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upcoming changes in Gridcoin (e.g. effects on less rich users; fixes on (known) exploits) #37

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Erkan-Yilmaz opened this issue Aug 19, 2017 · 0 comments

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Erkan-Yilmaz commented Aug 19, 2017 •

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One of the next (mandatory) releases will include this new:

Gridcoin PoS kernel v8

One of the changes there will be:

"The most notable effect is that magnitude does no longer affect your stake weight. Investors and BOINCers now have the same chances to mint a block. This drastic change was needed to eliminate an exploit. On the other hand a compensation for less rich BOINCers is already being designed."
Thus, it seems, one of the recommendations for less rich BOINCers appears to be to stay in a Gridcoin pool

See the Gridcoin milestones also here:

Other upcoming changes are to fix:

ability to exfiltrate user's email addresses (used also in BOINC) from the Gridcoin blockchain
hijacking beacons (stealing an user's CPID registration)

Read more at:

under investigation: security issues in Gridcoin

When these and others fixes really do come ("scheduled for NN2.0 or right before it") I'll keep you updated on.

Erkan-Yilmaz changed the title ~~upcoming changes in Gridcoin~~ upcoming changes in Gridcoin (e.g. effects on less rich users; fixes on (known) exploits)

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