Gridcoin
Gridcoin (ticker: GRC) is an open source cryptocurrency which securely rewards volunteer computing performed on the BOINC,[2] a distributed computing platform that is home to over 30 science projects spanning a range of scientific disciplines.
Gridcoin | |
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Denominations | |
Subunit | |
10−3 | milligridcoin |
Symbol | GRC |
milligridcoin | mGRC |
Demographics | |
Date of introduction | 16 October 2013 |
User(s) | Worldwide |
Issuance | |
Administration | Decentralized |
Developer(s) | Rob Halförd, Marco Nilsson, Paul Jensen, Tomas Brod, James Owens |
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Stable release | 4.0.6.0-Leisure
/ October 22, 2019 [1] |
Repository | |
Written in | C++ |
Platform | Windows, Linux, macOS |
Type | Cryptocurrency |
Licence | MIT Licence |
Website | https://gridcoin.us |
Gridcoin attempts to address and ease the environmental energy impact of cryptocurrency mining through its proof-of-research and proof-of-stake protocols, as compared to the proof of work system used by Bitcoin (although it fails to explicitly address the energy cost of computing power).[2][3][4]
References
- "Releases - gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research". Retrieved 24 October 2019 – via GitHub.
- Dong, Zhongli; Lee, Young Choon; Zomaya, Albert Y (2015). "Crowdware: A Framework for GPU-Based Public-Resource Computing with Energy-Aware Incentive Mechanism". 2015 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (Cloud Com). p. 266. doi:10.1109/CloudCom.2015.73. ISBN 978-1-4673-9560-1.
- Chohan, Usman. "Environmentalism in Cryptoanarchism: Gridcoin Case Study". SSRN Electronic Journal. Jan 2018. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3131232. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- Tirone, Jonathan (10 Jan 2018). "A Prime Number Could Be the Answer to Bitcoin's Power Problem". Bloomberg. Retrieved 7 Oct 2018.
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