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(November 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Gridcoin Gridcoin Logo Gridcoin Logo Ticker symbol GRC Development Original Rob Halford^[2] author(s) White paper Gridcoin: The Computation Power of a Blockchain Driving Science & Data Analysis Implementation Gridcoin-Research (s) Latest release 5.1.0.0 / November 2, 2020; 3 months ago (2020-11-02)^ [1] Code github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research repository Development Active status Project fork Bitcoin, Peercoin^[4] of Written in C++ Operating Windows, Linux, macOS system Developer(s) Marco Nilsson, Paul Jensen, Tomas Brod, James Owens^ [3] Source model Open source License MIT License^[4] Website gridcoin.us Ledger Timestamping Proof-of-stake scheme Block reward 10 GRC^[5] Block explorer gridcoinstats.eu/block * iconBusiness and economics portal Gridcoin (ticker: GRC) is an open source cryptocurrency which securely rewards volunteer computing performed on the BOINC,^[6] a distributed computing platform that is home to over 30 science projects spanning a range of scientific disciplines. Gridcoin attempts to address and ease the environmental energy impact of cryptocurrency mining through its proof-of-research and proof-of-stake protocols, as compared to the proof of work system used by Bitcoin. References 1. ^ "Releases - gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research". Retrieved 2 November 2020 - via GitHub. 2. ^ "Gridcoin GRC Information - Classic in Retirement". CRYPTOCURRENCYTALK.COM. Retrieved 14 June 2020. 3. ^ "gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research". GitHub. Retrieved 2 November 2020. 4. ^ ^a ^b "License on Github". GitHub. Retrieved 14 June 2020. 5. ^ "Network Blocks". Gridcoinstats. Retrieved 31 October 2020. 6. ^ Dong, Zhongli; Lee, Young Choon; Zomaya, Albert Y (2015). "Crowdware: A Framework for GPU-Based Public-Resource Computing with Energy-Aware Incentive Mechanism". 2015 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (Cloud Com). p. 266. doi:10.1109/CloudCom.2015.73. ISBN 978-1-4673-9560-1. 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