Gridcoin

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Gridcoin
Developer(s)
Gridcoin Community
Source modelOpen source
LicenseMIT License[3]
Ledger
Timestamping schemeProof-of-stake
Block reward10 GRC[4]
Block explorergridcoinstats.eu/block
Website
Websitegridcoin.us

Gridcoin (abbreviation: GRC) is an open source cryptocurrency which securely rewards volunteer computing performed on the BOINC network.[1][5][6][7] Originally developed to support SETI@home,[8] it became the platform for many other applications in areas as diverse as medicine, molecular biology, mathematics, linguistics, climatology, environmental science, and astrophysics.[9]

Gridcoin requires a significant level of skill in order to begin "crunching". Despite this, Gridcoin's ability to monetise idle computing time towards "crunching" can modestly help with reducing digital divide and incentivise the public to donate their CPU time towards scientific research.[10][7]

It was created on October 16, 2013, by Rob Halförd. Gridcoin, initially using the energy-intensive proof of work - as used by Bitcoin, before migrating to a proof of stake protocol in 2014, similar to Peercoin, in an attempt to address the environmental impact of cryptocurrency mining.[1][11][12]

An exploit was demonstrated in August 2017 that revealed the emails of Gridcoin users and allowed the theft of other users work. The research team disclosed the vulnerability to the developers in September 2016, and the patch for the vulnerability was released in March 2017 with version 3.5.8.7, however the implementation of the fix introduced other issues.[13]

The implementation Gridcoin-Research was created as a fork of Bitcoin and Peercoin and is licensed under the

Windows, macOS, and Debian.[2]

5.3.2.0 of Gridcoin-Research

References

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  4. ^ "Network Blocks". Gridcoinstats. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  5. S2CID 6852894
    .
  6. ISBN 9781119579472
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    ISBN 9783030293260
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  8. ^ Scoles, Sarah. "A Brief History of SETI@Home". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 2017-05-23. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  9. ^ "Projects - BOINC Projects". boincsynergy.ca. Archived from the original on 2022-08-28. Retrieved 2022-08-29.
  10. S2CID 219647192
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  11. ^ "Bitcoin mining likely uses more energy than it takes to keep New Zealand's lights on". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 12 December 2017. Archived from the original on 8 January 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  12. S2CID 224845754
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  13. ^ Grothe, Martin; Niemann, Tobias; Somorovsky, Juraj; Schwenk, Jörg (2017-08-14). "Breaking and fixing gridcoin". Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Conference on Offensive Technologies. WOOT'17. USA: USENIX Association: 14.
  14. ^ "Gridcoin-Research/build-unix.md at development · gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research". GitHub. Retrieved 21 July 2021.

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