On October 13 2017 the website www.gridcoin.io will launch a coordinated marketing campaign to inform people about gridcoin. The campaign was already succesful with me, as I joined gridcoin mining after reading an email of gridcoin.io at the beginning of July of this year (2017). If you would like to join the marketing campaign, there is little time, so hurry up and read the instructions at the bottom of this article carefully. ![gridcoin.io.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeCS8W34PNHFtkLVuN8zHcSqVres1qTsiXymx5s1MxfAu/gridcoin.io.png) I am a long time BOINC contributor and saw first gridcoin in 2016, but at the time I estimated the effort to join gridcoin as too difficult and cumbersome. This changed after reading the email of gridcoin.io. Additionally, the website was so kind to donate me 3 gridcoins. This allowed me to advertise the beacon on the gridcoin network and to start mining. I then started with some friends a Garage Mining Company. ![michele_tiz_small.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZy9aqDtbcssqoZXGDVQuxJvvvWx2FaNruVNAskozK31R/michele_tiz_small.jpg) In two months, we reached 300 mining magnitude and we bunkered 300'000 gridcoins and we keep growing as it is very easy to get new people interested into gridcoin. By contrast, I remember in 2014 trying to convince people about the advantages of bitcoin, which was very difficult. So, what is the advantage of gridcoin compared to bitcoin? gridcoin inherits most of the source code of bitcoin, so it is very secure. However, bitcoin wastes energy in performing always the same and tedious computation to attempt to invert a cryptographic hash function. This is needed to select a miner eligible to receive bitcoins. On the contrary, gridcoin allows miners to participate in scientific research project and to be rewarded in gridcoin for their computations. It is possible to partecipate in cancer, AIDS, Ebola and Zika research, to perform climate studies, to narrow down the orbit of potential hazardous asteroids, to solve mathematical projects and to hunt for subatomic particles, just to name the most succesful BOINC projects. Doing so, the energy is not wasted, but it is used to advance mankind and to make the world a better place to live in. If you would like to participate to the marketing campaing by linking your twitter and facebook account, you should click here and follow instructions. The more steps you complete, the higher the chances to be selected as fortunate winner of the 10'000 gridcoins. You can monitor this gridcoin address to see who will be the selected winner to receive the price. As a trader, you can expect the price of gridcoin and its market capitalization to climb up after October 1st.