That's fantastic to hear - while I have your ear, as a WCG cruncher I did not want to (be forced to) join Team Gridcoin in order for the work to be counted. Along with above work, has the WCG requirement to join Team Gridcoin been lifted (design altered to another method) now/as well? Teams are 50% of the fun in WCG, so the requirements for a specific team membership are unwelcome.

I was also really wanting manual reward claim (the current staking method is a lottery), I think that's still in progress reading the other comments - if I'm crunching for coin, being subject to a lottery method of when I'll get "paid" is a non starter, I want to claim my work coins when I want. The sheer fact that users with large coin are encouraged to split their stakes to increase their lottery chances of winning the stake are just crap, it's heavily biased towards HODLers and people who got in around 2016 and have a million coins - basically, the coin poor are penalized, newcomers have no hope in this staking scheme. I've always thought it was a little ponzi-scheme-like to be honest.