Hi All, It has been quite a bit of time since my last posts. Renovating an apartment and moving has taken up much of my free time. Now that I have settled, I have returned to one of my hobbies: distributed

CLOSED: Contest is now closed. The winners are announced in a separate post. Please stay tuned for next contest. EDIT: Thank you all for your generous donations. Now our winning pool is 610 GRC!!! Given

Hi All, Just a quick and dirty post here, mostly to brag :P. That's right, a 10-year badge!

Hello All, I posted a few weeks ago about how The Beast did a great job of accumulating processing time for the World Community Grid, specifically the Smash Childhood Cancer project. While the month of

Hello All, A few posts ago, I mentioned how a purchased a used IBM server with 40 logical cores which I named "The Beast." As noted in the post, I tried a few projects and was playing around

Hello All, I really liked the work done by @jimbo88 on his post here. I actully did a follow-up post to it a while ago where I compared the Odroid XU4 to the Raspberry Pi 3. Since then, I have been scouring

Hi All, This is a second follow-up to my two posts (here and there) where I describe my cashing in on some GRC gains. I used a small portion of the proceeds to purchase an Odroid XU-4 as discussed in the

Hello All, I have been running two Single Board Computers (SBCs) with Raspian (RPi) Ubuntu Mate (XU4) and crunching Universe@Home work units. This is a continuation of my previous post where I was able

Hi All, This is a follow-up to my post on how I was able to crystallize some gains in my investment in GRC which allowed me to get some more computing power. While I have been hesitating on my purchase

Hello All, It has been a while since I have posted as it has been a very busy few months. Over the same time frame, it has been a very interesting time for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, including

Hello All, This was taken in Norther Ontario during fall. Canon T3i with 18-135mm lens.

What's BOINC? BOINC is an open-source volunteer distributed computing platform which utilizes the spare computer resources on 500k+ computers to attempt to cure diseases, map the milkyway, search for

A shot taken in Ontario, Canada with my Canon 70D. 24-105mm @ 24mm. F/16 for 1/2 second @ ISO-100.

Welcome to the 2nd Gridcoin State of the Union summary. A lot of exciting progress has been made behind the scenes recently. I hope that this article will help you establish a better view of the Gridcoin

Hello again! This post is connected to my first ever Steemit post which you can see here. In that post, I noted one of the reasons why I started to collect Gridcoin, but more importantly, why I choose

Roughly 7 hours ago, and coinciding with the generation of the new superblock, GRC started a uniform 3 hour climb across the exchanges. This climb happened while the rest of the markets saw no significant

UPDATE: A new wallet version has now been released. Please upgrade to v3.5.9.7 if you are running a Windows client. A new wallet update has been released, which includes fixes with the aim of reliably

Cryptocurrency is a very daunting topic for a large proportion of the population. Not only are there a lot of pitfalls in getting started, but the field is also advancing so rapidly that it takes significant

New video by the Gridcoin channel. This one covers installing Gridcoin on a headless Ubuntu 16 using the PPA and compiling from Github. This video is the 2nd part to the previous Linux video of setting

Hello All,  This is my first post here on Steemit, so I’d thought I’d take a few lines to introduce myself. While I’m still going to hide behind my internet handle, I will let you know a little bit