Kind of silly to argue about whether or not this thread should be stickied. The mining pools thread used to sticky threads for the top 10 pools. I guess this is not much different. I guess the mods feel like this is an important thread to the Alternate cryptocurrencies subforum. And that's all there is to it. Since more than half of the cryptocurrencies is cloned from Litecoin, they can all benefit from us working on Litecoin... similar to how Litecoin benefits from all the hard work the Bitcoin devs have put in. So I guess what I'm trying to say is we should spend less time arguing for the sake of arguing... and just donate!  |
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Thanks to everyone for donating! I'm glad to see so much support for Litecoin.
We will definitely put the funds to good use.
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I've sold a bunch of coins to nightowlace. Good guy!
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I think bitcoinstore uses BitPay, so it won't be easy for them to accept litecoins until BitPay supports it. I just sent Roger Ver an email and pointing him to the thread. Let's see what he says. |
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Purpose: To generate funds to help pay for core development work. As you are probably familiar, the Litecoin-qt/litecoind client has not seen a release in some time. We are currently working on a new version of the software that will bring it current with the Bitcoin code base. We have a number of developers who are highly skilled and motivated to work on this project. Work has commenced to carefully review and convert patches against Bitcoin v0.6.3 to create a clean rebase upon v0.8.x. Once this is complete, we’ll need to do extensive testing and some additional documentation. After the client is modernized and the network is upgraded, we have exciting plans to further improve the Litecoin protocol. These operations take time and unfortunately a number of our developers must necessarily split time between paying projects (i.e. their day jobs) and this important work to better ensure the long-term safety and security of the Litecoin network. It is for this reason that we are requesting donations to help fund this development work. Funds will first be used to reimburse core infrastructure hosting expenses before being divided amongst the developers. LTC: LRNYxwQsHpm2A1VhawrJQti3nUkPN7vtq3BTC: 1KD5tt1p3mdZH8DDXeEwdsJNpiwUZCfzkFThank you, The Litecoin Development Team aspect coblee face pooler thrasher warren |
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I'm out of the 5btc coins.
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Why not do the same thing as how Litecoin was released?
I am new here. My stupid question is: "How was LiteCoin released?" "Is there any trick to prevent it from being cloned like crazy?" Here's the quote from the main litecoin thread: We have come up with a plan that we believe is most fair. Some previous coins were released without Windows binaries or without source code; we consider this as unfair as it is unsafe.
We released the source code and binaries ahead of time... 3 days before launch. People had time to compile the source and run the client on their machines against the Litecoin testnet. So people were able to make sure everything was working well before the launch. We also had a poll so that people can vote for a launch time that best suits them. At the time of the launch (Oct 12 03:00 GMT), we released the genesis hash and everyone started mining at the same time. All it took was a simple change in the config file in order to mine the real coin instead of the testnet coin.
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Edit: I can assure you that a non-botched release will happen when it does, though. I'll create the genesis block string and make binaries of the miner and qt wallet before release on an offline computer, then upload here encrypted with AES256 and a very long, strong password. Then after a few weeks has past and it's been well distributed, the password will be revealed and everyone can begin mining at the same time.
tacotime, good luck with the coin. sounds interesting. Maybe this was already suggested, but I didn't have time to read the whole thread. Why not do the same thing as how Litecoin was released? |
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Yes, Chainsaw paid first.
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I ordered a 1 BTC coin from hardbtc.org on May 17th. I received the coin in the mail on May 22, at a US address. They sent the coin to me unfunded, with a balance of 0 BTC as a security measure, to be funded by them later (apparently in case the coin was lost in the mail). I promptly emailed them to ask them to send the 1 BTC to the address on the coin, but they have yet to do so, almost 24 hours later.
Should I be concerned? I would not think it would take a day to send the BTC to the coin's address.
That seems strange. I thought all casascius coins are funded by Mike Caldwell. I don't think Mike is selling unfunded coins to reseller. He may ship them unfunded, but funds them after the coins are received. I guess it's possible that these coins were "lost" in shipment. |
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Would you be interested in selling just the 1BTC bill? I would prefer to sell them as sets of all 4 bills. |
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Any pictures of 5 BTC coins?
The 2nd and 3rd picture above is of the 5 btc coin. |
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Bump. See OP for new designs. I need more opinions.
Anyone? I am ready to enter production, I just need advice on the design please!! I like the design by Zinodaur. Put me down for a roll. |
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It would help increase the trust of litecoin tremendously (as well as the price) if Coblee put some real names on the litecoin.org site. Bitcoin.org has always had Gavin's name along with at least three other real dudes on the site from the beginning -- at least as far as 2 years ago. If Charles Lee is really Coblee, why doesn't he put his name on the site if he's already publicly known?
Yup, that's me. Thanks for the advice. I will look into putting real names up on the website. |
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Forum is back. Sorry for the down time.
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Forum is back. Sorry for the down time.
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The conference went really well. I was super nervous during the alt-chain panel. I need more practice talking in public. Good news is Litecoin was a surprisingly hot topic at the conference. When I first got to the conference, I was given a goody bag that contained a bitcoin and a litecoin gift wallet (See http://alittlebitofcoin.com) Every attendee got one. While walking around the conference, I keep overhearing people talking about litecoin and how they are mining it. On the first day, most people didn't know who I was, so I had fun listening in on these conversations without revealing myself. By the 2nd day (especially after the alt-chain panel), it seems like I can't walk 10 steps without someone coming up to me and saying "are you coblee?", "hey, you're the litecoin guy!", "hey, thanks a lot for creating litecoin!" That was an interesting experience. I've talked to a quite few bitcoin businesses that plan to support Litecoin very soon. And I've collected quite a few business cards, and plan to pester them about supporting Litecoin. So Litecoin is definitely getting some love from the Bitcoin community. |
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I've sold all my 25btc coins.
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have been GPU mining since the very early days.
BCX, you know better than to lie about this. |
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We are working on updating Litecoin to 0.8. We want to make sure that it's well tested before releasing. Please be patient. Thanks.
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