It has been an interesting 126 days since I started my Gridcoin journey. Today, I will get paid my 5000th GRC - cool. This semester and the one to come, I work as a tutor at my university and earn quiet some money. Since I study a lot and don't really spend any money, I thought about investing some of it in building a GRC mining rig.
Reading about mining rigs brings up a few questions. A lot of other miners use motherboards with loads of PCIe 1x slots and a cheap CPU to mine. However, GRC is not as other currencies, in the way that I don't have to just hash, but do real science - cool again. Does anyone of you have experience in optimising their setup? Should I just invest in GPUs and work with a cheap CPU or could I also invest in a little bit more expensive CPU since gridcoin also uses CPUs? Furthermore, how well do BOINC projects if the GPUs are faced with limited PCIe bandwidth?
Having seen the spike in GRC value to over 0.06$ for a short time and a more continuous rise to over 0.04$, I feel like my investment won't be completely for nothing, and even if, maybe I cure cancer on the way :)
So keep BOINCing everyone and help science advance!
P.S: I have not staked in over 3 months. Is this normal with my balance or is something wrong with my wallet? Twice I was shown to have staked in the last 2 months, but the block "disappeared" after a short period of time again.