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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 credit79,923,638,095
Recent average credit55,365,757
Sierpinski / Riesel Base credit677,749,618 total (22435794 tasks)
Riesel Base credit552,669,957 total (20963937 tasks)
Sierpinski Base credit621,878,887 total (21428186 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - short credit516,675,342 total (17469353 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - long credit3,678,717,905 total (949186 tasks)
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - average credit1,674,168,595 total (4925766 tasks)
Riesel Base - short credit356,864,086 total (20993441 tasks)
Sierpinski Base - short credit462,533,060 total (14679603 tasks)
TF credit71,334,841,006 total (19277033 tasks)
LL-dc credit47,638,300 total (89 tasks)
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SETIBZH
CountryInternational
TypeComputer type
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Founder customminer
New members in last day0
Total members976 (view)
Active members123 (view)
Members with credit868 (view)


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