Last time I checked NXT they didn't have any finite contract / contract expiry capability. 

Do you ever slow down? 

Sure, got my first whole day off in weeks tomorrow. Need to look busy while stealing chocolate Santas off the tree.

Not today it wasn't but I was feeling flush.

About Osmium's artwork, I think the OP / Part 2 one would be better with just the graphical border and maybe have the text in that font on a plain background? Gradient / image backgrounds are terrible for legibility - also they make theming next to impossible if it's going to be adopted in-wallet.

Bit busy for my tastes, I like things simple and clear, but I absolutely respect the work.


Good choice BTW IMO moving a lot of the main menu items to tabs elsewhere. Nothing wrong with old school tabs.

BCR now has over 1 BTC backing. Which isn't much, but it's 1 BTC more than anyone else has.

Got 2 BNs back up and running with the bootstrap posted a page or two back and "reconsiderblock 005c785a6e379f81172bc3b75857067be21f3c82a76e1302d63ea4704c7fde66" @ 267025. (Thanks jasemoney.)

Block auction running like a charm.

My boxes all seem OK, synced with chainz @ 240626 right now... try restarting with -reindex maybe?

Block explorer should be resized in next release so you can scroll-bar around within it.

Bid with BTC button should now call bitcoin-qt.exe on Windows on next release.

Bid calculator tooltip does say 'press Enter' but a button could be added. Next release should also show you the BTC rate for your bid.

Can you double check your transactions on a block explorer, make sure the inputs your bids came from were all from the address you think they were from?

Another successful superblock... for anyone wanting to acquire a bit more BCR you should get bidding. 

Electrum BTC privkeys import just fine, make sure you've imported the privkeys for all the addresses that your bid was made up from if funds came from more than one address to make the transaction amount.

I don't know exactly how it works currently, but when the client checks the block explorer for bids, could it ignore the result and keep the existing data if it had reduced? eg. bids last time checked were x.yz BTC, now it's 0.00 BTC, but there hasn't been a superblock, so we'll stick with x.yz BTC...

Would this add some resilience to the system, prevent a non-responsive explorer at the wrong time screwing up a superblock payout?

I was going to suggest just sticking to BTC as well, it's simple and cheap enough to convert anything else to it. Multiple cryptocurrencies might have made sense if the plan was to keep multiple currencies as reserve assets but if the eventual goal is to have assets in the form of something more tangible then bidding with BTC alone will serve fine.

That was me, but I used an electrum BTC address as my DASH bids weren't getting picked up due to blockstrap's unreliability, although the BTC and LTC explorers seem OK.  Couldn't be bothered downloading 250GB of BTC blockchain.

Imported the privkey without issue but no new address / BCR.      I've read that you can import electrum keys into Core without problems, just not the other way around, so not sure what the problem is.     62Di3cmoJo3J619tz7qamJsUezavKkGBNW has plenty of shiny new BCR in it but I've no idea how to access it.


Nevermind, examined the tx and two inputs were used to make the bid, imported the other privkey and the won amount showed up immediately. 

Would be nice to see the 40 block limit in the next update, yesterdays superblock went to a noncompliant miner.

Disregard last post about bids not showing up, my test DASH bid has appeared.

I'm out of sync with chainz though, currently  my boxes are on 223636 right now with peers:
91.230.123.101:8877
91.230.123.101:8888
91.230.123.11:8877
82.211.1.181:8877

Bidding addresses changed but not updated in bidpage.ui - will submit a pull req. later if not beaten to it.

Should be:

1BCRbid2i3wbgqrKtgLGem6ZchcfYbnhNu (BTC)
LbcrbidVUV2oxiwmQtMy5nffKqsWvYV8gf (LTC)
XbcrbidcSK1FeBy5s3nGiHgWKLSnpDH5na (DASH)

...according to bidpage.cpp etc. in commit be4f2d1?

edit: final.dat / prefinal.dat aren't updating for me on 17.8

I know a lot of that can be scripted but it seems a bit... complex?

3000000 BCR @ 0.000003 is ~9 BTC... I would be tempted to buy the lot myself.   

Maybe sell it gradually, as a working bidding system slowly but surely adds daily to the assured minimum value and pushes up the market price? I do appreciate that you're impatient to get things done and hire skilled helpers though.

No, it wont be trustless, because you can't do perfectly trustless when dealing with real stuff. Bitcoin isn't really perfectly trustless (and certainly isn't decentralised) either, you're just relying on the distributed ledger and some rather centralised miners (ie. trusting a lot of practically anonymous counterparties) to keep your unbacked-by-anything 1's and 0's safe from attack.

Multiparty custodial structures can be put in place though to minimise risk, and with any fiat connection will come the requirement for real names and identities for said custodians. These things would need to be hammered out before BCR can expand beyond BTC/LTC/DASH 'donational interoperability.' 

Me too, amount looks about right.   

Bids don't seem to have been reset / cleaned out of the files though, hopefully coming update sorts that out.

Looks like the BN that block got ~239 BCR, don't know it this will be constant, but seems like the BCR distributed to bidders is going to be about 23750 BCR per superblock after the grants / miner / BN / bnk+dof+mof+sof+tof.

Couple of options...

On Send / Receive page, if you have coin control activated, click on that to see addresses that contain unspent inputs, or on the Receive tab you can pull up addresses you've created.

From the CLI or RPC console (Debug window > Console), 'listaddressgroupings' will display a list of address accounts but only show addresses that are funded, use 'listaddressesbyaccount <account>' to show all addresses for a given account.

Yes, I got a spate of them yesterday from about block 220960.