We aim to write about what happens in the Gridcoin world and have some longer in depth sections on topics that has been hot the current week, and try to highlight many of the current interesting things. We give you tips and statistics to make you feel up to date on everything regarding the network. Do you wish to see something special, please leave a comment in the section below.
This week meant the end of the highly discussed poll of Enforcing SSL for a project to be on the Whitelist. Read our full article on this matter and what it means now.
From this issue we will include our new infogram of "This Week in Numbers". Feel free to share this anywhere you wish and be sure to tell everyone to support us on Steemit.
Support us to support the Gridcoin Community
I will convert 50% of the SBD on all posts in the gridcoin-weekly category to GRC. This will be used to rain on the network. Everyone will get a share depending on their RAC. This is our way of saying Thank You for your contribution to Gridcoin.
Enjoy!
Network Sais "NO" to SSL Enforcement; What now?
The poll regarding enforcing SSL for all projects on the whitelist ended with a great majority of almost 75% of the Shares against it. Both Miners and Investors had a majority of No votes. While Miners was only just weighing over on the no side with 29M Shares vs. 22M Shares, the majority of the investors was against it with 46M Shares vs. 3M Shares.
The result of this will not mean that the work of trying to secure the network for our users are over. This only means the network does not think a banning of projects for not having a valid SSL certificate is a good idea as of yet. The work will continue by many of the Gridcoin members.
The Following Projects DOES NOT HAVE A SSL Certificate
Project Name
Status
Numberfields@Home
Working On It
vLHC
Working On It
Universe@Home
Working On It
CPDN
Working On It
SAT
Maybe
Enigma
Maybe
Leiden
No/Not Planned
ATLAS
NO RESPONSE
LHC(classic)
NO RESPONSE
POEM
NO RESPONSE
Sztaki
NO RESPONSE
If any project on this list is a project you are working with, you should definitely read the Discussion Thread on the forum and read what you can do and the progress.
Price race for Gridcoin when trading volume suddenly spikes on September 8th
The price and volume suddenly shot trough the roof on September 8th for various cryptocurrencies, with Gridcoin being one of them. Suddenly volume was many times higher than normal and price climbed up to 150% in a few hours. Both @cm-steemwrites about this event and @gridcoinmanwrites about it.
Highlights news from and related to all the BOINC Projects on the Gridcoin Whitelist. Most of the news are from the projects news sections. If you wish a project to be present in this section, please inform the project admins to write more news ;)
Researchers Publish Findings on Potential New Treatments for Leishmaniasis
An explanation regarding limiting the number of work units per host has been written on the vLHC@Home page. They also explain how to remove it.
Gridcoin Community Hangout
Every Saturday at 10PM CET there is a live Mumble session that anyone can participate in. Anyone are free to speak up, or you can just connect and listen in live. Listen to the Gridcoin Hangout on SoundCloud (takes a few days after live session before it's posted)
Here are some of the topics in this weeks hangout
The result of the SSL Voting
The issues of BOINC security
Answer to the question of "Where does Gridcoin gets it's value from"
The time of broadcast has been asked to be at a different time. A Vote is avaliable
Customminer gives updates regarding Project Rain.
Possible future projects to reach out to are discussed
Wallet Updates
There has been no updates to the wallet this week.
Current Votes
SSL Enforcement Vote
The SSL Enforcement vote ended with a majority voting for NO.
The option NO was to the majority Investors, while YES was mainly Miners, as you can see in the image below.
Both Investors and Miners voted for NO.
Vote Weight Rebalancing - UNFINISHED
The vote for Vote Weight Rebalancing is still ongoing and will end on 2016-09-17. These are the results this far.
The majority votes either for 70:30 or 90:10 with Investors voting mainly on 90:10 and Miners on 70:30.
You should read about the Poll Here.
This voting is important for future voting! Please participate!
@officialfuzzy pays commission to make a painted Gridcoin logo
@angsteem made a painted beyondbitcoin logo and was asked by @officialfuzzy to make a similar painting for Gridcoin. A commission of 75 SBD has been issued for the work.
@cm-steem talks Gridcoin on Beyondbitcoin Hangout 172
@gridcoinman writes about it.
@decentro.
