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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 credit54,848,797,144
Recent average credit46,176,617
Sierpinski / Riesel Base credit607,535,388 total (22087114 tasks)
Riesel Base credit462,833,087 total (20503011 tasks)
Sierpinski Base credit538,980,457 total (21074074 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - short credit470,029,828 total (17089600 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - long credit3,499,599,955 total (873074 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - average credit1,489,917,335 total (4641614 tasks)
Riesel Base - short credit296,144,628 total (20079667 tasks)
Sierpinski Base - short credit414,475,364 total (14094539 tasks)
TF credit47,069,379,763 total (16800125 tasks)
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SETIBZH
CountryInternational
TypeComputer type
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Founder customminer
New members in last day Greger
Total members927 (view)
Active members120 (view)
Members with credit819 (view)


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