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Title: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 13, 2015, 05:23:42 PM
Vcoin sha256 Pow


Coin name: Vcoin
Algorith: sha256
Block reward: 1 VCoin
Max coins:1000000000
nTargetTimespan:1200
nTargetSpacing:30
nInterval = nTargetTimespan / nTargetSpacing; // 40 blocks
Block explorer:https://minkiz.co/abe/chain/VCoin (https://minkiz.co/abe/chain/VCoin)
Block explorer:https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/ (https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/)

VCoin halving every 100,000 blocks, with a minimum of 1 coin in the end.





Wallets

http://i61.tinypic.com/o91zih.pnghttp://i60.tinypic.com/6jhsnr.pnghttp://i59.tinypic.com/2lxv6kh.png (https://github.com/vcoindev/vcoin/raw/master/vcoin-qt.zip)http://i62.tinypic.com/24gls20.png (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/vcoin-qt.exe)

Nodes

addnode=108.61.10.90
addnode=172.98.67.9
addnode=185.92.222.31
addnode=188.0.40.180
addnode=188.165.2.147
addnode=188.166.35.49
addnode=192.95.29.72
addnode=193.227.134.111
addnode=45.63.1.27
addnode=45.63.122.61
addnode=46.105.118.15
addnode=5.9.36.211
addnode=67.241.161.8
addnode=73.9.181.217
addnode=81.169.137.12
addnode=86.181.102.49
addnode=94.23.32.109

Bootstrap

Link (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.zip) to bootstrap.dat (zipped)
Link (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/checksums.txt) to checksums (bootstrap & wallets)


Setup VCoin on Raspberry Pi

http://mycyberuniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/Raspberry_Pi_Logo-e1422999720343.png (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059746.msg12447889#msg12447889)


Sources
Vcoin released source:https://github.com/vcoindev/vcoin (https://github.com/vcoindev/vcoin) based on bitcoin 0.8.99
VCoin upgrade to Bitcoin Core 0.11:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059746.msg11599831#msg11599831 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059746.msg11599831#msg11599831) Not ready
VCoin feautures:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059746.msg11668301#msg11668301 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059746.msg11668301#msg11668301)


Exchanges


Vcoin [VCN] is now live on Bleutrade.com!

Tweet: https://twitter.com/Bleutrade/status/603029823309623296 (https://twitter.com/Bleutrade/status/603029823309623296)

− BTC Market: https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/BTC (https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/BTC)
− LTC Market: https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/LTC (https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/LTC)
− DOGE Market: https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/DOGE (https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/DOGE)
− USD Market: https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/USD (https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/USD)

https://yobit.net/i/small_logo.png (https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC)

English: https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC (https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC)
Chinese: https://yobit.net/cn/trade/VCOIN/BTC (https://yobit.net/cn/trade/VCOIN/BTC)
Russian: https://yobit.net/ru/trade/VCOIN/BTC (https://yobit.net/ru/trade/VCOIN/BTC)

Vcoin Dice:
https://yobit.net/en/dice/VCOIN (https://yobit.net/en/dice/VCOIN)

Pools

https://vcoin.suprnova.cc  (https://vcoin.suprnova.cc)

http://ispace.co.uk/coindetails/?coin=vcn (http://ispace.co.uk/coindetails/?coin=vcn)

http://wmikrut.com

http://altminers.com/static/img/altminers_small.png
 (http://altminers.com)
http://altminers.com (http://altminers.com)




Notes

Windows wallet

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/edcc38e97a60e705f40a0473192d7746d26e0635e49d2d5f74717e05c05d8388/analysis/ (https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/edcc38e97a60e705f40a0473192d7746d26e0635e49d2d5f74717e05c05d8388/analysis/)

Virustotal finds a variant of Win32/BitCoinMiner.BJ potentially unsafe ', but its standardfalse positive, that I've seen in many wallets


How to run linux wallet

 
open the terminal and type:

 
git clone https://github.com/vcoindev/vcoin.git

 
cd vcoin

unzip vcoin-qt.zip

./vcoin-qt

now navigate to .vcoin app data and creat file named vcoin.conf add in the following

server=1
listen=1
rpcuser=vcoittygryecviyuy
rpcpassword=vcoinpassswdhuugg
addnode=185.25.22.33:5522
addnode=45.63.1.27:5530

save it and restart your wallet


This is repost from cryptocointalk forum im not the dev  i fork the source on github and updated https://github.com/chris-vl/vcoin (https://github.com/chris-vl/vcoin)

Thanks to Graham for the pull request and block explorer



Android and osx wallets comming soon

Additional general tips to stay safe when working with any coin:
1) Always install all wallets for coins on a standalone system or in a sandbox environment.
2) Always move coins to offline wallets (cold storage) and keep only a minimum in a hotfile. A Hotfile is the wallet.dat currently on your PC in the normal location ..\roaming\coinname\wallet.dat | ~/.coinname/wallet.dat. Offline or cold storage is when you copy your main wallet.dat with your coins in it to a USB stick/(s) and remove the wallet.dat from your PC. Offline or cold storage is also sending your coins to a paper wallet.
3) If you are uncomfortable with a Windows wallet then don't use a Windows wallet but compile and use a Linux wallet.



Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: ihascryptos on May 13, 2015, 05:24:33 PM
otay


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: kondiomir on May 13, 2015, 05:25:17 PM
Really ? Totally not ok!


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: xinbinbin on May 13, 2015, 05:27:16 PM
pool?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Olegcho on May 13, 2015, 05:37:57 PM
no, thanks


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 13, 2015, 05:40:16 PM
pool?

i dont know its repost from https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/38318-ann-vcoin-sha256-pow/


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: totoy on May 13, 2015, 05:45:54 PM
Pfft.. no win wallet


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: ltcrstrbrt on May 13, 2015, 05:47:48 PM
 :D :D :D come on guys, it's better than ICO


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 13, 2015, 06:18:06 PM
Pfft.. no win wallet
im trying to switch to vmware


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 13, 2015, 07:43:53 PM
Pool set @1% fee

Have fun !

stratum+tcp://37.187.99.136:3033

Username: your vcoin wallet address
Password: anything
Algorithm: sha256





Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 13, 2015, 07:56:55 PM
Pool set @1% fee

Have fun !

stratum+tcp://37.187.99.136:3033

Username: your vcoin wallet address
Password: anything
Algorithm: sha256




dificulty ports ?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 13, 2015, 08:01:59 PM
Pool set @1% fee

Have fun !

stratum+tcp://37.187.99.136:3033

Username: your vcoin wallet address
Password: anything
Algorithm: sha256




dificulty ports ?


URL (difficulty 8 ): stratum+tcp://37.187.99.136:3009
URL (difficulty 32): stratum+tcp://37.187.99.136:3033     <----------- VARDIFF PORT
URL (difficulty 256): stratum+tcp://37.187.99.136:3257


202 blocks found so far  :D


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 13, 2015, 08:04:01 PM
Pool set @1% fee

Have fun !

stratum+tcp://37.187.99.136:3033

Username: your vcoin wallet address
Password: anything
Algorithm: sha256




dificulty ports ?


URL (difficulty 8 ): stratum+tcp://37.187.99.136:3009
URL (difficulty 32): stratum+tcp://37.187.99.136:3033     <----------- VARDIFF PORT
URL (difficulty 256): stratum+tcp://37.187.99.136:3257


202 blocks found so far  :D

thanks


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 13, 2015, 08:50:19 PM
have anyone compile windows wallet ?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: explorer17 on May 13, 2015, 08:52:29 PM
nice logo  ;)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 13, 2015, 09:05:57 PM
have anyone compile windows wallet ?
i can try to make you windows wallet for .035 btc
ok?
no thanks switched to vmware


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: MRKLYE on May 13, 2015, 09:12:35 PM
Where is the innovation here..?

It looks like you put absolute minimal effort into this coin (Coingen likely) and its ANN post.
Shit like this is the reason the boards are full of crap.. Why does this coin even need to exist..
If you guys are looking for a coin that isn't complete shit.. Maybe try checking out Credits..

Atleast It's got innovation and the team behind it actually gives a shit about cementing it as a usable coin in the future.

This is just absolute garbage... Vcoin? really?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 13, 2015, 09:19:06 PM
Where is the innovation here..?

It looks like you put absolute minimal effort into this coin (Coingen likely) and its ANN post.
Shit like this is the reason the boards are full of crap.. Why does this coin even need to exist..
If you guys are looking for a coin that isn't complete shit.. Maybe try checking out Credits..

Atleast It's got innovation and the team behind it actually gives a shit about cementing it as a usable coin in the future.

This is just absolute garbage... Vcoin? really?
your notices must go on original thread here https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/38318-ann-vcoin-sha256-pow/


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: old fart on May 13, 2015, 09:29:24 PM
Why is there no logo?

It wouldn't take five minutes to knock something out in microsoft paint.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 13, 2015, 09:33:55 PM
what do you mean ?? on linux i see logo


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 13, 2015, 09:37:22 PM
what do you mean ?? on linux i see logo

I think he means there is no logo in your ANN post on here, to be honest there isn't really alot in your ANN post to get excited about is there, at least try and make it look nice !


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 13, 2015, 09:41:48 PM
what do you mean ?? on linux i see logo

I think he means there is no logo in your ANN post on here, to be honest there isn't really alot in your ANN post to get excited about is there, at least try and make it look nice !
added logo from github repo https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vcoindev/vcoin/master/src/qt/res/icons/bitcoin.png


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 14, 2015, 05:09:07 AM
Have anyone mine this ??


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 14, 2015, 05:10:17 AM
Yep 819 blocks :)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 14, 2015, 05:12:16 AM
Yep 819 blocks :)
I mine some blocks using your pool


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on May 14, 2015, 10:30:32 AM
Have anyone mine this ??

Uh-huh, I was solo-mining while the diff was < 0.00x. Hard to say whether that was successful, found a few blocks, the early ones have matured, the rest remain immature as it appears mining has stopped (I'm no longer finding blocks, the diff is now >0.009, out of my laptop's reach).

Code:
getinfo: 10:40:29
{
"version" : 90000,
"protocolversion" : 70001,
"walletversion" : 60000,
"balance" : 550.00000000,
"blocks" : 2157,
"timeoffset" : 0,
"connections" : 2,
"proxy" : "",
"difficulty" : 0.10924995,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1431552293,
"keypoolsize" : 103,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"errors" : ""
}

getmininginfo 10:40:58
{
"blocks" : 2157,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.10924995,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : 3,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"pooledtx" : 1,
"testnet" : false
}
getpeerinfo 10:41:13
[
{
"addr" : "37.187.99.136",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1431596433,
"lastrecv" : 1431596433,
"bytessent" : 18468,
"bytesrecv" : 34631,
"conntime" : 1431574034,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/vcoin:0.9.0/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 2090,
"banscore" : 0,
"syncnode" : true
},
{
"addr" : "185.25.22.33:5522",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1431596433,
"lastrecv" : 1431596433,
"bytessent" : 39100,
"bytesrecv" : 19985,
"conntime" : 1431577845,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/vcoin:0.9.0/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 2096,
"banscore" : 0
}
]


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 14, 2015, 11:42:44 AM
I fork it on github and change the icons https://github.com/chris-vl/vcoin
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chris-vl/vcoin/b614cd0741c39f0b1977978ddef820095b153745/src/qt/res/icons/bitcoin.png


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: tyz on May 14, 2015, 11:51:58 AM
Too few information to point my miner to the pool. Further, Sha256 is not the best algorithm today to bring miners to mine it :/


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 14, 2015, 12:03:03 PM
Too few information to point my miner to the pool. Further, Sha256 is not the best algorithm today to bring miners to mine it :/
If someone have good miners with high hashrate sha256 is good


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 14, 2015, 07:36:05 PM
5073 + blocks  :o


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 14, 2015, 07:53:45 PM
What is the story behind this coin?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 14, 2015, 07:57:36 PM
What is the story behind this coin?
unclear  we will see in the future


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 14, 2015, 07:58:35 PM
What is the story behind this coin?
unclear  we will see in the future

But you started it.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: dennistlg on May 14, 2015, 08:12:48 PM
Cant compile or run on ubuntu 14.10 x64

compilation error:
Code:
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb'
g++ -c -O2 -pthread -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-unused-parameter -g -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/obj -DUSE_UPNP=0 -DUSE_IPV6=1 -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb/include -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb/helpers -DHAVE_BUILD_INFO -fno-stack-protector -fstack-protector-all -Wstack-protector -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -MMD -MF obj/alert.d -o obj/alert.o alert.cpp
alert.cpp:6:53: fatal error: boost/algorithm/string/classification.hpp: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
 #include <boost/algorithm/string/classification.hpp>
                                                     ^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [obj/alert.o] Fehler 1

runtime error:
Code:
./vcoin-qt: error while loading shared libraries: libdb_cxx-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
snakefreak@snakefreak-W110ER:~/Downloads/vcoin$


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 14, 2015, 08:19:35 PM
Cant compile or run on ubuntu 14.10 x64

compilation error:
Code:
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb'
g++ -c -O2 -pthread -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-unused-parameter -g -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/obj -DUSE_UPNP=0 -DUSE_IPV6=1 -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb/include -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb/helpers -DHAVE_BUILD_INFO -fno-stack-protector -fstack-protector-all -Wstack-protector -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -MMD -MF obj/alert.d -o obj/alert.o alert.cpp
alert.cpp:6:53: fatal error: boost/algorithm/string/classification.hpp: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
 #include <boost/algorithm/string/classification.hpp>
                                                     ^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [obj/alert.o] Fehler 1

runtime error:
Code:
./vcoin-qt: error while loading shared libraries: libdb_cxx-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
snakefreak@snakefreak-W110ER:~/Downloads/vcoin$


64 bit right ?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 14, 2015, 08:26:52 PM
Cant compile or run on ubuntu 14.10 x64

compilation error:
Code:
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb'
g++ -c -O2 -pthread -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-unused-parameter -g -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/obj -DUSE_UPNP=0 -DUSE_IPV6=1 -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb/include -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb/helpers -DHAVE_BUILD_INFO -fno-stack-protector -fstack-protector-all -Wstack-protector -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -MMD -MF obj/alert.d -o obj/alert.o alert.cpp
alert.cpp:6:53: fatal error: boost/algorithm/string/classification.hpp: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
 #include <boost/algorithm/string/classification.hpp>
                                                     ^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [obj/alert.o] Fehler 1

runtime error:
Code:
./vcoin-qt: error while loading shared libraries: libdb_cxx-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
snakefreak@snakefreak-W110ER:~/Downloads/vcoin$


open the command and type sudo apt-get install build-essential libboost-all-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev git qt-sdk libminiupnpc-dev

then update and try again will work


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 14, 2015, 09:30:07 PM
Cant compile or run on ubuntu 14.10 x64

compilation error:
Code:
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb'
g++ -c -O2 -pthread -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-unused-parameter -g -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/obj -DUSE_UPNP=0 -DUSE_IPV6=1 -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb/include -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb/helpers -DHAVE_BUILD_INFO -fno-stack-protector -fstack-protector-all -Wstack-protector -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -MMD -MF obj/alert.d -o obj/alert.o alert.cpp
alert.cpp:6:53: fatal error: boost/algorithm/string/classification.hpp: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
 #include <boost/algorithm/string/classification.hpp>
                                                     ^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [obj/alert.o] Fehler 1

runtime error:
Code:
./vcoin-qt: error while loading shared libraries: libdb_cxx-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
snakefreak@snakefreak-W110ER:~/Downloads/vcoin$


open the command and type sudo apt-get install build-essential libboost-all-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev git qt-sdk libminiupnpc-dev

then update and try again will work

solved


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: glen123 on May 14, 2015, 09:37:48 PM
http://gcpool.ddns.net/vcoin/public

Happy Mining ;-)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 14, 2015, 09:38:15 PM
Cant compile or run on ubuntu 14.10 x64

compilation error:
Code:
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb'
g++ -c -O2 -pthread -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-unused-parameter -g -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/obj -DUSE_UPNP=0 -DUSE_IPV6=1 -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb/include -I/home/snakefreak/Downloads/vcoin/src/leveldb/helpers -DHAVE_BUILD_INFO -fno-stack-protector -fstack-protector-all -Wstack-protector -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -MMD -MF obj/alert.d -o obj/alert.o alert.cpp
alert.cpp:6:53: fatal error: boost/algorithm/string/classification.hpp: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
 #include <boost/algorithm/string/classification.hpp>
                                                     ^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [obj/alert.o] Fehler 1

runtime error:
Code:
./vcoin-qt: error while loading shared libraries: libdb_cxx-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
snakefreak@snakefreak-W110ER:~/Downloads/vcoin$


open the command and type sudo apt-get install build-essential libboost-all-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev git qt-sdk libminiupnpc-dev

then update and try again will work

solved

So it was his dependencies then.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: samspaces on May 14, 2015, 10:26:29 PM
1000000000 coins ?!!  


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 14, 2015, 10:29:11 PM
1000000000 coins ?!!  
Yes


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 14, 2015, 10:31:58 PM

What was the block time again?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: glen123 on May 14, 2015, 10:35:52 PM

Est. Avg. Time per Round (Pool)    16 seconds

;-)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 14, 2015, 10:54:20 PM
Nevermind, it is 30s. That means 2,880 blocks per day = 144,000 coins per day = 52,46m per year. Without halving it will take 20 years to get to the max supply so that seems an irrelevant number.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: samspaces on May 15, 2015, 12:23:07 AM
The way it is now, this creation has an auto-destruct in 20 years, since the block chain won't be moving after that. Sure, likely this won't be around in a few weeks or months but still, built in longevity should be part of any coin. You could update the build to include subsidy halving.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 15, 2015, 12:45:06 AM
The way it is now, this creation has an auto-destruct in 20 years, since the block chain won't be moving after that. Sure, likely this won't be around in a few weeks or months but still, built in longevity should be part of any coin. You could update the build to include subsidy halving.

There seems to be halving

Code:
static const int64 nStartSubsidy = 50 * COIN;
static const int64 nMinSubsidy = 1 * COIN;

int64 static GetBlockValue(int nHeight, int64 nFees)
{
    int64 nSubsidy = nStartSubsidy;

    // Mining phase: Subsidy is cut in half every SubsidyHalvingInterval
    nSubsidy >>= (nHeight / Params().SubsidyHalvingInterval());
    
    // Inflation phase: Subsidy reaches minimum subsidy
    // Network is rewarded for transaction processing with transaction fees and
    // the inflationary subsidy
    if (nSubsidy < nMinSubsidy)
    {
        nSubsidy = nMinSubsidy;
    }

    return nSubsidy + nFees;
}

And it looks like halving every 100,000 blocks, with a minimum of 1 coin in the end.

Code:
CMainParams() {
        // The message start string is designed to be unlikely to occur in normal data.
        pchMessageStart[0] = 0x05;
        pchMessageStart[1] = 0x05;
        pchMessageStart[2] = 0xb5;
        pchMessageStart[3] = 0x05;
        nDefaultPort = 5530;
        nRPCPort = 5531;
        bnProofOfWorkLimit = CBigNum(~uint256(0) >> 20);
        nSubsidyHalvingInterval = 100000;


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: helloword2013 on May 15, 2015, 01:04:39 AM
I have compiled vcoin-qt.exe and run a virscan but says PUA.Win32.Packer.PrivateExeProte-15
http://r.virscan.org/report/9bae2dc0b6b577758a01ec8bd240317a


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: samspaces on May 15, 2015, 01:13:53 AM
I have compiled vcoin-qt.exe and run a virscan but says PUA.Win32.Packer.PrivateExeProte-15
http://r.virscan.org/report/9bae2dc0b6b577758a01ec8bd240317a

PUA stands for potentially unwanted application, so low priority.

Quote
There seems to be halving
In that case, I haven't said anything.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 15, 2015, 01:17:47 AM
I have compiled vcoin-qt.exe and run a virscan but says PUA.Win32.Packer.PrivateExeProte-15
http://r.virscan.org/report/9bae2dc0b6b577758a01ec8bd240317a

PUA is not virus but a Possible Unwanted Application.  A packer can be used in malicious activity and there is a slight change that it is malicious, but probably not.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 15, 2015, 08:36:44 AM
Block explorer https://minkiz.co/abe/chain/vcoin


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: ShoeOnHead on May 15, 2015, 09:36:15 AM
Again! A coin without a reason/purpose/description. Devs aren't even trying anymore! Next!


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 15, 2015, 09:52:10 AM
Source  Updated and fix diffplot. Improve graphics  https://github.com/chris-vl/vcoin (https://github.com/chris-vl/vcoin)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: ShoeOnHead on May 15, 2015, 10:00:22 AM
Source  Updated and fix diffplot. Improve graphics  https://github.com/chris-vl/vcoin (https://github.com/chris-vl/vcoin)

Why don't you make a description for this coin?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 15, 2015, 10:05:36 AM
Source  Updated and fix diffplot. Improve graphics  https://github.com/chris-vl/vcoin (https://github.com/chris-vl/vcoin)

Why don't you make a description for this coin?
Check the first post


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: ShoeOnHead on May 15, 2015, 10:09:40 AM
Source  Updated and fix diffplot. Improve graphics  https://github.com/chris-vl/vcoin (https://github.com/chris-vl/vcoin)

Why don't you make a description for this coin?
Check the first post

Yeah I did, that's why I'm asking!

I only see blockrewards, pools and where to download the source.

What I'm talking about is a reason why you made this. Why is this coin any different than all the other coins! What is your plan?!

 Why should this coin get any value? Are you even trying?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 15, 2015, 10:13:56 AM
if you read all posts you will get the answer


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: ShoeOnHead on May 15, 2015, 10:14:18 AM
if you read all posts you will get the answer

Update the OP then!

When the OP is lame, almost nobody will read the rest. Basic communication skills.

Even the logo and layout in the OP are super lame!


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: glen123 on May 15, 2015, 10:18:23 AM
Pool back online in 1h , just added to other Coins Darksend/Tor etc


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 15, 2015, 10:59:38 AM
Dev, how about wallet update with masternodes and the rest.  ;D


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on May 15, 2015, 11:14:18 AM
Again! A coin without a reason/purpose/description. Devs aren't even trying anymore! Next!

Or ... devs have learned that providing genuine reason and purpose is a pointless exercise as both are invariably hostage to the community's deathgripped irrational self-serving prejudices.

Doesn't matter what the rationale, there's always a population of self-appointed assessors loudly claiming the converse whilst at the same time exploiting every possible opportunity to extract a few more satoshi for their own personal profit.

For me, it's an approach that is at least honest about the reality of altcoin devops and it's immensely preferable to the puffed-up little fiefdoms that some attempt to create (c.f. the new “owners” of Britcoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1061026.0).

It's your personal opinion that altcoins bear more than just a metaphoric relationship to stock trading. It's not shared by everyone and you might want to check just how deep the differences actually run.

A better metaphor is a race card for an unofficial meet. Are you running a similar moral crusade against other forms of online gambling?

Just off've the top of my head, vcoin is uniquely (and serendipitously, let's not overdo it) pushing the altcoin devops envelope in an attempt to raise the standard of decentralisation to meet the criteria recently asserted by FinCEN; in this instance, starting with “no central repository” and (reading between FinCEN lines) “no single developer”.


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 16, 2015, 12:46:09 PM
I have compiled vcoin-qt.exe and run a virscan but says PUA.Win32.Packer.PrivateExeProte-15
http://r.virscan.org/report/9bae2dc0b6b577758a01ec8bd240317a
Its working ?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: dennistlg on May 16, 2015, 01:36:00 PM
the linux wallet works like a charm.      like to see a pool owner getting in.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 16, 2015, 01:42:19 PM
the linux wallet works like a charm.      like to see a pool owner getting in.

Also is available 2 pools

 Pool http://37.187.99.136/getting_started (http://37.187.99.136/getting_started)

stratum+tcp://37.187.99.136:3033

Username: your vcoin wallet address Password: anything Algorithm: sha256

Pool http://gcpool.ddns.net/vcoin/public (http://gcpool.ddns.net/vcoin/public)/


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 16, 2015, 01:44:34 PM
the linux wallet works like a charm.      like to see a pool owner getting in.

Also is available 2 pools

 Pool http://37.187.99.136/getting_started (http://37.187.99.136/getting_started) <---------- www.umine.co.uk

stratum+tcp://37.187.99.136:3033     stratum+tcp://umine.co.uk:3033

Username: your vcoin wallet address Password: anything Algorithm: sha256

Pool http://gcpool.ddns.net/vcoin/public (http://gcpool.ddns.net/vcoin/public)/


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 16, 2015, 02:35:32 PM
the linux wallet works like a charm.      like to see a pool owner getting in.

It does work fine. Iv been running solo mining on a Raspberry Pi.  :)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 16, 2015, 02:37:03 PM
the linux wallet works like a charm.      like to see a pool owner getting in.


My pool is running and has found 2193 blocks

www.umine.co.uk


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 16, 2015, 02:47:56 PM
the linux wallet works like a charm.      like to see a pool owner getting in.

It does work fine. Iv been running solo mining on a Raspberry Pi.  :)

also i start with solo but my i change it to pool


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: glen123 on May 16, 2015, 03:04:55 PM
Est. Avg. Time per Round (Pool)    3 seconds  ;D ;D


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Klaasje on May 16, 2015, 04:30:39 PM
Est. Avg. Time per Round (Pool)    3 seconds  ;D ;D

i made it less on your pool :D


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: glen123 on May 16, 2015, 05:42:00 PM
Est. Avg. Time per Round (Pool)    3 seconds  ;D ;D

i made it less on your pool :D

Power isnt everything  ;D

Est. Avg. Time per Round (Pool)    9 seconds

 8)

Ok, Diff is rising


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 16, 2015, 09:31:02 PM
Windows wallet  https://mega.co.nz/#!CAQ10JjA!pfx0pJPeHat6mEMgn7ZnzKuvJK3HXqgEdk2_Y5JPxIs (https://mega.co.nz/#!CAQ10JjA!pfx0pJPeHat6mEMgn7ZnzKuvJK3HXqgEdk2_Y5JPxIs)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: glen123 on May 16, 2015, 09:41:37 PM
clean ;)

https://www.virustotal.com/it/file/e588ac52f10ee531d9230d488bddd9aaee6d11cfea6339fdd62a626f4ed6fd7f/analysis/


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 16, 2015, 09:44:47 PM
clean ;)

https://www.virustotal.com/it/file/e588ac52f10ee531d9230d488bddd9aaee6d11cfea6339fdd62a626f4ed6fd7f/analysis/

yes | Virustotal finds 'a variant of Win32/BitCoinMiner.BJ potentially unsafe ', but its standardfalse positive, that I've seen in many wallets


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jambo110 on May 16, 2015, 10:06:21 PM
omg not another backdoor, how many more attempts on miners toady ? and dodgy mining pool too


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 16, 2015, 10:10:53 PM
omg not another backdoor, how many more attempts on miners toady ? and dodgy mining pool too

what are you mean ??


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 16, 2015, 10:24:14 PM
omg not another backdoor, how many more attempts on miners toady ? and dodgy mining pool too


It is an old warning. It originated from the days when BTC was mined by CPU. At the time people infected other people's PCs with a miner that used their botnet to mine with the CPUs in the botnet. Although 2 or 3 AVs normally pick it up as a warning it is mostly false alarm. You will find the warning in most wallets that are a close copy of the basic BTC wallet.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: glen123 on May 16, 2015, 10:25:18 PM
omg not another backdoor, how many more attempts on miners toady ? and dodgy mining pool too


what u mean with dodgy ?

have you got a Problem ? Pool is stable and always Payout. Did you ever mine here ?



Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 16, 2015, 10:26:13 PM
omg not another backdoor, how many more attempts on miners toady ? and dodgy mining pool too


It is an old warning. It originated from the days when BTC was mined by CPU. At the time people infected other people's PCs with a miner that used their botnet to mine with the CPUs in the botnet. Although 2 or 3 AVs normally pick it up as a warning it is mostly false alarm. You will find the warning in most wallets that are a close copy of the basic BTC wallet.

exactly


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jambo110 on May 16, 2015, 10:27:15 PM
omg not another backdoor, how many more attempts on miners toady ? and dodgy mining pool too


what u mean with dodgy ?

have you got a Problem ? Pool is stable and always Payout. Did you ever mine here ?


your pool was set up another scam coin tonight

then you post virus infected links with a wink at the end.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Sumo on May 16, 2015, 10:29:32 PM
Vagina coin?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 16, 2015, 10:30:58 PM
omg not another backdoor, how many more attempts on miners toady ? and dodgy mining pool too


what u mean with dodgy ?

have you got a Problem ? Pool is stable and always Payout. Did you ever mine here ?


your pool was set up another scam coin tonight

Maybe you are love trolling


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: glen123 on May 16, 2015, 10:32:56 PM
omg not another backdoor, how many more attempts on miners toady ? and dodgy mining pool too


what u mean with dodgy ?

have you got a Problem ? Pool is stable and always Payout. Did you ever mine here ?


your pool was set up another scam coin tonight

then you post virus infected links with a wink at the end.

first cause of scam coin added :
i did that before ! this pops up with this download link. i preferd everytime source ( github )

second : you dont understood humor ? ok , little smile cause MOSTLY this bitcoinminer fault came on scan .  
Did you ever understood Virustotal ? seems not.



Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 16, 2015, 10:34:45 PM
omg not another backdoor, how many more attempts on miners toady ? and dodgy mining pool too


what u mean with dodgy ?

have you got a Problem ? Pool is stable and always Payout. Did you ever mine here ?


your pool was set up another scam coin tonight

then you post virus infected links with a wink at the end.

I don't think that's very fair, myself and glen123 just provide a service, we have no idea if a coin will turn out to be a scam or not, plus we compile from git source not from windows wallets etc.

All the git code was clean for the coin I guess you are now talking about.

And back on topic in this thread, there is no malicious codes in this coin source either.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: dennistlg on May 17, 2015, 12:06:20 PM
Its intressting a stable good coin like this will not be mined.
But the shitcoins with big premine and big ipo will be mined by many people.  I dont understand why.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: samspaces on May 17, 2015, 01:14:13 PM
omg not another backdoor, how many more attempts on miners toady ? and dodgy mining pool too


This is a fine coin, the whole altcoin scene is dodgy, so no argument there.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 17, 2015, 02:58:25 PM
Its intressting a stable good coin like this will not be mined.
But the shitcoins with big premine and big ipo will be mined by many people.  I dont understand why.

 I have the same queries


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 17, 2015, 03:07:28 PM
A question on the Vcoin nodes. If masternodes are implemented in the code, then people can rent their own VPS and set up the masternodes that will drive the network.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 17, 2015, 04:08:14 PM
A question on the Vcoin nodes. If masternodes are implemented in the code, then people can rent their own VPS and set up the masternodes that will drive the network.
I think it is not so necessary


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 17, 2015, 04:42:38 PM
A question on the Vcoin nodes. If masternodes are implemented in the code, then people can rent their own VPS and set up the masternodes that will drive the network.
I think it is not so necessary

The renting of a bitnode is just a normal VPS and then someone installs a daemon on it? Or is there more to it?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 17, 2015, 05:07:36 PM
A question on the Vcoin nodes. If masternodes are implemented in the code, then people can rent their own VPS and set up the masternodes that will drive the network.
I think it is not so necessary

The renting of a bitnode is just a normal VPS and then someone installs a daemon on it? Or is there more to it?
on feauture will setup more vcoin nodes


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 17, 2015, 07:16:45 PM
I have a strange feeling this coin may actually do something, it seems to have popped under the radar of the lunatics that cohabit in this asylum.

I'm going to mine the hell out of it I think :)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 18, 2015, 12:39:51 AM
Have anyone build mac os wallet ?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: meisterman on May 18, 2015, 01:12:27 AM
Multi-Pool meisterpool.org


I'm launching my own pool to the public. It is located in EU and it's completely based on MPOS (front end) NOMP (stratum). The good thing is that it actually has no fees (donation are well accepted eheh ;D )
Currently we have the following coins:
  • Vcoin (sha256)
  • Klondikecoin(scrypt)
  • Litecoin(you know this one)
They will be added when we will have some khashes on the pool and within time.
We have:
Stratum
VARDIFF
Every 1 Min block stats update
Every 10 Seconds Dashboard Stats update
Instant payout once a block is confirmed
PPLNS
0% Fee
Payouts every 1 minute
DDOS Protection
Mobile friendly interface. (tablet and phone)
Dedicated Staff (We are here everyday for you)
The addresses for the various pools are these:

  • ltc.meisterpool.org (http://ltc.meisterpool.org)
  • kdc.meisterpool.org (http://kdc.meisterpool.org)
  • vcoin.meisterpool.org (http://vcoin.meisterpool.org)
You can start mining instantly after the registration (mail confirmation) and the instruction on how to do it are on the help tab of the menu.
To navigate the pools just click "meisterpool" on the top left corner and a curtain will popup ;)

:D HAPPY MINING :D


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: helloword2013 on May 18, 2015, 03:56:40 AM
Multi-Pool meisterpool.org


I'm launching my own pool to the public. It is located in EU and it's completely based on MPOS (front end) NOMP (stratum). The good thing is that it actually has no fees (donation are well accepted eheh ;D )
Currently we have the following coins:
  • Vcoin (sha256)
  • Klondikecoin(scrypt)
  • Litecoin(you know this one)
They will be added when we will have some khashes on the pool and within time.
We have:
Stratum
VARDIFF
Every 1 Min block stats update
Every 10 Seconds Dashboard Stats update
Instant payout once a block is confirmed
PPLNS
0% Fee
Payouts every 1 minute
DDOS Protection
Mobile friendly interface. (tablet and phone)
Dedicated Staff (We are here everyday for you)
The addresses for the various pools are these:

  • ltc.meisterpool.org (http://ltc.meisterpool.org)
  • kdc.meisterpool.org (http://kdc.meisterpool.org)
  • vcoin.meisterpool.org (http://vcoin.meisterpool.org)
You can start mining instantly after the registration (mail confirmation) and the instruction on how to do it are on the help tab of the menu.
To navigate the pools just click "meisterpool" on the top left corner and a curtain will popup ;)

:D HAPPY MINING :D
Is some thing wrong ? can't find any block from you pool.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: glen123 on May 18, 2015, 05:34:26 AM
because this :
Est. Avg. Time per Round (Pool)    15 seconds

 ;D ;D

@Meisterpool: your Crontab fails , look at your Pool



Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: TrackCoin1 on May 18, 2015, 05:49:43 AM
Services provided looks good, maybe a bit improvement on the investment area necesary...


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: kevin1234a on May 18, 2015, 10:10:24 AM
any exchange which picked this coin yet?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 18, 2015, 10:17:07 AM
any exchange which picked this coin yet?

Not yet


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: samspaces on May 18, 2015, 12:32:51 PM
Difficulty is taking off, in the 100k now.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: meisterman on May 18, 2015, 01:27:32 PM
Multi-Pool meisterpool.org


I'm launching my own pool to the public. It is located in EU and it's completely based on MPOS (front end) NOMP (stratum). The good thing is that it actually has no fees (donation are well accepted eheh ;D )
Currently we have the following coins:
  • Vcoin (sha256)
  • Klondikecoin(scrypt)
  • Litecoin(you know this one)
They will be added when we will have some khashes on the pool and within time.
We have:
Stratum
VARDIFF
Every 1 Min block stats update
Every 10 Seconds Dashboard Stats update
Instant payout once a block is confirmed
PPLNS
0% Fee
Payouts every 1 minute
DDOS Protection
Mobile friendly interface. (tablet and phone)
Dedicated Staff (We are here everyday for you)
The addresses for the various pools are these:

  • ltc.meisterpool.org (http://ltc.meisterpool.org)
  • kdc.meisterpool.org (http://kdc.meisterpool.org)
  • vcoin.meisterpool.org (http://vcoin.meisterpool.org)
You can start mining instantly after the registration (mail confirmation) and the instruction on how to do it are on the help tab of the menu.
To navigate the pools just click "meisterpool" on the top left corner and a curtain will popup ;)

:D HAPPY MINING :D
Is some thing wrong ? can't find any block from you pool.
Yeah you just found the first blocks  tonight ;)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: meisterman on May 18, 2015, 04:18:50 PM
because this :
Est. Avg. Time per Round (Pool)    15 seconds

 ;D ;D

@Meisterpool: your Crontab fails , look at your Pool



Solved ;)

@glen123

121974276667:47:00

Est. Avg. Time per Block

That's crazy as heck!


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 18, 2015, 09:33:47 PM
any exchange which picked this coin yet?
Vcoin exchange coming soon also and android and osx wallets


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 19, 2015, 05:07:18 PM
I'm going to message our friends at YoBit.net I'm sure this coin is worth a listing :)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 20, 2015, 01:42:36 AM
Dev my wallet has stopped syncing?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 20, 2015, 11:37:51 AM
Dev my wallet has stopped syncing?
That happend because last block generated 7 hours ago




Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on May 20, 2015, 12:31:39 PM
Dev my wallet has stopped syncing?

That's what it's reporting but all it means is that it hasn't seen a new block in a while.

Which it hasn't. The codebase is Bitcoin 0.8.2 which is a little elderly and I suspect the diff retargeting is struggling a bit with so few nodes and so much hashpersec:

https://i.imgur.com/StF2A4B.png (http://imgur.com/StF2A4B)



Cheers

Graham
 


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 20, 2015, 02:46:13 PM
I sometimes put a little power on this here www.umine.co.uk

I will switch one of my miners on now to get the chain moving a little, and help is appreciated :)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 21, 2015, 01:17:08 AM
Here is a bootstrap.dat file for those that struggle with sync

Link to bootstrap.dat (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.dat) up to block 15961
Link to checksums.txt (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/checksums.txt)

Copy the file into the same directory as your wallet.dat and open the client. Verify the checksums first to make sure the file downloaded ok.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: glen123 on May 21, 2015, 05:05:11 AM
struggle means no mine to me .

i just pointed 1 mins my miner and :

https://minkiz.co/abe/chain/vcoin/tx/8b16d6a167092e0d784d219572591736e2be56af12e399659fd540b4dd4d98d6

move on ;)

if no one mine it will not grow , thats the point


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 21, 2015, 10:26:26 AM
Here is a bootstrap.dat file for those that struggle with sync

Link to bootstrap.dat (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.dat) up to block 15961
Link to checksums.txt (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/checksums.txt)

Copy the file into the same directory as your wallet.dat and open the client. Verify the checksums first to make sure the file downloaded ok.

Thanks


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: dennistlg on May 21, 2015, 10:43:59 PM
Is there any exchange out there ??? i like to trade a bit  :(


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 21, 2015, 10:46:18 PM
Is there any exchange out there ??? i like to trade a bit  :(

We working on exchange also we have make a request on exchanges
More info coming soon


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: cinnamon_carter on May 21, 2015, 11:52:27 PM
reading back, lol, if someone needed a wallet, not sure why no one asked me


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 21, 2015, 11:59:20 PM
reading back, lol, if someone needed a wallet, not sure why no one asked me

What are you meaning ?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 25, 2015, 05:04:21 PM
retweet this to get listed vcoin on allcoin.com exchange https://twitter.com/vcoinx/status/602821671213477888


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: diks on May 25, 2015, 05:19:00 PM
retweet this to get listed vcoin on allcoin.com exchange https://twitter.com/vcoinx/status/602821671213477888

done
what about https://yobit.net/ (https://yobit.net/?bonus=yoAMd)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 25, 2015, 05:22:04 PM
retweet this to get listed vcoin on allcoin.com exchange https://twitter.com/vcoinx/status/602821671213477888

done
what about https://yobit.net/ (https://yobit.net/?bonus=yoAMd)

I will do a request


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: BTC-BTC-BTC on May 25, 2015, 07:15:21 PM
That is a good start with yobit.net


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: kevin1234a on May 26, 2015, 01:58:47 AM
well one fo the exchange should pick up this coin by now


Title: Re: Vcoin [VCN] is now live on Bleutrade.com!
Post by: chrisvl on May 26, 2015, 10:41:49 AM
Hello Dear Forum Members!

Vcoin [VCN] is now live on Bleutrade.com!

Tweet: https://twitter.com/Bleutrade/status/603029823309623296

BTC Market: https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/BTC
LTC Market: https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/LTC
DOGE Market: https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/DOGE
USD Market: https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/USD

Visit the Bleutrade official BitcoinTalk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1067518

Bleutrade logo: https://bleutrade.com/imgs/Bleutrade-Cryptocurrency-Exchange-bt.png

https://bleutrade.com/imgs/Bleutrade-Cryptocurrency-Exchange-bt.png

Best Regards,
Bleutrade Team
Thank you bleutrade


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 26, 2015, 11:13:13 AM


Dice Game Created

http://cryptogaming.club/img/cg5.png

Site Link : www.cryptogaming.club

Direct Link : www.cryptogaming.club/vcoin

Have fun!





Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: BTC-BTC-BTC on May 26, 2015, 12:59:13 PM
There is no demand for this coin.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 26, 2015, 01:01:36 PM
There is no demand for this coin.

Well go and spam else where then !

Your user name tells me you have got lost in any case ! This is the Alternate Currencies forum....

Run along now and up your post count some where other than here.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 26, 2015, 02:40:16 PM
There is no demand for this coin.

Just added please wait


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 28, 2015, 12:31:11 PM
Have anyone compile osx wallet ??


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: goodguyed on May 28, 2015, 01:24:47 PM


Dice Game Created

http://cryptogaming.club/img/cg5.png

Site Link : www.cryptogaming.club

Direct Link : www.cryptogaming.club/vcoin

Have fun!





A dice game, maybe MRKLYE will come back and praise this coin now.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: YoBit on May 28, 2015, 05:21:04 PM
Dear Forum Members!

Vcoin [VCOIN] is listed on YoBit.net Exchange! ( Twitter: https://twitter.com/YobitExchange/status/603971934917926913 )

English: https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC
Chinese: https://yobit.net/cn/trade/VCOIN/BTC
Russian: https://yobit.net/ru/trade/VCOIN/BTC

Vcoin Dice: https://yobit.net/en/dice/VCOIN

Our topic on BitcoinTalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=914975.0

https://yobit.net/i/small_logo.png

Logo img: https://yobit.net/i/small_logo.png

Code:
[url=https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC][img]https://yobit.net/i/small_logo.png[/img][/url]


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 28, 2015, 05:22:55 PM
Have anyone compile osx wallet ??

No but I made a Raspberry Pi wallet that I mined solo with.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: glen123 on May 28, 2015, 05:33:49 PM
Thx YoBit !



Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: old fart on May 28, 2015, 06:39:08 PM
Thx YoBit !



Those 150 sat buys show people are interested in vcoin. They might only be the start of a rally.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 28, 2015, 07:07:21 PM
Dear Forum Members!

Vcoin [VCOIN] is listed on YoBit.net Exchange! ( Twitter: https://twitter.com/YobitExchange/status/603971934917926913 )

English: https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC
Chinese: https://yobit.net/cn/trade/VCOIN/BTC
Russian: https://yobit.net/ru/trade/VCOIN/BTC

Vcoin Dice: https://yobit.net/en/dice/VCOIN

Our topic on BitcoinTalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=914975.0

https://yobit.net/i/small_logo.png

Logo img: https://yobit.net/i/small_logo.png

Code:
[url=https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC][img]https://yobit.net/i/small_logo.png[/img][/url]

Thank you yobit


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 29, 2015, 01:05:32 PM
At pools set autopayout to MAX 25000


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 29, 2015, 06:45:39 PM
At pools set autopayout to MAX 25000

Mine pays out every 20 mins minimum of 1 coin needed to payout, no one can get over 25000 in 20 mins :)

On another note we have 3TH+ on www.umine.co.uk at the moment mining this.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on May 29, 2015, 07:03:58 PM
The codebase is Bitcoin 0.8.2 which is a little elderly

I looked more closely. VCoin as published on cryptocointalk is a minimal-change clone of Fireflycoin:
https://github.com/vcoindev/vcoin/blob/master/src/qt/bitcoingui.cpp#L190

sendCoinsAction->setStatusTip(tr("Transfer FFC to another Wallet"));


Fireflycoin is itself is also a minimal-change clone of ZetaCoin:
https://github.com/dannyasia/FireflyCoin-master/blob/master/src/qt/askpassphrasedialog.cpp#L101

tr("Warning: If you encrypt your wallet and lose your passphrase, you will <b>LOSE ALL OF YOUR ZETACOINS</b>!") ...


So, I re-seated VCoin back into the ZetaCoin commit history and merge-upgraded to the latest ZetaCoin 0.8.x version (0.8.99).

https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin-dev (https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin-dev)

Changes are limited to the rebranding and the addition of the code implementing the diffplot chart:
https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin-dev/commit/2791dd31b564f4e89d7273d31612ec9c0a501982 (https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin-dev/commit/2791dd31b564f4e89d7273d31612ec9c0a501982)

(notice: 4261 commits in the history)

Chris and I have been batting PMs back and forth, mainly in response to queries from the community such as “what about masternodes?” and “what about an upgrade to Bitcoin 0.10.x”.

There is a potential path that may not involve extensive re-coding: ZetaCoin-0.8.99 -> ZetaCoin-0.9.2 -> Bitcoin-0.9.2 and from there to Bitcoin 0.10.

With respect to overlay network altcoins (*nodes), there's a crop of 0.8 clones and a couple at 0.9 (IIRC), so adapting an overlay network coin comes (atm) at the cost of (at least temporarily) limiting the upgrading to 0.8/9.

I think a Core 0.10 solution has to be the most forward-looking strategy, there's no substantive mainstream development of the 0.8 or 0.9 series now, we'd be limited to picking from an array of hacks introduced by random altcoin devs. Still, it might be an effective interim position until a more coherent and compelling brand story can be developed.

There are two profound problems that require addressing before the *node hype even begins to sound plausible: i) a solution or workaround for the symbol grounding problem - the only reliable information is that which is stored in the blockchain and secured by cryptography, all information obtained from the “outside world” demands a trusted third party - for which there are already commercial solutions and ii) a solution or workaround to the problem that the network inherently cannot conceal the content of a private key, so cannot initiate transactions - so no “automatic contracts” -- in reality, a trusted third party is required and, as before, commercial solutions already exist.

AFAIK, the only actual, functioning innovation from overlay networks in cryptocurrency has been “instant transactions”, relying on an augmented protocol used by the overlay network population to speed confirmations. That's not to be sneezed at for a coin with ambitions for wide adoption but that's an ambition for the community to discover within itself.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 29, 2015, 07:56:35 PM
The codebase is Bitcoin 0.8.2 which is a little elderly

I looked more closely. VCoin as published on cryptocointalk is a minimal-change clone of Fireflycoin:
https://github.com/vcoindev/vcoin/blob/master/src/qt/bitcoingui.cpp#L190

sendCoinsAction->setStatusTip(tr("Transfer FFC to another Wallet"));


Fireflycoin is itself is also a minimal-change clone of ZetaCoin:
https://github.com/dannyasia/FireflyCoin-master/blob/master/src/qt/askpassphrasedialog.cpp#L101

tr("Warning: If you encrypt your wallet and lose your passphrase, you will <b>LOSE ALL OF YOUR ZETACOINS</b>!") ...


So, I re-seated VCoin back into the ZetaCoin commit history and merge-upgraded to the latest ZetaCoin 0.8.x version (0.8.99).

https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin-dev (https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin-dev)

Changes are limited to the rebranding and the addition of the code implementing the diffplot chart:
https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin-dev/commit/2791dd31b564f4e89d7273d31612ec9c0a501982 (https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin-dev/commit/2791dd31b564f4e89d7273d31612ec9c0a501982)

(notice: 4261 commits in the history)

Chris and I have been batting PMs back and forth, mainly in response to queries from the community such as “what about masternodes?” and “what about an upgrade to Bitcoin 0.10.x”.

There is a potential path that may not involve extensive re-coding: ZetaCoin-0.8.99 -> ZetaCoin-0.9.2 -> Bitcoin-0.9.2 and from there to Bitcoin 0.10.

With respect to overlay network altcoins (*nodes), there's a crop of 0.8 clones and a couple at 0.9 (IIRC), so adapting an overlay network coin comes (atm) at the cost of (at least temporarily) limiting the upgrading to 0.8/9.

I think a Core 0.10 solution has to be the most forward-looking strategy, there's no substantive mainstream development of the 0.8 or 0.9 series now, we'd be limited to picking from an array of hacks introduced by random altcoin devs. Still, it might be an effective interim position until a more coherent and compelling brand story can be developed.

There are two profound problems that require addressing before the *node hype even begins to sound plausible: i) a solution or workaround for the symbol grounding problem - the only reliable information is that which is stored in the blockchain and secured by cryptography, all information obtained from the “outside world” demands a trusted third party - for which there are already commercial solutions and ii) a solution or workaround to the problem that the network inherently cannot conceal the content of a private key, so cannot initiate transactions - so no “automatic contracts” -- in reality, a trusted third party is required and, as before, commercial solutions already exist.

AFAIK, the only actual, functioning innovation from overlay networks in cryptocurrency has been “instant transactions”, relying on an augmented protocol used by the overlay network population to speed confirmations. That's not to be sneezed at for a coin with ambitions for wide adoption but that's an ambition for the community to discover within itself.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Cheers

Graham


Bitcoin 0.10 is probably the best way to go for a long term strategy whereas the current version masternode route is for a short term profit chasing strategy.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: MrDjAK on May 29, 2015, 08:05:51 PM
I like your crypto game dice


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on May 30, 2015, 12:00:30 AM
Bitcoin 0.10 is probably the best way to go for a long term strategy whereas the current version masternode route is for a short term profit chasing strategy.

That's pretty much my perception as well, fwiw. I think it's one of those “necessary but not sufficient” things in that it will provide a solid foundation for coin logistics - transaction malleability is handled properly and I understand 2FA is being tested - but VCoin also needs to develop a USP and a brand story to go with it.

It sort of boils down to how the community is constituted because that largely determines what kind of additional services will appeal, if any.

Carving out and maintaining a niche in such a crowded market is always going to be a challenge and it's possible that overlay network services might help meet that challenge.

But then again, services can be implemented in different ways, the Soypay/DACS folks are going for a deterministic solution via emulation, gmaxwell hints at an entirely different perspective which I've yet to grok, someone else is using the strength of blockchain cryptography to protect tokens linking to sidechains, yet others are already offering an oracle service.

So far there have been a few expressions of perceptions of VCoin. The negative perceptions seem mostly to orient around inadequate info in the ANN which Chris has addressed. Positive perceptions: (“seems to have popped under the radar of the lunatics that cohabit in this asylum”, “a fine coin, the whole altcoin scene is dodgy”, “a stable good coin”) seem to point towards a more general notion which I'd translate into a brand value of “authentic” (I'm using a very broad brush) which I see as an encouraging and useful start.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 30, 2015, 07:19:03 AM
Bitcoin 0.10 is probably the best way to go for a long term strategy whereas the current version masternode route is for a short term profit chasing strategy.

That's pretty much my perception as well, fwiw. I think it's one of those “necessary but not sufficient” things in that it will provide a solid foundation for coin logistics - transaction malleability is handled properly and I understand 2FA is being tested - but VCoin also needs to develop a USP and a brand story to go with it.

It sort of boils down to how the community is constituted because that largely determines what kind of additional services will appeal, if any.

Carving out and maintaining a niche in such a crowded market is always going to be a challenge and it's possible that overlay network services might help meet that challenge.

But then again, services can be implemented in different ways, the Soypay/DACS folks are going for a deterministic solution via emulation, gmaxwell hints at an entirely different perspective which I've yet to grok, someone else is using the strength of blockchain cryptography to protect tokens linking to sidechains, yet others are already offering an oracle service.

So far there have been a few expressions of perceptions of VCoin. The negative perceptions seem mostly to orient around inadequate info in the ANN which Chris has addressed. Positive perceptions: (“seems to have popped under the radar of the lunatics that cohabit in this asylum”, “a fine coin, the whole altcoin scene is dodgy”, “a stable good coin”) seem to point towards a more general notion which I'd translate into a brand value of “authentic” (I'm using a very broad brush) which I see as an encouraging and useful start.

Cheers

Graham


Personally I am all for long term investment and development. My interests are not so much profit but the long term development of the digital world of the future.

95% of alt-coin market participants are however after short term profits. If something does not make them 50% by this afternoon they are not interested. Most people will slit their father's throat for a piece of bread and sell their mother for $5. These are harsh things to say but looking at the scams and where price movements are and how the groups move around in the scene this is the only conclusion I can get to. There are coins with good innovation in the works but it does nothing to the price apart from making the price go lower once holders realize that the coin is long term. Long term investment motives just does not exist or is very rare. A coin can say that they found a way to turn lead into gold and it will make nothing to the price and even let the price go down. The devs can just as well say they found a cure for cancer or a renewable energy source that can drive a house for $5 a day and people will just not give a ****. If it can double their profits in a day so that they can cash in and move on to the next "50% profit in a day" scheme they will be interested.

The choice is therefore as follows:

1) Bitcoin 0.10 and long term developments which will attract the long term investors and have very little impact on price over the next 12 months.

2) Say the magic word and post "masternodes with profit sharing" that will attract the locusts and flies and shoot the price up 5x for a few days until the next coin posts "masternodes" and the swarms follow.

I will always vote for the long term strategy because it is like a retirement benefit plan whereby you invest now and build something that can be very valuable over the long term in the future. Long term will also attract the sensible investors that do not pump and dump, but take note that the price will not magically shoot up for option 1. With option 1 innovation comes first and price will lag later on. It comes down to what appetite the dev has, if he has stamina to go the marathon route and if he is committed, sincere and mature and has the skills or resources to hire skills.

Another factor to take into account is if the coin specs match the strategy. Pure POW coins need miners with high power usage on it all the time to keep the chain rolling and if there is no return over the long term to make up mining costs people will move on and the chain will get stuck. Although it is possible to mine within a wallet with CPU there will always be some guy that put an ASIC on it and chase up the diff. POS coins lend itself to a long term strategy because one can fire up a Raspberry Pi and forget about it up to maxage at 5W power and the chain will move along in the background. Vcoin is POW but from what I can see it adjusts its diff quickly and if it diff gets high it goes down again quickly which helps.

Lastly the coin strategy and the exchange strategy must be aligned. Listings on big exchanges need lots of volumes or be delisted. This requires lots of resources from coin management to keep the volumes up artificially because what I have learnt from alt-coin holders is that everyone is out for himself and will not contribute towards the bigger picture. Only one exchange is needed to have a vehicle to get in or out of a coin in order to increase/decrease holdings. People shouting for big exchanges early on has a short term motives because they hope that such a listing will let the price shoot up so that they can cash in and move on. Do not give in to such comments and keep the listings on smaller exchanges if the coin strategy is long term.

You know my vote, but if this is a democracy it will be a landslide victory to the group that wants to double their profits in a day or two. It is up to coin management to determine if they have what it takes to do option 1 or if they just want option 2 and move along swiftly. I like to support minnow coins that shows promise of bringing something new to the table by a committed, sincere and skilled dev team and coin management. I do not know if Vcoin is this yet and I need to observe some more about the dev team and coin management's actions to make an assessment. I hope that Vcoin is not just another coin with a scam dev and short term profit motive but I guess time will tell.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 30, 2015, 09:56:53 AM
So Graham you have linked up with the OP dev and are helping to move this coin forward ?

If so that is great news and a VERY positive step forward for this coin, most coins just sit and die, but this one may go places, I'm glad I jumped on this at the start.

Can the OP dev confirm Graham's involvement please, as you know what people are like on here with trust issues.

Thanks and good luck to you both !


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 30, 2015, 10:20:47 AM
Me and gjhiggins will do the best to forward vcoin : I will update the op soon..
Vcoin just start.!


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 30, 2015, 10:30:11 AM
Me and gjhiggins will do the best to forward vcoin : I will update the op soon..
Vcoin just start.!


That's great news then and well done you.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on May 30, 2015, 01:30:57 PM
So Graham you have linked up with the OP dev and are helping to move this coin forward ?

Yes I am but I'd be hesitant to describe it as “linked up”, I'm mostly providing free advice (NB. of legendary worth).

Seems as though some background is in order ...

To summarise, Chris took the initiative originally and did the bitcointalk community a favour by re-posting to bitcointalk the cryptocointalk ANN for vcoin. The OP's motivation for creating the coin in the first place is not known.

Not-entirely-unrelatedly, I maintain a comprehensive catalogue of altcoin metadata which (since about March 2014) necessitates me checking out every single altcoin that is launched/announced. Over the course of my peregrinations, I’ve developed a habit of making contributions to nascent altcoins where I think it might actually be useful, usually as a quid pro quo for me being lucky enough to grab a few early blocks from an overlooked coin before the diff rises above 0.01 (the effective limit for my laptop). But mostly I appreciate the positive camaraderie that seems to result from the group’s focus on getting the coin stabilised. (Incidentally, does anyone have news of shadow_runner?)

It seemed clear to me that Chris had found himself in the driving seat, possibly to his slight surprise but was nevertheless intending to try and make a decent fist of it. He set up a crowdfunding project to cover the cost of a full-time node which I considered to be an eminently sensible community-oriented approach. He also caught some undeserved flak for the OP's inadequate graphics and I thought I'd lend a hand, re-doing the logo in SVG and refreshing the icons. I chucked in the diffplot code partly in supportive recognition of his stepping up to the plate, partly 'cos it looks cool in the wallet but mostly because it's useful data for the early adopter (okay, I've found it useful).

So, the motivation for my involvement is primarily collegial, a common phenomenon in experimental fields.

Chris PM'd me a few queries about technical issues, I was able to opine. But it did prompt me to scope out possible intermediate futures for the coin. There is some low-hanging fruit that could be plucked and scoffed without leaving the community to cope with a disproportionate amount of technical debt. Because VCoin is a straight clone with almost no changes other than the parameters/variables, reconnecting it to its cloneparent commit history is basically a click'n'drool job if you have the right tool (meld 1.8.4 (http://meldmerge.org/)).

In another thread, some time ago, I posted details of my approach. I'll include the post here for convenience just to provide some detail for the context of my “contribution”. I've left it unedited in order to preserve necessary contextual detail:

gjhiggins, can you tell by the code in the zip if the technology he claims the coin will use actually exists?

There's no evidence of that in the contents of the zip archive. The contents are Godcoin with user-facing strings changed to read “Achilles”, with only the absolutely key parameters changed (rpcport, genesisblock, etc). The only significant functional changes to the codebase are a bigger premine and larger block rewards.

The pastebin listing that I posted contains all the differences between ZenGodcoin source code and ZenAchilles source code.

I found it notable how few differences are actually required to separate one functioning altcoin from another.

If you'd like to take a gander yourself, if only to see what I'm blithering on about, there is a technique which helps. When I put an altcoin under the microscope the first thing I do is use a little Python script I wrote to rebrand the coin as Zencoin (ZENZ). I did this with Godcoin and Achilles, giving me ZenGodcoin and ZenAchilles.

I then compare the two directories and their contents, side-by-side, using a visual diff and merge tool: http://meldmerge.org/. It gives a very clear and accessible visual presentation of differences in directory structure and between files.

What the hey, lets have some piccies ...

http://meldmerge.org/images/meld-dircomp-front.png http://meldmerge.org/images/meld-mary.png




Here's a screenshot of ZencoinGodcoin vs ZencoinAchilles:

https://i.imgur.com/BemTFaA.png



Meld allows me to double-click the blue-lit names to show the content side-by-side. In a moment, we'll have a look at the differences in base58.h but first I need to draw your attention to the left-and-right vertical navigation scrollers - the coloured blocks show the location of pairs of files that differ. In the directory-level presentation, one coloured block = one filepair. In the above listing, a total of eight (8!) changed files is sufficient to create a functionally distinct altcoin.

There's a similar vertical nav scroller for the file-level presentation and again, coloured bars (a single line differing in content) or coloured blocks (several contiguous lines of code differing). Not too challenging I hope but an illustration should be, er, well, illuminating ...

Here's a screenshot of the one-and-only difference between godcoin/src/base58.h and achilles/src/base58.h:

https://i.imgur.com/RZtll3F.png


That's it.

That's the difference which shows up as a blue block in the directory-level display.


Pretty much the same goes for all but a few of the rest of the blue-lit files, e.g. here's a screenshot of the (again, one-and-only) difference between godcoin/src/net.cpp and achilles/src/net.cpp:

https://i.imgur.com/IVRpyNz.png


I re-ran diff configured to output just the minimum context (filename and line no) for clarity - these are the only differences:
http://pastebin.com/dWht3JRu

And (for eyewatering completeness) files matching the patterns below were excluded from the comparison:
Code:
$ cat notthese
*.qm
*.ts
*.png
*.jpg
*.svg
*.o
*~
*.ico
*.icns

In essence, my workflow runs as follows:
Code:
$ git clone http://github.com/foo/bazcoin.git
$ cd bazcoin
$ rm -rf .git*  # don't need it
$ ln -s bazcoin-qt.pro coin-qt.pro  # allows meld comparison
$ grep 'BTC' src/qt/bitcoinunits.cpp  # what units were actually coded?
$ grep -r BAZZA src/  # ensure no clash with source code
$ ../omm.exe BazCoin BAZZA # use XYZZY to suppress symbol replacement if it'd muck up the source code
$ cd ..
$ meld bazcoin godcoin


If you feel up to it, you can have a go yourself. We've set up a bitbucket repository that you can use:
https://bitbucket.org/minkizmates/zencoin.git

There's a small collection of zenified coins (incl godcoin and achilles) for use when comparing with fresh candidates along with the “omm.exe” Python script to create Zencoins:
https://bitbucket.org/minkizmates/zencoin/src

meld will usefully show 3 sources side-by-side, viewing recently-launched elitecoin, fusecoin and sumcoin side-by-side is quite instructive in showing how little they differ.


HTH

Cheers

Graham

Edited for sense

https://bitbucket.org/minkizmates/zencoin/src/d09edc2fd3737e3f439bdd16803d0dba1f15bb3b/omm.exe?at=master


To recap, I used the above Python script to rebrand VCoin as ZenCoin, I used the same script to rebrand ZetaCoin 0.8.2 as ZenCoin too.

I then used meld to compare the two codebases side by side. Rebranding to a common name suppresses naming differences and reveals just the differences in variable bindings, parameter settings and changes to the code functionality. I inspected the differences between VCoin and ZetaCoin 0.8.2 and found them unexceptional, restricted to just the economic parameters and key differentiating variables such as pchMessageStart, et al. Once I was satisfied that VCoin was devoid of nasty surprises, I junked the zenified coins, checked out a fresh copy of Zetacoin, created a vcoin branch and overwrote the source with VCoin:

cd vcoin; rm -rf .git; tar cf - . | (cd ../zetacoin; tar xf -)

Because VCoin is an open source project, I am comfortable using SmartGit as a my click'n'drool tool to work my way through, committing the (vcoin) parameter changes (and the handful of other changes required for the diffplot feature).

End result is: either “a branch of the latest version of 0.8.x ZetaCoin, rebranded as VCoin” or “a version of VCoin upgraded to Zetacoin 0.8.7.99”, whichever way you want to look at it.

That isn't the most recent version of ZetaCoin though, ZetaCoin has been ported to Bitcoin Core 0.9.2. That 8->9 major version change denotes significant changes in the codebase. The meld listing is nearly all blue, just about everything has changed. Fortunately, there is a bit of wiggle room: the differences between ZetaCoin 0.8 and VCoin 0.8 are restricted to just parameter and variable changes. The difference between ZetaCoin 0.8 and 0.9.2 is in the parameters and that also characterises the difference between a VCoin rebranding of Zetacoin 0.8 and a VCoin rebranding of Zetacoin 0.9. In principle, all I need to do is copy over the parameters/variable bindings and Bob's your uncle.

After that, we're on our own. And there is a ways to go yet, ZetaCoin is a major version behind Bitcoin Core which is now at 0.10 (and notes for 0.11 are already appearing in the commit descriptions). Fortunately I have, for my own porpoises, developed a template-based approach for re-branding a Bitcoin Core 0.[9|10] codebase. As you might infer, it really only works for straightforward clones ... like VCoin :)

So, in theory, all I need to do is plug in the parameters and out will pop an upgraded VCoin, the first altcoin to be based on Bitcoin Core 0.10.2.

And, I need not write a single line of C++ ... which means people can sleep more soundly in their beds (mainly, me).

It is important to recognise that the current performance of VCoin is felicitous and entirely due to its selection of parameters and an unchanged Bitcoin core functionality. A VCoin based on Bitcoin 0.10.2 may well have those same properties, assuming that Bitcoin Core 0.10.2 behaves as smoothly as Bitcoin 0.8.2.

I'd prefer to break new ground and for VCoin not to have “a dev” in the conventional altcoin sense. I'd expect some members of the community with a technical interest to engage at a technical level, others may seek to develop technical skills. At least, that's my expectation based on experience elsewhere. It definitely shouldn't be formalised, that's my sense.

So, that's the technical landscape according to my perceptions.

There are some profound issues related to community ownership and control of the private key that authorises the broadcast of CAlert messages, that's something that unfortunately cannot be crowdsourced, we'll just have to be innovative about it. A technical solution is infeasible, we are obliged to seek a social solution to the problem. However, whatever we come up with will also be invaluable as a solution for other instances of the same problem of establishing community ownership of resources in a plausibly decentralised way.

As ever, this is a p2p application and depends crucially on community consensus of action in that it's entirely up to the community to adopt a change to the current implementation or to choose not to, whether it's an upgrade to a more recent version, fancier graphics, additional services or whatever.

My experience is that by and large, people learn fairly quickly to identify those whose technical advice is worth taking seriously, i.e. advice from a stable core of technically knowledgeable people who can describe in accessible terms the options and tradeoffs.

As Mark Twain once wrote: I apologise for the length of this letter, had I more time it would have been shorter.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on May 30, 2015, 01:44:29 PM
Personally I am all for long term investment and development.

Great post! I'm responding in some detail but I'm taking some time over it, so with luck it'll be less prolix.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 30, 2015, 04:17:51 PM
Personally I am all for long term investment and development.

Great post! I'm responding in some detail but I'm taking some time over it, so with luck it'll be less prolix.

Cheers

Graham


Wow Graham, I have to admit when I saw you had replied, and I noted the length of the post the first thing I did was pop out to the kitchen and make a cup of coffee.

I have to say that as un-intentional as I suspect it was on your part, that has to be one of the best "White Papers" of a sort, I have seen.

Not only is it welcoming to see a mature adult in these forums, but one that actually comes across as giving a damn, and well done you on that front.

As I said earlier I had a feeling about this coin, and it was down to the fact that the original post was so poor and not like the others graphically wise that it quite simply could not have been an attempt at a "Get Rich Quick Scam" because more effort would have been involved.

I shall be watching this coin and mining it, and please if I can help in anyway just let me know, I'm not a code wizard, but do have the Mining Pool, and the dice games etc, and access to several servers.

Thanks


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on May 30, 2015, 04:37:38 PM
Also I note http://vcoin.meisterpool.org/ is dead so perhaps remove from OP.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 31, 2015, 12:46:07 AM
I have updated the bootstrap.dat file to block 38558. The bootstrap.dat file contains the blockchain up to a certain block and can be used to significantly speed up the blockchain sync of a new wallet install by importing the blocks from the file instead of other peers. Copy the bootstrap.dat file to the same folder where your wallet.dat is and open the client. The file works on both Linux and Windows.

Here are the links. Please verify the checksums first to make sure that the file downloaded ok.

Link to bootstrap.dat (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.dat) (native file) (16MB)
Link to bootstrap.dat (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/vcoin_bootstrap.tar.gz) (.tar.gz) (7MB)
Link to checksums.txt (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/checksums.txt)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on June 05, 2015, 02:22:29 PM
To op added updated source code. Updated wallets comming soon  however there is no problem to use the old source code + wallets



Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on June 06, 2015, 01:46:53 AM
To op added updated source code. Updated wallets comming soon  however there is no problem to use the old source code + wallets

There is a potential path that may not involve extensive re-coding: ZetaCoin-0.8.99 -> ZetaCoin-0.9.2 -> Bitcoin-0.9.2 and from there to Bitcoin 0.10.

A short progress report.

I have successfully upgraded VCoin as a fork of ZetaCoin 0.9.2. This basically involved re-re-branding Zetacoin as VCoin and transcribing the relevant parameter setting and variable bindings.

VCoin 0.9.2 is an upgrade, just download and use.

Testnet has been enabled.

The UI has been augmented slightly via the adaptation of existing code; an in-wallet block & tx explorer, an IRC chat window and a mining page (needs work). In development is a couple of BittrexBleutrade-specific tabs, a trading page and a market stats presentation, both driven by Bleutrade's almost-JSON API.

When I'm done, I'll push the code up to github.


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on June 06, 2015, 01:54:30 AM
To op added updated source code. Updated wallets comming soon  however there is no problem to use the old source code + wallets

There is a potential path that may not involve extensive re-coding: ZetaCoin-0.8.99 -> ZetaCoin-0.9.2 -> Bitcoin-0.9.2 and from there to Bitcoin 0.10.

A short progress report.

I have successfully upgraded VCoin as a fork of ZetaCoin 0.9.2. This basically involved re-re-branding Zetacoin as VCoin and transcribing the relevant parameter setting and variable bindings.

VCoin 0.9.2 is an upgrade, just download and use.

Testnet has been enabled.

The UI has been augmented slightly via the adaptation of existing code; an in-wallet block & tx explorer, an IRC chat window and a mining page (needs work). In development is a couple of BittrexBleutrade-specific tabs, a trading page and a market stats presentation, both driven by Bleutrade's almost-JSON API.

When I'm done, I'll push the code up to github.


Cheers

Graham


Excellent thanks.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on June 07, 2015, 09:10:49 AM
Great stuff, and well done :)

Look forward to seeing further development


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on June 07, 2015, 09:56:23 AM
When I'm done, I'll push the code up to github.

Please post here when you have pushed the new code.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on June 08, 2015, 02:32:06 PM
When I'm done, I'll push the code up to github.

An even shorter progress report ... feel free to play with VCoin 0.9.2.2 prerelease on testnet:

https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin09

It’s not exactly “done” in that it's not yet up to release candidate standard but at least it gives people something to play with in the interim. The migration from 0.9.x to 10.x is quite taxing and a successful upgrade to 0.9 will be a useful staging-post, I feel.

The default clone is set to the prerelease, this is FOR TESTNET ONLY. It's a soft fork, so it does sync to mainnet BUT it's not been tested, so NOT RECOMMENDED FOR MAINNET.

https://i.imgur.com/Rei2kbl.png (http://imgur.com/Rei2kbl)

There are remaining issues, the most important of which is:

THE EXCHANGE TRADING TAB HAS NOT BEEN TESTED

In order to have reliable and reproducible tests, I'll need to create mock responses to calls on Bleutrade's API. The upgrade will only get released for general use when all the API tests pass.

There are several feature branches in which the individual features were developed and later merged into the prerelease version. The graphic shows what's different (apart from the enhancements accruing from just the upgrade from 0.8.x to 0.9.x.

The master branch is pretty much the basic upgrade to 0.9.2 with “just” the addition of the in-tab block explorer and a misconceived installation of an implementation of the IRC tab that actually opens a separate window instead, an infelicity which is addressed in the prerelease version.)

There are indeed two different in-wallet block explorer implementations, feel free to choose/vote for the most useful/attractive, whatever floats the boat.

The content of the “News” tab simply indicates “available functionality”. Basically, the tab gets web content from a hard-coded URL. Obviously this is a point of centralisation at the moment but it doesn't have to be that way for ever.

An opportunity for all to consider: what user-oriented advantages might accrue from the addition of a News tab? Please spend a little while thinking on or around this subject, perhaps from your own perspective as a coin user ... but do feel free to allow your imagination to venture further abroad if that suits.

Please feel free to create issues for any problems (https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin09/issues), the discussions that happen in an active repos form a valuable technical comms channel for any altcoin and VCoin is no exception.

I will try to maintain a consistent IRC presence for a while as a temporary measure of support. My laptop has a habit of rebooting at random intervals (an issue somewhere in the 8Gb of RAM I guess) and I'll have to remember to reconnect, so some patience may be required.

As ever, comments, observations, questions, critiques, are all welcome.

Cheers

Graham




Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on June 08, 2015, 03:29:40 PM
When I'm done, I'll push the code up to github.

An even shorter progress report ... feel free to play with VCoin 0.9.2.2 prerelease on testnet:

https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin09

It’s not exactly “done” in that it's not yet up to release candidate standard but at least it gives people something to play with in the interim. The migration from 0.9.x to 10.x is quite taxing and a successful upgrade to 0.9 will be a useful staging-post, I feel.

The default clone is set to the prerelease, this is FOR TESTNET ONLY. It's a soft fork, so it does sync to mainnet BUT it's not been tested, so NOT RECOMMENDED FOR MAINNET.

There are remaining issues, the most important of which is:

THE EXCHANGE TRADING TAB HAS NOT BEEN TESTED

In order to have reliable and reproducible tests, I'll need to create mock responses to calls on Bleutrade's API. The upgrade will only get released for general use when all the API tests pass.

There are several feature branches in which the individual features were developed and later merged into the prerelease version. The graphic shows what's different (apart from the enhancements accruing from just the upgrade from 0.8.x to 0.9.x.

The master branch is pretty much the basic upgrade to 0.9.2 with “just” the addition of the in-tab block explorer and a misconceived installation of an implementation of the IRC tab that actually opens a separate window instead, an infelicity which is addressed in the prerelease version.)

There are indeed two different in-wallet block explorer implementations, feel free to choose/vote for the most useful/attractive, whatever floats the boat.

The content of the “News” tab simply indicates “available functionality”. Basically, the tab gets web content from a hard-coded URL. Obviously this is a point of centralisation at the moment but it doesn't have to be that way for ever.

An opportunity for all to consider: what user-oriented advantages might accrue from the addition of a News tab? Please spend a little while thinking on or around this subject, perhaps from your own perspective as a coin user ... but do feel free to allow your imagination to venture further abroad if that suits.

Please feel free to create issues for any problems (https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin09/issues), the discussions that happen in an active repos form a valuable technical comms channel for any altcoin and VCoin is no exception.

I will try to maintain a consistent IRC presence for a while as a temporary measure of support. My laptop has a habit of rebooting at random intervals (an issue somewhere in the 8Gb of RAM I guess) and I'll have to remember to reconnect, so some patience may be required.

As ever, comments, observations, questions, critiques, are all welcome.

Cheers

Graham




Thanks Graham this is very good work that you are doing. Regarding news - it is a bells and whistle that is not really needed as one can obtain news anywhere on the Internet. The wallet must have the core as close to reference and vanilla as possible. If BTC wallet has news fine and if not then drop the news.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on June 09, 2015, 07:11:25 PM
I have setup a twitter account follow vcoin https://twitter.com/vcoinx (https://twitter.com/vcoinx)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on June 09, 2015, 07:52:10 PM
U Mine is following you, and a good job, we need more news and information on this project......


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on June 10, 2015, 02:40:27 PM
Vcoin added to coinmarketcap http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/vcoin/ (http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/vcoin/)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on June 12, 2015, 12:22:51 PM
VCoin upgrade to Bitcoin Core 0.11

A bit of a first, the upgrade to 0.11 (master) is pretty much complete (with the exception of a transcription error or two here'n'there, soon to be resolved).

https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoincore

w.r.t. branches: vcoin-core is basic vanilla (as near as makes no difference) and vcoin-core.features.prerelease is the bundle of vanilla + branch features for overall kicking-of-the-tyres).

See it run, click the buttons. As suggested, it's 99.99% rebranded Bitcoin Core 0.11 which, even if I say so myself, has been done with surgical precision in order to present the lowest possible impedance to merged upstream development.  

But clicking the buttons is all you can do atm, will not sync with anything other than another 0.11 vcoin-core node 'cos none of the 0.8/9 nodes can speak the new (improved blockheader) protocol.

I have successfully compiled it on both Ubuntu 14.04 and 13.10 with the following command-line sequence:

Code:
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-incompatible-bdb --with-gui=qt5
$ ./make

For running the node, my working practice atm is start VCoin 0.9 and wait till it syncs. Then shut it down and create a copy of the datadir to use with the 0.11 upgrade:

Code:
$ cp -R ~/.vcoin /tmp/vcoincore
$ ./src/qt/vcoin-qt -testnet -datadir=/tmp/vcoincore

The 0.11 node will/should pick up the testnet and the Minkiz node will be showing up in the “Console->Peers” list plus a handful of other nodes. T'others will gradually get banned, leaving just the Minkiz node.

For extra thrills, omit the “-testnet” ... an 0.11 node will read a fresh mainnet blockchain (although it argues with the 0.8/9 clients over the indexing) and it’s safe enough if using a different datadir - obligatory promissory screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/8ZM0maI.jpg (http://imgur.com/8ZM0maI)

Minkiz' domain is (atm) hard-wired as a DNSSeed node (minkiz.co (https://minkiz.co)). If you have strenuous objections to this arrogant centralisation (I know I would/do) then I direct your attention to the fact that the crowdsourced campaign for a community-owned node has to date received the grand total of 0 USD. Contributions of additional IP addresses / hostnames of stable VCoin nodes as advertised DNSSeeds are welcome, especially so if they arrive as github PRs.


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on June 12, 2015, 03:03:36 PM
I forgot to preface my post with “A short progress report”.

In the 0.9/10/11 series, nearly all of the network-related coin- and chain-specific parameters such as pchMessageStart, pszTimeStamp, rpcport, etc. have been migrated out of the codebase and into a separate file: “chainparams.cpp”. This approach was introduced late in the 0.8 series and one side-effect of this rationalisation is that it allows the coin to be (comparatively) cleanly migrated across upgrades. In VCoin's case, the elderly codebase of the OP meant that this marshalling task had to be done from scratch, hence the preliminary port to 0.9 as a means of establishing --- and, importantly, testing --- the VCoin-specific content of the chainparams file.

The net result of this is that the process of creating a parameter-variant clone of Bitcoin Core 0.11 is made vastly more controllable. As this is a p2p project, m’peers may appreciate a walk-through.

1. Clone the code: git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
2. Create a “vcoin” branch and check it out as the working space
3. Change each implicated instance of the string “Bitcoin” to “VCoin”, observing both case and word boundary conditions and not changing every single instance of CBitcoinAddressString into, e.g. CCrapcoinAddressString throughout the codebase (okay, it technically won’t/shouldn’t affect the execution but even so, yuk).
4. Copy chainparams.cpp from VCoin 0.9, adjust to reflect the upstream re-factorisation that was done between 0.9 and 0.11.
5. Compile
6. Run tests, commit the re-branding and the re-parameterisation, job done.

It’s not quite as straightforward as that, there are a few scattered parameters/variables also to be changed but it’s a closely-defined task and hence relatively trivial to perform programmatically.

Now that I have all the required values, I shall repeat the walkthrough and replace the vcoincore repos with the cleaned-up version which tracks the upstream release schedule, i.e. offering a vcoincore-0.11 release as well as a vcoincore-master.

In this instance, a hardfork would manifest itself as the blockchain splitting into a vcoincore blockchain mined only by 0.11 nodes and a vcoin blockchain mined only by 0.8 nodes.

It is up to the community to prefer one codebase over another. It would be collegial to canvass Bleutrade’s perception and publish it here. I'm given to understand that certain recent developments in the Bitcoin codebase are quite significant in terms of developing new services.

In essence, the only notable differences between Bitcoin Core 0.11 and VCoin Core 0.11 are that VCoin offers 1bn coins vs Bitcoin’s 21m, a block reward of 50 VCN vs 1000 BTC and a block time of 30s vs Bitcoin’s 600s. That's about it, not even the halving schedule differs.

Keeping it this tight opens up the possibility of a later rebase to BitcoinX (assuming no significant regression involved).

There is just one small piece of legacy Zetacoin code to be integrated but I've yet to properly understand its role in the model.


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on June 13, 2015, 11:08:45 PM
VCoin upgrade to Bitcoin Core 0.11

A bit of a first, the upgrade to 0.11 (master) is pretty much complete (with the exception of a transcription error or two here'n'there, soon to be resolved).

https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoincore

w.r.t. branches: vcoin-core is basic vanilla (as near as makes no difference) and vcoin-core.features.prerelease is the bundle of vanilla + branch features for overall kicking-of-the-tyres).

See it run, click the buttons. As suggested, it's 99.99% rebranded Bitcoin Core 0.11 which, even if I say so myself, has been done with surgical precision in order to present the lowest possible impedance to merged upstream development.  

But clicking the buttons is all you can do atm, will not sync with anything other than another 0.11 vcoin-core node 'cos none of the 0.8/9 nodes can speak the new (improved blockheader) protocol.

I have successfully compiled it on both Ubuntu 14.04 and 13.10 with the following command-line sequence:

Code:
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-incompatible-bdb --with-gui=qt5
$ ./make

For running the node, my working practice atm is start VCoin 0.9 and wait till it syncs. Then shut it down and create a copy of the datadir to use with the 0.11 upgrade:

Code:
$ cp -R ~/.vcoin /tmp/vcoincore
$ ./src/qt/vcoin-qt -testnet -datadir=/tmp/vcoincore

The 0.11 node will/should pick up the testnet and the Minkiz node will be showing up in the “Console->Peers” list plus a handful of other nodes. T'others will gradually get banned, leaving just the Minkiz node.

For extra thrills, omit the “-testnet” ... an 0.11 node will read a fresh mainnet blockchain (although it argues with the 0.8/9 clients over the indexing) and it’s safe enough if using a different datadir - obligatory promissory screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/8ZM0maI.jpg (http://imgur.com/8ZM0maI)

Minkiz' domain is (atm) hard-wired as a DNSSeed node (minkiz.co (https://minkiz.co)). If you have strenuous objections to this arrogant centralisation (I know I would/do) then I direct your attention to the fact that the crowdsourced campaign for a community-owned node has to date received the grand total of 0 USD. Contributions of additional IP addresses / hostnames of stable VCoin nodes as advertised DNSSeeds are welcome, especially so if they arrive as github PRs.


Cheers

Graham
Just compile it..


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on June 14, 2015, 03:34:47 PM
U Mine is following you, and a good job, we need more news and information on this project......
when there the news will be announced here..


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on June 18, 2015, 03:33:58 PM
A short progress report: - The upgrade to Core 0.11 available for testing on testnet.

The upgrade's pretty much done, testnet is now accessible to 0.11 nodes. Linux source code is downloadable and ready to roll.

After people have had a chance to kick the tyres, the next step will be to reach out to Bleutrade, see if there's anything they need from us.

VCoin 0.11 is the default branch in the vcoincore repos: https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoincore.git

Code:
$ git branch -a
* vcoin-0.11
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/vcoin-0.11
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/vcoin-0.11
  remotes/origin/vcoin-0.11.feature.chat.window
  remotes/origin/vcoin-0.11.feature.explore.window
  remotes/origin/vcoin-0.11.feature.overviewplus.tab
  remotes/origin/vcoin-0.11.feature.trade.window
  remotes/origin/vcoin-0.11.prerelease
  remotes/origin/vcoin.0.11.feature.charts.window
  remotes/origin/vcoin.feature.charts.window
  remotes/origin/vcoin.feature.chat.window
  remotes/origin/vcoin.feature.explore.window
  remotes/origin/vcoin.feature.overviewplus.tab
  remotes/origin/vcoin.feature.prerelease
  remotes/origin/vcoin.feature.trade.window

VCoin replicates the upstream distinction between stable release and in-development master approach.

Features are maintained in separate branches for reasons of sanity. This also effectively preserves a differentiation between the “vanilla” codebase, sans branches and a “prosumer” version that integrates all the features.

So ...

* 0.11 release vanilla = git checkout vcoin-0.11 (the default)
* 0.11 release prosumer = git checkout vcoin-0.11.prerelease
* development vanilla = git checkout master
* development prosumer = git checkout vcoin.feature.prerelease

Newly-launched 0.11+ nodes on mainnet will not recognise blocks submitted by 0.8 nodes but will recognise blocks submitted by other 0.11 nodes and so a blockchain fork will inevitably occur - the 0.8 clients mining one fork and the 0.11 clients mining another. And this is okay, it is expected, if not indefinitely sustainable because when the switchover occurs, the 0.8 blockchain at that point will become the new 0.11 blockchain, obliterating the previous “unofficial” one.

Just be clear: MINING THE TEMPORARY 0.11 MAINNET BLOCKCHAIN IS FEASIBLE BUT FUTILE.

Pragmatism rather dictates that the chain being used by Bleutrade (as the one and only exchange listing VCN) is probably going to have some influence on which chain is collectively perceived as the “right” one.

I don't expect folks to jump without looking, so feel free to thrash the testnet.

Recommended working practice:
Code:
cd /tmp/
git clone https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoincore.git
cd vcoincore
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-incompatible-bdb --with-gui=qt5
make
cp -R ${HOME}/.vcoin ${HOME}/.vcoincore
./src/qt/vcoin-qt -datadir="${HOME}/.vcoincore" -testnet

Currently, the daemon, tx and cli binaries are compiled as “bitcoind”, “bitcoin-tx” and “bitcoin-cli”. For purity, they can just be renamed as vcoind, vcoin-tx and vcoin-cli.

I do recommend you try the prosumer version, adds information-related features at only a slight network cost (of occasional calls on Bleutrade's API).

Obligatory screengrab:

https://i.imgur.com/BWU2eUb.png (http://imgur.com/BWU2eUb)


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on June 18, 2015, 04:23:10 PM
Why 0.11? Primarily because 0.10 embraces P2SH addresses:

Quote
“Standard script rules relaxed for P2SH addresses

The IsStandard() rules have been almost completely removed for P2SH redemption scripts, allowing applications to make use of any valid script type, such as "n-of-m OR y", hash-locked oracle addresses, etc. While the Bitcoin protocol has always supported these types of script, actually using them on mainnet has been previously inconvenient as standard Bitcoin Core nodes wouldn't relay them to miners, nor would most miners include them in blocks they mined.”
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.10.0/doc/release-notes.md#standard-script-rules-relaxed-for-p2sh-addresses

Another reason is the establishment of a consensus library:

Quote
“Starting from 0.10.0, the Bitcoin Core distribution includes a consensus library.

The purpose of this library is to make the verification functionality that is critical to Bitcoin's consensus available to other applications, e.g. to language bindings such as python-bitcoinlib or alternative node implementations.

This library is called libbitcoinconsensus.so (or, .dll for Windows). Its interface is defined in the C header bitcoinconsensus.h.

In its initial version the API includes two functions:

* bitcoinconsensus_verify_script verifies a script. It returns whether the indicated input of the provided serialized transaction correctly spends the passed scriptPubKey under additional constraints indicated by flags
* bitcoinconsensus_version returns the API version, currently at an experimental 0

The functionality is planned to be extended to e.g. UTXO management in upcoming releases, but the interface for existing methods should remain stable.”

And in 0.11, there's:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/0.11/doc/release-notes.md
Quote
“Privacy: Disable wallet transaction broadcast

This release adds an option -walletbroadcast=0 to prevent automatic transaction broadcast and rebroadcast (#5951). This option allows separating transaction submission from the node functionality.

Making use of this, third-party scripts can be written to take care of transaction (re)broadcast:

* Send the transaction as normal, either through RPC or the GUI
* Retrieve the transaction data through RPC using gettransaction (NOT getrawtransaction). The hex field of the result will contain the raw hexadecimal representation of the transaction
* The transaction can then be broadcasted through arbitrary mechanisms supported by the script

One such application is selective Tor usage, where the node runs on the normal internet but transactions are broadcast over Tor.”

And Tor is better integrated in 0.11:

Quote
“Privacy: Stream isolation for Tor

This release adds functionality to create a new circuit for every peer connection, when the software is used with Tor. The new option, -proxyrandomize, is on by default.

When enabled, every outgoing connection will (potentially) go through a different exit node. That significantly reduces the chance to get unlucky and pick a single exit node that is either malicious, or widely banned from the P2P network. This improves connection reliability as well as privacy, especially for the initial connections.

Important note: If a non-Tor SOCKS5 proxy is configured that supports authentication, but doesn't require it, this change may cause that proxy to reject connections. A user and password is sent where they weren't before. This setup is exceedingly rare, but in this case -proxyrandomize=0 can be passed to disable the behavior.”

And then there's additional stuff that catches the eye, such as dooglus’  :

“broadcast the resulting hex value using https://just-dice.com/pushtx”

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=623147.msg11648787#msg11648787

Pretty much all of which is new ground to be explored, I feel.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: samspaces on June 18, 2015, 10:48:16 PM
Impressed by all the efforts, this coin may just go places.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on June 18, 2015, 11:07:58 PM
Impressed by all the efforts, this coin may just go places.

Agreed. Supporting this one as well.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on June 20, 2015, 03:31:40 PM
A brief progress report.

Wrestling with the charting code, I noticed that qcustomplot had been upgraded earlier this year and had gained a couple of finance-oriented chart widgets: a Candlestick widget and an OHLC widget. After brief experimentation, I chose the OHLC widget:

https://i.imgur.com/BFWvFx2.png (http://imgur.com/BFWvFx2)

and the horizontal slider bar reveals the Order Depth chart:

https://i.imgur.com/AAaz2f5.png (http://imgur.com/AAaz2f5)

Updated code committed to vcoincore.features.prerelease repos (https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoincore/tree/vcoin.feature.prerelease)

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on June 22, 2015, 06:31:37 PM
Why 0.11? Primarily because 0.10 embraces P2SH addresses:

A somewhat better primary reason: 0.11 is the first version of Bitcoin Core to have the 80-byte OP_RETURN as default.

80 bytes allows full SHA256 hashes to be stored as “additional data” on the blockchain.

Have you an electronic document/image/dataset that you want date- and/or content-stamped?

Generate a hash of the item and inscribe the hash on the blockchain.

Coinspark offer the service: http://coinspark.org/



Not unrelatedly, TIL about Time-Lock Encryption:

Quote
Time-lock encryption is a method to encrypt a message such that it can only be decrypted after a certain deadline has passed. A computationally powerful adversary should not be able to learn the message before the deadline. However, even receivers with relatively weak computational resources should immediately be able to decrypt after the deadline, without any interaction with the sender, other receivers, or a trusted third party.
from: “How to Build Time-Lock Encryption” - Tibor Jager (http://eprint.iacr.org/2015/478)

Quote
We propose a new time-release protocol based on the bitcoin protocol and witness encryption. We derive a “public key” from the bitcoin block chain for encryption. The decryption key are the unpredictable information in the future blocks (e.g., transactions, nonces) that will be computed by the bitcoin network. We build this protocol by witness encryption and encrypt with the bitcoin proof-of-work constraints. The novelty of our protocol is that the decryption key will be automatically and publicly available in the bitcoin block chain when the time is due.
from “Time-release Protocol from Bitcoin and Witness Encryption for SAT” - Jia Liu and Flavio Garcia and Mark Ryan (http://eprint.iacr.org/2015/482)


Cheers,

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on June 22, 2015, 08:24:41 PM
Vcoin rewards has halved to 25.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on June 22, 2015, 09:24:57 PM
Vcoin rewards has halved to 25.

just see it


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on June 28, 2015, 07:56:19 AM
http://gcpool.ddns.net/vcoin/public

Happy Mining ;-)

its the server down ??



Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: glen123 on June 28, 2015, 08:18:55 AM
will be online soon . Hardware Changed .

Edit : DONE

happy mining


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on July 01, 2015, 10:42:50 AM
A short progress report.

I'm working my way through the commit history of elements, integrating some of the features into VCoin 0.11 ...
Quote
What is Elements?

Elements is a collection of experiments to bring more technical innovation to Bitcoin.

What is Elements Alpha?

https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/tree/alpha

Elements Alpha is the Elements project's first experimental test chain.

Compared to Bitcoin itself, it adds the following features:

  • Confidential Transactions
  • Segregated Witness
  • Relative Lock Time
  • Schnorr Signatures
  • Additional opcodes
  • Deterministic Peg (pegged to Bitcoin's testnet currency).
  • Signed Blocks

That's quite a shopping list. The items are too experimental to feature in Bitcoin right now, they might upset the applecart and could seriously diminish Bitcoin's value if things went badly wrong. VCoin has no such handicap to speak of and is an eminently suitable vehicle for offering innovative services enabled by these features.

Some of the power-ups are easy to obtain because they are contained in a single commit, I can just cherry-pick the commit and merge it. Some are much more challenging, requiring extensive re-factoring from 0.10.2 to 0.11.

Elements runs on its own Bitcoin-protocol testnet, the services haven't been exhaustively tested, nor does any trace of them appear in the wallet GUI.

It's a shopping list of ingredients, not ready-meals. Cuisine has yet to happen.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on July 01, 2015, 10:49:54 AM
A short progress report.

I'm working my way through the commit history of elements, integrating some of the features into VCoin 0.11 ...
Quote
What is Elements?

Elements is a collection of experiments to bring more technical innovation to Bitcoin.

What is Elements Alpha?

https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/tree/alpha

Elements Alpha is the Elements project's first experimental test chain.

Compared to Bitcoin itself, it adds the following features:

  • Confidential Transactions
  • Segregated Witness
  • Relative Lock Time
  • Schnorr Signatures
  • Additional opcodes
  • Deterministic Peg (pegged to Bitcoin's testnet currency).
  • Signed Blocks

That's quite a shopping list. The items are too experimental to feature in Bitcoin right now, they might upset the applecart and could seriously diminish Bitcoin's value if things went badly wrong. VCoin has no such handicap to speak of and is an eminently suitable vehicle for offering innovative services enabled by these features.

Some of the power-ups are easy to obtain because they are contained in a single commit, I can just cherry-pick the commit and merge it. Some are much more challenging, requiring extensive re-factoring from 0.10.2 to 0.11.

Elements runs on its own Bitcoin-protocol testnet, the services haven't been exhaustively tested, nor does any trace of them appear in the wallet GUI.

It's a shopping list of ingredients, not ready-meals. Cuisine has yet to happen.

Cheers

Graham


This is intrest..


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on July 01, 2015, 01:06:41 PM
A short progress report.

I'm working my way through the commit history of elements, integrating some of the features into VCoin 0.11 ...
Quote
What is Elements?

Elements is a collection of experiments to bring more technical innovation to Bitcoin.

What is Elements Alpha?

https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/tree/alpha

Elements Alpha is the Elements project's first experimental test chain.

Compared to Bitcoin itself, it adds the following features:

  • Confidential Transactions
  • Segregated Witness
  • Relative Lock Time
  • Schnorr Signatures
  • Additional opcodes
  • Deterministic Peg (pegged to Bitcoin's testnet currency).
  • Signed Blocks

That's quite a shopping list. The items are too experimental to feature in Bitcoin right now, they might upset the applecart and could seriously diminish Bitcoin's value if things went badly wrong. VCoin has no such handicap to speak of and is an eminently suitable vehicle for offering innovative services enabled by these features.

Some of the power-ups are easy to obtain because they are contained in a single commit, I can just cherry-pick the commit and merge it. Some are much more challenging, requiring extensive re-factoring from 0.10.2 to 0.11.

Elements runs on its own Bitcoin-protocol testnet, the services haven't been exhaustively tested, nor does any trace of them appear in the wallet GUI.

It's a shopping list of ingredients, not ready-meals. Cuisine has yet to happen.

Cheers

Graham


This looks great - thanks.

Just a question on the solo mining capability of the new wallet. Will it also by reference drop the getwork protocol causing older miners not being able to mine solo and therefore only working with stratum pools?

This is what I am talking about that is relevant to the post Bitcoin v0.10 wallet.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=970195.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=970195.0)
and
https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.10.0#mining-and-relay-policy-enhancements (https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.10.0#mining-and-relay-policy-enhancements)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on July 03, 2015, 09:08:24 AM
Just a question on the solo mining capability of the new wallet. Will it also by reference drop the getwork protocol causing older miners not being able to mine solo and therefore only working with stratum pools?

Oooooh, good catch. I hadn't spotted that.

I agree, such a strongly Bitcoin-specific orientation is inappropriate for an alt. It severely reduces the appeal of 0.10+ Core versions of the Bitcoin reference client, I shall have to reconsider the strategy because it doesn't look promising at this point.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on July 03, 2015, 09:38:47 AM
Just a question on the solo mining capability of the new wallet. Will it also by reference drop the getwork protocol causing older miners not being able to mine solo and therefore only working with stratum pools?

Oooooh, good catch. I hadn't spotted that.

I agree, such a strongly Bitcoin-specific orientation is inappropriate for an alt. It severely reduces the appeal of 0.10+ Core versions of the Bitcoin reference client, I shall have to reconsider the strategy because it doesn't look promising at this point.

Cheers

Graham


It does not have to be a problem. It only affects solo mining with older miners. As long as there is a stratum pool like there is currently it is fine. Futility of solo POW mining is an indicator of a successful coin and progressing with the times is an indication of strong coin management. Therefore, over time if vcoin is successfully managed and appealing, solo mining will become futile anyways.

I would still recommend that the work on 0.10+ should continue and that the differentiating factor of vcoin is its closeness to Bitcoin providing traceability to the Bitcoin core and compatibility with Bitcoin value added services, but with enhanced specs like the quicker block time and so on. Other services can be be added on, but the core must stay in sync with the reference client. Most alt-coins stick to 0.8 or 0.9 clients and that to me is an indication of poor coding skills and devs just copying each other wallets for their scams and short term plans. Coins sticking to pre 0.10 is bound to the past with little prospects of enhancing technically past 0.9 and must have superior coin management and business plans to counter that, so that its wallet just becomes a lesser technicality in the process and a mere vehicle for moving and storing coins.

Important aspects imo for vcoin would be the following:
- reference core that stays in sync with the changes in Bitcoin core. This would also enhance compatibility with value added services  created for Bitcoin that could be easily migrated to vcoin if people and companies so wanted.
- traceability to the core
- enhancements on top of the core that would be a good idea for Bitcoin, but probably not implemented currently because the core team does not want to take "risks" with the main chain.
- enhanced value added services by coin management and if coin management can ensure superior services that would mean a viable and promising alternative to Bitcoin.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on July 06, 2015, 10:13:28 AM
Graham have setup a blockexplorer for vcoin and there are api available

Explorer https://minkiz.co/abe/chain/vcoin
 (https://minkiz.co/abe/chain/vcoin)
https://minkiz.co/abe/chain/vcoin/q/totalbc (https://minkiz.co/abe/chain/vcoin/q/totalbc)  shows the amount of currency ever mined.
https://minkiz.co/abe/chain/vcoin/q/addressbalance/ (https://minkiz.co/abe/chain/vcoin/q/addressbalance/) + address /  check vcoin address balance
For more api check here https://minkiz.co/abe/q (https://minkiz.co/abe/q)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on July 07, 2015, 01:24:36 PM
I would still recommend that the work on 0.10+ should continue and that the differentiating factor of vcoin is its closeness to Bitcoin providing traceability to the Bitcoin core and compatibility with Bitcoin value added services, but with enhanced specs like the quicker block time and so on.

Just too keep folks in the loop, I PM'd jc12345 with thanks for the comment, insights, kind words and indicated that I shared the above viewpoint.

Ever keen not to shut off opportunities to contribute hash to the rate, I decanted the 0.8 getwork code into a separate branch, haven't had time even to assess the amount of effort likely to be involved in re-integrating the approach to the 0.11 structure (assuming that the 0.11 structure isn't now basically inimical to the principles underpinning the getwork approach).

I have strong reasons to believe that the folks who have developed a fancy for following the monthly P&D Sheeplechase Trophy will take a while to cotton on to the fact that newly-launched 0.8.x clones are basically using obsolete code and represent a poor offer to put before P&D punters, let alone any hypothetical genuine investors.


Anyway, in lieu of anything coherent w.r.t. to progress, this is my current reading/working focus:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=623147.0 <- CLAMS' OP_RETURN ClamSpeech feature

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1102062 <- Trent Russell's Multisig Derivatives

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1078338.0 <- Discussions of approximations of a decentralised exchange

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1085436.0;all <- Compact Confidential Transactions for Bitcoin

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1101437.0;all  <- BIP 0065

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=322828.msg11383992#msg11383992 <- a Skeincoin-based OP_RETURN service

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1070124.msg11452127#msg11452127 <- Synergy's OP_RETURN service

https://github.com/viacoin/viacoin/pull/23 <- ViaCoin's OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY implementation.

https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/commits/checklocktimeverify <- Elements'  OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY implementation

et. al.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on July 09, 2015, 02:07:49 PM
gcpool like down umine.co.uk is up http://www.umine.co.uk/getting_started (http://www.umine.co.uk/getting_started)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crunck on July 09, 2015, 04:37:41 PM
gcpool like down umine.co.uk is up http://www.umine.co.uk/getting_started (http://www.umine.co.uk/getting_started)

My pool is all ways up ;)

And if there even is a problem just let me know and I will solve it :)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on July 09, 2015, 07:18:47 PM
gcpool its online gcpool.ddns.net/vcoin/public/index.php?page=statistics&action=pool (http://gcpool.ddns.net/vcoin/public/index.php?page=statistics&action=pool)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on July 10, 2015, 09:14:26 AM
I notice the price on Bleutrade is starting to go up nicely.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on July 10, 2015, 10:30:33 AM
I notice the price on Bleutrade is starting to go up nicely.

yes are increased
http://i59.tinypic.com/11v2z6b.png


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on July 12, 2015, 09:34:16 AM
A short progress report

  • a “getwork” branch created - with half a view to reintegration with 0.11 at some point, if it looks feasible
  • an “inscribe” OP_RETURN branch created (see screenshot), enabling a “public reference” (a resolvable RDF Graph URI) to be permanently inscribed on the blockchain, code adapted from Grandpa Jones' Synergy (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1070124.0)

Porting code from an 0.8 base is agonisingly slow work ... but is still a lot faster than coding from scratch (when the edit-compile-debug cycle time is taken into consideration).

https://i.imgur.com/ZxHC3UO.png (http://imgur.com/ZxHC3UO)


(Screenshot is of wallet running in Qt IDE debug, connected to testnet3 network).

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on July 12, 2015, 09:46:55 AM
A short progress report

  • a “getwork” branch created - with half a view to reintegration with 0.11 at some point, if it looks feasible
  • an “inscribe” OP_RETURN branch created (see screenshot), enabling a “public reference” (a resolvable RDF Graph URI) to be permanently inscribed on the blockchain, code adapted from Grandpa Jones' Synergy (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1070124.0)

Porting code from an 0.8 base is agonisingly slow work ... but is still a lot faster than coding from scratch (when the edit-compile-debug cycle time is taken into consideration).

https://i.imgur.com/ZxHC3UO.png (http://imgur.com/ZxHC3UO)


(Screenshot is of wallet running in Qt IDE debug, connected to testnet3 network).

Cheers

Graham


Excellent work as always.  Cant wait for when the new wallet is ready  :)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: ocminer on July 12, 2015, 09:54:13 AM
Looks promising !

The new source code is not compiling for me:

Code:
json/json_spirit_writer_template.h: In function ‘String_type json_spirit::non_printable_to_string(unsigned int)’:
json/json_spirit_writer_template.h:31:50: warning: typedef ‘Char_type’ locally defined but not used [-Wunused-local-typedefs]
         typedef typename String_type::value_type Char_type;
                                                  ^
rpcwallet.cpp: In function ‘json_spirit::Value walletpassphrase(const Array&, bool)’:
rpcwallet.cpp:1367:35: error: invalid conversion from ‘int64* {aka long long int*}’ to ‘int64 {aka long long int}’ [-fpermissive]
     nWalletUnlockTime = GetTime() + nSleepTime;
                                   ^
rpcwallet.cpp:1368:79: error: invalid conversion from ‘int64* {aka long long int*}’ to ‘int64 {aka long long int}’ [-fpermissive]
     RPCRunLater("lockwallet", boost::bind(LockWallet, pwalletMain), nSleepTime);
                                                                               ^
In file included from rpcwallet.cpp:10:0:
bitcoinrpc.h:96:6: note: initializing argument 3 of ‘void RPCRunLater(const string&, boost::function<void()>, int64)’
 void RPCRunLater(const std::string& name, boost::function<void(void)> func, int64 nSeconds);


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on July 12, 2015, 09:59:42 AM
Looks promising !

Indeed. Graham knows what he is doing and will get it right.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: ocminer on July 12, 2015, 10:20:40 AM
Pool added:

https://vcoin.suprnova.cc

Please add to OP


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on July 12, 2015, 10:39:57 AM
Pool added:

https://vcoin.suprnova.cc

Please add to OP

Excellent


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on July 12, 2015, 10:44:19 AM
Pool added:

https://vcoin.suprnova.cc

Please add to OP
Added


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on July 12, 2015, 10:57:01 AM
Looks promising !

The new source code is not compiling for me:

tl;dr - Which branch are you using?

Thanks for the kind words. There isn't a release per se of the new source code of VCoin for Core 0.11, sorry about that.

It's testnet-only anyway atm because of the post-0.9 backwards-incompatible protocol changes. Publicly available code for a working VCoin 0.11 node would likely cause a fork and irrevocably separate 0.11 and 0.8 clients, so any release will need to be planned, advertised and carefully managed so that exchanges, pool operators and users of 0.8 clients are given adequate support in upgrading.

The repos is somewhat teeming with branches atm, I need to get a sense of what's worth including and adding to the maintenance load and what isn't.

The additional functionality (and any associated structural change) is separated out into individual branches, enabling me to manage the dependencies more effectively. When we're ready, I'll merge what's actually wanted and cut a release.

In the interim, I'll take a look at the “pre-release” branch and try to ensure that it compiles.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: ocminer on July 12, 2015, 11:31:49 AM
Looks promising !

The new source code is not compiling for me:

tl;dr - Which branch are you using?

Thanks for the kind words. There isn't a release per se of the new source code of VCoin for Core 0.11, sorry about that.

It's testnet-only anyway atm because of the post-0.9 backwards-incompatible protocol changes. Publicly available code for a working VCoin 0.11 node would likely cause a fork and irrevocably separate 0.11 and 0.8 clients, so any release will need to be planned, advertised and carefully managed so that exchanges, pool operators and users of 0.8 clients are given adequate support in upgrading.

The repos is somewhat teeming with branches atm, I need to get a sense of what's worth including and adding to the maintenance load and what isn't.

The additional functionality (and any associated structural change) is separated out into individual branches, enabling me to manage the dependencies more effectively. When we're ready, I'll merge what's actually wanted and cut a release.

In the interim, I'll take a look at the “pre-release” branch and try to ensure that it compiles.

Cheers

Graham


Hmm, there is only one branch:

https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin-dev

And that's what I've used.

I've got it working with the old code now btw.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: ffpool.net on July 12, 2015, 06:37:14 PM



https://i.imgur.com/rnBUSvc.png (http://ffpool.net)

VCoin has been added to the SHA256 Multiport @ http://ffpool.net


Mine every coin, every algo and get paid in every coin or directly in BTC.



Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on July 14, 2015, 02:20:53 AM
Looks promising !

The new source code is not compiling for me:

tl;dr - Which branch are you using?

Hmm, there is only one branch:

https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin-dev

Claro.

The work I described is taking place in a different repos, I erroneously assumed you were using that one. Thanks for the heads-up.


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on July 14, 2015, 02:38:14 AM

I'm getting lazy and have developed a tendency to rely on others’ write-ups of the insights:

Quote
“The final challenge which many traditional blockchains face is that due to their public nature, many will simply not be able to work without an anti-spam mechanism of some sort. The anti-spam mechanism used by most blockchains is that data which is to be stored in the blockchain must be accompanied by some payment or deposit of the blockchain’s built-in token. This creates a “pay-to-play” atmosphere which suits those individual nodes who possess a significant amount of the tokens well, but may not suit those individuals who do not possess the tokens. Indeed, this is an insurmountable problem for many blockchains and outside of “wealthier” users subsidizing others so that they might benefit from the utility of whatever function that blockchain is meant to provide, there is no answer.”
- https://erisindustries.com/products/erisdb/

A couple of observations: i) “may not suit” is unnecessarily timid, “will not suit” is much more like it and ii) note and inwardly digest: “insurmountable problem ... no answer”

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Marty19 on July 14, 2015, 01:27:43 PM
0% Vcoin mining pool now available from iSpace Mining Pools - ispace.co.uk


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on July 14, 2015, 04:31:50 PM
OP updated


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on July 18, 2015, 07:19:32 AM
The more I look at it I think getwork should be last on the priority list. Although vcoin is wonderful to solo mine especially since diff retarget is so quick, pools are the way of the future and plays a cardinal role on several levels. If it is possible to solo mine a coin, the miner can just as well be pointed to a pool since a) the wallet is connected to the Internet in anyways, b) pool fees won't break the bank and sustains an important service and c) over time solo mining and pool mining yield converge. At some point solo mining will become futile for a successful coin in anyways.

It is therefore more important to land the new wallet based on 0.11 and focus on other key aspects on the list.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on July 20, 2015, 02:12:22 PM
Block explorer has been unreliable of late due to an unrelated issue with the server (gnutls cache database problem, apparently). I've revived the server, the VCoin Abe block explorer is available again and I'm keeping an eye on it.

I'm looking with keen interest at: http://test.webbtc.com/about (http://test.webbtc.com/about). TTW script debugging? That’s far too useful not to have one pointed at the VCoin 0.11 blockchain.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on July 20, 2015, 02:13:11 PM
The more I look at it I think getwork should be last on the priority list.

Strange that you should say that, great minds think alike ... :)

Cheers

Graham

Edit: dispelled ambiguity


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on July 20, 2015, 03:01:58 PM
Thanks for fixing the block explorer.  :)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on July 22, 2015, 04:29:12 AM
Have anyone build osx wallet ??


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on July 27, 2015, 02:59:16 PM
Elsewhere on the net:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-21/a-tech-startup-is-trying-to-catalogue-every-piece-of-art-on-the-market

Quote
Is it possible to digitize and verify every art object ever made? Verisart, a new site co-founded by Robert Norton, previously chief executive officer of two online art-commerce sites, Saatchi Online and Sedition, is going to try.

The digital startup hopes to chronicle original artworks, prints, multiples, and books by using block chain, thereby assigning each object a (hopefully) unassailable certificate of authenticity. Each object’s provenance, in turn, is created step-by-step by its owners, who add their e-mail addresses to an object’s data when they purchase one. In the project’s second phase, down the road, Norton plans to catalogue older artwork by extending the verification service to online sites and artists’ estates. Eventually, he hopes to work with appraisers and insurers to add works that have already been validated.

We’re in the process of doing something similar, on a less ambitious scale. We want to use the notary service to publish semantic web URIs that resolve to RDF Graphs carrying the metadata for, in our case, edition data and provenance of Minkiz cool prints:

https://i.imgur.com/3pPZKFO.jpg (http://imgur.com/3pPZKFO)


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on July 27, 2015, 03:33:14 PM
We’re in the process of doing something similar, on a less ambitious scale. We want to use the notary service to publish semantic web URIs that resolve to RDF Graphs carrying the metadata for, in our case, edition data and provenance of Minkiz cool prints.


Cheers

Graham


... as a start  ;D


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on July 27, 2015, 08:47:08 PM
A short report on progress

Organisational structure

Consensus
The functioning of VCoin as a cryptocurrency requires two different forms of consensus. One is the cryptographic consensus enforced by the p2p application; the other is the social consensus that is created by those who hold coins and/or run nodes. In terms of raison d’ętre, the social consensus must first exist in order for the cryptographic consensus to have any semantic meaning. All the machine “knows” is whether the sequence of 64 bytes at this memory location is identical to the sequence of 64 bytes at that memory location. The rest, as they say, is left to the reader’s imagination.

The social consensus is by far the more important. In addition to grounding the semantics of the blockchain, it's the wellspring of the much-vaunted “network effect” --- which is really just a weak way of saying “backed by people”.

The network effect is either i) monolithic --- more users on the network as a whole result in each one of them deriving more value as each additional user represents one more peer to interact with or ii) particularised --- more users of one type make the network more attractive for users of a different but complementary type, such as consumers and merchants.

Direction by social consensus replaces control by central authority :
Quote
“Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, company, or bank in charge of Bitcoin.”  - http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/

So who is in charge?
When it comes to p2p apps, the bottom line is that as soon as the source code is publicly released, no-one is ”in charge” of anything. The witticism “herding cats” doesn’t even come in to it; people are completely free to do as they like: run a node, not run a node; hold coins, don't hold coins; set up a foundation, a faucet, a business, promote the coin, fud the coin, set up webwallets, offer an alternative wallet design, provide off-chain features, pay to spam the blockchain, pay to clean up the blockchain, generously contribute to a faucet, mischevously drain a faucet dry.

The fact that there is no-one in charge is significant to US financial regulators. A couple of years ago FinCEN made it unambiguously clear (http://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001.html) ...
Quote
A final type of convertible virtual currency activity involves a de-centralized convertible virtual currency (1) that has no central repository and no single administrator, and (2) that persons may obtain by their own computing or manufacturing effort.

So, “official” this and “official” that are meaningless in the context of a cryptocurrency because no-one has the authority to stamp anything “official”. Or rather, anyone and everyone has the opportunity to stamp anything they want as “official” or make a claim to be “the official dev” but it carries no inherent authority, only that which it itself engenders.

How does anything ever get done?
The thing is, a cryptocurrency is a discrete Open Source project in its own right and in Open Source projects, things just sort of get done. Or not. The psycho-social aspects are currently not terribly-well understood in a number of key areas, one of which is the motivation of contributors.

In the case of altcoins, it seems that the creation of the altcoin's peer2peer network also establishes a social consensus which behaves as a prototypal form of “Teal” organisation as described in Frederic Laloux’ Reinventing organisations (http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/uploads/2/1/9/8/21988088/140305_laloux_reinventing_organizations.pdf).

The vast majority of Laloux’ thesis can be ignored as irrelevant, the real interest is in how the closely the core Teal Organisation principles correspond to those of an altcoin community. In the example below, strikethrough denotes a concept that has no meaning in the context of an altcoin, the remainder are relevant and it’s hard to deny their correspondence:

Teal SELF MANAGEMENT practices
  • self organizing teams
  • coaches w/o P&L responsibility when needed
  • almost no staff functions
  • coordination and meetings ad hoc when needs arise
  • radically simplified project management
  • minimum plans & budgets
  • fluid and granular roles
  • decision making fully decentralized (advice process)
  • transparent real time information sharing incl,. financials
  • anybody can spend any amount of money provided advice process is respected
  • formal multi-step conflict resolution process
  • focus on Team performance, peer-based process for individual appraisals
  • self-set salaries with peer calibration, no bonus, profit sharing

Teal WHOLENESS practices
  • self-decorated warm spaces without status markers
  • clear values translated into explicit ground rules, ongoing values discussion
  • quiet room, meditation practices, team supervision, peer coaching
  • storytelling practices to support self-disclosure and community building
  • absence of job titles and descriptions to allow selfhood to shape roles
  • honest discussion about individual time commitments
  • regular time devoted to address conflicts
  • specific meeting practices keep ego at check
  • distributed initiatives taking
  • recruitment interviews by future colleagues, focus on fit with organization
  • personal freedom for training, focus on culture-building
  • personal inquiry into one‘s learning journey and calling
  • caring support to turn dismissal into a learning opportunity

Teal EVOLUTIONARY PURPOSE practices
  • organization seen as a living entity with its own evolutionary purpose
  • strategy emerges organically from collective intelligence of self-managing employees
  • decision making by listening to organization‘s purpose (everyone, large group, meditations…)
  • concept of competition irrelevant (embraced to pursue purpose)
  • growth and market share only important in as much they help achieve purpose
  • profit as lagging indicator: will come naturally when doing the right thing
  • inside out marketing: offer is defined by purpose
  • “sense and respond” planning/budgeting/controlling
  • no or radically simplified budgets, no tracking of variance; no targets
  • “change management” no longer relevant as organization constantly adapts from within
  • suppliers chosen by fit with purpose
  • total transparency invites outsiders to make suggestions to better bring about purpose
  • conscious sensing of what mood would serve best

The evolutionary purpose practices are a remarkably close description of the characteristics of an Open Source altcoin project.

In essence, altcoins are de facto Teal Organisations created as a natural consequence of the distributed nature of the p2p app.

Despite the New Waviness, the broad-brush description of a Teal Organisation never quite loses sight of its utilitarian purpose: doing things better, more effectively, with a more complex set of values.

That’s not a bad philosophy for an experimental vehicle like an altcoin to adopt.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on July 27, 2015, 09:33:10 PM
Thanks for your enlightenment. It is always a pleasure to read your posts.  :)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on July 29, 2015, 06:41:54 AM

It's probably discussed in detail elsewhere but in Weekly Update #151 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=114994.msg11882960#msg11882960), SK discusses Peercoin transaction fees and indicates Peercoin's imminent plans:

For the next release of peercoin, the output value can also be 0 to accommodate data transactions

Next release of Peercoin will include data transactions.

All together now ... “You don’t need a weatherman To know which way the wind blows”


Cheers,

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on July 29, 2015, 07:33:11 AM

It's probably discussed in detail elsewhere but in Weekly Update #151 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=114994.msg11882960#msg11882960), SK discusses Peercoin transaction fees and indicates Peercoin's imminent plans:

For the next release of peercoin, the output value can also be 0 to accommodate data transactions

Next release of Peercoin will include data transactions.

All together now ... “You don’t need a weatherman To know which way the wind blows”


Cheers,

Graham


Those that adapt to the changing times and environment will survive.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on July 29, 2015, 10:35:55 AM
Those that adapt to the changing times and environment will survive.

Indeed so. And it’s always later than you think.

Jobs that I might have applied for as a young adult but which have basically vanished since: boilerman, draughtsman, filing clerk.

Obviously, there are other tech-specific jobs that once were more numerous but now are scarce: farrier, wheelwright, etc. but I'm thinking of common jobs that I'd typically see in the local newspaper classifieds.

http://www.transportarchive.org.uk/aimages/G1649.jpg
image from http://www.aviationarchive.org.uk/Gpages/html/G1649.html

Due to the labour-intensive nature of the job, automation gains were huge, I'd bet that just a single CAD operator can do all the work of the entire staff shown above.

These are jobs that disappeared quite early on in my working lifetime. In my mid-teens I decided I wanted to be an artist, my parents were horrified at the prospect and put me under a lot of pressure to train as a draughtsman. I entertained the idea for a while, then the realisation dawned that I'd basically be spending the rest of my life drawing toilet seats for a living. But I needn't have worried, had I chosen to make a career as a draughtsman, it'd have been a mercifully short one, made redundant by a plotter.

And so it continues ...

http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf
THE FUTURE OF EMPLOYMENT: HOW SUSCEPTIBLE ARE JOBS TO COMPUTERISATION?
Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, September 17, 2013

Quote
We examine how susceptible jobs are to computerisation. To assess this, we begin by implementing a novel methodology to estimate the probability of computerisation for 702 detailed occupations, using a Gaussian process classifier.

Based on these estimates, we examine expected impacts of future computerisation on US labour market outcomes, with the primary objective of analysing the number of jobs at risk and the relationship between an occupation’s probability of computerisation, wages and educational attainment.

According to our estimates, about 47 percent of total US employment is at risk. We further provide evidence that wages and educational attainment exhibit a strong negative relationship with an occupation’s probability of computerisation.

We’re now living on the steep bit of the exponential curve and change is happening even faster. The well-staffed drafting office of the 50s was pretty much extinct by the 1980s in terms of vacancies in the classifieds. What are the odds that the job of “web site designer” will have all but vanished by, ooh say 2045? 2030? 2025? That's assuming it's not basically just an anachronism right now, given the front-end / back-end distinction that is apparently beginning to dominate thinking.

Whatever you think about cryptocurrency, it’s fairly clear now that the idea is here to stay, for reasons we have yet to fully understand and to fulfil a purpose that we cannot yet clearly discern.

Cheers

Graham

Edit: added image credit


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on July 29, 2015, 11:09:43 AM
This makes me think of something that Charles Holland Duell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Holland_Duell) said in 1902 : In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will witness. I almost wish that I might live my life over again to see the wonders which are at the threshold.

I think that this will be relevant for the current century in an exponential way. I think there will be wonders beyond imagination and the financial system and the way we interact with each other is not exempt from this. New inventions make the old obsolete.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on July 30, 2015, 02:37:20 AM
Vcoin rewards has halved to 12,5


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on August 01, 2015, 12:32:12 AM
Vcoin added on c-cex exchange voting list https://c-cex.com/?id=vote (last place) if you have account login and proccess vote also anyone can vote via sending bitcoins on 1Gvrpmq2cEZNTAnNk7ZkWX5rapQCTqX6j9 (1 vote =0.001 BTC)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: hugabase on August 01, 2015, 12:42:13 AM
again...???

VC and the VCOIN..??

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=557946.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=557946.0)



Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on August 01, 2015, 07:23:19 AM
again...???

VC and the VCOIN..??
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=557946.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=557946.0)

Close but no cigar, thank you for playing.

This thread references VCoin with symbol VCN. Your post references “Virtualcoin” with symbol “VC”:

VirtualCoin integration/staging tree” <- https://github.com/vcoin-z/virtualcoin

https://github.com/vcoin-z/virtualcoin/blob/9.2.0/src/qt/bitcoinunits.cpp#L48
case BTC: return QString("VirtualCoins");

and

https://github.com/vcoin-z/virtualcoin/blob/9.2.0/src/qt/bitcoinunits.cpp#L37
case BTC: return QString("VC");


OP clearly advertises the coin's foundling origin which does tend to render moot any “what, again?” criticism.


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on August 01, 2015, 09:07:58 AM
again...???

VC and the VCOIN..??

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=557946.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=557946.0)


it seems that you have not read the OP


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on August 03, 2015, 08:12:40 PM
where's working block explorer ?

There are one block explorer https://minkiz.co/abe/chain/vcoin operated by Graham it now seems off


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on August 03, 2015, 08:24:25 PM
where's working block explorer ?

Down atm. Had to switch servers, currently compiling VCoin.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on August 03, 2015, 08:28:47 PM
where's working block explorer ?
Down atm. Had to switch servers, currently compiling VCoin.
Compiled, now syncing.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on August 05, 2015, 10:42:58 PM
where's working block explorer ?
Down atm. Had to switch servers, currently compiling VCoin.
Compiled, now syncing.


and down again....

when block explorer are online i will notify here


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on August 06, 2015, 05:42:35 AM
Block explorer is up https://minkiz.co/abe/chain/VCoin


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on August 09, 2015, 09:59:08 PM
New pool added


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on August 17, 2015, 04:41:56 PM
Info snaffled from devcoin thread giving rationale for upgrading :

Quote
Notable changes per release:
0.9.0: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.9.0 - windows 64 bit installer, autotools build system, bitcoin-cli changes
0.10.0: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.10.0 - Faster synchronization, Transaction fee changes, RPC access control changes, REST interface, improved signing security, watch-only wallet support, and more
0.11.0: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.11.0 - Block file pruning, memory usage optimization, improved fee estimation, improved privacy

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on August 17, 2015, 09:29:49 PM
Link (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.zip) to bootstrap.dat @ block 249,991 (50MB zipped)
Link (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/checksums.txt) to checksums


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Langly on August 24, 2015, 11:37:47 PM
What happened to the windows wallet?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on August 24, 2015, 11:46:16 PM
What happened to the windows wallet?
are there a problem with windows wallet ?? im using linux


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Langly on August 24, 2015, 11:49:10 PM
What happened to the windows wallet?
are there a problem with windows wallet ?? im using linux
Link no longer works, file removed.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on August 25, 2015, 05:25:30 AM
What happened to the windows wallet?
are there a problem with windows wallet ?? im using linux
Link no longer works, file removed.

You can download the Windows wallet here:
1) Link (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/vcoin-qt.exe) to download
2) Link (https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/edcc38e97a60e705f40a0473192d7746d26e0635e49d2d5f74717e05c05d8388/analysis/) to Virustotal scan
3) SHA256 checksum calculated locally edcc38e97a60e705f40a0473192d7746d26e0635e49d2d5f74717e05c05d8388
4) SHA256 checksum calculated by VT edcc38e97a60e705f40a0473192d7746d26e0635e49d2d5f74717e05c05d8388
5) MD5 checksum calculated locally b1f44c3df922b64d7a3504b31f4e70d0
6) MD5 checksum calculated by VT b1f44c3df922b64d7a3504b31f4e70d0

Important notes to follow the chain of integrity from launch for this wallet:
1) Calculate the checksums after your download to confirm you downloaded the correct file as per the VT scan.
2) File was first scanned by Virustotal on 16 May 2015 which can be confirmed by matching the checksums.
3) Vcoin uses SHA256 algorithm and as such is treated as a bitcoinminer. As per OP, VT detects "bitcoinminer". Bitcoinminer is a standard false positive dating from the days where files were infected by bitcoinminers to create zombie networks of CPUs. Artemis is something new that was detected since the first scan on 16 May. It looks like a generic name by McAfee named after its previous scan engine system for classifying a "suspicious file", most probably due to its bitcoinminer characteristics. Both seems to be standard false positives.

Additional general tips to stay safe when working with any coin:
4) Always install all wallets for coins on a standalone system or in a sandbox environment.
5) Always move coins to offline wallets (cold storage) and keep only a minimum in a hotfile. A Hotfile is the wallet.dat currently on your PC in the normal location ..\roaming\coinname\wallet.dat | ~/.coinname/wallet.dat. Offline or cold storage is when you copy your main wallet.dat with your coins in it to a USB stick/(s) and remove the wallet.dat from your PC. Offline or cold storage is also sending your coins to a paper wallet.
6) If you are uncomfortable with a Windows wallet then don't use a Windows wallet but compile and use a Linux wallet.
7) If anyone quotes a wallet download link, make sure that the quoted link still matches and that the checksums are the same.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on August 25, 2015, 07:44:17 AM
op updated


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Maicol792 on September 02, 2015, 12:27:56 PM
Hello, i think this is a good Start for to The moon :-)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on September 02, 2015, 01:07:17 PM
notice remain 13.000 blocks for halving


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 02, 2015, 02:00:53 PM
Hello, i think this is a good Start for to The moon :-)

I share your sentiment. The basics of vcoin is solid and provides a good platform to build on.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on September 04, 2015, 03:08:55 PM
social media

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VCoinP2P (https://www.facebook.com/VCoinP2P)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/vcoinx (https://twitter.com/vcoinx)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 04, 2015, 08:50:41 PM
Link (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.zip) to updated bootstrap.dat @ block 294,105 (58MB zipped)

Checksums
sha256 : c38aab45bf997eb46461334ff78f6569abe70d3cdc69f7cf67eac734e2afc28d
md5 : 6707e0885e06736950482534f998debf


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Maicol792 on September 05, 2015, 01:21:39 PM
I think Vcoin is a good alternative to bitcoin... Please develop and implement this Vcoin... And we go to the moon!!! How do YOU think?  ::)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on September 05, 2015, 01:51:38 PM
I think Vcoin is a good alternative to bitcoin... Please develop and implement this Vcoin... And we go to the moon!!! How do YOU think?  ::)
sure..


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on September 05, 2015, 03:26:58 PM
Another short progress report

Looking at some implementations of services mentioned in Chapter 9 (https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B4-bDFu_72BeQ1QyaG5GZFlYVGc), the accompanying text to the video Lecture 9 - Bitcoin as a platform (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM3OP4gazWw) of Princeton’s  BTC-Tech: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies (https://piazza.com/princeton/spring2015/btctech/home) course.

I've watched the entirety of Lectures 10 and 11 and am digging around in the various Chapters. Been well worth it so far.

It's mostly about Bitcoin so I'm paying particular attention to solid ideas which are languishing primarily due to inertia in the Bitcoin ecosystem as they each represent a potential opportunity that Bitcoin is presently unable or unwilling to pursue.

It‘s being offered by coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech (https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech) if anyone feels so inclined.

Cheers

Graham

Edit: added coursera URL


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Maicol792 on September 06, 2015, 06:05:19 PM
Vcoin to 1$ in one mounth ok? :-) came on baby!!!  8) we want new implementation and new large consensus of Vcoin tech.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on September 06, 2015, 07:42:56 PM
FWIW, dooglus is doing some timestamping work with CLAMS transactions:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=623147.msg12340849#msg12340849

Nice of him to publish the correction.


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on September 07, 2015, 09:34:05 AM
 6.25 VCoin reward per block


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on September 08, 2015, 12:45:47 AM
Just flipped through Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies (http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/BMCNKF15-IEEESP-bitcoin.pdf), a very nice overview paper of Bitcoin (and thus, also pertinent to VCoin) from a cryptocurrency research perspective. Well worth raiding for distilled summaries of key ideas, e.g.

Quote
There is no builtin notion of higher-level concepts such as users, account balances or identities— these all exist only to the extent that they can be imputed from the list of published transactions.

Neatly put.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on September 08, 2015, 09:33:20 AM
VCoin halving every 100,000 blocks, with a minimum of 1 coin in the end.

Code:
static const int64 nStartSubsidy = 50 * COIN;
static const int64 nMinSubsidy = 1 * COIN;

int64 static GetBlockValue(int nHeight, int64 nFees)
{
    int64 nSubsidy = nStartSubsidy;

    // Mining phase: Subsidy is cut in half every SubsidyHalvingInterval
    nSubsidy >>= (nHeight / Params().SubsidyHalvingInterval());
   
    // Inflation phase: Subsidy reaches minimum subsidy
    // Network is rewarded for transaction processing with transaction fees and
    // the inflationary subsidy
    if (nSubsidy < nMinSubsidy)
    {
        nSubsidy = nMinSubsidy;
    }

    return nSubsidy + nFees;
}


Code:
CMainParams() {
        // The message start string is designed to be unlikely to occur in normal data.
        pchMessageStart[0] = 0x05;
        pchMessageStart[1] = 0x05;
        pchMessageStart[2] = 0xb5;
        pchMessageStart[3] = 0x05;
        nDefaultPort = 5530;
        nRPCPort = 5531;
        bnProofOfWorkLimit = CBigNum(~uint256(0) >> 20);
        nSubsidyHalvingInterval = 100000;
[/quote]


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on September 08, 2015, 10:13:49 AM
Purely because I consider it to be within in my “related disciplinary interest” bailiwick ...

When Discrimination Is Baked into Algorithms (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/discrimination-algorithms-disparate-impact/403969/?single_page=true)

Quote
A recent ProPublica analysis of The Princeton Review’s prices for online SAT tutoring shows that customers in areas with a high density of Asian residents are often charged more. When presented with this finding, The Princeton Review called it an “incidental” result of its geographic pricing scheme. The case illustrates how even a seemingly neutral price model could potentially lead to inadvertent bias—bias that’s hard for consumers to detect and even harder to challenge or prove.

Hm. We learned in the late 80s that ML was vulnerable to this, how come the lesson appears to have been forgotten?

I wonder if I have not been mistakenly assuming that the lack of acknowledgement of the issue by contemporary proponents of ML was a sign that the issue (GIGO) is so basic as to have been fully internalised.

To discover that the knowledge has apparently been lost is more than a little disturbing.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 08, 2015, 11:52:26 AM
Purely because I consider it to be within in my “related disciplinary interest” bailiwick ...

When Discrimination Is Baked into Algorithms (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/discrimination-algorithms-disparate-impact/403969/?single_page=true)

Quote
A recent ProPublica analysis of The Princeton Review’s prices for online SAT tutoring shows that customers in areas with a high density of Asian residents are often charged more. When presented with this finding, The Princeton Review called it an “incidental” result of its geographic pricing scheme. The case illustrates how even a seemingly neutral price model could potentially lead to inadvertent bias—bias that’s hard for consumers to detect and even harder to challenge or prove.

Hm. We learned in the late 80s that ML was vulnerable to this, how come the lesson appears to have been forgotten?

I wonder if I have not been mistakenly assuming that the lack of acknowledgement of the issue by contemporary proponents of ML was a sign that the issue (GIGO) is so basic as to have been fully internalised.

To discover that the knowledge has apparently been lost is more than a little disturbing.

Cheers

Graham


If we take a step back from programming, in a way life can be seen as an algorithm and in the algorithm of life the rich becomes richer and the poor becomes poorer which widens the gap and as a result the poor becomes discriminated against even further. This can also be applied to crypto where those with lots of money to acquire hash power will become richer and the those that cannot afford it becomes poorer. In the POS context those with lots of money to get lots of coins will become richer by staking and those that cannot afford lots of coins will become poorer. This is partly what causes the rush to new coins that we always see where people with little resources try to mine coins quickly at low diff because later they wont be able to afford it and soon large farms are onto a new coin.

I don't think it is easy to solve this part of discrimination in life, but it is possible though to collect wealth with little resources with enough planning and being smart about it, eg. by seeing opportunities others don't or by regular saving of small amounts and by your retirement age what seems to have been small amounts are suddenly a large amount.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Maicol792 on September 09, 2015, 02:04:57 PM
windows server 2012
last qtwallet vcoin installad and syncro
now is online and working
setgenerate true -1

and i have in console setgenerate true -1

getmininginfo


{
"blocks" : 306678,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 29730.11608509,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 1219350,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

now i want set one NODE how i can run it??? anyone can help me??
my vcoin address is VV5YJPpKYHKPdwi989VTj2f9EkdaFiDsVc anyone can send any vcoin for verify if my wallet working i think of yes

Thanks for anyone want help me ;-)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 09, 2015, 03:56:24 PM
windows server 2012
last qtwallet vcoin installad and syncro
now is online and working
setgenerate true -1

and i have in console setgenerate true -1

getmininginfo


{
"blocks" : 306678,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 29730.11608509,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 1219350,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

now i want set one NODE how i can run it??? anyone can help me??
my vcoin address is VV5YJPpKYHKPdwi989VTj2f9EkdaFiDsVc anyone can send any vcoin for verify if my wallet working i think of yes

Thanks for anyone want help me ;-)

What are you trying to do? Do you want to setup your local wallet as a node?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Maicol792 on September 09, 2015, 05:16:00 PM
windows server 2012
last qtwallet vcoin installad and syncro
now is online and working
setgenerate true -1

and i have in console setgenerate true -1

getmininginfo


{
"blocks" : 306678,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 29730.11608509,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 1219350,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

now i want set one NODE how i can run it??? anyone can help me??
my vcoin address is VV5YJPpKYHKPdwi989VTj2f9EkdaFiDsVc anyone can send any vcoin for verify if my wallet working i think of yes

Thanks for anyone want help me ;-)

What are you trying to do? Do you want to setup your local wallet as a node?

yes i want run vcoin node  :o


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 09, 2015, 07:58:07 PM
yes i want run vcoin node  :o

All you do is to install the Windows client. Then in the ...\roaming\vcoin folder you place a file called vcoin.conf. Inside the file put the lines in the block below. Also change the user ID and password to something suitable.  You can then also sync up quickly by copying the bootstrap.dat file into the ...\roaming\vcoin folder.

Link (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059746.msg12330333#msg12330333) to bootstrap.dat.

Code:
rpcuser=yourusername //put this in your miner if you want to solo mine
rpcpassword=yourpassword //put this in your miner if you want to solo mine
rpcallowip = 127.0.0.1
rpcallowip = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx //put in here the IP address of your miner if you want to solo mine
rpcport = 9984 //put this port after the IP address of the PC with the wallet on in your miner if you want to solo mine
server = 1
daemon = 1
listen = 1
addnode=185.25.22.33:5522
addnode=45.63.1.27:5530
addnode=185.92.222.31
addnode=108.61.117.249
addnode=108.61.10.90
addnode=176.9.26.47
addnode=188.165.2.147
addnode=193.227.134.111
addnode=213.5.65.155
addnode=31.54.135.69
addnode=32.214.108.194
addnode=37.187.99.136
addnode=45.55.140.160
addnode=45.55.236.155
addnode=46.105.118.15
addnode=5.147.116.112
addnode=5.9.36.211
addnode=52.18.54.170
addnode=67.241.161.8
addnode=84.160.239.117
addnode=91.114.115.230
addnode=95.28.130.127
addnode=99.113.26.253


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Maicol792 on September 09, 2015, 11:49:15 PM
yes i want run vcoin node  :o

All you do is to install the Windows client. Then in the ...\roaming\vcoin folder you place a file called vcoin.conf. Inside the file put the lines in the block below. Also change the user ID and password to something suitable.  You can then also sync up quickly by copying the bootstrap.dat file into the ...\roaming\vcoin folder.

Link (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059746.msg12330333#msg12330333) to bootstrap.dat.

Code:
rpcuser=yourusername //put this in your miner if you want to solo mine
rpcpassword=yourpassword //put this in your miner if you want to solo mine
rpcallowip = 127.0.0.1
rpcallowip = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx //put in here the IP address of your miner if you want to solo mine
rpcport = 9984 //put in here the IP address of your miner if you want to solo mine
server = 1
daemon = 1
listen = 1
addnode=185.25.22.33:5522
addnode=45.63.1.27:5530
addnode=185.92.222.31
addnode=108.61.117.249
addnode=108.61.10.90
addnode=176.9.26.47
addnode=188.165.2.147
addnode=193.227.134.111
addnode=213.5.65.155
addnode=31.54.135.69
addnode=32.214.108.194
addnode=37.187.99.136
addnode=45.55.140.160
addnode=45.55.236.155
addnode=46.105.118.15
addnode=5.147.116.112
addnode=5.9.36.211
addnode=52.18.54.170
addnode=67.241.161.8
addnode=84.160.239.117
addnode=91.114.115.230
addnode=95.28.130.127
addnode=99.113.26.253

Ok i already have wallet installed and already syncro and working.
Now i created vcoin.conf in folder ...roaming/Vcoin
Vcoin.conf whit your code
Restarted The Vcoin wallet
In console i setgenerate true -1

AND NOW?
1> HOW I CAN VERIFY MY NODE WORKING ?
2> HOW I CAN VERIFY MY WALLET MINING?

Thanks for help me! :-)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 10, 2015, 02:57:19 AM
yes i want run vcoin node  :o

All you do is to install the Windows client. Then in the ...\roaming\vcoin folder you place a file called vcoin.conf. Inside the file put the lines in the block below. Also change the user ID and password to something suitable.  You can then also sync up quickly by copying the bootstrap.dat file into the ...\roaming\vcoin folder.

Link (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059746.msg12330333#msg12330333) to bootstrap.dat.

Code:
rpcuser=yourusername //put this in your miner if you want to solo mine
rpcpassword=yourpassword //put this in your miner if you want to solo mine
rpcallowip = 127.0.0.1
rpcallowip = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx //put in here the IP address of your miner if you want to solo mine
rpcport = 9984 //put in here the IP address of your miner if you want to solo mine
server = 1
daemon = 1
listen = 1
addnode=185.25.22.33:5522
addnode=45.63.1.27:5530
addnode=185.92.222.31
addnode=108.61.117.249
addnode=108.61.10.90
addnode=176.9.26.47
addnode=188.165.2.147
addnode=193.227.134.111
addnode=213.5.65.155
addnode=31.54.135.69
addnode=32.214.108.194
addnode=37.187.99.136
addnode=45.55.140.160
addnode=45.55.236.155
addnode=46.105.118.15
addnode=5.147.116.112
addnode=5.9.36.211
addnode=52.18.54.170
addnode=67.241.161.8
addnode=84.160.239.117
addnode=91.114.115.230
addnode=95.28.130.127
addnode=99.113.26.253

Ok i already have wallet installed and already syncro and working.
Now i created vcoin.conf in folder ...roaming/Vcoin
Vcoin.conf whit your code
Restarted The Vcoin wallet
In console i setgenerate true -1

AND NOW?
1> HOW I CAN VERIFY MY NODE WORKING ?
2> HOW I CAN VERIFY MY WALLET MINING?

Thanks for help me! :-)

If your wallet is synching and your local chain is updating with blocks and if you can see other connections in the bottom right then your wallet is a node. It seems that you are trying to mine with the built in wallet miner. I would advise against it at this point as the difficulty is too high for CPU mining. The only way to mine it at the moment is with an ASIC miner connected to the wallet. Forgot about using setgenerate. For academic reasons, if you want to know if your wallet built-in miner is working, you can look at your system processes and resource usage and if your CPU is running at 100% then your CPU is mining. If you are connected to your local wallet with an ASIC on your local network, then look in your miner console software to see if it is connected and mining.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Maicol792 on September 10, 2015, 07:19:35 AM
yes i want run vcoin node  :o

All you do is to install the Windows client. Then in the ...\roaming\vcoin folder you place a file called vcoin.conf. Inside the file put the lines in the block below. Also change the user ID and password to something suitable.  You can then also sync up quickly by copying the bootstrap.dat file into the ...\roaming\vcoin folder.

Link (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059746.msg12330333#msg12330333) to bootstrap.dat.

Code:
rpcuser=yourusername //put this in your miner if you want to solo mine
rpcpassword=yourpassword //put this in your miner if you want to solo mine
rpcallowip = 127.0.0.1
rpcallowip = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx //put in here the IP address of your miner if you want to solo mine
rpcport = 9984 //put in here the IP address of your miner if you want to solo mine
server = 1
daemon = 1
listen = 1
addnode=185.25.22.33:5522
addnode=45.63.1.27:5530
addnode=185.92.222.31
addnode=108.61.117.249
addnode=108.61.10.90
addnode=176.9.26.47
addnode=188.165.2.147
addnode=193.227.134.111
addnode=213.5.65.155
addnode=31.54.135.69
addnode=32.214.108.194
addnode=37.187.99.136
addnode=45.55.140.160
addnode=45.55.236.155
addnode=46.105.118.15
addnode=5.147.116.112
addnode=5.9.36.211
addnode=52.18.54.170
addnode=67.241.161.8
addnode=84.160.239.117
addnode=91.114.115.230
addnode=95.28.130.127
addnode=99.113.26.253

Ok i already have wallet installed and already syncro and working.
Now i created vcoin.conf in folder ...roaming/Vcoin
Vcoin.conf whit your code
Restarted The Vcoin wallet
In console i setgenerate true -1

AND NOW?
1> HOW I CAN VERIFY MY NODE WORKING ?
2> HOW I CAN VERIFY MY WALLET MINING?

Thanks for help me! :-)

If your wallet is synching and your local chain is updating with blocks and if you can see other connections in the bottom right then your wallet is a node. It seems that you are trying to mine with the built in wallet miner. I would advise against it at this point as the difficulty is too high for CPU mining. The only way to mine it at the moment is with an ASIC miner connected to the wallet. Forgot about using setgenerate. For academic reasons, if you want to know if your wallet built-in miner is working, you can look at your system processes and resource usage and if your CPU is running at 100% then your CPU is mining. If you are connected to your local wallet with an ASIC on your local network, then look in your miner console software to see if it is connected and mining.
Yes all this... Is one accademic reasons ... Thanks for help ... I searching to learn :-) Now i searching difference from node to Full node :-) Thanks!!!


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 10, 2015, 07:24:11 AM
Yes all this... Is one accademic reasons ... Thanks for help ... I searching to learn :-) Now i searching difference from node to Full node :-) Thanks!!!

Please correct me if I am wrong but afaik a node is a wallet that is connected to the network whether it has a local chain or not. A full node is a wallet that has the full chain locally. Therefore if your wallet is fully synced and the chain is local on your PC then you are a full node.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 12, 2015, 09:35:41 AM
Link (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.zip) to updated bootstrap.dat @ block 315,097 (62MB zipped)

Checksums
sha256 : 07a360e6bbb0aa1dd84fc38d8961e6288be70407846e39491d78a36bae067847
md5 : d84b6b21afd16fc5812612f34f522b54


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: samspaces on September 13, 2015, 04:36:05 AM
Yes all this... Is one accademic reasons ... Thanks for help ... I searching to learn :-) Now i searching difference from node to Full node :-) Thanks!!!

Please correct me if I am wrong but afaik a node is a wallet that is connected to the network whether it has a local chain or not. A full node is a wallet that has the full chain locally. Therefore if your wallet is fully synced and the chain is local on your PC then you are a full node.

Curious to what situation a connected wallet isn't a node, I thought all local wallets hold a ledger i.e. are full nodes.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 13, 2015, 05:50:31 AM
Yes all this... Is one accademic reasons ... Thanks for help ... I searching to learn :-) Now i searching difference from node to Full node :-) Thanks!!!

Please correct me if I am wrong but afaik a node is a wallet that is connected to the network whether it has a local chain or not. A full node is a wallet that has the full chain locally. Therefore if your wallet is fully synced and the chain is local on your PC then you are a full node.

Curious to what situation a connected wallet isn't a node, I thought all local wallets hold a ledger i.e. are full nodes.

Here are some links that talk about when a wallet is a full node.

Link1 (http://cryptorials.io/glossary/full-node/)
Link2 (http://cryptorials.io/glossary/lightweight-wallet/)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: disamsal on September 13, 2015, 04:55:08 PM
hi, is this "http://www.vcoinapp.com/" somehowe connected to VCoin?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: ITileclooTI on September 13, 2015, 05:29:47 PM
Purely because I consider it to be within in my “related disciplinary interest” bailiwick ...

When Discrimination Is Baked into Algorithms (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/discrimination-algorithms-disparate-impact/403969/?single_page=true)

Quote
A recent ProPublica analysis of The Princeton Review’s prices for online SAT tutoring shows that customers in areas with a high density of Asian residents are often charged more. When presented with this finding, The Princeton Review called it an “incidental” result of its geographic pricing scheme. The case illustrates how even a seemingly neutral price model could potentially lead to inadvertent bias—bias that’s hard for consumers to detect and even harder to challenge or prove.

Hm. We learned in the late 80s that ML was vulnerable to this, how come the lesson appears to have been forgotten?

I wonder if I have not been mistakenly assuming that the lack of acknowledgement of the issue by contemporary proponents of ML was a sign that the issue (GIGO) is so basic as to have been fully internalised.

To discover that the knowledge has apparently been lost is more than a little disturbing.

Cheers

Graham


If there were more details released about how they are supposed to be charged more, I could maybe make an actual judgement on that, but so far they have essentially made a good work moving forward that shows arrows pointing to a box labeled nothing and that's it.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on September 13, 2015, 06:22:37 PM
hi, is this "http://www.vcoinapp.com/" somehowe connected to VCoin?

Nope, no connection.

I'm curious why you thought it might be somehow connected. Did you actually think it was or did you consider it unlikely but thought you'd check anyway?

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: disamsal on September 13, 2015, 08:55:54 PM
i did consider it unlikely , but had to check it out anyway  :D


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on September 13, 2015, 10:47:36 PM
i did consider it unlikely , but had to check it out anyway  :D

Had a suspicion that was the case, thanks for indulging my curiosity. I'm obliged to you.


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Sequl Nagy on September 14, 2015, 09:35:08 AM
Glad to seeing peoples to participate in vcoin community


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: disamsal on September 14, 2015, 11:28:50 AM
it seems to me like a good coin to baghold :)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on September 14, 2015, 02:22:38 PM
Ish...

I don't know how you find the time to contribute, what with all the altcoins that you're currently controlling and with being in school all day long, too. What brings you here? And what criteria are you using that allow you to produce such an eloquent summary?


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 14, 2015, 03:03:39 PM
Glad to seeing peoples to participate in vcoin community

Things are slowly starting to pick up. The chain is running smoothly and what I like most so far is the quick difficulty retargeting. The chain seems to go through two ebbs per day and it is interesting to see how the hashrate goes up on the difficulty down-cycle. I guess miners are trying to accumulate as many coins as possible before the next halving at 400k.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on September 14, 2015, 03:28:30 PM
it seems to me like a good coin to baghold :)

Well, sort of. It's difficult for me to comment either way, 'cos I can’t see the logic of bagholding myself.

Except in one circumstance, accumulating a significant share of the coinage with the intention of then ploughing most of it back into creating some heavyweight promotional programmes, on the principle that 10% of something is better than 100% of nothing.

I have several coins that I’m “curating” (in that other interest has dropped away to nearly zero) and I run a constant low-level injection of energy (value) into the network, thus allowing the economic parameters to mature without being unduly stressed by a casually uninterested exchange market.

Elsewhere, I’ll invest my time rather than my fiat (it’s an injection of value, whichever way you look at it).

tl;dr Generally, you’re likely to get more value out of your investments if you put your wealth to work.


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Sequl Nagy on September 14, 2015, 10:03:59 PM
Glad to seeing peoples to participate in vcoin community

Things are slowly starting to pick up. The chain is running smoothly and what I like most so far is the quick difficulty retargeting. The chain seems to go through two ebbs per day and it is interesting to see how the hashrate goes up on the difficulty down-cycle. I guess miners are trying to accumulate as many coins as possible before the next halving at 400k.
That's good (slowly) regarding the difficulty retargeting this is one of the attributes that make it unique in combination with secure hashing algorith sha-2 ---> (sha256)
According to my calculations Vcoin after 600k blocks block reward will be determined at nMinSubsidy with other words after 600k block Vcoin block reward = 1 vcoin per block 


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: disamsal on September 15, 2015, 05:11:40 PM
hi Graham, is there a Mac wallet?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 15, 2015, 07:43:20 PM
hi Graham, is there a Mac wallet?

I have a Raspberry Pi wallet if you are interested which I have not published yet. Maybe Ill publish it a bit later tonight.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: BitcoinExpert on September 15, 2015, 09:30:59 PM
Coming soon with the next update - http://uberpay.io/ (http://uberpay.io/)

http://i59.tinypic.com/eaftxz.png
http://i61.tinypic.com/2m6plqu.png
http://i62.tinypic.com/20s6s9.png


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: disamsal on September 15, 2015, 11:40:36 PM
Great, tnx


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 16, 2015, 02:59:42 AM
Awesome! Does that cover iOS and Android?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: BitcoinExpert on September 16, 2015, 07:19:13 AM
Awesome! Does that cover iOS and Android?

Only Android for now.iOS version coming soon.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on September 16, 2015, 09:11:28 AM
Coming soon with the next update - http://uberpay.io/ (http://uberpay.io/)

http://i59.tinypic.com/eaftxz.png
http://i61.tinypic.com/2m6plqu.png
http://i62.tinypic.com/20s6s9.png
Thanks to Adonis Valamontes for the wallet and BitcoinExpert for their support


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 17, 2015, 02:17:09 PM
Here is the Raspberry Pi wallet for v0.9 - for both the Qt wallet and the the headless daemon wallet (command line).

Important:
1) The wallet was built on a Raspberry Pi2 (ARM7) running Raspbian Wheezy.
2) Installation directory where the binaries are installed is ~/opt/vcoin or /home/pi/opt/vcoin
3) All that is needed is to execute the command below on your Pi in a terminal window and afterwards you need to double click the vcoin-qt icon on your desktop. Alternatively go to the directory with the wallets and run the daemon (vcoind) with the options you want at the command prompt or in a terminal window
4) An Internet connection is required for the installation
5) A bootstrap.dat is used to fast track the blockchain sync - up to block 607982.
6) The bootstrap.dat also works for Windows wallets. For your convenience I have included a direct link below to a normal zipped bootstrap.dat to make it easy for the Windows users. Windows users have to unzip and copy the bootstrap.dat file into their c\users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\vcoin folder and run the Win client again
7) You need at least an 8GB memory card
8.) The installation itself takes about 30-45min on an out-of-the-box Pi and then a once off import of the blockchain takes another 1-3 hours
9) You cannot just download the binaries, you have to run the script to get the dependencies as well else it will not run
10) The installation script does not enable the UFW firewall by default. If you want to enable it, uncomment the UFW lines in the script and add the port you want open and run it again or enable it manually by running the UFW commands as in the script with the correct port numbers.
11) Always backup your wallet first
12) The installation assumes you are using the default "pi" account

Instructions to use the daemon:

1) Since you have an vcoin.conf file with the startup settings in it that was created by the script, go to the folder with the binaries ~/opt/vcoin and enter ./vcoind in a terminal window to start the server
2) After the blockchain has been imported you can enter the normal wallet commands that you would as in a Windows debug console preceded with ./vcoind
3) Remember to always make a backup of your wallet.dat file before you do anything like encrypting it
4) To encrypt your wallet run the command ./vcoind encryptwallet <yourpassword>

Let me know about any issues that you may encounter.

To kickstart the installation execute the following command at the command prompt or in a terminal window on your Pi:
Code:
wget https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/vcoin_installation_pi.sh && chmod +x vcoin_installation_pi.sh && ./vcoin_installation_pi.sh && rm -f vcoin_installation_pi.sh

Direct links:
Link to installation script (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/vcoin_installation_pi.sh)
Link to vcoind (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/vcoind)
Link to vcoin-qt (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/vcoin-qt)
Link to Virustotal scan for vcoind (https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/f1ace0a1ff605303e151fdb97bb9358f252879eaed622fac083dd3c998e1923d/analysis/1442499259/)
Link to Virustotal scan for vcoin-qt (https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9b74e7355439a27b16b8266e2ea53f479980e32fb7d323fc3cbebcd7730cf5ac/analysis/1442499107/)
Link to bootstrap.dat (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/vcoin_bootstrap.tar.gz) up to block 607982, 134MB (.tar.gz)
Link to bootstrap.dat (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.zip) up to block 607982, 134MB (.zip)
Link to checksums.txt (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/checksums.txt)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 18, 2015, 03:01:02 PM
(while playing around in Excel)

Money supply graphs:

http://i1379.photobucket.com/albums/ah149/JC12345/vcoin15_zpsizb6b44w.png

http://i1379.photobucket.com/albums/ah149/JC12345/vcoin16_zpsw3jbcvfw.png

http://i1379.photobucket.com/albums/ah149/JC12345/vcoin14_zps79qch4cy.png

Equivalent block size:

VCoin block time 30s = 20 blocks / 10min = 20MB / 10min
Bitcoin block time 10min = 1 block / 10min = 1MB / 10min


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: geopayme on September 20, 2015, 10:14:30 PM
Geopay.me Inc has released their new UberPay Multicoin wallet on Google Play

https://i.imgur.com/IxiqDbC.png (http://imgur.com/IxiqDbC)

LINK TO DOWNLOAD THE WALLET
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mygeopay.wallet (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mygeopay.wallet)

Learn more about which coins are in the UberPay Wallet

Here you can check the status of VCoin and its release in the UberPay Wallet
http://mygeopay.com/2015/09/19/uberpay-wallet-pre-release-coins-evaluation/ (http://mygeopay.com/2015/09/19/uberpay-wallet-pre-release-coins-evaluation/)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: disamsal on September 21, 2015, 02:21:47 PM
just finished the download on my phone, app looks great!


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Maicol792 on September 27, 2015, 01:17:48 PM
I think this is a food alternative to bitcoin... And you? How we can promote this coin?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 27, 2015, 08:38:39 PM
I think this is a good alternative to bitcoin... And you? How we can promote this coin?

The VCoin community is a Teal organization (refer here (http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00344?gko=10921)). Everyone can participate and apply their skills, including PR and marketing.

If the community work together, just like sociable weavers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociable_weaver) (found in Africa), a strong platform for be future can be woven.  This will require everyone to work together and contribute their skills and resources and sometimes not necessarily wanting something in return but doing it for the good of the community and the greater cause. Profit and price is not the main driver but a lagging indicator that follows the efforts of the community.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: disamsal on September 28, 2015, 04:53:10 PM
it sure would be nice to have a Mac wallet, as yobit started to sell yovi underprice.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 28, 2015, 05:27:11 PM
it sure would be nice to have a Mac wallet, as yobit started to sell yovi underprice.

A Mac wallet would be a nice addition. This can be a good example of how the VCoin community should operate. If you want a Mac wallet, get in touch with someone with the skills and ask him to join the community and contribute a Mac wallet. I am sure there are others that would also want to use a Mac wallet. Being a supporter of the VCoin community, I compiled and contributed a Pi wallet but unfortunately I have not yet looked into compiling a Mac one.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: disamsal on September 29, 2015, 10:53:24 AM
it sure would be nice to have a Mac wallet, as yobit started to sell yovi underprice.

A Mac wallet would be a nice addition. This can be a good example of how the VCoin community should operate. If you want a Mac wallet, get in touch with someone with the skills and ask him to join the community and contribute a Mac wallet. I am sure there are others that would also want to use a Mac wallet. Being a supporter of the VCoin community, I compiled and contributed a Pi wallet but unfortunately I have not yet looked into compiling a Mac one.

ok, i will try to do so. tnx


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on September 29, 2015, 02:28:06 PM
Organisational reality - expect some exchange operators not to feel part of a coin “community” or behave as though they are.

There seems to be something about the notion of “decentralised” that has escaped Richie Lai’s understanding (the “bad transactions” incident refers to SterlingCoin SLG):

In regards to Bittrex specifically, while trying to get Bittrex to update to v1.5.1, I received this communication from Richie Lai of Bittrex:

Hey Steven,

I've been trying to unwind a bunch of bad transactions... It looks like we have deposits dating back almost a month that somehow were orphaned? There are also a bunch of bad deposits starting from Monday. Do you guys have a foundation or something that can help us recover coins? It looks like we're out about 42k in bad deposits. I've resynced now but can't reopen until we make our balance whole.

Thanks,
Richie

I have responded to Richie and informed him that we do not have a foundation. I also told him I would reach out to our community. As you may know, the dev found has long been depleted by server costs and none of those funds remain. I with all of my own personal Sterlingcoin and on behalf of the Sterlingcoin developers, could contribute half of the 42k to do this if the community can aid with the rest. It does appear any action should wait until after the fork.

Bittrex, the well-known philanthropic, not-for-profit organisation requests that the SLG community reimburse Bittrex’ losses or face permanent delisting of the coin.

He'd get short shrift if he tried that on with Bitcoin. I wonder who might Richie have in mind should he feel the need to contact the VCoin community?


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on October 14, 2015, 12:21:45 PM
Block reward halved to 3.125 VCoin per block next and last halving at 500000 blocks with reward 1.56 VCoin per block after 600000 block VCoin block reward will be 1 VCoin per block


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: tekyboy on October 14, 2015, 11:45:38 PM
http://i62.tinypic.com/1zmfplh.png

TekyBoy Mining Pool (http://tekyboy.tk)

Pool is up and running, send some smiley hashes

Happy Mining

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https://twitter.com/tekyboy/status/654450047355088896


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: disamsal on October 18, 2015, 02:47:40 PM
nice buy wall @40 sat @bleutrade :)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on October 18, 2015, 08:07:04 PM
Link (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.zip) to updated bootstrap.dat @ block 414504. 84MB zipped
MD5 checksum : 3a3acbd9ebd4f5511e35f5fe94bc6206
SHA256 checksum : 1b27103259cbbbee36a97556262099c075f899489dad139d7141c4aece312648


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on October 19, 2015, 09:17:43 AM
op updated new pool added and bootstrap


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: tekyboy on October 22, 2015, 12:13:16 AM
http://i62.tinypic.com/1zmfplh.png

TekyBoy Mining Pool (http://tekyboy.com/pool)

Critical Update

guys i do apologize but due to some urgent database maintenance and shifting of servers i had to temporary close all pools after 3 hrs @ 2300 hrs EST. Hence you are requested to take your miners off so the payouts will get process smoothly till that time.

This critical maintenance is for upgrading back-end databases which might cause all pool miners data to reset.

Pools will be back on within 3 hrs

Appreciate your cooperation

thanks,


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on November 13, 2015, 09:53:50 AM
Approximately 3 days left before next halving at 1.5625 VCoin reward per block until 600k blocks after 600k blocks block reward 1 VCoin until the end


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: ob1100 on November 17, 2015, 03:54:19 PM
New Pool VCoin (VCN) @  http://miningpools.tk payments are sent out every 10 to 20 minutes after confirmation.
 
Point your miner to stratum+tcp://miningpools.tk:8006  and use your VCN coin wallet address as your username, any password will do.
 
1% fees




Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on November 18, 2015, 03:15:00 AM
Here is an updated bootstrap.dat @ block 632414

Link (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.zip) to bootstrap.dat (135MB zipped)
Link (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/checksums.txt) to checksums.txt

Link (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/vcoind_15.10) to dynamic headless daemon wallet for Ubuntu 15.10 x64
Link (https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/49bc0d694c56fa28fc23163d14d850b004e555efdc6a8066f1f3d8ee69655ce8/analysis/1449322901/) to virustotal scan
Link (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/checksums.txt) to checksums.txt


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on December 19, 2015, 08:52:02 AM
Block reward halved 1 Vcoin per block


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: crackfoo on December 21, 2015, 12:47:17 AM
Hi,

We've added VCN to the miners multipool: www.zpool.ca

Cheers!


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on February 06, 2016, 04:05:03 PM
that thread is not active does not mean that we have abandoned the development,because thread seems inactive does not mean that the people's has lost their interest in Vcoin,there are many crypto currencies with active their Ann threads and their price is 2-3 satoshi,there are many crypto currencies devs who have paid enough money to advertise their currency,Vcoin don't use such promote kind,Vcoin promotion is the love of the community to this
when news about the development is available will be announced here.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on February 06, 2016, 04:29:15 PM
that thread is not active does not mean that we have abandoned the development,because thread seems inactive does not mean that the people's has lost their interest in Vcoin,there are many crypto currencies with active their Ann threads and their price is 2-3 satoshi,there are many crypto currencies devs who have paid enough money to advertise their currency,Vcoin don't use such promote kind,Vcoin promotion is the love of the community to this
when news about the development is available will be announced here.

Patience is a virtue  :)

PS: The emission curve of Vcoin is close to that of Bitcoin. Vcoin emits 2880 coins per day and Bitcoin 3600. After halving in Jul 2016 Bitcoin will be 1800 and Vcoin 2880 - both being sha256 POW. Vcoin currently has 10m in circulation with Bitcoin 15.1m. Inflation wise they are not far apart.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on February 07, 2016, 10:26:41 PM
that thread is not active does not mean that we have abandoned the development,because thread seems inactive does not mean that the people's has lost their interest in Vcoin,there are many crypto currencies with active their Ann threads and their price is 2-3 satoshi,there are many crypto currencies devs who have paid enough money to advertise their currency,Vcoin don't use such promote kind,Vcoin promotion is the love of the community to this
when news about the development is available will be announced here.

Patience is a virtue  :)

PS: The emission curve of Vcoin is close to that of Bitcoin. Vcoin emits 2880 coins per day and Bitcoin 3600. After halving in Jul 2016 Bitcoin will be 1800 and Vcoin 2880 - both being sha256 POW. Vcoin currently has 10m in circulation with Bitcoin 15.1m. Inflation wise they are not far apart.

A proverb says which makes patience wins everything


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on February 10, 2016, 03:28:17 PM
http://i66.tinypic.com/o0apz8.png


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: disam on February 10, 2016, 07:01:51 PM
i restarted my PC, because i could not belive it. Congrats dev team.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on February 10, 2016, 09:22:15 PM
Updated bootstrap.dat to block 763013


Title: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Protocol73 on February 24, 2016, 02:57:58 PM
So . . . 
 Um is anyone working on a wallet for OSX

I Could Test it . . .  If it's Still a Work in Progress


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: iliasyaco on February 24, 2016, 02:59:58 PM
another one


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on February 24, 2016, 03:09:52 PM
So . . .  
 Um is anyone working on a wallet for OSX

I Could Test it . . .  If it's Still a Work in Progress

An OSX wallet will be great. Perhaps a community member can compile one?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Protocol73 on February 28, 2016, 12:45:44 AM
For OSX users with Python I wrote a little script to Paste Text to your clipboard.

Works great for Keeping ALT-coin address.  ;)  

https://github.com/Protocol73/OSX-addr-copy

Just Edit to your Button Names & Text.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Maicol792 on February 28, 2016, 09:13:43 PM
we can merge vcoin whit bitcoinultra?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on February 29, 2016, 02:27:46 AM
we can merge vcoin whit bitcoinultra?

You don't indicate why but sure, if you want to, go ahead; there's nothing to stop you.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Maicol792 on February 29, 2016, 03:50:53 PM
BTCU need a new dev .... primary target.... and if we can merge i think is a good notice.... vcoin dev we can administrate btcu ;)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on March 01, 2016, 11:56:26 AM
BTCU need a new dev .... primary target.... and if we can merge i think is a good notice.... vcoin dev we can administrate btcu ;)

Oh, I see - thanks for the clarification. Merging the coin distributions isn't feasible because they have different distribution models and different  protection models.

The BTCU distro is an airdrop of of a PoW-PoS hybrid (based on Novacoin) which is now in the final pure PoS phase whereas the released version of VCoin is pure PoW (based on Bitcoin), has finished its primary mining distribution phase and rewards are now tx only.

As different as chalk and cheese, as they say.

I'm sending you a PM with a few more details and some suggestions.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on March 06, 2016, 10:58:16 AM
Updated the bootstrap to 935688


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: BitcoinNational on April 21, 2016, 06:38:44 AM
As different as chalk and cheese, as they say.
like the line ;)

- BTCU distro is an airdrop of a PoW-PoS hybrid (based on Novacoin), which is now in the final pure PoS phase
- VCoin is pure PoW (based on Bitcoin), has finished its primary mining distribution phase and rewards are now tx only

OP is confusing, i read r=1, forever more
Will have to check BE to see to be sure

Will add to the ASIC pool list if you post any know pools
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1428251.msg14444042#msg14444042


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on April 21, 2016, 07:05:02 AM
As different as chalk and cheese, as they say.
like the line ;)

- BTCU distro is an airdrop of a PoW-PoS hybrid (based on Novacoin), which is now in the final pure PoS phase
- VCoin is pure PoW (based on Bitcoin), has finished its primary mining distribution phase and rewards are now tx only

OP is confusing, i read r=1, forever more
Will have to check BE to see to be sure

Will add to the ASIC pool list if you post any know pools
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1428251.msg14444042#msg14444042

The main distribution phases are over yes but reward for VCoin is 1VCN per block.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on April 21, 2016, 07:10:51 AM
so cool the coin

A diamond in the rough.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Duchess on April 25, 2016, 06:27:34 PM
What are the future plans for Vcoin?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: bazilik on May 06, 2016, 07:30:46 PM
Ecть paбoчий кoшeль, ycтaнoвил этoт, 0 aктивныx coeдинeний c ceтью!


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on May 06, 2016, 07:37:18 PM
Ecть paбoчий кoшeль, ycтaнoвил этoт, 0 aктивныx coeдинeний c ceтью!

If you dont get connections you are just making a mistake.

Here is the node list as per the explorer:
addnode=108.61.10.90
addnode=167.114.249.196
addnode=185.92.222.31
addnode=188.0.40.249
addnode=191.178.89.244
addnode=45.63.1.27
addnode=45.63.122.61
addnode=46.105.118.15
addnode=5.9.36.211
addnode=67.241.161.8
addnode=78.208.16.112
addnode=83.112.105.25
addnode=86.180.172.247
addnode=87.213.74.222


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on June 07, 2016, 11:12:37 AM
Someone asked me if Vcoin is dead,no is not dead, that the topic is not active does not mean that the Vcoin is dead,there are developers who can support the Vcoin development,Soon we will announce a road map,Our goal is to create something useful and something special and unique,we could spam the thread in order to keep up, but we did not, there is no reason,any news about the Vcoin development will be posted here


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Laamadeus on July 11, 2016, 02:59:36 PM
Someone asked me if Vcoin is dead,no is not dead, that the topic is not active does not mean that the Vcoin is dead,there are developers who can support the Vcoin development,Soon we will announce a road map,Our goal is to create something useful and something special and unique,we could spam the thread in order to keep up, but we did not, there is no reason,any news about the Vcoin development will be posted here

Oh nice. Just start to lookup what is going on with vcoin, nice to hear that :)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on July 11, 2016, 06:43:35 PM
Someone asked me if Vcoin is dead,no is not dead, that the topic is not active does not mean that the Vcoin is dead,there are developers who can support the Vcoin development,Soon we will announce a road map,Our goal is to create something useful and something special and unique,we could spam the thread in order to keep up, but we did not, there is no reason,any news about the Vcoin development will be posted here

Oh nice. Just start to lookup what is going on with vcoin, nice to hear that :)

In the meantime VPS nodes, block explorer and exchange are maintained.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on July 11, 2016, 06:56:52 PM
Im currently working on electrum for Vcoin lightweight wallet that only downloads block headers instead of the whole blockchain which makes it faster to sync and uses less computer resources, while still being secure and not relying on a trusted third party,will be available for Linux-Windows-osx next days...
All I can tell you so far is that there will be a hard fork in the future,i will not say more because I do not like a lot of words but only acts i believe that is understood.

Cheers Chris


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on August 20, 2016, 03:39:18 PM
Bootstrap updated to block 1217998

Link (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.zip)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on August 21, 2016, 10:29:40 PM
VCoin will be added in bitsquare exchange in the next release,bitsquare is Decentralized, Peer-To-Peer Bitcoin and altcoin Exchange,Bitsquare lets you buy and sell bitcoin-altcoins anonymously or trade altcoins in the most secure way with its decentralized exchange


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on September 13, 2016, 09:52:16 AM
Bitsquare v0.4.9.5 added VCoin,As I mentioned above bitsquare is Decentralized, Peer-To-Peer Bitcoin and altcoin Exchange,Bitsquare lets you buy and sell bitcoin-altcoins anonymously or trade altcoins in the most secure way with its decentralized exchange


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: trannamtan on October 18, 2016, 05:28:45 AM
thank you DEV, always updated about the development of the project  ;)
just select lots vcoin and keep it !
waiting for good news to Vcoin will explode   8) 8) 8)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on October 19, 2016, 04:22:41 AM
Link  (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.zip)to bootstrap @ 1368965

getblockhash 1368965 000000000002a886cffdfaa7aad59285f0e024321c2a7f5748535fa8146426ff


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on November 01, 2016, 06:44:16 PM
Vcoin has nothing to do with this website http://vcoinecapitals.com/whyvcoin.php when a website is available I will add their link to op


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: MbakNarti on November 02, 2016, 12:58:29 AM
Deposite vcoin on Yobit still not available yet, status Maintenace  >:(


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on November 02, 2016, 07:25:43 AM
Deposite vcoin on Yobit still not available yet, status Maintenace  >:(
I have noticed this,I will contact with them for further information


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: MbakNarti on November 04, 2016, 12:49:23 AM
Deposite vcoin on Yobit still not available yet, status Maintenace  >:(
I have noticed this,I will contact with them for further information

Thank you dev, I really hope this issue resolved as soon as possible


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Djstress007 on December 14, 2016, 03:52:57 AM
You know I'm feeling pretty lame  ??? right now. I never have a problem with QT wallets but for some reason I can not connect to the network even after adding all the nodes. Can someone maybe tell me what I did wrong. Usually I create a file to put the nodes into the wallet but this time I decided to use the addnode command on all of them. Where did I go wrong I'm stumped at this point? If anyone could set me straight here Id really appreciate it. Thanks! ;) I'm usually pretty good with this but the contents of the wallet threw me off. I even boot strapped the becheeses out of it but still no connects.  ???


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Djstress007 on December 14, 2016, 04:04:55 AM
Never mind I just created a config file for it. Thanks jumped the gun on that one. I knew I should have just did that in the first place. ::)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Langly on December 14, 2016, 09:04:26 PM
Deposite vcoin on Yobit still not available yet, status Maintenace  >:(
I have noticed this,I will contact with them for further information

Thank you dev, I really hope this issue resolved as soon as possible

Any luck finding out what's going on with Yobit?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: MbakNarti on December 14, 2016, 09:39:45 PM
Always status: Maintenance, when can deposite vcoin in yobit?  >:(

https://i.imgur.com/yGWvCEA.png


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: synthgauge on December 14, 2016, 09:48:16 PM
Always status: Maintenance, when can deposite vcoin in yobit?  >:(

https://i.imgur.com/yGWvCEA.png

Never. They will delist it and disallow new shitcoins wallets.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: MbakNarti on December 14, 2016, 09:59:04 PM
Always status: Maintenance, when can deposite vcoin in yobit?  >:(

https://i.imgur.com/yGWvCEA.png

Never. They will delist it and disallow new shitcoins wallets.

It would be better, because it has very long time wallet status maintenance, maybe dev have gone


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: synthgauge on December 14, 2016, 10:07:07 PM
Always status: Maintenance, when can deposite vcoin in yobit?  >:(

https://i.imgur.com/yGWvCEA.png

Never. They will delist it and disallow new shitcoins wallets.

It would be better, because it has very long time wallet status maintenance, maybe dev have gone

They halted deposits and are quietly dumping what they have left in the cold wallet. They will dump ur coins too and turn ur balance to zero. If u have some in a local wallet, dump ur coins anywhere but not on yobit.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on December 23, 2016, 11:55:10 PM
When I contact with yobit support months ago about Vcoin wallet I receive this message
The solution to this cryptocurrency will take some time, need to update the wallet.
We apologize for any inconvenience.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on December 24, 2016, 05:19:27 AM
Bleutrade is working. Yobit will activate again with an updated wallet. One working exchange is perfectly fine at this point.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Protocol73 on January 06, 2017, 06:21:04 PM
I would Like to host a P2Pool for Vcoin if anyone is interested & has the p2pool files send them to me & I'll host it.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on January 07, 2017, 02:58:36 PM
I would Like to host a P2Pool for Vcoin if anyone is interested & has the p2pool files send them to me & I'll host it.

The main distribution phases are over yes but reward for VCoin is 1 VCN per block.

Is it possible that you have mistaken VCoin for an entirely different coin?


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on January 07, 2017, 03:18:21 PM
A brief report on development:

- Bitcoin Core upstream master has been merged with V Core master, bringing it up to 0.13.2
- The impact of Qt developments is still being investigated in terms of trying to get a realistic assessment of the potential contribution of embedded Angular apps vs coding the functionality directly in C++
- A candidate DHT library is being assessed for compatibility

Cheers

Graham



Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on January 08, 2017, 06:25:21 PM
Link  (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.zip)to updated bootstrap file @ block 1588016

Geblockhash 1588016
00000000000d9466e721cf90c70f7ecb960e19379f007efb14585c41f6db9c5b


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Protocol73 on January 08, 2017, 10:07:41 PM

The main distribution phases are over yes but reward for VCoin is 1 VCN per block.

Is it possible that you have mistaken VCoin for an entirely different coin?


Nope I just saw Extraction Stats & thought it would help.
Plus my ping time to ISpace Pools is barely Tolerable  :-\

http://imgur.com/GtiwqQL

Extraction of Blocks  (https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/#!extraction)



Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on January 08, 2017, 11:37:17 PM

The main distribution phases are over yes but reward for VCoin is 1 VCN per block.

Is it possible that you have mistaken VCoin for an entirely different coin?


Nope I just saw Extraction Stats & thought it would help.
Plus my ping time to ISpace Pools is barely Tolerable  :-\

That's a reasonable conclusion. I assume you are aware of the development track? Reporting has lagged a bit while I develop an interface to the OP_RETURN tx data.

Cheers

Graham




Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Protocol73 on January 09, 2017, 01:13:14 AM
Is it possible that you have mistaken VCoin for an entirely different coin?
Nope I just saw Extraction Stats & thought it would help.
Plus my ping time to ISpace Pools is barely Tolerable  :-\
That's a reasonable conclusion. I assume you are aware of the development track? Reporting has lagged a bit while I develop an interface to the OP_RETURN tx data.

Oh,
I just want to do some solo mining & my Miners need a P2pool to talk to my Servers. (Dell R710)

I'm currently Hosting a P2Pool & Merge Mining BTC & SIL (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1235629.0) for myself,
but I'd like to throe some hashes at this coin every now & then.
(without using ISpace)

--Thanks,
Protocol73


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: samspaces on January 19, 2017, 11:37:48 PM
Wasn't this coin on Bluetrade? Not there anymore. Guess that's a few 1000 less in circulation then.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on January 20, 2017, 11:10:10 AM
Wasn't this coin on Bluetrade? Not there anymore. Guess that's a few 1000 less in circulation then.

It was,now and I can't find it I will contact with bleutrade for more info..
For now trading in yobit https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: samspaces on January 20, 2017, 11:51:28 AM
Wasn't this coin on Bluetrade? Not there anymore. Guess that's a few 1000 less in circulation then.

It was,now and I can't find it I will contact with bleutrade for more info..
For now trading in yobit https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC

Yobit's wallet is in maintenance. Bluetrade has it under their delisted currencies.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on January 20, 2017, 11:58:27 AM
Wasn't this coin on Bluetrade? Not there anymore. Guess that's a few 1000 less in circulation then.

It was,now and I can't find it I will contact with bleutrade for more info..
For now trading in yobit https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC

Yobit's wallet is in maintenance. Bluetrade has it under their delisted currencies.
I will contact with them asap,trading on yobit is secure


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on January 20, 2017, 12:40:20 PM
Wasn't this coin on Bluetrade? Not there anymore. Guess that's a few 1000 less in circulation then.

It was,now and I can't find it I will contact with bleutrade for more info..
For now trading in yobit https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC

Yobit's wallet is in maintenance. Bluetrade has it under their delisted currencies.

I just raised an issue:

Quote
VCoin

Apparently delisted without notice whilst I was waiting for a purchase to complete. Now that the purchase has competed, how can I withdraw my coins?

Awaiting a response.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on January 20, 2017, 01:38:59 PM
Wasn't this coin on Bluetrade? Not there anymore. Guess that's a few 1000 less in circulation then.

It was,now and I can't find it I will contact with bleutrade for more info..
For now trading in yobit https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC

Yobit's wallet is in maintenance. Bluetrade has it under their delisted currencies.

I just raised an issue:

Quote
VCoin

Apparently delisted without notice whilst I was waiting for a purchase to complete. Now that the purchase has competed, how can I withdraw my coins?


Awaiting a response.

Cheers

Graham


Thanks Graham.  

Their chain seems still active as it can be withdrawn from the delisted section, but it would be much better if it was under the main section :) VCoin main chain and explorer are ticking over.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on January 20, 2017, 02:35:43 PM
Their chain seems still active as it can be withdrawn from the delisted section, but it would be much better if it was under the main section :) VCoin main chain and explorer are ticking over.

I suspect I've fallen down a UI hole. There's no withdrawal destination wallet address quoted because I haven't had an opportunity to specify one.

https://i.imgur.com/1k5HfUB.png (http://imgur.com/1k5HfUB)




Ad hoc update - currently trying to calculate a value for the BIP32 serialization values ...

https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoincore/blob/master/src/chainparams.cpp#L174

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-bip32-serialization-values-dev-discussion-wont-apply-to-most.8092/


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on January 20, 2017, 03:08:31 PM
Their chain seems still active as it can be withdrawn from the delisted section, but it would be much better if it was under the main section :) VCoin main chain and explorer are ticking over.

I suspect I've fallen down a UI hole. There's no withdrawal destination wallet address quoted because I haven't had an opportunity to specify one.

https://i.imgur.com/1k5HfUB.png (http://imgur.com/1k5HfUB)




Ad hoc update - currently trying to calculate a value for the BIP32 serialization values ...

https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoincore/blob/master/src/chainparams.cpp#L174

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-bip32-serialization-values-dev-discussion-wont-apply-to-most.8092/


Cheers

Graham


That is a Bleutrade bug, alternatively an autofill bug. I suspect that the field where your email address is, triggers the autofill to enter an email address. Replace your email address in the wallet address field with a valid VCoin wallet address and submit - voila!


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: samspaces on January 20, 2017, 06:43:21 PM
For what it's worth, I got mine out of Bluetrade just fine.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on January 20, 2017, 07:31:45 PM
For what it's worth, I got mine out of Bluetrade just fine.

Hold on to them.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on January 20, 2017, 09:42:19 PM
That is a Bleutrade bug, alternatively an autofill bug. I suspect that the field where your email address is, triggers the autofill to enter an email address. Replace your email address in the wallet address field with a valid VCoin wallet address and submit - voila!

Your analysis was spot on. It was an autofill issue. I followed your advice and successfully withdrew my coins.

voila! indeed.

Thank you.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: CoinXE on January 29, 2017, 08:41:51 AM
No longer vcoin on bleutrade??

https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/BTC


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on January 29, 2017, 06:47:02 PM
No longer vcoin on bleutrade??

https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/BTC
No. https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on January 29, 2017, 07:36:59 PM
No longer vcoin on bleutrade??

https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/BTC

Not an issue at this point.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: CoinXE on January 30, 2017, 05:03:50 AM
No longer vcoin on bleutrade??

https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/BTC

Not an issue at this point.

Any plan to continue develop this coin in future? Is has a good name and history here..


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on January 31, 2017, 05:16:31 AM
No longer vcoin on bleutrade??

https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/BTC

Not an issue at this point.

Any plan to continue develop this coin in future? Is has a good name and history here..

Not in any conventional sense of the term “development”, no. But ...

I'd argue that the history is uninspiring. The emission phase is complete and block reward is basically tx-only. Trading is minimal, wallet is in “maintenance mode” on Yobit and as noted above, delisted from Bleutrade.

Also, not a good choice of name by jp OP, there was already a promotion-redeeming “smart electronic coupon” (http://www.vcoinapp.com/en/about/) called VCoin, offered by a company registered in HK. They made a trademark application for VCoin in the US last year, might even have been granted by now. VCoin is basically obliged to re-brand completely - like Darknet re-branding to PIVX. Any conventional development would have to acknowledge the unexceptional nature of the technical aspects of the coin and have to be positioned in such a way as to render this aspect relatively insignificant --- the fact that there have been 3000+ launched altcoins testifies to the difficulty of this task.

VCoin is a totally blank canvas, the OP abandoned the coin almost as soon as the code was made public. In the complete absence of a “public vision”, I've felt free to adapt the coin to be a public work of art and, working in my own branch, am in the process of decorating it with a few imaginative notions that I conjured up, based on some reading I did into some of the less-frequently considered aspects of a peer-to-peer networked cryptocurrency.

It's very much a labour of love. As a public work of art, there is nothing to interest “investors” - which is why it's not an issue that Bleutrade delisted the coin. It's difficult to see how an untraded, emission-complete, tx-only, SHA2-256D coin going to be of much interest to the altcoin mavens of bitcointalk, especially when there are so many other much more promising alternatives.

As for the quietude in this thread - I'd rather get on with the art than yak about getting on with the art.

If you're interested in art rather than money, PM me and I'll elaborate further.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on January 31, 2017, 05:01:48 PM
Link  (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.zip)to updated bootstrap file @ block 1649659

getblockhash 1649659
000000000000051634b3ecb63bbde95af974fadbdf19e3ffc96a81f38b58c282


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: CoinXE on January 31, 2017, 05:16:43 PM
Link  (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.zip)to updated bootstrap file @ block 1649659

getblockhash 1649659
000000000000051634b3ecb63bbde95af974fadbdf19e3ffc96a81f38b58c282

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/

Is this block explorer showing correct? Currently at 1652012 block..


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: CoinXE on January 31, 2017, 05:24:04 PM
No longer vcoin on bleutrade??

https://bleutrade.com/exchange/VCN/BTC

Not an issue at this point.

Any plan to continue develop this coin in future? Is has a good name and history here..

Not in any conventional sense of the term “development”, no. But ...

I'd argue that the history is uninspiring. The emission phase is complete and block reward is basically tx-only. Trading is minimal, wallet is in “maintenance mode” on Yobit and as noted above, delisted from Bleutrade.

Also, not a good choice of name by jp OP, there was already a promotion-redeeming “smart electronic coupon” (http://www.vcoinapp.com/en/about/) called VCoin, offered by a company registered in HK. They made a trademark application for VCoin in the US last year, might even have been granted by now. VCoin is basically obliged to re-brand completely - like Darknet re-branding to PIVX. Any conventional development would have to acknowledge the unexceptional nature of the technical aspects of the coin and have to be positioned in such a way as to render this aspect relatively insignificant --- the fact that there have been 3000+ launched altcoins testifies to the difficulty of this task.

VCoin is a totally blank canvas, the OP abandoned the coin almost as soon as the code was made public. In the complete absence of a “public vision”, I've felt free to adapt the coin to be a public work of art and, working in my own branch, am in the process of decorating it with a few imaginative notions that I conjured up, based on some reading I did into some of the less-frequently considered aspects of a peer-to-peer networked cryptocurrency.

It's very much a labour of love. As a public work of art, there is nothing to interest “investors” - which is why it's not an issue that Bleutrade delisted the coin. It's difficult to see how an untraded, emission-complete, tx-only, SHA2-256D coin going to be of much interest to the altcoin mavens of bitcointalk, especially when there are so many other much more promising alternatives.

As for the quietude in this thread - I'd rather get on with the art than yak about getting on with the art.

If you're interested in art rather than money, PM me and I'll elaborate further.

Cheers

Graham


Thank you Graham for thought...i will PM you for some information and advice. Have a good day.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on January 31, 2017, 06:03:58 PM
Link  (https://bitbucket.org/jc12345/vcoin/downloads/bootstrap.zip)to updated bootstrap file @ block 1649659

getblockhash 1649659
000000000000051634b3ecb63bbde95af974fadbdf19e3ffc96a81f38b58c282

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/

Is this block explorer showing correct? Currently at 1652012 block..

Yes the block explorer is correct. The bootstrap file was made a day ago.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: amarian12 on February 06, 2017, 09:44:10 AM
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Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on February 24, 2017, 04:16:33 AM
Yobit is synced up and open again.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: CoinXE on February 24, 2017, 05:26:41 AM
Yobit is synced up and open again.

Great!

Can you email cmc also to update the markets info...i email them but no response at all.

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/Vcoin/#charts


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Duchess on February 24, 2017, 10:06:58 AM
Yobit is synced up and open again.

Great!

Can you email cmc also to update the markets info...i email them but no response at all.

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/Vcoin/#charts

I agree it is good news. It is in the interest of everyone to trade so that it stays open while the dev continues development. Also the block explorer must point to Yobit.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: fairglu on February 24, 2017, 11:11:26 AM
Wallet is saying the 0.9.0 is obsolete, and there are indeed some nodes showing 0.9.2.2, however the github repository still only contains 0.9.0...

Is there a newer repository?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on February 24, 2017, 11:16:03 AM
Wallet is saying the 0.9.0 is obsolete, and there are indeed some nodes showing 0.9.2.2, however the github repository still only contains 0.9.0...

Is there a newer repository?

Hi fairglu, no the 0.9.0 is still the latest afaik. The 0.9.2.2 are test wallets. Best for Graham to answer you regarding the wallet versions and upgrade schedules. Can you point the market rate to Yobit?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: CoinXE on February 24, 2017, 12:08:24 PM
Wallet is saying the 0.9.0 is obsolete, and there are indeed some nodes showing 0.9.2.2, however the github repository still only contains 0.9.0...

Is there a newer repository?

Im using the 0.9.0 too...seems most of us still using this version..


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on February 24, 2017, 12:26:35 PM
Wallet is saying the 0.9.0 is obsolete, and there are indeed some nodes showing 0.9.2.2, however the github repository still only contains 0.9.0...

Is there a newer repository?

We're quietly working to upgrade the coin all the way to Bitcoin Core 0.13.x (https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoincore), continuing the policy of staying very close to the core upstream code - so the change shouldn’t have any untoward impact on a block explorer beyond that of a standard upgrade from a Bitcoin 0.9.x codebase to a Bitcoin 0.13.x codebase. Schedule-wise, we're not expecting to make an announcement for at least a couple of months yet - we'll need to give it a bit of a hammering on testnet first.

If you’re interested in the details of the changes, just drop me a PM. <- offer open to all.

Cheers

Graham

Edit: extended offer.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: fairglu on February 24, 2017, 12:49:02 PM
Can you point the market rate to Yobit?

Yep, done!

If you’re interested in the details of the changes, just drop me a PM. <- offer open to all.

No problem about the tech itself, it is that the explorer's wallet is now returning in its getinfo API

Code:
"errors" : "Warning: This version is obsolete, upgrade required!"

which is why I asked ;)

(that message also gets reflected in the explorer)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on February 24, 2017, 01:04:22 PM
If you’re interested in the details of the changes, just drop me a PM. <- offer open to all.

No problem about the tech itself, it is that the explorer's wallet is now returning in its getinfo API

Code:
"errors" : "Warning: This version is obsolete, upgrade required!"

which is why I asked ;)

(that message also gets reflected in the explorer)

Ahh, I wasn't aware of that. Thank you.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on February 24, 2017, 02:09:27 PM
Fairglu the yobit link for vcoin is https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC on the explorer you have set https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCN/BTC


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on February 24, 2017, 02:21:31 PM
If you’re interested in the details of the changes, just drop me a PM. <- offer open to all.

No problem about the tech itself, it is that the explorer's wallet is now returning in its getinfo API

Code:
"errors" : "Warning: This version is obsolete, upgrade required!"

which is why I asked ;)

(that message also gets reflected in the explorer)

Ahh, I wasn't aware of that. Thank you.

Cheers

Graham




If someon check inside the code on main.cpp will see
Code:
// Check the version of the last 100 blocks to see if we need to upgrade:
    if (!fIsInitialDownload)
    {
        int nUpgraded = 0;
        const CBlockIndex* pindex = pindexBest;
        for (int i = 0; i < 100 && pindex != NULL; i++)
        {
            if (pindex->nVersion > CBlock::CURRENT_VERSION)
                ++nUpgraded;
            pindex = pindex->pprev;
        }
        if (nUpgraded > 0)
            printf("SetBestChain: %d of last 100 blocks above version %d\n", nUpgraded, CBlock::CURRENT_VERSION);
        if (nUpgraded > 100/2)
            // strMiscWarning is read by GetWarnings(), called by Qt and the JSON-RPC code to warn the user:
            strMiscWarning = _("Warning: This version is obsolete, upgrade required!");
    }

so if the version on more than 50 blocks exceed the version stored in the software strMiscWarning = _("Warning: This version is obsolete, upgrade required!");


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: e1ghtSpace on March 20, 2017, 11:39:52 AM
Will anyone sell me 100k VCN for 0.05 btc (50 sats each)?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on March 20, 2017, 11:50:04 AM
Will anyone sell me 100k VCN for 0.05 btc (50 sats each)?
You have to try https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC most of Vcoin users hold their vcoins,  I would describe Vcoin as a rare coin who nobody wants to sell at 50sat larger amounts it's obvious if someone look at yobit sell orders


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: e1ghtSpace on March 20, 2017, 12:39:27 PM
Will anyone sell me 100k VCN for 0.05 btc (50 sats each)?
You have to try https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC most of Vcoin users hold their vcoins,  I would describe Vcoin as a rare coin who nobody wants to sell at 50sat larger amounts it's obvious if someone look at yobit sell orders
I did look at the yobit sell orders.
I just thought maybe someone on here wouldn't mind selling me some at that price.
I really don't believe most of the vcoin users hold their coins on yobit, or at least most of the coins. But I may be wrong.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on March 20, 2017, 12:50:43 PM
Will anyone sell me 100k VCN for 0.05 btc (50 sats each)?
You have to try https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC most of Vcoin users hold their vcoins,  I would describe Vcoin as a rare coin who nobody wants to sell at 50sat larger amounts it's obvious if someone look at yobit sell orders
I did look at the yobit sell orders.
I just thought maybe someone on here wouldn't mind selling me some at that price.
I really don't believe most of the vcoin users hold their coins on yobit, or at least most of the coins. But I may be wrong.

There are currently a minimum of 1.2m still in the wallets at Bleutrade and 620k on Yobit. The rest are probably in offline wallets and/or cold storage.

Link  (https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/#!wallets)to explorer with exchange wallets tagged.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: e1ghtSpace on April 03, 2017, 08:40:58 AM
Will anyone sell me 100k VCN for 0.05 btc (50 sats each)?
You have to try https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC most of Vcoin users hold their vcoins,  I would describe Vcoin as a rare coin who nobody wants to sell at 50sat larger amounts it's obvious if someone look at yobit sell orders
I did look at the yobit sell orders.
I just thought maybe someone on here wouldn't mind selling me some at that price.
I really don't believe most of the vcoin users hold their coins on yobit, or at least most of the coins. But I may be wrong.

There are currently a minimum of 1.2m still in the wallets at Bleutrade and 620k on Yobit. The rest are probably in offline wallets and/or cold storage.

Link  (https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/#!wallets)to explorer with exchange wallets tagged.
Wow someone has transfered quite a few coins to yobit. Over 1 million on there now.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: e1ghtSpace on April 06, 2017, 03:26:17 AM
https://s13.postimg.org/jgzx21w07/pending_yobit_withdrawal.png
Any one else experiencing a problem like this?

Its been 3 days. I've contacted support yesterday, with no response yet.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on April 06, 2017, 03:52:20 PM
Will anyone sell me 100k VCN for 0.05 btc (50 sats each)?
You have to try https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC most of Vcoin users hold their vcoins,  I would describe Vcoin as a rare coin who nobody wants to sell at 50sat larger amounts it's obvious if someone look at yobit sell orders
I did look at the yobit sell orders.
I just thought maybe someone on here wouldn't mind selling me some at that price.
I really don't believe most of the vcoin users hold their coins on yobit, or at least most of the coins. But I may be wrong.

There are currently a minimum of 1.2m still in the wallets at Bleutrade and 620k on Yobit. The rest are probably in offline wallets and/or cold storage.

Link  (https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/#!wallets)to explorer with exchange wallets tagged.
Wow someone has transfered quite a few coins to yobit. Over 1 million on there now.

Is it not beautiful to know which accounts are exchange accounts?

The majority of the Yobit increase was not because of a transfer to the exchange, but rather seems like a dormant exchange account where the owner withdrew money and the account got tainted as an exchange account. There might be more but those will crystalize over time as this one did.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on April 06, 2017, 04:00:33 PM
https://s13.postimg.org/jgzx21w07/pending_yobit_withdrawal.png
Any one else experiencing a problem like this?

Its been 3 days. I've contacted support yesterday, with no response yet.

You must have withdrawn a large amount which is good as it will help with the blockchain analytics. It is also good that Yobit keeps coins in a cold wallet. Just keep on nagging support. Yobit normally responds to tickets.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on April 06, 2017, 10:08:41 PM
Last 10k blocks difficulty chart

http://oi65.tinypic.com/21ke7nd.jpg



Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: e1ghtSpace on April 07, 2017, 12:22:36 AM
Is it not beautiful to know which accounts are exchange accounts?

The majority of the Yobit increase was not because of a transfer to the exchange, but rather seems like a dormant exchange account where the owner withdrew money and the account got tainted as an exchange account. There might be more but those will crystalize over time as this one did.
Ah, I see.

https://s13.postimg.org/jgzx21w07/pending_yobit_withdrawal.png
Any one else experiencing a problem like this?

Its been 3 days. I've contacted support yesterday, with no response yet.

You must have withdrawn a large amount which is good as it will help with the blockchain analytics. It is also good that Yobit keeps coins in a cold wallet. Just keep on nagging support. Yobit normally responds to tickets.
Yes, previously I withdrew 100k and it went through straight away. But this time with more coins it has been stuck for days. I contacted support again with a new ticket, so hopefully they respond this time.

Quote from: everyone
Is the block reward down to 1 coin now? Edit: Nevermind, it is.
Does anyone have a windows vcoin wallet with coin control? It is a little annoying with the older version (0.9.0.0-beta).


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on April 07, 2017, 10:09:44 AM
Does anyone have a windows vcoin wallet with coin control? It is a little annoying with the older version (0.9.0.0-beta).

I might have. What's it worth to you?

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: e1ghtSpace on April 12, 2017, 11:40:32 PM
Does anyone have a windows vcoin wallet with coin control? It is a little annoying with the older version (0.9.0.0-beta).

I might have. What's it worth to you?

Cheers

Graham

Well, not too much right now as I am still waiting for yobit to send me my coins!

https://s16.postimg.org/xf3zwiool/vcoin-yobit.png
No replies to my support messages yet.
I feel like since I have no btc in my account on the exchange, they don't care.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on April 15, 2017, 09:11:24 AM
Does anyone have a windows vcoin wallet with coin control? It is a little annoying with the older version (0.9.0.0-beta).

I might have. What's it worth to you?

Cheers

Graham

Well, not too much right now as I am still waiting for yobit to send me my coins!

https://s16.postimg.org/xf3zwiool/vcoin-yobit.png
No replies to my support messages yet.
I feel like since I have no btc in my account on the exchange, they don't care.
Do you get response ?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: e1ghtSpace on April 16, 2017, 11:49:49 AM
Does anyone have a windows vcoin wallet with coin control? It is a little annoying with the older version (0.9.0.0-beta).

I might have. What's it worth to you?

Cheers

Graham

Well, not too much right now as I am still waiting for yobit to send me my coins!

https://s16.postimg.org/xf3zwiool/vcoin-yobit.png
No replies to my support messages yet.
I feel like since I have no btc in my account on the exchange, they don't care.
Do you get response ?
They finally ended up cancelling the withdraw. (or so I assume)
They didn't even reply to my support messages. lol

Edit: All coins were successfully withdrawn.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: onemanatatime on April 16, 2017, 11:51:28 AM
Coin is alive again? any updates for upcoming development dev?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: SPB667 on May 16, 2017, 03:56:45 PM
peer port and rpc port, please


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on May 16, 2017, 04:11:56 PM
peer port and rpc port, please

5530 and 5531 respectively.

https://github.com/vcoindev/vcoin/blob/master/src/chainparams.cpp#L30

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
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VCN/DOGE      http://www.nlexch.com/markets/vcndoge (http://www.nlexch.com/markets/vcndoge)
VCN/NLG        http://www.nlexch.com/markets/vcnnlg (http://www.nlexch.com/markets/vcnnlg)
VCN/EMC       http://www.nlexch.com/markets/vcnemc (http://www.nlexch.com/markets/vcnemc)



Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on June 01, 2017, 09:03:57 AM
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This paper uses data from the MIT digital currency experiment to shed light on consumer behavior regarding commercial, public and government surveillance.

The setting allows us to explore the apparent contradiction that many cryptocurrencies offer people the chance to escape government surveillance, but do so by making transactions themselves public on a distributed ledger (a ‘blockchain’).

We find three main things.

First, the effect of small incentives may explain the privacy paradox, where people say they care about privacy but are willing to relinquish private data quite easily.

Second, small costs introduced during the selection of digital wallets by the random ordering of featured options, have a tangible effect on the technology ultimately adopted, often in sharp contrast with individual stated preferences about privacy.

Third. the introduction of irrelevant, but reassuring information about privacy protection makes consumers less likely to avoid surveillance at large.

“The Digital Privacy Paradox: Small Money, Small Costs, Small Talk” - Susan Athey: Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and NBER. Christian Catalini: MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT. Catherine Tucker: MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT and NBER, February 13, 2017 (PDF) (https://people.stanford.edu/athey/sites/default/files/digital_privacy_paradox_02_13_17.pdf)

And, of course, the one thing that distinguishes altcoin devs from others is their deep understanding of the role of human factors in engineering.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on June 02, 2017, 12:16:51 PM
I've set up an instance of the IQUIDUS JS-based block & tx explorer and after a couple of days backfilling the underpinning mongodb persistence, it's now up to date:

http://tessier.bel-epa.com:3001/

Just checkin' -  is it accessible to everyone?

I shall give it it's own CNAME URL and a modicum of rebranding - I thought “IQVIDVS”... or is that too tricksy?

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: e1ghtSpace on June 02, 2017, 12:25:00 PM
I've set up an instance of the IQUIDUS JS-based block & tx explorer and after a couple of days backfilling the underpinning mongodb persistence, it's now up to date:

http://tessier.bel-epa.com:3001/

Just checkin' -  is it accessible to everyone?

I shall give it it's own CNAME URL and a modicum of rebranding - I thought “IQVIDVS”... or is that too tricksy?

Cheers

Graham

I can access it.
"IQVIDVS" is a little hard to get my head around with the missing U after the Q. :)
When I first saw it, I thought it said "IVIQUIDUS", maybe "VIQUIDUS" would be better?

Cheers,

e1ght


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on June 02, 2017, 05:24:24 PM
is that too tricksy?
I can access it.

Thanks, that's step 1.

Quote
"IQVIDVS" is a little hard to get my head around with the missing U after the Q. :)
When I first saw it, I thought it said "IVIQUIDUS", maybe "VIQUIDUS" would be better?

In classical Latin capitals, there is no difference between U and V, so IQVIDVS is a perfectly valid serialisation.

(I do confess to having a somewhat “elliptical” sense of humour.)

Cheers

Graham



Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on June 03, 2017, 02:28:30 PM
I've set up an instance of the IQUIDUS JS-based block & tx explorer and after a couple of days backfilling the underpinning mongodb persistence, it's now up to date:

http://tessier.bel-epa.com:3001/

Just checkin' -  is it accessible to everyone?

I shall give it it's own CNAME URL and a modicum of rebranding - I thought “IQVIDVS”... or is that too tricksy?

Cheers

Graham


It's accessible from me, thanks for that.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on June 03, 2017, 03:08:17 PM
I've set up an instance of the IQUIDUS JS-based block & tx explorer and after a couple of days backfilling the underpinning mongodb persistence, it's now up to date:

http://tessier.bel-epa.com:3001/

Just checkin' -  is it accessible to everyone?

It's accessible from me, thanks for that.

Thanks, that's reassuring.

(Summary is imminent, btw)

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: e1ghtSpace on June 03, 2017, 08:32:52 PM
is that too tricksy?
I can access it.

Thanks, that's step 1.

Quote
"IQVIDVS" is a little hard to get my head around with the missing U after the Q. :)
When I first saw it, I thought it said "IVIQUIDUS", maybe "VIQUIDUS" would be better?

In classical Latin capitals, there is no difference between U and V, so IQVIDVS is a perfectly valid serialisation.

(I do confess to having a somewhat “elliptical” sense of humour.)

Cheers

Graham
Oh, I didn't know that. Cool.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on June 04, 2017, 09:27:10 PM
I've set up an instance of the IQUIDUS JS-based block & tx explorer and after a couple of days backfilling the underpinning mongodb persistence, it's now up to date:

http://tessier.bel-epa.com:3001/

Just checkin' -  is it accessible to everyone?

I shall give it it's own CNAME URL and a modicum of rebranding - I thought “IQVIDVS”... or is that too tricksy?

Cheers

Graham


It is accessible. Thanks Graham.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on June 16, 2017, 09:29:50 AM
From the “One VCN will always equal 1 VCN” Dept:

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Bitcoins to come under anti-money laundering reporting requirements

A new bill was introduced in the US Senate. The Bill's Section 13 aims that people report digital and cryptocurrencies in excess of $10K entering the US.

https://anonymster.com/bitcoins-anti-money-laundering-reporting/

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5312 <- The “United States Code” referenced below

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1241/text#toc-idea0e9489fc8f46379f95bb56c8bbbda5

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SEC. 13. PREPAID ACCESS DEVICES, DIGITAL CURRENCIES, OR OTHER SIMILAR INSTRUMENTS.
(a) In General.—Section 5312(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended
...
(2) “financial institution” means
...
    (K) an issuer, redeemer, or cashier of travelers’ checks, checks, money orders, prepaid access devices, digital currency, or similar instruments, or any digital exchanger or tumbler of digital currency
...
(3) “monetary instruments” means—
    (B) as the Secretary may prescribe by regulation, coins and currency of a foreign country, travelers’ checks, bearer negotiable instruments, bearer investment securities, bearer securities, stock on which title is passed on delivery, prepaid access devices and similar material;
...
(7) ‘prepaid access device’ means an electronic device or vehicle, such as a card, plate, code, number, electronic serial number, mobile identification number, personal identification number, or other instrument, that provides a portal to funds or the value of funds that have been paid in advance and can be retrievable and transferable at some point in the future.
...
(c) Customs And Border Protection Strategy For Prepaid Access Devices.—Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, shall submit to Congress a report—

(1) detailing a strategy to interdict and detect prepaid access devices, digital currencies, or other similar instruments, at border crossings and other ports of entry for the United States

A classic example of the incoherent ravings and random spasmodic jerks that are characteristic of a corrupt hierarchy in the process of collapse.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on July 14, 2017, 09:14:02 PM
From the “One VCN will always equal 1 VCN” Dept:

Quote
Bitcoins to come under anti-money laundering reporting requirements

A new bill was introduced in the US Senate. The Bill's Section 13 aims that people report digital and cryptocurrencies in excess of $10K entering the US.

https://anonymster.com/bitcoins-anti-money-laundering-reporting/

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5312 <- The “United States Code” referenced below

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1241/text#toc-idea0e9489fc8f46379f95bb56c8bbbda5

Quote
SEC. 13. PREPAID ACCESS DEVICES, DIGITAL CURRENCIES, OR OTHER SIMILAR INSTRUMENTS.
(a) In General.—Section 5312(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended
...
(2) “financial institution” means
...
    (K) an issuer, redeemer, or cashier of travelers’ checks, checks, money orders, prepaid access devices, digital currency, or similar instruments, or any digital exchanger or tumbler of digital currency
...
(3) “monetary instruments” means—
    (B) as the Secretary may prescribe by regulation, coins and currency of a foreign country, travelers’ checks, bearer negotiable instruments, bearer investment securities, bearer securities, stock on which title is passed on delivery, prepaid access devices and similar material;
...
(7) ‘prepaid access device’ means an electronic device or vehicle, such as a card, plate, code, number, electronic serial number, mobile identification number, personal identification number, or other instrument, that provides a portal to funds or the value of funds that have been paid in advance and can be retrievable and transferable at some point in the future.
...
(c) Customs And Border Protection Strategy For Prepaid Access Devices.—Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, shall submit to Congress a report—

(1) detailing a strategy to interdict and detect prepaid access devices, digital currencies, or other similar instruments, at border crossings and other ports of entry for the United States

A classic example of the incoherent ravings and random spasmodic jerks that are characteristic of a corrupt hierarchy in the process of collapse.

Cheers

Graham


It will be very difficult to implement and impractical especially since virtual currencies are just that - virtual. Governments all over the world are struggling to get their minds around virtual currencies. In contrast to the above, it was interesting to read what Kazakhstan plans to do https://blog.wavesplatform.com/waves-helps-kazakhstan-to-become-the-second-country-regulating-the-cryptocurrency-e19e1b8032b3 Don't know what will come of that though.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: e1ght on August 30, 2017, 10:37:17 PM
So uh, any updates? :)

(New account btw)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on August 31, 2017, 12:25:32 AM
So uh, any updates? :)

(New account btw)

I'm working out the details of a metadata strategy with help from the Slimcoin and Datacoin communities.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: e1ght on August 31, 2017, 11:00:56 AM
So uh, any updates? :)

(New account btw)

I'm working out the details of a metadata strategy with help from the Slimcoin and Datacoin communities.

Cheers

Graham
Sounds interesting. Do you have a current eta for the next release?

-Kyle


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on August 31, 2017, 12:25:44 PM
Sounds interesting. Do you have a current eta for the next release?

When I've completed ACME's “sea trials”, I'll have pretty much all I need, I reckon. I'm following a couple of approaches towards integrating metadata: Slimcoin's OP_RETURN approach and, just for completeness, Datacoin's 128Kb-per-tx “data” field.

ACME instances:

http://tessier.bel-epa.com   port 5064 for Slimcoin and port 5059 for Datacoin.

I haven't yet enabled caching so you'll need some patience for the occasional sloooow page load. Not everything works but the Slimcoin adaptation is further along than the Datacoin adaptation. The key work is taking place in “Publications”. In Slimcoin, txs with OP_RETURN data are retrieved and the data displayed verbatim (lacking a “show me only OP_RETURN values for tx made by addresses I choose to specify” ). In Datacoin, I have identified the tx with data fields (4300-odd) and am trying to MIME-typify the stored binary (could be a JPEG, DOC, ZIP, *anything*) to present a paginated list (as well as an “only these addresses” filter). The Datacoin dev devised a solution using Google's protocol buffer library but I speed-read one post that concluded the approach wasn't powerful enough. I'm just verifying for myself that is the case before settling on the RDF-based approach.

Datacoin is a bit of a puzzle and potentially a cautionary tale from my perspective. There's a thread from three years ago (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=405992.0;all) which pretty much covers it, provides answers, functionality, 3rd-party support services, everything you'd think was necessary for this to get off the ground, yet only 0.2% of the not-quite 2m blocks+tx have non-empty data fields and a significant percentage of those are noise, i.e. hold no discernible value (although the value may just be in the timestamp). So why didn't it take off? I need an answer to that question before going any further in terms of “people using the blockchain as a publishing device”.

(the gory details are in my posts passim to the Slimcoin and Datacoin bct threads, not written it up yet, sorry).

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on September 01, 2017, 01:59:21 AM
Here you go Kyle ...

https://steemit.com/video/@heimindanger/introducing-dtube-a-decentralized-video-platform-using-steem-and-ipfs

Note the “Browserify” option for https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api which means that the V client can offer a publish-by-ipfs facility.

Note also that the user is, albeit after ~57 months, obliged to pay for continued storage, as well as the assumed contribution from profits (aka “fuck all”). However, V could serve files from datadir, it has read/write access. The “hard client” he's talking about is libtorrent, which can be linked. There's even a Qt tutorial example of a full-bore torrent client running in a Qt window. Not too difficult to integrate. But I doubt members will want sole ownership of the responsibility for curating their content, I think some people will be sufficiently engaged to self-organise a group solution to share the burden and thus lighten it but I can tilt the odds in favour by providing an easy-to-deploy package.

I take his point about “witnesses” (which I assume form some sort of STEEM overlay network) and wonder if that's a strong enough argument to add an overlay network to V. OTOH, SOLID probably has a putative solution.

This is part of why I'm mucking about with ACME, it's a package: node&blockchain+webapp+fuseki. I'm already intending to use Fuseki to store additional metadata & content (thumbnails, etc) and I've been staunchly resisting the urge to add the SQLAlchemy ORM to the web app and bring in the code I already have for quizzing coinmarketcap for the data to offer an up-to-date index, either using a selection tailored to the alt or a standard selection of 20 top coinmarketcap alts.This functionality doesn't need to be prematurely shoehorned into the confines of a masternode client. As the author observes, application provisioning and deployment tech is getting a lot more accessible to the ordinary V club member. I'd be happy to contribute to the cost of hosting a half-a-dozen instances of ACME for a year, viewing it as a kind of annual subscription. That would enable publishing by torrent and/or IPFS, or even off've the web app. I guess the instances would be SOLID servers, too.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on September 08, 2017, 08:37:36 AM
Just a marker for later reference ...

Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships (https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/08/27/navy-swos-a-culture-in-crisis/)

If read with care, the above article reveals that for a strongly hierarchical organisation, the advent of global telecommunications has enabled a natural migration of decision-making power up the hierarchy, predictably resulting in micromanagement and significantly reducing the effectiveness of the organisation. With a Teal organisation, this same technology is strengthening feature, not a vitiating one. It's not that a hierarchical organisation is an inherently a “bad thing”, it's just that the advent of global person-to-person telecommunications has changed the game completely and has created a situation of systemic disadvantage in strongly top-down control systems.

I take the view that this change is a global social phenomenon of evolutionary import given the i) magnitude, ii) significance and iii) the (arguably) self-generated nature of the large-scale problems which our species is currently attempting to resolve...

Earth as a Hybrid Planet: The Anthropocene in an Evolutionary Astrobiological Context (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213305417300425)

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We develop a classification scheme for the evolutionary state of planets based on the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of their coupled systems, including the presence of a biosphere and the possibility of what we call an “agency-dominated biosphere” (i.e. an energy-intensive technological species). The premise is that Earth’s entry into the “Anthropocene” represents what might be, from an astrobiological perspective, a predictable planetary transition. We explore this problem from the perspective of the solar system and exoplanet studies. Our classification discriminates planets by the forms of free energy generation driven from stellar forcing. We then explore how timescales for global evolutionary processes on Earth might be synchronized with ecological transformations driven by increases in energy harvesting and its consequences (which might have reached a turning point with global urbanization). Finally, we describe quantitatively the classification scheme based on the maintenance of chemical disequilibrium in the past and current Earth systems and on other worlds in the solar system. In this perspective, the beginning of the Anthropocene can be seen as the onset of the hybridization of the planet – a transitional stage from one class of planetary systems interaction to another. For Earth, this stage occurs as the effects of human civilization yield not just new evolutionary pressures, but new selected directions for novel planetary ecosystem functions and their capacity to generate disequilibrium and enhance planetary dissipation.

"Civilization arose as part of a biosphere. A Type 2 civilization on the Kardashev scale that is super space-baring could live without a biosphere. But a young civilization, like ours, has to see itself as a part of the biosphere. We're not separate from it, we're just the latest experiment the earth is running in the evolution of life. If we're not careful, it will just move on without us."

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on September 09, 2017, 10:47:01 PM
I keep searching for disconfirmatory evidence. This isn't it ...

Decentralized Social Networks Sound Great. Too Bad They’ll Never Work (https://www.wired.com/story/decentralized-social-networks-sound-great-too-bad-theyll-never-work/)

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The three of us investigated several of these most promising efforts to “re-decentralize” the web, to better understand their potential to shake up the dominance of Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

...

Quote
Our research—a combination of technical and historical analysis, and dozens of interviews with open web advocates—indicates that there is no straightforward technical solution to the problem of platform monopolies.

Colour me totally unsurprised.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: anorganix on October 02, 2017, 06:42:27 PM
Is there a newer wallet available? 0.9.0 is eating lots of memory.
I see that there's Voroshi 0.9.2.2 (https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/#!network) on the explorer for some nodes but I can't find a compiled version.

Thanks!


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: Zozoer on November 22, 2017, 03:18:50 PM
Any wallet who work??

this coin is dead?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: CoinXE on November 23, 2017, 12:46:07 PM
Any wallet who work??

this coin is dead?

Check here

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/#


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on November 23, 2017, 01:30:01 PM
Any wallet who work??

this coin is dead?

No.

https://github.com/vcoin-project

https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoincore

What's your interest?

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: DikoEjik on March 08, 2018, 03:48:55 PM
New mining pool FEES 0.9%:
http://secretpool.ru/site/mining (http://secretpool.ru/site/mining)
Payout every 1 hour!

Code:
-a sha256 -o stratum+tcp://secretpool.ru:3333 -u <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p c=VCN

Block explorer:
http://secretpool.ru/explorer/VCN (http://secretpool.ru/explorer/VCN)

support: Discord (https://discord.gg/XVmxhr9)

wallet pool: VNhmw5Zd25FdKdpLW8xjuAaMfjvud1ttHL


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on March 11, 2018, 03:22:04 PM
New mining pool FEES 0.9%:
http://secretpool.ru/site/mining (http://secretpool.ru/site/mining)
Payout every 1 hour!

Code:
-a sha256 -o stratum+tcp://secretpool.ru:3333 -u <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p c=VCN

Block explorer:
http://secretpool.ru/explorer/VCN (http://secretpool.ru/explorer/VCN)

support: Discord (https://discord.gg/XVmxhr9)

wallet pool: VNhmw5Zd25FdKdpLW8xjuAaMfjvud1ttHL

Thanks for the pool. After 3 years the coin is still alive. Different actions behind the scenes kept it alive and there is also a chainz.cryptoid blockexplorer for vcoin.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: DikoEjik on March 22, 2018, 07:30:49 PM
Is there a newer wallet available? 0.9.0 is eating lots of memory.
I see that there's Voroshi 0.9.2.2 (https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/#!network) on the explorer for some nodes but I can't find a compiled version.

Thanks!

where to get the purse version 0.9.2.2?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on March 23, 2018, 05:05:24 PM
Is there a newer wallet available? 0.9.0 is eating lots of memory.
I see that there's Voroshi 0.9.2.2 (https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/#!network) on the explorer for some nodes but I can't find a compiled version.

Thanks!

where to get the purse version 0.9.2.2?

I'll have a response mid-to-late next week.

Cheers

Graham

(development has been extensive but something of a slow burn: https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoincore/branches)

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: CoinXE on May 01, 2018, 04:44:20 AM
Is there a newer wallet available? 0.9.0 is eating lots of memory.
I see that there's Voroshi 0.9.2.2 (https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/#!network) on the explorer for some nodes but I can't find a compiled version.

Thanks!

where to get the purse version 0.9.2.2?

I'll have a response mid-to-late next week.

Cheers

Graham

(development has been extensive but something of a slow burn: https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoincore/branches)

Cheers

Graham


Hi Graham, any update on this?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on August 30, 2018, 05:18:12 PM
looks like this baby has forked lately, at least once,
cryptoid on one branch, prohashing on another
?? Where are you seeing that? Do you have a pointer - and are you sure you have the right altcoin?

The original VCoin release and immediate abandonment: https://github.com/vcoindev/vcoin

The rescue (courtesy of @chrisvl) is here: https://github.com/vcoin-project/vcoin

Some time ago I reconnected the VCoin clone back to its Zetacoin cloneparent, recovering the entire Zetacoin and (importantly) Bitcoin commit history: https://github.com/vcoin-project/vcoin0.8zeta-dev and used that to leverage some extensive merging from Bitcoin, to bring the coin up through the various successive versions. Anyone still using the client atm is likely to to be using the interim Core 0.9 version but in the relative quietude of this unimportant spiral arm of the altcoin galaxy, I've working on the Core 0.16 version, taking a radically different approach.

One problematic issue is that as a name, "VCoin" was a complete non-starter in the first place. Rumour has it that the OP was JP and must have failed to do basic desk research on the name because a SE Asian company called VCoin were already operating in the fintech/cryptocurrency space - which is probably why the coin was so quickly abandoned. VCoin remains a non-starter as a name because the namespace is so crowded (e.g. https://app.vcoinexchange.com/).

Contempating this issue, I noted that the prevalence of the naming scheme (*)coin was becoming a fairly reliable defining characteristic of vapid "meetoo" clones (incl. VCoin, tbh). I also noted the fact that over 4000 altcoins had been launched and as far as I could see, none had much of a distinctive collective "persona", let alone one with a persona solidly grounded in the online SIG that animates the blockchain. As far as I could make out, it's wall-to-wall pretend SV startups, complete with scale model CTO/dev or a pretend C-Suite "core team" (or other such absurd imports from tightly-centralised organisational models) and scale model ambitions to match.

As VCoin remained just one more "meeeetoooo" altcoin extra in a cast of thousands, then its undisturbed trajectory has been an eminently predictable high-value-start-followed-by-gradual-decline-into-obscurity hockey stick typical of the vast majority of alts - such Ziftrcoin https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ziftrcoin/ and Quotient https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/quotient/ - to pick out two examples at random. although the latter is currently in Yobit zombiecoin mode by which I mean that, according to the takeover ANN, its continued existence is apparently justified solely by the fact it can be traded on Yobit: “We have Officially taken over XQN, it can be traded on Yobit.” (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1766310.0)

Yes, VCoin is listed on Yobit https://yobit.net/en/trade/VCOIN/BTC so in the context of the trading of electronic tokens, it too is a Yobit zombiecoin, the coininfo section references the original abandoned GH repos and yes, coinmarketcap lists it as "inactive" - probably correctly according to their limited criteria.

I'm very comfortable with this situation. VCoin as a name is unviable for an alt and Yobit is widely reputed to be unresponsive (but I haven't checked), so that's their problem if they miss the upcoming hard fork.

So, if not "VCoin" then what?

I'm a pragmatist and decided to just drop the problematic bit: "Coin" ... welcome to V.

Admittedly, the down side could be argued that online search will be an absolute bitch but on the up side: it confers immunity from index engine bullying, eliminates domain name squabbles and renders imposter domains pointless.

Right now, no peer-to-peer networked cryptocurrency can be a legally-recognised entity, i.e. it is constitutionally unable to own IP. In consequence, it would be futile to choose a name that could have IP value because as far as IP is concerned, decentralised communities are defenceless against even casual appropriation of IP by a legally-recognised entity. Contrariwise, V is easy to remember, works across cultures and occupies a namespace that is legislatively forbidden to all effective legally-recognised entities.

Without going into reams of tedious detail, the rest of V's approach is similarly iconoclastic. V recognises the social profundity of TANSTAFFL, borrows heavily from E. E. van Vogt's auctorial evocation of Nexialism, leans hard in the direction of Harry Harrison's wirr and, as a peer-to-peer networked cryptocurrency, is a pure Teal organisation, free of the crippling centralising distortions introduced into Holacracy, for example. V is an instance of Wooley's c, the collective version of Spearman's g (c.f. “Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups” http://science.sciencemag.org/content/330/6004/686) and one of the current reseach topics is the elicitation of user task requirements where the user is an empowered collective intelligence.

For a flavour of the group ethos, see A different perspective on cryptocurrency (https://minkiz.co/library/a-different-perspective-on-cryptocurrency.html). BTW, that is a temporary home, pending the construction and inscription of a TrustyURI (http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5775) (spec: https://github.com/trustyuri/trustyuri-spec, Python implementation using RDFLib: https://github.com/trustyuri/trustyuri-python) on the V blockchain.

I apologise to those in the loop who have been patiently waiting for some actual progress. The preparatory work is very nearly complete (see branches various in https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoincore) and, after an overly-long period of auto-didactisim, I am now more confident that the groundwork is sufficiently comprehensive and detailed to enable V to follow a very different trajectory.

tl;dr no lucrative "investment" opportunities, no lucrative centralised mining consortia because the emission schedule is complete and block reward is 1 now VCN (algo is bog-standard Bitcoin SHA2-256D). In essence, there's nothing to interest the usual altcoiner here - and we sort of keep it that way by design because different requirements apply in order to be free of the distorting influence of such agencies during the establishment of a strongly pro-social group identity, a necessary but not sufficient condition for the development of more powerful expressions of c ... (Hint: “Finally, c was significantly correlated with the proportion of females in the group, with groups having more females being more collectively intelligent.”)


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: e1ghtSpace on March 24, 2019, 05:25:39 AM
Has this project been abandoned?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on March 24, 2019, 09:12:43 AM
Has this project been abandoned?
It might appear that way but the project hasn't been abandoned. bitcointalk isn't the sidechannel it used to be and so a dearth of posts here isn't the strong indicator it used to be.

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on April 01, 2019, 11:24:44 PM
Has this project been abandoned?
It might appear that way but the project hasn't been abandoned. bitcointalk isn't the sidechannel it used to be and so a dearth of posts here isn't the strong indicator it used to be.

Cheers

Graham

Agree with graham, vcoin windows wallet have more than 700 downloads tracked by bitbucket, also there are unknown amount of users who use Linux or have compiled vcoin "wallets" in their machines wich can't be tracked


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on May 12, 2019, 06:17:40 PM
Happy Birthday VCoin!

First block 2015-05-13 17:29:19 (4 years and 0.0 days ago)


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: BehindTheGnoll on July 20, 2019, 10:04:38 PM
I cant seem to update my wallet. None of the nodes work.

Can anyone help and give me a list of working nodes. please?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: BehindTheGnoll on July 22, 2019, 11:13:50 PM
thanks for the nodes! Is this coin worth it, or is it DOA? Is it even on any exchanges?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: amarian12 on August 26, 2019, 05:55:19 PM
any wallet updates? this version 9 is not working 100% .... i do have tx with 0 conf for weeks (normal situation will be to remove them after 24-48 hours) and i use high fee on them but still nothing


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 17, 2019, 06:10:54 PM
Graham, do you perhaps have source code that will work on Ubuntu 19? I would like to upgrade the OSes on some of my nodes that are on Ubuntu 16. Then also, who is running with the p2p pool. Is it public or private?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 17, 2019, 06:16:05 PM
I cant seem to update my wallet. None of the nodes work.

Can anyone help and give me a list of working nodes. please?

Did you manage to get your wallet working? If you want I can give you a bootstrap file that will take you right up to the current block. It is just very large @ several hundred MB. Unless of course you managed to sync your wallet on your own.

thanks for the nodes! Is this coin worth it, or is it DOA? Is it even on any exchanges?

Whether it is worth it or not is up to you. It certainly is fun watching the blocks tick over after all this time. It was last traded on Yobit but I dont think it is active for withdrawal.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on September 30, 2019, 10:17:00 AM
Hi jc,

Graham, do you perhaps have source code that will work on Ubuntu 19? I would like to upgrade the OSes on some of my nodes that are on Ubuntu 16. Then also, who is running with the p2p pool. Is it public or private?
Sorry for the delay, I've been offline for the last three months whilst moving house. I've updated the 0.9 repos (https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin09/commits/master) and VCoin 0.9 now compiles on Ubuntu 19.

I don't know anything about the pool, I'll have to see if there's anything I can turn up.

In addition, the vcoincore repos has also been updated (https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoincore/commits/master) (to Core 0.18.1). ATM, I'm trying (but failing) to get a VCore 0.18.1 testnet up and running so's I can address the remaining significant unresolved technical issue, that of getting the metadata explorer to work more reliably with the client in respect of re-orgs. The 0.18.1 client compiles and runs, it even happily loads a copy of the current 0.9 mainnet datadir (very encouraging), it "sees" the other 0.18.1 clients on my internal testnet network and it can generate blocks but they don't seem to get broadcast to the testnet network. I'm still investigating.


Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on September 30, 2019, 04:16:59 PM
Hi jc,

Graham, do you perhaps have source code that will work on Ubuntu 19? I would like to upgrade the OSes on some of my nodes that are on Ubuntu 16. Then also, who is running with the p2p pool. Is it public or private?
Sorry for the delay, I've been offline for the last three months whilst moving house. I've updated the 0.9 repos (https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoin09/commits/master) and VCoin 0.9 now compiles on Ubuntu 19.

I don't know anything about the pool, I'll have to see if there's anything I can turn up.

In addition, the vcoincore repos has also been updated (https://github.com/gjhiggins/vcoincore/commits/master) (to Core 0.18.1). ATM, I'm trying (but failing) to get a VCore 0.18.1 testnet up and running so's I can address the remaining significant unresolved technical issue, that of getting the metadata explorer to work more reliably with the client in respect of re-orgs. The 0.18.1 client compiles and runs, it even happily loads a copy of the current 0.9 mainnet datadir (very encouraging), it "sees" the other 0.18.1 clients on my internal testnet network and it can generate blocks but they don't seem to get broadcast to the testnet network. I'm still investigating.


Cheers

Graham


Thanks Graham. I will upgrade one node to Ubuntu 19 then in the next few days and compile and test the new code. If all goes well Ill also upgrade the other nodes. All the best with VCore 0.18.1. Looking forward to run that too.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on February 21, 2021, 01:18:47 PM
Hello everyone.  Does anyone have a copy of the blockchain??


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: jc12345 on February 21, 2021, 03:27:18 PM
I can make one, but will have to be in next few days.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on February 21, 2021, 05:27:15 PM
I can make one, but will have to be in next few days.
Do it. Are you still running full mode ?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on February 22, 2021, 01:26:36 PM
VCoin/V Core sync nodes:

Mainnet:
No port or 5530 default port, sync to blockchain running on VCoin v0.9.3 client
Code:
addnode=144.76.118.44
addnode=144.76.118.44:5530
addnode=144.76.64.49
addnode=144.76.64.49:5530

Port 61300/61400, sync to same blockchain as above but running on V Core v0.19.1 client
Code:
addnode=144.76.118.44:61400
addnode=144.76.64.49:61300

Testnet:
No port or 55534 default port, sync to blockchain running solely on v0.19.1 client (i.e. testnet is currently has no v0.9 clients)
Code:
addnode=144.76.118.44
addnode=144.76.118.44:55534
addnode=144.76.64.49
addnode=144.76.64.49:55534

Alternatively, a chain dump from the V Core 0.19.1 client (I can't be sure a VCoin 0.9 client will read it) is available:

Mainnet: https://minkiz.co/noodlings/vcoremainnetchain.tar.gz (https://minkiz.co/noodlings/vcoremainnetchain.tar.gz)
Testnet: https://minkiz.co/noodlings/vcoretestnetchain.tar.gz (https://minkiz.co/noodlings/vcoretestnetchain.tar.gz)

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on February 22, 2021, 01:28:02 PM
Development status

Current state of development, working on QT attitude survey i/f (not yet committed to repos):

Survey choice i/f (far too many, need to reduce to just two/three at most)
https://i.imgur.com/JZrrAt7.jpg (https://imgur.com/JZrrAt7)

Lickert Scale presentation (1. needs dark mode fix for SVG emoticons and 2. doesn't refresh when a different survey chosen)
https://i.imgur.com/a2seII6.jpg (https://imgur.com/a2seII6)

Cheers

Graham


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: chrisvl on February 22, 2021, 02:31:31 PM
VCoin/V Core sync nodes:

Mainnet:
No port or 5530 default port, sync to blockchain running on VCoin v0.9.3 client
Code:
addnode=144.76.118.44
addnode=144.76.118.44:5530
addnode=144.76.64.49
addnode=144.76.64.49:5530

Port 61300/61400, sync to same blockchain as above but running on V Core v0.19.1 client
Code:
addnode=144.76.118.44:61400
addnode=144.76.64.49:61300

Testnet:
No port or 55534 default port, sync to blockchain running solely on v0.19.1 client (i.e. testnet is currently has no v0.9 clients)
Code:
addnode=144.76.118.44
addnode=144.76.118.44:55534
addnode=144.76.64.49
addnode=144.76.64.49:55534

Alternatively, a chain dump from the V Core 0.19.1 client (I can't be sure a VCoin 0.9 client will read it) is available:

Mainnet: https://minkiz.co/noodlings/vcoremainnetchain.tar.gz (https://minkiz.co/noodlings/vcoremainnetchain.tar.gz)
Testnet: https://minkiz.co/noodlings/vcoretestnetchain.tar.gz (https://minkiz.co/noodlings/vcoretestnetchain.tar.gz)

Cheers

Graham

Thanks Graham.  I will update the topic.


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: mix29k on March 08, 2021, 04:43:03 PM
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/
oops, Bushnell stole the tag ?


Title: Re: [ANN] Vcoin sha256 pow
Post by: gjhiggins on March 08, 2021, 05:27:47 PM
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vcn/
oops, Bushnell stole the tag ?
Not the first time this has happened in altcoinland.

But sloppy research on his part, unusually.

Cheers

Graham