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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 credit66,743,671,716
Recent average credit40,861,467
Sierpinski / Riesel Base credit643,044,968 total (22252123 tasks)
Riesel Base credit532,524,117 total (20891619 tasks)
Sierpinski Base credit583,783,997 total (21254408 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - short credit488,182,283 total (17258832 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - long credit3,595,732,605 total (921109 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - average credit1,589,148,115 total (4798721 tasks)
Riesel Base - short credit339,444,346 total (20902867 tasks)
Sierpinski Base - short credit449,337,590 total (14619289 tasks)
TF credit58,522,952,506 total (17610949 tasks)
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SETIBZH
Free-DC
CountryInternational
TypeComputer type
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Founder customminer
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Total members952 (view)
Active members127 (view)
Members with credit844 (view)


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