The washed-out grey is ghastly. Can't the red have proper glossy black backgrund like the yellow one does?

-MarkM-

The washed-out grey is ugly though.

Actually the pale yellow is kind of washed-out too.

-MarkM-

The plots are something I made to help me interpret it all, since from just looking at the tables of numbers I could not see at a glance what was going up or down according to what.

Basically in the plots anything going up or down is doing to relative to the asset the plot is denominated in.

Open Transactions markets are any asset vs any asset at any scale that is a power of ten. So you can trade any pairs you want with it.

-MarkM-

There are a bunch of devcoin based funds already. see e.g. http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/digitalisassets.html

-MarkM-

Likely the difficulty changed so the estimation is wonky until it has lots of blocks at the new difficulty to average?

-MarkM-

All the numbers on Vircurex are garbage now too, they must have screwed up a lot of their variable names or something in the process of putting NXT in there, the figures in the buy and sell boxes are utter nonsense now.

-MarkM-

The textured  background isn't as good as the solid I think.

-MarkM-

The one on the left might not work well in small sizes. The one on the right is simpler and clearer and probably better for multi-size use.

-MarkM-

It was mentioned earlier in the thread, just in the last few days.

Cyclos is a community banking system, free open source. It has stuff that lets you sell things on your website similar to how PayPal does, it has apps for umpteen different kinds of phones, it lets the admins define all kinds of currencies and what types of things (actions, transactions etc) to enable for each currency and so on. It even has gateways or something about external accounts so you can administer portions of your funds etc that reside in "traditional" banking systems by the look of it, and links between Cyclos instances so different community currencies can talk to each other.

All I have done is change the name of its default currency to Devcoins and max out the number of decimals it supports (which is four or five or six or so I think).

Basically to plug in more currencies would require understanding all the many many many options about the currency, which so far I do not. Changing the name of the default currency is easy, understanding what all the many many settigns controlling what the default currency can do is much harder but would be needed if one wanted to add a second currency with any real understanding of what exactly one is setting that second currency up to be capable of.

So basically it is great to grab out of the box change the default currency to your community currency and go with it, but it could also do so much more if you understood what exactly all its many many transaction types and categories and relationships and so on are actually about.

It also has an advertising system built in for its users to advertise things to each other.

The idea was that for example authors could advertise writing services.

It is at http://dvcstable02.dvcnode.org:8080

Which if fortunate (that it is on dvcstable02) since dvcstable01 bloew its motherboard a whiel back and is still waiting for a new one, and dvcstable06, possibly due to trying to take up the load by running some of what used to run on dvcstable01, can be pinged but not logged on to, not sure what is up with it. dvcstable02 still seems to be working for now though.

Cyclos home page with info all about it and so on is probably at http://cyclos.org I would guess.

I head a while back that its devs were thinking of going forward as closed source in future so the open source version might be about to be orphaned, in which case maybe it would be an excellent project for the Devcoin project to support, to try to make sure the free open source version stays up to date and maybe even gets improved. (Like maybe we could get blockchain-currency gateways made for it for example?)

-MarkM-

One of the 6-pin GPU-type power connectors sticking out of the front of my Saturn was charred.

I replaced it and while I was at it also replaced the 725 watt power supply with a 1000 watt 80+ gold power supply.

So looking better now. Dunno what caused the power plug to char, maybe some rain or snow came in through the window fan or something.

Seems to be working now though.

-MarkM-

We are not "most people".

We want people to be able to use the devcoin client free because we want people to be able to use devcoins.

We want people to be able to install an operating system free because we want to run programs on an operating system and making people pay for the operating system causes less people to be able to afford the platform on which our programs run.

We want people to be able to use Freeciv free because we don't want people to have to buy a proprietary program in order to participate in our game.

We want people to be able to use Crossfire RPG free for that same reason. Same for Battle for Wesnoth.

(Freeciv, Crossfire RPG and Battle for Wesnoth are all ways a person could participate in our game depending on what kind of scale they prefer to participate at.)

We want people to be able to use OpenSimulator free because some folks like a 3-dimensional immersive interface, so we would like people who prefer such an interface to be free to use it to interact with our game and the players of our game.

We want people to be able to set up community banking type systems (e.g. Cyclos)  free because we want the clans, guilds, nations and so on and so on in our game to be able to make the markets, banks and stock exchanges they build in their cities actually work.

Same for Open Transactions.

And so on...

-MarkM-

For hosting low traffic things (like demo of a site, for example) the hosting link in my forum sig is good, its free hosting gives you mysql and php, which is usually what you need. You get something like 5 gigs of data transfer per month, which is usually fine until you start to use a site for real whereipon upgrade is only a very few bucks a month.

I started with the free one and eventually upgraded all the way to one that lets me have ten mysql databases and not sure how many of that other type of sql that I don't use, and twenty subdomains on their set of generic domains (like mygamesonline and onlineshops and such).

I went on a spree of testing lots of different things that all wanted mysql and php so am almost out of databases now, I need to review all those tests at some point and figure out which ones to get rid of to free up some more databases so I can try out more stuff.

Even the lowest level of upgrade the data transfer and maybe disk storage goes unlimited, their limits are mostly about how many of the two types of SQL databases you get to have and how many domains and subdomains, it is a pretty good deal for web hosting. That is why I have never yet bothered to put an webservers on any of my dedicated servers (which I get from another company that does killer deals on dedicated servers, if you want dedicated PM me about them).

-MarkM-

You don't have any security though.

The hashrate is a joke, the whole thing is a train-wreck waiting to happen.

A stupid meme summoned up way way way more hashrate overnight than it would take to totally PWN not just this coin but a bunch of similarly pathetically insecure coins all at once.

So you are just sitting there putting your money on a window-ledge begging any idiot who wants to to whip up a "Lets MWN the coin bwahahaha" meme of some kind and PWN the lot of you.

It is insanely pathetic.

Your bullshit post is just more scammer garbage trying to fool idiots into giving their money to thieves.

Look at the damn hashrate.

What DOGE showed is how much ahsrate any attacker can trivially obtain overnight without even blowing any money on it, ust putting out an amusing call to action.

You need more than twice that much hashrate just to be somewhat vaguely secure against such a random little thing like an internet meme.

How much more against a serious attack.

Get real and stop trying to scam people with fraudulent implications of security.

-MarkM-

Still there is often a huge difference between dumping them on the lowball buy offers and offering them for sale on the sell side of the orderbook so someone who actually wants to buy some can come along and buy them.

Quite often the buy side has been just people sitting there waiting for fools to dump their coins dirt cheap, while the sell side has been quite a lot more expensive yet people who actually want to buy come along and just blindly buy from the sell side instead of sitting a lowball offer on the buy side waiting for the next fool to come along and dump.

It is pretty much the difference between throwing your coins away for whatever ridiculously low price is sitting there waiting for fools, and picking your price that your work is worth and setting your sell offer waiting for someone to pay you what you are worth.

Now though that we know so many people seem utterly determined to just throw their coins away driving the price down and down and down we can prepare for that more and more over time. So what the heck, go ahead and dump, I will be happy when it gets dumped all the way down to 50 Satoshis and below so my standing buy orders will start to pick me up cheap coins again.

Last time down it went below 50 but not below 30, so already now we know to expect people to dump we have beefed up those buys enough that this time around the dumpers only managed to dump it down below 50 not below 30 like the previous time around. I now also have even more buying sitting there waiting than I had last time so maybe this time it won't go as far below 50 as it did last time. But the farther down it goes the better for me so bring it on.

-MarkM-

Solcoin is a scan anyway, it would be stupid to put money into it as PWNing it is trivial.

The first thing you need before even launching a blockchain based coins is a means of securing the blockchain.

Without that, a blockchain is simply idiotic, some other method of securing a ledger must be used instead.

SO forget blockchains unless you have an insanely massive mining farm you are willing to deiciate totally to seucring your new chain.

Blockchains are insanely expensive to secure.

Go clone RIpple or something, anything, just find a way to have a SECURE ledger.

Instead of this endless stream of total scams, the totally insecure blockchains.

It is criminally irresponsible to advise anyone to throw money inso such insanely insecure garbage.

It is, in short, a scam. Pretending the thing is something other than an insanely insecure piece of crap. It is deliberate fraud.

-MarkM-

Coloured coins might help.

Any transactions of any currency that rides on the IXCoin blockchain is an IXCoin transaction too...

-MarkM-

It is nowhere near 50% of balance. I saw a 1000 or so, a 1500 or so, now on reading this I am seeing a "stake" : 2857.49396300 along with "balance" : 2044387.96004500

So it is only a fraction of a percent of the balance.

But still might add up to quite a bit per year.

Listtransactions though shows a whole bunch of transactions around 256 to 262 or so. It does not say how they were generated only that they were generated but I am pretty sure it is not PoW mining.

-MarkM-

Damn near every coin that comes out is a scam, even if it has no pre-mine.

They are basically trying to scam people into putting money into a totally worthless wet paper bag for attackers to steal.

There is pretty much no chance they will ever be able to secure the blockchain so the whole concept is broken from the start.

Even DOGE has pathetically insecure blockchain, all that DOGE teaches us is how much hashing power an attacker could pop up with for free overnight simply by launching a meme. One "Hey wow lets PWN ALL the blockchains" meme could PWN them all, maybe even DOGE, except maybe litecoin (since DOGE did not manage to pop up overnight with enough hashing power to PWN litecoin).

So what DOGE showed is that it itself and all coins with less hashing power than it are all just scams sitting there offering people's money to who-ever comes along and PWNs the lot of them almost overnight.

-MarkM-

I already explained that.

Tell people up front how many bids we need to sell before the auction can start.

That way if they want the auction to start soon they need to cause bids to be sold faster.

If they don't mind waiting a few weeks for the uaction to start, they can keep the site secret so that it takes forever to sell enough bids to enable us to start the auction.

Want that iPad soon? Tell everyone you know about the site.

Not in a hurry to bid on an iPad? Keep the site secret so we never sell enough bids to buy an iPad thus never start an auction auctioning an iPad.

Simple.

You can still entice using things they need. Ashop has a wishlist, you can look at the wishlists to see what people wish we would auction, and announce that if we sell enough bids we will auction one.

You claim the method of auction is lucrative.

If so once we have auctioned one iPad we should have profits from that enough to buy two or dozens more.

If not, again, the thing is not even paying for itself so should be abandoned as sorry the founders were not afterall the awesome marketers they imagined themselves to be, their mailing lists were not large enough or responsive enough to bring in enough traffic to sustain such a site, maybe they should build their mailing lists a few more years until they do have enough hundreds of thousands or millions of people on their mailing lists to be able to drive enough traffic to sustain such a site.

Why are you so determined to have your mom's iPad bought for you by us? What is this drive you have to get us to buy you one?

It seems suspicious, as if you already figured out the "tell only your friends family and cronies about it so you can scam us out of shitloads of gadgets" scam.

If the damn thing is so damn lucrative it damn well should be able to pay its own way.

If not then sorry you were totally ignorant of how lucrative those things are, it is not afterall the latest and greatest how to get rich on the internet website type afterall.

Such sites are probably extremely expensive to market because no one has any incentive, normally, to tell anyone about them as more users means more competitors in auctions which means higher priced goods. So maybe you should start figuring out how your television ads are going to attract more users than qibid's television ads...

Or, tell people item X will not be auctioned until Y number of bids have been sold, so that if they want the auction to ever start at all they'd better tell all their friends and family to come and buy bids.

Maybe even tell them some clever stragegies, such as picking an item they do NOT want to bid on, and advertising the upcoming auction of THAT item on forums etc where people who are into THAT kind of stuff hang out, so that floods of people will come to buy bids for the "white elephant" causing enough bids to be sold for the iPad you want to finally come up for auction. (As well as the "white elephant", of course, but you don't care about that, you just want elephant lovers to come buy bids so your iPad auction will start...)

NOTE: REMEMBER too that the VAST MAJORITY of users of such sites basically get ripped off. So expect to need constant NEW floods of users as you probably will find you lose users at a massive massive rate. Also most people who ever used any such site also mostly got ripped off so expect that maybe a vast majority of them already know better than to use such a site. So you will probably need to spend far far more on television ads than you ever spend on things to auction.

-MarkM-

If you need bounties and such to bribe people to pretend to support your coin you are doing it wrong in the first place.

make a truly good currency and people will spring up all around starting services of all kinds, accepting it in their shops and so on and so on.

Scamming the idiots who fall for the premine/instamine scams to bribe people who don't want to support your garbage but like a quick buck will just get you people firing up something momentarily to get the bounty, which they dump thus driving down the value (as if it had any in the first place) of your crapcoin and shutting that down to make space for a new bounty-earning fly by night thing to grab the next garbagecoin's pre-mined bounty and so on.

Folks will just make a business of changing what coin they are an explorer or whatever of day to day as fast as new garbage premined crap comes along and dumping the crap as fast as possible hoping the pennies they get from dumping it will cover the few minutes it takes then to change the name of their service from shitcoin whatever to crapcoin whatever.

So basically you just become more fodder feeding more scammers. How many of these peices of crap you planing to churn out per day?

-MarkM-