Gridcoin Weekly #7; Coinomi Release, FightAIDS & Rosetta Paper, PrimeGrid Progress, Voting Results and much more
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We aim to write about what happens in the Gridcoin world and have some longer in depth sections on topics that has been hot the current week, and try to highlight many of the current interesting things. We give you tips and statistics to make you feel up to date on everything regarding the network. Do you wish to see something special, please leave a comment in the section below.
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Support us to support the Gridcoin Community
This post is part of Gridcoin Weekly and 50% of the earned SBD of this post will be converted to Gridcoin currency and distributed trough the Gridcoin Neural Network. We wish to support our Active Community!Coinomi integrates Gridcoin in their Multi-coin wallet.
During the past months there has been much talk about Coinomi and they have now finally integrated Gridcoin into their wallet for Android. Coinomi is a Multi-coin wallet with builtin exchange with ShapeShift. It's opensource, lightweight and community driven.
With Gridcoin now available on every Android device it's even easier to carry your coins with you.
In other news
Finding the best "out-of-the-box" linux
@peppernrino writes about trying to find the best "out-of-the-box" linux version for BOINC work. @peppernrino has future ideas of making a version that also has the Gridcoin Wallet. Read his post at steemit
Gridcoin Promotional Banners
Vortac has posted a long thread on the Girdoin Forum with all the banners and promotional images that has been made for the Gridcoin users. It can be found on the official forum.
BeaconUpgrade Status
Since last weeks update of the wallet everyone should upgrade their Beacon to version 2. The current status of upgrades are 428 upgraded beacons out of 1618 currently in the Neural Network, resulting in 26%.
There will be some time before the mandatory update to version 2 are made, but everyone should upgrade to version 3.5.7.7 as soon as possible.
Gridcoin related BOINC Projects News
Highlights news from and related to all the BOINC Projects on the Gridcoin Whitelist. Most of the news are from the projects news sections. If you wish a project to be present in this section, please inform the project admins to write more news ;)
Updates from FightAIDS@Home
An update has been posted from the FightAIDS@Home team, that uses the World Community Grid. They write about the current work of Phase 2, Future work and a refined look at the result of Phase 1. A very interesting progress update from a large project in the Gridcoin community. I feel proud to read about updates like this, know that I am part of something that can help humans and peoples lives!
MilkyWay@Home Work Issues
During this week MilkyWay@Home reported some issues with the database that distributes the work and they have tried to resolve this issue with upgraded software. The issue should be resolve but ask for anyone that has issues still to report to them. Official Thread
Updates from PrimeGrid
PrimeGrid continues to report successful progress and have this week had a number of news posts. Found a PPS Mega Prime, 465*2^3536871+1, and another PPS Mega Prime, 447*2^3533656+1. World Space Week Kickoff Challenge starts October 3rd, 18:00 UTC has been announced. TRP Sieve tasks to increase in size.
Rosetta@Home Publishes Paper
Rosetta@Home releases a paper titled "Accurate de novo design of hyperstable constrained peptides". The paper presents computational methods for designing small stapled peptides with exceptional stabilities. The paper is very descriptive, but if you like these things it's interesting and can be read over at their page.
Gridcoin Community Hangout
Every Saturday at 10PM CET there is a live Mumble session that anyone can participate in. Anyone are free to speak up, or you can just connect and listen in live. Listen to the Gridcoin Hangout on SoundCloud (takes a few days after live session before it's posted)
Here are some of the topics in this weeks hangout
- Open source Pool discussions
- Peppernrino speaks about a bad banking experience
- And much more. Listen in on the soundcloud update coming out later this week.
Wallet Updates
Girdcoin Research has been updated twice during the week to version 3.5.7.9. These updates are only updates for the TESTNET for making sure the new functions for Beacons v2 are working as expected. As a normal Gridcoin user you have no requirement to update at this point.
Current Votes
- Splash Screen Contest
The Splash screen voting has ended and there are some clearly popular contesters.
Gridcoin Decentralized Voting System Documentation
This Weeks Gridcoin Infograph
Interested to join?
If you are not currently using Gridcoin but would like to, here are a few places to get help on how to start:
IRC: freenode.net gridcoin and gridcoin-help
Thanks for the news.
"everyone should upgrade to version 3.5.7.7 as soon as possible"
Could you point out a link to the proper update procedure for Linux (Ubuntu)?
Thanks
I believe you can find a solution here: http://wiki.gridcoin.us/Linux_guide
Thanks for your reply. I went to the URL you suggested and there is no "Upgrade" procedure as such.
I guess you need to do a complete rebuilt of the wallet every time you want to upgrade.
I wish there was a simpler way like "gridcoinresearchd update wallet" or something like that ;)
Regards
I've posted a HowTo on steemit about setting up a wallet staking 24hrs/day. It has a nice script for building the wallet from source in it. Take a look at it and ask anyone in the IRC Chat or Forum if you have any more questions.
Is caption with credits below the Gridcoin image really necessary? I mean, we as a community usually don't credit each other below every pic. If it's submitted to the community then it's available to the community (I guess). I am sure I have posted some pics here without crediting them, I hope that's OK with everybody.
OK, this specific pic was submitted to our splash image contest, so some credits obviously apply, but general Steemit public won't know that, especially since that caption is counted as a first sentence and displayed below the headline in everyone's feed - surely that space is too prominent and important for some simple credits?
I agree with you here vortac, to 100%. I credited this image in two posts, mainly because I want Freshfund to have some exposure for his work. There won't be any more credit for the image in the future since it is posted to the community and made available to us trough that. This was just a simple way of saying thank you to the creator of the image.
I finally got around to setting up mining last night on a pc already mining ETC.
I hope I did everything right, looks like it's mining away on World Community Grid under bluehorseshoe and on team gridcoin.
Is tethering the gridcoin windows wallet v3.5.7.9-g-research to mining payouts as simple as adding my email address to the wallet that matches the mining software? I'd hate to mine 3-4 days and find out I did something wrong.
Did you send the beacon from the Gridcoin Wallet? The beacon is necessary to register your BOINC CPID in the Gridcoin system and enable research payouts in turn. More here: http://gridcoin.us/Guides/acquire-grc.htm
Note: If you joined the pool, then sending a beacon is not necessary.
Is sending a beacon accomplished by having my email address in the conf file? I just checked and it appears to be there. Here's what my wallet currently shows along with an out of sync message at the top:
Yes, your wallet is still syncing. When synced, you must aquire few Gridcoins (either by buying them or through faucets) and send a beacon. Beacon should be sent automatically, but you can always force it manually by typing "execute advertisebeacon" into Console (Help | Debug | Console). Your wallet must be fully unlocked to send a beacon.
If you don't have any GRC, type your GRC address here and we'll send you some - 10 GRC is usually more than enough to get started.
Thank you for your help.
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Sent you 20 GRC. Pass them on to next newbie when you are all set up.