[GRC] Gridcoin Marketing and Strategy

[Armis]

General sponsorship is wide open, donate any amount; your donation amount will determine where Gridcoin's name and logo appear on the sponsorship list.   Early sponsors at any level will likely get lots of long term attention.   Currently PICISI has 3 sponsors (Armis, Crypto Cloud Hosting, and The Einsteinium News); the current high donation equivalent is 100 USD, and low equivalent is 25 USD.  Your Gridcoin donation will be immediately converted to establish an USD equivalent value, the Gridcoin name and logo will be listed accordingly.

As you know coin community sponsorship will play a major role in the day-to-day operation of the site, your coin's sponsorship will likely inspire other coins to consider sponsorship too.  Please direct your Gridcoin donations to this address: G4TNd2xJU9WeNvPfbdzdCTQ5goNBeRSYBe and post the TX ID for proper association.

After which we can share the endorsement and sponsorship announcement here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=972973.0


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The top 8 - 10 sponsor logos will be featured on the home page as follows:

can you give more details on the sponsor option? what kind of amounts are we talking here?

Can you give some more details on what exactly this is?

Gridcoin is invited to consider being an official sponsor of PICISI:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=972973.0

PICISI will be a crowdfunding website that accepts fiat and cryptocurrency.

It will be a very powerful vehicle for introducing CC to the broader world.  It will enable many different coin communities to get their respective coins lots of exposure
and use.  Utility is the highest function for a currency, with PICISI Organizers and Donors are gently immersed in a world where CC has meaningful and practical
financial value.   At PICISI CC gets a lot of attention.

When visitors come to the site to raise funds for things that interest them they will have the opportunity to collect fiat as well as CC.  There are two host currencies, one for fiat and one for CC.   The Organizer has three options: a) accept sponsorship, b) select from list of CCs, or c) PICISI coin (default).  If they select sponsorship they will actually get paid because of that selection.   That's a great way to introduce CC to someone.   As Host CC sponsor all CC donations (regardless of type) are immediately converted to your currency and remain in that currency until spent or for the duration of the campaign.  The Organizer has the opportunity to spend CC donations with a campaign contractor(s) who help Organizers create, develop, and/or promote their campaign.  Thereby having your currency 'respent'.

In addition to Host CC, there are 4 other sponsorship opportunities.

With regard to Gridcoin, your coin has a focus on Science and innovation so you will probably do well to sponsor campaigns in that area of the site.

For now, I'm specifically looking for people to endorse the PICISI plan -- tell me that you like the plan;  and I am also looking for sponsors to help me start and develop the site.
Of course I will display signage for supportive sponsors.

[bobc1994]

Grid has created lots of buzz since its launch but is Grid going to be the next big altcoin ?

[traderman]

No one knows for sure.

Grid has created lots of buzz since its launch but is Grid going to be the next big altcoin ?

[anonerd]

For the first time ever, #Gridcoin is in TOP 10 fastest growing #BOINC teams worldwide:
 http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/list/12/0/0

[traderman]

Gridcoin beats Canada, Russia, USNavy and IBM in daily Boinc total credits.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/GridcoinNetwork/status/573572551726657536

[anonerd]

Gridcoin performed a jump to TOP5 fastest growing teams: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/list/12/0/0

[traderman]

We need some more ASIC owners to join in, I am sure we can hit top spot.

[jt byte]

why is this coin so popular ? Why the price got so high ?

[anonerd]

why is this coin so popular ? Why the price got so high ?

You might want to read how Gridcoin helps research and medical science: http://wiki.gridcoin.us/

[spassbold]

why is this coin so popular ? Why the price got so high ?

You might want to read how Gridcoin helps research and medical science: http://wiki.gridcoin.us/

Because mining does not mean solving meaningless hashes but doing simulations for science and there is an incredible potential for commercial applications, which can use the basically free computing power of gridcoin's miners for useful computations (eg. machine learning, data processing, rendering,....)

[anonerd]

Strike! Team Gridcoin is finally in TOP10 fastest BOINC research worldwide:

Code:

BOINC World position based on RAC 	9 out of 102,277

[traderman]

Gridcoin mentioned in Brookings Institute article on blockchain technology. --> http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2015/01/13-blockchain-innovation-kaushal

Twitter -> http://twitter.com/GridcoinNetwork/status/575820898613121024

[traderman]

1 BTC is needed!!!!

Here is the CoinKING Multipool Fundraising thread >>>>>>>>>> https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/33625-coinking-multipool-fundraiser/

[traderman]

The funding for the CoinKING Gridcoin multipool has been completed! 

Gridcoin should be up on COINKING.io withing 24h!

GET YOUR ASICS READY!!

[traderman]

Gridcoin is UP on CoinKING!

You can now use your ASIC to support Science!

Signup @ http://coinking.io

Twitter: http://twitter.com/GridcoinNetwork/status/577165720410144768

REDDIT: http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/2z55vk/multipool_for_gridcoin_is_now_live_on_coinkingio/

[anonerd]

>> Alright, we're finally listed as research!  #49 and moving up!
http://coinmarketcap.com/

Now with GRC Classic retiring in only 16 days, we will have the emission schedule off our backs and should give a propensity to appreciate easier!
We're going to need to issue an emergency bulletin in the next 4-5 days to tell everyone to BURN YOUR CLASSIC COINS before Classic becomes too cheap to solve new blocks and that will seize up the classic chain!
(If you perform a burn at the end of the schedule you may have to mine classic just to get it to confirm)

Rob

PS If *anyone* has an expired transaction that did not pay out please post ASAP!  (Post the classic TX id) <<

[traderman]

Ohhhh Finally, lol we are the only coin that has 2 separate entries on coinmarketcap. Pretty funny!

>> Alright, we're finally listed as research!  #49 and moving up!
http://coinmarketcap.com/

Now with GRC Classic retiring in only 16 days, we will have the emission schedule off our backs and should give a propensity to appreciate easier!
We're going to need to issue an emergency bulletin in the next 4-5 days to tell everyone to BURN YOUR CLASSIC COINS before Classic becomes too cheap to solve new blocks and that will seize up the classic chain!
(If you perform a burn at the end of the schedule you may have to mine classic just to get it to confirm)

Rob

PS If *anyone* has an expired transaction that did not pay out please post ASAP!  (Post the classic TX id) <<

[anonerd]

Last week, uscore.net sent GRC starter packages to 32 newcomers. Hope to see some more growth in our team!

[traderman]

Max Block Reward for Gridcoin Research drops down to 200 until the end of April!

[Armis]

I'm pleased to announce that PICISI received a sponsorship donation from Gridcoin:

Given that Gridcoin is PICISI's 20th sponsor another pre-launch goal has been achieved:  

1) recruit a min. of 6 admins, we now have 2;  
2) secure a min of 20 sponsors, we now have 20: (www.ArmisGame.com, The Einsteinium News, Crypto Cloud Hosting, Bitcoin PR Buzz, Crypto Database, Einsteinium, Metal Coin, HYPER, Hobonickels, Energy Coin, World Aid Coin, Artsry Coin, GSM, Sativacoin, Magi coin, HTML5, Coin2, Aricoin, NXT, and Gridcoin); [goal achieved]
3) secure a min of 8 campaigns to crowd fund, we now have 6;
4) recruit a min of 1 referral agent, we now have 1; [goal achieved]:
5) associate with a min of 2 promotion contractors, we now have 12: [goal achieved & surpassed]
6) associate with a min of 1 campaign contractor, we now have 12; [goal achieved & surpassed]
and
7) publish a min of 5 ‘about PICISI’ articles, we now have 6, [goal achieved & surpassed] .