Fellow Gridcoin workers!
Recent debates and rise in the public consciousness have given birth to a new reactionary faction: we call ourselves the Gridcoin Liberation Front (GRC-LF).
Our aim is to retaliate back at the power structures that are actively exploiting the good will and selfless devotion of the majority of the Gridcoin workers.
We are here to defend the rights of the small fish, the student in the dormitory, the curious accountant, the common folk who don't have cluster farms, fancy GPUs and fat wallets. We are here to keep our voices from getting drowned in the deep pockets of the privileged few: the whales who run bot-nets, the sharks speculating on our monthly earnings with their pocket money, the usurers who get paid thousands in interests while we do the computation!
Actions speak louder than words. Our first action will be to push for the de-listing of the Moo! Wrapper project. We believe this will move us closer to the GRC ideals, reinforce the community spirit and show that altruism is a shared value.
Motivation
The public debates [1, 2, 3] suggest that the Moo! Wrapper project, which is brute forcing an outdated encryption algorithm, has no scientific value. While many work on it without knowing, other elements actively favor it to gain unfair magnitude advantage using outdated hardware [4]. We believe in and contribute to GRC because it has the potential to raise awareness about the wasted energy on crypto and provide added value to whole humanity through scientific computing . Therefore we are against the white listing of any project that is used to undermine these basic shared values.
Action plan
There is a high risk that the vote for the delisting of the Moo! Wrapper can be dominated by the same privileged elements that are likely to have benefited from the aforementioned unfairness. Looking at the top voters for keeping the project, we see that they have acquired a lot of GRC and mag through Moo! [5, 6] . Unless we take action, these elements, which have significant voting power, can enforce their will upon us. As polls in GRC are meritocratic (based on coin amount and magnitude) we have decided to create a fund that will be redistributed to voters who support the delisting of the Moo! Wrapper. Only the lower 25 percent of the workers voting to remove the project will be considered for this subsidy, hence the richer 75 percent will not benefit. In this way we aim to support the poor who show great devotion and remain true to the GRC cause.
More specifically, the distribution will be carried out like this:
- Consider the fund balance at time t0 as b(t0)
- At the same time (t0) obtain all worker voters who voted to remove Moo! Wrapper [5]
- Create the cumulative distribution function cdf(x) from these voting shares
- Find the voting share corresponding to cdf(x=0.25) (as of this writing this is 11,637 GRC)
- Divide the fund balance b(t0) by the number of shareholders with less than cdf(x=0.25) and transfer it to their wallets.
The first distribution snapshot will be taken on
23.01.2018 Tuesday 20:00 GMT 26.01.2018 Friday 20.00 GMT
Please send your fund contributions to the following GRC address.
SBHDKwsZnD8eTdZmVGPGiWJr5ZAc9F51iN [view on block explorer]
If you have trust issues send small amounts. Every little drop counts!
Even if we can't win this vote our aim is to raise awareness and remind the poor that their sacrifices will not go unnoticed. United we shall prevail!
Follow us on this steemit account to keep informed
UPDATE:
First snapshot date has been moved to 23.01.2018 Tuesday 20:00 GMT.
References
1) https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/comments/7qre20/moo_wrapper_is_this_a_scientific_project/
2) https://cryptocurrencytalk.com/topic/94283-poll-to-de-list-moo-wrapper/
3) https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@dutch/poll-should-moo-wrapper-be-removed-from-the-whitelist
4) https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/comments/7qre20/moo_wrapper_is_this_a_scientific_project/dss82fh/
5) https://www.gridcoinstats.eu/poll/whitelist:_remove_moo_wrapper_project
6) https://www.gridcoinstats.eu/cpid/04a6fe7a851bcdcad7753ce170eecd3f