Not sure about that, the interest rates for stake in NoVaCoin are the best since PirateAt40, though doubtless once the oligarchs have multipled their stakes that way it will be going down again so the unwashed masses won't be able to catch up. Centrally planned centrally controlled money / interest-rates at their best! Fans of the Fed should love it! Provided they are in the Old Boy's Club, of course.

-MarkM-

Merged mined SHA256 coins all need the same thing as a basis that they all have in common: a copy of bitcoin with the merged mining as a secondary chain patches applied.

maybe possibly NaMeCoin might be too different from bitcoin to base on that, but all the others, even DeVCoin, can update relatively simply, the kind of cut and paste / search and replace hacks the spamcoin makers do to make each day's daily dose of new spamcoins.

So basically they have all been waiting for "mergecoin", https://github.com/knotwork/Mergecoin which is simply the latest bitcoin with the merged mining as a secondary chain patches applied.

unfortunately those patchs do not apply cleanly to recent bitcoin versions, plus when i was part-way through applying them bitcoin itself updated again in response to some threat or security hole or whatever, so now the bitcoin it is based on is itself already out of date.

The patches I manually managed to get to apply were the easy ones though. It won't be much to re-apply those to an even newer copy of bitcoin.

Where the process has stalled so far is where the change to leveldb instead of Berkeley DB took place and i don't know what past that as I was looking at the rejected chunks one at a time.

i have only worked with much older versions of Bitcoin before so someone more familiar with recent versions can probably apply those parts much easier than I could, plus I have backlogged way too many things to be able to get back to that for qutie a while.

But once it is done, any scamcoin cut and paste kidde can update all the merged-mined coins from that, incuding updating all the Bitcoin clones such as Bytecoin and Terracoin into merged mined coins by similarly cloning them from it.

-MarkM-

Thats not true, it is worth like wow hundreds or thousands of transactions on the Ripple network.

I wonder if you get as many transactions for a Ripple as you get pixels on a stamp when you buy a postage stamp.

Or have they started lowering the number of transactions you get for a Ripple?

-MarkM-

Well think about lazguns and shields, as in Dune, especially the later Dune books by his son and a collaborator in which we get the story of the mathematician whose maths led to that stuff.

If you like to manipulate/disintegrate things using harmonics, mightn't primes be more resistant to more higher-frequency harmonics than other numbers?

In fact don't primes have no higher-frequency harmonics (well, except the integer "one") if the universe/substrate is quantised aka fundamentally integer?

Maybe primes will be involved in that ten thousand years ahead future development...

-MarkM-

You thinkwhateveroshi will ban you from his thread if you keep buying up IXCoins increasing their exchange rate?

Or you think he'll ban you if you try to make IXCoin look even more batshit crazy than whatever it was those occupy people tried to put out?

-MarkM-

Well have fun mining XRP. How many asskisses does your rig put out, anyway? Or are you using a sockpuppet engine to mine them?

-MarkM-

A thorn by any other name is still a thorn.

Same megalomaniac same game plan, only superficial cosmetics change.

-MarkM-

Thats not an exchange, thats a dump, the very best kind of dump: one in which no-one gets dumped on!

-MarkM-

Banned? What the fuck are you on about? Banned from where or what?

-MarkM-

None of that creates any need for yet another blockchain.

if you can make a coin you own lots of go way up in value then you can prove that with IXCoin, of which you have claimed to own one percent.

There is your coin that you have one percent of: IXCoin. Now go do your praying or magic or whatever to make IXCoin worth more so your one percent is worth more.

You have less than one percent of Nuggets so why are you wasting your time money effort energy etc on Nuggets, apply yourself to IXCoin

-MarkM-

There isn't enough data storage on earth, maybe not in the entire universe, to remember all primes, so finding new ones surely has to involve forgetting old ones at some point.

Primecoin though isn't looking for primes, it is looking some some fancy pattern/sequence of primes, I dunno though whether they too are so numerous we won't be able to remember them all.

Though if we only need remember on the blockchain those we found for the blockchain that isn't a problem for us; and maybe only bothering to remember some rare sequences is going to let science actually remember what is found instead of trying to find stuff it is only going to have to forget at some point when it runs out of memory/storage...

-MarkM-

For starters it is not solid, it rests entirely upon the whims of one egomaniac/megalomaniac own-everything dictator.

Might as well stick with Bernanke or whoever.

-MarkM-

By the way it looks like who-ever controls the github repo has mined the whole chain over again so that their new code's bonus blocks, that start immediately after block 250, are not found to be in error when someone starts up a new node and starts getting the blockchain.

Presumably they have been getting all the bonus blocks from block 251 through block 1805 so far, and are throwing enough hashes at it that my puny 255 kilohashes can only get orphans.

-MarkM-

Huh? I was meaning Ripple, not blockchain based currencies.

The vendors will want whatever currency they want, the point is they don't care whether the end user of what they sell is shipping gold or mowing lawns or sending bits and bytes on blockchains or giving out IOUs to friends so long as they the vendor get the currency they themselves want and whatever exchange procedures the payment processor uses to turn the gold or lawn-mowing or bits and bytes on blockchains into what the vendor actually wants don't cause the vendor to look to everyone to whom his own favourite currency isn't their native currency as being an overpriced vendor, charging way too much gold or way too many hours of lanw-mowing or way too many whatevercoins on whatever blockchain for his goods or services.

i doubt a vendor is going to say "I don't want a payment processor that can sell my stuff even to people who don't have any of my own local legal tender", on the contrary it seems reaonable to me they will prefer their payment processor to be able to turn as wide a variety of stuff as possible into the kind of money the vendor wants.

-MarkM-

You and this coin are the problem standing in the way of progress. This coin is not progress. Progress for this coin is not progress. Progress would be putting this crazy get rich quick scheme behind you and buckling down to the real work of enhancing the common weal/wealth of the community: improving the security of its blockchains, improving and increasing the number of services serving those blockchains, refraining from making blockchains look like pyramid schemes, ponzis and tulip manias, there is much that could be done in the way of progress, all these hours so many people are spending trying to help you could have been spent on gosh knows what projects that would be actual progress, but you keep ranting on and on about god's own ponzi pyramid of which you are his chosen maniac...

-MarkM-

Actually you seem, rather, to be saying that because you are late everyone else should give all they've got to make you rich.

The whole community should divert their security forces (hashing machines) from securing the common weal/wealth so that you can get rich obscenely fast compared to all the honest hard-working joes around you who are bucking down to the actual work of increasing the security and value of the community's common weal/wealth.

Sorry but those common joes maybe deserve it more than you do. They put their all into Tenebrix, some of them moved on to Fairbrix leaving those who stuck with Tenebrix holding the Tenebrix bag, then some of those abandoned that to move on to Litecoin, then I suppose too that BBQcoin was an attempt to leave Litecoin joes holding the Litecoin bag, and on it goes.

The honest joes who put in the work and electricity and hashing power to try to secure Tenebrix, Fairbrix, Litecoin and now also even BBQcoin, how many of them are the small miners you claim you want so much to help? Running off on yet another get rich quick quest every day doesn't really help them, often they end up holding the bag...

-MarkM-

Or here is another useful idea: get the ability to be "themed" added to more and more bitcoin clients, so that anyone who thinks a soccer mom theme or a catholic theme or a 200 years ago gold miner theme or whatever will increase adoption or be popular or whatever can theme a reasonably secure chain, a reasonably valuable currency, to target their target audience instead of scamming their target audience with a house-of-cards ridiculously insecure pyramid scheme / ponzi / tulip-mania scam?

Luke might be a loony religious nut about his Tonal Bitcoin but it is as secure as Bitcoin and maintains a stable exchange rate vs Bitcoin, imagine how awesome Soccercoin or Catholiccoin or whatever would be if they were worth exactly as much as Bitcoin and were exactly as secure as Bitcoin and didn't even need an exchange in order to be used to pay people who want Bitcoin or Soccercoin or Catholiccoin or whatever because they are all actually just different "themes", different "lingo", different views, onto the same underlying blockchain.

Like "bread", "dough", "greenbacks" etc etc, just different target audiences all referring to the same thing...

-MarkM-

There are only so many hashing machines out there, every one that goes chasing yet another new coin is that much less secure the money the community already has is.

Since we already cannot secure even just the first two or three scrypt based chains that we have, adding yet more scrypt based chains just makes the situation worse not better.

As it is the first two, Tenebrix and Fairbrix, are ridiculously insecure because a third one, Litecoin, came along and most of the miners of Tenebrix and Fairbrix seem to have jumped to that chain.

I am not even sure offhand what the fourth scrypt based chain was, but even after having seen that there was not enough hashing power to secure the three chains we already had, I am pretty sure the fourth scrypt chain did not add merged mining; if it has then that at least it would not cause even more burden upon the community.

In the SHA256 world, where it had already been seen that every bit of hashing diverted to secure Namecoin was that much less security for Bitcoin, the Namecoin dev implemented merged mining, allowing the community not only to secure the second SHA256 chain, Namecoin, without diverting hashing power from Bitcoin but also to even manage to at least partially secure, albeit to a not really all that satisfactory degree, another chain or few.

Even with merged mining though, even just Namecoin is still not really all that secure compared to Bitcoin, and both Ixcoin and Devcoin are even less secure than Namecoin.

So far only one scrypt chain that I know of has even tried to implement merged mining, as the whole basis of the recent spawning of scrypt clones and spinoffs seems to be to deliberately force anyone who wants to support them to withdraw support from the community's existing chains, whether by diverting GPUs from the SHA256 chains (which, originally, was far from the intention of the first of the scrypt coins) or by diverting hashing from existing scrypt coins. To this day one still cannot merged mine Tenebrix and Fairbrix and Litecoin, for example.

The security problem gets worse and worse as more and more chains are spawned that cannot be merged mined.

So all your "giving the shirt off your back" stuff pretty much just comes across as you are so determined to weaken the community's security that you will give your favourite truck and your favourite jacket in return for what you imagine will be a really great attempt at undermining the community's security even farther than it has already been undermined.

How about offering your truck and/or your jacket to anyone who will implement merged mining of Tenebrix, Fairbrix and Litecoin, the original scrypt coins, so that all the others can optionally also upgrade to being able to participate in such merges, so that at least if someone else does spawn yet another scamcoin they need not force its miners to undermine the security of the community's wealth in order to help them pull off their get rich quick scheme?

-MarkM-

The not walking away leaving the people in the lurch / holding the bag part is very hard to believe of all these recent politicians (lets be honest, politician is a much more accurate word than developer for people who cannot even do search and replace or cut and paste)  who right in front of our eyes start out with the very first step of their journey being to walk away and leave everyone in the lurch / holding the bag.

For example all the coders and sysadmins and such who are left to do all the actual work of maintaining and updating and debugging and keeping running smoothly the coins the community already has, more and more of which were already foisted off on the community by exactly that same type of politician.

Their first step always seems to be 'screw the community, screw everyone's hard work they have already put in, what is needed here is to trash all that crap and pump out yet another brand new - my brand, of course, that is - steaming pile of shit, because doing the actual work of making things work is the job of lesser beings, me I am a head honcho, a bigwig politician. Keeping things running, cleaning up the messes my predecessors already stuck the community with, all that crap is janitor stuff. Me I am much too important for that kind of crap, my crap involves crapping whole new steaming piles of crap all over you, heck if you really get into the stench of my crap you won't even notice or care anymore about my predecessors crap...'

Yeah I think politician is a much better word than dev or developer for those types...

How about showing how much you care about the community by helping it secure at least a few blockchains, instead of spewing out yet more blockchains while we still haven't managed to secure the ones we already have?

How about showing how much you care by working on or offering bounties for fixes and improvements to what the commnity already has spent years investing into instead of trying to make it all look like an endless sequence of scams?

Gosh if I keep thinking along these lines I could easily imagine acquiring a distaste for politicians...

-MarkM-

Why should anyone read your posts if you are not going to read theirs? This is a forum, not a one-way broadcast feed.

-MarkM-