Rob is now investigating this, and he thinks:
- people will NOT LOSE it as I described it,
but he needs to still verify something.
- more info here
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reposting from:
If no fix comes soon, about 2000+(?) users (A) from these 4 BOINC projects will lose their $GRC rewards:
- Citizen Science Grid (279 active users; 958 total)
- Numberfields (152; 640)
- Rosetta (671; 3510)
- SETI (1080; 3518)
See more in the 2nd picture at:
- situation of the superblocks
- see also the effects of the ongoing probs of the SBs since 5 weeks:
Why?
- Because these users are waiting now for 280h+ (almost 12 days) for being paid out their $GRCs (since the superblock on July 13).
- Gridcoin has for RSA a look-back period of 14 days (336h) for the owed GRCs
- The situation gets more dangerous the longer it takes:
- VGTU server is currently is n/a since >17h
- Tuesday's is SETI's usual maintainance day, and Gridcoin can NOT read then the statistics files from the SETI server
- The new 3.5.9.5 version is out since 1.5 days already, and still either not enough Windows users upgraded, or the intended fix did not fix all problems
This leaves us about a time period left of 56h (=2.3 days)
How to fix this ?
- fix the SB problems?
- see e.g.: "perhaps temporarily extend that to 30 days to give the developers time to work on a fix? If we could get one SB to include all the projects..." (see ZenMercenary's comment in link to forum in above screenshot) ?
- but this will require that all those users run the "new version" (see also: important info to be displayed in the wallet (message of the day, ...))
- Do you have more suggestions ?
What can you do?
- inform others so they are aware and can immediately get to the new version (e.g. Windows users: upgrade), e.g.retweet/like:
- increase the bounty? There is still a bounty open:
(A) user values taken from boincstats: e.g. (279; 958) means:
- 279 active users; 958 total users
This information is simply incorrect. RSA lookback is 6 months, not 14 days.
What? Are you absolutely sure about this? To my knowledge, the RSA lookback period is 6 months, not two weeks. That's 12 times as long as you claim. In the past, I regularly got PoR payments stretching back more than 3 months.
This information is also reflected in the Gridcoin wiki, in the Proof-of-Research article: http://wiki.gridcoin.us/Proof-of-Research
If you have information that the 6 month lookback period for Proof of Research is not true any more, it would be important to state this (and a credible source); as it is now, this post will only lead to confusion, which is not helpful (especially for newcomers).
Moreover, I think it is especially crucial to give correct information when posting headlines starting with something like "IMPORTANT". As experienced Gridcoin community members, we need to set an example for newcomers, and adhere to accurate and neutral reporting of any possible issues.
It's a 6 month lookback, erkan is misunderstanding how Gridcoin works. Rob just confirmed this on Slack.
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Thank you for passing this information along in such an accessible and neutral tone! If anyone wants to keep up with the dev status a little more closely please join us on Slack. If you get an error about an e-mail not being sent, ignore it and check your e-mail. It was sent.
Otherwise I'd follow the Github issue or just stay tuned in to steemit.
Disclaimer: I am just a bot trying to be helpful.
I'm down voting this post since it's miss informed and inaccurate.