Amateur analysis / bad and good
Block history looks normal
Block 1 / 30 GRC / 10/12/2014
Block 10 / 340,570,150 / 10/12/2014
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/grc/address.dws?SGTcVAUpiYhC7MHy8CpcqxNh8krjjYAH4Y.htmhttps://chainz.cryptoid.info/grc/wallet.dws?652.htmBlock 100 / 340,573,232 / 10/12/2014
Block 1000 / 340,888,511 / 10/13/2014
Block 5,000 / 341,317,057 / 10/15/2014
Block 30,000 / 342,800,233 / 11/3/2014
Block 40,000 / 343,378,217 / 11/11/2014
Block 50,000 / 343,950,863 / 11/17/2014
Block 100,000 / 348,119,157 / 12/28/2014
Block 300,000 / 364,157,625 / 8/12/2015
Block 500,000 / 374,296,408 GRC / 3/20/2016
Block 1,000,000 / 394,115,384 GRC / 8/21/2017
Block 1,500,000 / 413,981,332 GRC / 1/27/2019
Block 2,000,000 / 435,868,233 GRC / 8/5/2020
Block 2,500,000 / 456,780,660 GRC / 2/16/2020
Block 2,821,517 / 470,114,258 GRC / 2/12/2023
Worst online comments about Gridcoin /
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=10953&sort_style=&start=60 https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/comments/4rnpwd/is_this_just_badly_written_or_is_it_an_outright/https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/comments/6lspy8/the_top50_grc_addresses_own_48_of_all_gridcoins/https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/the-top50-grc-addresses-own-48-of-all-gridcoinsBut keep in mind
https://web.archive.org/web/20141028131532/http://wiki.gridcoin.us/Proof-of-Research_Genesis_Blockhttps://gridcoin.us/wiki/Also biggest wallets are often exchange wallets. GRC was traded on Bittrex / Cryptsy / Polo not long after starting.
---Bad / As with all old coins, and most new coins, emission is skewed, and designed to enrich early users, at the expense of the coin and new users. Can be fixed by hard forking to a fair emission curve or revaluing the coin ecosystem which will let new people have a real stake in the coin.
-Bad / Poorly traded so most people are not aware of the coin. For example FreiExchange is an old reliable exchange, but Coinmarketcap doesn't list the GRC/BTC pair
https://freiexchange.com/market/GRC/BTC because it has little volume. A small holder could arbitrage/churn if more markets were easily visible.
neutral / Some sort of exploit was discovered in 2016/17 and was patched
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3154768.3154782 and the patch also had to be fixed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridcoinneutral / A shift in something to do with proof of stake happened a few years ago
++Good / Reliable, high quality, updates from developers.
But, an observation from Fairglu "explorer is stalling on a few transactions, because the wallet RPC API returns malformed JSON (mostly on the boinc field data). I'm adding exclusions for those transactions so synch progresses, but maybe could be worth a wallet update"
+Good / Very strong network with high number of reliable supporters, even at very low marketcap.
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/grc/#network-geo-tabGRC has current active people in United States of America, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Finland, France, Taiwan, Ukraine, Austria, Italy, Australia, Bulgaria, Portugal, Poland, Croatia, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Brazil, Belgium, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Denmark, Japan, Sweden, Romania, Estonia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovakia, and others
+++Good / One of the few coins that would have an outsized effect on sciences if it were popular
neutral / A lot of coins are in various exchange wallets, meaning there are a lot of smaller old holders who were interested when the coin was more active
++Good / Fast block time so it could be used as a currency without adding anything.
+Good / One of the few coins where the 'average' person is an expert in some niche of technology, so better chance of random upward value.
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Suggestion / Vote on salvaging the coin. Here is a poll, somebody involved with the coin should consider it, even if nobody votes.
All old coins have this problem, 'Satoshi Nakamoto' has 500,000 to 1,000,000 bitcoin, and most remaining bitcoin are held by whales, ethereum is much worse. Namecoin was the first coin to have moderately good distribution at first, but that has changed.
The basic choice is a) leave the distribution as it is and let the coin decline compared to fair coins or b) reset the coin by knocking a zero or two off existing coins and/or shift to an increasing emission curve.
Any coin that is fair should obviously have an emission increasing over time. Imagine if almost the entire supply of dollars were emitted in the 1700s to a small group of people. Centralized control and distribution is great for colonialism, but not a sustainable model in a decentralized economy.
But, anyway, a poll
1) Leave things
2) Knock 1 zero off old coins, in other words move the decimal point for all existing coins one space to the left
3) Knock 2 zeros off old coins...decimal two spaces to the left
4) Shift to gradually increasing emission so it isn't a stealth instamine like bitcoin and most coins
5) Zero off, i.e., move decimal point left 1 or 2 spaces for existing coins, + increasing emission curve
edit to add
I've had a stake in GRC since the coin was first traded, but have never been in the top 100 rich list, might be/ or probably have been, in the top 500, almost definitely was in the top 1000 or so, and might still be