"As a long term BOINCer, I know may users are very dedicated to their teams, and would never change. If we waived this requirement the number of GRC users will increase significantly." -Fuzzy Duck
"I don't think that if we delete this requirement, BOINC projects will get more crunchers. It would be much more important to bring Bitcoiners and Alt-coiners (=non boincers) to Gridcoin. For such people, the team requirement wouldn't be a problem" - DC7D
"The main reasons I'm in favour of removing the requirement is because of the 'team poaching' issue when discussing Gridcoin on BOINC team forums/Tech forums (very negative reactions to team poaching derails any discussion of gridcoin with potential target audience), and beause I believe it may increase the effectiveness of boincstats advertising
"On one hand sure recruiting existing BOINC users to gridcoin isn't introducing new users to BOINC, but if existing users can offset the cost of electricity they may be able to justify increasing their computing capabilities for BOINC" -C.M
"at first after deleting the requirement, existing users will get less GRC due to the (significant?) increasing number of new members. Therefore, maybe some will stop crunching," -DC7D
"The number of GRC earned via PoR will reduce. However, the value of the GRC will increase due to supply and demand" -Fuzzy Duck
https://cryptocurrencytalk.com/topic/44260-discussion-mandatory-team-gridcoin-membership-requirement/?page=2&tab=comments#comment-206758https://cryptocurrencytalk.com/topic/44260-discussion-mandatory-team-gridcoin-membership-requirement/?page=2&tab=comments#comment-206789https://cryptocurrencytalk.com/topic/44260-discussion-mandatory-team-gridcoin-membership-requirement/?page=3&tab=comments#comment-207164"If we remove the team requirements we won't be able to determine what percentage of all Boinc work Gridcoin participants are donating"
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"I've thought about it for a while and came up with this possible solution: how about not changing Gridcoin but BOINC? By letting the BOINC user join two teams instead of one people could easily stay in their beloved team and join Team Gridcoin beside it. This way they can continue to crunch for their teams and earn"
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"What will really happen to the price of GRC if the team requirement is lifted?
The common belief by people who want to see the team requirement lifted is that we would be unlocking the growth potential of Gridcoin mining, and since miners have various incentives to hold GRC (voting weight, frequency of staking, interest) we should see increased demand for GRC and thus increased price
What is the argument for why the price of GRC might be reduced if the team requirement is lifted?
NeuralMiner believes that by adding potentially thousands of pure "mine and dump" type miners who don't care about Gridcoin as a currency, we will actually increase selling pressure of the coin because these miners will be minting some of the coins that "mine and HODLers" like NeuralMiner and myself currently receive on a daily basis.
I thought that was a very intelligent point, and it is well-taken. My counter-argument.... really more of a counter-question was: for every 100 "mine and dump" type miners, how many "mine and HODL" type miners will we potentially add? How many people might we add (like myself) who will invest their own money into the coin?"
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https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@cm-steem/gridcoin-s-mandatory-team-requirement-should-it-stay-or-should-it-go"2. To prevent BOINC users from "Double-dipping"
During the early days of Gridcoin's existence (before the introduction of the team requirement), Ripple was distributing Ripple to BOINC users within their Ripple Labs team.
We found that several users crunching for the Ripple Labs team were also claiming Gridcoin rewards. This discovery was negatively perceived as "Double-dipping" (getting rewarded twice for their work done), and was leading motivation for the introduction of the mandatory team 'Gridcoin' requirement to prevent this occurring again in the future.
Statistics websites are obsolete, we have a Neural Network!
We now store all of the important statistics within the client (NN), so when asked how much BOINC computation is being rewarded by Gridcoin we can simply point them towards neural network statistics instead of towards our team statistic pages on Boincstats."
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References:
https://cryptocurrencytalk.com/topic/44260-discussion-mandatory-team-gridcoin-membership-requirement/https://docs.google.com/document/d/15sEYTzJIROmReCWGAQTZie0Il7NIURUANozKYhR8gus/pubhttps://gridcoinstats.eu/poll/technical_poll_:_what_should_we_do_regarding_the_mandatory_team_requirementhttps://github.com/Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks/issues/94https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/comments/6mq3tu/new_blockchain_poll_impact_to_price_of_grc_if/https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/comments/41efuo/discussion_mandatory_team_gridcoin_membership/https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@xaqfields/the-great-debate-lifting-the-gridcoin-team-requirementhttps://steemit.com/gridcoin/@cm-steem/gridcoin-s-mandatory-team-requirement-should-it-stay-or-should-it-go