Gridcoin is an open source cryptocurrency (Ticker: GRC) which securely rewards volunteer computing performed on the BOINC platform. BOINC is an open source volunteer computing grid which combines the processing power of individual users for the purposes of scientific research. qrencode support is detected automatically; override with QRENC=no ./Gridcoin-Research.SlackBuild Miniupnpc (available on SBo) is optional for UPnP support. Run script as UPNP=yes ./Gridcoin-Research.SlackBuild You will need to edit the configuration file gridcoinresearch.conf in /etc/Gridcoin-Research/ and place it in your home directory ~/.GridcoinResearch/ to provide the location of your boinc data and any other configurations that you require. For details, see https://wiki.gridcoin.us/Gridcoinresearch_config_file and in /usr/share/Gridcoin-Research-$VERSION/doc/ Notes: 1. New gridcoinsettings.json file This file contains settings changed by the node while running and settings stored in this file override the read-only settings in the gridcoinresearch.conf file (see changelog and documentation). 2. Berkeley DB update Previous versions built against Slackware's Berkeley DB version 4.8. Since [5.4.2.0] 2023-03-26, leisure, "LaVerne", upstream source includes Berkeley DB version 5.3 in tree and will standardize all wallet.dat files to the bdb 5.3 format. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! This ugrade will be completely transparent. Please review the release notes on https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research/releases ** NOTE: ** This is a MANDATORY upgrade for versions 5.4.5 and below to fix an inadvertent fork as a result of an inadvertent protocol change. If you are already on 5.4.6 this upgrade is "leisure."