We also provide you with detailed statistics that give you an insight into the Gridcoin network. https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research/releases/tag/5.0.0.0. It possesses a market capitalization of $13,530,738 as of August the 4th 2017 and its users contributed approximately 5% of the total scientific BOINC work done before October 2016. Any ideas on how I should get the snapshot? The developers have also been running non-staking "sentinel" nodes on mainnet with this code to verify that the consensus rules are problem-free for the legacy compatibility code on the broader mainnet. And finally, the diagnostics have been revamped. Bummer. I just happened to load Reddit today. In other words, you do not lose any earned research rewards if you do not stake a block within 180 days and keep your beacon up-to-date. One of our goals was to reduce or eliminate the reliance on snapshots for mainnet, and I think we have accomplished that goal with the new sync speed. Thus, we are going to wait for their response and then change this blog post accordingly. If you do not advertise and validate your beacon by this time, your beacon will expire and you will stop earning research rewards until you advertise and validate a new beacon. to Clear Message #1758 (@RoboticMind), util: Fix braindamage in GetDefaultDataDir() #1737 (@jamescowens), scraper: Improve scraper processing of beacon verifications #1760 (@jamescowens), scraper: Add instrumentation to convergencereport #1763 (@jamescowens), rpc: Improve rpc stress test script #1767 (@tunisiano187), Generalize enum serialization #1770 (@cyrossignol), scraper: Improve handling of ETags in http class and tweak verified beacon logic #1776 (@jamescowens), scraper: Improve ProcessNetworkWideFromProjectStats and other tweaks #1778 (@jamescowens), researcher: Automate beacon advertisement for renewals only #1781 (@cyrossignol), gui: Tweak behavior of beacon page in researcher wizard #1784 (@cyrossignol), Prepare for block version 11 hard-fork on testnet #1787 (@cyrossignol), scraper: Modify UpdateVerifiedBeaconsFromConsensus #1791 (@jamescowens), gui: Optimize OverviewPage::updateTransactions() #1794 (@jamescowens), ci: Adopt ci changes from Bitcoin #1795 (@div72), consensus: switch snapshot accrual calculation to integer arithmetic #1799 (@cyrossignol), voting: Overhaul the voting system #1809 (@cyrossignol), contract: Optimize contract replay after chain reorganization #1815 (@cyrossignol), contract: Reimplement transaction messages as contracts #1816 (@cyrossignol), staking: Sign claim contracts with coinstake transaction #1817 (@cyrossignol), gui: Change research wizard text #1820 (@div72), net: Update protocol version and clean up net messaging #1824 (@cyrossignol), rpc, wallet: Corrections to GetAmounts #1825 (@jamescowens), gui: Tweak some minor researcher wizard details #1830 (@cyrossignol), gui: Change GetEstimatedStakingFrequency text #1836 (@jamescowens), scraper: Scraper global statistics cache optimization #1837 (@jamescowens), doc: Update Vulnerability Response Process #1843 (@RoboticMind), scraper: Optimization of manifest and parts sharing between ConvergedScraperStatsCache, mapManifest, and mapParts #1851 (@jamescowens), consensus: Update Checkpoints #1855 (@barton2526), docs: Update docs to build off master #1856 (@barton2526), gui: Fix and improve GUI combo box styles #1858 (@cyrossignol), build: Tweak Gridcoin installer for Fern release #1863 (@jamescowens), Remove old research age checks (rebase #1365) #1572 (@cyrossignol), Remove PrimaryCPID check from diagnostics dialog #1586 (@cyrossignol), Remove missed label for PrimaryCPID from diagnostics #1588 (@cyrossignol), Remove legacy quorum messaging system (@neural network) #1589 (@cyrossignol), Remove old remnants of legacy smart contract experiments #1594 (@cyrossignol), Remove block nonce for version 11 #1622 (@cyrossignol), Delete obsolete contrib/Installer and Upgrader directories #1623 (@jamescowens), Remove redundant LoadAdminMessages() calls #1625 (@cyrossignol), Remove some legacy informational RPC commands #1658 (@cyrossignol), Remove informational magnitude field from binary claims #1661 (@cyrossignol), Remove fDebug3,4, and net and convert to BCLog::LogFlags #1663 (@jamescowens), Remove qt5.7.1 depends support build System #1665 (@iFoggz), Remove unused jQuery library #1679 (@cyrossignol), Remove unused NetworkTimer() function and global state #1701 (@cyrossignol), Refactor claim context objects into contracts #1704 (@cyrossignol), Remove legacy "rain" RPC (not by-project rain) #1742 (@cyrossignol), Temporarily disable voting system on testnet #1769 (@cyrossignol), gui: Remove legacy GUI transaction description for contracts #1772 (@cyrossignol), gui: Remove transaction fee setting #1780 (@cyrossignol), trivial: Cleanup unused legacy functions #1793 (@cyrossignol), mining, rpc: Remove kernel-diff-best and kernel-diff-sum #1796 (@jamescowens), refactor: Remove libs subdirectory #1802 (@div72), scraper: cleanup unused/unnecessary functions #1803 (@jamescowens), gui: Remove useless "Detach databases at shutdown" #1810 (@jamescowens), test: Remove testnet condition for standard transactions #1814 (@cyrossignol), consensus: Remove transitional testnet code #1854 (@cyrossignol), Fix "Owed" amount in output of "magnitude" RPC method #1569 (@cyrossignol), Add support for paths with special characters on Windows #1571 (@cyrossignol), Fix lingering peers.dat temp files and clean up remaining paths #1582 (@cyrossignol), Fix incorrect beacon length warning in GUI transaction list #1585 (@cyrossignol), Fix default config file line endings on Windows #1587 (@cyrossignol), Reenable Travis builds for MacOS #1591 (@jamescowens), Correct peer detail info background color #1593 (@jamescowens), Fix exception in debug3 mode #1598 (@cyrossignol), Fix deadlock in "getmininginfo" RPC function #1596 (@cyrossignol), Fix accuracy of statistics in "network" RPC output #1602 (@cyrossignol), Fix heights for quorum vote weight calculations #1604 (@cyrossignol), Fix deadlock in log archiver when rename fails #1607 (@cyrossignol), Fix a spurious segmentation fault during client load on Windows with fast CPUs #1608 (@jamescowens), Fix lock order debugging and potential deadlocks #1612 (@jamescowens), Fix std namespace pollution #1617 (@denravonska), Add missing condition for newbie accrual computer #1618 (@cyrossignol), Track first reward blocks in research accounts #1619 (@cyrossignol), Fix lingering beacon warning after advertisement #1627 (@cyrossignol), Fix accrual calculation for new, zero-magnitude CPIDs #1636 (@cyrossignol), Fix diagnostics, add ETTS test, fix tooltipcolor, add missing lock, and add email=investor check #1647 (@jamescowens), Fix help message of two RPC methods #1656 (@div72), Fix legacy accrual for newbie with non-zero past reward #1667 (@cyrossignol), Fix GUI autostart on Windows for paths with wide characters #1670 (@cyrossignol), Qualify boost bind placeholders with their full namespace #1672 (@Ponce), Fix suffix when copying txids #1677 (@div72), Unnecessary if-statement removed #1685 (@Pythonix), Fix consolidatemsunspent Help Message #1687 (@Pythonix), Fix gettransaction help message #1691 (@Pythonix), Fix GetNewMint To Look for Stakes #1692 (@RoboticMind), Suppress deprecated copy warnings for Qt with GCC 9+ #1702 (@cyrossignol), Fix exclusion error on stats processing and misplaced ENDLOCK logging entry #1710 (@jamescowens), Removed unnecessary comparison #1708 (@Pythonix), Fix out-of-bounds exception for peers tab version slashes #1713 (@cyrossignol), Fix transition for v1 superblocks when reorganizing #1714 (@cyrossignol), Touch up transition to version 2 transactions #1715 (@cyrossignol), Avoid mutating transactions in ConnectBlock() #1716 (@cyrossignol), Skip beacon advertisement when already pending #1726 (@cyrossignol), Fix Windows cross-compilation in newer environments #1728 (@cyrossignol), Fix out-of-bounds access in IsMineInner() #1736 (@cyrossignol), Fix a couple of block version 11 issues #1738 (@cyrossignol), Fix null pointer dereference in GUI researcher model #1741 (@cyrossignol), accrual: Reset research accounts when rebuilding accrual snapshots #1745 (@cyrossignol), scraper: Correct update for verified beacons #1747 (@jamescowens), accrual: Refactor tally initialization for snapshot rebuild #1749 (@cyrossignol), rpc: Fix "cpid" field in "beaconconvergence" RPC output #1750 (@cyrossignol), accrual: Fix snapshot accrual superblock state transitions #1752 (@cyrossignol), scraper: Correct stale verified beacon logic #1753 (@jamescowens), rpc: Correct possible divide by zero in getblockstats #1755 (@jamescowens), gui: Fix issues with researcher wizard flow #1756 (@cyrossignol), wallet: Stop Error When Starting From Zero #1759 (@RoboticMind), Don't count empty email as explicit investor #1761 (@cyrossignol), accrual: Fix snapshot accrual superblock state transitions #1764 (@cyrossignol), rpc: Cleanup Help Message and Fix Typo #1771 (@RoboticMind), scraper: Fix scraper etag header case sensitivity #1773 (@cyrossignol), consensus: Use explicit time to check if superblock needed #1774 (@cyrossignol), gui: Fix scroll area dark theme styles #1785 (@cyrossignol), rpc, gui: Fix three divide by zero possibilities #1789 (@jamescowens), rpc: Fix balance pre-check in "rainbymagnitude" RPC #1792 (@cyrossignol), accrual: Fix outdated comment and correct grammar #1800 (@RoboticMind), gui: Fix stuck cursor on labels #1801 (@div72), beacon: Fix research wizard beacon renewal status #1805 (@cyrossignol), gui: Fix translations for port numbers #1818 (@cyrossignol), util: Create parent directory #1821 (@div72), mining: Fix coinstake/claim signature order #1828 (@cyrossignol), voting: Remove double increment in loop #1831 (@cyrossignol), neuralnet, scraper: Fix compilation with gcc5 and older libcurl #1832 (@a123b), wallet: Fix smallest coin selection for contracts #1841 (@cyrossignol), gui: Fix display of polls with no votes yet #1844 (@cyrossignol), gui: add indentation to diagnostic status bar labels #1849 (@jamescowens), voting, gui: Fix formatting and alignment of vote shares and percent #1850 (@jamescowens), wallet, rpc: Fix for self-transactions in listtransactions #1852 (@jamescowens), accrual: Clear any accrual snapshots when syncing from pre-v11 #1853 (@cyrossignol), accrual: Fix reset of accrual directory if starting sync below research age height #1857 (@jamescowens), gui: Fix researcher wizard layout on macOS with native theme #1860 (@cyrossignol).
Amazing work! And it should take between 0 and 24 hours for that to take effect. You will need to have a small amount of GRC in your wallet you can get some from the faucet. Gridcoin is an altcoin, which is in active development since. It will however have them again soon, and more to it. We are interested in the last one (, VerifyCPIDSignature → CheckMessageSignature [, Existing public key for a CPID was sent [, The existing public key for the CPID is expired, After 5 months a refresh for the association between. The wallet sync speed has been DRASTICALLY improved. Every time there is a block, which contains beacon information, it is processed the following way (click image for higher resolution): In the last function GetBeaconPublicKey there are different paths to process a beacon depending on the public key, the CPID, and the time since both were associated to each other.For the following explanation we assume that we have an existing association (bound) between a CPID A and a public key pubK_A for 4 months. But we come to that in a minute. In our last blog post we described the Gridcoin architecture and the design vulnerability we found and fixed (the good). You should use that version. As it continues to run, the OS will reclaim some of that memory and it will level out to about 1 GB. It rewards users for contributing computation power to scientific projects, published on the BOINC project platform. Essentially a complete rewrite that was started with the scraper (the "neural net" rewrite) in "Denise" has now been completed. That cuts off many generations of older Macs. Thanks for all the time devs contributed into this release! Just be patient and the build maintainer will get it squared away. During some time the page will look a little different than before, and it will not have all the features it used to have before the update. I would like to thank all of the contributors to this release, but especially thank @cyrossignol, whose incredible contributions formed the backbone of this release.