That is BS and the grcpool.org site is a monopoly pool being that is is the only pool since Katiee shut down pool.gridcoin.us and the source code on github is 90% you have to build your own off of that thus it was a useless amount the foundation paid for a partially built product keeping back the rest to make it so others could throw up some gridcoin pools and 0 have poped up thats to the community leadership paying for partial code. Luckily also unlike the gridcoin foundation funded faucet @ gridcoinstats.eu that will not give you free GRC to start out but we do now have gridcoin.ch that is a wide open faucet for all users not forcing new team members to use grcpool and earning the host all the interest and then some. Nobody does anything for free within Gridcoin it seems a very greedy community and don't go thinking BGB isn't covering overhead to pay for his vps and then put money in his own pocket , money that if you were crunching solo would go in your piggy bank. I started with 0 GRC and have not invested but the electricity.