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Re: Gridcoin (GRC) - first coin utilizing BOINC - Official Thread
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heretolearn
on 11/02/2014, 12:43:24 UTC
Quote from: lmue on February 11, 2014, 12:29:29 PM
Quote from: heretolearn on February 11, 2014, 10:36:07 AM
Quote from: lmue on February 11, 2014, 09:42:28 AM
what is the (max. achievable) total amount of Gridcoins since we have CPU+GPU mining?

what I understood is we have 168 million from GPU mining (based on the avg. 100 GRC per blocks).

and for CPU mining we have the similar amount, right? Which means we are expected to produce 2x168 Million coins in total. Am I correct?

I don't think so ... all coins follow a protocol where only 1 block gets solved/broadcast in the target time, so a particular block can be solved by either a GPU miner or(/and special case when doing both) CPU miner. So the total target would still be 168 M instead of 2 x 168 M (taking an avg of 100 GRC per block generated).

I am not so clear right now as well. How the block can be solved by CPU miner since no scrypt is running on their miners.

Good question . Its got to do with with the parameter (cpumining=true) you put into the conf file ... the client looks up that file and tries to generate grc by hashing away I believe. I maybe wrong though, maybe someone could correct .