Fireside Chat ep. 20 -- The Gridcoin Superblock

Gridcoin Community

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axf1eSfk9L8 Links From The News: GUI Development Thread - https://github.com/gridcoin-community... SotN August 6th - https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@jringo/... Ravon's Optimization Post - https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@ravonn/... CM's BOINC Workshop Post- https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@cm-stee... Arikado Pool Update - https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@sau412/... Jim's UTXO Optimization Post - https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@jamesco... --- Discussion: This week we dive into the Gridcoin superblock: The Gridcoin superblock is a unique tool that aggregates and store data pertaining to participant computation contributions. It is the decentralized version of what might otherwise require centralized management. It replaces the middleman Gridcoin helps push to the side. How does it work? How can it be improved? What else can it do? 0:00 - 18:00 News 18:00 - 30:00 What is a superblock - conceptual 30:00 - 39:00 Superblock Scalability 39:00 - 42:00 Quorum Selection Dynamic Witness Participation Reading - https://github.com/gridcoin-community... 42:00 - 50:45 General Questions 50:45 - How do superblocks work? - Deep dive --- Next Episode: Join us for the next episode on Thursday, August 16th, at 8:00pm EST, midnight UTC, on the Gridcoin discord. Topic: Why, What, and How We Crunch Bring your crunching rig specs, your favorite projects, and the reasons why you crunch BOINC and let's share! See you soon!