upcoming changes in Gridcoin (e.g. effects on less rich users; fixes on (known) exploits)

One of the next (mandatory) releases will include this new:

• Gridcoin PoS kernel v8

One of the changes there will be:

• "most notable effect is that magnitude does no longer affect your stake weight. Investors and BOINCers now have the same chances to mint a block. This drastic change was needed to eliminate an exploit. On the other hand a compensation for less rich BOINCers is already being designed."
• Thus, it seems, one of the recommendations for less rich BOINCers appears to be to stay in a Gridcoin pool

See the Gridcoin milestones also here:

Other upcoming changes are to fix:

• ability to exfiltrate user's email addresses (used also in BOINC) from the Gridcoin blockchain
• hijacking beacons (stealing an user's CPID registration)

Read more at:

• under investigation: security issues in Gridcoin

When these and others fixes really do come ("scheduled for NN2.0 or right before it") I'll keep you updated on.

originally posted here