I'm afraid Dingo's spot-on, there is just no stopping them now :(
Even rock star boincers like Mumps & Ste\/e will soon will be dethroned by gridcoin. Besides gridcoin's team account they also have pools, like the first one chooka has linked to. Chooka's first link is that of "grcpool.com" which is not one user but many users that are a part of that pool. There are others too such as "pool.gridcoin.co" and 5 or 6 others by what I can tell and most of them are flying up the ranks too.
While it's impossible to tell exactly how many people are crunching there at any one moment but by the hundreds of PC's listed in each of those pools there must be a lot. So there could be from dozens or hundreds of cruncher that are crunching under the one username at any one time.
It means that all those people in those pools are competing with single users like you & me and that's not even counting their actual team.
There acting just like a bitcoin pool where many miners pool there PC's(or miners) together to increase the speed of uncovering the new blocks and receiving a share of the loot quicker than normal. They use the weak authenticator so they can all crunch under the one username to in effect form one super user.
Although this is not a completely new idea the way they are going about it is.
I most certainly understand the need to offset crunching costs if at all possible but turning a working system inside out is just annoying the old guard & new alike.
It's kinda like what BU did with credits, I wonder how much of this the average user will put up with before bailing? The boinc Hierarchy needs to step in and guide the way and lay down some rules for projects & users alike to follow or at least gives users more say in whats happening, but I can't see that happening any time soon.
I guess i'm getting off topic but one things for sure even if we made every AA from now on POGS it still wouldn't be enough to keep gridcoin away from our hard won top spot. Just my 2cents for whatever's it's worth.
