Gridcoin and Distributed Work on BOINC
I'm sure many of you have heard of Gridcoin, since we are quite an active community on Steemit and also frequently on the Beyond Bitcoin RadioShows.
If you haven't Welcome! :)
@cm-steem has been writing quite a few articles on brainstorming ideas for BOINC projets that could be created for rewards on the Gridcoin Network. The latest one are 7th BOINC project brainstorming thread! Need 100k+ CPUs? Come talk about it! and explains a whole bunch of possibilities that the BOINC platform can be used for.
Synergy of BOINC and Gridcoin
Gridcoin rewards BOINC work evenly throughout all the supported projects with new coins, it's the way we evenly distribute the newly minted coins. This way the projects participants are rewarded for their work while the projects continue to be non-profit volunteering projects reliving them from the responsibility and liability of rewarding their users since they are not connected to the rewards distribution.
Anyone can create a BOINC project and apply for Gridcoin Rewards!
The BOINC platform in developed and maintained as open source on GitHub and anyone can create a project running this distributed work platform, today. We are always looking for new and interesting projects to add to the whitelist of approved projects.
There are a few, very basic, needs that any project need to be approved. The project needs to be a long running project (more than a few months at least) and a few other, but that will come once you're there.
Interested to play around with BOINC?
How to make a BOINC project in 10 minutes with Docker
I came across this cool video of setting up BOINC to run and distribute a workunit to a client using Docker.
This video was created by Marius Millea, who runs the Cosmology@Home project, one of the projects rewarded on the Gridcoin Network.
All you need is 10 minutes to set up boinc-server-docker!
Source: Turbocharged Science on BOINC (with Docker)
What is Gridcoin?
Gridcoin is a cryptocurrency which securely rewards BOINC computation (volunteer distributed computing projects which attempt to cure diseases, map the milkyway, search for extraterrestrial life, etc) on top of proof of stake.
Anyone can create a BOINC project to create a distributed cloud service of their own desire, we can reward your users on your behalf as opposed to you paying for computation up front.
Don't forget to visit the #Gridcoin substeemit! Plenty of text based content being created there every day!
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Always good to see someone else interested in GRC.
I haven't talked about GRC much with many other people, but most if not all of the people I talk to express distaste, or disregard GRC.
Out of all cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies, this would be my current favourite as it's encouraging people to help further humanites knowledge of science.
Dont listen to the negatives, the Gridcoin community is strong, stronger than most in crypto-land because we have more important goals.
One just need to look under some other crypto tags here at Steemit. Invest. Volume. Spike! Buy now! It's worse than on Poloniex trollbox. Empty of any long-term purpose or even meaning.
Many thanks for the how to make a boinc project!
Seems very interesting.
I am actually holding gridcoins for a while now. I'm sure price will rise in the future.
This sounds very interesting. I'm going to do some research. Thanks
Always happy to inspire
I'm happy I was able to inspire you to do some more research on this topic. There are much untapped potential with the BOINC platform since it's mainly used for Scientific computational work. It can be used for a wide variation of things.
You're always welcome to our Mumble hangouts, forum, chat rooms, telegram channel etc to ask questions about BOINC and Gridcoin.
I had signed up to SETI years ago good too see they are still going.
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