[GRC] Gridcoin Marketing and Strategy

[RTMoney]

I think we need to ask coindesk to do an article on Gridcoin.

posted GRC summary information to http://coinwiki.info/en/Gridcoin

curecoin has a running testnet, which seems about to go public.
Most participants there haven't even haerd of Gridcoin yet.
maybe we can make them aware of us?

I've reached out to their subreddit http://www.reddit.com/r/curecoin/comments/21cy9q/rgridcoin_declares_a_reddit_boinc_leaderboard_race/

I've reached out to /r/einsteinium since they're a 'scientific' cryptocurrency and have got them to add us on their sidebar.

great move!

If we all get active on the subreddit we can really start reaching out to people.
Once we get 200 suscribers, we can get added to /r/cryptocurrency - a subreddit with 50k suscribers; this will definetley improve our numbers!

Once the cpu mining features have returned i think that would be wise.
Doing so before then could just publicize a rough patch in development.

There is no such thing as bad publicity.  I think this is an opportunity to prove that development is moving forward and that new features and better security are always on the way.  Promotion is the only way to adoption and I am more than willing to help.  Transparency is lacking in the crypto space and investors love transparency.  Gridcoin is a great idea and that has had some growing pains because it is something different.  Most litecoin knockoffs just change a few lines of code and many don't even bother to make a custom wallet, Gridcoin is different and these improvements take time.  Miners and investors will get behind something if they know it has future plans and development.  Its like getting behind a startup, they may be losing money but if they have an idea that could change the world and they promote that idea investors line up around the block.   

[traderman]

Very good points. Gridcoin is a very complicated project and I am surprised at how much it has grown and how much work we have put down so far on the Boinc network. Imagine if the rest of the crypto community gets on-board we will make international headline news in no time.

I think we need to ask coindesk to do an article on Gridcoin.

posted GRC summary information to http://coinwiki.info/en/Gridcoin

curecoin has a running testnet, which seems about to go public.
Most participants there haven't even haerd of Gridcoin yet.
maybe we can make them aware of us?

I've reached out to their subreddit http://www.reddit.com/r/curecoin/comments/21cy9q/rgridcoin_declares_a_reddit_boinc_leaderboard_race/

I've reached out to /r/einsteinium since they're a 'scientific' cryptocurrency and have got them to add us on their sidebar.

great move!

If we all get active on the subreddit we can really start reaching out to people.
Once we get 200 suscribers, we can get added to /r/cryptocurrency - a subreddit with 50k suscribers; this will definetley improve our numbers!

Once the cpu mining features have returned i think that would be wise.
Doing so before then could just publicize a rough patch in development.

There is no such thing as bad publicity.  I think this is an opportunity to prove that development is moving forward and that new features and better security are always on the way.  Promotion is the only way to adoption and I am more than willing to help.  Transparency is lacking in the crypto space and investors love transparency.  Gridcoin is a great idea and that has had some growing pains because it is something different.  Most litecoin knockoffs just change a few lines of code and many don't even bother to make a custom wallet, Gridcoin is different and these improvements take time.  Miners and investors will get behind something if they know it has future plans and development.  Its like getting behind a startup, they may be losing money but if they have an idea that could change the world and they promote that idea investors line up around the block.   

[anonerd]

CryptoBlox finished his work on our blockexplorer!
Get ready to rumble

[alexius89]

Is there progress regarding a listing on bittrex?

i have seen that every useless coin is listed there but Gridcoin isn't...what a joke

[traderman]

I think mintpal is more important.

Is there progress regarding a listing on bittrex?

i have seen that every useless coin is listed there but Gridcoin isn't...what a joke

[anonerd]

Let's do something similar (crowdfunding professional PR-campaign):
http://www.coindesk.com/all-things-alt-quarks-shaq-cess-blackcoins-pr-pivot-and-dogecoins-victory-lap/

[traderman]

I think once the new cpu mining is released we can look @ PR campaigns, but honestly I don't think we will need it.

Let's do something similar (crowdfunding professional PR-campaign):
http://www.coindesk.com/all-things-alt-quarks-shaq-cess-blackcoins-pr-pivot-and-dogecoins-victory-lap/

[anonerd]

big update with listing at coingecko and many new projects collected (see OP).
especially visit the active marketing thread at https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/9794-marketing-and-promotions
many emerging ideas!

[anonerd]

we are listed on http://www.cryptocoinrank.com/Gridcoin

[anonerd]

Hi all,

Nice new article about Gridcoin!

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/13187/putting-the-blockchain-to-work-for-science-gridcoin/

Andrew.

[anonerd]

Major release on Monday!
details: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=623761.new#new

[anonerd]

Major release on Monday!
details: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=623761.new#new

be prepared: http://www.gridcoin.us/docs/GridcoinMajorReleaseNotes.pdf

[anonerd]

Energy efficient Gridcoin has broken records in the few days since its major release.
The power it has put to BOINC distributed research net has quadrupled since. Worldposition jumped from #110 to #60. Each day taking another few places (http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/detail/118094994/charts)!

Better take your seat
See http://www.gridcoin.us/images/gridcoin-white-paper.pdf
and https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/464-gridcoin-grc/
and http://bitcoinmagazine.com/13187/putting-the-blockchain-to-work-for-science-gridcoin/

[anonerd]

short introduction, nice artwork:
http://cointelegraph.com/news/111639/gridcoin_using_the_blockchain_for_good

[anonerd]

Team Gridcoin reached TOP50 in world contribution. Still no mainstream attention. Join in! http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/list/16/0

[traderman]

I think we need to get into top10 or at least beat IBM. That will be a big one!

Team Gridcoin reached TOP50 in world contribution. Still no mainstream attention. Join in! http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/list/16/0

[anonerd]

400,000,000 MILLION CREDITS!




Official thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=324118.0

CryptLA article on the Gridcoin:  http://crypt.la/2014/02/23/exclusive-gridcoin-founder-talks-revolution-in-mining/

Bitcoin Magazine Article: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/13187/putting-the-blockchain-to-work-for-science-gridcoin/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=483641

[traderman]

Here is a new article on Gridcoin: http://bitcoinist.net/gridcoin-pow-for-boinc/

[traderman]

Gridcoin StumbleUpon Marketing Initiative!

I have created an account on stumbleupon and have added articles on Gridcoin. Please join stumbleupon and stumble and like all of the Gridcoin articles on my account. The more people like those articles the more they are shown to other stumblers. So it creates a viral effect.

Some of the articles have already received some views, but I think we can do a lot better.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/jasons222222/likes/additions

[anonerd]

New p2pool for Gridcoin, still on testnet only for now, but so far looks like everything is working. This will be the first method of mining GRC that will be share based on Boinc RAC (recent average credit). So you won't have to solve whole blocks anymore, now you get paid just like any other scrypt coin pool.

https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/9612-testers-wanted-test-net-gridcoin-testing-thread/page-99#entry105250

share-based science-pool coming!