Topic: Gridcoin (GRC) - first coin utilizing BOINC - Official Thread - page 77. (Read 597505 times)

You have to be a member of the forum (not newbie status) which means you have to have an activity above 30 I guess.

Probably we will have bad luck with voting here in general because we are acting on another forum. Our members there are not so active as they are in CCT. Like us: (

You have to be a member of the forum (not newbie status) which means you have to have an activity above 30 I guess.

Probably we will have bad luck with voting here in general because we are acting on another forum. Our members there are not so active as they are in CCT. Like us: (

I'd vote if I could but for some reason I can't.

I'd vote if I could but for some reason I can't.

Vote for GRC to be added to the Bullish Percent Index for cryptos

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bullish-percent-index-for-cryptos-1151078

so I made a first version of a document explaining how Gridcoin works: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PE4Rb6JylkVxj031pHW6aNPU-PLh_VenLHTkgqcZ2NM/edit#heading=h.w0am5v95932e

What do you think of it?

Here's my draft tutorial:
 
So you want to help by running a testnet node, but don't know where to start?  Thanks in advance for your help.  The more people on testnet, the faster it will get confirmations, which makes things far easier for the development team.  

Testnet is completely separate from mainnet; they run on different ports, so you can run both at the same time.  
 
If you have specified an RPC port in your gridcoinresearch.conf file, see an important note below at the *.  Otherwise, your existing file will be used, and work properly, automatically.

In either case, move to the directory the executable is in (Windows users: Start -> run, type cmd, then enter
cd ProgramFiles/Gridcoinresearch/
and start the Gridcoin client with the --testnet argument:
Linux:
$ ./gridcoinresearch --testnet
 Windows:
gridcoinresearch.exe --testnet
You can also create a shortcut on Windows (or trivial shell script on Linux) to start the program with the appropriate argument.

Now let it run.  As with mainnet, you will need at least some coins to mine or stake.  At the moment, there is no fountain on testnet, so feel free to ask for some coins in this thread, or in the #gridcoin channel on Freenode IRC (if you don't have an IRC -- Internet Relay Chat -- client, there's a web-based one at https://webchat.freenode.net/, and you can just type #gridcoin under "Channels:").
 
Once you have coins, it's "hurry up and wait" time: you'll still need to send a beacon (if not done automatically), get into a superblock, and then wait for PoR/PoS rewards.

Thanks again for helping out!
 
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*If you have specified an RPC port, then using the same configuration file will not work, since your main and testnet client will both attempt to attach to that port.  You will need to edit the file, and change the port number to a different one.
 
First off, copy your gridcoinresearch.conf file from ~/.GridcoinResearch/ to ~/.GridcoinResearch/testnet on Linux, creating the directory if necessary.  On Windows,  copy it from AppData/Roaming/GridcoinResearch/testnet to AppData/Roaming/GridcoinResearch/testnet.

Alternatively, you can create a new configuration file, remembering to set your BOINC email address if you want to mine rather than being an investor:
[email protected]
In any case, change the RPC port in the "testnet" folder's copy of gridcoinresearch.conf to a different one, save, and THEN start the testnet client as outlined above.

I just wanted to make a statement about the future Research Age payment algorithm as it relates to block caps and investments in Gridcoin:

In addition to regular testnet testing over the next few weeks, we will not go live with it until all of these points are addressed:
No payment will be made on POR blocks with a submitted age > 6 months.  A zero POR block will be staked and the age will start over.
A superblock with verified user magnitude in it must exist at least once per month for any magnitudes spanning > 30 days, to assess a good midpoint magnitude - to arrive at a good average mag.  Those values will be used and added to the historical average for the staked block.
*Neural network will be modified to take daily snapshots of mags and send the information to the coin to have exact magnitude averages.
Magnitude out of bounds checks must be enforced: Any magnitudes posted varying a greater percent than the high fluctuation percentage will not be counted in the averages.  The algo will take into account rising mags, falling mags etc, but for example, a mag that is out of bounds will not be counted in that days average.
A certain high limit will have to be imposed for the absolute highest magnitudes, possibly 20000~ - this must be done to create some sort of maximum subsidy cap.
A max subsidy of BlockMax * 180 will be added just in case.
Subsidies will be paid using the agreed magnitude unit so as payments for the day are subtracted from the kitty daily (IE no coin overpayments per day).
If a start magnitude is unavailable for some reason, the POR will be zero, and age will start over at that point.
Timespans < 30 days will use verified superblock start mag, end mag and midpoint mag.
Timespans > 30 will use verified start, stop, and midpoints - plus the NN avg info, as soon as it is added.  This will be added before we go live.
Conditions outside of these result in a staked POR blocks of 0 for POR, but with interest paid.
POR age accrual always starts over as of the last POR block staked.

I just did, btw, does anyone know why GRC is frozen on Poloniex?

Retweet retweet https://twitter.com/WinstonTew/status/629633980296335360 not that it's a very good tweet, but it's still a tweet!

I think we should inform everyone else in the Cryptocointalk thread about this thread and urge them to post regularly.