TRANSLATION: Gridcoin Whitepaper 1.0.1 | German | 1507 words

This report is about my translation work of the Gridcoin Whitepaper 1.0.1.

Project links

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• Crowdin

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Description

Gridcoin is a cryptocurrency that rewards participants for contributing their unused computer processing power to solve scientifical tasks. Beside this users can stake the rewards in form of GRC Coins in a wallet. The scientifical tasks are coming from whitelisted projects, for example the BOINC project.

I was drawn to that project because I have already been a volunteer user of BOINC, especially for the SETI@home project to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Now with Gridcoin my computer not only serves as a power unit for these projects but is also a "minting station" for Gridcoins in the same time. That's why I like to support that idea.

My work

The original language is English and I translated it into German.

I translated so far 1507 words which are around 25% of the complete translation project and 55% of the whitepaper version 1.0.1. The text is not too difficult, although there are a few challenges. As an example: They use a newly created abbreviation through the whole text – IPP. It stands for Idle Processing Power and defines all unused power from GPUs and CPUs of the (potential) participants. I left that abbreviation untouched as it seemed not useful to create a new one in German since generic terms like this are often used across languages to avoid misunderstandings.

Proof of Authorship:

• Crowdin Profile