Project Summary
What is Gridcoin?
Gridcoin is a new peer-to-peer internet based cryptocurrency that aims to provide real benefits to humanity by compensating the coin miners for participating in BOINC projects that may lead to advances in medicine, biology, mathematics, science, climatology, and astrophysics by concentrating a large percentage of the computational power towards BOINC research - instead of generating unnecessary heat and wasted power for the proof of work algorithms required to keep the coin network running.
In a Nutshell, Gridcoin...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
with increasing Y-O-Y commits -
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took an estimated 813 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in August, 2009
ending with its most recent commit 3 months ago
MIT License
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