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 under both accepted and discontinued projects.
The current version of the wallet on Gridcoin.us is not the same one they provide in the YouTube video. I found it buggy and near impossible to run on my Windows 10 computer, but it installed on my Windows 8 computer without issue. It took forever to load and verify the database. The YouTube version shown included a way to download the database manually, which was way quicker. That was different from the version out there to use, and the current version took forever. Once it loaded and synced, I tried the next step, but it crashed.
One other thing, I had taken some time to find another Gridcoin-compatible wallet, Coinome. That had been successfully installed on my Windows 10 computer, and I planned to use it. When I finally tried to open it, you guessed it. It would not open either.
Then I thought to myself, this is sure a lot of trouble for 2.6 Gridcoins, which are currently valued at a bit more than one cent. 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 