For what it is worth, I noticed that my delegate, hosted on Vultr, is only hitting about 75% since the 030 update. My uptime has gone down slowly, as I hit an average of 3 forgings per hour and miss one.
That's interesting, because the list I posted above is based on servers that I see have their uptime going down slowly too. Maybe they ARE online forging but are occasionally missing their turn too. I'll let it percolate for a day or so and recheck. In any event, it looks like it's worth verifying 0.3.0 isn't causing an upswing in missed forgings because of tighter timings. |
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For what it's worth, it looks like there are at least 12 Top Delegates in the "101 Club" that are not currently forging:
UPTIME DELEGATE
72.78% Altocumulus
72.78% Altostratus
84.69% Stratocumulus
84.47% Stratus
56.18% foundation10
56.60% foundation9
85.38% MatthewDC_D1
85.07% MatthewDC_D8
12.79% stasDelegate1
12.63% stasDelegate4
75.38% landgraf.paul
53.15% Wulfcastle
This list may be longer, but if so, it's among members whose total uptime is over 85%.
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Well, I'm definitely running an updated 0.3.0 node now but can't access its wallet with IE 11. No JS errors that I can see. Chrome 43 works fine. Just takes a long time to download that blockchain.
Onward.
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Please tell me the browser you are using. I see the circling image, check:
The current blockchain size should be about 160MB.
I don't see the spinning circle in Internet Explorer 11, I do see it in Chrome Version 43. I'm still loading, currently at 153MB. I seem to be up and running with a complete blockchain if I log in with Chrome. However, on the forging page I see a floating "red button" in the upper right corner but there is no words near it like "stop forging". With IE 11, I see nothing. |
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Check at the top right corner. There should be a circle loading with a percentage inside of it.
Nope. No circle. See for yourself: http://104.156.254.157:8040According to winscp, my blockchain.db is at 95MB and still slowly climbing. Mal, that Vultr address is a 512MB account. you need to upgrade to 45.63.6.XX:8040 BTW, that link only leads to the XCR wallet log on screen. We cant see your node. Also, you cant enable forging from a remote computer when on Vultr....... you must log on to Vultr and do it there. I understand it's just a wallet, not my node that you would see. But if the blockchain isn't loaded, isn't ANY wallet user logging in there supposed to see the spinning circle / percentage loading figure that apparently isn't there? According to my server management page it is a 768MB server. That's what I'm paying for. Where do you see it's 512MB? I understand that I have to engage forging locally by putting my forging account passcode into the config.json file in quotes and I have done so. I still think that's not a secure process, which is why I keep my balance very low on this account, but anyway - I still don't see the low balance I know is in there even tho it is the correct forging account number I use. So it is obviously a blockchain load issue. SO...how big IS the blockchain right now? |
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Check at the top right corner. There should be a circle loading with a percentage inside of it.
Nope. No circle. See for yourself: http://104.156.254.157:8040According to winscp, my blockchain.db is at 95MB and still slowly climbing. |
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I'm having some problems setting up my 0.3.0 "MalReynolds" delegate on Vultur. I've got the 0.3.0 software installed and running on my server. I can call it up over the internet via http://IP:8040 and log into my correct forging account. However, it doesn't recognize that I am a delegate. Next to the "Send" button is a half circle with "3%" inside of it. THe half circle spun for one revolution and is now frozen. My block chain seems to stop at 258650 and won't load higher. When I go to the forging page, there is a button to "Register delegate" and no button to "Stop forging". When I try to register the user name "MalReynolds01" for the account, the registration window freezes and does nothing for a very long time, until I cancel and log out. Suggestions? It seems it isn't syncing to the end. If you have the old blockchain from the old version you can use it. Else try to close the client, delete the blockchain.db and start it again. Then it will sync again from scratch, should be working. Also, how many MB does your client have? While testing we saw, that 512MB are not enough anymore. This will likely change again in the future, but right now we recommend to have 768MB minimum.  i got the same problem when i upgrade my node. and then i forever stop app.js and then forever start app.js....and it works....start to sync again. maybe it's just because the internet of your server is unstable I have deleted blockchain.db and restarted app.js. No client indication the blockchain is loading. However, I am monitoring the files with the winscp program while I am running an active Putty session with the server. I see the block chain size increasing with time - it is currently at 51MB and has taken 20-30 minutes to get there. When I log into the server using http://IP:8040 I get the Crypti client and can log into my correct forging account. But there is no indication the blockchain is loading and it shows frozen at block 19347. I am going to leave it running and see if things change when the entire blockchain is uploaded. How many MB is that currently? Bottom line, I seem to be running, the blockchain seems to be loading, but there is no indication of that in the client. I'll let you know what happens. |
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Well, so much for Crypti being serviced by Coinomat.com for now. There were a bunch of Dash and Doge votes in the last minutes so we ended up 4th place for their current voting cycle. It would take about 2BTC or around $500 to tie with Doge for 3rd place in the next cycle, ignoring any additional votes. https://coinomat.com/coinvoting.php |
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I'm having some problems setting up my 0.3.0 "MalReynolds" delegate on Vultur. I've got the 0.3.0 software installed and running on my server. I can call it up over the internet via http://IP:8040 and log into my correct forging account. However, it doesn't recognize that I am a delegate. Next to the "Send" button is a half circle with "3%" inside of it. THe half circle spun for one revolution and is now frozen. My block chain seems to stop at 258650 and won't load higher. When I go to the forging page, there is a button to "Register delegate" and no button to "Stop forging". When I try to register the user name "MalReynolds01" for the account, the registration window freezes and does nothing for a very long time, until I cancel and log out. Suggestions? |
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Let me ask a theoretical question. Crypti is getting a smart contract (SC) capability in the future, right? And those SCs need information scraped from somewhere to make a decision on what to do. So...will the Crypti version run by the Forging Delegates start to incorporate SC modules that scrape various websites and databases for information, and release certain chinks of information upon request to dapps that ask for it? Or will the dapps be required to get SC decision information themselves? Or both? What is the Crypti vision for SC decision data?
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Crypti v0.3.0 - Aphrodite
...This delivers an unseen user experience and we hope that you like this release as much as we!
Max, you English is excellent and actually almost perfect. But I think in this case you are not using the specific English word you think you are. An "unseen" user experience means the screen is blank and shows nothing. I think you are perhaps looking for "unique" or maybe "unparalleled". And altho your final phrase is technically correct, 999 out of 1000 English speakers would add "do" on the end - "as much as we do!" instead of the technically correct but odd sounding "as much as we!". Me, I know even less German than my three words of Russian. In Russian I know the word for "thank you". |
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Mal... let me just answer your query on the need for a physical address. Strange thing about banks, they dont let you use a web address for an account. If you dont have a brick and mortar address, no account.
Apple and Google only pay to bank accounts in select countries.
If Crypti begins to make income from dapps, it will only come as fiat from Google/Apple. They wont pay us in BTC. We have a choice of USD or EUROS.
Crypto currency is great, but you cant buy groceries, gasoline, clothing, or pay rent with it yet. And in Russia, you can have it taken away by the gov't.
The between-the-lines message I am getting here is that the Crypti Foundation / key devs plan to set up not only a physical office but also release its own dapps that will generate a profit to be processed through that office. Which is a great, cool thing. Good luck with that. I can see where a decentralized sports betting dapp like I have outlined would not fit in with such a centralized, profit-making enterprise having conventional banking and governmental ties. Such a dapp would have to be done much more anonymously, by a team interested more in Crypti value appreciation than ongoing profit generation. Um, what is the timeline again for the Crypti source code version with custom blockchains / smart contracts to be released to the public domain for inspection? |
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First, we discovered that Apple and Google do not allow any apps that have real gambling. Gambling games must use dedicated in-game tokens, not real money or crypto.
Second, both Apple and Google do not allow any apps that allow the use of crypto currencys for in-game functions. They have allowed an app for a BTC wallet, and an app that tracks BTC and other crypto currency prices. They have refused to allow apps that use any crypto for ingame functions. They also have refused apps that allow Coinbase type purchases of crypto.
So let's bypass Apple and Google and forget smartphone apps. Go with a handheld wifi terminal that runs Linux that is cheap and readily available worldwide that people would gladly purchase to be a dedicated gambling terminal. Like the upcoming PocketCHIP: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer/descriptionI started ranting about putting Crypti on this thing back on page 539 of this thread. The Kickstarter campaign is now over ($2M raised!) and they are slated to release 15,000+ of these in 10 months next May. Who knows how many they will sell after that - lots, if it is running a Crypti sports gaming dapp with Betfair API and Coinomat exchange functionality that we develop in the next 10 months. We could become a major driver of their sales! I went ahead and signed up as a Kernel Hacker on this Kickstarter, so I will be getting one of the PocketCHIP prototypes in September. I will donate it to the cause if we start developing a Crypti sports gambling dapp.Third issue is the need for protection against government interference and funds confiscation. Presently, Crypti is based in Russia and/or Israel. Both countries are hostile to crypto and gambling activities. Mann is friendly to crypto businesses. I have had several conversations with the government there recently. The license to operate in Mann is $50,000 Euros per year, plus you need to hire a "local agent" to be your on-island presence. Mann is not gambling friendly. The Mann banks do not accept deposits from gambling businesses.
Why in the world would we set up a physical, legal or business presence anywhere? Why would we want or need to do so for this proposed project? The whole point is decentralization. The Crypti dev team uploads to Github or other code storage site a Crypti sports gaming dapp to run on PocketCHIP, which is downloaded by users onto their personal PocketCHIP. What is there to confiscate? All I'm interested in is seeing the value of Crypti rise as more people get involved in turning their PocketCHIP into a private gambling terminal and buy Crypti as "gaming tokens" as necessary to use the system. Nobody can confiscate anybody's holdings off of the blockchain, right? Fourth issue, is the ability to exchange crypto for fiat and then deposit this fiat in a bank. Banks are refusing to accept deposits from crypto exchanges, as well as other types of businesses (gun stores, legal marijuana dispensaries, legal brothels).
This problem is going to exist for any dapp. The key is that a sports betting dapp cannot be done directly with BTC as tokens because they lack custom chains and smart contracts and can be done by XCR once we develop these features. This means such a dapp will create a market for BTC/XCR exchange and that will drive XCR price up. As long as BTC is a "currency", we're good to go. Bter and Cryptsy both process XCR directly now (by exchanging it to BTC first if nothing else) and will release dollars to your bank account. Coinomat says they will put the value of a crypto sale to them on a prepaid credit card to spend in the real world and very soon we are going to be a partner in Coinomat (for what that's worth). If Coinomat turns out to be a bust, we keep looking. Everybody needs a crypto-to-fiat solution for every significant crypto application. The fact this remains a "shaky leg of the stool" currently is no reason to give up on a Crypti sports betting app. Fifth issue is the US currency laws. The US is demanding auditing rights of every account in any bank in the world that has a single account owned by a "US Person"; as well as legal jurisdiction of any transaction in USD anywhere in the world over $10,000 USD. Companies doing business in the US, that are not US based, are subject to a 30% tax on exported funds to ensure that they pay US income taxes on profits. They then must file an income tax 1040 form to get any refund due. Since most of the Crypti team is not in the US, they dont want to be subject to US banking laws and potential taxes.
What is the scenario involving the US Government you see that would hamper a Crypti sports betting app as I have outlined it above? A DoJ official gets a warrant...and serves it on who, to get control of what, exactly? Where is the access point where the US Government can do anything about a Crypti sports betting app? Shut down 101 servers scattered worldwide to freeze our blockchain? Go house to house confiscating personal PocketCHIPs? Confiscate a bank account that accepted BTC purchased earlier with XCR on some other exchange? So, you see Mal, we have several hurdles to jump over here...but on our limited budget, it is a pay as you go situation.
I don't see hurdles to a Crypti sports betting app; if we go with PocketCHIP instead of smartphones, all I see is opportunity. And if we target our development to have a simultaneous release with PocketCHIP, we've got 10 months to prepare. I still say we should go for it. |
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Neither Android or Apple allow gambling apps. The casino apps you see there are token based, and are not using real money.
I don't see a problem here - do you? Crypti IS a token. What can you buy with it? Nothing. Where can you spend it? Nowhere. Do current game apps allow you to pay real money for in-game tokens/assets? Yes. If we do create a sports betting dapp on side blockchains, it will be a game token smartphone app that is eligible for distribution on both Google Play and Apple App Store. The fact that Crypti can (with great difficulty) be exchanged / cashed out for something that is less like a token and more like money does not disqualify a dapp based on it from distribution via Google or Apple. Don't confuse Android and Google Play Store. Even if Google Play Store were to disallow a Crypti dapp for download there, many other ways exist to get that app/dapp onto Android smartphones. http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/android-app-stores/2/
Gambling sites have to be accessed through a browser.
True in the past, but not in the future. Think big. This is an idea worth pursuing and if it were a simple rollout it would have been done already. What I am proposing is a smartphone-based version of the Betfair gambling website whose customer wagers are recorded and serviced on a Crypti side blockchain instead of a UK website server farm. This can be done. It would have huge advantages in expanding sports gaming beyond government reach. It would put Crypti on the map and make us a premier cryptocurrency virtually overnight. And replacing / competing with Betfair is BIG BUSINESS. I ran across an article today about just how big Betfair is: http://www.cityam.com/218152/betfair-enjoys-surge-profits-customer-base-grows-halfBetfair has 1.7 million customers. Crypti can evolve to take a BIG piece of this pie. Let's do it. |
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Would this still be decentralized? I won't go into such areas, I'm just curious. To get people interested in a Crypti sports betting dapp, we've got to branch out beyond our currently pathetic relationship with Cryptsy/Bter/Poloniex. In three more days we are apparently going to win the vote to get integrated into Coinomat, which could be critical in easily converting Crypti into other forms of "real money" that could be spent by sports betting users. This is also a key component in making a sports betting dapp work and gain wide usage. https://coinomat.com/coinvoting.phpSay we create an Android smartphone app that is also a Crypti sports betting dapp. The Android app would access the Crypti blockchain system through the Crypti subroutine, get current betting information (recent winners in previous races and current odds in upcoming races) through the Betfair API, and handle transactions / transformations between Crypti and other currencies via access to the Coinomat system. A user would have to register an account at Crypti, Betfair and Coinomat. This registration could be automated and consolidated into the Android smartphone app. Betfair will not accept packets originating from the US because of the aggressive anti-gambling stance of the US Justice Department so the Android app would have to include a VPN function to route all comms with Betfair thru the EU. Betfair required users of their API system to get a "user key", also part of the registration process. So...you have to have real-world interfaces to several existing systems, but your personal bets would not be on a single computer server that could be raided or shut down, they would be on the blockchain. There would be no single person that the US Justice Department could arrest or single "bookie" website that could seized. Betfair (a licensed UK corporation) would only be providing information to a Crypti dapp, not actually holding the money (which is how Betfair makes a profit currently in the real world - they act as the escrow bagman / smart contract agent between their users). Coinomat is registered in the Cayman Islands and that's probably about as "safe" as it gets with money exchange. So yeah, an Android smartphone app / Crypti dapp for sports betting would be revolutionary - and decentralized. Coinomat would work with us to develop this because it would help their growth, too. Betfair would never know we were doing it - we would just be adding more users to their routine API system. This is too good of an idea to let it die. Once custom blockchains / smart contracts are a part of Crypti, I will start hammering on this idea over and over to organize the required programming effort. Which will be significant but worth it. |
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The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that the killer app for Crypti will be a sports gambling dapp on side chains that can not be shut down by government authorities. A custom side chain would be created for an upcoming game or horse race, that chain would embed wagers between Crypti users on the outcome, and a smart contracts subroutine would enforce transfer of Crypti to the winners from the losers by scraping an authoritative score results website. A side chain for a finished event would be archived and a new custom chain would be started for an upcoming event.
Such a dapp would give players an incentive to buy Crypti as "gaming tokens" that could be converted later to other cryptocurrencies or fiat national currencies, ultimately causing the very value of Crypti to rise as more and more new users participate.
This is actually the very first sensible idea I've heard about Crypti. But developing it may take months. And spending all the money it would generate when Crypti value goes to the moon may take the rest of our lives. I really like this idea too. Dapps will shine brightest only when they accomplish something "normal" apps cannot... We are fully aware of this and once we are far enough with the development, the dapp space will enjoy our utmost attention. If you want to get started on a sports betting dapp, the logical place to start is with the Betfair API. https://developer.betfair.com/To get people interested in a Crypti sprts betting dapp, we've got to branch out beyond our currently pathetic relationship with Cryptsy/Bter/Poloniex. In three more days we are apparently going to win the vote to get integrated into Coinomat, which could be critical in easily converting Crypti into other forms of "real money" that could be spent by sports betting users. This is also a key component in making a sports betting dapp work and gain wide usage. https://coinomat.com/coinvoting.php |
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The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that the killer app for Crypti will be a sports gambling dapp on side chains that can not be shut down by government authorities. A custom side chain would be created for an upcoming game or horse race, that chain would embed wagers between Crypti users on the outcome, and a smart contracts subroutine would enforce transfer of Crypti to the winners from the losers by scraping an authoritative score results website. A side chain for a finished event would be archived and a new custom chain would be started for an upcoming event.
Such a dapp would give players an incentive to buy Crypti as "gaming tokens" that could be converted later to other cryptocurrencies or fiat national currencies, ultimately causing the very value of Crypti to rise as more and more new users participate.
This is actually the very first sensible idea I've heard about Crypti. But developing it may take months. And spending all the money it would generate when Crypti value goes to the moon may take the rest of our lives. |
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Btw, for everyone's reference, the other major project I am working on is the first major dapp to be featured for the crypti platform. It will be a game, it will utilize multiple custom block chains and smart contracts, and it will be for mobile platforms at first. We won't open source the game itself but we will open source and release the smart contracts as well as hopefully a small documentary style video series on how we built it and incorporated the technology for others hoping to do the same as well as to show off what crypti is capable of. We have been pushing hard on it and think it will be a great first example of what is possible and highlight some of the benefits of using crypti as a platform.
Eric, Karma and I are the core team behind the development studio we are launching to produce and release it as well as future dapps.
The past few weeks we have seen a lot of debate on UI color pallets, 0.3.0 test nets with aliases and contacts, and now efforts to tip, translate and go social. These are all very worthwhile efforts but ultimately no different from what is being done by lots of other cryptocoins. The effort GreXX outlines is a very important effort that has the potential to be something new and revolutionary. What is the status on THAT? When is side blockchains and dapps going to become the main effort in Crypti? The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that the killer app for Crypti will be a sports gambling dapp on side chains that can not be shut down by government authorities. A custom side chain would be created for an upcoming game or horse race, that chain would embed wagers between Crypti users on the outcome, and a smart contracts subroutine would enforce transfer of Crypti to the winners from the losers by scraping an authoritative score results website. A side chain for a finished event would be archived and a new custom chain would be started for an upcoming event. Such a dapp would give players an incentive to buy Crypti as "gaming tokens" that could be converted later to other cryptocurrencies or fiat national currencies, ultimately causing the very value of Crypti to rise as more and more new users participate. How do we start developing THIS? |
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The uptime for stasDelegates 1 and 4 are continuing to drop and will soon be below 15%. Meantime, we've got 5 reserve delegates looking for some votes - Intrinsic 1 & 2, starik, btc and xhipster. I'll get some votes to xhipster tonight when I get home to my secure computer, I've already supported the others with votes. Maybe others can do so, too... http://cryptichain.me/delegateMonitor |
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