Replace "Rewarding Volunteer Distributed Computing" with "The Cryptocurrency of Science"

[makeasnek]

I propose changing the title text of the main page from "Rewarding Volunteer Distibuted Computing" with "The Cryptocurrency of Science". My rationale is as follows:

• We should have our branding be clear and make a concise, easy-to-understand pitch to the visiting user. Our main pitch is that we are a cryptocurrency that supports science. "The Cryptocurrency of Science" says this quite concisely.
• "Rewarding Volunteer Distributed Computing" is a mouthful and uses scary technical language that will not seem accessible to average computer users. Even users experienced with cryptocurrency mining may not know what "volunteer computing" or "distributed computing" is.
• A user who is interested in Gridcoin merely as a cryptocurrency and has no interest in crunching probably doesn't need to know what distributed/volunteer computing is. They just need to know that Gridcoin is a cryptocurrency which supports science, and that by using Gridcoin, they can support scientific research. They are going to be more interested in takeaway headlines like "Gridcoin crunchers find new cancer drugs" than "Gridcoin is a network of distributed computers connecting users to a wide variety of projects in a shared database blah blah blah"
• This change matches the branding found on the Gridcoin subreddit
• Further on down the page, we again mention rewarding volunteer distributed computing, so this change does not remove it entirely
• I have put this idea in the #future-development channel on discord and the limited response I have received indicates people support it. People have also generally supported making the language more accessible and less technically focused. Let's leave the technical language in areas specific to crunching.

[barton2526]

This is a big change (in the sense that it is the first thing a user sees about the coin on our site). Is there consensus from the community that this is a good idea?

I only see one person responded in the #future-development channel.

[makeasnek]

I can make a poll if you think it's needed. I figure dropping it in future development and waiting a few days is reasonable given that there are no objections there. But I will defer to your judgement on that

[barton2526]

I am torn whether this warrants a full wallet poll. Maybe just posting more in the Discord and soliciting more opinions?

[makeasnek]

Will do

[nathanielcwm]

I'm in favour of this but we also probably need to figure out how to implement this tag line into gridcoin.world neatly.

[makeasnek]

Adding this here so we have it for future reference. So far zero objections.

[parnikkapore]

I'd go for "The cryptocurrency for science"; I'm not sure if 'of' would suggest that we are a coin that gained traction in the scientific community (which we're not)?

The other concern I have is that this changes the tone from "value-creating and task-focused" to "bombastic", which would've put me off. However, looking at other sites in the cryptocurrency industry, this is probably not a big problem.

[makeasnek]

Just following up on this. There was broad support in Discord and Reddit for this, do you want me to make a poll or is this good to go?

Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/comments/167ldxu/proposal_change_text_on_gridcoinus_site_feedback/

[barton2526]

I suppose so