BlogHide Resteemsjamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 3 years agoGridcoin 5.4.0.0-mandatory "Kermit's Mom" release[5.4.0.0] 2022-08-01, mandatory, "Kermit's Mom" The Gridcoin core developers are proud to release 5.4.0.0 which represents the Kermit's Mom milestone. This is a mandatory release and…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 3 years agoGridcoin 5.3.3.0-leisure "Janice"[5.3.3.0] 2022-02-27, leisure, "Janice" The Gridcoin core developers are proud to release 5.3.3.0 which represents the Janice milestone. This is actually a very large leisure release. On the…jamescowens (53)in beyondbitcoin • 4 years agoGridcoin 5.3.2.0-leisure "Ingrid" release[5.3.2.0] 2021-08-01, leisure, "Ingrid" This leisure release represents the completion of the "Ingrid" milestone. It has turned out to be a very substantial release, quite a bit larger in scope…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 4 years agoGridcoin 5.0.1.0-Leisure releaseWe are releasing a small maintenance leisure release to correct a few compilation problems on some platforms, and address a few corner-case issues that were already addressed on the hotfix branch…jamescowens (53)in beyondbitcoin • 4 years agoGridcoin 5.0.0.0-Mandatory "Fern" ReleaseFinally! After over ten months of development and testing, "Fern" has arrived! This is a whopper. 240 pull requests merged. Essentially a complete rewrite that was started with the scraper (the…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 5 years agoGridcoin 4.0.6.0-Leisure "Ernestine" ReleaseWait you say? Another "E" milestone release? Yes, indeed! There is so much going into Fern, and we were originally going to do a hotfix only, but we decided to do a release with the hotfixes and…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 6 years agoGridcoin 4.0.5.0-Leisure "Elizabeth" ReleaseThe core developers are pleased to present the 4.0.5.0 Elizabeth milestone leisure release. This is a leisure release primarily aimed at non-mandatory items and bug fixes leading up to the Fern…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 6 years agoBOINC Workshop Reimbursement Outreach PollOverview The 2019 BOINC Workshop took place in Chicago from July 9th - July 12th. There were two presentations from three Gridcoin contributors. The Open Systems of Science - jringo…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 6 years agoGridcoin leisure update 4.0.4.0 releasedThis is a targeted hotfix to fix two issues. One applies to the scrapers themselves only, the other is to restore the new user wizard, which was inadvertently removed when all of the code was…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 6 years agoGridcoin Leisure Update 4.0.3.0 ReleasedThe Core Developers are proud to present the Denise milestone release, which is highlighted by the New Gridcoin Statistics Scraping and Reporting System (“Scraper”) replacement for the legacy…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 6 years agoProgress update on the new Gridcoin BOINC stats collection system (the "Scraper" which replaces the old "Neural Network")I am excited to announce that the new, native C++ integrated statistics collection system was merged into the development branch on February 25 from my integrated_scraper branch. This amounted to…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 6 years agoGridcoin Bluepaper Section for Expected Time to Stake, Net Weight, and Related Concepts (Final Release Version)I am pleased to present Gridcoin's first Bluepaper section that covers Expected Time to Stake, Net Weight, and related concepts. On September 9th I posted a preview copy of this bluepaper section…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 6 years agoGridcoin Blue Paper Section for Expected Time to Stake, Net Weight, and Related ConceptsI have been working over the past few months, greatly assisted by @snipatomic and @ILikeChocolate, to formally document in a mathematically rigorous way the new expected time to stake algorithm I…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 6 years agoAbout the 163 GRC to everyone yesterdayThe 162 and 1 GRC received by everyone yesterday which was sent to an apparent address of 1Wh4bh are actually "burn" transactions to an empty address. The wallet currently has a bug that incorrectly…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 7 years agoUTXO Size vs Efficiency for upcoming Constant Block RewardsAs most of the community should be aware at this point, Gridcoin will be switching from 1.5% APR rewarded for staking to a constant value of 10 GRC awarded per block staked (Constant Block Reward).…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 7 years agoA quick rule of thumb formula for calculating expected time to stakeI have been involved in an extensive discussion on the Gridcoin Slack recently involving difficulty, network weight, and stake weight. I developed a quite accurate rule of thumb formula for…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 7 years agoGRC forking issues and a new release forthcomingI have seen here and on Reddit increasing anxiety and questions regarding a release which will fully stabilize the network and allow the exchanges to reopen. Release 3.7.7.0 in combination with…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 7 years agoHappy New Year 2018 and Celebrating achieving 2,000,000,000 cobblestones on BOINCI just passed the 2B milestone on BOINC right before the New Year. In celebration I have rained 2000 GRC to all active GRC researchers that have an address in the latest magnitude report. The GRC…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 7 years agoGridcoin III proposal commentsA few comments. (This is also posted on Cryptocurrency Talk. Please see I am a relative newcomer to Gridcoin - I have been solo staking and pursuing research associated with Gridcoin since the…jamescowens (53)in gridcoin • 7 years agoIntroduction and my first 1.5 months of Gridcoin miningThis is me... I currently am a CEO and I don't know how often I will be able to post. But I will try to make my posts valuable when I do. I have been a long time contributor to distributed…
