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| Description | GridCoin 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. |
| Created | 10 Oct 2015 |
| Web site | http://www.gridcoin.us |
| Total credit | 74,896,888,025 |
| Recent average credit | 50,458,110 |
| Sierpinski / Riesel Base credit | 667,501,598 total (22400291 tasks) |
| Riesel Base credit | 548,243,557 total (20944262 tasks) |
| Sierpinski Base credit | 612,181,367 total (21397120 tasks) |
| Sierpinski / Riesel Base - short credit | 505,299,712 total (17439796 tasks) |
| Sierpinski / Riesel Base - long credit | 3,669,943,205 total (944032 tasks) |
| Sierpinski / Riesel Base - average credit | 1,648,427,345 total (4895445 tasks) |
| Riesel Base - short credit | 350,914,976 total (20958410 tasks) |
| Sierpinski Base - short credit | 453,228,420 total (14644652 tasks) |
| TF credit | 66,441,246,506 total (18754739 tasks) |
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| Cross-project stats | BOINCstats.com SETIBZH Free-DC |
| Country | International |
| Type | Computer type |
| Members | |
| Founder | customminer |
| New members in last day | 0 |
| Total members | 966 (view) |
| Active members | 111 (view) |
| Members with credit | 856 (view) |