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Gridcoin Introduction

To earn Gridcoin in solo staking mode you need to run the Gridcoin client and continuously stake or use the MRC (manual reward claim) feature to have somebody else stake for you for a small fee.

If you have not yet installed the BOINC client, you should read the BOINC installation guide to setup BOINC. The BOINC client has to be installed alongside the Gridcoin client in order to verify BOINC account ownership and to access local BOINC statistics.

Gridcoin install video tutorials: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

Install the Gridcoin client

Windows & Linux


Download via GitHub

MacOS

Download via GitHub

Other

Don't see what you are looking for? Go to the download page and go to one of the alternative download links

Optional post-install Gridcoin configuration

If you installed the BOINC client anywhere other than the default installation location, you'll need to specify where you installed BOINC in the gridcoinresearch.conf file.

  • Windows: (Note the double backslashes are necessary. Change location according to your non-default install location)
    • boincdatadir=D:\\ProgramData\\BOINC\\
    • boincappdir=C:\\Program Files\\BOINC\\
  • Linux:
    • boincdatadir=/var/lib/boinc-client/
  • You need to use the one email for all BOINC projects. Add this to your gridcoinresearch.conf file (unless the Gridcoin wizard has already done this for you):
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