Looks great!

I'll be adding the open.grc link to the gridcoin website https://btsbots.com/a/OPEN.GRC

Keep up the good work!

Help brainstorm new BOINC projects! https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@cm-steem/brainstorming-new-boinc-projects

You are your own bank, I don't believe that freedom ledger has any ability to change your password. If you cannot remember your password then you've lost access to your funds.

I spoke about this topic during episode #178 of the Beyond Bitcoin hangout: https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@officialfuzzy/guest-signups-beyond-bitcoin-hangout-178-10-21-16-rsvp-to-friday-s-hangout-past-payouts-and-signups-inside#@cm-steem/re-officialfuzzy-guest-signups-beyond-bitcoin-hangout-178-10-21-16-rsvp-to-friday-s-hangout-past-payouts-and-signups-inside-20161018t110853134z

I don't know how GRC distributes rewards, but from what you wrote I gather that you need something similar to a price feed. Let's call it a "work feed" - an (elected?) group of people gathers external data and publishes that on the blockchain. The blockchain has a built-in algorithm that looks at the feed data and from that it decides how to distribute rewards.

Currently, every windows client gathers BOINC statistics directly from the whitelisted BOINC projects, extracts team Gridcoin stats & produces a local table of stats for every registered (within the grc network) user. Once a day, the statistics (which the most clients agree upon) are included in a 'superblock' to which rewards are based upon when end users stake a block.

The problem with the above is that if we were to remove the team requirement to increase our userbase, the gridcoin network would be overwhelmingly consuming BOINC web server resources. Elected delegate roles for producing these statistics would solve this issue.

If it was possible for these stats to be fed into a built-in algorithm which paid BOINC users (rather than the end users having to stake a block to access their owed rewards) that would be pretty epic! To counter the issue of "I don't need a stake to earn rewards" (bad for marketcap), the algorithm could vary frequency of payouts to end users based on their base asset holdings.

There is no technical reason why the witnesses should be the ones to produce that "work feed". From a decentralisation perspective I think it would be a good idea to separate these roles.

It would make sense to separate the responsibilities out to different entities, however, voting participation needs to be incentivized somehow (or really in your face) - currently we're getting like.. 15% max voting weight participation on the GRC network.

The tricky part will be defining the "work feed" data so that it can be included in the blockchain in an efficient way. You may already have solved that on the current GRC chain.

The Gridcoin network has solved this to a certain degree, we could probably scale to 10k+ users with the current block storage mechanism, however if we were to aim for the current max ceiling of 560k+ active BOINC users we would be in trouble. On the other hand, users could use light clients & witnesses/comittee's would have the burden of storing this data..

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Quote from: pc on October 15, 2016, 07:38:28 am

I don't know how GRC distributes rewards, but from what you wrote I gather that you need something similar to a price feed. Let's call it a "work feed" - an (elected?) group of people gathers external data and publishes that on the blockchain. The blockchain has a built-in algorithm that looks at the feed data and from that it decides how to distribute rewards.

Pretty much what steem does .. except that EVERYONE decides on who gets the block rewards

Only on a very abstract level, IMO. Steem rewards a very subjective notion of "quality" (that I don't seem to agree with most of the time), whereas GRC tries to reward an actual measurable quantity of work.

You're right in that it would follow the same lines of Steemit - where rewards are issued by an algorithm (which is fed by data, in steem's case votes & GRC's case NN statistics) then distributed to users without end-users staking blocks & without witnesses having the ability to steal these issued funds.

However, as PC states - Steem doesn't proportionally reward users for their work completed (Steem's really a lottery whether or not large users see/upvote your post/comment) where as (gridcoin+graphene) would continuously & proportionally reward verified BOINC computation.

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Graphene 2.0?

steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steem-developer-update-graphene-2-0

Doesn't serve to improve the bitshares exchange.
Yes, I agree. Improvements could be made to the browser wallet to improve user friendliness.

What would be some of the security drawbacks? A centralized entity is trusted not to loose your wallet files incase you loose them.

Is SVK not on DPOS payroll? If not, and if he wants, he should be. There is a ton to be done!

You can look at the current workers here: https://cryptofresh.com/workers

The worker system is not being used, at all.

Should the minimum vote weight required for worker approval be reduced? If you don't vote in an IRL election your vote isn't counted as opposition but rather ignored.

Does suppressing currencies make BTS less decentralized?

How about starting small and fixing the block explorer.  It hasn't displayed the correct value for BTS for months...  If something as simple as this can't be maintained, how is BTS ever going to be able to handle a larger and more complex project?

Is it open source? If it was we may see multiple block explorers being created..