Grin swipes the screen, why is its brother Beam so deserted?
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It is a tragedy to live in the shadow of another, and if that other happens to be your own brother, the sorrow may become a long tragedy. Even after trying your best to get people to see you, people finally see you and think of your brother and turn around and start talking about him.
In the beginning, Grin and Beam were always mentioned at the same time, because they have the same gene, but now, Grin is the one that gets screened, and Beam is the one that is ignored.
Why?
Why?
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How did you hear about Grin?
This is real. Beam went looking for investment. The investor discovered Grin during the research process. At that time, Beam was not yet open source, but Grin was open source. The investor found that the code quality of Grin was particularly good, so he refused to invest in Beam and became a supporter of Grin.
There are many paths to getting to know Grin. Some started with the Mimblewimble protocol, some started with the cuckoo algorithm, but it seems that no matter what, most of the people who first came into contact with the crypto community of Grin and Beam chose Grin and were happy to discuss it.
This makes Grin a hot spot in the small circle, and with the convening of Grincon US and the approaching of the mainnet launch time, it has become the focus of the wave of attention detonated by the media. So far, many people know Grin directly, regard Mimblewimble as its subsidiary, and do not know the existence of Beam.
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What is the charm of Grin?
What was it about Grin that tipped the scales? From the perspective of mechanism design, it may be the following three aspects.
1. Grin’s inflationary monetary policy
Grin can "dig out" 60 Grin per minute, and the output does not decrease with time, and there is no upper limit on the total amount. Inflationary monetary policy makes Grin more likely to be a stable currency than "gold". Additional issuance is in line with the trend of economic development. Although the growth scale of the world economy cannot be predicted, a linear growth rate of 60 per minute is at least a route worth trying.
In terms of monetary policy, Grin breaks through the existing pattern and brings some new possibilities.
2. Grin's anti-monopoly mining algorithm
Grin adopts the Cuckoo Cycle algorithm for mining. This algorithm supports GPU and CPU mining. The biggest demand is in video memory, so it does not support the current ASIC mining. This allows Grin to achieve as fair a release as possible and prevents monopoly. For many, this is more in the spirit of cryptocurrency.
In the future, ASIC mining is inevitable, and Grin hopes that by cultivating the mining community, ASICs will become decentralized rather than centralized, so that decentralization can also be achieved in the next stage.
3. Grin’s crypto community spirit
These community spirits, which can be traced back to the origins of Bitcoin, are perhaps the most attractive feature of Grin, even more than the transaction privacy protection technology itself.
None of the above three charms of Grin come from money, which makes Grin even more attractive.
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A better way belongs to Grin
Grin's victory means a lot, perhaps a victory of idealism over realism.
Beam is driven by capital. It has a management team, investment, operation and promotion. It follows the development route adopted by most projects today. Grin is driven by the community, it has nothing but a group of people who like it to promote it and discuss it, which is similar to the development route of Bitcoin.
Grin may have been an unpopular coin, and in fact it has always been. After all, the project was born as early as November 2016, but few people know it. Maybe it is the promotion of Beam that let people know the existence of Grin, maybe it is the spirit of the crypto community or people with this spirit are getting more and more appealing. In any case, at the moment when the cryptocurrency industry is in a downturn, it is Grin that inspires new enthusiasm.
With all kinds of attention and enthusiasm, Grin has also become the target of hype. Many people only care about how to mine more Grin in the early stage, and whether the price of Grin will rise. Is this a good thing for Grin? Grin wants to be a stable currency, but it cannot achieve this goal if it is held hostage by speculators.
Conclusion:
Perhaps, a better way to belong to Grin is to let it grow naturally, rather than being contested as a "spectacle", which is like Satoshi Nakamoto calling on WikiLeaks not to use Bitcoin: this project needs to grow gradually so that the software can continue to grow. Stay strong on the road. Bitcoin is still a small-scale community experiment in its infancy, you can use it for micropayments at most, but the heat you bring can destroy it at this stage.
Conclusion:
Those real miners belonging to Grin have tuned their machines and are gearing up. What are they excited about? They hope they can mine and own the original Grin. Is there a price difference between the original Grin and the later Grin? not at all. They just thought it was fun.
