Got quite a bit more done on the wallet today, pull request submitted for testing.
Testing you say. Can I help? Sure, pester infernoman for a new Win build...  - Or I can point you at the repo if you can build yourself. |
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Got quite a bit more done on the wallet today, pull request submitted for testing.
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Hi all, I was asked to post a short vid of where I'm at with the Crown wallet redesign. I'm not the designer here, just the QT guy, but I really liked the brief I was given and the help I've had from the team members has been outstanding. Some notes from my point of view - vid title suggests to me where I'm at in meeting said spec. There's a whole lot of detail work still to be done but it's being posted here as an opportunity for all of you to give feedback before the design implementation is finalised. I have an extensive personal to-do list but please speak up, your opinion can and will help CRW. For those curious, the wallet is launched with "./dash-qt" (and it's compiled from a CRW-team owned bitcoin repo) as Crown is updating to the latest Bitcoin and Dash code - work remains to be done all round but we're getting there and the Crown team is a huge step up from anyone I've ever worked with in crypto before. Here you go: https://vimeo.com/190149405]
 Let us know what you think!  |
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...snip...
So, Dash has >4000 Masternodes, but no in-wallet GUI for driving them?
I'm guessing another Dash clone or masternode based coin has that? Can't we just copy and paste that in from said Dash clone? I know it won't be that easy but just saying. Depends on what "driving" is I guess. http://imgur.com/a/0I35FEDIT: I'm guessing another Dash clone or masternode based coin has that?
Not yet, as far as I know. It would save me a day or two. Can't we just copy and paste that in from said Dash clone? I know it won't be that easy but just saying.
I'd rather you donated to me some token amount for it, but I can't be bothered with all that cli crap to submit a gravy train proposal, if I have to learn all that I might as well just write the solution... so, after chicken meets egg... yes, when I'm done you will probably be able to just clone it. 2 years though - what has the gravy train been up to, while user access to core functionality has been neglected...? Would be nice to have gui for new voting system... just saying  Crave code with a css makeover. Where's the voting/budget functionality? Depends on what "driving" is I guess.
Generally it involves a steering wheel. Being present. |
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I'm guessing another Dash clone or masternode based coin has that?
Not yet, as far as I know. It would save me a day or two. Can't we just copy and paste that in from said Dash clone? I know it won't be that easy but just saying.
I'd rather you donated to me some token amount for it, but I can't be bothered with all that cli crap to submit a gravy train proposal, if I have to learn all that I might as well just write the solution... so, after chicken meets egg... yes, when I'm done you will probably be able to just clone it. 2 years though - what has the gravy train been up to, while user access to core functionality has been neglected...? |
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So, Dash has >4000 Masternodes, but no in-wallet GUI for driving them? |
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Do you guys have an in-wallet GUI for all this budget and voting stuff yet?
Hey Stu! Long time, no see... GUI for budget items? Nope... (not yet... ) edit: there is now a Masternode tab though, so as to monitor either all or just your own MNs Bert! Genuinely good to hear from you! Hope you're keeping well old friend! Been a long time, but been learnin', hope you have too! (You may have guessed I have an ulterior motive here, but it's in your interests too I hope.) |
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Do you guys have an in-wallet GUI for all this budget and voting stuff yet?
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I'm hoping to have the whitepaper finished in early January...this will be one whitepaper I enjoy writing.
Pretty sure I'll enjoy reading it...  |
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The Hive notices that you, Mr. Stone, do not seem to think that the POW protocol is a sustainable one and thus needs an update. There seem to be plausible arguments against POW. However, we have yet to see you state any detailed arguments against POS. We know one of them -- susceptibility to 51% attacks. What are some other issues that you see with POS?
Separately, won't coins that are POW just be able to switch their consensus protocol if it becomes a problem?
~ The Hive ~
I'm not ignoring your question. I'm just taking a while to think about it. Thanks for keeping us informed. We figured you might be developing a response to it. ~ The Hive ~ Sorry for the long delay. I had an unexpected piece of real world work to deliver. One needs to pay the bills. Proof of stake in its various flavours has the following problems. Nothing at Stake Problem (fixed with delegated PoS)If a PoS chain forks, there is nothing stopping a user staking his/her coins on both chains.
Initial Distribution Problem (solved with hybrid PoW/PoS)Early purchasers of a coin will always be at an advantage over later investors as their coin balance directly contributes to the growth of their wealth. This advantage is confered to the early investor for as long as they own their stake. Initial coin distribution by PoW somewhat nullifies this.
Long Range Attack (theoretical)In theory, somebody with enough computational power could build an alternative blockchain starting from the very first block. Some implementations of PoS solve this by defining the maximum allowed depth of a branching point to a certain number of blocks in the past. NXT sets the value at 720 blocks/12 hours for example. Bribe AttackIn this attack, an attacker attempts to double-spend his funds in the following way: 1. Buy some goods or services 2. Wait until the payment transaction is considered confirmed by the merchant 3. Announce a reward for building on top of a truncated blockchain that does not include the payment transaction. For example, if merchant waited for six confirmations, the attacker will start with the blockchain without the six latest blocks. The attacker may offer a larger reward for users that mint only on top of the attacker’s blockchain (without this, the attacker’s blockchain would never catch up to the correct one). 4. The attacker may continue paying bribes even when the lengths of their blockchain and the correct blockchain become equal in order to gain support of most stakeholders. (Proof of Stake vs Proof of Work Whitepaper - Bitfury - http://bitfury.com/content/5-white-papers-research/pos-vs-pow-1.0.2.pdf) Coin Age Accumulation AttackOnly relevant to some PoS implementations. Peercoin famously suffered from this issue but now solved. In some PoS implementations, coin age is used as the staking metric rather than wallet wealth. If there is no maximum coin age defined in the protocol then it is possible for enought time to lapse for the earliest investors to have enough accumulated coin age to overtake the rest of the network and receive 100% of staking reward. Some of the above may not be feasible due to required investment size but early investors could be at a significant advantage if intentions are nefarious. Delegated proof of stake has efectively solved shorter range attacks and the nothing at stake problem but there is no consistency in how PoS coins address these problems. There are several active projects that use the earliest implementation of PoS that doesn't address any issues and several PoS projects that have implemented a variety of different fixes to problems with no consistency. This means that some of these solutions have not been tested on a significant scale to ensure that they stand up to scrutiny. Due the large variety of issues that need to be solved (admittedly some are theoretical) I don't consider PoS to be cryptographically sound until a uniform approach to solving these issues has been implemented. In short, Stonehedge thinks "close but no cigar". Good summary of PoS, but I think it's important to distinguish between the distribution mechanism and the security mechanism. PoS and PoWaste attempt to be both, and both fail spectacularly at security. Pick whatever distribution method suits your goals, but let the overlay network handle the security. I've done the math publicly many times, it boils down to deterministic subsetting of nodes being many orders of magnitude more secure... and the code's already there and working, just currently gimped. |
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For me to post here and say WE HAVE THE SOLUTION would be wrong.
No, you already have the solution. Technically, anyway. We could argue about the economics but here's my succinct take on that: userbase will add more value to a digital token then any amount of Proof-of-Waste. |
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Apart from anything, we're a Bitcoin clone with Namecoin and Dash features. I think that is enough to classify us as NOT another DASH clone, at least until we launch our services!
In a few days we'll even be on a newer Bitcoin code base than DASH.
Please don't interpret my post as a dig at CRW in particular, or any disrespect for your team's work so far. I like the "traditional" - for want of a better word, hopefully you know what I mean - aspect your current branding approach brings, and I'll try to play to that in the suggestions I'll be making WRT the UX/UI side of things. I was in bigger-picture mode, that's all. |
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For me its a very good example of why Proof of Work as we know it cannot be the future of cryptocurrency.
Is $2,000 to $3000 per hour being added to the value of Crowncoin? No. Not even close.
The same argument stands for Bitcoin. If I were to do the calculations, PoW is surely just a huge waste of natural resources.
What is the alternative? I have no idea. I suspect whoever invents the next big thing will be as famous as Satoshi though.
I've made my position on Proof-of-Waste clear many times - it's grotesquely inefficient, comically insecure, and economically infantile. To try and be constructive though... I would suggest that the CRW team start thinking about how CRW might provide actually useful services to people via your overlay network. Services that might actually provide a revenue stream and thus increase the market desirability of your digital token. Go look at the CPU stats on your VPS's - they spend 99% of their time doing absolutely nothing. There are dozens of Dash clones, none of them do anything useful. I told Evan Duffield two years ago that he should focus on making network resources available to potential customers, he's belatedly in the process but he's taking his own sweet time about it and making it as painfully overcomplicated as possible. coins101 made a post in the WallObserver thread a week or so ago about how pathetically few actual users BTC has worldwide, after 7 years. He was dismissed by the usual collection of delusional zealots. BTC is useless to most people, as are most other crytocurrencies. It's not even any good at it's purported purpose... 4 transactions per second... at an infrastructure cost of $5+ each... in the 21st Century...? Yeah, good luck with that. Make CRW of some actual use to people and businesses. Forget about pandering to clueless, broke cryptognats. Frankly I'm going to need some competition, and it would be helpful it the work was spread around a bit... Oh, as since Proof-of-Waste fails so miserably at its intended purpose, consider that a system that's cryptographically sound from end to end doesn't need "consensus" - ie. who can afford to waste the most energy - at all.Cryptocurrencies need to back to fundamentals and take an honest look at what it is they are supposed to be achieving. P.S. Drop the "coin" bit too. |
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Got this email this morning: I have reported github user Uni-Qredit on general principles - if someone wishes to involve me in something, they should do me the courtesy of asking me first. It has also been brought to my attention that some of the folk involved with BCR/UNIQ think that I was or am complicit somehow in the dev making off with their donated BTC. Understand this: should I ever choose to engage in a life of crime, I will set my sights considerably higher that anything cryptognat-related. Anyone who has an issue with me is welcome to address me directly about it. |
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We are working with our designer on brand new graphics of our qt wallets, windows and mac. These new graphics will take our overall look to the next level. Our designer works with html + css.
Anybody have some tips how to incorporate these designs to our current bitcoin-look based qt?
We would appreciate some ideas. Thank you
I take it there's some kind of bounty involved? I wrangle QT passing well... |
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I've been away and busy with other stuff... if all this is true, in a way it's moot to me because just after Uniq went live I had a screw up involving two identical Samsung 850 drives and installed Win 7 and Doom over the one with my only copy of my Uniq wallet on it, so I blew my 115000 Uniq anyway. Tried the usual forensic tools as soon as I realised my screw up but it was toast. Would have been OK as I usually keep copies of my privkeys seperately, but I'd just sent some Uniq to Bittrex for my bot to play with and hadn't ticked the 'send change back to the same address' box as I normally do, so SOL. Still, Doom was pretty good, SP anyway. Probably I lost far less than many of you, but on the other hand I put hundreds of hours into learning how to bend and shape the standard Bitcoin QT client and I think I've taken it as far from standard as anyone has without actually starting from scratch, so overall I'm viewing the whole thing as a learning experience. Still seems odd to me that the dev went the scam route (if he did) - the guy had skills and put in way more hours than I did, 30 BTC or whatever doesn't seem like much for all that effort. |
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Is there a use-by date on BCR?
No, all old BCR balances are built into the UNIQ genesis block, you can import them with your BCR privkey(s) or old BCR wallet.dat file(s) whenever you want to transubstantiate them into UNIQ. |
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I cannot borrow.. It says that address in unrecognized by this wallet!
It checks the output of listaddressgroupings - try running listaddressgroupings manually on the RPC console, see if the address you want to borrow to is listed. If not, try putting some non-zero amount of UNIQ in that address first. |
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How to import coins from bitcredit?
Import your BCR privkeys, or use your BCR wallet.dat. Been two weeks since the swap started, this has to be some kind of record.
Is it going to take much longer, sorry if I'm coming across as a bit of a moan.
All Bittrex have to do is import their BCR privkeys or use their BCR wallet.dat file(s) too. No idea why the holdup. |
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Where can I get the invite code? Can you post the invite link to join the slack community? What are the social network promotion plans and bounties? If any available I may join. From OP: Join the slack team here : Slack Invite |
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