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RE: Gridcoin Research 4.0-2018 Roadmap Progress Report #3
We hope to educate as best we can before we get into the actual creation of the polls. Help us help you: Do you have any specific questions? What are the unknowns you are looking for?
Personally, I think Manual Reward Claim adds an entirely new use-case and funding option to Gridcoin in the form of Funding and Crowdsourcing. If we can figure out a way to use decentralized control in order to release the funds (I'm confident that we will), imagine what we could do with the MRC fees and Sidestaking! I will be writing more about sidestaking (which might see a name change) in the near future.
Dynamic Witness Participation, Masternodes (are servers?), MRC and sidestacking you just said are mostly mysteries for me :-)
Dynamic Witness Participation (DWP) is decentralized and based on randomness -- anyone can make a superblock. It affects nothing but superblock creation.
Masternodes are centralized and based on financial support -- only the wealthy can create superblocks. Masternodes affect several other aspects of Gridcoin and present serious risks with regards to development.
Manual Reward Claims (MRC) is described in the original article: here
Side-staking is mentioned in the additional features section of the same article. I will be writing more on it in the future.
Thanks for clearing that up! I read the article but seems I missed that part on the lower section of it.