Hello world! I am trying to promote gridcoin and decided to use cat videos as advertisement, as we all know that cat videos are one of the most watched videos on the internet. Lol!I love my cats too and I think they are super smart.
Here is the second gridcoin promotion video. If you missed the first one it can be found here: https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@rcebike/n6qv02yz
If you are watching this cat video and have never heard of gridcoin and are interested in cryptocurrency then gridcoin is for you. See links below to get started.
How can we make gridcoin even more successful?
If gridcoin is going to be a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency then more people are going to have to start using it. I think one of the major problems why people are not using gridcoin (in addition to not knowing about it) is that the official gridcoin “wallet” can be difficult to use.
If you are a gridcoin investor or a researcher you need to download the Gridcoin Research wallet and load the entire blockchain onto your computer. This can take a day or 2 to download and synchronize. While this is essential for the gridcoin blockchain to work in a secure fashion, for someone who just wants to hold and trade gridcoins this might not be a practical way to keep gridcoins.
So Gridcoin developers: have you thought about making a desktop version or mobile version of a gridcoin wallet that does not need a full download of the blockchain? I think a wallet like the desktop and mobile wallets such as Exodus: https://www.exodus.io or Jaax: https://jaxx.io would be great if they had gridcoin as one of the currencies that could be used for transactions.
In the meantime, I just found out there is a mobile wallet (for Android or iPhone) that does include gridcoin as one of its currencies and it is called Coinomi: https://coinomi.com
If you want you can even store and receive gridcoins in paper wallet
So if you are interested in having some gridcoin and are not ready to commit to investing or researching to earn girdcoins then this is probably the easiest option.
Also you can join the gridcoin discord and there is a wallet bot that gives gridcoins every 12-24h. This one seems to pay the most. You can read about it in this post by 
Get 3 free gridcoins for subscribing to: http://uscore.net
Get some starter gridcoins by joining the Cryptocurrency Talk forum and asking (begging) for some starter coins: https://cryptocurrencytalk.com/topic/32833-starter-coins-for-beginners/
When I first started 2 months ago they gave me 10 free gridcoins.
Finally, because I want people to use gridcoin, if you download the Coinomi wallet and if you send me your gridcoin address in the comments below I will send you some gridcoin.
So there you go, get some gridcoin in a wallet and start using it! Gridcoin needs more promotion so please share this video and resteem this post!
BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, pronounced /bɔɪŋk/ – rhymes with "oink") is a distributed work platform that has been around since 2002 (16years now) and rewards all participants with a score. BOINC consists of over 500,000+ active users and many more computers. It is a popular platform for researchers to do large amounts of distributed work. The infrastructure is already in place, and no payment is required. Doing distributed work is purely voluntary, where users can attach any project of their choosing.


Gridcoin Research is a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) cryptocurrency that rewards Proof-of-Research (PoR) for BOINC computation based on the BOINC RAC (Recent Average Credit) score. Some requirements are for projects to be listed on the platform but are relatively easy to comply. There are currently ~20+ Projects included that the network rewards work done by users.
Gridcoin is an amazing project with an amazing community!
Website: https://gridcoin.us
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GridcoinNetwork
Discord: https://discord.me/gridcoin
Steemit: https://steemit.com/created/gridcoin
White Paper: https://gridcoin.us/assets/img/whitepaper.pdf
-- Github --
Codebase: https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-Research
Community: https://github.com/gridcoin-community
Also recently a redditor Matrix166 has compiled many of the guides on the internet at one site and this can be helpful for new people:
https://www.whatisgridcoin.com/
Cheers!
gridcoinian
