Gridcoin spiked from 1021sats to 1432 sats in <24hrs!

24hr analysis:

There was a stable price between 900 and 1000 sats for over 7 days.
The price in the above graph spiked from 1021 sats to 1432 sats within a few hours.
Potentially caused by listeners of the BeyondBitcoin hangout getting an insight in Gridcoin's near future?

New all time high!

Past:

New:

Difference: $1,669,411 !

Poloniex is currently leading the charge with the most trading volume, there are arbitrage opportunities between exchanges.
We need market makers on the Bitshares network; price feeds have been requested for the btsbots.com trading website/app.

Between Oct and Dec 2015, we began advertising to BoincStats and we implemented DPOR which ceased relying on a centralized statistics server for the reward mechanism. We experienced a surge of up to 50 new team members per day.
March 2016 - Gridcoin got onto the front page of Reddit which brought thousands of new users to the Gridcoin community.
September 2016 - All science based cryptocurrencies experienced a large surge in trading volume, potentially several whales giving the scientific cryptos some love?
March 2017 - Gridcoin required an emergency mandatory upgrade, and whilst exchanges/services wallets are in maintenance the trading volume surged. The mandatory upgrade was successful, we're currently awaiting confirmation from exchanges and services that their upgrade has been successful.

The trading volume required to surge over 100% in September 2016 was approx $600k, it took $60k trading volume to surge the market cap approx 50% in March 2017, and it took approx $110k trading volume to spike the value 30% in April 2017 (today).

We face scaling the Gridcoin network from rewarding 2k users to between 250k and 4million users (active/total size of the entire BOINC Commuity) when we successfully remove the mandatory team Gridcoin requirement (200k GRC bounty!).
- As a proof of stake cryptocurrency, users are required to buy GRC if they wish to solo-stake; If 50k users (small chunk of BOINC community) were to buy 1000 GRC each (enough to stake once per month..ish) there currently isn't enough GRC on markets to supply such a demand.
If a magnitude multiplier based on quantity of coins burnt is implemented in the future, the coins in supply will decrease. Reddit discussion CCT Discussion
We're continuing to regularly hold Gridcoin hangouts in a similar style to BeyondBitcoin (which we regularly attend).
Listen to our latest appearance on BeyondBitcoin to get the latest news regarding Gridcoin. Alternatively, you can read about it.