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3841  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency on: August 21, 2014, 03:47:14 AM
*passes Parker928 the bowl*
3842  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is PoS dead? on: August 21, 2014, 03:44:49 AM
Considering bitshares-x is up 100%, I'd say, "not yet", at least for the delegated variety.
3843  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Fury scrypt mining. Is there better software? on: August 21, 2014, 03:43:10 AM
running on bfgminer 4.6 here, nice and smooth
3844  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Vertcoin - First Scrypt N | First Stealth Address - Privacy without mixer on: August 21, 2014, 01:41:32 AM
Scrypt-n FPGAs supposedly in the wild: 
https://ltcgear.com/product/tricoin-pack/ 

Reviews on litecointalk:
https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=6401.1890
3845  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is PoS dead? on: August 20, 2014, 09:07:02 PM
btw, HF didn't start off being a scam, i can assure you.  there's a case to be made they didn't even end up being a scam.  they were incompetent's.

I feel like too often people ignore Hanlon's razor:
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Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
3846  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] MON | Monocle | Merge Mined on VTC Vertcoin - No Premine - Scrypt-N on: August 20, 2014, 08:47:45 PM
Someone clued me into Monocle and I was going to load up but when I tried to download the wallet Norton antivirus said it was infected and sent it to quarantine. I would like to buy some monocle but is there a clean wallet available? I'm not interested in "false positive" explanations. Is there a wallet that does not trip my antivirus?

If you're really that paranoid why not just run it in a VM? No stupid virus false positives in linux, and then you have it confined to virtual machine anyway.
3847  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Newegg offers a PS4 for $319.99 with Bitcoin (exclusive payment only) on: August 20, 2014, 02:14:06 PM
17% discount when comparing to Amazon. Didn't know the profit margin for retail store is this high.

I think this is what would be known as a loss leader.

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A loss leader (also leader) is a pricing strategy where a product is sold at a price below its market cost to stimulate other sales of more profitable goods or services. With this sales promotion—marketing strategy, a "leader" is used as a related term and can mean any popular article, i.e., one sold at a normal price.

quote from le wiki
3848  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Vertcoin - First Scrypt N | First Stealth Address - Privacy without mixer on: August 20, 2014, 01:58:12 PM
someone knows why explorer doesn't work? it stopped on 08.13

No, but I think there are several others that work, including this one which I guess is (quasi-)official:
https://explorer.vertcoin.org/

look at date is the same

ohyea, sorry. Looks like someone just posted on reddit about it, hopefully gets fixed quick. There are several others though:

http://cryptexplorer.com/chain/VertCoin
http://bitinfocharts.com/vertcoin/explorer/
http://vtc.sovereignshare.com/exp/

and probably more as well...
3849  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Vertcoin - First Scrypt N | First Stealth Address - Privacy without mixer on: August 20, 2014, 12:02:53 PM
someone knows why explorer doesn't work? it stopped on 08.13

No, but I think there are several others that work, including this one which I guess is (quasi-)official:
https://explorer.vertcoin.org/
3850  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][HUC] Huntercoin - decentralized game/crypto UPDATE 1.0.11f 17/08/2014 on: August 19, 2014, 03:38:22 PM
Why do it still load when I have downloaded the whole blockchain??  22 weeks left...

This is normal! There can not write, because here nobody until you doing!

Here you are no help!

As it is not sad, but it is a fact !!!

There is only one person is MithrilMan. Work, good! If you do not help, then help is no longer wait, no one will help!

wat
3851  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: rpietila Altcoin Observer on: August 18, 2014, 09:58:58 PM

That's exactly why an 80% drop now for LTC means a lot more than a 70% drop in BTC back in 2012. In 2012 when activity picked up again, it was almost entirely going back to BTC. Any increase in activity now won't be going back to LTC. There is simply no reason for that to happen. There are many more and better alternatives to LTC now.


OK, I see your point. I agree there are better alternatives, but I still feel like LTC has at least one more giant pump before (if) it dies a long slow death. There is just so much money invested in scrypt asics, and most of them haven't seen the light of day, that I think it will have another boom cycle (and an accompanying boom in the number of tx/day). But who knows...
3852  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: *LAUNCHED* [PLX]PARALLAXCOIN - World's First Merged Mineable Nscrypt Coin || on: August 18, 2014, 09:26:29 PM
I was able to download the wallet from a link a few posts above. Connected to the network, and just got my first payment from mining!
Still seems a little fishy that the coin's website isn't working. Their twitter account hasn't posted since May. But I believe they will be back soon.

Come join #parallaxcoin on freenode, you can bother dev yourself Cheesy
3853  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: rpietila Altcoin Observer on: August 18, 2014, 08:59:19 PM

Specifically compare:

BTC transactions since January (steady if not up): https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions

LTC transactions since January (dramatically down): http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-ltc.html


I think this may be a little misleading. If you look at both coins over their entire history, you can see they have similar ups and downs in terms of number of transactions per unit time.

No, I really don't see that, especially after enabling 7-day avg on the bitcoin chart. There is no comparison actually. BTC has a steady uptrend and LTC is all boom and bust with major drops offs. BTC rarely if ever drops 50+% while LTC drops 75% repeatedly, including the current drain spiral.


I disagree. In its first two years of existence, bitcoin had two major boom/bust cycles. From July 2011 to January 2012, btc went from over 14k tx/day to about 4.8k (a 65% drop), and from 57k tx/day in July 2012 back down to 17k tx/day at the end of 2012 (a 70% drop).

I do see that the boom bust cycles in ltc tx/day are a bit more pronounced - from 13k down to 2.5k tx/day (an 80% drop) and from 19.5k down to 4k (also about 80% drop) - but I think the amount of competition has to be taken into account as well. By the time litecoin was going into the boom bust cycles it had a lot more competition than btc at its same moment in history, so I think it makes sense that the swings would be a bit more dramatic.

I guess I just don't see a major difference between a 70% drop and an 80% drop, considering the circumstances of litecoin having more alternatives for people to move to (ftc, qrk, etc.) .
3854  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: rpietila Altcoin Observer on: August 18, 2014, 08:20:57 PM

Specifically compare:

BTC transactions since January (steady if not up): https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions

LTC transactions since January (dramatically down): http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-ltc.html


I think this may be a little misleading. If you look at both coins over their entire history, you can see they have similar ups and downs in terms of number of transactions per unit time.
3855  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: *LAUNCHED* [PLX]PARALLAXCOIN - World's First Merged Mineable Nscrypt Coin || on: August 18, 2014, 05:56:32 PM
What's the deal with this coin? I'm merge-mining in along with Vert, but I cant even figure out how to download the wallet. Website seems to be broken. Is this coin dead?

Dev just reappeared in #parallaxcoin a couple few weeks ago. I thought he said he was gonna fix all broken dl links. I'll bug him about it now...
3856  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Vertcoin - First Scrypt N | First Stealth Address - Privacy without mixer on: August 17, 2014, 02:05:02 PM
I need more money to buy more Vertcoin. It will rebound. Believe!

Newbie claiming for money to buy VTC? No collateral?
hahaha wait for it, guy  Wink

Good luck!

AlarcI might be newbie here, but he's active on reddit and IRC. He also runs the Vertcoin Athlete site here:
http://vertcoinathlete.com/
3857  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency on: August 16, 2014, 03:44:09 PM
Turkish hackers.....Let me check....Yep, that was the only thing this thread was missing.

Not just any Turkish hack people:

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RedHack is the first and only hacker group which is accused of being a terrorist organization[3] and is currently under the worlds most wanted 5 hacker groups[citation needed].

Don't really sound like the most terrible terrorists in the world though:

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2005: Hacking the international system of the Istanbul Police Department Traffic Services and erasing all fines.
3858  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Marketplace (Altcoins) / Re: bter hacked and lost 50m nxt on: August 16, 2014, 03:36:39 PM
It never occurred to me until this whole fiasco how "forging" can also have connotations of illicit activity, and not only refer to forging steel or something (which I think is the intended meaning). If all the forgers agree on a new fiction, then it shall be a reality, or something Tongue


How is it any different than "mining"?

How is it illicit activity?

Forging/forgery, like forging checks or other financial documents, is typically a felonious offense. Afaik there is no such illegal type connotations with mining (at least before the rise of botnets, but that is a stretch).
3859  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][HUC] Huntercoin - decentralized game/crypto UPDATE 1.0.11e 30/July/14 on: August 16, 2014, 03:31:28 PM
lol why are the hats gay? also, keep us posted on when there's a site to order on!
3860  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Execoin: | First Open-Source Stealth Wallet Released! | Fast | ASIC-proof on: August 16, 2014, 03:29:58 PM
So, I guess this is why Monocle was a good idea, hopefully things go much smoother when vert does hardfork to change algo. This fork has been a debacle. Why oh why didn't I dump my few thousand exe at 40k satoshi on last pump?
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