I was so pumped last night because I had about 99,850 Gridcoins and since I'm mining about 225/day I was sure to hit 100,000 today. I woke up this morning and we are having blockchain issues so unfortunately I won't be getting my mined coins until tomorrow at the next superblock.
I hopped on the Slack channel to chat with the Gridcoin regulars there and I jokingly made the comment:
"You know, guys, this SuperBlock issue is a huge bummer for me. I was supposed to get my 100,000th coin today and it looks like I'm going to be stuck at 99,957 until tomorrow. I even got a cake with today's date on it and everything!"
Hoping to get a good chuckle, I closed the Slack window and went back to work. A few minutes later I hopped back on and user had said:
"I can send you 43 GRC :-P"
Thinking he was kidding, I laughed it off and said it's no big deal if I don't hit the mark until tomorrow. A few minutes later, a hear a little "ping" and deltik had indeed sent over 42.40 GRC -- enough to get me to exactly 100,000.00 on the nose!
So there you have it. I had assumed I would mine my way to 100,000 Gridcoins today, but instead I hit my milestone with the help of a generous fellow Gridcoin miner who had some change to spare! :-)
For how serious we all can be about CryptoCurrency from time to time, we can be thankful for how fun and lighthearted the Gridcoin community can be. Give this fellow a follow, would you? I hear he's new to Steemit and why wouldn't you want to follow a guy as cool as him?
Keep crunching, friends!