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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 credit69,234,574,655
Recent average credit46,130,480
Sierpinski / Riesel Base credit648,519,408 total (22296613 tasks)
Riesel Base credit534,400,717 total (20901134 tasks)
Sierpinski Base credit588,552,257 total (21285631 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - short credit492,945,412 total (17377332 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - long credit3,650,692,105 total (935707 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - average credit1,599,990,095 total (4815477 tasks)
Riesel Base - short credit339,937,866 total (20911550 tasks)
Sierpinski Base - short credit450,650,630 total (14627998 tasks)
TF credit60,929,321,006 total (17887016 tasks)
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Cross-project statsFree-DC
SETIBZH
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CountryInternational
TypeComputer type
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Founder customminer
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Total members955 (view)
Active members113 (view)
Members with credit846 (view)


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