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<center><h1>The Gridcoin Fireside #3</h1></center>

<center><h2>Blockchain Communities</h2></center>

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The Gridcoin Fireside is a participatory podcast intended to introduce and explore DLT, cryptocurrency, and crypto-economics from a perspective of the sciences.

The audience is welcome to participate through voice-comms or via the discord text chat.

Join us every Thursday at 8:00pm EST on the Gridcoin [discord](https://discord.gg/jf9XX4a) server.

**Catch up on past episodes [here](https://grcpod.podbean.com/).**

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<center><h1>Recorded on April 18th</h1></center>

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**Listen to or download the episode [here](https://grcpod.podbean.com/e/03-blockchain-communities/).**

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This week we continue a conversation started last week on the importance of the communities behind permissionless blockchains. We explore their roots, the different ways they operate, and their role in the larger network.

We also discuss poll definitions, requirements, and validation parameters [proposal](https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@jringo/proposal-and-poll-poll-definitions-requirements-and-validation-parameters).

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|Time|Subject|
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|2:15|BTCSV Removed from Binance|
|16:45|Blockchain Communities|
|21:00|Open-source history|
|27:00|How to contribute to open-source projects|
|33:00|Trusting open-source software vs Trusting proprietary software|
|40:00|Blockchain and the open-source model|
|53:00|Non-fungible tokens|
|57:00|[Proposal and poll: Poll definitions, requirements, and validation parameters](https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@jringo/proposal-and-poll-poll-definitions-requirements-and-validation-parameters)|

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<h3>Don't forget about the bounties!</h3>

**Bounty 1: Image**

We need an image that we can use as a header for posting.

Bounty: 1000 GRC
Themes(you don't need to hit all of them): Data, science, distributed computing, fire,... sides?
Submission: Submit your image by pming jringo on discord
Winner: Chosen by jringo

**Bounty 2: Intro/Outro**

We need some music to play as an intro and outro to the podcast!

Bounty: 5000 GRC
Requirements: 10-30 seconds each; no vocals
Submission: Submit your sounds by pming jringo on discord
Winner: Chosen by jringo

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<h1>What is Gridcoin?</h1>

Gridcoin is a dual-incentive open-source blockchain. Incentive one, stake rewards, rewards participants for securing the ledger through a proof-of-stake protocol. Incentive two, research rewards, rewards participants for contributing to approved projects hosted on the distributed computing infrastructure, BOINC. 

BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, hosts major institutional computing projects such as IBM’s World Community Grid, SETI, and data from the Large Hadron Collider, alongside projects developed by students, enthusiasts, mathematicians, researchers, and citizen scientists.


<h1>Want to Learn More?</h1>

Website: https://gridcoin.us
Discord: https://discord.gg/jf9XX4a
Steemit: https://steemit.com/created/gridcoin
White Paper: https://gridcoin.us/assets/img/whitepaper.pdf

-- Github --

Codebase: https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-Research
Community: https://github.com/gridcoin-community