Thanks for the feedback! @organizer: Okay. Yeah. Intro should be first, then video. And yes, a cryptocurrency should be explained. I have a link to a description: http://blog.thecypherfunks.com/cryptocurrency. I'll move it to the front-page. But what do you think of that description? You want something simple [paragraph length]. Think I'm going to add an additional line such as "Fast, very secure, transfer of value". @neuroMode: Yes, going to add some press snippets! Good idea. I'm going to redo it, and model it mostly off of Ethereum's site: <nav> brand one-line [make music with the world] and then a slalom. Thoughts? |
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Just filmed an insert for the 1 o clock news on South African TV about The Cypherfunks. Will post when it is available!
Has some shots of me doing "coding" and shots of the cryptorush markets. Fun.
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Thanks! I've only actually got about 30kh in cudaminer on a terrible Nvidia card in total, and this has stopped the miner from spamming up my crappy network connection with pointless shares, and my hash rate seems to be less prone to randomly dropping too! Is the fixed multiplier the same for any hashing algorithm, or is there some kind of calculation to work it out for a particular coin?
Well, it's for scrypt and adjusted to submit a share every 16seconds, so whenever it's a little different, yeah, probably. (I've calculated the factor for you guys) Cypherfunks is a fair coin with 2minutes block time therefor lets you submit shares without too much hurry and gives you a fair chance. faster coins would need a lower difficulty then. Ok cool, much appreciated, and useful to know. What's the formula? I mine a number of coins on a number of algorithms, so I'd be interested to know :-) On another note, I just made a post about Cypherfunk over on my FB page - I haven't got a huge readership, but all publicity is good publicity I guess :-) Sweet. Thanks! Also added your pool to the frontpage. |
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Umm, what rabbit hole? That was my problem. Got to the site and was looking for further infos on articles like "what is a crypto currency" or "how to get involved" .. links to your blog. just didn't see anything else besides the video.
(bootstrap navbar with important links? navbar-bottom or such maybe?)
Oh. Do you mean, the links get obscured by the video? In other words, the links should be more visible? That could definitely help. Make them more pronounced. Seems like I've read across them  Yeah. Agreed. Will improve it tomorrow! |
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Umm, what rabbit hole? That was my problem. Got to the site and was looking for further infos on articles like "what is a crypto currency" or "how to get involved" .. links to your blog. just didn't see anything else besides the video.
(bootstrap navbar with important links? navbar-bottom or such maybe?)
Oh. Do you mean, the links get obscured by the video? In other words, the links should be more visible? That could definitely help. |
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Just a comment. I don't think the current website of www.thecypherfunks.com helps anybody that gets there. not enough information on what it is, why he should get involved, etc. (sent soundcloud and homepage links to an old friend that's been into electronic music for quite some time now) It's difficult to pack everything into one page, so I thought the homepage is just a teaser. Then the curious could follow the rabbit hole down further. Definitely open to changes. Any ideas to improve it? |
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I don't have photoshop skills but I made a logo concept in Paint. If anyone likes it they can spice it up in a better editor. The concept is to have input nodes representing the decentralized community coming together and producing one collective output (the soundwaves).    I like these concepts! Will try and work with them Also: new songs are out! https://soundcloud.com/groups/the-cypherfunks. 15 songs have been released now! |
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Here's a publicly available p2pool git for cypherfunks. all settings / images included. just the usual setup and starting, it automatically connects to the main node! Simon, you can put that link on the frontpage too  https://github.com/florianuhlemann/p2pool_cypherfunkI contacted you earlier about setting up another node and putting the source on git, but as you probably noticed I had not quite gotten around to that. Apologies! With your source on github I did finally set up another node! It's at http://cypherfunks.p2p.0x0a.nl:36363 (0.9% fee) and it connected to your node without a problem. Huzzah & thanks! Thanks! Added to the frontpage. |
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Love where this is going! Added new the source to the p2pool to the frontpage and the link to the IRC.
I'm going to focus on reading up on the different retargeting algorithms (besides KGW), working on the android wallet & looking at a pamphlet.
Been speaking to bjmillican4 on figuring out a one-liner and a paragraph to use to get people excited. Here's a paragraph I wrote.
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"The Cypherfunks" is a network of musicians working individually & together to make music under the same name. A cryptocurrency [FUNK] acts as "stock" in the band.
Both the currency & band are completely decentralized. It is a grand experiment in permission-less, internet scale innovation in music, collaboration, and technology.
By creating music for this internet band and sharing it, musicians increase the network effect & subsequent demand for the currency. As contributors, musicians can be tipped FUNK by other members. FUNK can be exchanged into your currency of choice through various online exchanges. In the future, you will be able to use FUNK directly to buy products that assist in music making, and eventually anything else you can think of.
The long-term goal is to have a community of musicians use FUNK as currency to help each other continuously create great new music.
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How about that? Any thoughts?
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Any idea if Funks KGW is susceptible to the time warp exploit? I know there was talk of taking down Aurora Coin with it if they implemented KGW, and that's one reason Doge is going with Digishield instead of KGW. With the current difficulty so low I don't see it being exploited now, but possible in the future?
I've looked into time warp exploit (and need some more time to understand it properly). Afaik it hasn't been done yet? Has any KGW coins been exploited with this (if so, link please)? I'll definitely have a look at Digishield (read about it when Dogecoin implemented it) & I will definitely look into Darkcoin's DGW as well (seems to solve time warp exploit, which is awesome). Currently I want to avoid a hard-fork where possible, and for now it seems to be fine. We have a lot of new non-crypto people joining, so would like to avoid hard forks where possible. And if we do, do it once off and as irregular as possible. Difficult to get the word out to the non-crypto enthusiasts on why they have to download new wallets. Ideally, a web wallet in the future will avoid these problems so that the crypto enthusiasts that help run full nodes can update in time. With regards to ASICs. It does exclude the average person from getting involved who does not have access to money for ASICs (like me). However, as Florian said, it's a trade-off against chain security. There hasn't been any large-scale attacks on smaller chains, but it is always something that worries me. It's important to remember. We are going to get a lot of people involved with this that don't really care about the technical stuff at all. They will care about the music and that there is a workable currency. They don't care about ASIC resistance or KGW like we do. What we need is a secure chain with happy miners that we don't have to change too much. It's a fine balance. Let's hope we get it right. Will look into Digishield & DGW. Cheers! Why not build something into the wallet to notify users of updates? All it'd have to do is buzz Github or your site to see if anything needed updating, although I'm sure there's something interesting that could make it more P2P. Bitcoin has such a system actually. Good point. I'll look into it. On my to-do list for next week. That will help: a lot. |
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Any idea if Funks KGW is susceptible to the time warp exploit? I know there was talk of taking down Aurora Coin with it if they implemented KGW, and that's one reason Doge is going with Digishield instead of KGW. With the current difficulty so low I don't see it being exploited now, but possible in the future?
I've looked into time warp exploit (and need some more time to understand it properly). Afaik it hasn't been done yet? Has any KGW coins been exploited with this (if so, link please)? I'll definitely have a look at Digishield (read about it when Dogecoin implemented it) & I will definitely look into Darkcoin's DGW as well (seems to solve time warp exploit, which is awesome). Currently I want to avoid a hard-fork where possible, and for now it seems to be fine. We have a lot of new non-crypto people joining, so would like to avoid hard forks where possible. And if we do, do it once off and as irregular as possible. Difficult to get the word out to the non-crypto enthusiasts on why they have to download new wallets. Ideally, a web wallet in the future will avoid these problems so that the crypto enthusiasts that help run full nodes can update in time. With regards to ASICs. It does exclude the average person from getting involved who does not have access to money for ASICs (like me). However, as Florian said, it's a trade-off against chain security. There hasn't been any large-scale attacks on smaller chains, but it is always something that worries me. It's important to remember. We are going to get a lot of people involved with this that don't really care about the technical stuff at all. They will care about the music and that there is a workable currency. They don't care about ASIC resistance or KGW like we do. What we need is a secure chain with happy miners that we don't have to change too much. It's a fine balance. Let's hope we get it right. Will look into Digishield & DGW. Cheers! |
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there it goes again... 100mhs boom^^ lol (certainly not me!^^)
oh well, not too shabby for you guys. PPLNS is made for that - to protect you. he's pretty much finding lots of blocks for all. if you are a steady miner, you get more payout from blocks than one that comes and goes every hour or so.
Very cool actually. Getting coins residually after he came on board. |
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Thanks Florian! Bounties have been updated. Thanks.
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Awesome! Looking forward to seeing the tipbot take off! We can start giving out constructive comments on r/ThisIsOurMusic with an extra tip. I think it's important we provide value and not just tip, as we've seen some subreddits don't like it if we spam tips.
@neuroMode: One of the concepts for a logo I had in mind was a combination of a vinyl + coin. Go crazy! btw. I've worked with Bitcoinj before, so I will try this week in spare time to get an android wallet going! This way musicians at gigs can easily get on board.
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Great idea on some bounties.
I created 2 addresses. One for a faucet and one for a reddit tipbot. You can see in the announcement page with details. Here it is again:
I donated 2 million so far.
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Bounty FUND for a faucet [donate here]:
CMshf9ZVrYoBPdjnsJ7zSgVFcfEZui85qw [1 million donated so far]
If you have a working faucet, the bounty will be delivered.
Bounty FUND for a reddit tipbot [donate here]:
CWKmoKce124SfTpPBby8uSyrxp9Log4bQi [1 million donated so far]
If a working reddit tipbot is running for at least 2 weeks, the bounty will be delivered.
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At the moment, we are just pushing the idea to as many musicians as possible. The more music we make, the more the idea spread! Already had some musicians join that haven't heard of cryptocurrencies before, so it is cool.
Awesome.. I just added 3 million to the tip bot bounty, a million to the faucet bounty, and added a million to the fund for packs. Fantastic! Thanks vaudvaud! Added to the original post. 4.9 Million FUNK available for separates packs! 2 Million FUNK available for a faucet! 4 Million available for a reddit tipbot! |
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Great idea on some bounties.
I created 2 addresses. One for a faucet and one for a reddit tipbot. You can see in the announcement page with details. Here it is again:
I donated 2 million so far.
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Bounty FUND for a faucet [donate here]:
CMshf9ZVrYoBPdjnsJ7zSgVFcfEZui85qw [1 million donated so far]
If you have a working faucet, the bounty will be delivered.
Bounty FUND for a reddit tipbot [donate here]:
CWKmoKce124SfTpPBby8uSyrxp9Log4bQi [1 million donated so far]
If a working reddit tipbot is running for at least 2 weeks, the bounty will be delivered.
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At the moment, we are just pushing the idea to as many musicians as possible. The more music we make, the more the idea spread! Already had some musicians join that haven't heard of cryptocurrencies before, so it is cool.
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