It has been quite a time that I have been involved with the gridcoin community and I would like to present my gridcoin journey and many factors that affected the different part of my stay in the gridcoin community.
I was introduced to the gridcoin community through the courtesy of u/techwizard in r/slavelabour and this was the post.
It was the post asking us to comment in his tech blog and we would be awarded with 10 grc for the job. So to get the reward I had to download the gridcoin wallet and I did. I researched for the gridcoin and learned about BOINC and got hooked. I got those 10 grc from him and got some more from Poloneix. Then started BOINC crunching. However I knew very little about how complicated the system was and how much effort was required. I just fired up my laptop 24hrs a day and expected to reap some reward, but to my dismay I had not followed the YouTube tutorial completely and was unable to get rewards as my bacon had not been sent.
I was angry and I deleted BOINC and Gridcoin from my computer and unfortunately I deleted the wallet.dat file as well and I lost my coins. At that time I didn’t care though. It didn’t feel good but still I continued to keep a close ear to the community on reddit (I didn’t know much about steem back then). And then after the grcpool was started I got involved again. This was the best thing that could happen in the Gridcoin for a long time. There now was no worries about payback time and all the technical difficulty for the newcomers suddenly disappeared. I got many of my friends involved with this. As we live in the hostel, we have free electricity so we had no problem firing the laptops all day. Though some of my friends had concern that running 24hrs a day would degrade the laptop so they would run 5-6 hrs. a day only. It has been a wild ride but I do believe in Gridcoin and will continue to do so. Love this community.
So through this I would just like to stress a few points about what can be done right now. I feel places like r/slavelabour and other similar places are the best way to attract people to get into gridcoin. The people when will get paid for small jobs with small amount of gridcoin will at the very least install the gridcoin wallet for it and I can be sure half of them will come and contribute. Other place where we can do the same is with the big facuets company and make them include gridcoin as the main coin. It will be attractive because of the low transaction fee they might accept easily.
Also I do feel the need to warn the newbies of the pitfalls of solo mining and encourage them to pool mining the very first time they think of BOINC mining.
(P.S. Will keep posting a lot so get used to with me.)
