RE: Why Gridcoin Whitelisting Must Go
I totally agree with the automated aspect of the future improvement. Althought I'm not sure of the implications of granting private funded projects the access to Gridcoin network : say, if 2 equivalent projects technically and logistically speaking, but one is public and the other one is private, are the Gridcoin workers of the private one rewarded differently than those of the other one ? I guess the answer is yes. They may have chosen the private one for profit. But from the point of view of Gridcoin, this implies a lot more effort to manage these two types of philosiphical positions. And this has a cost. So, for me, I see only one solution : Gridcoin should pay less the private participants (to cover the costs) and the complement should be brought by the private institute who claims the network. And this can be a criterium to select which private institute is motivated enough to enter the arena. If it agrees to give Gridcoins enough for the participants to be more rewarded than the public ones (techn. and logis. equivalent) then it is becomes a private partner institute. And I think Gridcoin should stay as faithful as possible to its respectful views regarding those who absolutely don't want to talk about money. Faith or less, in a way.
I'm not sure I agree, but it's an interesting distinction. One tricky part is how you'd determine private vs. public status of projects -- there is plenty of grey there, probably enough to make it not worth trying to enforce that distinction.
That's not Gridcoin which should determine private from public. It's up to the institute itself, or better the project in question, to declare itself public or private at sign up. If they declare themselves as public then all is like before (they don't profit from a particular growth in network population ). If they declare them private then they should provide a guarantee that Gridcoin workers will be well rewarded to compensate Gridcoin tax. And then they profit from a big network of hungry crunchers!