These are the minutes for the 6th Gridcoin hangout on September 10, 2016:
- listen, youtube
- RSVP & Suggest topics
- invited guest: none
- price spike for science coins: 400x than usual
- marketing together with science coins ?
- result of SSL enforcement poll: NO
- poll participation was low: 14.6%
- anyways, keep up pressure on BOINC projects on using more security:
- danger of losing BOINC account key
- CM contacted Oxford's cyber security division
- current BOINC password hashing algorithm weak: MD5 + salt
- see bug: improve password security
- WCG only 32 chars, others allow longer chars
- from where does Gridcoin get its value ?
- more energy efficient than Bitcoin
- faster block/confirmation times
- buying b/c: increase vote weight, speculators, raining
- active, transparent community, see e.g. IRC, mumbles
- helping science
- when one stops with a coin, here at GRC you can still use your PC for other things, while an ASIC may not be suitable for all things
- see also task: strong points of GRC
- GOLEM: distributed computing over Ethereum
- Gridcoin weekly stats + links
- writing up during session
- possible to do extra mumble sessions at other times for invited guests
- project rain update
- 29 cryyptocurrencies now
- increasing security
- outreach
- approaching new BOINC projects to add to whitelist
- see checklist
- status about: BARK - The BOINC volunteer cluster manager for Apache Spark
- another Boincstats advertisement ? (0:57:53 + later on)
- charity, see task
- no religious groups
- steemit: post to rsvp
- no news from Coinomi
- OpenLedger: may come in September
- vote weight poll status
- steem drive: funding billboards through rewards on steemit
- $7000 SBD raised for this advertising campaign
- bug: windows squashed
- new developper back, his tasks were:
- improving voting
- porting Windows features
- improving synchronization