<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:25:27 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@jamescowens/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Important Polls Active For Gridcoin! Please Vote!]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 to adjust the poll active]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/important-polls-active-for-gridcoin-please-vote</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/important-polls-active-for-gridcoin-please-vote</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:36:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gridcoin-5.4.1.0-leisure release]]></title><description><![CDATA[[5.4.1.0] 2022-11-27, leisure This is the 5.4.1.0 leisure release, an intramilestone maintenance release as part of the LaVerne milestone. Much of this release comprises bugfixes and updates from the Bitcoin]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/beyondbitcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-5-4-1-0-leisure-release</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/beyondbitcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-5-4-1-0-leisure-release</guid><category><![CDATA[beyondbitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:24:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folding@home Adapter Whitelisting for Gridcoin]]></title><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/folding-home-adapter-whitelisting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/folding-home-adapter-whitelisting</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:44:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gridcoin 5.4.0.0-mandatory "Kermit's Mom" release]]></title><description><![CDATA[[5.4.0.0] 2022-08-01, mandatory, "Kermit's Mom" The Gridcoin core developers are proud to release 5.4.0.0 which represents the Kermit's Mom milestone. This is a mandatory release and includes]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-5-4-0-0-mandatory-kermit-s-mom-release</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-5-4-0-0-mandatory-kermit-s-mom-release</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:15:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gridcoin 5.3.3.0-leisure "Janice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[[5.3.3.0] 2022-02-27, leisure, "Janice" The Gridcoin core developers are proud to release 5.3.3.0 which represents the Janice milestone. This is actually a very large leisure release. On the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-161364/@jamescowens/gridcoin-5-3-3-0-leisure-janice</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-161364/@jamescowens/gridcoin-5-3-3-0-leisure-janice</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-161364]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 19:14:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gridcoin 5.3.2.0-leisure "Ingrid" release]]></title><description><![CDATA[[5.3.2.0] 2021-08-01, leisure, "Ingrid" This leisure release represents the completion of the "Ingrid" milestone. It has turned out to be a very substantial release, quite a bit larger]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-161364/@jamescowens/gridcoin-5-3-2-0-leisure-ingrid-release</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-161364/@jamescowens/gridcoin-5-3-2-0-leisure-ingrid-release</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-161364]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:32:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gridcoin 5.1.0.0-mandatory "Gladys" release]]></title><description><![CDATA[[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 considered a continuation]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-5-1-0-0-mandatory-gladys-release</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-5-1-0-0-mandatory-gladys-release</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2020 04:37:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gridcoin 5.0.1.0-Leisure release]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 the hotfix branch, plus]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-5-0-1-0-leisure-release</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-5-0-1-0-leisure-release</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2020 21:32:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gridcoin 5.0.0.0-Mandatory "Fern" Release]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 the scraper (the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-5-0-0-0-mandatory-fern-release</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-5-0-0-0-mandatory-fern-release</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2020 03:54:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gridcoin 4.0.6.0-Leisure "Ernestine" Release]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 the hotfixes]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-4-0-6-0-leisure-ernestine-release</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-4-0-6-0-leisure-ernestine-release</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2019 23:17:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gridcoin 4.0.5.0-Leisure "Elizabeth" Release]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 up to the Fern mandatory]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-4-0-5-0-leisure-elizabeth-release</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-4-0-5-0-leisure-elizabeth-release</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2019 02:25:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[BOINC Workshop Reimbursement Outreach Poll]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 Science - jringo Gridcoin, Bitcoin and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/boinc-workshop-reimbursement-outreach-poll</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/boinc-workshop-reimbursement-outreach-poll</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2019 01:46:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eAgbMBiAkdNMa2MZwzPXbUHqSNESVVRKxZU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gridcoin leisure update 4.0.4.0 released]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 the code was rearranged]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-leisure-update-4-0-4-0-released</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-leisure-update-4-0-4-0-released</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2019 22:29:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gridcoin Leisure Update 4.0.3.0 Released]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 for the legacy "neural]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-leisure-update-4-0-3-0-released</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-leisure-update-4-0-3-0-released</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2019 07:42:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress update on the new Gridcoin BOINC stats collection system (the "Scraper" which replaces the old "Neural Network")]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. This amounted to over]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/progress-update-on-the-new-gridcoin-boinc-stats-collection-system-the-scraper-which-replaces-the-old-neural-network</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/progress-update-on-the-new-gridcoin-boinc-stats-collection-system-the-scraper-which-replaces-the-old-neural-network</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2019 02:24:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gridcoin Bluepaper Section for Expected Time to Stake, Net Weight, and Related Concepts (Final Release Version)]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 bluepaper section about]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-bluepaper-section-for-expected-time-to-stake-net-weight-and-related-concepts-final-release-version</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-bluepaper-section-for-expected-time-to-stake-net-weight-and-related-concepts-final-release-version</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:06:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gridcoin Blue Paper Section for Expected Time to Stake, Net Weight, and Related Concepts]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 stake algorithm I coded]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-blue-paper-section-for-expected-time-to-stake-net-weight-and-related-concepts</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/gridcoin-blue-paper-section-for-expected-time-to-stake-net-weight-and-related-concepts</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2018 13:48:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the 163 GRC to everyone yesterday]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 bug that incorrectly]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/about-the-163-grc-to-everyone-yesterday</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/about-the-163-grc-to-everyone-yesterday</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2018 16:39:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UTXO Size vs Efficiency for upcoming Constant Block Rewards]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 (Constant Block Reward). The]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/utxo-size-vs-efficiency-for-upcoming-constant-block-rewards</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/utxo-size-vs-efficiency-for-upcoming-constant-block-rewards</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2018 16:46:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iNzKN33JQFm518j2P5e3eyaCrYfN9zgsCKjM6SY4ZXrzzeyjcHcEDkPSEjyk2M8mE8KMzLQFcpN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quick rule of thumb formula for calculating expected time to stake]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 thumb formula for estimated time]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/a-quick-rule-of-thumb-formula-for-calculating-expected-time-to-stake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/gridcoin/@jamescowens/a-quick-rule-of-thumb-formula-for-calculating-expected-time-to-stake</guid><category><![CDATA[gridcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamescowens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2018 03:41:27 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>