Two polls considering Gridcoin development were recently published by grctest, you can find their proposal here: https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Tasks/issues/268

Putting aside concerns about active use of LLMs in creating this proposal (I think Gentoo was right when they banned all contributions created with the assistance of generative AI), let's focus on economy.

First important thing thing to emphasize: cryptocurrency is not money or currency, it is a non-financial asset, like gold. This is consensus among mainstream and post-Keynesian economists, as far as I know.

Suppose there is a gridgold mine (the only in the world) that produces 37,600 units of gridgold daily. There is another unused mine nearby, where mining is less difficult, and because of that it can yield 5 times more gridgold than the current mine with same amount of work.

So what happens after the switch to the latter mine?

Economic actors (more precisely, a rational part of them) will act on their inflation expectations. This means selling their gridgold savings and not buying any gridgold until some normalization. The consequences will be decrease in demand for gridgold and falling market price.

Savings of those who haven't had a chance to sell their gridgold will be burnt by inflation.

I think it's the opposite of what the Gridcoin community would want.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/13369735

Release Notes: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Client-release-notes#changes-in-802

Download page: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

Report issues: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/new/choose

This is a major release that introduced a new type of applications called 'Sporadic applications'.

Details are described here: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Sporadic-Applications

For Android users this release should be also available soon on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/edu.berkeley.boinc/

For Linux users on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE, currently this release is in 'alpha' channel. Soon will be available in 'stable' channel as well.

Installation instructions: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/linux_install.php

A volunteer is ready to run a social media profile for Gridcoin on Mastodon, requests advice from the community.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/10923656

Android/MacOS/Windows: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php Linux: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/linux_install.php Release Notes https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Client-release-notes Please report any bugs https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/new/choose

5.4.6 was previously a leisure release but has since been upgraded to a MANDATORY UPGRADE. Please do so as soon as possible!

Installers at github here:

There was an unintended change in the consensus mechanism that results in 5.4.6.0 wallets having a different message contract version number than 5.4.5.0. A failed transaction at block 3190603 due to the version change resulted in all older 5.4.5 wallets forking from the main chain by rejecting this message while 5.4.6 wallets accepted it. These older wallets MUST upgrade immediately to avoid being left behind!

Wallets on the forked chain will have a low difficulty (<5) and be more blocks ahead. Wallets on the correct chain will have a difficulty of 13 or higher but appear a few blocks behind.

5.4.6 Wallets on the correct chain may show out of sync. This is because the forked chain technically has a higher block count currently as it is slightly faster. Do not worry about being out of sync it should resolve in a few days. If your difficulty is high, you are on the right chain.

Do NOT fresh install your wallet. Simply upgrade and it should reorganize within a few hours.

Discord announcement here

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/9065161

The Computation Moonshot is a competition for high schools which encourages students to learn about data science, computer science, distributed computing, and a wide array of fields in science by having them contribute to real, useful outcomes for researchers in an exciting competitive atmosphere. We utilize the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) to connect students to groundbreaking scientific research projects around the world. This year we are running on the World Community Grid project which studies, among other topics: climate science, genetics, cancer, and tuberculosis. We call processing data for these research projects “crunching”.

Our goal in 2024 is to reach 50,000 donated hours of computation to research.

The competition is free to all and requires no special knowledge or skills. We provide setup guides for teachers and students, along with educational resources on the research to which your computers are contributing.

Compete for over $6,000 in prizes for schools and students, all while doing science!

Get this out to any high schools, teachers, or students you know of that might be interested in participating!

More information on the competition, including how to register your high school, can be found at https://computationmoonshot.org/

This version fixes a problem that causes GPU apps to fail after a MacOS upgrade to Sonoma: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/5502 Download it here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

Ideas on where else to exchange Gridcoin now that SouthExchange is closing its doors?

The petals distributed AI network now has an unofficial windows installer! This is a powerful tool which enables anybody to run LLM models on a public volunteer network. And the installer means anybody on Windows can run a full Petals server and contribute to the network with just a few clicks.

The Science Commons Initiative paid out a $200 bounty today plus $90 worth of Gridcoin for the creation of the installer. Thank you to everybody who has donated to make bounties like this possible!

Installer: https://github.com/ParisNeo/petals_server_installer

Video of installation process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwjL8ZOa7ec&amp%3Bt=332s

Bounty: https://github.com/TheSCInitiative/bounties/issues/16

On 9/3/2023 I set up BOINC and the Gridcoin wallet on an old laptop. The same day I signed up on the Discord Channel. I downloaded the Gridcoin wallet from the Gridcoin Website and followed the instructions there. On Discord, I introduced myself and was sent 10 GRC (gridcoins) to pay to send my beacon, from a generous member of the community. I experienced some of the typical issues getting my Gridcoin Wallet functioning correctly. Stats Export delayed me a bit, and I later found the following instructions in the Solo Guide - "Some projects require you to enable stats exports. If any of yours do, follow the steps for those projects to enable it. If you skip this step, your beacon will not validate and you will not earn GRC for your BOINC crunching. Currently required by: Einstein@home (steps to enable) NumberFields@home (steps to enable) Universe@home (steps to enable) World Community Grid (steps to enable)" I should have, but did not at first - Go to each "whitelisted" Boinc project, and log into them, verify they each had the same email address and the same password (although a security issue, it makes it much easier to make changes rapidly. I knew that I was using really old, out-of-date computer equipment, so at first I signed up for a pool to get everything working. I was only attached to the pool, until I was given GRC, and wanted to go into solo mining. I signed up with the Arikado Pool and was able to follow the setup instructions to get everything running. The pool mining guide on the Gridcoin website helps. It was a very short time, after receiving 10 free GRC as a gift, that I was able to set up to send a beacon, and I left the pool to solo mine. I added a second laptop, and two Android phones to my Boinc account, and have been using the 4 machines since. I left solo mining and returned to the pool after about 3 weeks. The reason I did this was, that after leaving the pool, it continued to pay me GRC nearly daily, although at a slowly reduced amount each time. After much thought and some calculations, I decided to return to pool mining, until my daily pool rewards were close to my solo mining daily rewards. Once my pool mining Magnitude is high enough, I will return to Solo mining again. -- Quick note -- as I am writing this, my Gridcoin wallet just staked rewards from getting a block! The rewards are 10 GRC, because I am solo mining and not paid by the wallet for "earned coins".

The rewards above are for today so far. Top to bottom - Reward block, Gridcoin Switzerland Faucet, Pool Faucet (requires +1 magnitude), The Discord Faucet, and the Pool rewards. 6. Magnitude is an interesting thing. You can find calculators online to calculate it. In general, what I have finally wrapped my mind around, is that it is not about your Boinc work. Not like when you look at your BoincStats to try to keep track of how your machines are doing. Magnitude is calculated on the work your machines have done, compared to the work others are doing, but not on a "my machine did more than yours" type of thing. Not exactly. For higher magnitude, you need to determine which projects run best on your machines and prioritize the work of different whitelisted projects based on other Gridcoin participants. So if you want higher magnitude, pick a project that does well on your machine, and that others are not working on! This can keep you busy, depending on how much time you want to spend trying to improve your mining.

The image above shows tracking the previous day's magnitude results from the Gridcoin Wallet, against the work done. The magnitude in this case suggests a result, based on who else on the network was doing similar jobs. On my machines, folding@home, got very little credit (magnitude) for a considerable amount of the work. The result was to put folding@home on a 0 priority! So I am going to end this update here. I hope this has given you some insight about Gridcoin and the Boinc system from a fresh user's viewpoint. Keep in mind, that I am using old machines, so the magnitudes are low, and the resulting GRC payments are low. For me this is fine, as I am crunching Boinc for all the good reasons, and earning GRC is just a fun "pat on the back" for helping. If you have questions, please ask!! Cheers, and happy crunching!

Just saying hi!

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/3435710

SCI is proud to release a suite of business cards, flyers, and other promotional materials to help promote BOINC and its awesome projects.

There is a business card for each project, along with some general BOINC promotional materials available in our Github Repository. These are openly licensed so you are free to print your own, modify them to suit your needs, and distribute them however and wherever you'd like.

Repo link: https://github.com/TheSCInitiative/BOINC-Promotion-and-Flyers/tree/main/cards

The cards contain a link and QR code which redirects to each project's website. The links are redirected through SCI's site so we can measure the impact these cards are making and see how many redirects we're getting.

If you know of any other publicly-available promotional materials for BOINC, please let us know so we can add them to our repo.

PS We reached out to each project for feedback on what they'd like to see on the cards but many projects did not respond. If you are a project admin who would like some of the text on your card changed or have any questions please contact contact{at}thesciencecommons.org. Thanks!

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/3236620

The 7.24.1 version of the BOINC client software has been released for Windows, OSX, and Android. Download it here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php.

Release notes:

• improve implementation of CPU throttling
• the default value for the "suspend_if_no_recent_input" pref is 0, not 60
• if sched request fails, show the scheduler URL (that might be the problem)
• Show alert if idle time to resume computing is greater than idle time to suspend computing
• ignore old prefs sent by projects or AM
• avoid overscheduling CPUs in presence of MT jobs
• Manager: computing prefs dialog bug
• Manager: Add button in event log to display only alerts (errors)
• Manager: Improve consistency of control labels and accelerators
• Manager: Show native names for language options, and only those for which translations are available
• Android: if suspend because of battery heat or charge, don't resume for at least 5 minutes.
• Mac: Support Dark Mode in Advanced View
• Mac: Add standard command-comma shortcut for Preferences menu item

I'm not sure how lemmy handles bots, but I do miss leaving tips

Glad to see Gridcoin will survive the great Reddit purge. I'm the old empirebuilder1 from Reddit and discord.

Everyone, make sure to open the sidebar and hit SUBSCRIBE from whatever instance you're on. This helps the Gridcoin community become federated (visible) to more instances and more users, and ensures you will see new content from Gridcoin in your subscribed home page!

First of all, happy to see there's a Gridcoin community here :)

Anyone running BOINC on Ubuntu 22.04? I have been running it on Linux for probably 5+ years without issue, but it seems there is a problem running on 22.04 and beyond.