Gridcoin continues to grow as a major player on BOINC.
Based on data gathered over the past ten weeks from the "Combined Teams" chart of the Free-DC Distributed Computing Stats System (http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=boincteams), it looks as though team Gridcoin is poised to overtake the Recent Average Credit (RAC) of team SETI.USA sometime next week, moving into third place.
This chart shows teams with the 2nd through 8th highest RAC on BOINC. Six of these teams seem to have a stable RAC, but one team stands out for its upward trend through the past ten weeks: That one team is Gridcoin.
Here is another view closer in, showing only positions two through six:
While Gridcoin has certainly come far, let's zoom out a bit to see all top eight teams. The team with the highest RAC on BOINC remains The Final Front Ear. For Gridcoin to reach that 3 billion RAC mark, it will take more than merely additional computing power to rein in Bitcoin Utopia and the ASICs -- that may need a wholesale culture shift within the cryptocurrency sector towards "Proof of Meaningful Work".
While Gridcoin is already the biggest player on BOINC when Bitcoin Utopia is not included -- as of writing, according to the "Combined Teams (no Bitcoin)" chart (http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=boincteamsb) its team RAC is greater than the next 23 competitors COMBINED -- it is great to see this organic growth of Gridcoin make itself evident on the BOINC leaderboards.
Thank you for your first article @grwd and welcome to the Gridcoin community on Steemit!
Just a comment, I think the overall RAC for Bitcoin Utopia is incorrect. For a project without any output it is strange to have a RAC score of 3,329,259,851.
I would only look at this chart to compare the teams based on RAC scores: http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=boincteamsb
Thanks @parejan for the feedback. I've been following Gridcoin on Steemit for a few months now and am glad to join the conversation.
I agree that the sky high RAC for Bitcoin Utopia is a little odd, but I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt given what (little) I understand about the efficiency of ASICs.
And I might start tracking that second chart, thanks. Gridcoin is already dominating it significantly, with an RAC equal to the total of all the other teams in 2nd place through 24th place. I'd be curious to see and communicate what such a "Gridcoin versus Everyone" chart looks like.
Bitcoin Utopia mines Bitcoin.
At first Bitcoin Utopia donated the results to BOINC project.
Later there were troubles with that (I don't know the details) and also people did not like that basically help Bitcoin wasting energy when the thing Gridcoin wants to do is end that. So Utopia got de-whitelisted.
If you check BOINCStats you will noticed that Bitcoin Utopia doesn't have RAC output anymore. Besides their official webiste (http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/) has expired as well.
Interesting subject Gridcoin vs everyone, looking forward to see your article on this :)
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Nice!
Maybe more people will notice Gridcoin when we will make it to the top.