Looks like the blockchain is coherent ...


Pointers to improve the preservation of your investment:

1. Keep the wallet permanently running with server=1, use a cloud droplet for best protection.
2. Co-operate with other COCO holders to set up a block explorer (needs a node to work, node can act as sync)
3. Co-operate with other COCO holders to set up a mining pool (needs a node to work, node can act as sync)
4. Make regular “it's alive” postings to the ANN thread, posting the addnode output (pare it down to just the addrs)

Rationale: Let's say that you hold 3,000,000 coins. As soon as the P2P network fails and the blockchain stops, you then have a wallet worth fuck all, which you might as well delete. So, think about spending 2,000,000 of that total in order to help ensure that the remaining 1,000,000 coins continue to retain some value, because “fuck all” behaves a bit like infinity in the arithmetic: fuck all + fuck all = fuck all, 20 x fuck all = fuck all, 33 * (fuck all / 100) = fuck all, whereas 33% of something of value > 100% of fuck all.

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Graham

To be candid, a lack of verifiiable contact details and a casual approach to customers' core interests is doing your reputation far more damage than some ru FUD.

https://betasharex.com/legal/privacy:
“By using the BetaShareX.com web site ("Service"), a service distributed by BetaShareX Limited ("BetaShareX"), you are agreeing to be bound by the following privacy policy ("Privacy Policy"). This privacy policy is governed by Maltese law, without reference to its conflict of law rules. In case of any dispute concerning the privacy policy, the courts of Malta will have jurisdiction.”

https://betasharex.com/legal/terms:

“By using the BetaShareX.com web site ("Service"), a service distributed by BetaShareX Limited ("BetaShareX"), you are agreeing to be bound by the following privacy policy ("Privacy Policy"). These Terms of Service are governed by Swiss law, without reference to its conflict of law rules. In case of any dispute concerning the Terms of Service or the use of the Service, the courts of Switzerland will have jurisdiction.”

My bet is that your business is actually located in neither jurisdiction but I'm prepared to allow some independently-verifiable evidence to convince me otherwise.

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Graham

Yep, I have all that in DOACC (see sig) and in RDF to boot.

I ensured that each DOACC entry has an “incept date” of YYYY-MM. Yes, it was a lot of work but I saw it as essential to DOACC. And, once completed, it's then well worth maintaining, at least from a disciplinary perspective if not a financial one.

It allows me to publish the altcoin launch graphs/graphics on Minkiz front page (http://minkiz.co/). Another, less compelling, example of where I use it is in Minki’s version of the bitcointalk Sleepers list. The details are a bit rough'n'ready atm, still in “ninja launch” mode.

If Gliss is interested, we could use DOACC to backfill a “founded” column for all the altcoins currently listed at coinmarketcap (AIUI, assets have their own release date calendar courtesy of the asset issue mechanism), merely by posing an appropriate SPARQL query of the the DOACC RDF graph, along the lines:
(If you want to see it working, just copynpasta the above into the form field on http://minkiz.co/sparql)

The only hiccough is a few differences in trading symbols, apparently inherited from the regrettable practice of major exchanges deciding to ignore the actual symbol specified in the bitcoinunits.cpp code.

For example, see Silkcoin, referenced as “SILK” on the exchanges --- and consequently in the coinmarketcap stats (http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/silkcoin/) --- which, if everybody had their druthers, is actually “SC” in the wallet code (https://github.com/shnurf/silkcoin/blob/master/src/qt/bitcoinunits.cpp#L38).

For DOACC, I chose to go by the verifiable fact of what's actually specified in the C++ code.

For my occasional use of cross-referencing DOACC data with coinmarketcap data, I use a map (Python dictionary) of coinmarketcap symbols -> DOACC symbols. We'd turn the dictionary mapping into a separate graph of RDF statements and either use it to augment a copy of the main DOACC graph or act as a source for a federated query - both of which are fairly trivial to do.

btw, I'd say that your instincts are correct; given the calendarial flexibility of “ninja” launches, YYYY-MM is about as precise as you can sensibly get / need to be.

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Graham

Matthew,


Many companies employ staff to effect public relations on their behalf - for exactly the commercial reasons you reference above. It's generous of you to share your information with the community but I think we should be quite clear that it is Bittrex who is the primary beneficiary of this activity, not “the public”.


That's very much a step in the wrong direction, we've now got three more nebulous concepts to disagree about.

I wasn't clear enough in the first place - my point is that you don't have an operational definition of legitimacy which would give you reliable, consistent and objective criteria to apply. Without reliability, consistency and objectivity, all you can do is argue for things the way you see them personally, subjectively and arbitrarily. If you can't state in advance who will get a visit and who won't, how can a coin dev team arrange matters so that Bittrex standards are met? The $64k question is will Bittrex be publishing the details of its standards? (I can't seem to find any information on the website about the current process, so any movement at all there would be welcome.)


As a candidate standard: “its job as advertised” is fatally flawed, infeasible to operationalise. You'll need to re-think that one. Advertised where and by whom? What counts as a statement of fact vs a statement of belief? Does your definition of “advertising” include individuals' posts on Bitcointalk? Cryptocointalk? Reddit? FB? HN? In a medium where pseudonyms are the rule rather than the exception, how do you intend to be able to canonically distinguish between a party who has authority to make promissory or factual assertions about the coin and one who has not? Is Bittrex now going to insist that in order for a coin to be listed on their exchange, the devs/dev teams must be personally and individually identifiable to Bittrex staff?


I simply went by what you wrote: “I am the guy to come to if you want to confirm legitimacy of an altcoin ...  I will be investigating among the alt-coin community”. If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, etc. But, I acknowledge that I made no allowance for you being a Texan and sounding like a newly-appointed sheriff might just be a cultural thing. I'd have preferred to have read something along the lines of “We want to help community members make more informed assessments of the risks so I intend to provide more detailed and more extensive information, including information gained from our own efforts after diligence.”

wat? Where'd you get that from? I'm trying to alert you to the fact that you've got the job of cleaning the Augean stables and all you've got by way of equipment is one of those little packs of face wipes. Without a sharp tool, you'll struggle to make any sort of an impact.


Just another manifestation of the free market. I am trying to be constructive but I've found that if I don't make my points forcefully, they get drowned in the noise and I end up wasting my efforts.

Cheers

Graham

Sadly, the act of making that particular hollow claim effectively disqualifies you from the role. The claim is hollow for two reasons - firstly, confirmation is impractical because there is no widely-agreed definition of “legitimate” and secondly, confirmation is impractical because you have no special powers that confer authority upon your assessment.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, welcome to bitcointalk

Cheers

Graham

Fix it yourself.


Cheers,

Graham

I neither hold nor mine DCT but I have been keeping a watching brief ...

lemonsieur has identified the key issue:


As is testified by the current state of DCN (and hundreds of other slowly-declining altcoins), the answer is broadly: “no-one” and, as lemonsieur notes elsewhere, for any small community of miners, numbers will inevitably dwindle to zero.


Nice to see someone else asking this crucial question.

If you if strip out the irrelevant padding, It's unambiguously clear from the ANN that the OP's understanding is end-user == miner ...


That's as far as the “new and exciting functionality” actually stretches. Once you make yourself aware of that, DCN's track record is readily explicable and its future trajectory becomes fairly predictable (I suspect Chaincoin would be the closest match).

Other hashalgo-based coins to look at are SkeinCoin, GroestlCoin, FugueCoin, X11/13/14/15Coin, QubitCoin, all of which are less than a year old, some a good deal younger.

Not all are totally dead in the water, traces of activity can be discerned here and there but it's difficult to argue that they've been successful on their own terms.

Also, don't forget to make yourself aware of the raft of Quark-based coins. I'm not going to list them here, that's what I creaed DOACC for, I'll just include the SPARQL query, so you can check for yourself (just paste it into the form field on the Minkiz SPARQL endpoint for DOACC (http://minkiz.co/sparql):

(here's a canned link to the results, if you'd rather cut to the chase)

For an even longer view, see SiFcoin, probably the first coin that emphasised algo features (by using a folklore combiner that was hoped to delay the advance of h/w), now being basically curated as a museum exhibit by cinnamon_carter. I would imagine that it's a similar motivation that prompts me to curate RouletteCoin (metadata).


Cheers

Graham

You need to first use ordinary "=" to bind a list to the variable, which can then be extended with "+=" --- it's got a "+" in it, so it has to have something to add to - (computers are even more pitilessly literal than children)

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Graham

I'm not sure how your question relates to the API specifically but for a pedantically-correct answer - you can add as many as your host is capable of running merely by extending the list of datadir members, using Python's built-in += operator, e.g.:


Cheers,

Graham

Pretty much assuredly NOT.

Mr. Ken Chu's wikipedia image is inaccurately published on the Global Coin Reserve web site as being that of Anthony Eufemio. There may be an explanation for this other than misrepresentation but potential investors should price the risk accordingly, being aware that instances of similar misrepresentation have been noted in ANNs by apparently unrelated others. In these other instances, once the mismatch was detected there was no further communication from the devs, thus rather confirming people's suspicions. This instance may be different, or it may not. I'm not one for trying to dictate people's actions but I do recommend that you at least price the risk accordingly.

Cheers

Graham

Fool's mate, I believe:



Thanks for the game, must do it again sometime.

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Graham

Well I'm flattered, a personal virtuoso-attempt trolling performance, no less. Can't say I'm impressed, even if you have given me more wordage than Spoetnik (nyah, nyah, Spoetnik, who's the daddy now?).

For marks, I'll only give you an overall C- and only 4/10 on the fake rage; my contribution to the cryptocurrency community is evidenced in my sig. I'll give you 6 for literacy, you nearly spelled correctly all the instances of embarrass.

I shall take full advantage of your ineptitude and respond to your asinine accusations by advertising the services we do offer:  I'm looking forward to receiving your £35 (in a cryptocurrency of our choice) for one (or more ... you have friends, don't you?) of Minkiz' cool prints:

http://minkiz.co/shop

I just need to sort out the payment processor, was originally planning to use moolah but Ngaio accurately assessed them as in trouble, haven't found a replacement yet. Actually, I'm still working out whether I actually need anything more than a daemon and a textarea for people to enter their name+address. It's tempting, I must say.

I recommend you not to lose hope and to keep trying, full jerkdom is well within your grasp, I'm sure.

Cheers

Graham

Prospective members might appreciate having their attention drawn to the fact that the “Global Coin Reserve Mailing Address” is reported by the web site as located in the US (“The Global Coin Reserve corporate headquarters is located in Dallas, Texas with operations worldwide. ”). By contrast, the web site --- the actual place of origin of the service --- is in the Seychelles: “This site (excluding third party linked sites) is controlled by the Company from its offices within the State of Seychelles”.

I doubt that I need to speculate explicitly on why a US business offering a “crypto currency home business opportunity” might choose to operate via a remotely-delivered service hosted in the Seychelles.

Cheers

Graham

Just so: “PyBC Generic Blockchain Library (and coin!)” https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=252152.0

And, to lay down a nominal scale for one dimension: the main characterisation in this XKCDforum post http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=108685 seems broadly accurate in terms of speed of general-purpose processing:


Some interesting angles in KnightExemplar's insightful response of an alternative and very plausible framing of Tier 0 and Tier 1 as specialised and hardware languages respectively: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=108685#p3575512 - but unlikely to be news to those of a mining persuasion.

Scaling a p2p architecture to support serious mass adoption is going to be fun.

Cheers

Graham

Thanks for the link to the HTTP API, I found it clarified the context of what's on test. Thanks also for the kind offer of a link to the code, I can curb my curiosity until after you've shaken the bugs out and usefully re-address myself to the documentation.

Cheers

Graham

I regret to report a negative user experience; even allowing for the early phase of development.
 
After reading the posts here, I thought I'd give it spin. I read through the nxtforum posts, d/l'd the latest client, edited the conf file, fired up the testnet version and, well, ... that's about it really.

I was unable to find any instructions on how to obtain testnet NXT and, as all functionality is protected by a blanket 1NXT paywall, there's no way even to begin exploring the features, so I shut it down.

(The Java source has vanished, btw.)

Cheers

Graham

I gather we've rather settled on the cult of “O”, as in “O shit, we spelt it incorrectly.”

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Graham

It's merely an unconstrained version of this:

- (found in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=808648.0)

For the real-life version of the above, there's really not much difference between it and emptying one's wallet into the vast array of online games/gamifications that will so readily relieve you of your cash --- except that for altcoins, the risk/reward ratio is less easily quantifiable and there is inarguably an element of skill/knowledge in constructing a portfolio of coins to hodl for a while.

There's also the social aspect, a factor that is all too often under-appreciated in altcoinland.

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Graham

Can you describe the measures that you plan to implement in order to ensure the accuracy and adequate transparency of the project reporting that will be necessary for a properly informed vote? It would probably be a good idea to draw attention to the fact that entrepreneurial funding from this source will require the enterprise to show full business transparency because anything less would render a vote effectively meaningless.


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Graham

Is that a misspelling of “occult” or are you promoting the cult of “O”?


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Graham

Edit: clarified question