I would pick Gridcoin (GRC), as it is one of the more interesting coins out there.

Gridcoin (GRC) replaces mining with doing research for scientific projects, for example to cure Ebola (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/oet1/overview.do), fold proteins (https://boinc.bakerlab.org/) or find aliens (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/).

From a user's point of view, he simply has to run simulations from the different projects using the BOINC software (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/). Then the network comes to a consensus, who has contributed how much computing power to BOINC, which can bee seen for example here (http://www.gridresearchcorp.com/gridcoin/?result&t=CPID_Leaderboard). In some blocks this consenus is saved in the blockchain and the reward one gets when staking a block is proportional to how much research was recently done for BOINC by this researcher.

I also has very active development, here is the main forum: https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/464-gridcoin-grc/
More information and tutorial to set it up here: www.gridcoin.us
 If you are interested visit our IRC: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net:6667/#gridcoin

There were some recent fixes regarding connectivity....can you give it another try? And did you try the download blocks option in  the top menu "rebuild blockchain"?

I would pick Gridcoin (GRC), as it is one of the more interesting coins out there.

Gridcoin (GRC) replaces mining with doing research for scientific projects, for example to cure Ebola (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/oet1/overview.do), fold proteins (https://boinc.bakerlab.org/) or find aliens (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/).

From a user's point of view, he simply has to run simulations from the different projects using the BOINC software (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/). Then the network comes to a consensus, who has contributed how much computing power to BOINC, which can bee seen for example here (http://www.gridresearchcorp.com/gridcoin/?result&t=CPID_Leaderboard). In some blocks this consenus is saved in the blockchain and the reward one gets when staking a block is proportional to how much research was recently done for BOINC by this researcher.

I also has very active development, here is the main forum: https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/464-gridcoin-grc/
More information and tutorial to set it up here: www.gridcoin.us
 If you are interested visit our IRC: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net:6667/#gridcoin

In regards to setting everything up: Luckily we have the pool now on pool.gridcoin.co, which makes setting everything up much easier.

If you are a newcomer to Gridcoin I suggest giving it a try.

It also shows you exactly why you earn how much and how much you earned exactly with each individual project.

Not for sure, but there were some interesting signals:

" However, it has identified several candidate targets (sky positions), where the spike in intensity is not easily explained as noisespots,[9] for further analysis. The most significant candidate signal to date was announced on September 1, 2004, named Radio source SHGb02+14a." , see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home#Results

I second Gridcoin.

Gridcoin is a cryptocurrency that rewards researching for BOINC projects (https://boinc.berkeley.edu/) in a decentralized way.

There are BOINC porojects for example cure Ebola (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/oet1/overview.do), fold proteins (https://boinc.bakerlab.org/) or find aliens (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/) and many more.

The greater idea behin Gridcoin is to create a worldwide currency like bitcoin and just like bitcoin there is a fixed rate of newly minted coins given out every day. But unlike bitcoin miners compete in doing calculations for actual research projects to earn the coins and do not waste electricity solving useless hashes.

The coin is based on Proof of Stake but with the modification that the PoS reward gets bigger dependig how much research you do compared to the other researchers.

The best way to get started with Gridcoin is on the official page: www.gridcoin.us, there is a tutorial for how to set up the wallet and how to start mining.

I would pick Gridcoin (GRC), as it is one of the more interesting coins out there.

Gridcoin (GRC) replaces mining with doing research for scientific projects, for example to cure Ebola (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/oet1/overview.do), fold proteins (https://boinc.bakerlab.org/) or find aliens (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/).

From a user's point of view, he simply has to run simulations from the different projects using the BOINC software (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/). Then the network comes to a consensus, who has contributed how much computing power to BOINC, which can bee seen for example here (http://www.gridresearchcorp.com/gridcoin/?result&t=CPID_Leaderboard). In some blocks this consenus is saved in the blockchain and the reward one gets when staking a block is proportional to how much research was recently done for BOINC by this researcher.

I also has very active development, here is the main forum: https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/464-gridcoin-grc/
More information and tutorial to set it up here: www.gridcoin.us
 If you are interested visit our IRC: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net:6667/#gridcoin

I second Gridcoin, it is already the second biggest team on boincstats for recent average credit (http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/list/16/0#2) and has done incredible amounts of research to cure Ebola (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/oet1/overview.do), fold proteins (https://boinc.bakerlab.org/) or find aliens (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/).

Really, what could be a better humanitarian goal than bringing lots of people to donate their computing power to science for free?

I think the future is in proof-of-doing-useful work-with your-computer.

This has the advantage that compared to proof-of-work no electricity is wasted to solve meaningless hashes and compared to proof of stake coins get produced from something different than interest, which prevents coins being hoarded by just a few people and increases fairness of distribution.

A good example for that is Gridcoin, which rewards computing done for BOINC (https://boinc.berkeley.edu/) in a decentralized way. There are BOINC projects for example to cure Ebola (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/oet1/overview.do), fold proteins (https://boinc.bakerlab.org/) or find aliens (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/). The newly created coins are thus backed by meaningful research done by the person who gets the newly minted coins.

I would pick Gridcoin (GRC), as it is one of the more interesting coins out there.

Gridcoin (GRC) replaces mining with doing research for scientific projects, for example to cure Ebola (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/oet1/overview.do), fold proteins (https://boinc.bakerlab.org/) or find aliens (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/).

From a user's point of view, he simply has to run simulations from the different projects using the BOINC software (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/). Then the network comes to a consensus, who has contributed how much computing power to BOINC, which can bee seen for example here (http://www.gridresearchcorp.com/gridcoin/?result&t=CPID_Leaderboard). In some blocks this consenus is saved in the blockchain and the reward one gets when staking a block is proportional to how much research was recently done for BOINC by this researcher.

I also has very active development, here is the main forum: https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/464-gridcoin-grc/
More information and tutorial to set it up here: www.gridcoin.us
 If you are interested visit our IRC: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net:6667/#gridcoin

There is some maintenance done today, so maybe try again later if it does not work right now.

Id you have any problems setting it all up, come visit us at https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net:6667/#gridcoin

Hi MrCluster,

unfortunately I do not know much about Nxt. How would such a BOINC plugin for nxt look ike and what would be the role of Gridcoin in it?

Hi MrCluster,

this is not the main Gridcoin Forum, it is here: https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/464-gridcoin-grc/

So it's probably better to post the suggestion there, I could also crosspost it for you.

What kind of collaboration do you have in mind?

In order to earn something both the wallet and BOINC have to be running.

But if you are just starting out, I would suggest to use the pool on pool.gridcoin.co , you will earn GRC regularly and don't have to worry about setting everything up.

I would pick Gridcoin (GRC), as it is one of the more interesting coins out there.

Gridcoin (GRC) replaces mining with doing research for scientific projects, for example to cure Ebola (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/oet1/overview.do), fold proteins (https://boinc.bakerlab.org/) or find aliens (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/).

From a user's point of view, he simply has to run simulations from the different projects using the BOINC software (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/). Then the network comes to a consensus, who has contributed how much computing power to BOINC, which can bee seen for example here (http://www.gridresearchcorp.com/gridcoin/?result&t=CPID_Leaderboard). In some blocks this consenus is saved in the blockchain and the reward one gets when staking a block is proportional to how much research was recently done for BOINC by this researcher.

I also has very active development, here is the main forum: https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/464-gridcoin-grc/
More information and tutorial to set it up here: www.gridcoin.us
 If you are interested visit our IRC: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net:6667/#gridcoin

also everyone that has a problem setting up gridcoin, come to our irc, there are always people around happy to help:
https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net:6667/#gridcoin

Hash rate? Gridcoin does not have any hash rate at all.

It's PoS and on top of that a (much bigger) reward based on research done for boinc and this research done is growing fast: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/detail/118094994/charts

the numbers of researchrs also increases greatly: http://www.gridresearchcorp.com/gridcoin/?result&t=CPID_Leaderboard

Also good news, there will soon be another pool, so that setting up mining will become much easier.

Another thing is also check wheather your time is correct on windows and synchronize it.

If it is not synchronized, peers can refuse your connection.

It normally does not happen and if only for a very short period of time.

Normally you compare your blocknumber with the block explorer to find out if you are on a fork.