A week in Gridcoin and BOINC

Week 14, April 2 – April 9

Welcome to our weekly edition of updates in the Gridcoin- and BOINC-sphere.

Yes! We are back again.

Here we highlight what's been going on in the community as well as in the active projects that are available to work on to generate Gridcoins.

Gridcoin is a cryptocurrency that rewards proportionally on several different projects. Once per day the network pulls the current stats from all the projects available for reward and calculates each users share. Gridcoin is a Proof-of-Stake wallet and uses significantly less power than Bitcoin. It has fast block generation and very low fees.

Projects can be about anything, and anyone are free to start one. Many of the projects are scientific in nature but anything can be possible on the BOINC platform and could potentially be included in the projects that Gridcoin rewards work for.

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Gridcoin Community

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Total Members	12517
Active Members	1453
Active Projects	27

With Atlas@Home voted out because the project is merging with LHC@Home there is now 27 projects actively whitelisted.

Enigma@Home is voted on since the project are not producing any work units since a few weeks. DrugDiscovery@Home is also voted on since they no longer have plans on running the project.

There are plenty of other polls to vote on if you are interested. Participation are always welcome.

The network has had a hectic week with some issues with forks and stuck wallets, but most of those seem to have been solved at this time. Erkan has been active with posts on steemit to keep everyone up-to-date. If you still have issues, please drop a line in the steemit post, our forum, or on IRC.

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Reports and Updates from Projects

Amicable Numbers

• A beta release of a MacOS X 64-bit Application

Rosetta@Home

• Update to Android application. Should now be significantly more stable for Android 4 – 7.x devices.

Citizen Sience Grid

• Monster workunits causes some issues for users. New workunits should not be affected
• Inconsistancey of credit rewards has been addressed by the project and are corrected

DrugDiscovery@Home

• After some issues within the project there are now reports about the project canceling all work

PrimeGrid

• Celebrate the Mathematics Awareness month with the PrimeGrids “Mathematics Awareness Month Challenge”

World Community Grid

• Mapping Cancer Markers Team has released a report. The report describes how the team are analyzing the 45 million(!!) of the most promising lung cancer results

GPU Grid

• Release of new Acemdlong app

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Current Challenges

Challenges April, join and help us out

Gridcoin currently has 1 active challenge on Asteroids@Home that ends 2017-04-11 00:45 UTC. Current standings are Gridcoin at position 2 with L'Alliance Francophone on position 1 with 3,4 million credits against 0,69 million credits. Join in an help the team out!

Soon the 8th BOINC Penthalon challenge starts and the community are asking what type of projects that have the most interest in crunching. Please vote and discuss to make sure Team Gridcoin have a success :)

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