The recent growth has been pretty incredible, both in terms of the market price of GRC and in the strength of the Gridcoin BOINC team. And our team's growth isn't just made up of long-term BOINCers abandoning their teams, we're attracting a lot of brand new users.

This is a really exciting time in a lot of ways and I'm happy to welcome all newcomers, even if it results in less rewards for myself. It's good to see people supporting science! I hope Gridcoin helps to open the floodgates and push BOINC into the mainstream. The bigger the volunteer base, the more incentive there will be for BOINC innovation and new project development.

I've added a lot of hardware over the last few months, so my magnitude has been creeping up recently despite the extra competition. I'm sure you're correct in that the market price increase has more than covered the increased difficulty in earning coins. I have no idea how this will play out long-term, I'm hoping for the best though.