I fired up my profile on grcpool.com this morning to check on my mag like I do every day (It's become such a habit since I started crunching!), and noticed something new on the account page. Next to the GRC owing there is now another number and SPARC:
I googled and it turns out that SPARC is a new token based on the Ethereum blockchain that is launching on 1 October. I found this interview on Bitcoinchaser.com where they talk to the developers.
The reddit user "bryhardt" had the following to say on the Gridcoin subreddit after a user by the name of "Grippler" also noticed and asked about it:
"The pool will be tracking SPARC owed which is an Ethereum token. This project is new and not related to the Gridcoin network. I can't guarantee any success or failure of the project, as I am just a user of it also. I had questions from pool members about receiving it so I signed the pool's up on the SPARC site to get the tokens. Therefore, I need to distribute them. There is no withdrawal on the site yet. I have considered taking a GRC fee for the ETH gas I would need to spend to withdraw them since SPARC as no value at this time, but haven't committed to anything yet. If you really want your SPARC, let me know and we can arrange it."
I tried downloading the SPARC whitepaper but keep getting a 404 error. In any case it seems that the Gridcoin community keeps getting more and more interesting.
Perhaps @dutch or @sc-steemit have more information?
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