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RE: BOINC G – Custom BOINC Distribution Proposal
Beside the benefits you mention, the main drawback would be to create segragation among non-teamGridcoin Boinc participants. If you agree they have reasons to be crypto-defiant, then Boinc G participants would be regarded as fools. Boinc community could blame Gridcoin to have created this hiatus and the symbiotic relation could be harmed.
And they have reasons to be crypto-defiant.
Analogy. Part of the Debian community were Ubuntu-defiant. Now Ubuntu is one of the top Linux distributions. There are dozens of Linux distributions and there is no hiatus.
I was focused more on pros than cons in my post. There are drawbacks to stay in the current state, there are drawbacks to move beyond. If Gridcoin won't build its own computational ecosystem, what other ecosystems can it build? Gridcoin loves BOINC, but BOINC doesn't care. This is not a good relationship.
It's worth to remember that current valuation (market cap) of around ~$20mln comes mostly from hype, risky bet for the future. During dotcom bubble domain names were changing hands for as much as $1mln. But one day investors started to ask questions. Without the source of value GRCs are not better than BOINC credits.