It's possible the block you mined got orphaned, you could check your debug.log file for more information.

There's a few possible directions--since things like the price and people's beliefs about future market performance are based largely on the mintage rate, it isn't something we want to mess with too much. On the surface, there are three major options:

Roll the SHA-256 allocation of coin mintage into folding rewards (best choice)
This would allow 9,360 coins to be paid out per day to people doing folding and other similar computational science computations in the future. This seems like the best way to express Curecoin's priority of research and encourage additional resources to be pointed at scientific computing networks.

Roll the SHA-256 allocation of coin mintage into PoS rewards
This would encourage people to hold the coin, and would (theoretically) lower sell pressure, at least in a short-term frame. However, adding a set-number of coins to a PoS scheme would require a decaying curve of some form to reduce PoS percentage-based rewards over time to keep the awarded amount per day at a given level, and even that requires (fairly impossible) accurate prediction of the percentage of the network that will be staking coins at all points through the coin's lifespan. Assuming the technical difficulties of implementing this could be overcome, it's basically trickle-down economics, hoping that rewarding those holding the coin will increase the value of the coin by increasing buy pressure and decreasing sell pressure will eventually benefit those actually serving Curecoin's purpose of scientific research.

Eliminate the SHA-256 allocation of coin mintage
Cut the ~1872 coins/day rewarded to SHA256 miners out of the equation, reducing the daily coin mintage, and rewarding early purchasers of Curecoin by increasing their proportional holdings of the network over time.

To summarize internal discussions, option 1 is a pretty clear winner. It keeps the mintage schedule on-par with what anyone financially invested into the coin expects, and rewards folding users directly. The SHA256 coins were originally there simply to encourage network security, and won't be a requirement in 2.0.

Option #2 (rolling into PoS) is not only difficult to do reliably, and has less of an effect on the overall returns from folding which a direct reward system (#1) offers.

Option #3 steers Curecoin away from the expected mintage schedule.

We're of course open to discussion on the above--perhaps someone has insight on something we missed or underestimated. In 2.0, we'll likely reduce the PoS rewards, as the current PoS reward percentage isn't realistic for a long-term coin to sustain, and will cause the network to become unbalanced in the future towards stake-holders. Additionally, since much less of 2.0's security relies on PoS, the reward to users for keeping coins online and active should be lowered accordingly. As it stands, Curecoin allows approximately 1% interest per month on coins (See https://chainz.cryptoid.info/cure/tx.dws?5844462cf21932952abd050a97ea731e295e1ad05eab8c0e0a5fb047cdcacfb7.htm, which is a PoS block minted a tad after the 30-day mark, and shows a bit above 1% interest), making Curecoin effectively around 12.6825% per year. It would take around 5 years and 10 months to double a 24/7-staked Curecoin wallet. In the real world, a guaranteed return of 12.6825%/year is unheard of. This causes people to play "hot potato" with the coins if it isn't staking, as the per-coin value would cut in half every 5 years and 10 months, all other constants in a perfectly-reactive 24/7 staking currency held the same. It served us well until now, and will continue to serve us in the coming months, but as a long-term solution it is impractical for any store of value, and would make nearly any kind of investment OF Curecoin into nearly any venture pointless, as the venture would be spending Curecoin and thus not receiving PoS returns, and would have to generate 12.6825% organically.

Doesn't work.

Selling 2000 MDT for 0.07 BTC.

PM me.

Unfortunately the value of a cryptocurrency (or anything else, for that matter) is based on some form of scarcity. If coins were tied to a particular amount of computational power (say, each Curecoin represented 1GFlop running for one day), then the currency would only lose value over time, and thus become unattractive to investors, meaning there would be no incentive for people to buy the currency as basic laws of economics would dictate that the USD$ value of each coin was only to go down.

As computing power gets cheaper, Folding@Home points are easier to generate--a GPU from 2009 generated only, say, 8000 points per day in 2009, when it was top-of-the-line. And today, it still only generates about 8000 points per day. Nowadays, a high-end GPU can generate upwards of 400,000 points per day, even over 600,000 points per day in certain conditions. As such, if each point was a coin, then a coin awarded today would be guaranteed to cost many times more than an equal-by-fungibility coin awarded in 2020, when GPUs are significantly faster still.

The goal of your idea is exactly what we're trying to achieve: offer incentives for more and more people to do more and more folding. However, for Curecoin to be able to achieve such a goal, it has to contain value, without stacking cards against its potential monetary value. It's one of those necessary-evil things, if Curecoins were worthless, they wouldn't offer incentives for people to fold. It'd be like giving out gold stars.

There's nothing particularly interesting in the folding pool source code--it takes stats from Stanford, puts them in a database, and then calls them out, totals the day total, finds a percent, sends payments.

That being said, I'll open-source the new pool we're releasing in a few days, so anyone else can also pay folders

The numbers on the new pool frontend?

Of 2.0? 2.0.0a1 went pretty well, got some good debugging stats. Hope to have another alpha test (2.0.0a2) out in a few weeks to address some problems we experienced on the network, and to add some more features.

Not many people tried out 2.0.0a1, but we still got good information from it.

Hey guys, folding@home stats are back up, so sometime tomorrow you should receive back-compensation for the last three days of work.

We've also been working on a brand-new stats frontend AND backend. Here's a screenshot of the new dashboard:

Folding@Home is having some backend problems, so we're waiting on those to be resolved before doing a payout. You'll see some web server errors as you browse their website, and the stats page we grab is completely unavailable.

You'll have to look at the application you are mining from to see the hash rate, unless you are trying to mine with the wallet, in which case try typing "setgenerate true 4" in your debug console (change 4 to the number of cores you want to mine on).

There have been some payout issues, but you should have received payments.

What's your folding username?

PoS should award around 1% every 30 days. You have to have your wallet unlocked (if you encrypt it) for staking to occur, as you need to sign the block, which can only be done when you have access to the private key.

Hey merc, I see you in the payout stats for the next run with around 1.6mil points, does that sound correct?

Hey everyone, the Curecoin team is looking for input on some ideas:

1. A pure-PoS cryptocurrency that we pay out for 30 days for contributions to a few other scientific projects during the next month, and then runs in pure PoS mode forever, after payout premine funds are exhausted. Does not convert to 2.0--this would be an entirely separate, short-term coin.

2. A refocus of cc1.0 to pay out users for contribution to multiple projects bridging the gap between now and 2.0 launch. Payouts would occur in regular Curecoin. Either we could continue with the 7488 coin emission per day and allocate a certain quantity of it to other scientific projects, or we could increase the daily coin emission.

3. The accumulation of 'virtual' curecoins for contributions to other scientific projects until 2.0 launches, which would convert to 2.0 coins at launch.

Remember, all Curecoin 1.0 coins WILL be convertable to 2.0 coins at a one-to-one conversion ratio when 2.0 launches. That being said, option 1 above is a separate coin, and would not be convertible to 2.0 coins, it would be a separate blockchain entirely.

Here's the other projects we're looking at at the moment:
GPUGrid
World Community Grid (Not entirely medical, but very humanitarian-oriented)
Rosetta@Home

DENIS@Home also looks interesting, though we'd like to see the project develop a bit further before integrating with it, as it is very new.

POEM@Home is also an interesting project, though it seems somewhat inactive. Keeping our eyes on it for sure.

If anyone has any other projects they'd like to see on the above list, or any reasons for not liking the ones mentioned, please voice your opinions! Projects like SETI@Home, MilkyWay@Home, DistRTgen, Primegrid, Yoyo@Home, and Einstein@Home aren't currently under consideration due to pursuing goals outside the main focus of Curecoin--like searching radio signals for signs of intelligent life, mapping the galaxy, generating rainbow tables, finding prime numbers, exploring mathematical principles, etc. While these are valid and fascinating types of research, Curecoin's main goal still lies in medical advancement and similar humanitarian goals. Some projects lay out the outskirts of Curecoin territory, such as ClimatePrediction.net.

If enough people in the community feel very strongly about a non-medical project being added to Curecoin, we're here to listen, but we don't want to dilute the project's goals.

A lot of things will undergo a facelift for 2.0, but the website will probably stay close to the same--I like the way it looks Maybe we'll add a bit more jazz to it though.

Here's how 2.0's stacking up for anyone who wants a quick summary:

2.0.0a1 released
We released an alpha version of 2.0 with core features enabled. IT IS IN TESTNET MODE. NONE OF THE COINS ARE REAL.
We'd love for people to browse through the source code: https://github.com/Vorksholk/Curecoin
Or download compiled jars (Need Java 1.7 or 1.8 installed) and run them: http://1.curecoinmirror.com/2.0.0a1/2.0.0a1.zip

Working in 2.0.0a1
-> Transactions Users can send testnet coins back and forth.

-> Merkle Signatures Instead of using ECDSA like Bitcoin, 2.0 uses Merkle Signatures, which are simple enough for anyone with highschool-level math to understand on a technical level, and are resistant to quantum computers. If you want a brief summary of Merkle Trees and ECDSA, see here: http://1.curecoinmirror.com/Curecoin%20Signatures%20Compressed.pdf

-> Certificate blockchain The blockchain is based on validation of certificates issued by certificate authorities. On the testnet network, these certificates are signed for users based on pointless computational work. In the actual 2.0 release, certificates will be signed by research institutes.

There are some bugs and limitations of this super-early alpha. During abnormal network conditions (super-fast blocks, etc.), transactions occasionally get rejected, and the sent amount is refunded to the sender.

The RPC commands are abysmally limited. This is one of the main features of the upcoming 2.0.0a2--tons more RPC commands.

Difficulty is fixed at 150000.

The ledger system isn't fully implemented--so the full blockchain is required to participate on the network. Most of the code is there, but 2.0.0a1 is about testing the blockchain, signature technology, and transaction propagation/inclusion.

The miner was thrown together quickly, and has some issues handling network connectivity issues, generally disconnecting permanently. I'll fix this, but it isn't a major priority, as it won't even be a part of the final release. It's a testnet thing.

For debugging purposes, clients will, by default, only connect to one peer, which we run. This is so we can easily reset the testnet, and monitor all network traffic for debugging. Obviously in the final release (or more realistically during the beta phase) peers will freely connect to one another, and we won't have to maintain any infrastructure (and won't have control over the network).



Some words about 2.0 features:
2.0 will have a number of technical innovations that set it apart from other crypto currencies. The ledger system will allow clients to store only the last 14,400 blocks plus the ledger, making the Blockchain a manageable size, and making coins 100% fungible.

Multisig addresses will be identifiable on the network, and will be defined by rules specified on creation; 2 or more Curecoin addresses will be defined as subordinates of a multisig address, and the structure of the multisig address defines how many of the subordinate addresses are required to create a successful outbound transaction.

 Proving documents to the 2.0 blockchain will be trivial, supported by a special transaction type that survives blockchain pruning.

Proof-of-stake won't consider the age of coins in payout or priority, and stake blocks must be interspersed between certificate blocks, making it impossible to fork the network more than one block using proof-of-stake blocks. Addresses can earn stake without mining a block--simply by submitting a stake-generating transaction to be included in a stake block. People wishing to earn the transaction fees can create actual stake blocks. An address must not send coins for 14,400 blocks (30 days, subject to change) to stake. Coins received within the last 14,400 days will receive a prorated payout.

Found a bug that's been affecting stats for two days, that should be fixed. However, it shouldn't have been down a week--what's your payout address? PS3Ed broke the Integer barrier on 6/21, so payouts before then should have been running fine.


Found the bug, thanks for pointing it out! We're doing a double-payout soon to compensate, so it'll take your percentage of the last two days' contributions and give you that percent of (7488*2).

Stats weren't having issues for that long, looks like you haven't earned any points on team Curecoin recently. Right now, you have 137,608,535 points with Curecoin, which appears to have been constant for quite a while. For third-party verification, the page at http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=657024 also shows that you have been inactive for a while on the Curecoin team--could you check your folding machines and make sure:
1. They're producing WUs
2. They're folding for your username, and
3. They're on team 224497

There was. PS3EdOlkkola got 2,167,792,538 points. The max value of an Integer in Java is 2,147,483,647 points, and the software we were using for calculating change in user balance was parsing Integers, unfortunately. The code has been updated to use Longs (9,223,372,036,854,775,807 max value) and the stats server is working again. We'll probably back-calculate the missed payout manually.

Plans are to have four types of nodes:

Dedicated nodes are best for machines that have lots of bandwidth, strong, reliable connections, and forwarded ports/dedicated IP. They allow up to 150 connections, and focus on sending large chunks of the blockchain to synchronizing peers, in addition to forwarding real-time traffic through the network. Dedicated nodes store the entire blockchain, and may help with TCP punchthroughs.

Full nodes are best for machines with moderate bandwidth and forwarded ports/dedicated IP. They allow up to 50 connections, and focus on forwarding real-time traffic through the network. Full nodes store the entire blockchain. In some instances, they may help with TCP punchthroughs.

Light nodes are best for machines that will not be online 24/7 and do not have forwarded ports/dedicated IP. They allow up to 8 connections, and forward real-time traffic through the network. They store only the last 14,400 network blocks in order to verify PoS blocks.

Whisper nodes are best for mobile devices with inconsistent network connections and very limited storage. They allow up to 8 connections, forward real-time traffic through the network, and refuse to answer calls for block queries. they store only the last 2400 network blocks, to provide transaction history on any address for approximately 5 days under normal network conditions.

By default, clients will likely run in full-node mode. Dedicated nodes add additional integrity to the structure of the Curecoin network, and are great for more powerful machines with the potential to mine blocks, as they will have quicker access to network transactions and will be able to include more transactions in their blocks, speeding up the network while earning larger transaction fees from the larger transaction tables in the blocks they produce.

The mobile app will be in whisper mode by default, with support for RPC-only mode, paired with a light, full, or dedicated node for network state info.