Dnote 1.2 not DL the blocks...stuck on 676364
This seems to be a problem for all crypto coins using QT. Although not fatal, it is annoying. Perhaps in the future, someone will add some more functionality to the code to work around this issue as it is a stumbling block for new users and those who are "just trying it out" Of course, you could always use DNotesVault instead...  Agreed, the DNotesVault will be the best option for most users. If you can work through the technical and secure your wallet data using offline only methods, managing a wallet is a good option as well. It is probably a good time to mention some pitfalls or best practices in securing your own wallet data. -You have to protect and secure your password, if you lose the password you will not be able to recover your funds. -When creating an offline wallet, create multiple wallets, in the event you have to use one to send funds out using an online computer, you can send the balance to another secure offline wallet. -Your wallet data files are only encrypted after you encrypt them (if someone got a hold of your wallet data files before encrypting them, it doesn't matter if you encrypted them later) -Changing your encryption password does not change it for previous copies of the wallet data files. -Removing the internet connection temporarily to manage your wallet is not 100% secure, you may still have malware running capturing data for when you go back online. -Virus/Malware protection is not 100% protection from data/password stealing programs. -Paper wallets are only as secure as your computer. -Brain wallets are difficult to secure using just a memorized password. -Try not to keep your wallet data files on online computers, it is unlikely someone would break the password, but still recommended -If you add addresses to your wallet, make another backup. I'm sure there are some I've missed, feel free to add to the list. |
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Dnote 1.2 not DL the blocks...stuck on 676364
Hi The One, there are a couple things you can try. First I would recommend closing and re-opening the wallet, then wait an hour and see if it starts updating. If it hasn't, you may need to re-download. Close the wallet. Open the following folder: C:\Documents and Settings\WINDOWSUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\DNotes or C:\Users\WINDOWSUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\DNotes directory Delete blk0001.dat and blkindex.dat. Open the wallet and it will begin downloading from the start. |
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waiting on the grexit pump  Welcome to the DNotes thread KidCrypto! |
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Here is a 'few' more quotes that we can pick and choose from. I pre-apologize if I've duplicated anyone's. There are some gems in there Chase. These quotes will help people to understand how important digital currency is. |
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Quote rotation should not present the same quote to any single reader more than once during an average stay if possible. When someone sees a quote they saw when first opening the site, it tends to make them aware of the time they have spent already and prompts them to move on.
Also make sure your hang time is long enough for the average reader, most of these quotes are long. You, the developer, have already read the quote so its easy for coders to make the reading time too short. This frustrates readers and prompts them to move on.
Quotes are important, they help to set the overall tone of the site and give some insight to what the Webmaster had in mind when creating the site in the first place. Give it some development time and it will be worth you while...
RJF I have run into this before and I have come up with a simple, but useful way to determine time on things like this. I read the statement/quote backwards word-for-word and time it. This definitely gives a better hang time estimation. Very ingenious, I like that! That's a great idea. I think I am going to change the quote only on page change/refresh. It moves all the content below the quote, so it can get a bit annoying. |
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Quote rotation should not present the same quote to any single reader more than once during an average stay if possible. When someone sees a quote they saw when first opening the site, it tends to make them aware of the time they have spent already and prompts them to move on.
Also make sure your hang time is long enough for the average reader, most of these quotes are long. You, the developer, have already read the quote so its easy for coders to make the reading time too short. This frustrates readers and prompts them to move on.
Quotes are important, they help to set the overall tone of the site and give some insight to what the Webmaster had in mind when creating the site in the first place. Give it some development time and it will be worth you while...
Agree wholeheartedly RJF. |
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I think we need to include a glossary page defining some of the technical jargon on DCEBrief website. Most people will know this, however, for those just becoming interested having this glossary alongside all the other information will make the webpage more complete. Maybe we can set up a Google Document and have everyone's input? After all additions we can then edit for relevance.
Thoughts??
I can envision that this site will become a "Goto" resource site for information and inspiration. We will make an attempt to define its mission next week to give us a better sense of directions. As technology evolves, mission statement also evolves over time. We just have to be very clear with our core mission. It is okay to keep adding resources and contents. However, we must be exceptionally careful not to "over clutter" the core messages we intend convey. However, at this point we are collecting a shoe-box of ideas, and we can use a lot more. Keep them coming. Imagine that we have a trusted global digital currency today that is available to everyone any where in the world and it represents 5% of the transaction in global commerce. Can you come up with a use case that may not be possible today, . .................... Now what are the constraints we need to overcome to make the above possible. That will be a very important part of DCEBrief's core mission. That by the way, has been DNotes' goal from day one. Not a bad idea. What we may be able to do so it does take up a lot of space is have hover links, where if you hold your mouse over a word it shows an explanation. |
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How many quotes should we have in rotation? Which are your favorites? Did I miss any good ones?
Here is my current list.
Accounts at a money service business or financial institution can certainly be linked to identity, but the individual coins (or coin subunits) themselves cannot be.
Jon Matonis - e-money researcher and crypto economist
The math and technology behind the blockchain is difficult for most to understand, but the beauty is - you don't have to get it to use it. Do you really get how the internet works? TLS/SSL? DNS? HTTPS?
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet
There's a lot of misconception about what bitcoin actually is due to media narratives. The most popular reference I hear mentioned is Silk Road, but Silk Road wasn't enabled by bitcoin. People forget or don't realize that Silk Road was enabled by Tor, an 'anonymizing' proxy network. Bitcoin isn't actually an anonymous currency it's pseudo-anonymous. Want to know what's anonymous? Cash.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet
I think the real success of bitcoin will be when it's the foundational layer on top of which applications and processes are built without people having to understand what that means.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet
While we can attribute a lot of our early attention to stories of bitcoin scandal, Mt Gox, and high-profile arrests, the stories being told now are of how the technology could have the potential to bring efficiency to the financial industry.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet
The reason you should care about bitcoin's success is not just because it can help reorganize how the financial industry is run, but because it can bring freedom and empowerment to the people who really need it
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet
To truly understand the impact (of Bitcoin), consider what the cellphone did for telecom. There are places in the world that completely skipped over traditional landline phones, mostly because it's a resource-intensive advancement, and went straight to cellphones. Bitcoin will be the technology that leaps over traditional banking in these same parts of the world.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet
To me, bitcoin is just the denomination used to pay the toll to put stuff on the world's first completely transparent and immutable decentralized ledger - the blockchain.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet
You'll hear the word 'decentralized' thrown around a lot when talking about bitcoin. The reason for this is that bitcoin is a decentralized asset that no one entity has control over. This might not seem important, but think about the people who live in places where that central entity that controls your currency is corrupt or unstable.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet
If it was as simple as just giving people another way to buy a cup of coffee, I can promise you that no one in our ecosystem would be working this hard.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet
It's not that we're trying to replace the current banking system or government; we're trying to work along side them to rethink current processes that are both inefficient and costly. Neither side is going to get anywhere without working together. Ultimately, I think we're at a place now where goals are aligned on both sides.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet
Regulation is a great thing for bitcoin. It gives me, and the rest of us principles by which we have to run our businesses. However, it's important that we are being regulated by people who understand the technology and can give us guidance without hindering innovation.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet
It does worry me that bitcoin won't succeed, that something will stand in our way and we'll never see it live up to it's promise and this is sad because there are a lot of people who really need this to work.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet
No one has sufficient self-interest to promote and protect Bitcoin, with an over-emphasis that it is a trustless system.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder
It is hard-earned money no matter what you call it; commodity, property, or virtual currency of no intrinsic value.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder
DNotes decided since day one that, to be successful, it must create a new culture. That new culture must be built with trust and integrity, promoting mutual respect and cooperation, collaborating in a highly productive environment, focusing on the accomplishment of long-term mutual benefits.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder
A small amount invested has the potential to make a big difference. Whereas, using fiat currency as a savings, the true impact is likely to be negative.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder
Our industry absolutely needs a drastic increase in women's participation to gain mass acceptance.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder
With two simple cell phones, or computers with an Internet connection, one can be set up to send and receive funds and conduct global commerce, thereby solving the problems of the unbanked.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder
The main innovation stemming from Bitcoin is trustless transactions, meaning transactions are fully decentralized and do not rely on a central bank or government. Bitcoin also introduced the primary innovation of blockchain technology; a public ledger where all Bitcoin transactions are recorded indefinitely together with all Bitcoin 'blocks' that have been mined to secure the network.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder
Bitcoin will most likely go down in history as one of the greatest technology revolutions in history.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder
Once I started really digging into it, I came to realize that there are three aspects to Bitcoin that are interwoven and Bitcoin is most interesting because of them. They are: One, it's an asset, like digital gold 2.0. Two, it's a currency in as much as currency is like the digital app that allows you to begin to transact and trade. And, three, it's also a platform where you can build financial and other products on top of it. These attributes all bound together are what convinced me that there's a certainty that there will be at least one global cryptocurrency and that there's a good argument that it's Bitcoin, or that Bitcoin is one of them, if not THE one. And, if Bitcoin isn't that global cryptocurrency, then something else will be.
Reid Hoffman - co-founder of LinkedIn, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author.
It is a much more efficient way of moving money around the world
Tim Draper - Venture Capitalist
Bitcoin, and the ideas behind it, will be a disrupter to the traditional notions of currency. In the end, currency will be better for it.
Edmund Moy - 38th Director of the United States Mint
Three eras of currency: Commodity based, e.g. Gold. Politically based, e.g. Dollar. Math based, e.g. Bitcoin.
Chris Dixon - Investor and Entrepreneur
Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement The ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value.
Eric Schmidt - Executive Chairman of Google
It's a store of value, a distributed ledger. It's a great place to put assets, especially in places like Argentina with 40 percent inflation, where $1 today is worth 60 cents in a year, and a government's currency does not hold value.
David Marcus - Former President of PayPal
Bitcoin may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.
Ben Bernanke - Former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve
EVERY informed person needs to know about Bitcoin because it might be one of the world's most important developments.
Leon Louw - two time Nobel Peace Prize nominee
Bitcoin, crypto currencies, solved this problem of coming to a consensus globally where you don't trust anybody else
Richard Brown - Executive Architect for IBM UK
Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money
Paul Buchheit - Creator of Google's Gmail Service
I think the fact that within the Bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of [the government] is actually pretty cool
Al Gore - Former US Vice President
Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative
Nassim Taleb - Author and Risk Analyst
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash
Milton Friedman - Nobel-Prize Winning Economist
I do not take a position on Bitcoin and other proposed currencies in a technical fashion, but I understand the political ramifications of them and I think that government should stay out of them and they should be perfectly legal, even though I don't endorse (technically) one over another.
Ron Paul - Former Republican congressman, two-time Republican presidential candidate
The federal government, in considering any legislation, regulation and policies, create an environment that fosters innovation for digital currencies and their associated technologies. As such, the government should exercise a regulatory 'clight touch'd that minimizes actions that might stifle the development of these new technologies.
Canadian Senate Recommendations
The federal government consider the use of blockchain technology when advantageous to deliver government services and to enhance the security of private information.
Canadian Senate Recommendations
The federal government, on an active and ongoing basis, work with other countries to formulate global guidelines for digital currencies while respecting the 'clight touch'd premise outlined in Recommendation 1 above.
Canadian Senate Recommendations
[Digital Currencies] they may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.
Ben Bernanke - Former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve
It will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust. World governments will have to readjust.
John McAfee - renowned information security pioneer and founder of McAfee
I think it is working. There will be other currencies like it that may be even better, but in the meantime there's a big industry around bitcoin.
Sir Richard Branson
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.0002 Bitcoin per vote X 40,000 votes needed to be number one (at the time this was written, with some overhead) = 8 Bitcoin. If anyone out there with deep pockets would like to get DNotes on Cryptsy right away, all you have to do is send 8 or more Bitcoin to: 14AGjtup6T6k4kB1bmbMUVmePNUXEYuqmQ I'm away from my computers for a few days, but have a couple old SHA 256 ASICS that I'll devote to buying votes until DNotes is on Cryptsy. Cool! I just did the math on using Cryptsy Points instead of Bitcoin directly and works out to much less. 1 Cryptsy Point costs: .00015000 Bitcoin (at time of posting) You get 5 votes per Cryptsy Point therefore, to reach 40000 votes, you need 8000 Cryptsy Points. Buying 8000 Cryptsy Points at .00015 costs 1.2 Bitcoin. So, you should be able to get 40000 votes for 1.2 Bitcoin worth of Cryptsy Points. If I'm correct (please someone check the math before you spend any Bitcoin) we should be able to reach #1 for 1.2 Bitcoin. We then need to maintain #1 position until the count is taken. From Cryptsy: "Using the buttons below, each Cryptsy user is allowed 1 free vote per coin. We are also accepting paid votes, which have no limit on the number of votes you can cast. Adding new markets requires a significant development investment for each new coin, so your paid votes will help offset the costs and accelerate the development time.
Paid votes can be submitted using either BTC or CryptsyPoints. To vote with BTC, simply send BTC to the deposit address listed next to the coin(s) you wish to support. Every 0.0002 BTC sent to the respective address received will count for 1 vote. You can click on the address link next to any coin to view payment votes cast using BTC, which are posted after getting 2 or more confirmations.
Alternatively, we are also accepting CryptsyPoints as part of our paid vote program (5 votes per CryptsyPoint). After you cast your free vote, you will then have the option to vote again with your CryptsyPoints as often as you like."You're right! You get around 7 votes paying with points compared to 1 with bitcoin. Here's a big duh on my part - I just bought 100 votes with bitcoin.  I haven't really been watching which coins are getting listed on Cryptsy. Do they have a set schedule for adding them such as one a week or month? I haven't even heard of a lot of them in the top 20 or 30 so we may not have to get all the way to 40,000 if some of them are dead or dying. I'm assuming some of them will get chosen before we get there. Should we do a community push to get listed? I will commit to buy some every week until we get there. Each vote is less than a penny if you use Cryptsy Points - Thanks RJF!! No problem! So, the actual cost in USD would be around $400.00 to put us on top.. That figure is reachable in the short term. Thank you all! It will be beneficial to DNotes to be listed on Cryptsy, and nice to be listed by the launch of DCEBrief. Being the top votes is not a guarantee of being listed, however it can only help, and we need to do what we can to make that happen. |
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Looks good, will have to see if they would add DNotes. DNotes is there. I thought it was missing as well but, the site only loads part of the screen at any time. As you scroll down, more of the screen is added to the visual area. Not very good for marketing or finding something quickly, kinda "quirky"... Oh good catch, yes I did find it. |
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Looks good, will have to see if they would add DNotes. |
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For the mining content, you want them to have a general understanding of mining and cover any important information in the mining field. I don't believe this will require a category of it's own, after looking through recent developments in mining ( http://www.coindesk.com/technology/mining/), there are a few topics I can see us covering. So my recommendation would be to cover them in existing categories, whether they fall into Regulation, Bitcoin, DNotes, Business, or Technology. |
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Hey,Hey! Just to say that i am still following you guys and i am glad that you are all well, trying to catch you,still holding and never gonna sell my Dnotes.They are all in vault on my and my friends kids acounts  Saw Silicon Dragon on youtube,Mr.Alan is my favorite guy from cryptoscene.Full respect! TC Best regards Nele Hey, Nele. I am delighted to hear from you. I am sure the rest of our community are too. Very smart to hang on to those DNotes. We are just getting started and have a long way to go. I was at a meeting last night with about 40 Bitcoin supporters from the Chicago area. I have met some of them once or twice before. It was very rewarding to me to sense an increasing level of respect and appreciation for what DNotes has been doing. One young man had a laptop with him. He is not a DNotes supporter yet but have heard of us. He pulled the DNotes long term chart as I continued to explain that DNotes is more than just a digital currency. We have been developing our own ecosystem, including our large family of CRISPs. As he examined the chart, I heard him said, "Wow, that is amazing. It has always been trending up with higher highs and higher lows". Everyone else nodded in agreement. With due respect, I must add that some of these people are hardcore Bitcoin supporters who don't care to know much more beyond Bitcoin and Litecoin. The potential of the industry is huge. We believe in doing our part to make it a better industry for everyone. We like to objectively identify industry challenges and help provide provide viable solutions one at a time. That is how DNotes will become the trusted global digital currency for everyone. Thanks for your support, Nele. We wish you and your family our very best regards. Great work at the meetup. The interesting thing about these 'hardcore' Bitcoin and LTC supporters, is that soon DNotes will give them no other option but to begin paying attention. By that time, they will be rather frustrated that they were in a room once upon a time with the founder, when they could have bought lots of DNotes for mere cents in the dollar. Oh well, there is a trajectory path and progress line that means different people will take notice at various points along. Many people operate as followers, preferring the safety of what the crowd is doing; a remarkably low-return means to operate. Still, even those who do not work in tandem, nor care about DNotes are doing great things in the industry, paving the way for DNotes to sail through its growth path that much easier. DNotes is clearly branching out to be the 'recognized' leader in many different avenues that the team has identified as soon-to-be highly demanded. For example, within 1 year businesses will have possibly 10x the pressure to begin looking into blockchain and crypto solutions, at that point, DNotes and DCEBrief.com will be the market leader in crypto information, having set up long before the 'tipping point' demand for its services existed. This is exactly how people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates became so successful, at the point when their skills were demanded, there were only about 4 people on the planet who could provide the demanded skill-set the computer industry craved. They learned their skill long before the industry demanded it. We know that in the not-too-distant future, demand for DCEBrief.com will be immense, and it can be set up as a market leader, that further works with the legitimate DNotes network which will compound traffic both ways when either one attracts new stakeholders. This is no different to CRISPS and Cryptomoms.com; the pilot is released long before the 'critical-mass' tipping point is reached. Great post TeeGee, you have excellent insight. A year ago it may have been difficult to see where DNotes is headed and how far it will go, the answer today should be fairly evident. |
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Hey,Hey! Just to say that i am still following you guys and i am glad that you are all well, trying to catch you,still holding and never gonna sell my Dnotes.They are all in vault on my and my friends kids acounts Saw Silicon Dragon on youtube,Mr.Alan is my favorite guy from cryptoscene.Full respect! TC Best regards Nele Thanks Nele, glad to see you again and good to hear you are still following the thread! |
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Great work cojack, I'm really impressed with what you've done for version 2. I'd like to thank Wiser for the excellent content she submitted to DNotes Educational Guide. Contributions like this will ensure that the next generation of Digital Currency users can be educated more efficiently than we were by the first cryptocurrencies. I'd also like to thank everyone who downloaded the app and left such positive reviews, DNotes Educational Guide can't be a success without support of people like you. Quote from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1094490.msg11878328#msg11878328Looks great guys, love the design and new content updates. It is truly becoming an all in one tool to get started. |
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Great work cojack, I'm really impressed with what you've done for version 2. I'd like to thank Wiser for the excellent content she submitted to DNotes Educational Guide. Contributions like this will ensure that the next generation of Digital Currency users can be educated more efficiently than we were by the first cryptocurrencies. I'd also like to thank everyone who downloaded the app and left such positive reviews, DNotes Educational Guide can't be a success without support of people like you. Looks great guys, love the design and new content updates. It is truly becoming an all in one tool to get started. |
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maybe can add a traders list, to buy p2p some cryptos , and some good quality exchanges Mining tech the scroll line with crypto prices, competece its healty i like to see DNotes, BTC, LTC, BTS, XMR, DSH  Thanks infovortice! How does everyone feel about adding a mining category? Will it help draw in more traffic or will it negate from the primary objective? |
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Potential Upgrades:
-Advertising/banner section.
-Mobile App to receive new stories on your phone.
-Newsletter for new stories posted.
-Widget for important/sticky stories.
-Social media integration to make it easy to like/share.
-Section for submitting news or tips.
-A regulation map, showing current rules and regulations for each state.
Community Questions:
-Do we want a category specifically for bitcoin?
My thoughts: Having a category specifically for bitcoin may add a sense of legitimacy to the site, as we have a category specifically for DNotes.
-Do we add a legal category or change regulation to Legal?
My thoughts: Legal may give us a little more flexibility in the type of articel listed in this category. I'm just not sure if that is what we want.
-Do we want a price feed?
My thoughts are yes, the only reason I can think of that we wouldn't is to prevent clutter.
Which coins should we do?
Bitcoin and DNotes only or expand?
Mini-graph like coindesk?
xx day average vs current price? Or can you think of a more meaningful expression?
General Todo:
-Have Alan update his profile.
-Privacy Policy
-About page
-Work on logo
Other ideas:
-Reward/award structure for authors and journalists to submit content (Chase is working on an idea)
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DCEBrief.com is up for feedback on the design.
It will prompt you for a login, enter daylily for the username and daylily for the password (it will prompt you to login twice).
Nothing is finalized, please feel free to comment on any aspect of the site. Whether you love it, hate it, or its just ok, I want to hear your comments.
Also, the content was just thrown in. The executive briefs were quickly written for demonstration purposes.
The executive brief for each story will be on the homepage, or category specific page (Business, Finance, Technology, Regulation, DNotes). So if you only wish to read the executive briefs, you wont have to click any further. If you wish to read more, you can click into the story, at the top you will be provided with the executive brief, and below will be the full story. Do you feel this is the best solution?
Also, the categorization of content may be a little tricky. I'm guessing we don't want to say "politicians click here" or "investors click here", to direct them the appropriate content. Is categorizing them as Business, Finance, Technology, Regulation, DNotes, the best solution?
The logo up there doesn't look bad, but it is essentially just a placeholder. I know some of you liked Mochilles logo's, once I get the source files I will tweak them and provide screen shots for everyone to decide.
Outstanding!! Very nice contemporary design, professional and easy to read and navigate. Love the layout! Good color choices.. NICE work! Thanks RJF! Glad you like it. |
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