happy block halving, lol  

I think visualizations are the easiest part to achieve, they are my specialty after all.

So you can expect a certain amount of visualization capabilites to come with the spreadcoin-wallet.

But the raw data will always be available and people can do whatever they want with it.

People might come up with visualization techniques we can't even think of, so it's important to let them play with the data themselves.

All good questions.

First we need the raw data (which is just altcoin blockchain data and altcoin peerdata in the first step), and a basic rewarding scheme for the servicenodes.

Once that is working, we can start contemplating about additional streams of data we want to tap into (network streams? why do we need them? The data will be insanely gigantic. What do we do with it? Check for blockchain anomalies? keeping track of temporary forks? recognizing double spend attempts? etc etc)

Whatever we do needs to be cryptographically secured (so that people trust the consistency and validity of this servicenode data), or else what's the point. But that's what makes it hard.


For the future I was thinking about some sort of node-based-programming interface within the wallet, which will give people freedom to construct and order their specific "analysis code" they want to run on the servicenode network. (depending on the complexity this will require the payment of a fee)

What would customers want to do with it?

It could serve as an Alert-Service (servicenodes watch out for some specific event and alert you when it's happening)
or a Historical-Data-Service (give back the last 10 weeks of network stream data in compressed format, etc..)

... or other services.

Too early to tell, but that's the general direction I want to go with it.

based on priority and depending on breakthroughs as they happen (or not):

1) new wallets (core)
2) servicenodes
3) openCL, CUDA miner

I'm fluctuating between those 3.

Yep, that's my second favorite word, right after FREEDOM!

BTW, here's some wisdom that popped into my mind while thinking about decentralization:

I like how diverse everybody's opinions about the brexit are.

I will give my own another time, right now I'm too occupied with coding. 

Meh, I predict that the halving will be an absolute no-event. Like a fart in the wind.

I wonder though what your opinion on brexit is? How do you see it.

Yes, still working on it, nothing has changed.

Stay tuned.

It's a clash of ideologies.
On the one side the authoritarians who are ok with unelected people ruling over them,
on the other side people who say we can't have this, and that we should return to plain democracy within a nation state ONLY! (to atleast have the semblance of democratic control through the voting process within a nation state)

For me personally it's simply a question of centralization vs decentralization.
And the EU is the ugliest monster of centralization there is.

So I am looking forward to more of this:

Grexit
Departugal
Italeave
Oustria
Finish
Latervia
Byegium
etc.

No matter the short time consequences. (divorce is painful only in the short term)

Congratulations to the brits for the BREXIT Vote!

Decentralize everything!  

Servers are back again. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Sorry, servers (forum and website) are down for a few hours. Will get back to you.

In parallel.

If you have something to say to your fellow Spreaders just say it here and publicly. (or use our forum)

No need for slacky backrooms...  

(I haven't been active on Slack in a long time, it's too much of a distraction, and everything discussed there can't be publicly referenced, so this is a problem.)

I guess it's a question of how much you want to invest.
And furthermore, do you have a spare Motherboard with CPU etc lying around....?
I wouldn't recommend doing those experiments with your main computer.

Absolutely, I basically only buy used GPUs at this time.

Currently I try to buy as many different (OpenCL or CUDA enabled) GPUs as possible to cover all the different architectures that NVidia and AMD introduced during the last few years.

for AMD this means:

• TeraScale
• Graphics Core Next

And for NVidia:

• Tesla
• Fermi
• Kepler
• Maxwell
• Pascal

But I'm currently not interesting in buying the most efficient and powerful GPU, I just want to study the different architectures and how you would optimize code for it.

I go with the cheapest and oldest first, make it work, study it, and then buy the next highest model.
So this will take a while for me to work through them.

Nice! What GPU are you going to use?

It should work automatically, so I think the bug might be in your wallet or something happened during the mining process.

Let's narrow it down:

1) what software did you use for mining?
2) did you mine to the same SPR address always? Or every block its own address?

Only works with daemon:

spreadcoind -reindex

If this fails I suggest you erase all blockchain data (except ofcourse your wallet.dat and conf file) and let your wallet create a chain from scratch.

reindex.

If the error persists I would download a fresh blockchain.

Does your imported SPR address show up in your list at all?
You have to first check if the key import worked correctly, and then check if the balance is right.