These are the minutes for the 29th Gridcoin hangout on April 29, 2016:
- listen 1h 44 mins
- RSVP & Suggest topics
Unfinished
Minutes are estimates as the hangout audio file has not been completed yet.
This is transcribed from a raw recording of the hangout
[0:00:00]
- Customminer talks about BeyondBoinc.net
- Runs with Steemit as a backend based on Glasnost v0.8
- Steemit Post
[0:05:00]
[0:11:30]
- Possible Whitelist candidates
- Users have posted alternatives in the forum.
- Anyone can propose new candidates on the forum that the community can talk about.
- What minimum requirements should we have?
related task:
[0:16:10]
- Enigma@Home removed from the whitelist
- Removed due to no more WUs being sent out. Admin explained why on their forum and a possible timeline on when they will be back again (not discussed in the hangout)
[0:18:00]
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Question about including Folding@Home in Gridcoin
- Reason why it's not and what it would require to be possible.
related task: bring folding@home into BOINC/Gridcoin
[0:19:00]
- Where to find the most up-to-date whitelist?
- The Neural Network of the wallet
- Gridcoinstats.eu
- The bot "fediverse" at IRC, with command: !whitelist
- New Gridcoin tasks, over 101 tasks available in various areas for anyone to help out with.
- [0:23:15] Double superblock in a row issue
- [0:23:50] Suggestion to adding Gridcoin to PoSWallet and what PoSW is
- [0:27:10] Renewing videos and informational content to promote Gridcoin. Contacting YouTube creators?
- [0:28:40] Searching for testers for making ways to set up the wallet easier.
- [0:29:10] Improving NetData for Gridcoin related NetData statistics
- [0:30:50] Improving language in the wallet.
- [0:31:45] Making BOINC run on a PS4
[0:35:45]
- Erkan talks about current, previous and future situation of challenges.
- Challenges in April 2017.
- Upcoming Boinc Pentathlon
[0:38:45]
- Current polls running and results of recently closed.
- Polls in April
- Polls in May
[0:40:15]
- Switching to normal polls for the foundation polls mechanism.
- There has been issues with making foundation polls
- Many users most likley do not find them
[0:43:30]
- User observed issues:
- Beacon deletion issues?
- Successive beacon advertisment issues
- Issues with advertising beacon while wallet locked
- Much development work is going into the GitHub repo for beacon.
[0:53:00]
- Phay talks about making the wallet more user-friendly and brainstorming during the bio-break :)
related task: brainstorm meeting to make wallet more user-friendly
[1:01:40]
- Coinomi not listing Gridcoin on their Google Playstore
- It's listed on their webpage and it's in the wallet, but not in the store.
- Coinomi has not replied on any of the user questions about this.
[1:03:25]
- Erkan talks about new functions for "fediverse" on IRC.
[1:09:45]
- Games and tournaments for users:
- Peerplays tournament was held to test their network. Gridcoin was sent out to all participants
- Chess tournament coming up, 6-7 May.
[1:18:00]
- Value rise of Gridcoin in the recent days on exchanges.
- Gridcoin spiked just after our last talk on Beyond Bitcoin Hangout.
- [1:23:00] Decentralized exchanges briefly explained, Bitsquare and Bitshares.
[1:26:30]
- Gridcoin added to BTSBots.
- A Decentralized exchange bot using Bitshares.
[1:32:45]
- Status of interviews (BOINC admins, companies)
[1:36:30]
- nuad01 created a Gridcoin establishment in Second Life
- Steemit Post
[1:42:15]
- Moisesmcardona has created an open-source tool for displaying his active BOINC computation on his website, you can now monitor his ongoing computation remotely.
[1:49:45]
- Caraca raises the idea of putting all binaries for the builds on Bintray.
[1:55:30]
- Progress on Portability