181
Port: 64738
Username: Enter your username, try to pick one people will recognize you by - i.e. your IRC username
Step 4: Join the Gridcoin Hangouts channel!
Step 5: Configure your audio settings & setup Push-To-Talk.
That's it! Please show up a bit early for sound check, and to get acquainted. :D
Everyone is encouraged to join, especially those who suggest topics of discussion in this thread.
Need some $GRC to get your wallet going? We will be giving away 5 FREE $GRC to anyone that attends and requests Gridcoin... up to 100 $GRC per Hangout!
Free Gridcoins are provided by the other members of the Hangout as a kind gesture from the community.
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I have continued dwelling into the synchronization speeds trying to improve the performance. One big part is the time it takes to load the contracts from 1 year back after a reorganize. If we instead keep a stack of the known contracts and pop them on reorg we can greatly reduce the impact.
The bottom, purple line contains this change and it is not nearly as affected by the reorgs starting at 900k. Total import time for that particular data set is now under an hour.
Most of these changes haven't been merged yet and some might not even be doable in production, but at least we have a good understanding of the synchronization bottlenecks.
Oh, and this affects regular network synchronization as well, not just block import. I just happen to have a good data set with both good and bad sections so it's suited for import tests. I think with all these changes we should be able to sync the entire chain over the network in around 2 hours or less.