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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 3 years ago
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    Important Polls Active For Gridcoin! Please Vote!

    There are two important polls going on in Gridcoin right now. One is for (at long last) whitelisting Folding@Home, allowing Gridcoin to reward contributions to F@H. The other is…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #beyondbitcoin • 3 years ago
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    Gridcoin-5.4.1.0-leisure release

    Gridcoin 5.4.1.0 leisure release
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 3 years ago
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    Folding@home Adapter Whitelisting for Gridcoin

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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 3 years ago
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    Gridcoin 5.4.0.0-mandatory "Kermit's Mom" release

    Gridcoin 5.4.0.0-mandatory "Kermit's Mom" release
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 5 years ago
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    Gridcoin 5.1.0.0-mandatory "Gladys" release

    [5.1.0.0] 2020-11-01, mandatory, "Gladys" The core team is proud to present the Gladys milestone release, which is a mandatory upgrade. This release should really be…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 5 years ago
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    Gridcoin 5.0.1.0-Leisure release

    We are releasing a small maintenance leisure release to correct a few compilation problems on some platforms, and address a few corner-case issues that were already addressed on…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 5 years ago
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    Gridcoin 5.0.0.0-Mandatory "Fern" Release

    Finally! After over ten months of development and testing, "Fern" has arrived! This is a whopper. 240 pull requests merged. Essentially a complete rewrite that was started with…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 6 years ago
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    Gridcoin 4.0.6.0-Leisure "Ernestine" Release

    Wait you say? Another "E" milestone release? Yes, indeed! There is so much going into Fern, and we were originally going to do a hotfix only, but we decided to do a release with…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 6 years ago
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    Gridcoin 4.0.5.0-Leisure "Elizabeth" Release

    The core developers are pleased to present the 4.0.5.0 Elizabeth milestone leisure release. This is a leisure release primarily aimed at non-mandatory items and bug fixes leading…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 6 years ago
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    BOINC Workshop Reimbursement Outreach Poll

    Overview The 2019 BOINC Workshop took place in Chicago from July 9th - July 12th. There were two presentations from three Gridcoin contributors. The Open Systems of…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 6 years ago
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    Gridcoin leisure update 4.0.4.0 released

    This is a targeted hotfix to fix two issues. One applies to the scrapers themselves only, the other is to restore the new user wizard, which was inadvertently removed when all of…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 6 years ago
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    Gridcoin Leisure Update 4.0.3.0 Released

    The Core Developers are proud to present the Denise milestone release, which is highlighted by the New Gridcoin Statistics Scraping and Reporting System (“Scraper”) replacement…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 6 years ago
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    Progress update on the new Gridcoin BOINC stats collection system (the "Scraper" which replaces the old "Neural Network")

    I am excited to announce that the new, native C++ integrated statistics collection system was merged into the development branch on February 25 from my integrated_scraper branch.…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 7 years ago
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    Gridcoin Bluepaper Section for Expected Time to Stake, Net Weight, and Related Concepts (Final Release Version)

    I am pleased to present Gridcoin's first Bluepaper section that covers Expected Time to Stake, Net Weight, and related concepts. On September 9th I posted a preview copy of this…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 7 years ago
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    Gridcoin Blue Paper Section for Expected Time to Stake, Net Weight, and Related Concepts

    I have been working over the past few months, greatly assisted by @snipatomic and @ILikeChocolate, to formally document in a mathematically rigorous way the new expected time to…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 7 years ago
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    About the 163 GRC to everyone yesterday

    The 162 and 1 GRC received by everyone yesterday which was sent to an apparent address of 1Wh4bh are actually "burn" transactions to an empty address. The wallet currently has a…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 7 years ago
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    UTXO Size vs Efficiency for upcoming Constant Block Rewards

    As most of the community should be aware at this point, Gridcoin will be switching from 1.5% APR rewarded for staking to a constant value of 10 GRC awarded per block staked…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 7 years ago
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    A quick rule of thumb formula for calculating expected time to stake

    I have been involved in an extensive discussion on the Gridcoin Slack recently involving difficulty, network weight, and stake weight. I developed a quite accurate rule of…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 7 years ago
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    GRC forking issues and a new release forthcoming

    I have seen here and on Reddit increasing anxiety and questions regarding a release which will fully stabilize the network and allow the exchanges to reopen. Release 3.7.7.0 in…
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  • jamescowens (55)in #gridcoin • 8 years ago
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    Happy New Year 2018 and Celebrating achieving 2,000,000,000 cobblestones on BOINC

    I just passed the 2B milestone on BOINC right before the New Year. In celebration I have rained 2000 GRC to all active GRC researchers that have an address in the latest…
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