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The Gridcoin Fireside is a participatory podcast brought to you by DCUni and the Gridcoin community. It is intended to introduce and explore DLT, cryptocurrency, and crypto-economics from a science oriented perspective.

The audience is welcome to participate through voice-comms or via the discord text chat.

Join us every Thursday at 8:00pm EST on the Gridcoin discord server.

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Recorded on October 24th

 

FOSS product groups and organizations have experimented with and developed unique organizational models over the decades. Largely based on reputation and positions of responsibility, these organizations have ultimately produced some of the most widely used software.

In this episode we discuss how these organizations work and how Blockchain and DLT can add to their operation.

Time

Subject

2:20

NewsGridcoin 4.0.6 Release (Ernestine)Gridcoin Marketing and Engagement ProposalLBRY.ScienceWhoisterencelee's decentralized distributed incentivized computing project

13:30

Organizational Models

22:40

FOSS vs Standard Career Path

28:00

What Maintains Open Source Software?

36:40

Gridcoin as a Case Study

44:45

Blockchain FOSS Organizational Model

46:45

Fern

52:00

Gridcoin as a Case Study PT 2

 

What is Gridcoin?

Gridcoin is a multi-incentive permissionless blockchain initiated in 2013. It mints and distributes cryptocurrency in relation to the processing power a network participant directs toward data-driven analysis and scientific discovery, as well as through a proof-of-stake reward mechanism. The Gridcoin blockchain monitors processing contributions to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Networked Computing (BOINC). BOINC hosts major institutional computing projects such as IBM’s World Community Grid, SETI, and CERN, alongside projects developed by students, enthusiasts, mathematicians, researchers, and citizen scientists. Access to Gridcoin's computation resources is free, while computation contributors are incentivized with cryptocurrency minted by the Gridcoin protocol.

Want to Learn More? 

Website: https://gridcoin.usDiscord: https://discord.gg/jf9XX4aSteemit: https://steemit.com/created/gridcoinWhite Paper: https://gridcoin.us/assets/img/whitepaper.pdf

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