I don't respond to PMs or all I would do all day is respond to PMs.

Updated Mac wallet with crash fixes added to OP.

Bittrex and AllCrypt are recommended exchanges.

Block explorer added to OP.

I need to correct something I stated incorrectly in the ANN thread.

The price will not be "fixed"... a minimum price will be established.  You cannot fix the max price of anything.  That's economically impossible.  You can, however, provided a minimum backing so even in a down market the coin has a value.

Paper Wallet added to OP.  Thanks to ‏@cryptoflood  for the design.

I think you may be computing that wrong.  Even at 28NAUT the price translates to around 0.013BTC.

I'll be appearing on the David Seaman Hour (http://davidseaman.com/) podcast tomorrow talking Dirac, NautilusCoin and the Blake Ecosystem.

Thank you!

It is *not* a fixed price.  That is a buy-in at fair market value.  That is the guarantee of a *minimum* price at that time, not a fixed price.

The first Dirac commercial transaction has taken place.

Ð40 = .25BTC for Mac Wallet

Mac wallet added.

What is Dirac?

A Revolution In Cryptocurrency and Finance


Dirac is intented not simply as a currency, but as a stable financial instrument capable of carrying vast amounts of wealth in a safe, secure, and in a manner more economically efficient than Bitcoin.  Free-market managed economic stability is a concept introduced by NautilusCoin(http://NautilusCoin.com) and then enhanced by Dirac.  Dirac will be traded in an exclusive currency pairing against NautilusCoin (NAUT market) on AllCrypt(http://AllCrypt.com). Between 90 and 100 days after launch, the market will be gradually purchased at fair market value for 25,000NAUT over a period of 30 days, backing the currency network and establishing a minimum price at that moment at roughly 0.07NAUT.

Dirac has a specially modified codebase which allows for a process of currency cloning that is simpler than ever before. Thousands of clones can now be created and each blockchain comes pre-built with merged mining.

• ISO 4217 Trading Symbol : XDQ
• Monetary Symbol : Ð�
• Target block time : 180 seconds
• Difficulty retarget : 20 blocks (every hour)
• Maximum Coins: Ð�2,272,800
• Starting block reward : Ð�8
• First reward reduction @ 43201 : Ð�1.25
• Second reward reduction @ 744001 : Ð�0.75
• Third reward reduction @ 1448001) : Ð0.5
• Fourth reward reduction @ 2145601 : Ð�0.25
• Fifth reward reduction (inflation mode) @ 2846401 : Ð�0.01

Useful Information
* [GitHub](https://github.com/bryceweiner/Dirac)
* [Windows Wallet](http://blakecoin.org/Dirac-0.8.9.1-WIN.7z)
* [Linux Wallet](http://blakecoin.org/Dirac-0.8.9.1-LIN.7z)
* [MacOS Wallet](https://www.dropbox.com/s/3s8cafmkqd1v0rf/Dirac-Qt-macports_10.8.dmg)


Block Explorer
http://diracexplorer.org:2750/

Official Forum
https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/1446-dirac-xdq/

Official Blake Ecosystem Mining Information and Discussion Thread
* [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=306894.0](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=306894.0)

Official Blake Ecosystem Website
* [http://www.blakecoin.org](http://www.blakecoin.org)

Official Blake Ecosystem Merged Mining Pool
* US East: [http://ny2.blakecoin.com/](http://ny2.blakecoin.com/)
* US West: [http://la1.blakecoin.com/](http://la1.blakecoin.com/)
* Europe: [http://eu3.blakecoin.com](http://eu3.blakecoin.com)
 * GPU Mining: Yes.
 * FPGA Mining: Yes.
 * ASIC Mining : __*NO*__

Blake-256 optimization thread on CUDAMiners
* [http://www.cudaminers.net/forum/settings-benchmarks-for-blake-256-merged-mining-thread.html](http://www.cudaminers.net/forum/settings-benchmarks-for-blake-256-merged-mining-thread.html)
started by @cuttlefish_btc

Real world example of 280X Settings at 2.4Gh/s



Official Dirac Exchange (Blake Ecosystem Present)

http://allcrypt.com
https://bittrex.com/Market/?MarketName=BTC-XDQ

What Is Merged Mining?
* http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/273/how-does-merged-mining-work

The Science of the Blake Advantage Over Bitcoin
* https://131002.net/blake/blake.pdf

The Blake Ecosystem

What is Blakecoin?

Blakecoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to
anyone, anywhere in the world. Blakecoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate
with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing of coins are carried
out collectively by the network.

What is Photon?

A clone of Blakecoin with a few changes.

* The standard block award of Photon is 32,768 BUT as the block chain grows the award will increase. The amount it increases is directly related to the current difficulty and height of the blockchain.  Miners will get 32,768 coins plus the square root of blockchain height multiplied by the current difficulty.

* Still as Photon's are plentiful in the universe the max money is set to 90,000,000,000. That is 90 Billion Photons.

* Difficulty retargets every 20 blocks with a target of a new block to be produced every 3 minutes.

* Up to block 3500 the max adjustment is 15% up each retarget.
 * After block 3500 the max adjustment is 3% up each retarget.

What is BlakeBitcoin?
---------------------
A Clone of Bitcoin same reward structure Starting with 50 coins per block and a total of 21 million coins
The Block target time is 1/4 of Bitcoin's to account for extra hashing speed of Blake-256
The difficulty retarget at 8064 blocks and the reward halving every 210,000 blocks
The difficulty adjustment is also same as per Bitcoin

License

Dirac is released under the terms of the MIT license. See `COPYING` for more
information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

BlakeBitcoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See `COPYING` for more
information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Photon is released under the terms of the MIT license. See `COPYING` for more
information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.


Blakecoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See `COPYING` for more
information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Notes

Forked from Bitcoin reference wallet 0.8.6 and BlakeBitcoin

BlakeBitcoin is a cryptocurrency designed to use the Blake 256 algorithm cloned from BlakeBitcoin.

Blake-256(optimized) faster than scrypt and faster than sha256 in C (asm is still faster for sha256d)

The algorithm was written as a candidate for sha3, Based on round one candidate code from the sphlib 2.1 and reduced the compression function to 8.

Ubuntu 12.04 dependancies that are used on the Linux build machine:

git-core build-essential libssl-dev libboost-all-dev libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev libgtk2.0-dev libminiupnpc-dev qt4-qmake mingw32 synaptic qt-sdk qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev libqt4-core libqt4-gui libdb++-dev

Tweaks

Removed some of the double hashing from the wallet as it is wasteful on compute, No changes to the ecdsa public/private function as that has proven to be secure so far on bitcoin.

Paper Wallet



Media
David Seaman interview discussing Dirac and NAUT.
https://soundcloud.com/d_seaman/bryce-weiner-2nd-podcast

A short video recorded by Mr. Seaman of myself describing Dirac.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkQn4rqmxr4

Proof of existence of 25k NAUT for Dirac Buyback
Address:
Message:
Signature:

Things are going to ramp up slowly.  Don't expect a lot of furious activity.  I do have plans for OSC, but nothing I feel comfortable posting on BCT just yet.  Those things which I do have in mind will take time.  Obtaining a marketshare of the coin and the network were the first steps.

I'm not a fan of foundations.  I think foundations take accountability away from the individuals that make decisions.  I've seen what the BTCF has done to bitcoin and I am not impressed, an event of most recent note being the failed election process.

r3wt still has ownership of the website and all of the other stuff that surrounds and supports a coin.  Yes, a wallet update is probably in the next couple of months, but I'm one of those people who feels that ownership of a coin comes from more than just having some coins in a wallet and that real investment comes from participation.

If you'd like a refreshed wallet, let's see some ideas and get a conversation started. 

I'd also like to add that as an employee of Blocktech that we have a lot of resources that most folks don't have to support coin networks.  We're still in the startup phases, which is another reason things will move slowly for a while.

You folks have been so patient with this coin for so long, I ask that you continue to do so for a little while longer while we get things in order.

In the meanwhile... enjoy the market price.

I'm running 10.9.2 as well.  I'll pass this along to a friend who has far better skills at debugging Mac errors than I have.

Very small. AmKoin isn't traded. PetroDollar has a six month "ramp up" period similar to how OSC started, and PopularCoin has a 1 year ramp up period.  Both AmKoin and PetroDollar were forked from UNO. 

I consider market cap a distraction from solid technology and good coin design.  For the amount of coins in circulation OSC has been woefully underpriced for a long time.

My name is Bryce Weiner. I'm the developer of AmKoin, PetroDollar, the lead dev on PopularCoin, and I've taken over OpenSourceCoin from r3wt's very capable hands.  I'm also the Director of Cryptoeconomy Engineering at Blocktech and I promise I'll be gentle.

r3wt was kind enough to provide me with the repo and I am in possession of the private keys for the checkpoint server.  I currently have 800Gh/s on the network. I have purchased 2% of the total coins on the network. That 2% has been moved to cold storage as an asset.

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As a sort of welcoming present I've had a Mac wallet compiled (see above) and am working on getting a few other toys together.

I really like this coin.  I think it has a lot of potential.  I'm looking forward to all the fun we're going to have.

(oh... and at the time of this post it's up 600%)

Mac Wallet

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2WZ5vxP-SaDSkhnNV9uV09MZUU/edit?usp=sharing

Nice coin.

Invite, please!