Huh, I don't even remember that. Anyways, I guess that's the rationale, but doesn't really show how "voting" was done. And even if every person holding a single gulden voted to abandon the airdrop, it still smells bad and seems like a bait and switch to me.

2k legitimate claims actually seems pretty good in the first year, imo.

That's pretty much what I said, right? Anyway, thanks for refreshing.

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking. AWS is a VPS service, so you don't need any physical resources in that sense, Amazon runs the computer for you. If you're running a micro instance, then decide you need more CPU or RAM or whatever, then you can make an image of that instance, then start a more powerful instance using that image. RAM or CPU cores are not dynamically scalable on a running instance tho, afaik.

I think I was the one who had this discussion with qwizzie, which began with him calling the Monero "community" toxic trolls or something, and I said "what community?"

My main points were, cryptos are supposed to be currencies, right? Is there a USD community? A Chinese yuan community? Even for Bitcoin or any altcoin, is it the developers, shitposters here, redditors, dnm users? All of the above? None? Something else?

I just don't think there's anyway to really define _the_ community of a coin. I guess I agree with spoetnik that there is a a bitcointalk community we shitposters are clearly all a part of, and even that there are communities that grow up around a coin, such as IRC channels or subreddits or whatever, but I still don't think you can define a singular community around what is nominally supposed to be a currency.

You probably emptied the address and had the big chunk come back as change to a different address. Check the TX on a block explorer.

It's pretty easy to be able to get AWS credits for about ten cents on the dollar in the digital goods section of this forum. I'm currently running the tipbot aeonbux on a micro instance, and I've just used a bunch of swap and commented out the auto saving in the daemon, been running fine for several months. I think that would suffice for a remote node, in which case i think the monthly cost is $10-15, but you only actually pay 10% of that.

I think it would be better to just have someone run a public node that people could use to sync wallets without running the daemon. That would cost ~$50/year I think. Also, thanks jaystone777

If XDN and FCN are both auxpow, why can't you mine all three at the same time?

FWIW, Gary Le has been booted off Zcoin project due some kind of falling out, so I think it's just Poramin Insom developing now, not that Gary Le was developing before, afaik he is just like a hype man, but he's been severed from the project nevertheless. I still wouldn't touch it due to massive premine, but, just saying...

Re: Digibyte. No, it wasn't the first multialgo. Huntercoin was actually the first multialgo to launch, but only used sha and scrypt. Myriad came a month or so later with five hashing algorithms. Other coins have since adopted the multialgo approach including Digibyte, Auroracoin, Digitalcoin, Verge, and I think Anoncoin is planning to switch.

Re: Delta. It's a diff retargeting algorithm. These were all the rage in 2014 and given cool sounding names like Kimoto's Gravity Well, Digishield (which Digibyte tried to use to avoid multipools before switching to multialgo), and whatever Dark/Dash called theirs before they were the clearly dominant X11 coin. These are only needed for low hashrate coins. Yes, Delta is a cool sounding name, but you don't see Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero, or Dash worried about multipools, because if you are the preeminent coin using a hashing algorithm it's not a concern. Gulden has 2% of Litecoin's hashrate. Besides multipools it's just insecure, no matter how well protected against pool hopping you are. If it isn't insecure, then it's centralized with checkpointing so devs can roll back at their choosing, at which point you could just use paypal or venmo or whatever.

Re: the linking feature. It sounded really cool, but no one would tell me how it works, and apparently that's because it's closed source. I don't do closed source crypto software. I know good guy dev said trust us it's totally decentralized and we're not peaking at your private keys or anything, but cmon.

Re: the premine. I disagree, clearly. Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Monero seem to be getting along just fine in terms of development without pre/insta/ninjamining. Monero's forum funding system has been a remarkable success in crowdfunding development, imo. In addition to not liking premines in general, I would say Gulden's is particularly odious because it is so large, 40% of current supply after several years, and it was initially supposed to be distributed to the Dutch people, and at some point that was just pulled off the table and the people controlling the private keys of the premine decided to just keep it and spend it however they see fit on development. Can you point me to the thread or whatever where the discussion took place about abandoning the airdrop? Or was it really just a unilateral decision ex post facto?

Monero is a clone of Bytecoin, yes, but it has many improvements since divergence, such as LMDB database, 0MQ push system, OpenAlias DNS addressing, ring confidential transactions, and others. This is why it is currently the 3rd to 5th largest market crypto depending on the day, and the only coin besides Bitcoin accepted on a major DNM. Bytecoin is a scam because it had a huge premine, kind of like Gulden, which although is only 10% of total coin supply (still pretty large among premines), it is currently 40% of total supply.

Of the Bitcoin clones that I mentioned, Myriadcoin has five separate PoW algorithms, so that users with ASICs, GPUs, and CPUs can all mine the coin and distribution is better spread out - I would say this is a pretty significant divergence from Bitcoin. Vertcoin and Groestlcoin are both pretty straight Bitcoin clones, although Vertcoin is committed to hardforking to avoid ASICs, and Groestlcoin is on an up-to-date Bitcoin codebase. And I would say importantly, all three manage to do this with zero premine.

Speaking of premine, the thing about Gulden that leaves a bad taste in my mouth is that they premined a very large chunk of coins, 10%, even larger when considered in terms of current coin supply, 40%, and it was supposed to be distributed to the Dutch people. It wasn't. I still haven't seen a great rationale for how that decision was made to renege on that promise and how those coins are now going to be used. I see "development" bandied about, but afaics that basically means paying themselves to update to the latest bitcoin codebase. Yay! Development!

It's a contest. Link was posted a few posts up: https://www.reddit.com/r/myriadcoin/comments/5f465e/myriad_2nd_halving_competition/

5k entry fee to guess time and algo of halving block, winner will get at least 350k XMY.

Go to the folder where simplewallet is and type:
Then follow the instructions.

Blockchain is stored in your home directory in .aeon folder by default (folders starting with . are hidden folders, in case you weren't aware).

Don't forget to play the guess the halving block time and algo game stickied on the reddit thread too. 5k XMY entry fee, but prize is now over 300k I think.

Right, but how is reputation and marketing in the real world determined algorithmically? If it's just number of votes, couldn't large ICO holders easily make the most txs and thus vote themselves as most reputable, especially when the coin is relatively small like now?

Can anyone eli5 how the witnesses/validators are selected? Is it basically PoS, so that the large ICO Bitcoin addresses could basically run the network as they wish if they were so inclined?

I would actually use the native one due to laziness for a long time, but I found out due to Huntercoin blockchain bootstrap that it doesn't work for zip files larger than like 4-6 GB - it just silently fails and unzips corrupt files, so 7zip ever since then.

I always use 7zip on windows, but, with that being said, I still feel like someone who is complaining about what many coins are doing (and no one else ever complains about the same thing) must be doing something retarded.

I don't think I "take it out" on Gulden, and though I have some GRS, by far my two biggest holdings in dollar value are Bitcoin and Monero, with a little bit of a butt-ton of other (non-premined) PoW alts. The only reason I keep coming back to chat with you nice folks is that I've tried to ask questions on this thread and the main thread before it was locked, and I've never been met with anything except contempt and hostility. So, if SuperOrca wants to bring my name up, even in jest, as to why NLG can't get a wallet on the iOS store, then I'll take a moment to return the favor and tell you exactly why your bitcoin-clone pre-mined country-shitcoin can't win approval. Cheers

Lol such a welcoming community ready to answer anyone's questions. If you want me to fuck off then don't bring my name up, or start your own self-moderated thread, Miss Piggy.