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

<center><h3>Tonight! June 27th at 8:00pm EDT</h3></center>

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The Gridcoin Fireside is a participatory podcast brought to you by the Gridcoin community. It is intended to introduce and explore DLT, cryptocurrency, and crypto-economics from a science oriented perspective.

The audience is welcome to participate through voice-comms or via the discord text chat.

Join us every Thursday at 8:00pm EDT on the Gridcoin [discord](https://discord.gg/jf9XX4a) server.

**Catch up on past episodes [here](https://dcuni.podbean.com/).**

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<h1>Tonight!</h1></center>

<h2>Gridcoin Incentives</h2>

Tonight we explore one of the most critical aspects of any economic system: Incentives.

Gridcoin is the only multi-incentive blockchain. For now, there are two protocol level incentive structures and multiple process-based incentive structures:

<h3>Protocol-based Incentives</h3>

1. At an emissions or protocol level Gridcoin rewards active network participants for their computation contributions to approved BOINC projects

2. At an emissions or protocol level Gridcoin rewards active network participants for  their contributions to blockchain security through the proof-of-stake consensus algorithm.

<h3>Process-based Incentives</h3>

1. **Equal Distribution of Resources:** Gridcoin distributes research rewards in a way that incentivizes crunchers to distribute their computation contributions across all whitelisted projects. This ensures that smaller, less sexy citizen scientist projects get a share of the network's computation contributions equal to the major marketed projects like WCG, SETI@Home, and LHC.

2. **Active Education:** Gridcoin requires BOINC projects to be whitelisted in order to be incentivized by the protocol. As whitelisting takes places through a network-wide poll, this indirectly incentivizes BOINC projects to educate the system's general population as to the value of their research along with their ability to carry it out.

3. **Passive Education:** Giving network participants a stake and a share of power in that network, particularly if the two are directly tied to money, incentivizes them to learn about the system in which they have a stake and make decisions. Gridcoin's system, as a blockchain-based cryptocurrency, involves financial structures and money. Gridcoin's protocol-based incentive structures add science to that equation. This means active participants are incentivized to learn about money and science!

4. **Science Literacy:** Gridcoin participants are incentivized to be good stewards of the whitelist. Whitelisting properly run research and data analytics projects adds value to the Gridcoin network while whitelisting shabby do-nothing projects detracts value. In order to be good stewards, active network participants must educate themselves on what the projects and their research do.

We will be exploring all of these and how we might be able to improve it all!

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<h2>![Project Brief.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmauJCMhs7occ39zwRkYoy3LeFU1d1r4EStVSV88eBKTYv/Project%20Brief.png) [Project brief: Einstein@Home](https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@delta1512/project-brief-einstein-home-explained)</h2>

For this week's Pb, @delta1512 will introduce the BOINC project Einstein@home and remind us all what are computers are doing when we crunch for the project.

>Einstein@home is a BOINC project that aims to discover gamma-ray pulsars, binary radio pulsars and gravitational waves. 

To learn more, check out the project brief post linked above, or join us live tonight on The Gridcoin Fireside.

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See you soon!

[Gridcoin Discord](https://discord.gg/jf9XX4a)

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<h1>What is Gridcoin?</h1>

Gridcoin is a multi-incentive open-source blockchain. Incentive one, stake rewards, rewards participants for securing the ledger through a proof-of-stake protocol. Incentive two, research rewards, rewards participants for contributing to approved projects hosted on the distributed computing infrastructure, BOINC. 

BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, hosts major institutional computing projects such as IBM’s World Community Grid, SETI, and data from the Large Hadron Collider, alongside projects developed by students, enthusiasts, mathematicians, researchers, and citizen scientists.


<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

-- Github --

Codebase: https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-Research
Community: https://github.com/gridcoin-community