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DescriptionGridCoin is a new peer-to-peer internet based cryptocurrency that aims to provide real benefits to humanity by compensating the coin miners for participating in BOINC projects that may lead to advances in medicine, biology, mathematics, science, climatology, and astrophysics by concentrating a large percentage of the computational power towards BOINC research - instead of generating unnecessary heat and wasted power for the proof of work algorithms required to keep the coin network running. It is estimated that bitcoin is using approximately 23,312 megawatt hours per day (see electric consumption at blockchain.info/stats (24 hour stats)) of electric for block solving algorithms. The aim of the gridcoin project is to shift the computational power primarily to Boinc projects while the mining operations become a second priority - so as the network is scaled up, boinc utilization is scaled up in tandem. The coin miners will be rewarded with a small token subsidy if they fail to mine boinc shares, but a much larger subsidy when mining with boinc. This digital cryptocurrency allows instant peer to peer transactions, worldwide payments and very low processing fees. The source code is open source and allows everyone to take part in the success of the currency. Gridcoin is based on the Bitcoin protocol but differs from Bitcoin in that it can be efficiently mined with consumer-grade hardware, therefore is not as likely to be replaced by specialized ASIC mining chips in the future. Gridcoin provides faster transaction confirmations (2.5 minutes on average) and uses memory intensive scrypt-based proof-of-work algorithms to verify transactions.
Created10 Oct 2015
Web sitehttp://www.gridcoin.us
Total credit82,925,549,525
Recent average credit54,996,754
Sierpinski / Riesel Base credit679,373,218 total (22439853 tasks)
Riesel Base credit553,742,357 total (20966618 tasks)
Sierpinski Base credit625,416,927 total (21471544 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - short credit518,765,942 total (17474368 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - long credit3,695,745,705 total (954714 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - average credit1,687,207,495 total (4944635 tasks)
Riesel Base - short credit362,109,136 total (21048239 tasks)
Sierpinski Base - short credit472,181,100 total (14755372 tasks)
TF credit73,542,268,006 total (19326779 tasks)
LL-dc credit788,838,300 total (634 tasks)
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SETIBZH
CountryInternational
TypeComputer type
Members
Founder customminer
New members in last day0
Total members977 (view)
Active members136 (view)
Members with credit870 (view)


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