I think everyone just needs a muffin
That's your solution for everything, isn't it? Muffins make the world go 'round will have to save this muffinlink till after i get home  I thought the crisis was going to be availed with a porn bibliography then. http://www.muffinfilms.com/It is literally just a bunch of short animations about muffins. lol. |
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I think everyone just needs a muffin
That's your solution for everything, isn't it? Muffins make the world go 'round |
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I really like the changes made to PoT in v2, I think it will make PoT more appealing
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Could any of you kind minters recap the Android wallet bounties and the address? I'll join in and send a few 100 k's as well.
Always make sure to look at the original post to ensure the address you are sending to is correct. I didn't change it below, but as a good habit you should never trust anybody. Latest update on the Android Wallet Bounty donations. Just a reminder that a few of you who have pledged Mintcoins towards these bounties have yet to send the coins the wallet address listed below. Please PM me when you do send the pledged coins....Thank You. Should any of the features that you pledged Mintcoin to not be implemented into the wallet, those coins will be returned to you. Bounties Offered from Developer: Basic Android Wallet for Phone and Tablets 5,000,000 Mintcoins PoS Coin Minting Feature 3,500,000 Mintcoins Battery Management Feature 1,500,000 Mintcoins Here's the community donations so far: stormia donated 209,721 Mintcoins (125,000 for basic wallet 50,000 for Minting Feature 25,000 for Battery Feature) Jeff Jefferson donated 300,000 Mintcoins (100,000 for basic wallet 150,000 for Minting Feature 50,000 for Battery Feature) moderndezigns donated 250,000 Mintcoins (150,000 or basic wallet 50,000 for Minting Feature and 50,000 for Battery Feature) WALKEN-COIN donated 100,000 Mintcoins towards the basic wallet mgburks77 donated 500,000 Mintcoins towards the added features (250,000 for Minting Feature and 250,000 for Battery Feature) zuepfi11 donated 300,000 Mintcoins (100,000 for basic wallet 100,000 for Minting Feature 100,000 for Battery Feature) guidosuller donated 101,100 Mintcoins (towards the basic wallet) luuupooo donated 250,000 Mintcoins (150,000 for basic wallet 100,000 for Minting Feature) kopam 500,000 Mintcoins (250,000 for basic wallet 150,000 for Minting Feature 100,000 for Battery Feature) So total bounties so far are: 1: Basic Android Wallet for Phone and Tablets 6,085,821 Mintcoins 2: PoS Coin Minting Feature 4,350,000 Mintcoins 3: Battery Management Feature 2,075,000 Mintcoins David Latapie is the administrator of this wallet, so we know it will be in good hands. Thanks again for all the pledges so far, and if you want to add to the bounties, please PM me with the amount as well as to which features you want your bounty to go to, I will then add your name to the list below. Donation Wallet Address: MpCuSzv7wRCNsSUsf8nEkvVRN3Z32SQcy3 Here's the link to the post paspi made regarding his progress on the wallet, it is good news indeed. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=450381.msg6316310#msg6316310 Again, thank you all for the generous donations towards the development of the Android wallet. Please be sure to PM me if you are going to be donating Mintcoins so that I am able to keep track of who donated what. |
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The fact that whitecoin has suddenly pulled ahead at 125 votes leads me to believe this poll is officially bogus.. Too easy to make and use fake accounts. Oh well, Mintcoin has made a strong presence on the poll and I doubt any of those votes are fake. |
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Just a short question for you guys: Is there any working Mintcoin faucet? The only working one I found (CyanRainbow) is empty unfortunately. Thanks!
Looks like the CyanRainbow got refilled. If somebody wants to contact the coinok.pw faucet on twitter to reactivate then I can give it some funds (I don't have a twitter) |
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From our budget allocated to the MintCoin Fund, 10 million are for this project, I just sent 5M. The remaining 5 will be sent when the Fund will be officially registered. This is great! I sent 400k from mintpal a few days back: https://i.imgur.com/BVqlCoS.pngWill send more as time goes on! |
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The client doesn't mint according to a schedule, not does it mint an exactly specific amount. It finds blocks and you get a reward based on the transactions in the blocks you find.
There is an existing factor of variability that is inherent to the process.
Read and understand about PoS
I give up... Found another error in 1.9.1 today but i just skip saying what it is because you guys just "it works as intended, just read how pos works yada yada...." Keep ignoring the errors i move on... Please share any errors! Lets not let wallet issues drive a wedge through the community. Issues like this can always be worked out. |
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I chose 1. Mintcoin - Great community, great coin, great cause: http://mintcoinfund.org/ Very stable price which is great for its merchant utility (the only coin besides bitcoin that I have bought something with), and the high interest rate means you can receive an ROI even if the price stays the same or dips slightly. I also think this coin is severely undervalued at the moment. 2. Fluttercoin - Invented Proof-of-Transaction which is an innovative reward system that provides incentive to spend/use the coin and provides an additional level of blockchain security and further decentralizes blockchain security. I think it has great potential, especially when complementing Proof-of-Stake systems which reward saving/hording of coins. The dev -thekidcoin- is very attentive to the coin (one of the most active devs I have seen), all it needs is greater exposure and more community backing. For the third I was stuck between Darkcoin, Maidsafecoin, and Blackcoin. I picked Maidsafecoin. Although the IPO was a bit of a mess, if they are capable of accomplishing what they have set out to do it could be huge. |
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Hello everyone, I'm sorry, but I have to get this off my chest and say what has to be said. People involved with Mintcoin and the Mintcoin fund have gone out of their way to do whatever is needed to help this community and this coin gain the recognition and acceptance it deserves. People have put in countless hours of their time, spent hard earned fiat currency all in the name of Mintcoin. Mintcoin has a Social Media reach of 952 people on Reddit, 1086 on Facebook and 557 on MintcoinTalk as well as all the people that frequent this forum as well. I'm not sure how exactly to check Mintcoins reach on Twitter, but I know there is a fair number there as well. Out of all these people, only 72 have actually taken the time and effort to show their support for the Sonoma County Redwood Reforestation Thunderclap campaign. Why is this? Is your life so busy that you can't take a mere minute of your time and actually visit the site and click through it so that your "ACTUALLY" supporting it? This truly bothers me a lot, as so many of you come here each and every day asking why Mintcoin is not rising in price, well it's because so many of you are not actually being a part of this community and actually helping Mintcoin and the Mintcoin Fund the needed exposure that is needed to obtain the higher values. If you would only take a small amount of your time to visit the Thunderclap site and actually click the links so that you are actually supporting this cause, this would help out you, as well as Mintcoin and the Mintcoin Fund, and everyone else holding Mintcoins. Here's the link again....NOW TAKE THE TIME AND DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.... https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/10998-sonoma-county-redwood-reforest?locale=enHelloThats so true. But something is happening. Just 16 people left!!! And 16 hours left!!! Cheers everybody I did it a few days back. I'd do it again if I could!  i just did it with twitter and facebook Awesome it looks like we only need two more now and there is still 11 hours left https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/10998-sonoma-county-redwood-reforest?locale=enHello |
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Mintcoin has a lot of merchants accepting mint, what was your last purchase that you paid for with mintcoins?
I just bought two sapphire R7 240 2GB graphics cards with mint on blkroad. Working on building my first rig. |
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Stop arguing about which projects are more awesome!Man, BC is silly sometimes, but in a good way?  This is not the point....all project are welcome and useful... the question is is it wise to use funds that way..? mostly amount wise.. for example why there's no more effort put in development of Android Wallet... This will join many ideas already posted here; - like the one; you want to pay for half of the pizza, etc - might completely skip usage of cards, terminals, etc.....Android mobile platform is capable of handling all of that... I just feel that few persons want to get hold of the control of the coin.....and what scares me is their agenda... if they truly pro BC it will be good..but so far they didn't proved anything.... but what if their agenda is destructive ? simple answer is if you don't believe in it don't donate to it. you have no obligation to support the campaign by donating. The issue is the priority of the core group and their ability to run a multi-million dollar project. I haven't seen them do one thing that didn't involve the community. Like some have pointed out we do not have an Android wallet and the site isn't localized, but we have thousands of international users. To add injury to insult they posted a plan and refused to give the name of the PR firm. I will repeat...they are asking for $15,000 but are withholding the name of the PR firm...and that doesn't require concern?...What if the PR firm isn't a good one? Why was this PR firm selected? So basically they are asking people to donate $15,000 and be quiet... How is this any different from all the times you've posted for donations (most recently asking for ~$10,000) expecting people to believe you will come through with your projects? Don't get me wrong you have gone through with all your projects so far, but there was no way people knew that beforehand they just had to trust you and they did. So now you are throwing the same distrust at the devs that you got rather upset at other people for throwing at you in the past? |
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Android wallet update 4: First a reminder from a few days back: Just to let you know I'm still working on the android wallet. Bumped to a few walls last week, but I think I found a way around them, been busy implementing it. Will post a detailed update soon.
And the previous status: Next step is to make the storage on disk instead of memory only (I guess this will be finished tomorrow). Then implementing POS difficulty verification (1 or 2 days). The library will be secure when POS difficulty verification is done. Lots of testing would be required. I implemented the disk storage after this message, took a little longer than expected, but all was well. Then as I was implementing POS difficulty verification, just about a few lines left to finish it, I realized that I had been following a very very wrong path: POS difficulty verification required calculation of a value called coinstake modifier (recalculated once every 6 hours). To calculate coinstake modifier, a hash called coinstake hash was needed for all latest POS blocks, without any gap in the blocks. To calculate coinstake hash for a single block, its previous output (which generated the stake) was required. And this was conflicting with my SPV idea, as it was based on "not every transaction is required to be stored". It was a rough week, but I found a way around the problem. I had to throw away completely some of my time-consuming changes so far, and reimplement some of the things I've already implemented for SPV. But now everything is cleaner, simpler, and even less storage is used than SPV implementation. So I would call it productive, although cost a week. The implementation is not SPV anymore. Now we use a lightweight "full block chain" (which keeps track of all unspent outputs, but only verifies coinstake transactions. Also it still uses some ideas from the previous SPV POS for security). This turned out to be much better than the previous bloated SPV implementation, so I'm happy with this change. Current status: Storage is working again. I had to reimplement it after last week. It uses around 50-100 mb disk space (I tested up to block 250,000). Blockchain is working again. I throw away my SPV implementation, and created something from scratch, very similar to full transaction verifying mode of bitcoinj (But is not that resource intensive). Almost every piece for coin stake verification is ready in the code (stake modifier calculation, locating stake modifier blocks, calculating stake hashes) , they are in the state I left them last week as I was just about to finish them (when I noticed I was trying to do something impossible). But they need some binding together -- they're scattered across the codebase. Next steps: First job is to get coin stake verification working. It is the single big goal since the beginning. There isn't much left, I can clearly see what's ahead. Should be done tomorrow. Then I will start integration with UI. Hopefully we'll see some action at the end of the weekend Android wallet update 3: Hi; Good news. I almost completed the POS-Secure transaction-tracking SPV wallet I described earlier. Though it proved itself to be a headache to implement, but it's all clear and working now (The difference: It verifies POS coinstake signatures and the stake being unspent yet before accepting the block from network. If it can be proven to be invalid, it rejects the block. If only it cannot be verified (previous stake transaction dropped from storage), it accepts the block without giving its chain an advantage, so an attacker cannot craft a longer chain if he cannot generate verifiable coinstake blocks). I haven't implemented POS difficulty calculations yet, but as the base is there, it'll be very easy to plug it in. And then it'll be easy to reuse POS difficulty calculations to implement stake generation later. Current status is, we have a working light verifying blockchain controller, and a memory-only storage for that, optimized for its needs (and designed for converting to disk storage). I had to change bitcoinj's primitive storage data structures for its own needs, but everything is simpler now than my first implementation for POS SPV. Next step is to make the storage on disk instead of memory only (I guess this will be finished tomorrow). Then implementing POS difficulty verification (1 or 2 days). The library will be secure when POS difficulty verification is done. Lots of testing would be required. Then smooth out the rough edges. Then binding the UI and release. (Minting only in the library level will come some point after POS difficulty verification, but I plan to do UI integration after the initial release) Regarding other paid POS wallet developments; frankly I don't believe someone outside the community just paid for the job would be able to finish this in a secure manner. POS coins are different animals, and a SPV POS wallet has much different security needs than a SPV POW wallet. The core of bitcoinj was implemented for a POW coin, and it was very hard to get to this stage. So my guess is that anyone getting paid for the job would implement it in the easiest way possible, get his money, and continue with his life. (That easiest way was working for Mintcoin 2 days after I started, but well, it was not secure, it was extremely easy to fool the wallet to follow a custom block chain). Still, marketing matters, I don't think most people will care if secure or not, and they will focus on being the first wallet. I'm trying to be quick. Android wallet update 2: Hello everyone; I'm progressing in the Java MintCoin library. I got the SPV wallet kit distributed with bitcoinj working (ForwardingService) , it can sync from genesis block to latest block (persists on disk). It can generate a MintCoin address, and receive coins sent to that MintCoin address and send a transaction back. It has some problems creating the forwarding transaction though, I haven't digged in that direction yet. My biggest concern is security vs. being lightweight enough for Android devices. Normally, SPV wallets are used in android wallets, which only store last x block headers (say 5000), and delete the rest. They trust on their peers and the cumulative POW difficulty of the chain. They don't verify any transactions. In contrast, for a POW+POS coin, header difficulty in POS blocks is not a secure measure at all. Difficulty of the header is relatively low, and easy to forge. The coinstake transaction of POS block provides block's security, and if you're not verifying transactions, you will have problems. So, if you know that your peer is not validating any transactions at all, including coinstake, you know that you can forge a series of POS blocks and send it to your peer. (In order to be able to verify coinstake transaction, you need to have stored the corresponding transaction that generated it from at least 20 days ago. Its time open ended actually, its position can go up to genesis block. In contrast SPV clients only store transactions that relate to their own addresses, and discard the rest) Currently, I'm working on a lightly-verified SPV blockchain implementation. It stores up to 40 days of blocks and tracks spent/unspent transactions seen in these blocks (this would somewhat affect the resource usage, but not as much as a full verifying blockchain which is almost impossible to run on android devices). As transactions of last 40 days would be always available, client would be able to verify a high percent of generated POS blocks (If they are indeed generated from unspent transactions, and if coin's owner really matches). It won't be able to verify POS blocks that are generated from older transactions. So this is a mixed approach, although it doesn't verify all POS blocks, it would assume that a few unverifable POS blocks followed by a large number of verifiable POS blocks means that the network accepted the questionable chain, and that chain can be trusted as long as the network does. Actually this is not a verifying implementation, but rather a invalidating one; detecting as much invalid POS blocks as possible before they are appended to any chain. This implementation is somewhat different than current bitcoinj/mintcoind 's transaction input/output connecting (they keep track of transactions spent only in the main chain, and rely on cumulative Proof of Work on alternative chains. They do a transaction reordering every time an alternative chain becomes longest). They can do this because they can verify any chain at anytime, they keep the whole history, they don't have any risk at all. In contrast POS with SPV has to keep track of spent/unspent transactions outputs in every possible branch simultaneously, so it can reject invalid POS blocks even before they end up in an alternate chain. This difference proved itself to be highly challenging to implement, although I believe I managed a way out. So, well, I'm continuing working on this hard, and I believe I resolved most of the problems. Although library is currently working and able to persist on disk and receive transactions, it is not secure until this light verification is done. Hopefully I would be able to fully implement this by the weekend. I'm working on github, I decided not to publish my changes to public until I can get a wallet android app working, so I avoid pushing my changes there. I'm currently only working only on the java library, it will be very easy to port any wallet to use it once library is properly working. But I don't want any other PoW+PoS coin to grab the library (even unsecure versions of it) and release an android app before us. I really need some comments / feedbacks on my solution to POS Coin + SPV wallet security issue -- so if you think you have an idea, don't hesitate to contact me, I'll be happy to find out potential security issues and change the design before it's late. Android wallet update: Hello everybody; I'm working on a Java MintCoin library and an Android wallet. For best security and long term development, I forked from latest bitcoinj last week. Converted it to Scrypt. Made it able to communicate with my local Mintcoin wallet over network. I just updated it to understand and accept PoS/PoW hybrid blocks, and I can announce you that it can sync with the blockchain from genesis block up to #239870, which is generated just minutes ago There are some missing features yet: - It can validate PoW block difficulties (calculation is a little different in PoW/PoS hybrids than pure PoW coins, PoS blocks affect calculations, and modifying bitcoinj library for this task really had some challenges) ; but it doesn't try to validate PoS block difficulties yet (this is a security issue and will be fixed before releasing) - It doesn't verify POW block rewards (due to the fact that I couldn't find a specific pseudorandom generator implementation that decides on randomized POW block rewards). I don't think this would be an issue as the main use case would be a Simple Payment Verification wallet, checkpoints will cover our security up to removal of PoW from MintCoin (though it will be nice to have the checks in place) - Minting: It's now almost clear that minting would be possible even in SPV wallet mode. I will annonuce details later. I have to figure out validating PoS blocks first. - UI: I'm just trying to get the pure library working properly now. Once the library is working, it'll be very easy to fork/make an Android App that uses it - Bloom filters: Here is a request for the community: Current Mintcoin wallet doesn't support Bloom filters. Bloom filters allow SPV clients download only the transactions they're interested in (instead of all transactions in blocks), reducing mobile users' data usage dramatically. Please put a bounty on it so that someone can merge it from bitcoin client. Android wallet will work without Bloom Filter support in the main client, but its data usage would be much more. Thank you for the update, paspi! |
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This is great! I'm looking forward to when VoS is allowed in all the US states again. I used the exchange before it stopped operating in the US and I was very pleased with it. |
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BTW what is the progress of the minting Android wallet? It's been a while since there has been an update.
Just so you know, my pledge in return for the minting and battery features still stands. But I'm not giving the reward until the app is on my phone and I can test it.
Yes, an update on the Android wallet would be nice. I'm looking forward to when the android developer gets 5,000,000 Mint from the 700,000,000 Mint pre-mine. Its 10,000,000 from the Dev, and about another 2.5 mil from the community so far. If you would like to donate the official address can be found in beaverslayer's message here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=450381.msg6414849#msg6414849 |
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in reply to the person trolling the stake photo, centralized checkpointing is not really needed at this time anyway. How would somebody be able to stake 51% if you look at the distributing nobody even has .5% of the coins. Its completely impossible.
Not trolling- all my favorite coins are PoS and this applies to all of them- but in a PoS system you aren't simply staking your coins you are staking coin-days: a function of the number of coins and their age. So you don't need 51% of the coins, you only need 51% of the coins-days that are being actively staked (you need 51% of the network weight). Edit: Just realized Blackcoin has no max coinage.. Is that a concern? Particularly with the low PoS incentive? |
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Looks like they just fixed the issue at blkroad, my balance is now displayed correctly |
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Is this a scam site? I sent 10 BC and they still arent showing up... It shows confirmed in my wallet though.  Its not a scam site. Just some beta difficulties. MegaMuffin- use that site man. I registered the domain! Also, should all be working now - just talked to site admin! This is great to hear! I figured it was something that would be worked out. Edit: My balance is now displayed properly |
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My deposit is still not showing up on blkroad.com, and I haven't heard back from them yet. Somebody reported the same problem when depositing BC on the BC thread. DONT make deposits to blkroad.com until they get this sorted out.
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