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Gridcoin State of the Network Report #11
March 31th, 2018

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Welcome to the 11th Gridcoin State of the Network Report. The SotN Report is a fortnightly report organized by Hive account@parejan and Hive account@jringo. It compiles useful news and statistics that the community can use as they see fit.

We apologize for the delay with this report and hope everyone had a cheery holiday weekend!

While posted on April 2nd, the stats and articles for this report are assuming it was posted on March 31st.

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Community and News

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Development

A status update from the core devs.

Bittrex and C-cex have opened GRC trading again.

@Delta1512 has built, tested, and added a tipbot to the Gridcoin discord server.

Hive account@nexusprime has built two magnitude estimators, one for GPUs and one for CPUs. Hive account@ehf was quick to contribute some improvements.

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Polls

There have been two updates to the Gridcoin white paper proposal. Update 1 | Update 2. The poll ends on April 20th.

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Projects

Team Gridcoin is now number 1 for projects rosetta@home and milkyway@home!

Team Gridcoin is now in 3rd place for RAC!

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Marketing and Outreach

Hive account@mdosev has written summaries describing three projects of Citizen Science Grid: 1 | 2 | 3. They have also written summaries on LHC and Einstein@home.

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Art and Design

Hive account@dr-frankenstein continues the Gridcoin ascending project with two new posts. 1 | 2.

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Data, Trends, and Resources

Hive account@jamescowens and Hive account@hotbit are continuing their exploration of estimated times to stake.

• A Quick Rule of Thumb Formula for Calculating Time to Stake - Jamescowns

• Confident Time to Stake - Hotbit

Hive account@alanman has fixed their stake calculator.

Hive account@jringo has summarized the base calculations for determining vote weight.

Hive account@parejan continues their project on calculated RAC for CPUs with enigma@home.

Hive account@dudebaker has updated their boincstats tracker.

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Gridcoin in the News

Nothing for this report.

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Statistics update

The stats update is divided into 3 sections: Blockchain Statistics, BOINC Statistics, and Project Statistics.

Every other week we bring you the most up to date statistics regarding the operation of the Gridcoin blockchain and Gridcoin BOINC projects. The information is gathered from Thursday to Wednesday on fortnightly basis and compiled from the getblockstats RPC command in the Gridcoin wallet, BOINCStats, and from individual project websites.

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Blockchain Statistics

Blockchain statistics from 15/Mar to 28/Mar

The table below contains the blockchain statistics of the last 2 weeks and covers blocks 1190227 to 1203667.

Blockchain charts

The charts below contain the longer term blockchain trends.

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BOINC Statistics

Team and pool statistics from 14/Mar to 27/Mar

The table below contains BOINC team and pool statistics of the last 2 weeks.

Team and pool charts

The team and pool charts contain the longer term team and pool trends.

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Project Statistics

Project tables from 14/Mar to 27/Mar

The table below contains the project statistics of the last 2 weeks.

Project charts from 14/Mar to 27/Mar

The charts below contain the project contribution breakdown of the last 2 weeks.

(Source: BOINCStats)

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This concludes the 11th Gridcoin State of the Network Report. Keep up the good work and we’ll see you in two weeks!

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