I know!
that's why i don't understand the price is so low!
There are several things that are easy to point to that explain the current price action. Gridcoin had good price appreciation and support for over a month, then there were a few hiccups during the upgrade and some investors got nervous, then polo closed the GRC/BTC market for a week and a half. Before the market closed there were 25 btc in buy orders in the book, when it re-opened there were less than 2 btc. At the same time we had a miner (I know it was a miner(s) because I traced the sell orders back to the blockchain transactions and the GRC came from recently mined blocks) or two who were regularly "dumping" 20,000-50,000 on the orderbook. There was even a dump of almost 150,000 that broke support around 2000 sat. The dumping seems to have slowed and buy support is returning. In addition, Rob continues to work hard at making the wallet stable and we have more miners added to the gridcoin BOINC team every day.
Gridcoin has had some growing pains but in my opinion that makes it a great buy at this level. Distributed networks that can capture underutilized resources and compensate the resource holder for the use of that resource will be the next leap in computing technology and that is what Gridcoin does.
What it comes down to is that the only people excited about Gridcoin are the ones mining it. We need to continue to grow the network and spread the word. We need people to truly understand the concept of being compensated for contributing to a distributed compute network. If you want to help spread the word we are organizing a tweet storm here:
https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/13188-twitter-storm-guerrilla-marketing-campaign/