Gridcoin-Tasks VS namecoin-core

Anyone interested should also look into Gridcoin, you can get some crypto back in addition to doing some good science.

https://gridcoin.us/

Gridcoin. Support science. https://gridcoin.us

Been around longer than Eth has. You can check out the mining/crunching guides at gridcoin.us. If you run into any questions hop on the discord people are happy to help

Generally in terms of best to run for earning GRC it's math > physics > health augmented by CPU/GPU. You can get an idea of which those are by looking at the whitelist on gridcoin.us. I would avoid sidock for pis, iirc their workunits are very read/write heavy which isn't great for an SD-card based system.

Gridcoin - This cryptocurrency rewards users for participating in BOINC, a platform for distributed computing that supports a variety of scientific research projects.

I run BOINC with Gridcoin… but you’re likely not going to make much, if anything, after electricity. It’s for science tho :)

And there's rewards for doing it - https://gridcoin.us/

https://gridcoin.us. It’s a project that incentivizes distributive computing.

I noticed Universe@home is no longer showing in my wallet whitelist, but cannot find anything on it being removed from GRC. This might be a dumb question, but can anyone give me a link to what happened? I don't see anything on this sub and https://gridcoin.us/ still shows it whitelisted, but I know that's slow to update at times.

Link to Github issue: https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Tasks/issues/260

See namecoin, one of the very first Bitcoin forks.

https://www.namecoin.org/

Namecoin - A cryptocurrency that also acts as a decentralized DNS, which makes internet censorship much more difficult.

Bro, literally, https://www.namecoin.org was created because Bitcoiners didn't want it on Bitcoin. Bitcoin is money, other coins are structures that work better as OTHER types of protocols. Not everything is a scam. Bitcoin is the decentralized protocol for money, other coins aren't, it's not a big deal.

Cryptocurrency is intended to be decentralised, to have privacy and security. A vanity address provides the opposite of privacy, which is traceability and publicity. This needs not be a weakness but can become a strength. Vanity addresses are hard to generate since they are almost random and getting the exact prefix (or string within the address) is exponentially unlikely. It is also why private addresses cannot be derived from public addresses, for hashing is a one-way function.

I've not seen much from namecoin devs here in a while, and the forum looks pretty dead. However, Twitter @Namecoin looks like it gets posted to somewhat regularly (not much in November tho) and the GitHub namecoin-core repo is receiving commits regularly... even if a lot of them are just merges from bitcoin-core.

Judging by your username, you're asking for something like Namecoin.

What problem does Mastodon solve? Just non-Twitter shortform social networking? What about Diaspora, PeerTube, etc?

Not being beholden to a central authority (whether that authority be Twitter, PayPal, or the US government) is intrinsically valuable to a lot of people. Blockchains are just a convenient and proven way of enabling that sort of independence.

Granted, decentralization is a bit of a niche, and the cryptocurrency gold rush has made it way more mainstream than it has any right to be at this point in time given it's current drawbacks. But that doesn't mean it's not valuable.

As for blockchain specifically: yes, decentralized payments seems to be the primary use case. But once you have a decentralized payments system, that enables the creation of a whole bunch of other decentralized applications that would not have otherwise been possible. That's why most "blockchain" projects start with a currency and then build from there: it's hard to build [decentralized cloud storage][1] or [decentralized DNS][2] without first having a decentralized way to pay for those services.

[1]: https://sia.tech/

[2]: https://www.namecoin.org/

Description: Namecoin (NMC) is a cryptocurrency . Users are able to generate NMC through the process of mining. Namecoin has a current supply of 14,736,400. The last known price of Namecoin is 1.42769184 USD and is up 3.58 over the last 24 hours. It is currently trading on 7 active market(s) with $7,523.53 traded over the last 24 hours. More information can be found at https://www.namecoin.org/.