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jamescowens
gridcoin
2023-01-06 00:36
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 to adjust the poll active
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jamescowens
beyondbitcoin
2022-11-28 00:24
Gridcoin-5.4.1.0-leisure release
Gridcoin 5.4.1.0 leisure release
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2022-11-19 20:44
Folding@home Adapter Whitelisting for Gridcoin
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2022-08-01 03:15
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
Gridcoin (GRC)
2022-02-27 19:14
Gridcoin 5.3.3.0-leisure "Janice"
Gridcoin 5.3.3.0 leisure Janice milestone release
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jamescowens
Gridcoin (GRC)
2021-08-02 00:32
Gridcoin 5.3.2.0-leisure "Ingrid" release
[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
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2020-11-02 04:37
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 considered a continuation
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2020-09-20 21:32
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 the hotfix branch, plus
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2020-09-04 03:54
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 the scraper (the
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2019-10-22 23:17
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 the hotfixes
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2019-08-22 02:25
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 up to the Fern mandatory
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2019-07-22 01:46
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 Science - jringo Gridcoin, Bitcoin and
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2019-05-18 22:29
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 the code was rearranged
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2019-05-10 07:42
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 for the legacy "neural
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2019-03-07 02:24
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. This amounted to over
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2018-10-22 20:06
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 bluepaper section about
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2018-09-09 13:48
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 stake algorithm I coded
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2018-09-02 16:39
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 bug that incorrectly
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2018-08-01 16:46
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 (Constant Block Reward). The
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jamescowens
gridcoin
2018-03-26 03:41
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 thumb formula for estimated time
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