http://www.gridcoin.us/
Perhaps you've seen their ad banner on boincstats.org, or on other BOINC related sites.
I've came across a thread about Gridcoin in a Hungarian forum, there were some help requests about installing and setting up the client.
I was interested in this idea, as it is quite the opposite of what the BU project is about.
So these were enough motivation for me to take action.
I've installed the Gridcoin wallet on one of my hosts, and joined their team (sorry about my previous team).
It was on 18th Nov 2015.
Since then I've received (mined - if you like, but it's not like mining BitCoin) ~4560GRC.
I don't fully understand Gridcoin yet, but it's similar to BTC in the way it stores the transactions in a blockchain and a so called "neural" nework, but the coins are not mined like BitCoins, as a wallet receives coins based on the magnitude of the wallet's owner. The magnitude depends on the RAC of the CPID assigned to the wallet. So GRC will function as a "legal tender" in a different way as BTC functions. (The rate of BTC/fiat currency should increase infinitely as there's finite BTCs could be mined but infinite fiat money could be issued.)
One use of GRC is to exchange it to other crypto currency (mainly BTC), and then exchange the BTC to a curreny which is accepted by the electricity provider, as BOINC credits are not exchangeable at all (either technically or theoretically - at least they shouldn't be), but the GRC is exchangeable.
I'm perceiving the Gridcoin team & currency as the EVGA team in folding@home. The EVGA team used to give away GPUs as a prize for their members. I consider it as a good way of building a team & fan base. So I have a dream of that the Gridcoin will grow big enough to be accepted directly by some hardware vendors.

This sounds very interesting. I still don't understand Bitcoin very well and this seems like a variation on the theme. I'll do some research. Thanks for the info.

FWIW I joined a couple of months ago. Word seems to be spreading fast these days. 4,200+ members running BOINC projects according to BOINCStats. Don't know what it will do to the value of Gridcoin but it is interesting.

FWIW I joined a couple of months ago. Word seems to be spreading fast these days. 4,200+ members running BOINC projects according to BOINCStats. Don't know what it will do to the value of Gridcoin but it is interesting.

... Since it was a machine generated one and I had tested that the new one worked and I had deleted the old password, I am out of luck and my Gridcoins are now lost to me forever!

... Since it was a machine generated one and I had tested that the new one worked and I had deleted the old password, I am out of luck and my Gridcoins are now lost to me forever!

The wallet is stored in the %AppData%\GridcoinResearch\wallet.dat file, so if you want to transfer your wallet to a different PC, you have to copy this file to the new host before you create & begin to use the wallet, or else it will be a different (empty) wallet with a different wallet ID (address). You can change the wallet.dat any time, but it's impractical to change a wallet which already in use.
If you haven't copied this file, then you can install the GridCoin client to your old PC, and transfer the coins to the new wallet by sending them to the new address.

Just a short status update: now I have 10k GRC.

Just a short status update: now I have 10k GRC.

Just a short status update: now I have 10k GRC.

According to here:
https://www.cryptonator.com/converter


You have...10000 GRC = 169.9 USD or
10000 GRC = 79.9 EUR

I have been on Gridcoin for a year, its been very much worthwhile.

It would be great if this project would add a GRC donation address, I would send some over. The project could choose to convert to fiat, or, run Gridcoin themselves (only needs a couple of PCs to make good returns) and earn more GRC that can be used for funding... Im on the Gridcoin forums/reddit and would get the message out...

Getting myself setup with this now. Am I correct in thinking that since Gridcoin uses my CPID to track me, I do NOT need to install a client on all my crunching machines?

Getting myself setup with this now. Am I correct in thinking that since Gridcoin uses my CPID to track me, I do NOT need to install a client on all my crunching machines?

Getting myself setup with this now. Am I correct in thinking that since Gridcoin uses my CPID to track me, I do NOT need to install a client on all my crunching machines?

Yes. But all of your hosts have to have the same CPID.

30k GRC :)

214.38$ minus all fees for the transfer to fiat >-)
market cap 18.12 2015 4 445 xxx $
- - 15.03 2016 2 654 xxx $
hmm

30k GRC :)

First of all: Zoltan thanks for your initial help via PM! I thought I have set up Gridcoin on my computer with your help!

However, when I checked today, no additional (fraction of) Coins after two days of crunching! And after I have restarted the computer the seven and something Coins (I have reseived for free from different sites to start with) vanished! No positive balance no stacking:-(.

Additionally, Gridcoinresearch.exe uses up to two (02) CPU threads! Besides of this it does nothing!

Has it to be that frustrating to get better? I will spare the readers with my other thoughts...

However, when I checked today, no additional (fraction of) Coins after two days of crunching!

And after I have restarted the computer the seven and something Coins (I have reseived for free from different sites to start with) vanished! No positive balance no stacking:-(.

Additionally, Gridcoinresearch.exe uses up to two (02) CPU threads! Besides of this it does nothing!

However, when I checked today, no additional (fraction of) Coins after two days of crunching!

Sometimes a few days go by without "payouts."

And after I have restarted the computer the seven and something Coins (I have reseived for free from different sites to start with) vanished! No positive balance no stacking:-(.
When you restart the Gridcoin Wallet, does it say it is syncing?

Additionally, Gridcoinresearch.exe uses up to two (02) CPU threads! Besides of this it does nothing!

On my PC it will occasionally put a large load on the CPU, but only for a few moments.

That would not be a problem, if I am sure it is working.

Yes, it does say syncing, it said so for hours. What does it mean?

That would not be a problem, if I am sure it is working.

Did you check the site I linked you to? Also, in Windows check your Resource Monitor. If gridcoinresearch.exe is in there somewhere you are fine.

Do you have a firewall in place which may be blocking Gridcoin transactions?

Yes, it does say syncing, it said so for hours. What does it mean?

From my experience, this means it has lost the blockchain. Try "Rebuild Block Chain --> Download Blocks"

Status Up-Date:
Stacking! :-))
Your weight is 25007
Estimated time to earn a reward is 8 dias.
8 connections active to red Gridcoin. Whatever this means!?
Balance: 7.139697
Does say: Probing coin age on various projects.

Has it to be that frustrating to get better?

I just wanted to comeback after five days – as I have been quite negative on Monday.

It working now: I have been awarded the amount of around 140 Gridcoins until now! Something new to look at…

However, it seems that to get really interesting you have to have a minimum of 2000 GRC in your Wallet - something like this I understand from the forums… So I have quite an uphill struggle in front of me.

But in the end, I would recommend it to all, it is nice bonus!

And finally to come back to Zoltan's first post:

I'm perceiving the Gridcoin team & currency as the EVGA team in folding@home. The EVGA team used to give away GPUs as a prize for their members. I consider it as a good way of building a team & fan base. So I have a dream of that the Gridcoin will grow big enough to be accepted directly by some hardware vendors.

Glad it's working for you now. Just remember that new team members receive a bonus on their Gridcoin earnings, so don't expect your current accrual rate to last. My "initiate" period ended recently and I saw my earnings drop quite a bit. Still, if one can earn some coins through crunching, why not keep with it regardless of the rate of accrual if one will be crunching anyway?

I would have liked to report that everything goes smooth, but unfortunately GPUGRID crashed my computer this afternoon – bluescreen.

I restarted my computer. BOINC runs ok – obviously I lost two GPUGRID Wus – but I am not able to restart GRIDCOIN Research. I get a runtime error: “This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.”
I have downloaded the Gridcoin installation file “GridcoinResearch.msi” but unfortunately I am not able to repair the gridcoinresearch.exe (Reapiar Gridcoin Research)
I get the following message: “La cuante especificada ya existe. “ Something like: “The account does already exist” Which is true as I have run the client for a week now.
Any suggestions, how to proceed? I have not made any back-up since I started last week, and I do not like to lose all the coins already minded.

I would have liked to report that everything goes smooth, but unfortunately GPUGRID crashed my computer this afternoon – bluescreen.

I restarted my computer. BOINC runs ok – obviously I lost two GPUGRID Wus – but I am not able to restart GRIDCOIN Research. I get a runtime error: “This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.”
I have downloaded the Gridcoin installation file “GridcoinResearch.msi” but unfortunately I am not able to repair the gridcoinresearch.exe (Reapiar Gridcoin Research)
I get the following message: “La cuante especificada ya existe. “ Something like: “The account does already exist” Which is true as I have run the client for a week now.
Any suggestions, how to proceed? I have not made any back-up since I started last week, and I do not like to lose all the coins already minded.

Yeah, you need to create a new gridcoinresearch.conf file. Once you have it created and filled in appropriately, you should be fine. I always make a copy of the file and name it gridcoincoinresearchBACKUP.conf and swap it in when this happens (after renaming it, of course.)

Thanks SKUMatt, this solved my problem! I am up and running again: Staking. Next reward in 500 days... I hope this is not true:-)

Just a short status update: now I have 10k GRC.

According to here:
https://www.cryptonator.com/converter


You have...10000 GRC = 169.9 USD or
10000 GRC = 79.9 EUR

Then there is something wrong with the converter. In the real world 1USD < 1EUR.

50k GRC

50k GRC

Just reached 5k GRC today.

In celebration and to thank for the help of KSUMatt and Retvari Zoltan to set the Gridcoin client up, I would like to give 5 times 10 GRC away to kick-start five new users. So PM me your Gridcoin direction and the BOINC projects your helping and I will send to the first 5 persons 10 coins each.

Any secrets to your earning speed, Retvari?

Any secrets to your earning speed, Retvari?

There's no secrets. My magnitude is 1200.

My magnitude is 320, where did you get all your hardware retvari?

10000 GRC

Magnitude has increased recently with my replacement of the 980Ti with the 1080 and the replacement of my 970 with the 1070. Also mostly crunching Einstein now so that has probably affected my magnitude as well. Looking forward to Pascal support here...

My gridcoinresearch.exe disappeared tonight! Means I let the wallet run 24 hours and this morning it was closed.

When I tried to start it by the shortcut to gridcoinresearch.exe, I receive the following massage:
“The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that Is unavailable.
Click ok to try again or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package “GridCoinResearch(2).msi” in the box below”

What happen? Strange…
Happily, I found it again on my computer where it should be… and it is running again.

10k GRC

15k GRC

80k GRC :)

I do have a problem with Gridcoin since a few weeks:
After a "blue-screen" I reinstalled my Back-Up: Gridcoinresearch.conf and the Gridcoin GUI client started normal.

After a few moments the program created a “Newbe” block?! And if Gridcoin does not stop completely afterwards, it states that Gridcoin it is not syncing and shows the following message: “Interest: 1 hour Syncing No Global CPID Kernal 611”.

Any idea what to do?

Thanks.

I'm perceiving the Gridcoin team & currency as the EVGA team in folding@home. The EVGA team used to give away GPUs as a prize for their members. I consider it as a good way of building a team & fan base. So I have a dream of that the Gridcoin will grow big enough to be accepted directly by some hardware vendors.

Hi klepel!

You did the right thing to overwrite the Gridcoinresearch.conf as this would in most cases be empty after a crash. They will be an autobackup of the that .conf in walletbackup folder in userappdata.

At Oct there was an added security to protect users CPID (beacon v2). To this the the network generate a keypair (privatekey & publickey), with this wallet started to autobackup the .conf so users would not lose the keys. Some user may not upgraded the wallet in time before mandatory upgrade was released (Nov), so they have lost these keys. What would happend is those users would lose connection to the CPID in Network, but no coins would be lost as long as beacon exist.

The wallet would say No CPID in wallet and if you type in "execute beaconstatus" in console you would get more info and if there are any keypair issue.

If don´t manage to solve from backup please to us and we would help you. Click on chat on the wallet and i we would help you there.

/Gunde

I try to stay away from all *coin virtual currencies, it's all garbage. I think the state has it's important responsibilities and should maintain its official currency, other currencies should be made illegal. And especially those that require computer crunching are very bad - for the environment for instance.

Most Cryptocurrencies are as you described, a waste of power. Gridcoin is different, the computation is actually going to something useful, BOINC. So you as a user can choose to just volunteer your computation unpaid or get gridcoin for doing the same exact thing.

I am also somewhat skeptical towards Gridcoin but I admittedly didn't try it yet. Can somebody possibly explain what's in it for the Gridcoin founders, when they donate virtual money to crunchers? How do they benefit from that? And if there is no particular company behind but just a community having a shrewd idea, why should anybody accept Gridcoin as a currency?

There's no such thing as a free lunch.
____________
I would love to see HCF1 protein folding and interaction simulations to help my little boy... someday.

I am also somewhat skeptical towards Gridcoin but I admittedly didn't try it yet. Can somebody possibly explain what's in it for the Gridcoin founders, when they donate virtual money to crunchers? How do they benefit from that? And if there is no particular company behind but just a community having a shrewd idea, why should anybody accept Gridcoin as a currency?

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Thank you, I do not think you are completely right, GridCoin seems to waste power and user time too. I followed your advice, tried GridCoin just for the sake of curiosity, but now I do not plan to try that deviant software again at least before I retire. And I am quite surprised how much attention it gets here and at BOINC in general. My trust in BOINC has decreased significantly.

Forgive me for still being sceptical. The most important cornerstone of a currency is the acceptance, which is legally defined by a state. Merchants in the regarding state are even forced by law to accept that currency. Of course they may also deal with foreign currencies but all of those are traceable to the same constitutional process after all.

I dont see that for Gridcoin, badges or even shells. Where admittedly some shells may have a nice collectors value.

Its value comes from its perceived value, if someone wants it, it is therefore valuable.

Its value comes from its perceived value, if someone wants it, it is therefore valuable.

well, is it? Which store does accept Gridcoins as a trade-in "value"? And why should they? To me it rather sounds like a snowball system.

I'm not sure why you assume this has deviant intentions, as you did not explain why.

Bitcoin works on the very same principle, stores accept that

GridCoin goes in the opposite direction: it builds on individual greed. People who dear to join do it for the sake of the shiny coin, for the sake of the low feelings of "I own!", and "I control!", which is exactly the opposite of the high motivations of joining BOINC: "I give!".

PappaLitto wrote:

I'm not sure why you assume this has deviant intentions, as you did not explain why.

I do not believe in unofficial currencies.

They are not good for anything.

We should take care that the state and official currencies work well for all of us,

... rather than undermining them, ...

rather than providing a "second reality", that breaks at the very first real crisis,

...in a situation when we will all depend on each other - in the one community that we will exist in,

as contrasted to a virtual world community created by deviant computer scientists who seek the world domination and control, because they are not able to achieve it by natural means, even though they try to look very decent while doing that.

Virtual currencies are based on *mistrust* in the mainstream society. Oh, I can't think of a better word for that than *deviant*!

Regardless of that - I stopped at the point when I learned that there is no other way to start earning GridCoins than joining the GridCoin BOINC team. This, in my opinion, goes against some of the most fundamental principles of BOINC.

Many universities, or even countries, clubs, voluntary groups establish teams so that they *promote* the ideas of voluntary computing. GridCoin goes in the opposite direction: it builds on individual greed.

People who dear to join do it for the sake of the shiny coin,

for the sake of the low feelings of "I own!", and "I control!",

which is exactly the opposite of the high motivations of joining BOINC: "I give!".

Whatever, but how can GridCoin just put all those already teamed people (teamed for good reason!) out of the game and pretend that "this is it"???

NO, IT IS NOT. When asking about that, I got an answer: "you have a choice - if you want to earn money, you know what you have to do". Oh my! So why the hack there are teams in BOINC, if GridCoin destroys them?

What a bad design choice! Does it not suggest that other choices of this community might also be weird?

And sure, they are. The main website has broken links in the tutorial, it advises you to go to join some funky IRC channels, where you are given false information and supposed to wait hours to get your first gridcoin for free, which is a requirement, if you want to join the network - or, you will find in many forums advises like "go to that forum and beg somebody to give or lend you some starting coins", so that you can emit some beacon and WAIT another looong time before you will see, if things are still broken, or you will eventually, maybe sometimes somehow be rewarded...

while the gridcoin client will be using a lot of CPU resources on your PC without you knowing really what it does and why...

so THAT is an official SETUP procedure for a volunteer that is not necessarily computer-skilled? Are you trying to make me laugh, or what?
If you want people to use this, make a download package, where you click SETUP, and perhaps enter your CPID, and that's it. Stop talking about beacons, time windows, and other technical details, but tell the user instead what exactly is the gridcoin client going to do and use CPU for...

The false impression that GridCoin attempts to create - that you are actually not giving your computational time to good purpose projects for free, but you are being rewarded breaks at the moment you learn the exchange rate of GridCoin.

Ah, yes, maybe later, if there will be sufficient deviant hope, things might change later.

Thanks. I have read that thread now. I think it confirms my grumbling to a large extent, but I join your deviant hope of a better future! :-)

But I am not going to answer the questions, you pointed out, there would be things to say, but no time for that.

For sure for a very little ant like me it does not pay off to join this. And even for your thousands earned, I think it hardly compensates the real cost of the extra power, time and effort you have invested into this deviant risk.

But primarily, I do not think crypto-currences are going in that direction of your "better future", as they lack the very basic princple I expect from a better future: a fair share of value and rights.

Founders and people joining those kind of deviant projects early accumulate too much "food" just because they started early, when they had a large piece of share. This is not fair towards users joining later on. I am not going to support a project that is based on flawed unfair principles in its very core idea.

And also, I understand now that it has nothing to do with any BOINC official strategy, it is just a bunch of guys who got together for their fun and created their own project. That's OK, but it was not very clear to me until now, I think they should explain themselves in a little bit better way, and of course, make the start much more easy, the current way is just too strange. From that thread you pointed to it is obvious that almost everybody is disappointed by the process of joining that club.

(for others in this thread - sorry for spamming you here :-), the last 10 messages were just moved here by moderator from another thread http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=4465)

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

How frequent you get a pay out from Gridcoin?

12-18 times per day.

What's your magnitude now Zoltan?

How frequent you get a pay out from Gridcoin?

That's really good.

It seems good GPUs and high RAC is important here. I had some no work issues and error units and time out units, so it took almost two months to get 200 GRC. :)
Now I changed project to SETI as my slow GPU can't finish long runs on time and get paid 20grc in about a week...

It seems good GPUs and high RAC is important here. I had some no work issues and error units and time out units, so it took almost two months to get 200 GRC. :)
Now I changed project to SETI as my slow GPU can't finish long runs on time and get paid 20grc in about a week...

I have tried to convert GRC to US Dollars on c-cex.com to buy real things like an additional GPU. But the site seems not to work at all.

So this leads me to a nasty question: Has anybody at any time spent some GRC in the real economy? Or are we all staking for the promise it would get a real value in the future?

If anybody has an idea, how to convert the GRC to spendable US Dollars - and it works - let me know.

I've not yet tried as I am sitting on it currently to see where the price spikes lead us. Currently sitting on $1500 "USD" worth of Gridcoin. As to whether I can get that into USD with the same number value is another question.

There we are. My savings are not has high as yours, but it would be enough to set up another system or to buy a GTX 1080. Not even the fees for converting scares me away! I want to know if it is something real or just a promise.

I've not yet tried as I am sitting on it currently to see where the price spikes lead us.

Currently sitting on $1500 "USD" worth of Gridcoin. As to whether I can get that into USD with the same number value is another question.

So for all three of us, it is still a theoretical endeavor… anybody converted to real money?!

PS retvari, side question I have seen that your RAC has fallen significantly in the last weeks, is it just the heatwave or something else?

So for all three of us, it is still a theoretical endeavor… anybody converted to real money?!

PS retvari, side question I have seen that your RAC has fallen significantly in the last weeks, is it just the heatwave or something else?

I've got 25 USD for 438.1 GRC :) Theoretically.

Holy crap the price just keeps going up, we're almost at 6 cents per gridcoin

I've been selling my mined Gridcoin (and buying more when the price is good) since February. I usually operate on either Poloniex or Bittrex exchanges. You can sell your Gridcoin for Bitcoin on the exchanges and then sell your Bitcoin for USD on a site like Coinbase.

Not yet, but I've successfully registered on https://c-cex.com.

Holy crap the price just keeps going up, we're almost at 6 cents per gridcoin

I usually operate on either Poloniex or Bittrex exchanges. You can sell your Gridcoin for Bitcoin on the exchanges and then sell your Bitcoin for USD on a site like Coinbase.

Not yet, but I've successfully registered on https://c-cex.com.

This is my primary problem; I am waiting for their confirmation e-mail since last Friday.
I insisted on their customer support several times without any success / answers.

Holy crap the price just keeps going up, we're almost at 6 cents per gridcoin

That’s the reason I would like to sell now.

yes, I did check the spam. this is not the problem. password might be too long with 22 digits.

So with Gridcoin up 35% in a day pretty much 100 folding us early investors' money, does anyone have any predictions of where this will end up?

So with Gridcoin up 35% in a day pretty much 100 folding us early investors' money, does anyone have any predictions of where this will end up?

I have tried Gridcoin mining too and still have a problem with low or no earings at all .. and would kindly ask you to help. I have >900K RAC at GRPUGRID and Rosetta running as well. My magnitude is 95 and Exp PPD is 21. But still the Act PPD is 0... and my last +1 GRC earing received 13 days ago. 11 GRC balance only in the wallet, but that should not affect the reward for research.



Beacon is set and everything seems OK... do you know what is going on?

Thanks!
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I would love to see HCF1 protein folding and interaction simulations to help my little boy... someday.

I just wanted to report back: I have filled gasoline in my car at the petrol station and paid with Gridcoins (GRC) this afternoon.

Hold on! Not so fast!

I changed GRC to BTC at the http://www.poloniex.com exchange then I forwarded it to my http://www.xapo.com account and paid with the recently acquired Debit card from http://www.xapo.com. I do not know and I do not want to know, how much I lost in all the fees on all these steps, but it works, I paid with GRC for something real.

I figured out, that I might fill my tank once in a month (at the actual value of USD 0.04/1.0 GRC), and still save some coins for the next spike of its value – but do not get to enthusiastic it does not pay the electric bill nor pay back the computer components.

I have tried Gridcoin mining too and still have a problem with low or no earings at all .. and would kindly ask you to help. I have >900K RAC at GRPUGRID and Rosetta running as well. My magnitude is 95 and Exp PPD is 21. But still the Act PPD is 0... and my last +1 GRC earing received 13 days ago. 11 GRC balance only in the wallet, but that should not affect the reward for research.



Beacon is set and everything seems OK... do you know what is going on?

Thanks!

I've wrote a little batch program to check the state of the Gridcoin client.
If Windows reports that it's not running, it terminates the client, and restarts it. It makes a log file of these events. First you should download the NIRCMD utility from here (x64), or here (x86, for 32 bit OS). Make a folder for the batch file, copy and paste it to notepad, and save it named chk_grc.bat, put the contents of the nircmd zip file into the same folder. You should start this batch file with administrative privileges.

I have had H E L L trying to get grcpool to work with my boinc farm. Not getting much help in their forum. I see my systems make a contact but hosts show no sync occurred. It looks like I got to uninstall boinc on all system and reinstall after removing the ProjectData\Boinc diretory manually (GUI win10 does not delete it but rmdir/s works usually)

BeemerBiker:

Did you ask BGB (creator of the pool) directly for help: admin@grcpool.com? I thought BGB would be quite helpful. You can also find him under https://steemd.com/@bgb.

I have never used a pool, so I am not the right person to help you, but I do not think that you have to reinstall BOIN to join the pool: Might you have missed this step on the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=jm2E6pQ-Ifw, around minute 4?

If your wallet is operational and you like to go solo, I might as well send you some coins over, although not thousands to stake regularly.

Merry Christmas,
klepel

didn't want to bother anyone. i did not get any feedback here as of yet.

did find out by trial and error that if I:
1. Disconnect from grcpool manager
2. Detach all "I MEAN ALL" projects
3. re-connect with grcpool

The errors go away and it is working (just on 1 system so far).

Unfortunately, I have projects that are not on their list including retired projects. They must be removed or the error shows up. I also lose all current work and waiting work

Possibly I can detach retired projects w/o having to boot to safe mode and delete them from projectdata\boinc. Booting in safe mode requires a monitor and keyboard on these headless system.

this should not have to be. Why should one have to disconnect from the manager then detach the project from my own computer then reconnect? There should be some setting in some xml file that can be changed so that on the next sync my system gets blessed by grcpool and the error goes away. I know the sync is working as I can change a %value resource on grcpool then sync my client and observe the % was set to what I want on my computer.

So far,I have 3 "free" coins. Do you know what it takes to sendout a beacon? I cant seem to find out by asking or using google.

So far,I have 3 "free" coins. Do you know what it takes to sendout a beacon? I cant seem to find out by asking or using google.

The Gridcoin wallet should be able to send a beacon with 3 GRC. Hopefully your wallet may have sent one already by now. Check your transaction logs for a sent to line with an amount of -0.00021 (used to be 0.00011).

If it has still not automatically sent a beacon you can send one manually from the debug console. From the Windows client open the console from the Help > Debug Window > console tab. Type the command execute advertisebeacon.

Additional details can be found here. https://www.gridcoin.us/Guides/earn-grc.htm

A good place to look at how your Gridcoin setup is working is the Gridcoin Stats website https://gridcoinstats.eu/index.php

The Gridcoin Client version 3.7.0.0 is released on the webpage, it is worth to download and install it manually.
It will be released as a mandatory update soon (available by clicking on the Help -> Upgrade Client).

Thought I would give Grid Coin a try. Not very intuitive to set up for existing BOINC accounts.
Wallet rarely syncs,Forums are basically useless..same questions asked , rarely answered or repeats of basic info.
Should not have to chase down people for answers to basic set up questions. Small but important set up info buried or not there.
Currently wallet will not sync (again)and after visiting reddit forum find out there is some kind of Fork ?? going on whatever that is and wallets are not updating or syncing. Too much technical jargon makes a person's head spin.
Also,even though I am currently crunching for GPUGRID the tasks are not showing in my task list and Boinc Stats shows no recent updates...thinking of uninstalling..not really worth it...

Thought I would give Grid Coin a try. Not very intuitive to set up for existing BOINC accounts.
Wallet rarely syncs,Forums are basically useless..same questions asked , rarely answered or repeats of basic info.
Should not have to chase down people for answers to basic set up questions. Small but important set up info buried or not there.
Currently wallet will not sync (again)and after visiting reddit forum find out there is some kind of Fork ?? going on whatever that is and wallets are not updating or syncing. Too much technical jargon makes a person's head spin.
Also,even though I am currently crunching for GPUGRID the tasks are not showing in my task list and Boinc Stats shows no recent updates...thinking of uninstalling..not really worth it...

Weeks... So I'm not far off and that not receiving any GRC atm is normal?
I've been seeing the "estimate time to earn reward" message go around 1 to 5 hours for some time now, it's been teasing me.

Also the connection for me seems to be quiet intermittent. The Gridcoin Wallet program tends to report that it's offline, then online, then offline again, despite being able to sync.

Weeks... So I'm not far off and that not receiving any GRC atm is normal?

I've been seeing the "estimate time to earn reward" message go around 1 to 5 hours for some time now, it's been teasing me.

Also the connection for me seems to be quiet intermittent. The Gridcoin Wallet program tends to report that it's offline, then online, then offline again, despite being able to sync.

No, I receive ~90GRC daily.
Do you have any GRC in your wallet?
Have you sent your initial beacon?
Do you have the latest (3.7.7.0) client?

Weeks... So I'm not far off and that not receiving any GRC atm is normal?

I'm currently going with the starting 3 GRC I had and then a few 0.4 more from the Gridcoin faucet. Magnitude at 8. So I guess that isn't exactly a stellar amount.

I've been seeing the "estimate time to earn reward" message go around 1 to 5 hours for some time now, it's been teasing me.

...I've been mining solo!?
Yeah, I guess I did miss some understanding of what exactly to do around.
Feeling even more sillier now...
Thanks, and sorry.

...I've been mining solo!?
Yeah, I guess I did miss some understanding of what exactly to do around.
Feeling even more sillier now...
Thanks, and sorry.

A new client (v3.7.8.0) has been released.
This is a mandatory update, so you should download and install it as soon as possible.
Do not update from inside the wallet client (this option is removed from the last couple of releases anyway).

You can check it on github manually if there is a new version released:
https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-Research/releases

You can download the latest msi installer from here:
http://download.gridcoin.us/download/downloadstake/GridcoinResearch.msi