Thanks.  Very important that this gets into the main-net.

I've got to admit,  IXC running on zero miner rewards all of a sudden looks ridiculously innovative.

Do we have word yet as to when the 0.9.x client will get into the CEX.IO pool?

I'm just curious,  if you have your own p2pool then I gather you aren't mining in some other pool and therefore equivalently solo-mining?     Or can you connect p2pool to another pool?

Are we at the bottom in this cycle?  Have we seen capitulation?  Does the high volume today signal capitulation?

What was unusual in the current down turn is that good news didn't increase the price, it just kept going down.  

I think once the Chinese got a mechanism to short Bitcoin (via OKcoin) then they've manipulated the price down to its current levels.

The Chinese at present handle the majority of trades for Bitcoin, furthermore they have no use for Bitcoin other than speculation and mining.    So what's happening is the Chinese are selling futures of Bitcoin at deflated prices.    My worry though is whether OKcoin correctly tracks the Bitcoin that have been shorted.

Any massive increase in the price of Bitcoin can send many shorters into Bankruptcy.

I think you need to consider that there are more than one market here.

There's currently the Chinese market which incidentally has the majority of the trading volume.

Looking at the current 300 price, it appears that most players in the Chinese market are underwater.

Unless of course you don't consider those players at OKCoin who have been shorting the market since August 7th.

I predict the next bull market run for Bitcoin will be much larger than the previous one, simply because of the prevalence of short sellers in the market.   These players not only provide a natural floor to the market, but also increase the upside in the form of a short squeeze.

So far the Chinese short sellers have been extremely successful.

An indeed interesting call why you're calling the bottom. 

I was expecting a rally from 600, then from 500 and then from 400.    Now I'm completely dumfounded as to why the current price is at 333.

So are you saying that AMT bought up some used equipment from some chinese miner and shipped them to customers?

BTW, anyone know what kind of machine AMT shipped from china?

Is this a Dragon Miner or something else?

The act of adding a private key into a wallet does not make the private key useless.   You still need to transfer the coins from the original account to another account to make the private key useless.  

The wallet password only encrypts the contents of the wallet.  But if you expose your private keys, then anyone can have access to the coins associated with the private key.

An unencrypted wallet has all the private keys of that wallet exposed.

The reason why I am suggesting the DOGE coin fork is that the Merged Mining code has been tested and deployed.

There is no instance of a 0.9.2 SHA256 based merged mined client that has been extensively tested and deployed.

Although you make think DOGE as a joke,  DOGE in fact has one of the most active development teams out there.  

I can certainly make the changes myself, but I don't really think it is worth my while.

(1) The way IXC calculates difficulty is different from Bitcoin and DOGECoin.  You can't just use any difficulty calculation since this would invalidate previously mined blocks.

(2) The mining reward calculation needs to be the same as what IXC current provides.   That is,  96 in the beginning, 48 right now and zero after a certain block.

(3) This refers to the DOGE coin port which has a scrypt based PoW rather than a SHA256 proof of work.

These appear to be pretty basic fixes.   Considering that the DOGE coin base has been on merge mine mode since Sept.11,  this is probably a better place to start than the DVC version which hasn't really been vetted.

One other alternative is to start of with what DogeCoin has done to create a merged mined coin.

It's based on the 0.9 bitcoin codebase and likely more robust than the version that Ahmed started with (i.e. An untested Devcoin port).

The key changes would be:

(1) Change the difficulty calculation.
(2) Change the reward calculation.
(3) Change the PoW back to SHA256

Anyway,  it looks like DOGE is now following my original strategy for IXC.

(1) Start with a merge mine coin.
(2) Transition to a low inflation rate mining rewards.
(3) Add Counterparty capability (see: DogeParty)

Note:  There is nothing to prevent DOGE from becoming a Bitcoin merged mine coin in the future. 

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