Gridcoin-Site VS Gridcoin-Research

What are people's thoughts? If people are generally in support of this we can go ahead with it, if it's controversial then it should probably be sent to a poll. Feedback and discussion is encouraged here or on Github. https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Site/pull/395

I have submitted some proposed changes to the Gridcoin.us site, but it became clear that some of the changes I proposed would mark a departure from the existing way of doing things, and that soliciting community feedback to would be a good step to take figure out what the network as a whole actually wants.

https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Site/pull/317 (new pages)

You can also find some of the other old logos and all from the old versions of the site. For instance browsing from a commit 4 years ago (d049a12f2ce46eb97a1070f7997994db73c01fa6), you'll see this image, this one, another similar one, one that I don't know why it existed, and more.

For the wiki stuff, it's less focused on the guides and more on the topics themselves although some do have some how-to type things in there. Funny enough I am working on a big update to the solo, pool, and non-cruncher guides on gridcoin.us. If you want to see a list of some of the pages that would be good to add/update, take a look at https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Site/issues/258. If you want to look at an overview of how to edit the wiki, take a look at https://gridcoin.us/wiki/wiki-editing.html

I agree with the other commenters that the best way to get an idea of it is to look at it yourself.

It's hard to trust people in general, so that's why I left it in for more transparency. I think that's an issue that goes to more than just crypto too unfortunately. I'd agree that it's worse in the crypto world in general, however.

If you want some degree of evidence that I believe in the coin, you can take a look at some of the work I've done[1][2]. None of this can tell you anything with high confidence unfortunately with out any real knowledge of each other, so the best solution is not to take my complete word on everything. Most of the work I've done is on the site and wiki system (208 commits)[1], and I've done a little bit on the wallet itself (19 commits)[2], but my C++ abilities aren't the best, so not as much as the site.

Lastly, 5000 Gridcoin is really not a lot in comparison to most of the network, but still of course raises potential conflicts of interests. I know that it's still hard to trust anyone on this because there's a lot of shill type people in the crypto world unfortunately, so it's best to look at the system itself

[1] https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Site/graphs/c...

For more details see this pull request: https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Site/pull/282

I'm aware since I added the words "for science" to to the site about a week ago (well planned it before that but it went live about a week ago). https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Site/pull/276

git clone https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research.git

Any ideas as to how to get this working? I've searched and the closest entry to this entry that I've found is here: https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research/issues/2369

Please see https://gridcoin.us/wiki/voting.html for a review of Gridcoin's voting system and current poll requirements. This also defines Active Vote Weight (AVW). For those interested in the gory details of how the wallet actually calculates AVW, please see https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research/pull/2210 and in particular the handwritten notes.

The Gridcoin community has long sought a way to be able to include other distributed computing domains in our rewards structure. (See https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research/issues/782 and https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Tasks/issues/70.) Long ago there was an attempt to try and expose Folding@Home directly as a BOINC project, and it failed. Years later, all of the work done on the scraper (Denise milestone) and later the rest of the recode of the Gridcoin rewards framework (Fern+) prepared the network infrastructure in theory to support other computing domains, with Folding@Home the top of the list. There are limits to what the current wallet protocol can support at the current time though. After thinking through these limits and discussing the most efficient way to "hook in" Folding @Home, the core developers concluded the best approach would be to create an adapter that would act as a bridge between Folding@Home and the Gridcoin network. Cycy contemplated doing a heavier weight adapter that would act much like a BOINC project, requiring account registration just like a regular BOINC project, and then monitoring Folding@Home tasks and transforming that into BOINC project like statistics for the Gridcoin network to process. Cycy even created an informal (survey) poll to gauge interest in the community on this. (See the output of getpollresults 9af4b51f00841ab82f444c218c47b80d0c590098e6d0237fa02489652055cb83 in the wallet console, https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/comments/jvephz/opinion_poll_should_gridcoin_reward_foldinghome/, and https://www.gridcoinstats.eu/poll/9af4b51f00841ab82f444c218c47b80d0c590098e6d0237fa02489652055cb83.) The results of that poll indicated very strong support by the community to create an adapter for Folding@Home. Unfortunately before Cycy could do the adapter, his priorities changed and he is no longer active. Fortunately Div72 has picked up the baton and done it! The adapter that Div72 has written is much thinner than what Cycy envisioned, extremely simple, and elegant and will work very well for the community. It has been in testing on Testnet for several weeks and is extremely stable. I will get into how it works later in this write-up, but first I want to discuss the whitelisting requirements that we apply to new projects. Although Folding@Home is different in many ways from a native BOINC project, we should discuss the requirements as applied to Folding@Home and do a whitelisting poll for Folding@Home.

for the wallet, afaik there is no arch package, at least not in their github releases, but there is a very good guide in compiling the wallet https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research/blob/development/doc/build-unix.md