Welcome to Gridcoin Weekly.

We aim to write about what happens in the Gridcoin world and have some longer in depth sections on topics that has been hot the current week, and try to highlight many of the current interesting things. We give you tips and statistics to make you feel up to date on everything regarding the network. Do you wish to see something special, please leave a comment in the section below.

Gridcoin Weekly Supports the Community with Steemit

From todays issue we will convert 50% of the SBD, from both first and second distribution, to Gridcoin and rain on all users in the Neural Network. If you up-vote us, you support the community. The remaining 50% will be converted to Steem Power for voting power on Steemit. The result from distribution will be presented in this section next week.

Enjoy!

Voting Balance

A topic that has been greatly talked about in the community is the balance of wallet votes.
@cm-steem writes about the basic issue with an equal balance of voting between balance and magnitude. It has been discussed in the Gridcoin Forum and many ideas has been bounced back and forth.

After much discussion there has today been a Voting announced. There are two different votes made as one is for crunchers and one is for investors. As a cruncher you can vote in both.

Make sure you read up on the topic before voting since it is pretty much to take in. You shouldn't vote on previous issues that has been fixed but rather what you see as best in the future.

Everyone should make sure to vote on this

The Project SSL Enforcement

The ongoing project of increasing the security for all the users has entered the final stages. The poll for enforcement of SSL ends September 5th and currently has a majority of making SSL a default requirement.

When this poll ends a new poll for every project that is not having a SSL certificate will be created. This will base the final decision of removing a project or not. If a project is voted out because of the missing SSL requirement they will be included again when they enable SSL. This will probably not require another vote.

Anyone interested in reading about the issue should check these topics:

• Why SSL is so important for us
• Should SSL Encryption be Mandatory
• Gridcoin Hangout #5 that gets released in a few days.

In other news

• [Contest] The Contest to find the next Wallet Splash Image is gaining momentum. Make your entry today and win GRC!
• Brainstorming new ideas for Wallet UI

Gridcoin related BOINC Projects News

• PrimeGrid has a Summer Paralympics Challenge during September 2 - September 7.
• Cosmology@Home writes about publication regarding results from their new application starting in February 2016.
• Atlast@Home enables Multicore WUs as they end beta stage but gets some issues with VirtualBox
• vLHC@Home reaches an impressive 3 Trillion Events.
• ClimatePrediction explains a recent paper released regarding extreme weather events.
• GPUGrid announces a new beta application release
• YoYo@Home announces xyyxf project achieved t50

Gridcoin Hangout

• Possibilities to reach out to charity organizations for enabling Gridcoin donations
• Wallet Splash image contest will continue for at least another week
• Possibilities regarding an open pool ideas was discussed
• Encryption and SSL enforcement discussion and what it will mean for the community

Listen to the Gridcoin Hangout on SoundCloud (takes a few days after live session before it's posted)

Votes in Progress

Poll Title	Poll Voting Name	Options	Ending
What Should the Balance to Magnitude Ratio Be? - Investors Poll	vote_weight_rebalancing_investor_poll	Multiple Choices	2016-09-17
What Should the Balance to Magnitude Ratio Be? - Miners Poll	vote_weight_rebalancing_cruncher_poll	Multiple Choices	2016-09-17
Should SSL encryption be mandatory for whitelisted projects	ssl_enforcement_poll	Yes / No	2016-09-05
What are the best projects	what_are_the_best_projects	Multiple Choices	2016-09-05
What communication platform do you prefere	communication_platform_preference	Multiple Choices	2016-09-05

Gridcoin Decentralized Voting System Documentation

Wallet Updates

Wallet was updated to 3.5.7.6.
Fixes for this release:

- Fix unix build problems

Current Challenge

Challenge Issuer	Project	Current Position	Ending
Team China	World Community Grid	1	2016-09-05
PrimeGrid	PrimeGrid	-	2016-09-07

Joining a challenge may give extra profit trough Project Rain. Any update regarding rain can be found on the official forum.

Upcoming Challenges

Challenge Issuer	Project	Start Date	End Date
Crunchers Sans Frontieres	PrimeGrid	2016-09-08	2016-09-12
Gridcoin	World Community Grid	2016-09-14	2016-09-21

Eneded Challenges

Challenge Issuer	Project	End Date	Position
SETI.Germany	SETI@Home	2016-08-29	10

This Week in Numbers

	This Week	Last Week	Change
Team Users	7907	7835	72
Active Users (Neural Network)	1711	1716	-5
Active Users (Boincstats)	2189	2197	-8
Pool Users	1381	1347	34

Interested to join?

If you are not currently using Gridcoin but would like to, here are a few places to get help on how to start:
Gridcoin Webpage
Gridcoin Forum
Gridcoin on Steemit
IRC: freenode.net gridcoin and gridcoin-help