RE: Why Gridcoin Should Embrace SPARC "Competition"
The world has gone ICO crazy over the past year, and to me this sounds no different. Sure, give us 1000 ETH, and maybe next year we'll have something for you. Big gamble.
But more than that, I think it's a mistake to get distracted by other projects. Gridcoin needs to worry about two things. First, making Gridcoin solid and scalable. Second, burying the hatchet with BOINCers, and bringing them into the fold. Hell, I'd love it if we could pull in the folding@home community as well, even if it means having to do a ton of coding to make it all work.
(Stepping on my soapbox for a minute)...I might be in the minority, but honestly all I want to do is support pure science, which is woefully lacking in the world, and specifically in the US. If other coins want to support "commercial computing", let them have it. No company is going to offer SETI@home, because there's no profit in it. No company is going to want me to find mega-prime numbers for them, just for the sake of finding them. I like doing weird project like these, and going the commercial route ruins all that. (soapbox rant mode off.)
TL;DR stay focused on the things was can control, which is GRC technology and our relationships/outreach with the general scientific community. The rest will take care of itself.
Gridcoin has been trying to reach out to other BOINC members. But due to the requirements of team connection there has been some rough talk against Gridcoin by their part, calling the project team poachers. We would more than anything have everyone using Gridcoin I think. There is no hatch, just some rough talk about teams from other BIINCers.
glad to hear we're mostly hatchet-free. :) and yeah, if I had a team I had been with for months/years, and some snot-nosed upstart "coin" team started enticing my members away, I can imagine not being super stoked about it. truth is, I don't like seeing Gridcoin at the top of all these project lists. I'd rather see all sorts of teams vying for first place. Hell, I'd even love to start my own team of just myself, give it a crazy name and compete against other teams. With all of us earning GRC as simply a side-effect. I hope we can make that happen!
I think once we get to number one in BOINCstats, we can then relax and let the team dissipate, we will have shown all we need to show, and got plenty of attention