so why do you think he will attack it?

My Open Letter to Luke-JR about accusations and Devcoin

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56830.0

Please refer your comments and questions to the open letter to Luke-JR

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56830.0

Luke-JR

Please answer this letter when you get some time.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56830.0

thank you

I sincerely hope your right Goat, but considering I have submitted 100s of millions of shares to his pool and also am someone who is very involved in Devcoin myself I need to hear it from him.

Luke-JR:

I am writing this to you as both a fan / friend of yours, a long time miner at your pool as well as someone who is concerned about your actions. Here are my concerns:

You are using Eligius-ST hashing power which does not belong to you to attack and destroy Alt-Chains
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56675.60

There are rumors going around that you are planning to attack the Devcoin network because we are moving to merged mining probably today.

I am not personally accusing you of anything but myself and the community need some sort of official response to these allegations. I still have 5 ghash on your pool and I have not moved it because I find it hard to believe you could be so reckless.

I also want to comment on Devcoin. I have no idea why you would attack devcoin . Devcoin was created not to compete with Bitcoin but to fund development projects and to pay Developers.

As a matter of fact Luke-JR - you yourself are on the Bitcoin Share List and have already benefited from Devcoin and will benefit more from it in the future.

https://raw.github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/master/bitcoinshare.html

You have said that CoildCoin was a scam and that was justification for destroying it, I am not personally here to debate that - in fact I really dont care but I am asking you directly Luke-JR - Are you planning to Destroy Devcoin?

Thank you for your time and for reading this - I encourage the community to voice their opinions on this subject.

also check this out

http://64.244.102.88:2750/chain/Devcoin?count=500&hi=24724

start at block 24582

and go up

look at all those transactions and the difficulty sky rocket

do you think all those transactions are some kind of malicious attack?

at around block 24645

I moved my 8 ghash to the devcoin network
and the mysterious 17 ghash went away

double c read my edit about yesterday morning and tell me your thoughts

isnt Luke-Jr on the damn share list?

doublec where do you get all this information about Luke-Jr?

i am going to ask him directly about this right now

btw: i thought there was a type of protection against double spend? why did bitcoin not get attacked in this way, Tycho definitely had over half the total network speed at one time, is he just a nicer guy? I thought Luke-JR was a Christian,

I must ask him

what would Jesus do? would he double spend, or would he encourage all alt coins to love one another

lol ok ok ok

but seriously

Unthinkingbit, I encourage you to go with your original plan to increase your buy orders, and its not for me - I wont even sell any devcoins - i dont care, I think people are going to be looking closely at us when merged mining takes off, they will be looking for metrics to measure us by and if the value increases directly after merged mining happens it will be very good for DVC

Also I think it is very important to keep at the forefront of all of this what exactly devcoins do, the fact they serve a greater purpose is what draws me to them, and why I think they will ultimately succeed, you have all these alt coins but essentially they are just another rip off of Bitcoin, this is why Namecoin succeeded it served a greater purpose than to just buy and sell and send money back and forth. We dont need another Bitcoin but there is room for coins that serve some greater purpose.

edit:

just saw this post, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56486.0
illustrates my point very nicely

edit:

wow I just realized something

this is probably what was happening yesterday
duh I just realized it.

I woke up in the morning
and the devcoin network was like 17Ghash

luckily I got 8 ghash in my office so I said alright lets go and moved all my mining power to my pool

then that 17ghash has went away

i thought it was excited miners getting ready for merged

but your probably right this is what was happening

in any case this demonstrates we can fight back against this

as long as we have money we can get hashing power, I have friends with big rigs, and my rig isnt tiny it self

if this attack happens in any kind of real way - I need to know who has the funds to support a defense initiative

I know the right people to call to get a 100ghash real quick.

I will let you guys know whats going on with Luke-JR and Devcoin as soon as I ask him

I have mined about 300 bitcoins with his pool.

there really is something called a "Martian Botcoin"? i thought you were joking the other day when you said that, what the hell is a martian botcoin?

or you can just download the binary at http://devcoin.org and click the download tab


btw: markm: I thought groupcoin was obsolete, something that was supposed to be a fall back in case devcoin had some horrible bug. What is its purpose now?

So MarkM: how confident are you that merged mining will work? have you guys tested it on test nets? I have not heard any kind of details about this, that is why i am asking

thanks in advance for your answers - excited and nervous about block 25000 !

can you describe in more detail what you have downloaded and from where?

I would like to help you but I need more information to get started

thanks!

lol

i certainly do not actually have a billion devcoins, it was more of an expression
example:
"I have a billion things to do today"

and I have not been solo mining, in fact I have barely mined for devcoins until today when I saw the difficulty I added 1.5 ghash to my pool to keep the blocks solving for my miners.

my Pools wallet total is about 11 million and that includes devcoins owned by miners, my own little bit of mining and 1% of fees for the pool

I have about 5 million devcoins stored on the exchange

but you have to remember there are 5000 coins mined on each block, 5 Mil is not that much

yeah I spoke too soon probably will be very early tomorrow - there are about 300 blocks left

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Bitcoin is over $6 - Devcoin network is 20 Ghash, am I still asleep?

holy sh1t the devcoin network is 17 ghash

time to fire up my miners and compete!

im sorry if you felt like you were slandered. I felt like I was stolen from. water under the bridge now my friend


Whats up with the DVC network? difficulty is higher than ever and I am seeing all kinds of transactions

http://64.244.102.88:2750/chain/Devcoin

those transactions real or are you guys testing?