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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 credit72,531,336,005
Recent average credit24,012,785
Sierpinski / Riesel Base credit658,326,358 total (22345131 tasks)
Riesel Base credit539,731,957 total (20914313 tasks)
Sierpinski Base credit602,544,107 total (21344087 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - short credit497,006,112 total (17404127 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - long credit3,663,178,205 total (940273 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - average credit1,642,657,045 total (4888532 tasks)
Riesel Base - short credit344,728,476 total (20942881 tasks)
Sierpinski Base - short credit450,972,900 total (14629047 tasks)
TF credit64,132,289,506 total (18368872 tasks)
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CountryInternational
TypeComputer type
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Founder customminer
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Total members961 (view)
Active members115 (view)
Members with credit851 (view)


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