[Obyte] Get Free Bytes Daily For Computing For Good [NEW: COVID-19 Crunching]

[tyz]

Did you know that you can get some free daily Bytes by doing something good like helping researchers finding ways and drugs for fighting diseases like cancer and diabetes without much work?

Everyone can participate who have a desktop PC or laptop running Windows, MacOs or Linux.

And as a special goodie, there is an anonymous donor who paid Bytes valued $6 to each participant a few days ago. There may be more such actions in the future.

Byteball's team started the campaign three weeks ago by airdropping Bytes to people which are spending their idle processing power to research projects.

There is only a one-time installation needed, then everything runs in the background and earns you real Bytes. To help beginners to get familiar with Obyte and WorldCommunityGrid I created this pretty straightforward step by step tutorial. Here we go!

Step 1)
Download and install very userfriendly Obyte wallet client (lightweight wallet). Installation is straightforward due to step by step installer as you may know from computer games for example. If you still need help, check out this great installation video.
https://youtu.be/ODctDrgKpqM?t=1m25s

Step 2)
2.1 ) Open Obyte wallet client. Since it is the first time you have to agree to the terms of service, choose between a full or light wallet (light wallet recommend, thus, choose second bullet point) and give a wallet name. Afterwards, your wallet is fully set up.

2.2 ) Click on „Chat“-Tab in the bottom of the client.



2.3 ) On next view, click on „Bot Store“-Tab above and choose „World Community Grid linking bot“. On following view, click on „ADD BOT“ button.



2.4 ) Now the bot view opens. The bot asks for your language. Choose it by clicking on your language.



2.5 ) The bot shows your username in form of „Obyte_<random sequence of numbers and letters>. Copy the username and leave the wallet/bot open.



Step 3)
3.1) Sign up on WorldCommunityGrid (or use my referral link - it brings me nothing except virtual batches when I've referred a certain amount of people) ) by providing user name (given from the bot in step 2.5), email address and password.

3.2) Choose projects you want to spend processing power for. If you do not favor particular projects, just check all.

3.3) Download, install and set up open source BOINC software (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) as described in the provided step by step tutorial.

3.4 ) Click on this link to get to the Obyte's team page and click the join button.

Step 4)
4.1) Go back to bot in Obyte wallet and click „Check my account“. The bot validates your WCG sign up. If everything is fine, you got a success message.



4.2) Now you finally need to link your Obyte address to get payments. Go to „Receive“ in the bottom tab and copy your address.



4.3 ) Go back to bot and paste your address. You receive a message that your address was linked successfully.



Congratulations, you are done!
When you run the BOINC software, it automatically retrieves, downloads, processes and uploads tasks. You do not have to do anything further, just let the software run.

Based of the amount of your computer's done tasks you daily get an automatic payout of Bytes to your wallet from the bot .

If you have any questions about Obyte‘s WorldCommuntiyGrid campaign, feel free to ask!

Please notice, this is not an official post from Obyte. I just support the campaign and I want to help to spread the word.

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Reserved for FAQ

Can I see how many bytes have been paid out so far?
Yes, statistics can be found on https://wcg.report

[tyz]

Milestones

2018/05/16 | 10 years of total run time (achieved in 32 days)
2018/07/07 | 50 years of total run time (achieved in 84 days)
2018/07/19 | 400 members joined Byteball's team
2018/07/23 | 500 members joined Byteball's team
2018/07/25 | 1 million points generated
2018/08/01 | 100 years of total run time (achieved in 109 days)
2018/08/07 | 250,000 tasks returned
2018/08/07 | 700 members joined Byteball's team
2018/08/26 | 800 members joined Byteball's team
2018/08/30 | 400,000 tasks returned
2018/08/31 | 200 years of total run time (achieved in 140 days)
2018/09/25 | 1 million tasks returned
2018/09/25 | 400 years of total run time (achieved in 165 days)
2018/09/28 | 800 million points generated
2018/09/29 | 900 members joined Byteball's team
2018/10/02 | 500 years of total run time (achieved in 172 days)
2018/10/08 | 600 years of total run time (achieved in 178 days)
2018/10/12 | 700 years of total run time (achieved in 182 days)
2018/10/16 | 800 years of total run time (achieved in 186 days)
2018/10/18 | 2 million tasks returned
2018/10/19 | 1000 members joined Byteball's team
2018/10/22 | 900 years of total run time (achieved in 181 days)
2018/10/24 | 2 billion points generated
2018/10/25 | 1000 years of total run time (achieved in 184 days)
2018/11/02 | 3 million tasks returned
2018/11/14 | 1100 members joined Byteball's team
2018/11/16 | 1 million tasks for Mapping Cancer Markers returned
2018/11/25 | 7 million tasks returned
2018/11/26 | 5 billion points generated
2018/12/03 | 3000 years of total run time
2018/12/04 | 1200 members joined Byteball's team
2018/12/05 | 10 million tasks returned
2018/12/29 | 10 billion points generated
2018/12/30 | 5000 years of total run time
2019/01/16 | 25 million returned results
2019/02/08 | 15 billion points generated
2019/02/11 | 7500 years of total run time
2019/04/02 | 35 million returned tasks
2019/04/04 |  20 billion points generated
2019/04/05 | 10000 years of total run time
2019/04/24 |  22 billion points generated
2019/04/25 | 11000 years of total run time
2019/04/25 | 100,000 returned results per day on average
2019/07/28 | more than 1400 members joined Obyte's team
2019/07/28 | more than 15000 years of total run time
2019/07/28 | 50 million returned results
...
2020/06/07 | 1500 members joined Obyte's team
2020/06/07 | 77 million returned results
2020/06/07 | 46 billion points generated
2020/06/07 | over 23,000 years of total run time
2020/07/27 | 1600 members joined Obyte's team
2020/07/27 | over 24,000 years of total run time
2020/07/27 | 80 million returned results
2020/10/07 | 1600+ members joined Obyte's team
2020/10/07 | 82 million returned results
2020/10/07 | 50 billion points generated
2020/10/07 | 25,000 years of total run time
2021/02/14 | 1690 members joined Obyte's team
2021/02/14 | 87 million returned result
2021/02/14 | 52 billion points generated
2021/02/14 | 26,353 years of total run time

[Mahanton]

Thanks for sharing up which i didnt expect that they do have this kind of thing which would potentially give you some free money out of those task or using up your processing power of pc. Its clearly stated this only works on pc not on a mobile phone. Once i get home i would try this thing up. Cheers.

[Random-String-Symphony]

Thanks for taking the time to write this tutorial, hopefully it will inspire a lot more people to join us and crunch some numbers for good!
As a small suggestion I would make your whole post align left instead of center, reads more easily.

[Freefactomizer]

Thanks for sharing up which i didnt expect that they do have this kind of thing which would potentially give you some free money out of those task or using up your processing power of pc. Its clearly stated this only works on pc not on a mobile phone. Once i get home i would try this thing up. Cheers.

You can crunch with any Android devices. BOINC is in the app store.

[oleganpetro]

can I do on different devices under one login? Thanks!

[-doubleU-]

Yes, you can run WCG/BOINC at many different Devices with the same account.

[tyz]

can I do on different devices under one login? Thanks!

Yes, you can use as many devices as you want. I myself use two. A Windows pc and a Macbook. I also consider to set up my old retired Android mobile device soon. You can even follow exact statistics per device on your WCG account.

[gabbie2010]

Thanks for bringing these valuable information to our notice, my question  is it compulsory for the PC to be on every time while the software runs underground before I can earn gbytes? Secondly I hope running this software will not constitute a loss of information from my PC?

[Freefactomizer]

Thanks for bringing these valuable information to our notice, my question  is it compulsory for the PC to be on every time while the software runs underground before I can earn gbytes? Secondly I hope running this software will not constitute a loss of information from my PC?

Your computer has to be online to receive and send back work units. The payout in bytes is proportional to the computional power you give.

BOINC is an open source software that has been existing for 16 years, WCG is 14 years old and is backed by IBM. Those softwares are legit, your computer is safe.

[CryptKeeper]

Please retweet: https://twitter.com/cryptkeeperbtt/status/994798617025286145?s=21

[Freefactomizer]

There is a simpler way that indicated in first post to give your address to the bot.
Just click on the 3 dots and "Insert my address"



And please join the byteball.org team !
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/team/viewMyTeam.do

[tyz]

There is a simpler way that indicated in first post to give your address to the bot.
Just click on the 3 dots and "Insert my address"



And please join the byteball.org team !
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/team/viewMyTeam.do

Thanks, good hint. I did not know that before.


I translated the post to German.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3716327.msg36891418

Everyone is free to translate the post in other language. Help to spread the word for this great campaign!

[rty]

I translated the post to German.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3716327.msg36891418

Everyone is free to translate the post in other language. Help to spread the word for this great campaign!

I translated the post "[Byteball] Get Free Bytes Daily For Computing For Good " to Russian:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=447034.msg36916618#msg36916618

 [GRC] Gridcoin

[Random-String-Symphony]

135 members now and going up quickly, thanks for joining guys. Keep computing for good and spread the word!

[tyz]

I translated the post "[Byteball] Get Free Bytes Daily For Computing For Good " to Russian:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=447034.msg36916618#msg36916618

 [GRC] Gridcoin

Thanks, added translation links in opening post.

135 members now and going up quickly, thanks for joining guys. Keep computing for good and spread the word!

... and counting. In the the meanwhile we have reached 170 members. I would say a pretty good start for a team which has existed since less than a month.

[welhzh]

I see many people have taken part in, I will do the same with them too.

[Freefactomizer]

The Byteball.org team now appears on first page for daily points ranking 

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewStatsByTeamY.do?sort=points

Let's overpass the Ripple team and then go TOP 10 !

[GiGa#]

Final countdown on the latest 1GB WCG Challenge.  To earn a share of the giveaway, you have to be computing for WCG and be an active member of the WCG official team (Byteball. org) - i.e.: submit any WCG results for each of the final days of the Challenge (Thursday, Friday and Saturday).  

In other words, your WCG username has to appear on the daily payout list (http://wcg.report) AND the WCG Team page (Click Here) for the next three days.   The Challenge officially closes on Saturday 23:59:59 UTC.