These are the minutes for the second Gridcoin hangout on August 13, 2016:
- listen, youtube
- RSVP & suggest topics
- invited guest: Ivan Zone, CEO of Suchflex
0:0:30 - 0:1:46
- introducing the new developper Joseph Krug for Gridcoin
0:1:46 - 0:30:00 (28 mins)
- Discussing the cheating on WuProp@Home, the lack of purpose of its results and the lack of SSL
- discussing the poll to remove it from the whitelist and that the poll was acted on too early
- manipulation in polls and how to improve (Blockstack; audio/video in future?; more participation, coins should be staking; PoSv3; UI in linux)
- email marketing and its progress (0:22:12)
- superblock stability and Neural Network (0:26:18)
0:30:00 - 0:36:50 (7 mins)
- messaging Gridcoin users (via wallet, email marketing)
0:36:50 - 0:42:25 (5.5 mins)
- discussing Suchflex before they joined the mumble, see below (1:06:50) for more
0:42:26 - 1:06:50 (24 mins)
- Project rain dis-/advantages:
- marketing via donation
- BOINC users who are not in team Gridcoin can receive different coins
- tracability of addresses: issuing assets must be done in public to not be in danger of certain laws
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- see also task: go to other coins' conference calls/meetups
1:06:50 - 1:43:30 (36 mins)
- Suchflex
- want to make it simple for users
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- got 2k users for their alpha/beta software
- plans to isse own coin
1:44:30 - 1:51:20 (7 mins)
- figures on solo miners: though gaining more miners, the activity level of miners drops
- new miners have problems ?
- newbie boost misused ? see task
1:51:30 - 1:53:15 (2 mins)
- running Windows version of the wallet via wine in linux
- e.g. voting UI usable ?
- see task: howto: run windows wallet under linux via wine
1:53:15 - 1:59:00 (6 mins + more)
- portability of the Gridcoin client, via commandline or more
- see task
- ideas to improve the GUI
- see task: optimize resource consumption of image files in wallet
-2:07:00
- development process: PRs not merged soon, ...
- wallet crashes
- splash image changes
- changing, see also contest
- at start of the wallet the image on click disappears, they force-close the wallet, which corrupts blockchain
2:12:10 - 2:22:xy
- loading times of client takes too long
- users might want to force-close the wallet, which corrupts blockchain
- wallet still using old QT4
- checking security issues from BTC code to import to GRC code
- build process
2:22:45 - 2:25:25
- #gridcoin-help channel created because #gridcoin allows only registered users, also is too off-topic which might scare them
- scammers approached via PM
2:25:30 - 2:28:30
- making the minutes + Gridcoin tasks
2:28:44 - 2:35:30
- BlockPay: Point of Sale system
- Bitshares, OpenLedger, MPA news
- Electrum server
2:36:05 - 2:40:08
- trying to contact the BOINC community, project governance
- and their view on the 4th gen credit system
- posting on mailing lists
- invite them to hangouts
- see task: reviving past outreach
- frequency of hangouts: weekly or every 14 days ?
2:41:47 - 2:46:20
- mixer, coin-join site
- anonymity
- staking participation currently: only about a quarter of total coins are staking: bounces from 50-100 million GRCs
- see task
2:47:00 - 2:56:00
- checking SSL status of BOINC projects, could be like 8 projects that might be purged
- problems for Gridcoin users vs. security advantage of SSL
- how to approach
till end
- ideas for team challenges
- and use as oportunity to invite BOINC admins to mumble