Welcome to Gridcoin Weekly.

We aim to write about what happens in the Gridcoin world and have some longer in depth sections on topics that has been hot the current week, and try to highlight many of the current interesting things. We give you tips and statistics to make you feel up to date on everything regarding the network. Do you wish to see something special, please leave a comment in the section below.

This week meant the end of the highly discussed poll of Enforcing SSL for a project to be on the Whitelist. Read our full article on this matter and what it means now.

From this issue we will include our new infogram of "This Week in Numbers". Feel free to share this anywhere you wish and be sure to tell everyone to support us on Steemit.

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Network Sais "NO" to SSL Enforcement; What now?

The poll regarding enforcing SSL for all projects on the whitelist ended with a great majority of almost 75% of the Shares against it. Both Miners and Investors had a majority of No votes. While Miners was only just weighing over on the no side with 29M Shares vs. 22M Shares, the majority of the investors was against it with 46M Shares vs. 3M Shares.

The result of this will not mean that the work of trying to secure the network for our users are over. This only means the network does not think a banning of projects for not having a valid SSL certificate is a good idea as of yet. The work will continue by many of the Gridcoin members.

If you are unsure of what this means for you, an article to read is definitely Why SSL is so important for us and Should SSL Be Mandatory.

The Following Projects DOES NOT HAVE A SSL Certificate

Project Name	Status
Numberfields@Home	Working On It
vLHC	Working On It
Universe@Home	Working On It
CPDN	Working On It
SAT	Maybe
Enigma	Maybe
Leiden	No/Not Planned
ATLAS	NO RESPONSE
LHC(classic)	NO RESPONSE
POEM	NO RESPONSE
Sztaki	NO RESPONSE

If any project on this list is a project you are working with, you should definitely read the Discussion Thread on the forum and read what you can do and the progress.

Discussion Thread on the Forum

In other news

Hive account@officialfuzzy pays commission to make a painted Gridcoin logo

Hive account@angsteem made a painted beyondbitcoin logo and was asked by @officialfuzzy to make a similar painting for Gridcoin. A commission of 75 SBD has been issued for the work.

Hive account@cm-steem talks Gridcoin on Beyondbitcoin Hangout 172

Gridcoin once again features on the BeyondBitcoin Hangout by

Hive account@officialfuzzy.

Hive account@cm-steem talks about SSL, security and his latest personal project "Project Rain". The BeyondBitcoin Hangout at SoundCloud

Price race for Gridcoin when trading volume suddenly spikes on September 8th

The price and volume suddenly shot trough the roof on September 8th for various cryptocurrencies, with Gridcoin being one of them. Suddenly volume was many times higher than normal and price climbed up to 150% in a few hours. Both

Hive account@cm-steem writes about this event and

Hive account@gridcoinman writes about it.

Gridcoin featured in Crypto Market Video

Crypto Market includes Gridcoin along side with CureCoin and FoldingCoin. They are also present on Steemit as

Hive account@decentro.

Current Gridcoin Contests

There are a few contests running in the Gridcoin world.
We are trying to find a new Wallet Splash Image - With Reward in GRC!
We are trying to find an intro tune for the Gridcoin Community Hangouts - With Reward in GRC!

Gridcoin related BOINC Projects News

Highlights news from and related to all the BOINC Projects on the Gridcoin Whitelist. Most of the news are from the projects news sections. If you wish a project to be present in this section, please inform the project admins to write more news ;)

Researchers Publish Findings on Potential New Treatments for Leishmaniasis

WorldCommunityGrid writes about a new paper that has been published on the work done by WCG for potential treatments for Leishmanaiasis.

Video Tour of the SETI Labs - Part 2

David MacMahon continues his tour of the hardware that powers Berkeley SETI and Breakthrough Listen.

How to get better performance on Atlast@Home

Atlast@Home has posted a news article on how to gain better performance with their ATLAS_MCOR application. Worth checking out if you run it.

Record temperatures in Europe from 2014 analyzed

ClimatePredition writes about the weather in Europe from 2014 and the possible ways to distinguish how much was caused by due to anthropogenic (man-made) climate change.

PrimeGrid continues to find PPS Mega Primes

The search for PPS Mega Primes at PrimeGrid has resulted in two new results this week. A 1,045,732 digits prime and a 1,048,989 digits prime, both to be entered in the Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database.

Citizen Science Grid installs SSL

The work of getting many of the projects to support SSL has this week resulted in that Citizen Science Grid now also can be accessed with Secure connection.

vLHC@Home Explains about Workunit Limitations

An explanation regarding limiting the number of work units per host has been written on the vLHC@Home page. They also explain how to remove it.

Gridcoin Community Hangout

Every Saturday at 10PM CET there is a live Mumble session that anyone can participate in. Anyone are free to speak up, or you can just connect and listen in live. Listen to the Gridcoin Hangout on SoundCloud (takes a few days after live session before it's posted)

Here are some of the topics in this weeks hangout

The result of the SSL Voting
The issues of BOINC security
Answer to the question of "Where does Gridcoin gets it's value from"
The time of broadcast has been asked to be at a different time. A Vote is avaliable
Customminer gives updates regarding Project Rain.
Possible future projects to reach out to are discussed

Wallet Updates

There has been no updates to the wallet this week.

Current Votes

SSL Enforcement Vote

The SSL Enforcement vote ended with a majority voting for NO. The option NO was to the majority Investors, while YES was mainly Miners, as you can see in the image below. Both Investors and Miners voted for NO.

Vote Weight Rebalancing - UNFINISHED

The vote for Vote Weight Rebalancing is still ongoing and will end on 2016-09-17. These are the results this far.
The majority votes either for 70:30 or 90:10 with Investors voting mainly on 90:10 and Miners on 70:30.
You should read about the Poll Here.

This voting is important for future voting! Please participate!