This step by step guide will hopefully help people getting started with Boinc and Gridcoin. It is not comprehensive and only deals with getting a basic set-up running.
Full instructions can be found here:
http://gridcoin.us/Guides/boinc-install.htm
****Please note you need to use the same e-mail, username and password for all projects****
1 Download Boinc and install
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php
Use advanced options and make a note of where you have installed Boinc and where you have set the data directory.
2 Sign-up to at least one or upto as many of the below projects as you want:
- Open Boinc
- Click Tools -> Add Project
- Select Project
- Click Next
- Enter E-Mail and Password
- Click Finish
Amicable Numbers - https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable
Asteroids@home - http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc
Citizen Science Grid - https://csgrid.org/csg
Collatz Conjecture - http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz
Cosmology@home - https://cosmologyathome.org/
Einstein@home - https://einsteinathome.org/
Gpugrid - https://www.gpugrid.net/
Leiden Classical - http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/
Lhc@home - http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack
Milkyway@home - http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway
Moowrap - http://moowrap.net/
Nfs@home - https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs
Numberfields@home - https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields
Primegrid - http://primegrid.com/
Rosetta@home - http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta
Seti@home - http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
Srbase - http://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5
Sztaki Desktop Grid - http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg
Theskynet Pogs - http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs
Tn-grid - http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/
Universe@home - http://universeathome.pl/universe
Vgtu Project@home - https://boinc.vgtu.lt/
World Community Grid - https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
Yafu - http://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu
Yoyo@home - http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo
3 For Each Project you have signed up to:
- Go to the Project website
- Select Your Account
- Log-in
- Set a username (In "Other Account Info"), this should be the same for all projects.
- Select to not recieve e-mails from the project (In "Project Preferences")
- Join team Gridcoin
- Make a note of your Cross Project ID (CPID), this should be the same for all projects.
4 Download and Install Gridcoin
http://gridcoin.us/
5 Create a .conf file
- Go to %Appdata%/GridcoinResearch
- Create the folder if needed.
- Create a text file with the following text
- Add your E-Mail, Username, Password, Directories and CPID as noted in the previous steps
cpumining=true
email=
addnode=node.gridcoin.us
addnode=gridcoin.asia
addnode=grcmagnitude.com
boincdatadir=
boincappdir=
boincpassword=
boincusername=
UpdatingLeaderboard=false
enablespeech=false
poolmining=false
suppressupgrade=false
PrimaryCPID=
- Save file as gridcoinresearch.conf
6 Set Gridcoin to run as Administrator
7 Run Gridcoin
The client will now download and verify the blockchain, this will take a while.
8 Encrypt and unlock your Wallet
Settings -> Encrypt Wallet
Settings -> Unlock Wallet
9 Acquire a balance
You can acquire free starting Gridcoins from the following Faucets
http://faucet.gridcoin.asia/
https://gridcoinstats.eu/faucet.php
10 Advertise your Beacon
Help -> Debug
Select the console tab
Type the following command "execute advertisebeacon"
11 Wait for the next SuperBlock. Superblocks are created every 26-48 hours, current superblock age can be found here:
https://gridcoinstats.eu/block
12 Sync the network:
Help -> Debug
Select the console tab
Type the following command "execute syncdpor2"
Congratulations you are now Boincing with Gridcoin