It never died

Nevertheless, my pool is running without issue and I will continue support of Coin throughout the remainder of its lifecycle. I may take over development if necessary, I've had to take over as the Birdcoin dev as well. I am willing to expand the scope of my services if there's any interest.

I need you guys to let all these faucet services and exchanges know about the update coming, and I still haven't heard from anyone on what we're gonna do about the block rate.

I may need some brave volunteers to do some testing when I get my beta version running. I am not only modifying the most recent version of Doge's codebase but I am going to work on the old Birdcoin codebase as well and whichever one is easiest to finish is going to be the one released. If I end up just repairing the old Bird code, there's likely going to be so much changed that it'll still require hardfork anyway.

Have you tested it out well? Birdcoin's addresses are kind of messed up and don't some types of verification methods, specifically those used in a few node.js apps.

It's going to go higher than that, once I release the new wallets. I think I've nearly got my setup right to do Mac builds as well. I'd like to be able to release the entire set of wallets at the same time.

Just letting you guys know the project is just now barely getting started so it will be a few days until its ready, and I'll leave a safe amount of time after release for the actual deadline to upgrade so everyone has a chance. It will be a hardfork so it's very important that you guys are upgraded when the hardfork block hits. I was thinking of possibly going with DGW but I think even KGW would be fine with sane settings. Problem is, though, we've never seen a diff of more than 1, so I don't really think our current diff adjusts well at all. I can't remember the numbers off the top of my head either, but I think we're coming up on another halving before too awful long, all the big fat blocks have mostly been pissed away by some of us (me), I'm going to crunch some numbers but it doesn't take much thinking to know that we've been chewing blocks up MUCH faster than intended. The pool is reporting 56 sec avg block time, but I was watching the shares, we got 8 blocks in 1 minute earlier. I need everyone's input, and quickly because I'm about to be in the middle of the project, but if we don't either raise the max coin amount, or slow down the block generation(preferable), we're going to run out, and I don't think Bird has a perpetual low payout end of life block reward.. Don't quote me I'll have to double check.. But I don't want to go making big changes without the input of the community.

The hashrates have jumped big time today, and as a result, my pool rolled over and died, several times. Getting 8 blocks in 1 minute with thousands and thousands of out-of-order low diff shares does that. I've switched the backend Stratum over to NOMP (node-open-mining-pool), their stratum implementation is 10000 times better than the old python-stratum-mining (sorry ahmed!), and the blocknotify script is actually a C binary so it's a damn sight faster, no signs of problems since I fired it all up. Vardiff is running on 3333 as usual, but check the news, we have other fixed-diff ports open for use, in case you have grouchy miners. That's the thing I really love about NOMP, very customizable to meet everyone's usage situation. Please let me know if your hashrates are off, I've gotten vardiff dialed in as best as I can with my mining rig but can always use other input. As always I'm just an email away, so contact me if you need anything! Please, though, give me input quick on what should be done about the coin generation.. I'd be hesitant to just "make moar coins", I'd rather slow down the blockchain, as I think that would add more value in the long run anyway. We can still toss around the PoS topic later on too, its do-able and never too late. Might be something to think about if the coins are determined to run out sooner rather than later! Please, PM me if you have input on that because its hectic around here, I have 1000 tabs open and tons of consoles, so yeah..

See you guys later!


PS. I thought I had sent this.. new replies while I was typing....

Anyway, we just had ANOTHER cron shutdown and stuck payment because of the max blocksize shrinking. I (HOPE) I have a quick and dirty hack to stop it while we wait out the new wallet, I will (DO MY BEST) to get it in first thing tomorrow. If you get a missing payment, don't panic. Just message me and let me know the amount, if I don't respond right away I'm in bed and I'll take care of it as soon as I'm up. I check the pools before I even light my first cigarette of the day, lol. Its easy to spot because you won't have a TXID. The max blocksize is getting progressively smaller. sucks.

Gotcha, I'll have it changed in a sec

Haha, thanks
I normally try to avoid smarting off to people and ignore trolls, but his comment caught me right when I was really ticked off, so I had to. Among my numerous projects, I'm turning my main mining rig into a miner/dev box/Mac VM, starting to think I could have saved myself a lot of frustration by NOT using PiMP 1.42 as my starting point, damn thing is broken in so many ways, at least they're getting paid well for it! XD

Jumping into Carbon yesterday was unplanned and unexpected, but definitely caught my interest instantly. Out of the billion things I'm doing the last couple of months, I just hadn't made any time for replacing my dead TeslaX3 pool, so I definitely appreciate Oldminer lighting a fire under me.

It's definitely not easy keeping up with everything, but when I set out to get into the *Coin business "for real", the goal that I set above all others is to take care of my users and customers. You guys probably know me well enough by now to know I don't work in a big fancy office or have a development team or a board of investors, I'm just a lonely 30-something a few months out of a relationship that nearly ended me, lol. I love money as much as the next guy, but if I was in it totally for the money, I'd be doing nothing but launching pools all day every day (like some pool ops I've seen around), ending up with a hundred pools in various states of disrepair and disappointed users everywhere spreading the word. Screw that. I'm prone to screw up every now and then like anyone else but above all I try to put the miners first and stay as transparent as possible about what's happening behind the scenes. It's a formula that has been working pretty damn well these past 5 months. I'm always willing to lend a hand in any way possible, I'm only an email away!

Somewhere on my giant list of stuff to do is stop being lazy and build my "homepage", basically an index of all my pools, games, and services, as well as a support forum and a blog and RSS feed. Things have gotten so bad lately that its hard to make progress simply because I'm bouncing back and forth between, literally, 30-40 tabs of Github pages and 10 ssh sessions, I can't focus on one thing, its a million things at once. But, most of it is for you guys, before long I'll hopefully be announcing a few more interesting ways to entertain you (and a few of your coins :b).

I want everyone's input on if the Carbon crowd would be interested in some gaming apps.. It has occurred to me that gambling apps may not really fit in with the overall theme and vision of CarbonCoin, but it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, but I'd rather have everyone's opinion on it before doing anything. I have one gaming platform that's ready to go, called Coin-Chance, its a Hi/Lo game that's driven 100% by user investments and when PoS comes would be an excellent way to earn extra coins while the interest builds up. The development on it is pretty much in its final stage, I've worked with the developer quite a bit on Github and privately for a few months getting all the kinks worked out, it won't eat your coins, that's for sure. I have a few other things that I've been poking around at but haven't done anything publicly with yet, including a slot machine, a kinda glitchy SatoshiButtons ripoff game (still taking node.js lessons, I'll eventually be able to un-spaghetti it), and working on some other apps and games of my own. I'm praying RunRev's kickstarter campaign to bring their LiveCode engine to HTML5 succeeds, its the one language I do know inside out, once they port their runtime to run in a browser, the possibilities are endless, plus it takes probably 1/4 the time it'd take to do the same thing in node.js.

@Oldminer, I checked out that video. I've been a techno geek since before I was out of diapers but solar freakin roads? Hell naw, I'd build a solar frickin skyscraper with l.e.d's and frickin "laser beams". A few weeks back there was a big discussion on 4Chan's tech board about it and the general consensus is that it is one of the best inventions ever (along with beer, boobs, and the internet) but it was hard to get an idea of its real-world practicality without having them right outside to test out. When I have a bit more free time I want to see if I can get some hard data on its output, the composition of and construction techniques of the solar substrate and the glass. I couldn't really give you any numbers on it off the top of my head, but seems to me like the overhead energy requirements to power a bank of LED's (depending on quantity and type), heating element, plus a microcontroller and board running them, the pressure switch and charge circuit/voltage regulator, wouldn't allow the entire system to generate much of an energy output beyond supporting itself. Looking at the video, it looks like it requires a great deal of wiring and control hardware underneath, especially the way they were talking about lighting up the roadway in all kinds of ways, like when an animal steps on it. Would need some pretty robust processing and signaling hardware. I gotta do some more research now! I'll definitely be extremely impressed if the panels can perform the way they talk about in the video, feed at least some power back into the grid (or someone's house), and stay lit longer than a couple hours after dark. The programmable and pressure triggered lighting effects sound feasible enough to do given the right techniques but I'm not so sure about the heating element. Most methods of increasing temperature with electricity are horribly power thirsty. I remember my dad buying 50 bucks worth of 9-volt batteries for our electric socks on one hunting trip, didn't last but a few hours total. I'd surely cover as many walkways as possible with the things, not so sure about roadways. No matter how tough that glass is, enough semi trucks at 80mph will destroy it, quickly. I love the shape of them but I'd like to see triangular ones too, tesselated like they do the cheese at subway!

Ok, I better go for now, lol.. I've been writing this post on and off for like 8 hours and it's time to go get something to eat, then back to the drawing board. Let me know what you guys think of any of my crazy/stupid/awesome ideas and feel free to give me some of your own!

Oh, also, about the pool, I'll probably lower the TXfee a bit, but for the block rewards atm, 100 isn't a bad withdrawal fee. I'll do some test transactions later on and see what the wallet's charging. I'll have a look at the src at some point. I honestly hate charging anything at all for mining because I love what I do, but I've gotta keep the servers on, the internet bill paid, and cheezburgers in muh belly.

Like I said in a previous post, when I saw oldminer's message asking for help, I jumped in without knowing anything about CARB. I sometimes make mistakes, yeah, I screwed up because I forgot to set confirms back to 120, there used to be a different coin running on that particular MPOS installation.

For a "noob" I certainly provide better support than most pools, so your insult is invalid.

Bear with me a bit while I fix the payouts. I'm going to pump all my earnings back into the pool's wallet so it's not "locked for users". For some reason, even using the getbalance with unconfirmed method still makes the pool think we're running a negative balance because the getbalance method is a little screwy. Once we build up fees and I put my earnings back into the wallet it'll stop doing that.

Scratch what I just said. I had confirmations still set to the old pool's settings, big oops. Can anyone tell me 100% for sure the amount of confirmations required for mined blocks and for transactions?

I wasn't 100% sure about getting my stratum set up the way it is but it's working great so far. Its inserting my shares like it is supposed to and not spitting out any errors, so we're officially open for business. Please PM me or use the contact form if you experience any difficulties. Right now, since I'm not sure on the block payouts and the fine details, TXFee has been set to 100 to avoid any mishaps, I'll lower it once I get an idea of what I'm working with. When Oldminer contacted me I just kinda jumped blindly into it as I take it seriously when people ask me for help, so I'll be filling myself in on the other details on CarbonCoin as I go along. I'm working on several different coin related projects atm, so I stay pretty busy and usually miss out on a lot of forum posts. If there's anything important coming up, would someone please notify me? I would definitely appreciate it. I'm working with several gambling-related things so I do have the capability of deploying games for CarbonCoin, if there's interest...

Let me know!

Happy mining!

PS- forgot to enable cronjobs.. fixed. Just need a few tweaks here and there.

Also, need some addnodes if anyone's got em, only running on 3 connections, a bit uncomfortable.
Thanks

The site is live! - Here's a snippet of my stratum port config. 3333 is Vardiff 16-1024, the others are fixed-diff ports. I encourage you to use them if you're seeing lots of fluctuation or high amounts of rejects. As we pick up some hashrate I'll be fine-tuning it a bit. We use node-open-mining-pool as the stratum module, MPOS for the frontend, in case anyone was wondering. It's a match made by the gods of github!

"ports": {
        "3435": {
            "diff": 16
        },
        "3333": {
            "diff": 16,
            "varDiff": {
                "minDiff": 16,
                "maxDiff": 1024,
                "targetTime": 15,
                "retargetTime": 120,
                "variancePercent": 30
                }
            },
            "3437": {
                "diff": 512
            },
            "3440": {
                "diff": 4096
            },
            "3438": {
                "diff": 1024
            },
            "3439": {
                "diff": 2048
            },
            "3441": {
                "diff": 1536
            },
            "3436": {
                "diff": 256

Oldminer got me a message letting me know another pool is needed, quick, so I'm here to the rescue. I was in the market for another pool, so this is a perfect opportunity.

Expect http://carbon.fedaykin.us up in a little while today! Port 3333 will be vardiff, and I'll add some other fixed-diff ports as well, I'll post those in the information.

Pool fee will start at 0.5%, may go up to 1% after a while. I really try to keep it low, but running them out of my own pocket most of the time as well as developing on the side!

I'll also be doing semi-regular giveaways! Keep your eyes peeled. I will post back when we're ready to roll.

Hey guys, I've tried to give the last few pages a quick skim over but I'll definitely have to read back up tomorrow. It's getting hard to keep up with the thread, moving quick! I'm sure I've missed out on some stuff but I try to stay current-ish! I saw the word hardfork a few pages back and had to do a double take and make sure I didn't miss an update. I sure would be mad at myself. It's 5:20AM and I'm just about to turn in for the... morning... so I'm a little rough around the edges. I try to give semi-regular updates on the goings-on on my end here, no bad news, at least! I've been talking quite a bit about getting my multipool up and running, but after lots, and I do mean lots of poking and prodding, testing things, writing a whole bunch of API stuff, driving myself nearly nuts, I'm just not happy with what I'm coming up with. There are, however, certain projects underway that I think are going to fit in much nicer with my overall vision of things (and my overall budget and development abilities, being a solo operation and all :b), so I think I'm just going to hold onto the happy thought "if you build it, they will come", and keep this thing on the back burner a bit whilst waiting for some other projects to take shape. Meanwhile, there's a great deal of other stuff going on behind the scenes, lots of tweaks and some security enhancements to all my servers, and tons of little projects I've picked up here and there that I've been playing with on my test server. Some of the guys were chatting in octo-chance the other day about wanting a slot machine. I just might actually have one soon! Much of the code I've been messing around with is Node.js (which is still new to me), so I've been trying to educate myself as quickly as possible, mostly through trial and error and breaking things in my test server, but I'm finally at a point where I've gotten my head around it so there should be some new toys for ya'll in the near future. One thing I'm very excited about is the LiveCode to HTML5 Kickstarter campaign, basically taking LiveCode and porting its runtime to Javascript so that any existing LiveCode app can run directly in the browser, its going to enable me to do all sorts of things I would've found too costly or time-consuming to do before, and if you're guessing that it has extremely serious implications for the future of my multipool plans or my love of setting up games for you to play, you'd be -mostly- right!

The pool has been chugging along pretty well lately. I don't watch the overall net hashrate too closely alot of the time, but we usually are running a decent chunk of the overall net hashrate some of the time so that's great! I haven't had any reports of anyone's payouts or shares getting eaten lately, which is good. Has anyone noticed improvements since I switched over the stratum to node? I'm running it on 2 pools and it seems to be working awesome for me. As always, I'm open to any suggestions or criticism, so fire away!

I'm finding there's been a strange pattern to the way things have been getting done lately. If I tell myself I'm going to get this, that, and the other thing done tonight, it doesn't get done. I get distracted and end up reading a CloudFlare blog or watching weird movies. If I decide I'm going to watch a movie or maybe play something tonight, I get distracted and get a ton of work done. What's up with that?

I need to remember to order some of that jerky, darn it, but its gotten me to thinking about a couple of batches I made about a year ago. Maybe I'll make a batch of mine someday soon. Its mostly crushed bhut jolokia, garlic, and marinade. And yes, you'll experience gastric distress, but if you love spicy stuff, pure ecstasy as well.

Anyway, I'm going to turn in. I can barely sleep without tylenol-PM, but the benadryl hangover tomorrow always sucks.


Good night!

Ok guys, within the next couple of days, I guess I'm going to try to get started on a complete overhaul of Birdcoin. The wallet is getting more and more broken, refusing to run transactions over 7m now. Rather than find the reason why, I'm just going to attempt updating it to the most recent Dogecoin codebase and see what happens. There's likely going to be some tweaking done on KGW as well, so when its all said and done, there's most likely going to be a hardfork.

I just hate to sit back and do nothing while Bird self-destructs.

Any donations toward beer programming fuel would be much appreciated

Sorry about that guys. I thought I'd mentioned the TX fees before. Maybe I didn't?  I'm getting ready to lower it back down because that is kinda high. I do recommend setting your autopayouts a bit higher, anyway, to avoid having to pay TX fees several times a day. I'm going to change TXfees to 2 in just a minute.

I'm always working on my pool, trying to make improvements here and there. Since the switch to NOMP's stratum implementation I believe people are much happier with their hashrates.

Octo-Chance has been updated to latest version, with a couple of bugfixes that were causing intermittent crashes as well as an issue where some addresses were improperly flagged as invalid.

Edit: Anyway, as for my other projects, I'm taking as much of a DIY approach as I can. Starting with exchange API's and working my way up, I'm working on an app right now to interface with a few exchanges, do trading, etc. Pretty heavy stuff but now that I'm really into it I am making steady (though slow) progress!

Ok, the time is near to do something about the malfunctioning wallet. I don't know why, but now the max transaction has lowered itself quite a bit where it was throwing an error trying to send a transaction for 7,150,xxx. Had to break that payment into 2 chunks to get it out to the user. This is obviously not good!

For now, I'm going to lower the max transaction on the bird chance game to 5m. I've gotta get started on a new wallet. This sucks.

Great idea! I'm gonna do that right now.Done!

Check it out! http://888.fedaykin.us

SOON!

Don't feel bad, neither do I.

Something tells me I shouldn't admit to that. :b

Very nice video! Short, sweet, entertaining, and very informative. Funny thing is at the end when it shows the thumbnails of other videos, there's a couple of em from CryptoMoneyExchange demonstrating mining on my pool!