Yeah, that probably makes most sense. Thanks for the suggestion. This will work well when we also support p2pool.

How about if I put it at the right most tab? Would that be just as good as having an option to hide it?
I will work on combining the mining from options with this mining tab.

Yes, that status is only hooked up the the internal miner. I need to hook it up to the poll miner info, but I haven't figured out a good way to present these 2 different mining options together without confusing the user.


Matoking, if would be great if you can fork your own Litecoin repo, make your changes, and submit a pull request. What were you thinking of doing? I was going to work on adding an "full log" checkbox that would switch the output to exactly what minerd prints out. This will be useful for advance users that want to see the full output.

Just spent the last couple hours incorporating Matoking's ScryptMiner minerd GUI with the Litecoin client.
It's a new mining tab that let's you start/stop/configure minerd to run against any pool.
You need to make sure that the minerd executable and libraries are in the same directory as the Litecoin-QT application.

Let me know what you guys think. And thanks to Matoking for creating the original GUI.

https://github.com/downloads/coblee/litecoin/litecoin-windows-client-0.5.0.3.zip

Yeah, the icon doesn't look quite right when it's resized to a small icon in the captionbar. I'm not sure if there's a way to tell it to use the smaller icon. I will look into it.

Litecoin version 0.5.0.2 has been released with the new Litecoin logo.

Windows client: https://github.com/downloads/coblee/litecoin/litecoin-windows-client-0.5.0.2.zip

If you create that image for me, I might consider using it for the testnet splashscreen!

Thanks everyone for helping me design the Litecoin logo!

Here are the final images that BitcoinPorn helped me create for the client. And they look great!

wallet splashscreen:


main icon: (still deciding whether to use the lighter or the slightly darker one)


main icon for testnet:


toolbar icon:


toolbar icon for testnet:

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Yeah, maybe the interim version is just the UI to start/stop/configure p2pool.

If we want to go the route of a dropdown for pool selection, I was thinking along the lines of defining each pool in a separate pool-[name].conf file and have the client read all those files and populate the pool selection. This way, pools can release their .conf file that users can download. Maybe that's overkill... not sure yet.

Does that mean you want the client bundled with like 10 different versions of minerd?
With Matoking's GUI, you include your own minerd binary and it will use that.

Seriously, I hope people don't download and run random binaries from other users. But then again, I don't even trust binaries posted by CoinHunter. But if you do trust CoinHunter, only run binaries that he posted.

litecoin.org has now been moved to be hosted on github.com
litecoin.info will soon redirect to the new wiki at https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/wiki

Looks like we will go with BitcoinPorn's logo. I will work with BitcoinPorn to add the logo to the client. Thanks everyone for voting.

I've talked to him about this, but seems like he doesn't agree in principle that he should pay back the money when he was also scammed by his supplier. Different people have different philosophies about how business dealings should be handled when things go wrong. And I don't have enough information and really have no right to judge him on this.

I also asked why he doesn't just get a different username on the forums. And he told me that he thinks that's not right to try to hide this from others.

So take that however you want.

I felt that you didn't need to go on such an attack on terrytibbs and on me. Some of the stuff you said where uncalled for. Even though what you ultimately fought for was right (the fact that users would be worried that the person hosting litecoin.org has a scammer label), the way you went about it was pretty poor. Instead of going about it nicely, you made claims that were blatantly false and instilled a lot of hostility towards you and muddied your argument:

"everyone can make their own decision on whether or not they like to download binaries hosted by a proven scam artist"
- the binaries are not hosted on litecoin.org
- and terrytibbs is not a "proven scam artist." most people will agree that to be a scam artist, you need have intent to scam people. the terrytibbs "scam" is  more like he sold a used car that turned out to be a lemon (which he didn't know about) and he refused to accept returns. so buyers were stuck with the lemon and asked the mods here to label him as a scammer.

"litecoin domains run high risk of having links to malicious binaries"
- the fact that terrytibbs is labeled as a scammer for his past deals does not make it a "high risk" that he will change the litecoin website to link to malicious binaries.

And these personal attacks don't help:
"For personal reasons Coblee (litecoin dev) thinks he has better moral judgement than this entire community"
"Learn reading comprehension"
"shows a direct and complete disregard for the security of your users"
"Perhaps you just need a scapegoat so when you scam your entire user base"

Although I don't agree that having terrytibbs host the website is a high security risk, I do concede that it does not shine a good light on Litecoin when terrytibbs has a scammer label, whether valid or not. And people (like yourself) will immediately jump to the wrong conclusion when they see the scammer label. And I don't feel like dealing with threads like these in the future.

Well, it's behind us now. Please lock this thread.

Yes, terrytibbs has offered me a few times to switch hosts if I thought his scammer label was an issue. Since I didn't think it was, I have not switched hosts. Plus there weren't anyone else that I trusted more than terrytibbs.

Anyways, since this seems like a big issue for some people, I will look into hosting the site with github for now. When we need something more that just a few static pages, I will figure it out then.

So, terrytibbs, please help me convert the webpages to static html. And I will have github host it. Github also has a wiki and we can move the wiki information there: https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/wiki

Sorry, but there's nothing contradicting about those 2 statements.

I can quote you too. chieffery: "Please learn reading comprehension"
Yeah, please do.

Did you not read that I believe the risk of him doing that is very very low? Just because that's the worst he can do, it doesn't mean he will do it.

Did you also not read that the Windows daemon is built by twobits? What do you think the worst twobits could do is? Yeah, he could do a lot worse. So why do you trust my judgement of character there?

I think I've said enough here and in the main thread. From my point of view, you definitely have a hidden agenda here or are just trolling. So I won't keep feeding you anymore.

Please ignore me too. Since I'm defending a known scammer's ability to design and host the website.


No, I was merely trying to bring some humor to this forum. I care very much about the security of Litecoin users. I've asked people time and time again to build their own client from source. I also went through the trouble of running WinXP in a virtual machine just so that I can compile the Windows client for you guys, since it's hard to trust anyone else to do this. I also spent a lot of time trying to build the Windows daemon myself. When I couldn't, I tried hard to find somone reputable (twobits) to do it. You don't know me that well. So don't claim that I don't care about the security of users.

And how well do you know terrytibbs? How can you say that "both the litecoin domains run high risk of having links to malicious binaries"? Just because he had a disagreement with how to handle a sale gone bad not due to a fault of his own, does that make it a "high risk" that he will link the website to malicious code? From my dealings with terrytibbs, I believe this risk is very very low that he would sabotage the website in that way. You would have to trust my judgement on that, similar to how people trust my judgment that twobits won't sabotage the Windows daemon.

And please don't make it sound like terrytibbs paid me to defend him with free hosting services. That's laughable.

Let's not let chieffery distract us from the real problem Litecoin is facing...

...we don't have a logo yet! 
So please vote! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49563.0