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Re: [ANN]🚀🚀Merit🚀🚀[Proof-of-Growth][PoW]Vaults][Aliases][Escrow][No ICO]
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farting_shot
on 05/09/2018, 15:04:37 UTC
Rough timing to launch a new altcoin, but the project looks pretty interesting.

Can you explain a bit more about how this invite-only thing works?  And how is it the foundation for proof-of-growth, as the ANN states?

The invites help drive proof of growth and other features of Merit.

So when a miner (using Proof of Work) finds a block, It has 20 Merit. 10 go to the miner for a reward, and 10 go into a lottery where the growth rewards are distributed. I can go into much more detail, but at a high level people also call it "growth Mining" kinda cool concept.

If you want to try it out let me know:  https://wallet.merit.me/?invite=KAMO287
Is there an easy explanation for how the "Growth Lottery" happens?  Is it based on global activity?  Or just what a user does in the last block?  (Which would only be in the last minute??)  Or something else?

High Level- as you grow your community you get a "Community Growth Score" and that score allows for more attempts at the lottery (basically) - these rewards are payed out Per-block but not based on recent activity necessarily - just kinda a "hey you are all awesome and everyone gets a chance"

Every time a blocked is mined using Proof of Work - Proof of Growth kicks in too. 50/50 split of block rewards. -- Growth Lottery isnt directly tied to invite distribution either.

Hope that helps!
Quite interesting -- is there some simple explanation for how the community growth score (CGS) is calculated?  If not, can someone point me to the section in the BluePaper about it?