(I could be wrong here, but ...) The 2BTC isn't a big a problem as the KYC. I understand KYC, but it is a 2 edged knife. You are giving your dox, to who, exactly? What are their security measures, how likely are they to get hacked, sell your dox, etc... What guarantees are they offering, and do you trust them? The point of this - to me - is TRUSTLESS relationships. How will that fly with traditional regulations, and relationships ... not well, but that is the point - or atleast one point.
any guy who tells me he's about to keep my security his 1st priority is trustless by default. why ? because i didn't ask him to, lol i mean crypto was designed to be self-sustaining, self-securing mech, providing financial freedom and anonymity, not just another "asset" in the matrix It's because they're handling FIAT... however they're located outside the US so the KYC requirements would have to be adopted by New Zealand in order for them to be mandated to follow this... that or their owners may be American and/or in the US which would allow the SEC to push them in that direction. Anyway, I've requested a coin add on FreiExchange. Since they don't handle FIAT transactions it should be relatively painless. Ticket # is 691103 https://freiexchange.comIf you want to see their helpdesk: https://helpdesk.freiexchange.com/index.phpThanks! If they need dev contact, they can reach out to me here or at stakeforcharity@hobonickels.info |
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hmmm ... If all that contributes comes together 1 BTC.
0.1 BTC I could give from my side. What do you think ?
Or should the roadmap be worked through first and then look for a stock exchange ?
never submit to blackmail. cryptopia deserves to choke. Anyway I quoted it wrong, it said 2 BTC. (I could be wrong here, but ...) The 2BTC isn't a big a problem as the KYC. I understand KYC, but it is a 2 edged knife. You are giving your dox, to who, exactly? What are their security measures, how likely are they to get hacked, sell your dox, etc... What guarantees are they offering, and do you trust them? The point of this - to me - is TRUSTLESS relationships. How will that fly with traditional regulations, and relationships ... not well, but that is the point - or atleast one point. Yes it is both. |
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hmmm ... If all that contributes comes together 1 BTC.
0.1 BTC I could give from my side. What do you think ?
Or should the roadmap be worked through first and then look for a stock exchange ?
never submit to blackmail. cryptopia deserves to choke. Anyway I quoted it wrong, it said 2 BTC. |
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Can someone compile a list of available exchanges and if anyone has submitted application?
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I got an email from Crypotopia. They want 1 BTC to keep listing, and they want the dev team(me) to give them full dox.. Both of these are a bit more then I can afford or feel comfortable giving to them. Sorry guys  Hi Tranz, Thanks for your update. What's meant with full dox (documents) about HoboNickels? Is there any more infos about? I can understand your are not willing to pay 1 BTC to cryptopia. You would become a plaything. We looking forward! - Coinlisting on SouthXchange was requested by me few minutes ago
- More actions will follow and updates here.
Cheers They want all the dev's team information. Name, Address, DOB, SSN. Standard KYC stuff. I assume they will be doing it for everyone eventually as well. Below is what they sent. HoboNickels team, Your asset has been selected for the Cryptopia listing process. We are constantly trying to increase our offer and that's why our exchange is leading in the Blockchain world. The financial security of our customers is our #1 priority and that's why we must make a selection among candidates. Firstly, we would like to apologize for the delay. If you receive this email, it's because either a member of your team or a member of your community applied to our google form. We receive many listing requests every day and that's why some delay may have applied since your form submission. Before proceeding to the listing of your asset, we have to settle several details. Please transmit us the following elements : The name,symbol, and logo of your asset (Png format, 30x30 minimum ) All your available social media links (Discord, Telegram, Twitter ... ) Eventually a link of your block explorer service If your token is based on ETH, WAVES, LISK or BITSHARES, be sure to specify the contract address! If you have your own node, please send the source. Please note that Cryptopia is now proceeding to a level-1 KYC to each of its applicants according to our AML/CFTpolicy. Therefore, be sure that Cryptopia will never communicate your informations& that this process will take place later as we have the first details to settle. As you know, Cryptopia is charging a symbolic fee for the listing. The listing may last from 1 to 2 week. The total fees come up to 2 BTC. We usually accept DOT for Cryptopia listing , but because of the on-going bear market and the lack of liquidity on DOT , we applies a discount for listings. (Normal price of listing were ≈ 5.6 BTC) The listing will grants tradepairs for BTC, LTC and DOGE basemarkets, and arbitrage tracking against supported exchanges. The payment (2 BTC) is requested immediately before going any further in the listing process.
IMPORTANT:before sending the payment, make sure to verify that the email address that sendsyou this message is listing@cryptopia.co.nz( c.f our listing page). No answers should be made to a message of this type that does not have our official email address. Indeed, ourofficial address is the only address that can ask you to send any payment. Generated address : 18jeugB1jxzAPTfPsHnLKULo5ccVKM9uGh Once the payment made, please answer this email with the TxID of the 2 BTC and with the above elements (logo, social media,...). As said earlier, the KYC will take place later in the process. Best regards, Cryptopia team. |
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I got an email from Crypotopia. They want 1 BTC to keep listing, and they want the dev team(me) to give them full dox.. Both of these are a bit more then I can afford or feel comfortable giving to them. Sorry guys |
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I wouldn't bet on it... they do their own thing without a care int he world to anything and everything that isn't them. I sent email. I will let you know if any response. |
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Did Tranz consider switching to coin weights from coin age? The way $BLK has it
it is by design more splitproof
Not sure what you mean, but coin weight is a combination of UTXO size by coin age. Which is already used in the staking algo. |
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What's the current right chain to be on? Is there a block explorer website that's current? Thanks in advance!
Yes BE is correct. |
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The checkpoint server is now up and running on the following chain.
2018-08-14 23:05:31 SetBestChain: new best=000000351e1028c9358d height=5939094 trust=4072614652097797 blocktrust=69 date=08/14/18 23:04:15
I am working on a block chain download right now. But it will be a few hours before it is ready.
Thank you Tranz for your work. Now everything seems to be going right again. Well it was not an attack and only the checkpoint server.  Actually there was nothing wrong with the CP server. It just shutdown on the 10th, and then something crazy happened, on the 13th?. Not sure if it was just bad luck or some type of attack. But I beleive it was due to PoW, which is now on it's last leg. |
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Sorry took so long. For those that are having trouble, please do the following. #1 Shutdown the client #2 Goto your %appdata%/HoboNickels folder #3 rename peers.dat to peers.dat_old #4 rename or delete blk0001.dat, blk0002.dat and folder txleveldb #5 Download the blockchain bootstrap here https://hobonickels.info/HBNBlockChain.zip#6 unpack the files from #4 out of the zip(#5) and place them in %appdata%/HoboNickels folder #7 create or add to HoboNickels.conf the following lines. connect=89.236.137.142:7372
connect=69.197.188.186:7372
connect=77.121.153.138:7372
connect=88.110.55.193:7372
connect=87.98.159.143:7372
connect=95.22.226.36:7372
connect=154.20.58.222:7372
#8 Restart client. #9 After you are caught up to current, and your getinfo = getcheckpoint, shut down the client. #10 Remove the connects from your HoboNickels.conf and restart the client as normal. FYI, it can take a while to rescan the block chain after you start it up the first time, just be patient and let the client come up. EDIT: You may not have to do #3 and #7, I was able to just replace the blockchain on one of my PCs and just start it backup and I was in good shape. I think there are enough people on the correct chain now, it should be easy to pick up the right one. |
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How do I know if I'm in the correct chain
I did exactly what Tranz recommend: and I got
getcheckpoint
"height" : 5939276
getinfo
"blocks" : 5939276
well the blocks are gonna change every 30secs? (I don't remember the block time) Just as long as the checkpoint and the block count from getinfo match? Is that what Im looking for? yes pretty much. You can also check to make sure that block 5939314 has a hash value of 000000000e135c69438581060c15d5c616bee04475df7811b8f957d149e9a1f5 via the block browser or the rpc call. |
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While it is getting ready. You can revert to your own older copy and do the following.
rename peers.dat to peers.dat_old
and set your conf file to these nodes
connect=89.236.137.142:7372
connect=69.197.188.186:7372
connect=77.121.153.138:7372
connect=88.110.55.193:7372
Then after you are caught backup and up to speed with the checkpoint (getinfo should equal getcheckpoint)
Then you can shutdown and and restart without the connect nodes.
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The checkpoint server is now up and running on the following chain.
2018-08-14 23:05:31 SetBestChain: new best=000000351e1028c9358d height=5939094 trust=4072614652097797 blocktrust=69 date=08/14/18 23:04:15
I am working on a block chain download right now. But it will be a few hours before it is ready.
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Looks like there are a few splits. The checkpoint server went offline to do VPS failure. The chain had some issues and didn't' hold together. I would suggest holding all sends until this is resolved.
Cryptopia seems to be in the best shape. I am going to get the checkpoint server back online and on that chain then start issuing checkpoints. I will release a new tar ball with the full chain once I have it.
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I plan to implement new staking ago to improve the staking efficiency by about 70-80% I also plan to put in other code fixes. I am toying with the idea of a hard fork to slow the chain down slightly, Bye set it to 3 mins instead of 1. But not sure about that. This would be similar work to HBN ver 2. About 80-120hrs work depending.
To be honest I wasn't looking for negotiations. My terms are pretty much as laid out. If everyone isn't on board, then no worries. Sounds like there are others who are ready and willing to take over.
Can you elaborate on the staking efficiency. People like Bottlecaps for the return they currently get while staking, if their returns are going to significantly drop I don't think they will be on board with the changes. However if it's to their benefit I think they will be all for it.
This will mean that the CPU will not run at 100%. It will decrease by 70-80% What I would like to see is a way to reward stakers who stake 24/7 and put those that only open their wallets for a few hours every month or two at a disadvantage. Their is also security risks involved when someone can drop a huge amount of weight on the network at once.
The only way to change this would be to bring the max weight down from 30 days to like 5. But this also has an effect on CPU usage, as well as it would put a soft limit on the highest difficulty we could reach. This requires a hard fork. I'm not so sure on the 3min block either. While it would be good as a way to reduce orphan blocks, I feel their are more negatives to positives. It would help to increase the network weight but it would also reduce the amount staked. The network weight is growing exponentially and will shortly have the same effect as increasing block time anyway, especially if we can encourage more people to mint 24/7.
It would encourage people to keep wallet open more, yes. As the difficulty would go up and it would be much more difficult to simply jump on and take over the chain. I did this for HBN. took it from 30 seconds to 2:30 and we went from .01 staking diff to usually over 5. It does have effect of lowering the reward, we would be looking at closer to 30-50% This can be mitigated by a few things. All of these require hard fork. I think optimising the efficiency of the CPU is something that we should seriously consider. However, changes to stake age and block time are perhaps something we should avoid. As mentioned earlier the network weight is growing rapidly which should take care of these issues by itself. What are your thoughts on removing POW? I don't see much benefit for it any more, except leaving us open to another attack. Anyway what ever we end up doing I don't think we should take a hard fork decision lightly. Let's not forget the last one took nearly a year to get everything back up and running again. The chain was attacked by PoS not PoW. Any HF would be done with many months in advance. But I do agree, they should never be done lightly. |
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I plan to implement new staking ago to improve the staking efficiency by about 70-80% I also plan to put in other code fixes. I am toying with the idea of a hard fork to slow the chain down slightly, Bye set it to 3 mins instead of 1. But not sure about that. This would be similar work to HBN ver 2. About 80-120hrs work depending.
To be honest I wasn't looking for negotiations. My terms are pretty much as laid out. If everyone isn't on board, then no worries. Sounds like there are others who are ready and willing to take over.
Can you elaborate on the staking efficiency. People like Bottlecaps for the return they currently get while staking, if their returns are going to significantly drop I don't think they will be on board with the changes. However if it's to their benefit I think they will be all for it.
This will mean that the CPU will not run at 100%. It will decrease by 70-80% What I would like to see is a way to reward stakers who stake 24/7 and put those that only open their wallets for a few hours every month or two at a disadvantage. Their is also security risks involved when someone can drop a huge amount of weight on the network at once.
The only way to change this would be to bring the max weight down from 30 days to like 5. But this also has an effect on CPU usage, as well as it would put a soft limit on the highest difficulty we could reach. This requires a hard fork. I'm not so sure on the 3min block either. While it would be good as a way to reduce orphan blocks, I feel their are more negatives to positives. It would help to increase the network weight but it would also reduce the amount staked. The network weight is growing exponentially and will shortly have the same effect as increasing block time anyway, especially if we can encourage more people to mint 24/7.
It would encourage people to keep wallet open more, yes. As the difficulty would go up and it would be much more difficult to simply jump on and take over the chain. I did this for HBN. took it from 30 seconds to 2:30 and we went from .01 staking diff to usually over 5. It does have effect of lowering the reward, we would be looking at closer to 30-50% This can be mitigated by a few things. All of these require hard fork. |
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So did a bit of calculating on the remainder of the CAP fund. There is 22.5 million left. Here's my thoughts.
1) Leave 5 million untouched to stake and use for bounties or whatever.
2) Put 2MM on exchange to sell at 10-20 sats. Help fill out the sell side and use it for putting some back on the buy side as well.
3) Move the remainder to my personal wallet.(15MM ish)
Over the last 4 to 5 years, I have put in 500 to 600 hours of work, pretty much with no much to gain. What money I did get, was based on what I bought or staked/mined on my own, no premining, or anything like that.
I would like to do a small bit more of work for CAP, but unless get something out of my time, I just can't commit to anything. I have so very little time these days, and I can't continue to work for free. So the 15 million at 10 sats, would average out to about $12-15/hr give or take, with the older work and the planned new work. Considering my current skill set is worth close to $90/hr in the market place. I think this is pretty fair.
So let me know everyone thinks. If this seems un-fair, no worries. I will have to kill the reminder of the fix money and I'll just move on.
I truly am grateful for everything you've done just like I'm sure the rest of the community is. But, everything you've done up until this point is on you. You did the work out of the goodness of your heart and your love for crypto. HOWEVER.. Moving forward, we need a lead developer and we now have a community coffers to fund it. Which going by your track record I reckon you'd be a shoe in  I think we need to start looking at Bottlecaps like a business and define clear goals and outcomes. You say you'd like payment to stay on and do 'a small bit of work' so can you please outline what this work is. This way the community can figure out what the payments should be. Many of us are in the same boat as you, with a high skill set and lack of time. So if you can outline a roadmap, I'm sure we can all combine our little time and achieve something great. I plan to implement new staking ago to improve the staking efficiency by about 70-80% I also plan to put in other code fixes. I am toying with the idea of a hard fork to slow the chain down slightly, Bye set it to 3 mins instead of 1. But not sure about that. This would be similar work to HBN ver 2. About 80-120hrs work depending. To be honest I wasn't looking for negotiations. My terms are pretty much as laid out. If everyone isn't on board, then no worries. Sounds like there are others who are ready and willing to take over. |
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pretty much same as HBN.
In order for a stake to split, it has be over your threshold. Your wallet will combine smaller UXTOs up to the combine threshold
How come when you issue the following commands it it returns a figure other than the one that is entered for the following example: Comnand issued splitthreshold 10000 combinethreshold 10000 returned result 12:10:49  splitthreshold 10000 12:10:49  { "amount" : 325.59000000 } ....................... @Tranz et all What was the rational for the total balance to determine the max combine and split threshold amounts? It really doesn't make any logical sense or am I missing something here? Wouldn't it make more sense for the split / combine threshold to be independent of any of the other factors? The point of staking is to secure the block chain. That's it! So when people make huge UTXOs, either manually or by using a large split/combine threshold then there are less blocks to stake, thereby decreasing the security of the chain. Those with a very large balance, have to find a setting that enables them to keep the wallet running smoothly but still gives way to block chain security. It is a fine line. I can't give out the ability to everyone to make 1 huge block and stake just once every week. But anyone can change the setting and compile their own. |
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FYI, selling 10k from HBN fund to pay for some additional BE hosting. Should be about 6 more months.
wait i pay this  done ! On 2018-07-16 21:09, credit "Paymium de3afd" (186.00 days), new expiry 2019-03-04 00:56 Doh! It already sold. .095. I'll put the 10k back into HBN fund now. Thanks BTW! :-) edit: Ok 10k back in fund. and someone sent Tranz1 10.7k Thanks! You guys are great.. So just to let you know I am going do a bit of work for CAP in the upcoming months. Then I am going to move back to HBN. I think I can spare 3 to 5 hours a week. Or at least I plan too.. |
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