Very useful information. Thank you!

Fantastic news!

That was my guess. I didn't think one whale could have that much of an impact.

Wow, what timing!

I actually submitted a support ticket to Poloniex regarding this issue several weeks ago and received the following response: Pretty generic response, but at least I got my voice heard. I'm going to stop

It's true; right now I earn about 15 USD per month in GRC (excluding PoS interest) but spend about 50 in electricity costs. However, I do genuinely believe that the price of GRC will increase over time,

I've thought about exactly what you're proposing several times, and at one point I considered selling one of my BOINC rigs. I didn't end up doing it; instead, I decided to keep mining but also buy more

Thanks for the suggestion; I hadn't considered doing that, but it seems doable. I'll look into it once the rest of the Gridcoin-specific functionality is complete.