What basic functionality will those first testnet masternodes provide?
Will they just act like "empty" masternodes first?

I assume you just want to check the behaviour of the dynamic decentralized masternode requirement, but the masternodes will not actually perform any service yet, right?

Maybe you can create a thread on www.spreadcointalk.org forum and talk a little bit about your january plan, that would be great!

People here are going to ask you about that over and over again, and best thing is to just point them to the thread! That's the whole point of having our own forum.

Thank you.

yes, spreadcointalk.org is now open for registrations.

Enjoy. Please PM me at the spreadcointalk forum and not here, when you have feedback regarding the forum.

The forum is ready, but design and usability is probably going to change (I'll change the layout of menues and sidebars, etc... I will do that once I have more time and more people are registered)

Crisis equals Opportunity.

Fiat is king?
The FED stopped the free money supply to the banks a while ago. When that effect starts kicking in, you will see unimaginable chaos on wallstreet.

187 $ per BTC.... holy mother of spreadonia!

SPR stable at 0.1$

An accurate visual analogy, would be to have spreadcoin stand on the shoulders of darkcoin which stands on the shoulders of bitcoin.

Open source means we can all profit from eachother.

It has nothing to do with the image hoster, but with BCT itself.
They use a proxy to disable pictures who have a size bigger than 2 Megs (or too large dimensions) etc..

Here's the thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=388403.0

They do this, so that for example a mobile user, who visits this thread, doesn't need to download megabytes of pictures just to read the thread.
So BCT blocks pictures that are too large, so as to make the thread more readable.

Awesome. Not bad for a first one.

An Idea I had, but never had the time to do in blender goes something like this:
Create a tower of 500 stacked blocks, maybe 4x4 coins per story, making the tower 30 stories high or something. Put coin symbols on those blocks.
So this tower represents all the cryptocoins.

Now shoot a Spreadcoin cannon ball at the tower and make it collapse. (with some nice blender physics)

You can do it!

PS: probably won't work as GIF, but why not just render a video and put it on youtube?
Spreadcoin presence on youtube is ZERO at the moment... this will have to change.

What happened?

Yeah, like a poker tournament on the titanic!

jk, but damn, have all coins dropped 15% or more? WTF!

Because of what, cex.io business problems?

Not sure... can you do a melting effect in blender?

BTW, what's with http://www.multifaucet.tk/index.php?blockexplorer=SPR&top_addresses=100
They haven't updated the numbers in atleast a week. How often do they update this list... it's the same for atleast 1 week, so pretty much useless.

I agree wholeheartedly.

Or, atleast let them fight streetfighter-style, then we can atleast enjoy it. 

I see 4.9GH/s at the moment.

What? This low!
So this probably means she doesn't even need extra power cable attached, right?
She'll draw what she needs from the PCI-E port, right?

Thanks, I will check it out.

So how much power does it consume when running 100%?

I have a few coins.
But I have no GPU... so I feel a little "strange".
Like a bodybuilder who only trains his upper body, but not his legs...  

Reminds me of Claudius Musculus from the Asterix Comics:



I dont' wanna be this guy. No! 

Hey guys, I'm in the process of buying a GPU to use it just for spreadcoin.

Any recommendations?

Shouldnt' cost more than 200$.

But the free market taught me that that's exactly how you don't get shit done.

If people already know from the beginning that they are going to get payed no matter what, they always tend to get very lazy and abuse the system.
There is a reason why all the tax funded professions like teachers, politicians, police etc offer the WORST SERVICE among all professions.

It's because they don't have to satisfy customer needs to earn a living, instead they just have to lobby the government.

I see a similiar case with any forced / imposed "taxation" that you would implement into the protocol.

So not only does it go against decentralization, it is also immoral and will not work.


Let the developer satisfy customer needs and give us what we want, and the price of the coin (he himself is invested in) will go up.
With this positive feedback loop in place, who needs anything else?

How about 0%, because everything else goes against decentralization?

Is it just that you guys don't understand decentralization, or that you don't particularly like it? Or don't see any value in it?

Listen, it's not negotiable!  

Throwing our principles out of the window at the first opportunity or what?

Has bitcoin ever seriously considered such "foundation block rewards" ?

No. Do a hell of a lot of "shitcoins" discuss and embed them?

Yes.

Case closed.

No, no, no!

Transparency and Accountabilty are NOT equivalent with decentralization. In fact they are just camouflage to distract from their true centralized nature.


That I can agree with.

But since decentralized masternodes will have to play the exact same competitive game like miners, nobody is going to complain anymore anyway.
Wasn't this the main reason so many DRK miners complained about DRK Masternodes? The reason why they compared it to "forced taxation" etc?
Because they felt that masternodes have it too easy while they do all the work and have all the risk?

Very good points Jesse, and I agree with all of them.
Those are the general concerns that can be applied to any coin, any time. (even if a coin seems "established")

But that's exactly the reason why we have github, and why we insist on being open source, etc...
Decentralization itself will help mitigate most of the points you mentioned.
For example: Point 4) you make. If I look at the source code and find it brilliant, how can it be fraud? At this point, EVEN IF Mr.Spread was a fraudster I wouldn't care, because code doesn't lie.

Point 5) We have seen failed forks etc with pretty much every coin. That's the nature of the game, and the cool thing is that errors can be fixed, because we are talking about software and a network, not a house that is gonna crush on your head when built wrong.

The political points you make do not have any importance whatsoever to me. I do not care if "the self declared ruling class" is giving us permission to go forward or not. That's the first reason why satoshi created the blockchain in the first place, so we DON'T need to ask for permission. They can't crush us without showing their tyrannical face even more than they already have! Then they will lose their "supposed legitimacy" even more".

If we continue building up Spreadcoin, we will see more exchanges adding it by themselves.

It is always wrong to have too many expectations, but I always love endeavours which have CLEAR GOALS, and which follow CLEAR PRINCIPLES. That's why I am invested in Spreadcoin.

Just making money is NOT a principle to me, it's just a side effect of investing your time and efforts.

Plus: nobody owes you anything, if a person desires to become rich, they should work their ass off, not speculate.