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2081  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][MOON] Mooncoin: You know where it's headed! KGW exploit FIXED 4/3/2014 on: August 01, 2014, 02:50:28 PM
The Moon-coin blockexplorer stopt working people!

an alternative, for future reference:

http://multifaucet.tk/index.php?blockexplorer=MOON

Cheers

Graham
2082  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Detk wallet crash on: August 01, 2014, 02:44:25 PM
Have you added detkcoin.conf file with the nodes (as is it shown in the 1st post in this thread)?
Yes, the file is in the same directory as Detkcoin-Qt.app, /Applications

AIUI, the config file's location on OS X should be:

~/Library/Application Support/Detkcoin/detkcoin.conf

i.e. the user's Library.

But a missing config file isn't likely to cause an illegal instruction error, that sounds more like an incompatible binary.

Ngaio's MacBook (10.6) is compiling as I write this. If successful, we'll make a zip file available.

Cheers

Graham
2083  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Slimcoin : Proof of Burn NEW BLOCK GEN, Mineable by low power computer! on: August 01, 2014, 01:32:14 PM
EDIT: Burned coins should be transferable. I want to sell off my 19k burned coins and rm -rf slimcoin forever..
How could burned money be resold ?  Grin

Export the privkey, sell that? Or am I missing something?


Cheers

Graham
2084  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][DCN] Deepcoin secure hashing (CPU/GPU) 100% PoW on: July 31, 2014, 11:31:00 AM
MYR is a dead coin.
You may well have a point, but people aren't simply going to accept your unsupported say-so. On what criteria are you basing that assessment?
Price. Volume.

Thanks for that. Your criteria are much tighter than mine.

I'm satisfied that the notion of merge-mining is perceived as a valid strategy and has fairly broad acceptance amongst the “classic coins”, there's even an explicit config setting for them in Abe.

Myriad has excellent primary brand recognition as the merge-mining lynchpin of the “new generation” altcoins. It's difficult to see how it could be easily unseated from that position.

I had some initial concerns but, thus far, Myriad has respected the individual brand identities of its merge-mining flock.

Myriad's price performance has been quite responsive over its (let's face it, fairly short) history and that's a much more positive sign than the usual hockey stick price graph: \_____ that speaks so eloquently of stagnation.

I have an unfair advantage, I'm a psychologist by discipline so I'm acutely aware that all of the above pales into insignificance next to the absolute, basic principle of human psychology: we're more effective in just about everything we do when we work cooperatively in a group.

Not dead coin.

Cheers

Graham

2085  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][0.8.6] Hirocoin - X11 - NGW - Secured Blockchain - Time Warp Limitation on: July 31, 2014, 10:59:06 AM
karma I am concerned almost half a year, the team hopes Hirocoin learn under them.
huh?

The respondent has been involved with Karmacoin, now just “Karma”, for over six months ...  A switch of PoW algo from scrypt to x11 was mooted and accepted ... the dev team ... preferred to engage outside talent to implement a solution that preserved the tx and the blockchain. They engaged Hiro for the work and ... have been peering over his shoulder (as have I), hoping to pick some tips.

As you note, the alternative interpretation is preposterous but that's merely because of the absence of context.

Cheers

Graham
2086  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][DCN] Deepcoin secure hashing (CPU/GPU) 100% PoW on: July 31, 2014, 10:40:47 AM
MYR is a dead coin.

You may well have a point, but people aren't simply going to accept your unsupported say-so. On what criteria are you basing that assessment?


Cheers

Graham
2087  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][Q2C] QubitCoin new secure hashing (CPU/GPU) (NEW) Update 0.8.4.1 on: July 30, 2014, 09:57:13 PM
I will make a Merged Mining Hard Fork Patch. If its accepted then i will add Qubitcoin to PolyMyr if not then thats your choice
i disagree ....

...
also we could contact MYR coin ... for making Deepcoin with MYR merged mining

Ooooo, Mary, Mary quite contrary Smiley


Cheers

Graham
2088  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [ANNOUNCE] Abe 0.7: Open Source Block Explorer Knockoff on: July 29, 2014, 11:26:42 AM
Anyone got an idea where I can get that php file for the richlist ?

https://github.com/stolendata/rpc-ace/blob/master/extras/tally.php

Cheers

Graham
2089  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][Q2C] QubitCoin new secure hashing (CPU/GPU) (NEW) Update 0.8.4.1 on: July 28, 2014, 11:30:07 PM
I will make a Merged Mining Hard Fork Patch. If its accepted then i will add Qubitcoin to PolyMyr if not then thats your choice
i disagree ....

Ha ha, very funny. You're already mining qubit via myriad ...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=710089.msg8027265#msg8027265

so I guess you're leg-pulling/trolling.

(Well, I did enourage people to post Smiley)

Cheers

Graham

2090  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: XCoins and everything else is shit? on: July 28, 2014, 10:13:38 PM
Prime-XI just launched its a x11 coin, its getting alot of good responses and shows its not a pump and dump and gaining creditworthy.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=701871.msg7931657#msg7931657

Seein' as you were rash enough to pimp a coin in a trust discussion:

A descendant of LimeCoin:
https://github.com/Prime-Cryptos/Prime-xi/tree/master/contrib/gitian-descriptors

Black mark for failing to start with a fresh fork of Litecoin 0.8.7 and a full commit history. May be quite well-intentioned but will struggle to keep up with other better-resourced coins.


Cheers

Graham
2091  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: TRUSTED COINS LIST (OFFICIAL TOPIC) | LEAST 1 MONTH OLD, NO NEWBIE ACC, ETC. on: July 28, 2014, 09:08:00 PM
First off, kudos for having the get-up-and-go to initiate this. I have some observations, nothing personal ....

Your language is fine (english is very robust to mangled syntax), it's the thinking that needs more work. I'm assuming that you're motivated to make this list a success, the issues raised below if left unresolved, will act against that aim.

1. Coin must be at least 1 month old 1 month from what exactly?
2. Dev(s) is still active: if dev don't post on his topic one week I will remove from my list. The list will fast become irrelevant if this unrealistic criterion is imposed - I recommend making an actual count, get some hard figures, you're also making a lot of work for yourself, checking up on this
3. If you have a newbie account with your coin, you will not on the list.Ineffective criterion, non-newbie accounts can be bought
4. You must have: a public source code, wallets (minimum is Windows wallet), and a block explorer.you mean compiled wallets - who will check that they actually work? Will there be a program of random re-visits or can the block explorer be dispensed with immediately afterwards?
5. You must have an official website.“official”, how is that defined?

Lastly, you may find it more difficult that you expect to gain wide support or credibility when maintaining a “trusted coins list” using a pseudonymous account.

Cheers

Graham
2092  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Potential Markets de-listed from Bittrex on Friday, July 25th on: July 28, 2014, 07:42:33 PM
A clearly defined 'industry standard' set of criteria needs to be (read: will eventually be) developed. Something much more significant than measuring the shouting on social media.

We have a sophisticated and very capable semantic web representation as a foundation:

https://github.com/DOACC

But ... in the situation you outline, the difficulty is that those who have the problem aren't those who own the solution. It's a societal issue, not a technical one -- but the technology will be asked to play a part at some point, we think.

Cheers

Graham
2093  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: XCoins and everything else is shit? on: July 28, 2014, 07:28:04 PM
But anyway, is it all about X nowadays?

Pretty much so for the last few weeks and intensifying. I'm afraid that I find it quietly amusing because chaining hash algos may well have the effect of weakening the cryptographic security of the coin.

We generate these charts from our db:

http://minkiz.co/

I can break the figures down further into per-month if people think it's important to get a precise handle on rates of increase.

or you can do it yourself by querying our SPARQL endpoint.

http://minkiz.co/sparql

There are two ontologies (one oriented to blockchain, one with wider scope) here:

http://minkiz.co/ontology
 

Cheers,

Graham
2094  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][Q2C] QubitCoin new secure hashing (CPU/GPU) (NEW) Update 0.8.4.1 on: July 28, 2014, 05:07:42 PM
I will make a Merged Mining Hard Fork Patch. If its accepted then i will add Qubitcoin to PolyMyr if not then thats your choice

I know from experience that the QubitCoin community is not shy about raising objections (c.f. other erstwhile devs' proposals), so if there aren't any raised, we can reasonably assume broad agreement.

Unless anyone feels like organising a vote thread in the interests of improved transparency --- or even, possibly, representational responsibility?

It's not an especially demanding task, community respect and fame beckons, plus an opportunity to publish a donation address (I'm confident that this resurgent community will appreciate an opportunity to demonstrate solidarity of purpose).


Cheers

Graham (currently stacked out)

2095  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Technical analysis of the EliteCoin heist on: July 28, 2014, 03:45:15 PM
Could any one tell  me how to read the code and what to look for? for hidden premine.. or maybe other usefull things!

Reading code for sense is a learned skill, directing people what to look for also requires them to have some familiarity with programming code semantics.

The best I can offer is a basic “smell test”. Find a related coin that's above suspicion and perform a simple visual comparison. If there are differences where usually there aren't, then it fails the smell test.

I posted a how-to:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=712197.msg8066207#msg8066207

The bitbucket repos we set up includes zenifications of elitecoin and its cloneparent, sumcoin. A meld comparison shows up the differences reasonably clearly. See if elitecoin passes the smell test for you.

HTH

Graham


2096  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][Q2C] QubitCoin new secure hashing (CPU/GPU) (NEW) Update 0.8.4.1 on: July 28, 2014, 01:09:41 PM
gjhiggins you are able to carry out analysis of addresses, and rank them by size of the q2c capital
You mean like this?
Code:
https://coinplorer.com/Q2C/Addresses/0/Top

Yes, except we need all the wallet addresses that have a transaction recorded somewhere in the blockchain, i.e. received or sent Q2C at some point.

Note: only those wallet addresses/accounts that have been referenced in a transaction recorded in the blockchain can be identified for possible retention.

Cheers

Graham
2097  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitcoinSniper is a scammer. Achilles coin is his scam. on: July 28, 2014, 12:33:00 PM
gjhiggins, can you tell by the code in the zip if the technology he claims the coin will use actually exists?

There's no evidence of that in the contents of the zip archive. The contents are Godcoin with user-facing strings changed to read “Achilles”, with only the absolutely key parameters changed (rpcport, genesisblock, etc). The only significant functional changes to the codebase are a bigger premine and larger block rewards.

The pastebin listing that I posted contains all the differences between ZenGodcoin source code and ZenAchilles source code.

I found it notable how few differences are actually required to separate one functioning altcoin from another.

If you'd like to take a gander yourself, if only to see what I'm blithering on about, there is a technique which helps. When I put an altcoin under the microscope the first thing I do is use a little Python script I wrote to rebrand the coin as Zencoin (ZENZ). I did this with Godcoin and Achilles, giving me ZenGodcoin and ZenAchilles.

I then compare the two directories and their contents, side-by-side, using a visual diff and merge tool: http://meldmerge.org/. It gives a very clear and accessible visual presentation of differences in directory structure and between files.

What the hey, lets have some piccies ...






Here's a screenshot of ZencoinGodcoin vs ZencoinAchilles:





Meld allows me to double-click the blue-lit names to show the content side-by-side. In a moment, we'll have a look at the differences in base58.h but first I need to draw your attention to the left-and-right vertical navigation scrollers - the coloured blocks show the location of pairs of files that differ. In the directory-level presentation, one coloured block = one filepair. In the above listing, a total of eight (8!) changed files is sufficient to create a functionally distinct altcoin.

There's a similar vertical nav scroller for the file-level presentation and again, coloured bars (a single line differing in content) or coloured blocks (several contiguous lines of code differing). Not too challenging I hope but an illustration should be, er, well, illuminating ...

Here's a screenshot of the one-and-only difference between godcoin/src/base58.h and achilles/src/base58.h:




That's it.

That's the difference which shows up as a blue block in the directory-level display.


Pretty much the same goes for all but a few of the rest of the blue-lit files, e.g. here's a screenshot of the (again, one-and-only) difference between godcoin/src/net.cpp and achilles/src/net.cpp:




I re-ran diff configured to output just the minimum context (filename and line no) for clarity - these are the only differences:
http://pastebin.com/dWht3JRu

And (for eyewatering completeness) files matching the patterns below were excluded from the comparison:
Code:
$ cat notthese
*.qm
*.ts
*.png
*.jpg
*.svg
*.o
*~
*.ico
*.icns

In essence, my workflow runs as follows:
Code:
$ git clone http://github.com/foo/bazcoin.git
$ cd bazcoin
$ rm -rf .git*  # don't need it
$ ln -s bazcoin-qt.pro coin-qt.pro  # allows meld comparison
$ grep 'BTC' src/qt/bitcoinunits.cpp  # what units were actually coded?
$ grep -r BAZZA src/  # ensure no clash with source code
$ ../omm.exe BazCoin BAZZA # use XYZZY to suppress symbol replacement if it'd muck up the source code
$ cd ..
$ meld bazcoin godcoin


If you feel up to it, you can have a go yourself. We've set up a bitbucket repository that you can use:
https://bitbucket.org/minkizmates/zencoin.git

There's a small collection of zenified coins (incl godcoin and achilles) for use when comparing with fresh candidates along with the “omm.exe” Python script to create Zencoins:
https://bitbucket.org/minkizmates/zencoin/src

meld will usefully show 3 sources side-by-side, viewing recently-launched elitecoin, fusecoin and sumcoin side-by-side is quite instructive in showing how little they differ.


HTH

Cheers

Graham

Edited for sense
2098  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: for a lol look at nearly every current 'whitepaper' with a hex editor on: July 28, 2014, 11:44:43 AM

Also the SHA3-Zoo's page of full cryptanalysis details and NIST submission zip with implementation and docs:

http://ehash.iaik.tugraz.at/wiki/Luffa

Cheers

Graham
2099  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: DECENT DEVS NEEDED FOR PROJECT on: July 27, 2014, 10:25:50 PM
As an example: I've taken Achilles coin and removed the 11million premine - https://github.com/darrenturn90/Achilles-NoPremine

Any particular reason to choose Achilles?  Only it's a plain copy of Godcoin, with a premine and a different block reward structure:
http://pastebin.com/uHPmmJsY

The “zencoin” references are from my brand-normalisation facility, a small Python script that “normalizes” all the regex-imposed branding (user-facing strings and the occasional comment), replacing a coin's branding with Zencoin (ZENZ) throughout, allowing comparisons (between now-Zencoins) to reveal just the functional differences.

Cheers

Graham
2100  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][Q2C] QubitCoin new secure hashing (CPU/GPU) (NEW) Update 0.8.4.1 on: July 27, 2014, 09:00:43 PM
gjhiggins you are able to carry out analysis of addresses, and rank them by size of the q2c capital

I'll certainly have a go, I'll take a look this evening at what's involved. It's just a matter of calculating the residual balance of all the txIns and txOuts to each address, isn't it?

Cheers,

Graham
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