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All updates and information can be found at http://blog.speccoin.com/ (http://blog.speccoin.com/)

anyone want a pool?:D

EDIT: ready soon!


www.suchpool.pw/spec ready

existing pool has problem so sid yes pls d oit

Block Count:
19
Difficulty:
0.015625
Connections:
4
Network H/s:
790

www.suchpool.pw/spec ready (incase someone didnt read the edit from first post)

try send some hash to suchpool .
this coin Look good

Ok, done.

There is a countdown on your website. Is this when the Cryptowatcher hub is launching?
Also the social media links on your webpage are not active.

What's the matter with the existing pool?..any clues?

at the coin launch site wasnt loading up so i posted but checked it a while back its working havent directed any miner towards it. bcoz SID is the best :)

Thank you for setting up the pool so quickly. Much Appreciated. I have updated the ANN with its details.


We are updating the site now. All sites will be updated shortly once we see the SPEC rollout through.

Yes the timer is to show when CryptoWatcher will be available. Its enough time to finish development, test and roll out. Although if its finished before then we will actually be launching early. The countdown is more of a long count beyond what we see will be the launch date.



1 click Node install if anyone needs it (tested on Ubuntu 14.10 fresh install). Edit the source (fork it) file to fit your needs if you dont require the updates it installs, or do not want them.


Node Front end (similar to http://node.speccoin.com) is also available from our github account.

https://github.com/SpecDevelopment/specd-status

First pool is working fine, I'm mining there, simple setup too.

Ok....so it's running then?

Just confirmed that http://spec.zapto.org is up and running guys. Thanks for the updates also.

May have been slow to load at first due to the pool owner agreeing not to launch until the ann was posted.

Always happy to support SuchPool.pw (http://SuchPool.pw) so my miners are pointed there

We have just secured https://www.reddit.com/r/SPEC and will begin moving everything over (not much) from /r/speccoin in about an hour.

new pool is up : http://hashgoal.com/pool/SPEC/

pool : stratum+tcp://hashgoal.com:3334
username: wallet address
password: anything

Thank you for setting up a pool so quickly. It Is Much Appreciated. I have updated the ANN with its details.

Mining some, i hope it will be profitable.
Need to read  insight the op :)

Looks cool, added !

https://spec.suprnova.cc

Nice suprnova :), added a worker to your pool  :D

@BinPool - http://spec.binpool.com/ - up and launch

DEV added pool in OP

Do you dont think, that 30% Premine is a little bit too much?

And the Block Halving will come in about 8 years? o_O

I would rather bet on a dev earning for his/her hard work via creating value for his/her premine, with what's being proposed for SPEC, than have a dev lose interest in what he/she is doing due to the project not being self-sustainable.

In fact I like high premines on legitimate projects, because they also deter poor evaluators of risk from getting involved.

On a lot of new coins, I mine the same amount as the premine or more, and dump into bids. And I don't disclose it... and neither does anyone else who does the same... did you ever consider that risk?

Personally I'll be mining the hell out of this.

EDIT:

Hey dev, any idea why the win-qt is tripping alerts on Ikarus, ESET-NOD32, and Fortinet? I know you mentioned it in the OP and suggested compiling from source if there are any concerns.

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4447cc3d52c46893afb387020f1ca2b43eddcd746cfd1bd9daa0c1192d13e6a4/analysis/1435494783/

It's the standard false positive for a qt wallet with the ability to setgenerate but usually only ESET-NOD32 reports that false positive. The other two generally leave it alone.

For the time being I suggest to everyone else that if you're concerned about trusting a wallet that you leave your coins on your mining pool until the dev can expound on the alert tripping.

Dev, maybe even getting a code review from earlz or ocminer would be a good idea.

Hey a coin that looks like it might be worth holding.  Cool!

Thank you for your kind words.

These are just false positives. It will change depending on which site you use to scan it also.

For instance it trips slightly different

https://www.metascan-online.com/en/scanresult/file/eaf9fc48cff4409c8ec0bf2e28e79077#summary

http://r.virscan.org/report/1c424a11ce337f230d66c9e9897651f0

Its actually not 3 different results that are tripping, its just one result tripping on 3 different engines. It all centers around "bitcoinminer"

It all revolves around the ability to mine from the wallet, listen to the network/nodes etc. We are actually getting multiple code reviews with detailed information to make sure the community understands our dedication to the SPEC community and Digital Currency as a whole. If anyone has concerns, the answer would be to wait until a detailed code review or compile from source to ease their minds.

I just compiled the win wallet from source and here is the virustotal scan result https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6b4ce5f1180474143901018aeabaea9f65f1df3f945b24a407abaaa06cf06b17/analysis/1435511597/

EDIT: https://www.metascan-online.com/en/scanresult/file/4ab96ccaab3249699a5aca50b32e0b18 

Do you have any translation bounty?

suchpool is down, for how long?

why are you asking here?

Well mine's still running......the original pool in the O.P.

Only frontend is down, gotta fix cronjobs ASAP, mining still going, payout also, don't worry:)

total supply 3 billion
hard mining
anonymous 340,092khs  35,344.22 :o

Hard mining is both a blessing and a curse, as it makes it difficult to "get" coins, but by the same token, gives those coins a higher value because they're difficult to get.

binpool - up )))

SuchPool is not down, only front-end is stopped for now, should be back very soon

Are we going to get some exchanges? What is the minting interest rate?

eventually it'll be on an exchange its not been out a day 

don't think this is a pos coin m8

nope....straight POW for now

I would say the longer this coin goes with out an exchange the more attractive it is :)

yup....as fuller bags are present

why is the dev a newbie?
i would like to see who is really behind this coin.

maybe he/they want the name of the account to be same with their coin name, almost dev do that..

Each of us are all fairly well known in the crypto world. However we arent trying to bank on that to convince people to join the SPEC or CryptoWatcher Community. The newb account is just to consolidate everything into this project.

Those wondering if they should join us, should do so based on merit. Our entire idealogy with this project is to

A. Keep it simple B. Create tools that people will actually use and completely understand. C. Dont Over Promise

Im sure Im leaving a few out, however our goal is to see CryptoWatcher through until its managable by a small team and then move on to the next SPEC orientated project. Placing administrators in each project as they roll out. SPEC is the binder for the group of projects we have planned.

Each person who happens upon the project will have to determine for themselves if its something they want to participate in, in some fashion. We have understood from the beginning that this is not something we can or would try to control.

The fact is, we are going to "Create" Its what each of us likes to do, what we always have done as a hobby and professionally. We are just getting started, but it should be fun for sure.

SpecDevelopment, please add to pool list.

Thank yo for the reply!
I too love coming up with concepts and seeing them through till they become alive. However, this is crypto world, and even-though privacy is valued, integrity is important as well when it comes to new coins popping out.

I am sure there would be an increased level of trust if we know who is behind the projects.
For all I know now, you could be WoLong after intense english lessons :) (you get the gist)

I am willing to help with marketing, resources and ideas (im full of them constantly)

this is a tough block 

Block 369

http://media.giphy.com/media/8K2jPQpjlBmeY/giphy.gif

Agreed.

were there any other scrypt coins that launched yesterday?

https://www.suchpool.pw/sjw/index.php?page=dashboard

yeah... dont think thats a threat :)

Im not asking about crap coins :) just some coins that would seem to  have a better roadmap or features than this one. Im still worried that some of these coins may be announced just to misguide the hashing power elsewhere a little, while the ones in the know, mine the right scrypt coin :) but i guess that type of play is very 2013/2014 :)

Just secured 2 years of explorer hosting & custom subdomain with BlockExperts

Awesome Staff http://spec.blockexperts.com

Excellent, these guys might be for real!

buying hosting for a blockchain is not any indicator.

The SPEC Development Team & https://www.reddit.com/r/SPEC  Welcomes Nordman as a Moderator

I have the feeling this coin is an sleepy one, just mining for some days, to get a good stash, and sit around to see whats going on here

Hi, dev!

Please add new pool - http://aikapool.com/spec

http://aikapool.com/logo.png

Thanks!

I had this feeling when it came out, but the devs being so quiet after launch is disturbing.

This will be good coin...

Added. Thank you for creating the Pool, it is much appreciated.

any progress on the "Exchange" front

We will post any updates in regards to exchanges on our official twitter account, reddit as well as the SPEC announcement pages, as soon as we have them.

Can you try to keep this thread alive please? With the hashrates falling so fast im reconsidering the intentions of the team, cause everything was set up on a hasty manner. I would expect domains and social stuff to be secured and deaigned prior the announcement date so you'd look professional at least.

SPEC has had upwards of 3gH/s with diff reaching as high as 1077 just from what we have seen. Its resting right around 0.9 - 1.1gH/s. Im sorry your experience hasnt been the best it could possibly be.

We have a number of upcoming announcements planned, we can not simply post just to keep the topic at the top of the ann section. However we are pretty confident that some time in the near future this topic will naturally receive a lot of attention. If you feel that this project isnt up to your standards, we apologize and would understand if you decided not to join us.



Thank you. We have high hopes for the entire project, and are working behind the scenes towards making it one to remember.

I dont want out. Id like to get into the behind the scenes discussions ;)

MAC wallet has been released and is available from the SPEC Initial Distribution site (Soon to transition into our Official SPEC Homepage) https://www.speccoin.com.

The Announcement post has been updated with its details.

Bounties section has been added to the bottom of the SPEC announcement post. We will be updating it later today with a more definitive list.

This has got to be the quietest thread that I've ever seen for a new coin. I hope that there's more than four or five of us interested in this coin.

It may seem a bit sparse and slow for a new coin, however there are good things happening in the background that will be announced when its time to make those announcements. One of the things that was agreed upon, is the hope for a solid and natural foundation to take hold. No fake accounts, no false hyping etc.


The mining numbers suggest there are a good deal of people who are interested, not to mention all of the people in the background which is the SPEC team, and friends of SPEC who are actually working, and working towards making this what we know its going to be. Hang in there ;)

It's good to see that you are there and hard at work. My comments were really directed at the other miners. Everyone is so quiet.

I'm glad to hear that you don't believe in hype. Too many devs hype their coin and end up disappointing their supporters because reality never lives up to the hype.

I like the concept of your web site. I look forward to seeing it in action. Is this coin somehow tied in with the site, or is it an independent project?

As a true expert in Crypto I would like to know more about Speculator. Thats where my interest lies in this project.

Thanks

Vegas

www.bitcoinlasvegas.net

I have been quietly mining this coin from day one. I like the idea of low difficulty and no hype. It is def a dice roll, but it seems dev is not concerned with dumping the premine so there is still incentive to innovate. I am going to keep mining.

Thanks for the kind words. The coin is going to be the house token of CryptoWatcher, where its use is going to be purchasing advanced membership beyond the basics (text/price alerts, custom compare pages with different chart types and any advanced features we add as time passes) per 6 months or on a per alert basis. Email price alerts will be available to everyone.

There are other projects on the table once we get CryptoWatcher where we want it. For instance CoinFundMe.com which will be a cross between kickstarter and GoFundMe, allowing the brightest people in crypto a chance to use it to help get crypto related projects off the ground etc. SPEC will also be that services house token. Once the official announcement on CoinFundMe and other services are released, we will provide more info.

I think as far as other miners go, decent amount of workers who are quiet seems to be a bit of a compliment.


Definitive SPECulator details will follow once CryptoWatcher is closer to beta. We want to make sure we have all the specs worked out before releasing more. Thank you for the interest.


Thank you for contributing to the hash and helping. CryptoWatcher, Spec and everything else we have planned is more of a "Here we are" Project. The ultimate end goal is to have a huge market share in the digital currency space, from the combined services. Sky is the limit once we get to that point. It all starts by placing one foot in front of the other. Thanks for the kind words.

SPEC coin [SPEC] is listed: https://yobit.net/en/trade/SPEC/BTC
SPEC coin Dice: https://yobit.net/en/dice/SPEC

Spoke to soon. Hi yobit.

Added to the SPEC Announcement Post The SPEC team and its community greatly appreciates your efforts.

You have my eyes, and hash dev. I will keep mining and hodl. Interested to see what you have for us.

thank for add SPEC sir .

Now I cloud Trading my SPEC

but , buy order so Low :-[
I dont believe nethashrate can growing and cost mining can high .

It just hit its first exchange, and it's wallet is naked. The coin has done nothing... It is avg it's mining cost on exchange. If you are in a hurry to dump Dm me your offer, otherwise patience partner. Alt market is dyeing and it is mainly because a mass is only interested in dumping them for Btc. Devs actually have to create something. This coin is a dice roll. I'm in.

Just a small update SPEC Dutch Announcement Images are completed and located @ https://www.speccoin.com/dutch_ann.html

The difficulty of this coin is so low that it might be worth it to mine it for a little while. I'm in. ;)

With Canada Day just happening and the 4th of July about to happen (Our team is multinational), Im amazed at how well everyone is working in the background and balancing the holiday in regards to getting the behind the scenes stuff done.

I will be uploading a roadmap for SPEC that will touch on the projects we have coming up or are already working on, within the next 24 hours.

CryptoWatcher is our main focus however there are a lot of smaller projects that are happening in between as well as after. Not to mention the other service oriented sites that will be started after CryptoWatcher is up and rolling.

Those wanting to mine, now is the time to do it. Keep in mind once we start rocking this out, its going to be pretty fantastic.

-James

Woke up to a difficulty of 8. Still mining. Keep doing your thing dev.

How do we unlock the wallet?  It's encrypted but locked still.  Can't find an unlock wallet in settings.

I have the Windows qt....Does it unlock?

SPEC is POW. You only need to unlock it as you are sending SPEC. It will prompt you to enter your password right before sending a transaction.

A fresh install should not come encrypted. It should only be encrypted if you have chosen to encrypt it. https://www.speccoin.com is where you will find the official wallets.

If need be you can always go int the console and enter and it will unlock the wallet for a period of time. could be for instance.

-James

thanks

Me love you long time!

knock knock

Who is there ?

dev

Dev who ?

Please devour that sell wall.

SPEC General Roadmap has been added to the SPEC Announcement. This roadmap will be refined as we go and each point will be followed by its own relative information.

Some of the smaller projects will be worked on concurrently as the larger projects are underway. Smaller projects may be added if they are needed & serve a greatly USEFUL purpose to the SPEC community.

https://www.speccoin.com/launch_pics/ann_roadmap_large.png

difficult block 1772

Well this explains the long pow. Still mining. Do your dev drizzle.

Dat 1772 block...

Been monitoring it also  :o. We have decided to give a "There you go champ" reward to the address that ends up solving it.

Nice looking road map dev. Wonder what specstream entails?

scam coin

900million coin premine coin in circulation 902,238,750

Thank you for the kinds words. And overview of each service will be released at some point in the near future. We will also be releasing more detailed information about each point of the timeline in the form of a comprehensive whitepaper.

TL;DR Do you expect to have this coin online by 2016? That's what all cryptos said, now they're all dead.

id assume some kind anon related transactions?

There are some planned features for the actual SPEC wallet that will fall within its own timeline separate from the associated services timeline. We are focused on getting the services finished, tested and released. Wallet updates or upgrades will most likely be in between projects as time passes, from the looks of things right now. If enough people want anon functions, we will add it. We feel as though wallet features shouldnt be a projects sole focus to success, and that services are the key to building a strong community.

The roadmap is not bad. However as stated by here some posts ago, the amount of premine held by the dev team is too high compared with the time it will take to produce such supply.
Will you have a stated public address for the premine?

Thanks. The roadmap is a visualization of our intent to lead by example and build usable services around SPEC. If others see substance in what we are doing, we believe some of them will follow in our footsteps and roll out services of their own.


The premine is a representation of just how extensive this is all going to get. We have cash reserves, btc reserves as well as SPEC reserves. At some point we may run into a situation where we have to outsource something or bring on more devs, and they will prefer USD over bitcoin/SPEC, some will prefer btc over usd or SPEC. Some will prefer SPEC. The important thing is we have the resources to make all of this happen. Its because we were honest when discussing the project months ago, that we have these resources.

If the question is simpler as in "Hey is the premine going to be dumped?" The answer is no. The premine will never directly see an exchange, however we dont control what those being paid in spec will do. Whether it be to hold them, sell them etc. That is why when someone is paid in spec, it is in portions so as not to disrupt what the community has created exchange price wise. This spec will never be paid out in a way that upsets what the community and or traders have created. The bigger picture for us is positioning services like CryptoWatcher, Digital Currency Streaming Service and CoinFundMe for investments/funding etc.


We have a good understanding of what its going to take to build the intended services AND go beyond services like CryptoWatcher, CoinFundMe, etc. Its going to cost USD, BTC, SPEC, and Time. The fact is, its happening. Regardless of SPEC hitting exchanges, anyone loving our approach etc. What we bring to the table (we believe) is bigger and more on par with the more successful projects from the past.

Our advice to anyone who is weary of anything they may see here, is to simply revisit us once we are at the point that we are rolling out the intended services. There is no harm in coming back after significant progress is made by the dev team. This is a completely voluntary endeavor. If someone is not on board with this project, just simply revisit once we have started rolling out the timeline. We will still be here.

Some seriously ridiculous hard blocks have been in the way the past 24 hours...

Dear SPEC Community,

We are about to ask Yobit.net to respectfully remove SPEC from its listings. We realize at this point it is the only exchange that has listed SPEC, however some of actions they have taken recently (specifically Yovi Rise Only Market) have us a bit concerned. We must respectfully request that you bring any coin held on YoBit.net, back into a SPEC QT within your possession.

Keep in mind they may decide not to delist. At this point they have removed any trace of us asking in their Yovi ANN page, and will not respond to messages here or on their site. They have also removed any trace of users speaking about it in chat.

Because this is the only exchange that has listed SPEC to date and we are asking for removal, we have agreed to purchase any SPEC with a coin age older than this post. The current Rate (39 satoshi) will be honored with us. This is for those that do not agree with what we are requesting of Yobit and dont wish to continue further with us. If you agree with our thinking and wish to stay on, then Cheers, its awesome to have you with us for sure.

We have GREAT things planned for this entire project and things are moving along rather quickly in the background, with awesome stuff happening daily. The best is yet to come, and I personally know that sometime soon everyone will see the bigger picture as our vision of services start rolling out.

Best Regards
-James

if you guys are getting delisted upon request from ONLY exchange than what would be the next trading spot

Although CryptoWatcher is our top priority at this moment, we do understand that those who mine SPEC wish it to be on an exchange. We will be making any and all exchange announcements throughout our announcement pages and social media accounts once its time to do so.

hope they will give apprpirate time to withdrAW

Yes we do too. Deleted posts, trimmed chat box, all signs point to something is not quite right.

Props to you guys. What yobit has created could not be anymore illegal. I assume it is to try to create volume, because they have none. This will come back on them x10 and those purchasing coins from yobit have a limited time to withdraw. Was nice to see spec on an exchange, but because the price was not right I will hodl. Now if we could get past these crazy difficult blocks! Keep up the good work and high integrity spec crew!

Deleted posts, trimmed chat box, all signs point to something is not quite right ??? (am i missing something here ) are you suggesting something, or isit the fact that traders have just woke up and realized you were holding a huge premine,

yeah i noticed yobit staff deleted the posts about delisting request from their troll box and also from the main yobit thread. and the way they are implementing rules without any pre announcement i will take whole buch of coins from exchange before they put hold on their wallets.

If traders are just realizing the dev team holds a large amount of premine then they are not traders... The premine has been no secret. Suggesting that this is why spec dev team wants to be delisted is silly. The coin has done fine on the exchange. It is trading at mining cost somewhat, and has had as much volume as any other coin on yobit. You do not think yovi is a clear as day ponzi? They are literally making up the rules as they go along. It could not be anymore illegal, and I do not blame spec team for requesting a delist yobit or nobit.

OK, well sorry to burst ya bubble guys, but if you look carefully at the OP the layout of the apparent cryptowatch does not include yobit, in fact, it looks very similar to a coin made just a few months ago of which the dev dissapeared.

Thank you for the kind words. Yeah we didnt try to surmise the reasoning behind it. What Yobit.net decides to do is completely up to them. Being a new project, We would just honestly prefer to focus on creating quality services that people will actually use. However if Yovi Rise Only causes YoBit trouble to the point they shut down, its better people have their SPEC in hand before that can potentially happen.

lol which one jambo? I mean come on 9 out of 10 devs disappear. I have been doing this a while and I am fully aware of the risk involved. Btw why would cryptowatch want to monitor yobit? For that 20 btc volume? I think not including yobit in the cryptowatch was a given. Now back to the yovi ponzi... what exactly do you think will happen here? The price will rise forever and ever? Hate to burst YOUR bubble, but what they are doing is not ok and if you think authorities do not see us you are blind. This will not go on very long. Look at what they have done already. They just changed the entire trading structure of the "coin" with no preann... Sorry man but yovi is an illegal ponzi scheme.

3 hours since last block...whats up?

I am not going to look through old posts, to find the exact one, most miners will remember just not the new ones, and why you keep going on about another coin on this thread. 

I was being sarcastic about the which one... "and why you keep going on about another coin on this thread." I realize you do not want to look pages back as you just explained, but this coin is about to be delisted from the only exchange it has. The reason is because the dev team has asked questions publicly to the exchange about the coin "I am going on about". The exchange deleted the questions leaving the spec dev team to decide to delist. This is to protect investors. You came in and said it was because of this coins premine that traders "JUST" found out about. That's were I came in.

Here is the Respectful Request to Yobit https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1102264.msg11809736#msg11809736

Just to add, as we said previously:


No need to fight here. The situation will resolve itself with time. Everything was politely asked and the conversation should stay polite regardless of how one person feels about Yovi, YoBit or SPEC. Thanks

Thanks for your clarification.
About yobit, i didnt like ROM, its a ponzi by the way.
I will be sending the coins i bought from there to my wallet asap.
This coin will hit more exchanges when needed, i guess, theres no need for an exchange as long as you can trade out of an exchange with users all around bct.

Have been mining and buying... Like the longer POW coins, not a fan of the premine but understand why its needed for a successful project. Looking forward to future updates and developement

anything new going on? Pretty quiet in here  ???

There is a ton of stuff going on behind the scenes while our bitcointalk ann may seem a bit quiet.  ;)


SPECTRA and CryptoWatcher are being actively developed as some of us are behind the scenes working on other things to expand SPEC's potential when we really get rolling.

No hype, all dice roll.

Changes have been made to the SPECULATOR project. We are refining its purpose as we get closer to working on that portion of CryptoWatcher, more details will be released.

The overall nature of SPECULATOR will now be geared towards creating a subscription based learning center for those that wish to share/monetize their trading methods, and those that wish to learn various methods or theory.

Specific buying advice will not be permitted. The aim is to not create a place for coin specific buying tips, rather insight on how others trade or have traded in the past. General trading theory will be permitted.

I like the change. This keeps blame shift from your group. Leaves it open to for the speculator to make a decision. Cant wait for a glimpse of the tech. Keep it coming.

Yes, and we feel like if we instill a certain sanctity to SPECULATOR, there will be no blame to pass.

There are 100's of trading methods, (some methods built on top of other methods) that can be talked about without the content creator saying "Buy this coin!" or pushing a specific coin etc.

Those wishing to show some of their methods for trading may wish to create video explanations, and we want CryptoWatcher to be the place they come to. More learning center, less specific coin hyping.

We are still working out the details which still may change a bit, but at the end of the day we think there is valuable information to be had, even if its just teaching new traders the absolute basics.

is this coin ded?

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there, I did not die.

I SIMPLY LOVE THIS POEM
Who is this by, again?

Mary Elizabeth Frye.

Mary Elizabeth Frye, thats right.

Her first poem, distributed privately and low key.

Just to keep everyone updated who happens to keep tabs on SPEC, we are making good progress with development. Both CryptoWatcher and SPECTRA are coming along nicely and on schedule.

As we release services, and then build on those services the SPEC community should grow nicely.

-James

Any teasers?

We will be eventually posting video walkthroughs, however wont be spending a lot of time on teasers or things like that. With 2 projects rolling at once currently (SPECTRA and CryptoWatcher and one secret project) the main focus is on making sure 100's of puzzle pieces are managed and put together correctly.

Obviously any updates we do will hit our announce pages, and social media pages.

The SPEC Development Team Welcomes CallMeJake (Creator of BlockCrawler https://github.com/CallMeJake/BlockCrawler) to the Dev Team.

Jake will be giving SPECTRA a huge boost in development.

Welcome Jake :)

 :)

It's been a while, bitcointalk...

I've been chatting with James for a couple of days now, working on this and another project.  So far it seems like a good fit, and it's nice to be a part of the team.

Here's looking forward to good things!


     ~ Jake

 

welcome jake so you were the hidden reason of movement on long stale market.

I saw the action on SPEC today, looked like some happy traders.

I'm getting started on my first project for the team right now, looking forward to exciting times!

Welcome aboard! Looking forward to your contribution to the team and the future rollout.

SPEC has been added to c-cex.com's voting list. https://c-cex.com/?id=vote

The development team isnt as focused on getting on exchanges as we are focused on getting actual work on the services finished/tested/tweaked etc. However we do see the benefit for those who are mining SPEC to have it listed at as many places as possible in order to ensure a strong ecosystem. With that there are other benefits like network strength, community members etc.

The link has been included above for anyone that wishes to vote.

-James

SPEC has officially been added to C-Cex.com. OP has been updated to reflect the update.

-James

C-CEX Details:

Trading pairs:
https://c-cex.com/?p=spec-btc
https://c-cex.com/?p=spec-usd
https://c-cex.com/?p=spec-ltc
https://c-cex.com/?p=spec-doge
https://c-cex.com/?p=spec-nxt


https://c-cex.com/i/c-cex_logo_h200.png (https://c-cex.com/?p=spec-btc)

900 million premined ?

wao..

dude what u r upto price is getting boomed and another exchange listed u guys hope u guys had pos phase so we can earn some reward for holdingg coins this long ;)

I had a good feeling about this coin. Come one come all. These guys haven't even started yet. Looking forward to the next few months.

SPEC has officially been added to Bleutrade.com. OP has been updated to reflect the update.

-James

Bleutrade Details:

URL:
https://bleutrade.com/exchange/SPEC/BTC

Bleutrade: (https://bleutrade.com/exchange/SPEC/BTC)
https://i.imgur.com/rhkRxRV.png (https://bleutrade.com/exchange/SPEC/BTC)

I get a good feeling about this one at 100 sat... ;)

Great progress, the fun will begin soon as it hits you know which exchange.

Will follow this project closely and support where I can.

Best of luck to SPEC team.

Yippe more markets

SPEC has been added to Coin Market Cap. OP has been edited to reflect the update. Historical information should be updated with time.

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/spec/

Let someone enlighten and tell how much is currently in circulation coins?

For prior work & work up to this point it should be 208 million (200 million paid out to devs plus 8 million mined) but the devs have agreed to take little to no payment up to this point so its at roughly 12 million in circulation (8 million mined, plus what has been paid out for bounties, outside dev resources, payment in spec for misc services).

Amy update on development?

All updates will be posted here as they roll out.

SPEC has been added to http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency/coins/spec

The SPEC development team greatly appreciates the awesome service that coinwarz provides to miners.

Thank you CoinWarz  :)

bought 900 000 the OP looks promising
When do you plan to release this great looking statistics and charts tool?
Will you opensource this to?

Matthias

achieving milestones one by one good; hope you'll bring good news to day traders soon

1. Awesome!
2. CW Beta Announcements will be in approx 53 days, we have some interesting stuff that will be released in between then also.
3. Not sure about open sourcing CW just yet. The current plan is "Nope". However we are big believers in releasing things for all to use for their own purposes so most of what we create WILL be released open source once each of the open source projects has a release that we have tested and deem worthy.

Of course. The SPEC team cares for all, including day traders  :D. However we wont be specifically focusing on that...

Creating the foundation of success for a long term project, is like creating an awesome stew. It takes the right ingredients and prep.


Chili guys go ahead replace "stew" with "chili", car guys can replace "stew" with "super car" & "ingredients" with "parts"....

The basic idea is, projects are multi faceted. Its going to be a mix of things that make SPEC a success.

Someone come join me on Supernova!

Already mining there for some days...

Nice approach i think you are right to ensure some gains before, often the first publisher effect is enough.
Having a "facebooksoftware" wouldn't help anybody either.

I am looking forward how my investment will play out,
bought much higher than current price (note for me: first think, then trade)

I expected a groundbreaking wallet then, but this one was .... lets call it "basic",
do you have further plans for the wallet?
Also i never seen a currency producing such a huge mass of coins, is there a idea behind?

Sorry for asking so many questions, its pure curiosity and i am trying to get to know the project,
because its a quite unusual approach. (that's why i bought them, i like unique concepts)

so long
Matthias

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Just a quick update. We will have a themeless SPECTRA preview soon. We are about to move it to a more powerful server in order to test for multiple coin formats.

-James

waiting for the sneak preview hopefully its worth of waiting

SPEC has officially been added to Cryptsy.com. OP has been updated to reflect the update.

-James

Cryptsy Details:

URL:
https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/SPEC_BTC

Cryptsy: (https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/SPEC_BTC)
https://www.cryptsy.com/img/biglogo.png?rev=2 (https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/SPEC_BTC)

great to see it on a decent exchange now. congratz to the SPEC team!

congrats on cryptsy, big step up  ;D

nice that you were added to crypsty..it gets knocked all the time...but it has been around the longest and to my knowledge never been hacked...for me that counts for alot

Very good coin to watch and mine.
There is about 2-3 private pool with massive hash out there :(

Can't get much coins.

Looks like this will be the worst loss i made ever, just holding,
because its worth nothing anyway,
but i can't see any trick to change that course, given the coin amount, and, and ....
I didn't look close enough, my own fault, arghh stupid me ...

But who knows ...
Maybe i am panicking for nothing
(possible)
SURPRISE ME!
Matthias  :)

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In think it will rally eventually...I bought the last dump the other day and it has been trading sideways ever since.

yes i had a cigarette and my nerves recovered today, lol
AND i'm still in, cant expect great results in five days

sometimes i have to remember
to get some vitamiines and so on
have fun
Matthias


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Themeless!   ::)

I'm not a great designer but I've got quite a few hours into the default CSS just to achieve a generic but functional look. Designers will understand how that goes for sure. But I'm going to change the name from "Default" to "Themeless" now!

Seriously though, with that groundwork in place I hope some of you guys will be able to do great looking styles for this.

Architecturally, I've built in some text file inclusions so that non-coders don't have to get into the script code to adjust the headers and footers to suit, adding other elements around the 'working' bits will be pretty simple, as the page scripts invoke the block explorer functionality in, well, blocks for the most part.

And for those that will want to get into the guts of it and I've got a pretty good separation between the functional and presentation layers. All of the rendering code is centralized so you don't have to go hunting through every file in the package to find the parts you want to change.

I did a massive cleanup and re-factor this week and cut the size of the code base by over 50%, which just means 50% less places for bugs to hide. It's all very procedural and loaded with comments (can you have too many comments?) so hopefully everyone who is interested will be able to follow the code and do what they like with it. One thing about open source is you can't please everyone, but I hope in the end this tool will be seeing plenty of use, and fill a large gap in the current open source tool set.

I'm currently trying to load a HBN block chain into a SPECTRA database. 2.5m blocks of POS/POW hybrid block chain.  It's a bear, but since a couple of initial issues have been addressed things seem to be going smoothly, if not quickly.  

SPECTRA is working great with SPEC (basic POW only) and if it does well with a POW/POS hybrid (HBN) it should be fine with a fully POS chain as well I think. Soon it will be ready for a first release, and we'll see what kind of bugs other people can find with it. I'm sure there are a wealth of surprises waiting in the many available block chains.

I'm working on installation documents as well.  Ehh, well, I'm on the forum, 'cause who doesn't love writing documentation, am I right?

It's to the point where getting additional eyes on it is exactly what it needs. HBN is taking forever (it looks like it will literally take several days to load) so maybe we'll see about letting you guys have a look at the development server before that's fully loaded.

Updates Soon!

Brand new SPEC faucet has been launched today ;D

http://www.faucetrotator.ml/spec/

I hear Ya, I was little tipsy when it hit cryptsy.
I bought half a mill around 80, Buy I'm not bovard, I just took the price off my widjet so I didnt have to look at it at 11 sats.
Now just buying another 1.5 mill now to average it out at very least it will be PnD a few times even if Dev's don't deliver..

Otherwise nice looking coin, it takes balls to go up against Wisdom's dominance in this area.   

Yeah same me, bought 4 another BTC at 70sat, if it would not get there again its just plain my fault one look at total coins would have made me trade much wiser. But as you sayd the total amount of coins goes against every present knowledge and i am quite looking forward the outcome. The DEV / TEAM seems to make a good job (dev: if you need a website, talk to me, look at http://www.europecoin.eu.org as a reference) I think if you entered below 20 sat you will have a much greater party, thanks for reminding me to buy some more to outsmart my noobtrades-

:) Matthias

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Looking forward to see the first release of the SPEC team :)

Can't wait to see SpecStream in action, also the website is amazing, congratulations :D

Heya

Just FYI that we're mining SPEC on our multipool: www.xpool.ca and scrypt miners have the option to keep their SPEC just by entering their SPEC address in their user settings. It is a minable coin only and not a converted payout coin. Custom KNC Titan port also available.

Cheers!

Hmmm   Had a bunch of SPEC but liquidated early.  I Might jump back in though...are there any reasons why I shouldn't?  Any reasons why I should?

I'm making arrangements for beta release of SPECTRA as I type.

Not sure if that will affect your decision :)

hy guys hope you'll break some news soon its been a while coin is stalling at a low price, wish you would had enabled POS as i requested earlier :)

New to mining in general and just took a shot at spec coin.  I am on SuprNova.cc (great pool btw)

I am just curious how this type of pool works when I see 3 unconfirmed spec coins.  How long will it generally take to confirm them so that I can withdraw?

Might take a few hours. It depends on how the chain is moving. The chain needs X amount of confirmations. Be patient it will confirm. Good luck btw.

Agree, this coins needs to be PoS. I hope SPEC team is seriously considering this.

Other than that, great project.

Good luck.

I can't speak to the POS question, I only work on one part of the project, and SPECTRA will be having it's first release soon.

There are some dev installs here: http://dev.speccoin.com/

I'm still doing some testing with a couple of those chains but you're welcome to have a look.

cool combinations most of the elements included are required for any coin, hope after this i dont need my custom excel sheets and all API collections:) waiting for the source code to experiment few things at my own

going to make some buzz about the demo ;)

Anyone else noticing the difficulty in actually finding blocks? The chain has been hanging alot in the last week.

there are quite "some" clients online, so i assume some testing going on, though  my understanding
says the chain should move because there are clients regardless of someone testing whatever, but it could be a matter of size or of
lack of my knowledge. Dev?  Could you educate us? I am sure this coin has a high percentage on technical interested users.

:) Matthias

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SPECtacular coin, wait till dev is back from hol's I reakon alot of those sells will disappear, Then MOONTIME

SPEC faucet is still going strong :) http://www.faucetrotator.ml/spec

I couldn't wait for CRYPTOWATCHER to be released so I wrote an ersatz out of boredom

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

Thought I noticed an old friend talking about Spec the other day in troll box.  I'll be watching, looks interesting.

Bona Fortuna

 :)

Hey Surfguy72,

It was me. TTYS.

SJ

Premine = 900M
Total Coins currently = 915M
For Sale on Cryptsy = 40M

Actually as above I think they burned 300m of premine.

Hmmm.  Taking a second look at this one.  Still waiting, watching before I commit a chunk...go big or go away right?

In the 30 sats range it's a winner

I think this coin needs some work on the difficulty re-target. It jumps from somewhere in the 50's and 4 blocks are immediately found then it goes to the 250's for the next four and sits.

I'm thinking maybe a KGW or different block re-target.

What do you guys think?  ???

It sure took awhile to confirm the ones I mined Then I seen the skewed code.I wont be installing this wallet.No more code injection for me.Better safe than sorry.I know you all say false positive but hackers have learned how to utilize this code for their own nefarious purposes.There are plenty of wallets out there that do not give positives at all and even some of these can be risky.I could run sandboxed or on VMware but why bother?Plenty of other safe crypto out there.Everytime I install wallets like these something happens if I dont run on VMware or in sandbox its just not worth it.Anyhoo good luck.

http://s8.postimg.org/bfaug4sxx/What_Is_A_SQL_Injection_Attack.jpg

Over 1000 payouts reached! :) keep it up and thank you for anonymous donations! http://www.faucetrotator.ml/spec/

Just checking in to the thread....SPEC still has my interest....waiting to get an accurate gauge on the potential of the project before I commit my wallet....

its just a very basic qt wallet man, why so paranoid lol? the coin is just a small part of this project, much bigger things coming and you think they would put that at risk by releasing infected wallets?? the code is out there on github, review it or have it reviewed and share with us where the nasty stuff is? heck, i'll even put up a bounty of 100k SPEC if anyone can proof that the wallet is infected and/or is injecting malicious code

 ::)

Ok whatever.I ran 3 wallets with this so called "BASIC" code and lost a bunch of my crypto 4 th time I did it just to see and yep happened again I run the same stuff now on vmware and it doesnt happen.I never said that the wallet was infected per se and im not questioning your integrity.you dont have to be a rocket scientist to know that something is askew.Im no programmer or a dev and im new to crypto been in it a little over a year.If im wrong im wrong I don't mind admitting it but something isn't right.I use multi miner by Nate wools because im just lazy but if I don't run it on vmware I get hacked or have been same with all these types of wallets so Im just not taking the risk.Maybe just my system I don't know I know others are out there that know much more about this than me and many run them with no problems.It is a problem I have that will not go away and I have even whiped my entire hard drive same problems.

Edit:There is a possibility I could be completely wrong yes but I don't think so.Trial and error tells me otherwise.If I remember correctly Mr Wools told me himself that bad guys can use certain code to gain access to your system now a days and he would have to rewrite the entire codebase and hes just not going to do that.

yes there are scams and malicious coders in crypto, but at first it seemed like you accused the spec dev's of releasing an infected wallet which i can assure you is not the case. i have absolutely nothing to do with the wallet but im always cautious when installing new wallets and in this case i asked a very paranoid security expert to look at it and he couldnt find anything suspicious. im no expert but to me it seems like there might be a vulnerability in the multi-miner that gets exploited by hackers? and Mr Wools doesnt want to rewrite the code to make it safer? im sure there are some safer methods to mine.

Also At least a few people involved in this coin are easy to locate on certain exchanges, they have more to lose from it being scammy than gain.
though I would love to know how it's coming along, hoping accumulation stage is over for this cycle   

Yea im not attacking the devs integrity not at all.IEC coin I mine pretty much 24/7 the coin is a standard buy which I measure by next to bitcoin.Pollystripe I know to be a standup dude and I trust him but I do not want to install the wallet for that simple reason.Most likely I will eventually because the coin is very important to me I just haven't done it yet.My spec coins still sit at suprnova because im afraid to install the wallet.It very well could be multiminer yep that is causing the problem.I just cant figure out how to get my miners to work by the command line I have tried and tried I just cant get them to work my thunders yes via multiminer  and my s1s are really simple dont need multi miner for those  but the orbs and the  zeus  I cant get my system to see them no matter what I do I have read every single tutorial I can find and I cant get them to work.So I gave one to Hypermist after getting mad and tossing the other 4 out in the yard but that zeus is just to expensive to trash.

hello, new to spec just downloaded wallet last week. is it normal for deposit confirmations to take so long? made a deposit to my wallet about 12 hours ago, shows the amount is confirmed on balance page but when i check the transaction it says its only 1/6 confirmed, is this a known glitch? thanks

Any progress lately?....Watching and waiting, just need something to to convince me to pull the trigger on this one!

A good buy at current price, slipping nicely under the radar still

thought I saw a post about burning some of the spec money supply ...going on three weeks ago.....was that a real thing or just posted to pump price?

Yeah, it was mentioned.  Once.

Apparently they burned 300M coins

How was vacation?

typically something like that is posted when its a done deal....also a burn address to confirm....so far haven't seen anything yet...so im not so sure.

Burn?  Should I buy now...or wait to see if it really happens?

https://i.imgur.com/uv2u5yL.jpg

 ;) Matthias

guys its been a while for some good news........................ my orders are getting accumulated and coins sitting in wallet are getting aged. hope you'll share some good news soon within this life of mine and those innocent puppies ;)

scrypt difficulty 130....nice...

Sure is quite here for a new coin  :o

yes and this is not how to manage a successful coin.

I'M OUT

https://i.imgur.com/Zs2FaFx.jpg?1


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Ah ha I saw that dump, was probably you I spose, I don't think that's the right way to go about it, alot of people on cryptsy are holding it and they all know it will pump, it hasn't really yet, unless you need the BTC for other coins a big sell at 80 sats would fill eventually, But yeah think it's pretty clear now it's just a pump and dump coin, was done better than others recently, Go check out WBB if you wanna see how a real dev works, Also with the new exchange being launched by dev we wont have to deal with Mods using influence to get crap coins listed. Bye bye Trex and Crypt 

It wasn't done

https://www.blockexperts.com/spec

"The right way?" no, you are right, the right way would havee been to READ befor BUY and to not trade when tired,
but ich acted  impulsiv and silly. If i would have done my homework by reseaching i would not have bought them, or at least not for 65 sat.
But if i know, what happens and why, then best is to take tthe loss and the lesson and don't waste time.
WBB: never heard about that  coin, but OP looks interesting I'll keep an eye on that. If you like Coins, that engage and grow
and have a team with  a developer and a marketer and even regular real-live-investors the you should give myproject a shot link is in my sig.

have fun and good luck everyone
if you bought low, it can still play out nicely
Matthias

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Nice fake trade volume, apparently about 18 million was bought at 22 sats, Total load of arse, Cant wait to dump into this coin,

wallet also stuck,now for 6 days on block 12256.
2,046,695.54156852 spec now on cryptsy,i think i dump them.

CryptoWatcher is now commencing with Beta testing in which we will test the system, fix any bugs found and add new features to finish off the list.


More info on public beta will be posted as we near the final tests and any bug fixes that may or may not pop up.

-Spec Development Team

The back link provided after a failed login doesn't work.  links to null.

Glad to see this is progressing.  Ive fired my SPEC wallet back up and have set some asics to the chain.

We were going back and forth 9n cryptsy for the advertising.   Best of luck, bought a few spec more.  Looking forward to seeing crypto watcher

If Crypto watcher ever comes into existence, atm it's just a few screen shots of meaningless graphic,
Price is being hammered down to where it belongs despite all the fake volume been cooked on Craptsy
And still nothing of the burn of 300 mil coins, which leaves a massive premine still out there...

buy at your own risk

Might I suggest moving to a PoW/PoS system?  Currently block confirmations are taking about a day or two at the current difficulty because someone with a rental keeps jumping on and jacking the diff up, forcing us who are consistently mining to bring it back to normal.  A Pow/PoS system would help rectify this problem by keeping the blockchain moving.

Ive been following this project since it was ANN'd and I think it has real promise if everything is delivered.  It could potentially hurt the block chain and cause it to grind to a halt if the difficulty was to rise too much because of multipools and such.  This is the same problem Bitmark came across and failed to rectify in time.

SPEC still has a chance to not make the same mistakes Bitmark did.

I completely agree with the statement above. Few of us have also posted and suggested PoS option as well.  In the long run it will definitely benefit the coin with the technical and market value side of things, in short make it more stable.

Hope PoS is considered.

Good luck.

Ive been running the wallet for months.  If it was infected something would of happened by now.

I also like the idea of using a different diff retarget like KGW.  Other have noticed a HUGE jump in diff after 4 blocks are pretty much instamined.  So PoW/PoS with KGW rediff and the coin would be great.

Should also have a max weight. We don't want fookers opening their wallets once every blue moon just to collect massive stakes.

I concur.

What are you talking  ??? Coin dead. 8 Satoshi !!!  :-\ Today is 4 Satoshi.  ;D

Yeah it was a scam coin perpetrated by Mods on Cryptsy, Greenlion and Nordman to give it some validity, show your disgust buy not trading on Crypt, not hard as it's all fake volume anyway.

What about a link to testing?  if it in fact exists

How is that premine dump going ?/

Pour on terrible. I do not understand those who hope for growth. Coin dead, no prospects. It is ridiculous. I have watched these coins 3)).He merged and forgotten.

Yes, we actually have plans to take it hybrid in the near future. The initial plan was that it would be done by the end of Sept. Its being actively worked out and I am talking with one of the best devs for the job in order to see it through.

Mind letting us know who this dev is?  BTW if iGotSpots gets his hands on this coin, I'm out.  Hopefully it's not him.  I've been holding for a while and plan on buying more soon. lol

Ha! Ya man, was thinking the same, if its igotspots, I'll dump my stash at loss. They should contact presstab.

at this point its hard to trust anything the devs post regarding this coin, as any news its seems is designed to just pump up value.  A burn was announced over a month ago....but to date hasn't been done....its bullshit that it should take so long.  no real other developments.   a weak ass blockexplorer seems to be only thing team has put out beside their bullshit posts.
at least burn the 300 million already...
I guess they did do a good job hoodwinking crypsty into adding...or is it like ive seen posted that crypsty mods are in on scam?

agreed....he got involved in xra and it went from like 10-12 sat to 500-600 sat

I'd vote for Presstab.

Ha! Ya man, was thinking the same, if its igotspots, I'll dump my stash at loss. They should contact presstab.
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Ditto

So who moved 50,000,000 SPEC and froze the chain lol? https://www.blockexperts.com/spec/height/12540

This is why we need PoS too.

I added my hash to try and help move the chain but so far no luck.

I agree. adding PoS to this would be great. I'd suggest talking to twoturtles AKA syntaks about doing the work first, and if he can't help then I agree with the other guys that presstab would be a good option.

Syntaks and press are both very qualified devs.  It looks like the chain started moving again around 5 AM EST and had stopped at 10 PM the day before.  This is unacceptable if you plan on using this to pay for a service.  You need a chain that will continue to move regardless of the transaction size.  Strict PoW requires people dedicated to sticking their hardware onto the chain and right now it's me and just a few other people still mining this coin.  I'm not willing to give it my full hash either given the current price and drastic diff issues.

It's been given to me on good word that SPEC looks fairly legit and the devs seem dedicated.  My suggestion in order to improve consumer confidence.  Provide a select few of us to demo and beta test your system with you. 

As someone who tests web applications for a living I can attest having new eyes on your project will bring issues to the light that the devs would of missed on their own.  It's in your best interest, SPEC devs, to allow people to view your private beta and to perform tests on the system.  Having never seen it before and not knowing how it's supposed to act gives us a clean slate when it comes to bug testing.  Which overall is very beneficial to not only keeping development on track but also giving the community hope that it will be released.

regards,
loco

Dude , Its not a real coin, a failed scam, what successful coin ANN would be handled so badly CW will never come to light

legit....why would one of devs post about burning 300 million coins and then not do it

Stoner19 and I noticed 50 million going to around 6 different addys.  Seeing if we can find them again.  Will update this post when we do.

Why isn't the dev defending himself here? What is going on with this coin is it going to sht?

isn't there supposed to be a team....you would think one of them would respond?

3 possibilities.

1) Straight out scam, the coin movment locohammerhead and stoner19 noticed is in preparation of a dump and an end to the scam.

2) By staying silent, they want to give an impression of a scam, for mass accumulation at dirt cheap before the pump.

3) incompetence.

Either way, its not a professional conduct, hence "invest" with caution, or better yet, dont.

The only way they can rectify the situation, is to 1) burn the 300m asap and post update when done, 2) release beta version to select few in the community for testing/validation. 3) Answer few of the legitimate questions/concerns posed "investors" and maintain that communication.

you can follow them directly from the premine address directly to the 50M transaction the other day when the blockchain froze.

5K3fWP6Wz3fRwYhCuT2x1B83cSR4264Jit (premine) (https://www.blockexperts.com/spec/address/5K3fWP6Wz3fRwYhCuT2x1B83cSR4264Jit) > 54fRepuJHpWQuU4UnYiNyEx2UoQkcZaxPV (https://www.blockexperts.com/spec/address/54fRepuJHpWQuU4UnYiNyEx2UoQkcZaxPV) > 5L8SmyTHvs9GQc3SFGmM6Z7PCya9k8MuuM (https://www.blockexperts.com/spec/address/5L8SmyTHvs9GQc3SFGmM6Z7PCya9k8MuuM) >
5QGDiPkkvpn7xU6U9GKUPjb9YhBnV9LcZi (https://www.blockexperts.com/spec/address/5QGDiPkkvpn7xU6U9GKUPjb9YhBnV9LcZi) > 577ree55n1G5SXGXif7mLsExZsoQ5R5cBA (https://www.blockexperts.com/spec/address/577ree55n1G5SXGXif7mLsExZsoQ5R5cBA)

The last address is the 50,000,000 SPEC transaction.

I think 5L8SmyTHvs9GQc3SFGmM6Z7PCya9k8MuuM (https://www.blockexperts.com/spec/address/5L8SmyTHvs9GQc3SFGmM6Z7PCya9k8MuuM) is the tell-tale address. I'm just making assumptions here but when I try to follow transactions from the premine address it certainly just looks like an attempt to manually mix things. These are only SOME of the addresses used in what looks like to be mixing. If there is something else going on here, devs please fill us in. I love the idea of everything you guys are claiming to be making and certainly hope that you guys can prove all of the scam accusations wrong.

so what is in this address can still be burned?......5LsbCoYa8xH5Uig1pvaqdwmym6zptL5r8k

I don't see why it couldn't be. At least it's still there and hasn't moved. They just need to use a provably unspendable address: http://earlz.net/view/2014/10/22/0340/provably-spendable-altcoin-burn-addresses (http://earlz.net/view/2014/10/22/0340/provably-spendable-altcoin-burn-addresses)

We are in the process of adding development forums to https://www.speccoin.com which will be used to give community updates vs spreading the information out through several forums.

This will allow us one central location to send information out on burns, cryptowatcher updates, invites, or anything to do with SPEC development etc.

Right but in the meantime can you at least address some of our concerns so we arnt sitting here waiting?  I've been with the project since its original ANN, just want an idea of whats going on with the burn addys.

There will be full updates once we launch the forums. We were originally going to have a little ceremony to make the burn a bit memorable (something to the tune of 1,000-10,000-1,000,000 SPEC being burned everytime a community member pushed a button on the burn site) however actual CW development got in the way which means we will probably just do something quick and dirty thats provable (Yes earlz is an option). They havent moved and once we add the forums we will have more info.

Also, once the forum is up we will begin updating the community on SPEC going hybrid and how it needs to happen to ensure smooth experience.

please stop dicking around...it was announced that a burn would take place over a month ago.....didn't think it was that difficult to have done

the development of cw getting in the way sounds like a convenient excuse...to put it politely. 

never should have said it was to be done (before someone went on vacation) if you guys were not prepared to do it in that time frame

I mean its probably the easiest milestone to accomplish...yet it remains undone

and as to having to have a forum up and running for members....wtf is this... the thing i am on right now   frig it has forum right at the top of the page.

so please don't use that as an excuse also

just burn the coins already

If you wanted central hub for SPEC updates to be on another forum, you should of done that from the beginning and point to that in your OP. It takes less than 5 min to setup a forum.

You launched your coin on BCT, you kept the updates here and this is where people expect updates. You also have not given ETA on when the forum will be launched, therefor we have no clue when our concerns will be answered.

with all the time you wasted typing up where the updates will be posted, you could of simply addressed them instead.

As far as your fun little website to burn the coin, whats more important to you, building confidence or silly button for burning coins. Burn the damn coins already.

All I see is delay tactics when you make a post with no content, which to me is red flag = Scam.

I sincerely apologize that you dont approve of setting up a central forum/blog for better updates in a central location. The fact is that updates will be posted when they are ready, not on the time frame that you deem to be the best. When it was mentioned that there is going to be a burn, it was to let everyone know that it is on the list. We originally had a plan and decided to address it after tackling a few bigger issues. If things arent happening on a timeline that you approve of, there are two things that come to mind that you can immediately do.

1. Create a project and run it exactly how you see fit.
2. Pick one of the 1000's of projects out there that are more in line with your needs.

Some of the things we are working on are no small feat, updates are given as we have them.

Taking SPEC hybrid is one of the bigger obstacles as it has to be planned out perfectly. The jist of it though is that its actively being tackled and we will ultimately choose the best route to take so that the community can transition smoothly.

CW is a big project that requires a ton of resources and has to be proofed fully. Its the equivalent of taking the biggest exchanges information and combining it into one. This is no small feat.

Spectra needs to be fully proofed. Its working well and the dev is probably the best blockchain dev available. This is no small feat.

Bottom line is, information, updates and alpha launches will take place when we deem them fully ready. No sooner. If that doesnt suit your needs, simply pick something else to follow.

This thread is being locked and future updates can be found at http://blog.speccoin.com. ETA on the forum is 48 hours.

SPECTRA Released.

SPECTRA Open Source Block Explorer is now available on our official github: https://github.com/SpecDevelopment/spectra

Example of Vanilla SPECTRA used for SPEC can be found here: http://dev.speccoin.com/spectra/

SPECTRA has been tested for POW and Hybrid with little to no modification and most other coins that use the bitcoin style JSON-RPC calls.

It was important to us to include enough of a foundation in order for a dev to easily port it to their needs. Hats off to CallMeJake the original creator of blockcrawler and now SPECTRA  :D

Updates also coming to https://www.speccoin.com shortly.