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