I bought my first bitcoins on july 1st and the past 3 weeks have been a hell of a ride. After finding out about altcoins I quickly became interestend in their underlying concepts and was just hooked by gridcoin! So I tried to slightly open the door and have a look at grindcoin and boinc. I had no idea what I had myself gotten into... I joined a pool and my workstation is crunching 24/7 now. I already bought a new cpu fan, a silect computer case and I ordered an Odroid XU4 just yesterday (a new friend for my two Pi3s).
As you can imagine I had to do a lot of research online and bookmarked a lot of steemit-articles. I thought that maybe some other newcomers like me could profit from my bookmarks as well. In addition to that I really wanted to say hello to all the other crunchers out there :)
So here is my link-collection, loosly grouped up in categories:
Mining Tutorials / Optimization
Want to Earn $$$ Using the CPU of Your Mining Rigs or Home Computers?[...] (2017-07-20)
Gridcoin [GRC] Mining Profitability in USD - NVIDIA GPU Mining[...] (2017-07-18)
Hardware and Project Selection Part 3 - CPU Projects (2017-06-21)
Hardware and Project Selection Part 2 - GPU Projects (2017-06-21)
Hardware and Project Selection Part 1 - CPU vs GPU (2017-06-21)
Gridcoin GPU mining (8): To the Edge and Beyond (2017-06-01)
Gridcoin GPU mining (7): Earning Gridcoin without BOINC (2017-03-22)
Gridcoin GPU mining (6): Obtaining the maximum performance out of your GPUs (2017-03-17)
Gridcoin GPU mining (5): Looking at the Sky (2017-01-05)
Gridcoin GPU mining (3): Blast From The Past (2016-12-13)
Gridcoin GPU mining (2): 37919898^32768+1 is prime (2016-11-10)
Gridcoin GPU mining - Heating Up Your Living Room with Computational Science (2016-09-16)
How profitable is CPU mining? Answered. (2017-06-10)
Project Whitelist
http://gridcoin.us/Guides/whitelist.htm
https://www.gridcoinstats.eu/project
https://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/detail/118094994/projectList
RaspberryPi & SBCs in general
Upgrading your Gridcoin Raspberry Pi node (2017-07-04)
How to install Gridcoin/BOINC on a Raspberry Pi (2017-06-11)
How to control your Gridcoin wallet with command line (2017-06-21)
I Just Wanna BOINC! -- Part 1: The Pi Stack
(2017-05-18)
I Just Wanna BOINC! -- Part 2: The Z620 Workstation, A Noob’s Perspective (2017-05-22)
I Just Wanna BOINC! -- Part 3: Alternative Single Board Computers (2017-06-24)
grcpool
I am really thankful for @bgb and grcpool.com. I am not sure if I would have had the endurance to go solo from the very start. It's such a convenient way to get started. Keep up the great work! :)
https://www.grcpool.com/
https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@bgb/a-grcpool-com-six-month-retrospective
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7HniwuUMx4EXlB2OXG89BA
Other Guides
[ELI5] Gridcoin Research and BOINC Explained (2017-06-23)
Gridcoin and Distributed Work on BOINC (2017-06-03)
Gridcoinstats - A fully featured network explorer for Gridcoin (2016-12-19)
Gridcoin Tutorial: Setting up a Gridcoin Wallet Staking 24hrs/day (2016-08-19)
Gridcoin Tutorial: Solo Mining; A guide trough magnitude, neural network and beacons (2016-08-14)
The Definitive Guide to Fixing a Split CPID - Gridcoin's and BOINC's #1 User Issue
(2017-07-04)
http://gridcoin.us/Guides/
Other Posts
Readers Drives: Gridcoin/BOINC hardware porn! (2017-06-14)
"I'm a BOINCer, not a Miner" How I Built Two GridCoin/BOINC Powerhouses (2017-06-17)
Watch Team Gridcoin advance on the all-time leaderboard
Watch people join Team Gridcoin on a daily basis (without people from pool)
Social
https://twitter.com/GridcoinNetwork
https://www.facebook.com/gridcoins
https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-Research
https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/
https://cryptocurrencytalk.com/forum/464-gridcoin-grc/
https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net:6667/#gridcoin
https://gridcoin.tumblr.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Z3uczcC2okYRrLLCZFrMQ
https://t.me/gridcoin
https://steemit.com/active/gridcoin
https://www.mixcloud.com/gridcoin_hangouts/
https://soundcloud.com/gridcoin-community-hangouts
Thank you!
Thanks a lot to @scalextrix, @xaqfields, @vortac, @dutch, @sc-steemit, @bgb and @jimbo88 for writing these articles!
Cheers,
thorondor
Great summary of helpful locations for further reading, and thank you for linking my articles! =)
Might I suggest you add this one? It covers fixing a split CPID which has been a problem for BOINC users since its inception, and is probably the contribution I am most proud of.
Thank you for your articles. They helped me out a lot!
I added the post about split CPIDs to the collection :)
Thank YOU for taking the time to collate a lot of key resources. =)
Good work! A concentrated link collection is definitely helpful for newcomers. Especially when it comes to choosing the right projects for your hardware, what can be a 'bit' overwhelming at first
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STOPwhat's with this logo? Gridcoin just got a new logo lolol
Isn't this the new logo? Most of the people I follow are using this, so I did too :)
This is the new logo currently being voted on. You're onto it.
This is the new logo.
so many new logos overall....
Cool! Nice link collection! Here are two good ones:
Watch our team march up the all-time leaderboard
See who is joining team Gridcoin on a daily basis (this excludes pool miners, unfortunately)
I have a few Odroids myself. I bought my first one in May and two more in June. They're really powerful for the price, but I did run into my first problem this week: the on-board cooling fan completely stopped working on the first one, so it now throttles the CPU to about half the original speed. To reduce the throttling and core temps, I dropped it to 3 cores (out of 8) for the time being.
I contacted Odroid and they consider them to be 'consumables' and only guarantee them for two weeks. You can buy a replacement for $5 + shipping, but I'm not at all excited about introducing a recurring cost like this into the already slim profit margin. I think I'm going to try their passive cooler instead, and also set it in front of a portion of one of my cheap 120mm fans.
Welcome to the community, and I wish you many years of happy BOINC crunching!
Hey @jimbo88,
I ordered the Odroid because of your post here on steemit :D
I chose the Odroid XU4Q, that's the one with the passive cooling. I just received it a few hours ago, so there is still a lot of work ahead of me. I just installed Ubuntu minimal and did my network-configurations as I noticed that the thing was getting really hot. I checked the temperature and it was running at 74°C on idle. That seemed a little high, so I removed the heatsink, cleaned everything and some fresh thermalpaste. That had a huge impact: current idle temperature is 49°C.
Next up is installing boinc.
Thank you for your article. I wouldn't have ordered one without it I guess. :)
And thanks for the links, I will edit them in.
Happy to be of assistance :-)
Under full load and with the onboard fan, mine usually run between 80C and 85C. The 4 cores that can run at 2.0GHZ, generally only run at 1.8 or 1.9 though; I've never been able to entirely avoid throttling with these boards.
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STOPHi @thorondor Thank you for sharing the mining link and also your experience. It is sure for a newcomer in the world of cryptocurrency it was really not the best time. But it looks much better today I believe when the bitcoins technology issue will be resolved we will all have better days. About the GirdCoins i don't know nothing but it seems, after looking at his market cap this coins is very weak with a market cap at 5370 BTC it is possible that one person own most of it making it a possible danger if this person or group of person decide to sell. If i have an advice to give you choose some coins with a much higher market cap so it minimize the danger. Anyway thank you for sharing.
If you know nothing about Gridcoin, shouldn't you stop there and go study it before trying to provide advice? Uninformed advice is often worse than no advice at all.
There are some high-quality articles studying the distribution of Gridcoin which have been written only recently. If you read them, you will realize that some of those coins with higher market cap often have even more concentrated distributions and that your advice could be misleading on that part.
https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@xaqfields/gridcoin-issue-breakdown-wealth-disparity
Thank you for the information. It is hard to keep track of all these coins. I will look into it. Thanks