Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Frankly, the intermediary website GRCPool.com and Gridcoin.us left a lot to be desired. The site is not monitored as well as it could be. Projects that are listed as acceptable for research may not be. Updated information is not consistent from one listing to the next. I found one project I had been interested in listed on both the accepted and discontinued projects at the same time.
The current version of the wallet on Gridcoin.us is not the same one they provide YouTube video for. I found it buggy and near impossible to run on my Windows 10 computer, and installed it on my Windows 8 computer with no issue, but it took forever to load and verify the database. The YouTube version shown had a way to download the database manually, and way quicker. That was different on the version out there to use, and the current version took forever. Once it loaded and synched, I tried to do the next step, and it crashed.
One other thing, I had taken some time to find another Gridcoin compatible wallet, Coinome. That had successfully been installed on my Windows 10 computer, and I planned to use that. When I finally tried to open it to do so, you guessed it. It would not open either.
Then I thought to myself this is sure a lot of trouble for 2.6 Gridcoins, valued at a bit more than one cent currently. So, I gave it one more attempt to load. It failed. And now I have deleted it all and gone back to just letting the research run as it wants.
Memory is the Key 