i agree with you that you have to put trust in the pooloperator but pools are necessary with high pos coins because of fast growing supply

you can do 3 things cash before you can t stake solo anymore,buy more therefore increasing your risk or join a pool

the nice thing about this one is there are new coins added to you can diversify

and the services may be extended to hosting masternodes

@bathrobehero do you have some solutions to make this pool more legit in your eyes because i think this guy really wants to build a

business like model of this so any improvement is always welcome

IOTA is a distributed ledger technology. “Distributed” means that the ledger data are spread across numerous computers connected into a network. You, probably, know such phrase as “A system is more than the sum of its parts”. A system emerging from computers connected together possesses properties not seen in a single computer. IOTA as a system has such useful property: several computers may fail, but the others will keep working without problems. IOTA behaves as a single self-healing organism here. Unfortunately, self-healing stops at some point, for IOTA this happens after more than 1/3 of the computers fail. This is not unique to IOTA, other distributed ledger technologies (e.g. Bitcoin) have their threshold of collapse too.

These days IOTA is still small and this opens it to the following attack: an adversary joins IOTA with his computers which take more than 1/3 of IOTA’s body and then makes the computers fail thus triggering IOTA’s collapse. To counteract this attack we are running a set of computers called Coordinator which issues milestones published on IOTA’s tangle. Computers not belonging to an adversary rely on these milestones to detect faulty computers. In this setup IOTA can survive even if 99% of the computers fail.

IOTA is open-source software. In the world controlled by the state open-source software is protected with licenses, someone doing things not allowed by the license can be sued. Cryptocoin industry demonstrated to be very resistant to state regulations, this led to majority of the projects run in this industry to be oriented on scamming ordinary people. IOTA team welcomes attempts to use technology IOTA is based on. This helps IOTA because increases awareness and shows that Tangle is indeed a viable technology. Unfortunately, odds that copies of IOTA codebase will be used for good are very low. We can’t just watch an IOTA clone scamming people and ruining people lives and Tangle’s reputation. This is why a copy-protection mechanism was added from the very beginning.

To explain how the copy-protection works we should recall about existence of Coordinator. Coordinator acts as an ultimate oracle if any uncertainty about the current state of things in IOTA arise. Digital signatures are verified by every computer in IOTA network, if a signature passes the verification routine then it’s, PROBABLY, valid. To make sure that the signature is indeed valid the computer waits for the transaction containing the signature to be referenced by a milestone. This is a perfect place for placing the copy-protection mechanism. While everyone looks at signature verification routine the real verification happens in the routine updating milestones. This trick resembles a focus trick done by magicians on TV. It worked so perfectly, that Neha Narula’s team was fooled despite of me explaining the essence of the trick numerous times.

Now, when we know that all signatures must be endorsed by Coordinator before being accepted as valid, we can move to that part about Curl-P hashing function. Necessity to develop the function was justified. Trinary numeral system is getting off the ground now, today it’s mainly Artificial Neural Networks which already have specialized processing units in development. No doubt, that later we’ll see CPUs doing trinary computations. To avoid derailing my response I won’t be expanding this topic, IOTA blogposts contain all relevant information. Being the creator of Curl-P I knew its properties very well. I changed the number of rounds to allow practical collisions. With Coordinator IOTA’s security depends on one-wayness of Curl-P, without Coordinator the security depends on collision resistance. This is a very important part, it means that your phrase “the Iota development team deliberately introduced faults into the Iota codebase” is WRONG. IOTA is unaffected by collisions in Curl-P, scam-driven clones are.

To provide an answer to your “Are there any other deliberate defects in the Iota source code that have not been disclosed?” is not easy. I disagree with your choice of words (“defects”). If you put the same meaning as I do then my answer is: IOTA doesn’t nor didn’t have known defects. If you mean the copy-protection then my answer is: It’s not smart to answer this question, because in the case of the copy-protection being completely removed my honest answer won’t allow us to exploit uncertainty which may prevent scammers from cloning IOTA.

I think that you misunderstood the situation around Curl-P collisions, a lot of people did too and this is not surprising taking into account sensational tone of Neha Narula’s team blogpost where such boring issue as an intentionally added feature inflated to “The end is near” problem.

I kindly ask you to paraphrase your question extending it to the point where even my little English will allow to get it 100% correctly.
(https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/6yzm9g/integrity_question_for_come_from_beyond_sergey/dmsxaa5/)

Clearly FUD, IOTA has still the support of the community. Although there's speculation that they have partnered with Microsoft, then already confirmed that is not the case:

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2017/12/12/iota-partnership-microsoft-marketplace/

However, It still thinks that this coin has a bright future because Microsoft is not closing its door. They are still in the table talking, and once this is finalized, we will see that the price could go to the moon.

Sooner or later it must have happened! After such announcement governments just cannot ignore bitcoin anymore

PHORE is so much more decentralized than PivX.

See how the top adresses in PivX owns most masternodes, it is crazy.


Get in PHORE while its cheap because i think PHORE might just run by PivX in marketcap. Phore is in for a 10-50x increasw once market and privacy smart contracts is released.

Direct thread/block input is unsafe . As this parameter is hardware-bounded, think I'll stick to ccminer-style intensity setting, currently it's automatically calculated depending on card model.

Cool, I finish for Christmas in 2 weeks so this could keep me busy for a while.
Im not worried about the noise, its surrounded by S9's anyway.
Its kind of my daughters rig, she finds it really interesting mining.

Just a thought, did you space the fans above the heat sink surface so the back pressure does not over current the new fans?
That could be easy with trial and error to work out.

Right, Im gonna order some fans tonight this could be fun!

have you tried to contact gigabyte, most of the larger gpu makers have divisions in other countries. most cases they might provide a couple for free or very low cost

Pool owner is a nice guy, trustful and HQ ! Got my FOR,AERM and XGOX staking there 

Thank you for your participation, as I've mentioned, HSR is quite a good base for other algo implementations, many kernels are cross-used and will give me good start in other algo implementation.

Regarding features:

- Would you like ccminer-style intensity setting or should we look at this from a different angle?
- Info verbosity improvement is planned, currently it's ccminer-style, each miner thread outputs all running GPU hashing speeds every minute from actual thread start (+ 10 sec per output) until it reaches 5 min per thread.
- benchmark will definitely be added in future releases