Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Monday Jan 23, 2017 at 13:33 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#47

Wikipedia: CoinJoin

advantages:

• anonymity
• staking participation currently: only about a quarter of total coins are staking: bounces from 50-100 million GRCs

question:

• legal issues ?

mentioned in hangout 2: 2:41:47

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 11:55 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#42

more trade volume needed, 5 days left

a) could also be a money-making scheme by this exchange: if they'd have lower fees like other exchanges, more volume would come anyways
e.g. "in danger" doesn't sound like "it will"

b) BUT: "Gridcoin featured very prominently on its frontpage" (forum), so free publicity for us :-)

" This market is in danger of de-listing due to low trade volume and lack of user interest. It may be removed on Friday, January 27th 2017 unless the average daily trade volume for the last 14 days exceeds 0.5 BTC. If you would like to keep the market listed, please encourage the development team to contact us at [email protected]. If you have questions about the policy, please see https://bittrex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202583874."

https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-GRC

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 00:48 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#22

goal: increase staking participation

• e.g. via an external script that rewards randomly(?) one of the block creators

questions:

• how much reward is enough?
• 1x daily ?

mentioned in hangout 22:

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 20:50 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#11

e.g. with more protection

mentioned in hangout 1: 1:25:28

• mentioned there: xmpp, teamspeak, skype, Google hangouts, trillo (unsure about name?)
• others: tox, ...

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 22:36 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#45

If you want a new Gridcoin poll created, reply below.

Why here ? because @grctest will see it much faster

Referenced from:
Gridcoin polls: January 2017, February 2017

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 17:01 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#6

fair rewarding is important, otherwise some users get magnitude without doing anything/much.

• see also this

fediverse and gridcoinstats already detect when projects have no WU, in progress WUs
but Gridcoin itself doesn't :-(

mentioned in hangout 1: 0:23:45

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Saturday Jan 21, 2017 at 02:18 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#14

Features that are missing in the linux wallet:

• no participation in superblock
• UIs: no voting UI, no foundation UI, no Neural Network UI

This is on the roadmap for 2017 June/July.

mentioned in hangout 1: 0:40:00 - 0:42:00

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 15:23 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#5

The newbie block helps that newcomers:

• get a block faster,
• which is also a good feedback ("flashing lights"),
• and psychological advantage

The newbie stake weight boost could be removed and the pos:dpor stake weight rebalanced (huppdiwupp's proposals)

mentioned in hangout 1: 0:12:10

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Saturday Jan 21, 2017 at 02:20 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#15

• NeuralMiner:
  • "doesn't look professional"
  • "I really like how slick the NXT wallets look: very modern and polished"
• this needs more input

mentioned in hangout 1: 0:40:00 - 0:42:00
mentioned in hangout 4: 1:02:00

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:16 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#32

People should contact them (tweets, email, ...) to bring attention to this.

mentioned in hangout 22:

related: #24 #31

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Saturday Jan 21, 2017 at 15:35 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#20

reason:

• participation in staking

problems when making this as default:

• the wallet should be unlocked automatically, or it fails our intended purpose here
• Gridcoin's startup may slow down the startup, user gets annoyed, kills it, and then the blockchain or config file gets corrupted. And user can't start Gridcoin anymore

todo:

• I've no Windows, so I'm asking around so people can check if autostart actually works right now
  • ideally on a fresh system, as a newbie would be

mentioned in hangout 2: 27:40

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 00:52 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#23

goal: increase staking participation

currently PoS stakers get 1.5%

questions:

• side effects on GRC value after an increase ?

mentioned in hangout 22:

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 15:21 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#3

There is

• an existing doc available, see hangout 1: 0:15:47 and
• also a summary (with graphs) https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@cm-steem/pos-dpor-stake-weight-balance

@grctest (cm): maybe bounty is possible

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 19:23 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#8

• e.g. interns, from Google's Summer of Code
• flyers at universities or other acedemic places
• see also comments in Gridcoin roadmap

mentioned in hangout 1: 1:14:55-1:17:47

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 15:22 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#4

can be not only Gridcoin but also with BOINC together,
so newcomers have a faster + better start into their Gridcoin experience

mentioned in hangout 1: 0:09:00
mentioned in hangout 2: 1:53:15

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:43 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#40

@grctest from RSVP:

We should apply to:

• https://cosmos.network
• https://interledger.org/ (Hangouts: https://soundcloud.com/user-878991006 )
• http://heatledger.com/ (CCEDK associated)
• https://komodoplatform.com/dex-whitepaper/ (Just a whitepaper for now? SuperNet's EasyDEX)
• https://www.instantdex.org/2016/09/28/forum-disabled-easydex-soon/ (InstantDEX vs EasyDEX vs Iguana?)
• https://bcexchange.org/ ( Unsure of validity, but they mention the addition of altcoins).
• https://etherex.org/ (Site down!)
• https://wavesplatform.com/ (If we partnered with one of their gateways then GRC may be traded with tokens on their platform, low likelihood though).

Any more anyone knows of?

Some of these platforms could result in whales moving into GRC from major alts.

mentioned in hangout 22:

related: #39

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:30 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#36

it seems: Windows users can not create blocks due to clock off issue :-(

• further info: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/52040-clock-issues/
• pic: gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research#186

It's not clear yet from where this originates, but it is not @grctest 's servers

so: Katie ?

• also her irc bot has RPC trouble. her wallet not running perhaps ?

to be clear this is just a thought, don't go witch-hunting :-(

mentioned in hangout 22:

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:33 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#37

OK: it seems buy/sell inside C-Cex works.

but user reports his "grc wallet" at the exchange shows maintainance mode :-(

I told the user on reddit who reported this to contact the exchange itself
we agreed to wait until he gives feedback

but: ofc, someone else also can contact C-Cex additionally. thx
they have:

• irc channel
• ticket system

further info: reddit

mentioned in hangout 22:

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:22 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#35

In hangout 22 discussed: that bounties for opensourced software/apps is always welcome

see also: get bounties for helping team Gridcoin

questions:

• requirements for the product?
  • e.g. opensourced stuff, with a good licence for us
• how much bounty ?
• "And to be really trustworthy these bounties could be paid beforehand into a certain (multisig?) address, so the people know they really get it paid" (see forum)

some ideas: category: bounty

mentioned in hangout 22:

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Saturday Jan 21, 2017 at 15:31 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#18

Could include an info graphic, e.g. pool or solo ?

Especially useful for newcomers who don't read tutorial, improve usability.

TODO: move to bugtracker after detailing more

mentioned in hangout 2: 28:00

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Saturday Jan 21, 2017 at 15:19 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#17

gather criteria, e.g.

• how long should a poll last ?
  • based on type of poll
• see hangout 2: a poll shall not acted upon before it ended
• minimum balance/magnitude participation required ? (see also hangout 3: 2:15:39)

and later let community vote on these

mentioned in hangout 2: see WuProp section

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:40 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#39

we applied to Lykke exchange

• https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/51655-lykke-exchange/

please contact them additionally (email, twitter) to bring more attention to it, thx

mentioned in hangout 22:

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Monday Jan 23, 2017 at 11:25 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#46

back in August: though gaining more miners, the activity level of miners dropped

• new miners have problems ?
• newbie boost misused ?

starting points:

• e.g. boincstats shows new team members
• CPID leaderboard
• search patterns in usernames

also important for:

• checking on cheating for: foundation funds in the new faucet

mentioned in hangout 2: 1:44:30 + mentioned in hangout 7

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 18:49 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#7

Currently, we've in a challenge only 1 BOINC project:

• at the moment team Gridcoin is in 4 challenges at the same time

But, it is also possible to make a competition over all whitelisted BOINC projects (ca. 30):

• can't overlap, must have e.g. 1 per week
• not possible with boincstats

mentioned in hangout 1: 1:14:15

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 20:35 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#10

BOINC users can set in their settings that the BOINC admin (and the team founder) can email them e.g. news.

With such an email also inactive BOINC users might be reactivated

Important to adhere to laws, so it is not spam - otherwise fines :-(

see:

• Email marketing via team founder newsletter
• hangout 1: 1:23:55

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Saturday Jan 21, 2017 at 14:28 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#16

e.g. to find out which BOINC project is good for your hardware

useful for newcomers and "veterans", but newcomers always ask:

• which BOINC project should I crunch now ?

Possible via XML files, but:

• shows only users who did not hide their devices

mentioned in hangout 2: 5:00

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:33 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#37

OK: it seems buy/sell inside C-Cex works.

but user reports his "grc wallet" at the exchange shows maintainance mode :-(

I told the user on reddit who reported this to contact the exchange itself
we agreed to wait until he gives feedback

but: ofc, someone else also can contact C-Cex additionally. thx
they have:

• irc channel
• ticket system

further info: reddit

mentioned in hangout 22:

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:20 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#34

goal: to get better info

further info:

• Gridcoin Advertising (2): Expanding our Google AdWords budget
• poll: new campaign Google AdWords (2017 Jan 1 - Dec 31), $10 daily, paid via foundation funds

task: @grctest + Vortac

mentioned in hangout 22:

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:11 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#30

https://openbazaar.org
https://twitter.com/openbazaar

mentioned in hangout 22:

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 17:35 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#43

technical details: here

quoting bounty from @frank0051 from there:
"
Given this, if it helps at all, I am going to vote yes on this item but I'm also willing to donate $50 or $100 to the development of this. While it's not much, maybe if other people are willing to do so it could be a bigger incentive.
"

see also: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/52091-grcsidedevelopment/

keep in mind:

• there's a related poll still ongoing, see here

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:36 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#38

Phay mentioned like a normal CV has:

• I have achieved this and that
• and so on
• can be done via Google docs together

mentioned in hangout 22: by Phay

related to: #24

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Saturday Jan 21, 2017 at 17:55 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#21

e.g. as a method to market Project rain
but can be used also for Gridcoin in general

mentioned in hangout 2: 1:05:00

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:10 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#29

length: 3 days ? or more ?

task: @grctest

mentioned in hangout 22:

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:13 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#31

@grctest : "Despite Coinami's help, the continued response from ShapeShift is that Gridcoin is on a 'discovery list' and that they are not looking to add further coins in 2017, how disappointing."

• unless we get liquidity up ?
• anyways, people should contact them (tweets, email, ...) to bring attention to this

mentioned in hangout 22:

related: #24

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:05 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#27

@grctest : "We should reach out to BOINC projects, asking them to add a donate button (or one of those 'one-name' things) to their website so that we can easily donate GRC to them."

There is a template letter available to do this (ask @Peppernrino)

questions:

• only whitelisted BOINC projects ?
• check letter
• should we get an official email from gridcoin.us ? (ask @grctest)

mentioned in hangout 22:

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 22:21 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#12

current Wikipedia page here

see https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/42423-wikipediaorg-article-development/
from hangout 1

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 15:13 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#1

why ?
so devs can be rewarded (or motivated to start features, fix bugs, ...)

https://tip4commit.com

mentioned in hangout 1: 0:5:50 with the 4th generation BOINC credit system

Issue by grctest
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 18:46 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#44

https://github.com/grctest/Gridcoin-Site

The Gridcoin.US website has been open-sourced.

The removal of designmodo's startup-framework has resulted in a lack of CSS, JS and html container/class id's --> The website is glitchy looking, needs tome TLC.

It uses the MiddleMan Static Site generator to minimize duplicate code.

I quickly integrate suitable pull-requests.

Barton26 has helped out recently.

Xubuntu guide:

sudo apt-get install ruby-dev

sudo apt-get install nodejs

sudo gem install middleman

sudo apt-get install git

sudo apt-get install build-essential

git clone https://github.com/grctest/Gridcoin-Site.git

cd Gridcoin-Site

bundle install

bundle exec middleman server

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:08 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#28

There is a template letter available to do this (ask @Peppernrino)

These shops already allow GRC (please thank them here)

• store list (29 shops)

questions:

• which shops first ? see list
• check letter
• should we get an official email from gridcoin.us ? (ask @grctest)

mentioned in hangout 22:

related to: #27

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 15:17 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#2

Gridcoin has only 1 pool, and when this would not work anymore it'd be bad for newcomers.
It works ok, but the payout is not immediate

Thus the idea is to make an opensourced one:
https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/49262-open-source-project-gridcoin-pool-boinc-account-manager/

Dis-/Advantages of a pool: https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/pool-or-solo-mining

mentioned in hangout 1:

• 0:55:50-0:59:10
  • @fkinglag pay Katie a bounty ?
  • @spassbold "definitely worth to pay quite a lot to get this opensourced"
• 0:10:00

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Saturday Jan 21, 2017 at 15:33 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#19

use case(s):

• to make a better voting system (mentioned in hangout 2: extract voting data)

further info:

• Porting Blockstack from Bitcoin to Gridcoin

current situation (via @grctest):

• We are compatible up to a certain release that's over a year old, so their latest developed library isn't compatible.
• Blackcoin recently ported bitcore (web development - javascript library)
• Well, we'd still need to get blockstack to integrate Gridcoin or we would have to do the work ourselves (no other alt has support yet, but they've stated previously they were interested in making it blockchain agnostic).

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 22:22 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#13

further info here, e.g.

• "existing users can generate referral link(s) in the wallet, and new users who downloaded the client from the official site through that link, will have that identifier in the installer itself (or a config file bundled with the installer in a dynamically created zip file, or something)."
• "separate BOINC project like GridCoin Finance, that controls the affiliate earnings through the project RAC and it's magnitude."

from hangout 1 RSVP

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Saturday Jan 21, 2017 at 14:28 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#16

e.g. to find out which BOINC project is good for your hardware

useful for newcomers and "veterans", but newcomers always ask:

• which BOINC project should I crunch now ?

Possible via XML files, but:

• shows only users who did not hide their devices

mentioned in hangout 2: 5:00

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 00:56 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#24

@fkinglag wants to do this until the next hangout (session 23)

mentioned in hangout 22:

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 00:58 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#25

assigning to @grctest

requirement:

• high upvote on steemit

mentioned in hangout 22:

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 02:16 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#41

• so easy pull requests (typos) could be merged into the code
• more difficult PRs should still require a certain procedure:
  • tested on these OS (windows, linux, ...) ?
  • done these, agreed on, test cases ?
  • and also test cases which are relevant for the changed code parts ?
  • unit tests were added ?
  • ...
• who should get the additional flag ?

see @denravonska 's comment here

assigning to @grctest

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:17 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#33

@grctest mentioned that coinomi might help us with an Electrum server

mentioned in hangout 22:

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 18:49 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#7

Currently, we've in a challenge only 1 BOINC project:

• at the moment team Gridcoin is in 4 challenges at the same time

But, it is also possible to make a competition over all whitelisted BOINC projects (ca. 30):

• can't overlap, must have e.g. 1 per week
• not possible with boincstats

mentioned in hangout 1: 1:14:15

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 19:44 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#9

"marketing" on reddit

• posts: example in futurology in past
  • keep in mind: Sustained /r/BOINC (reddit) censorship of Gridcoin and Steem!
• ads

but: Gridcoin has to be ready (wallet, ...)

mentioned in hangout 1: 1:17:48

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Sunday Jan 22, 2017 at 01:02 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#26

e.g. uploads to youtube not uptodate

cc: @grctest @Peppernrino

mentioned in hangout 22: