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Addressing the Reward Pool Abuse - Linear Rewards & Exponential Flags

Since July last year, most users of the STEEM blockchain (that is you) have enjoyed a vastly greater vote weight than they would have been used to. This is the ...

On the Gridcoin Whitelist, and Where to Draw the Line

The whole community has been actively discussing the whitelist for a few months now, specifically focusing on what types of projects should be supported. While ...

Initial Witness and Full Node Innovations – @gridcoin.science

Since long before we announced our Steem witness @gridcoin.science, @dutch and I have been making operational enhancements to steemd, the Steem daemon. It is ou...

POLL: Should Moo! Wrapper be Removed from the Whitelist?

There has been significant debate on Reddit and IRC recently on whether the Moo! Wrapper project should continue to be on the Gridcoin Whitelist. Since then, a ...

POLL: 'Should ODLK1 be Added to the Whitelist' Closing Soon!

A poll was conjured into existence by @peppernrino on December 20, asking if we should add the new ODLK1 page to the Gridcoin Whitelist. This came on the heels ...

Make Your Steem Server Last Longer With Memory Compression

On 13 January 2018, the RPC node at steemd.privex.io went down because the Steem daemon (steemd) exhausted the 256GB of RAM on that node. The Graphene in-memory...

Utopian.io Moderator Introduction - @Dutch, Biomedical Programmer

Roughly coinciding with the Utopian quality enforcement update, all moderators were asked to introduce themselves to the Utopian community. Here's me! --- My Ba...

Announcing the @gridcoin.science Witness - STEM on STEEM

After going live with the gridcoin.science website in support of the research blockchain, I decided to take another step to support my favourite things: Steemit...

Mercy Cosplay - Heroes Never Die!

Mercy is a support hero from the video game Overwatch and I learned of the character in June of 2016 after which I decided to cosplay her. She has literally cha...

Oil Backed Cryptocurrency - Venezuelan President Issuing First 100 Million Petros

Venezuela has experienced years of economic downturn as a result of hyperinflation, which has caused the population to turn to Bitcoin as a means of transaction...

The Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerability - Act Now!

Given you are browsing Steemit, it would be fair to assume you have a decent understanding of computer bugs and the dangers they cause. In the modern technologi...

HOLD Your GRC - the Research Coin! We have a Long Way to Go!

As a lot of you are aware, the trading price of Gridcoin is going nuts over the last week. Even right now, GRC is up roughly 20% on BTC and the USD averaged acr...

How Steemit Payouts Work - A Beginners Guide

A lot of new platform members seem to have a hard time understanding how, exactly, the Steem blockchain pays them for content. Really, that's understandable - t...

Traveling Engineer: My Train Trip

I am currently doing my PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a bonus of this is conference travel. In order to make sure you are consistent with current knowledge ...

Upcoming Gridcoin 3.7.0.0 changes

I know things are looking stale on the Gridcoin development side, but we have been working to add stability to the wallet and are now in the final test phase of...

Happy New Year from New Zealand Team Gridcoin - I Expect Great Things for 2018!

Wishing you guys and girls a fantastic new year from the dateline. Gridcoin has progressed in leaps and bounds, and I expect 2018 will be the year where we brea...

Website www.gridcoin.science Updated to V1.1 - Bug Fixes Live, most GitHub Issues Closed.

It has been a little over a week since I launched www.gridcoin.science, and what a week! The site aimed to provide a landing for new members to the community, a...

I have attained 1 Billion Einstein@Home BOINC Credits and #1 RAC - Update on the Hunt for a Pulsar!

What you are looking at is the latest batch of neutron stars discovered by the BOINC project Einstein@home, which searches for incredible cosmological objects a...

Gridcoin Joint Marketing Initiative 2018

With our AdWords campaign expiring on 31DEC2017, this is the time to decide and vote on our marketing efforts for the next year! Instead of pursuing ten differe...

Marianne Cosplay – The winged journey begins

Marianne was my first official cosplay and started off a trend in my projects: wings. I was attending University to study Ornithology through my Zoology degree ...