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<center><h1>The Gridcoin Fireside 02</h1></center>

<center><h2>What is Gridcoin?</h2></center>

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<center><h1>Recorded on January 16th</h1></center>

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<h2>What is Gridcoin?</h2>

This week we dive into some of the specifics of the Gridcoin protocol. How does it mint currency? Where does that currency go? What sort of technology does it use? And more! Bring your questions and we'll be sure to answer.

|Time|Subject|
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|1:30|What is Gridcoin?|
|8:15|Gridcoin Participants|
|11:30|Gridcoin as a Crypto|
|26:30|Gridcoin Tech|
|38:30|Gridcoin Community|

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<h1>What is Gridcoin?</h1>

Gridcoin is a multi-incentive permissionless blockchain initiated in 2013. It mints and distributes cryptocurrency in relation to the processing power a network participant directs toward data-driven analysis and scientific discovery, as well as through a proof-of-stake reward mechanism. The Gridcoin blockchain monitors processing contributions to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Networked Computing (BOINC). BOINC hosts major institutional computing projects such as IBM’s World Community Grid, SETI, and CERN, alongside projects developed by students, enthusiasts, mathematicians, researchers, and citizen scientists. Access to Gridcoin's computation resources is free, while computation contributors are incentivized with cryptocurrency minted by the Gridcoin protocol.

<h1>Want to Learn More?</h1>

Website: https://gridcoin.us
Discord: https://discord.gg/jf9XX4a
Steemit: https://steemit.com/created/gridcoin
White Paper: https://gridcoin.us/assets/img/whitepaper.pdf

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