This sounds indeed groundbreaking!

No, the update I'm preparing will be a purely technical one.
Me talking to the community about dev work.
That's what people are waiting for, and that's what they will get.

But we can talk about your own individual concerns right here, publicly and anytime.

Don't use Slack for this. I literally spent 50 hours during January addressing your concerns on Slack. No more of this!  

So, what was your concern again?


I mean besides that?

Didn't we agree to research Big Data so we can find a methodology that respects both privacy and decentralization?
Why has there not been any activity in this area?

http://spreadcointalk.org/index.php?board=23.0

I thought by now we would be having a pretty heated discussion going on in this subforum. (as has happened in slack)
You know, dissecting the proposal piece by piece, addressing every issue, discussing legalities, concepts, problems, etc..

Why isn't this happening? How exactly is my dev work stopping you from continuing your research?



I mean, I created a well thought out roadmap:

http://spreadcointalk.org/index.php?topic=735.0

and definied a few research areas so that people who want to contribute can help in a more specific way:

http://www.spreadcoin.info/community.php

But still, you keep asking that question.

Anyway, I'll just have to improve this even further I guess.

Weekly dev podcast it is!

Vanitygen uses uncompressed addresses by default.

Spreadcoin uses compressed ones.

You can best study the structure of any coins addresses by using http://www.universalwalletgenerator.net/
(Set it up for SPR addresses)

haha, why, those are the bad guys!

Thank you, I certainly need to step it up a notch.

Don't worry, I think people here are just brainstorming, so always take such unofficial ideas with a grain of salt.

One day we might have a vanitygen-competition, but only if it can run on top of a blockchain-based crowd-funding mechanism, where participants themselves decide the goal of the competition and the prize-collateral they are willing to bet. No middlemen whatsoever. And most importantly: people who don't want to participate, don't need to.
Such schemes must always work in a trustless, permissionless manner, where nobody has any control or liability: with only cryptography as the sole guardian needed.

As a libertarian I understand the principles of decentralization pretty well, so rest assured that everything I research and develop has the goal of increasing decentralization, or finding new ways of decentralization where it hasn't been tried before.
I am not here to please investors or fintech or my own or someone elses financial needs. But in the end, the world is in dire need of more decentralization so all the aforementioned parties will find value in truly decentralized systems.

That's why I'm building the decentralized blockexplorer.
That's also why I am building servicenodes that run with a competitive collateral. (decentralizing away the need for a "king" that decides the amount of collateral for everybody else)
Literally everything I will work on will have the name "decentralized" in front of it, or else I'm simply not going to touch it.

You get the idea: if it can't be done in a decentralized way, we shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

So with this in mind, I understand that not everybody here has the same mindset. Not even all of the core members.
But I am not here to police other people's "ideas".

But I'll do everything I can to not let conflicting agendas dissuade spreadcoin from achieving true decentralization.

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So... I'm putting a few things together.

I understand that what people are most waiting to see is some sort of update about the work I've been doing. And not just once, but in a regular manner, maybe once a week?
It will take me a few days to put all the experiments I have done (and their results) in a digestible form that can be publicly presented.
I do have a promising format in mind that I can use to present updates, possibly in the form of a youtube podcast.

Please bare with me for a few more days, to get everything in order.

Thanks everybody!

thanks everybody for your input/opinions.

This will require a more in depth answer to clarify things, but alas it is sunday, and tomorrow I do have a full workday.
(can't you natives find a better date to start a riot? lol )

Anyway,  I'm not going to write this off with a superficial answer, I will thoroughly elaborate on this.
(I have isolated four or five critical points that I will dissect as soon as possible)

But one thing is for sure: I am here to stay, and spreadcoin has a bright future.  

Stay tuned!

Exactly, I couldn't have said it better myself.

I imply that I will continue my work here no matter the price or investor mood.
... as they say: The captain goes down with the ship.
Should FUD move the price down, I will simply put on the scuba diving suit, and continue!
Keeping spreadcoin alive is my first priority.

We will see who will still be around in 3 months, 6 months, or 1 year, etc..
 

Never, I will stay on this ship even if I have to wear a scuba diving suit.

I have enough. Neither I nor mr. spread ever had that many SPR, we barely touch the top 10.
Devs that get ahold of 10% of the coin mostly manage to do that by having weird premine/instamine schemes, etc...

None of that crap with Spreadcoin!

I guess our wannabe whale has just been our most loyal fan over the last months, good for him.

That's a rather unhealthy amount of SPR for just one person.   
Except ofcourse if its part of an exchange, but I don't think so.

Could be stonehedge? Maybe that's his bag he talked about earlier?


 

Thanks for your patience.

Once we get the servicenodes going (with the decentralized explorer), creating a decent miner (regardless of system and card manufacturer) will be my highest priority.
We will also revisit our pool prevention mechanism and most certainly harden SpreadX11 to make it more demanding on GPUs so as to practically prevent ASICs to ever enter SpreadX11 territory.
So expect further individualization of the SpreadX11 algo!

Until then, patience please!  

Well, all kinds of people are horny to make all kinds of updates all the time. (as you just demonstrated...  )
We need to be very careful with this, and that's why the general rule is to rather do too few adjustments instead of too many.

If you wonder if a fork would happen in a certain constellation you need to do a live test in a testing environment to see what would happen.
We are not going to make any updates without thoroughly testing them first.

It's gonna be in the next major update.
Why? Do you need it right now?

As far as I've checked this a few months ago, it's not necessary to change this line of code to make it compilable with boost > 1.58. Just change how boost is handled in the Makefile.
Anyhow, there is going to be a decision with the next update about what minimum boost, Qt, etc.. version we will require and why.

More to come soon!

maintenance over.

I forgot to say, since 21:00 CET there is planned maintenance for the server running spreadcoin.info and spreadcointalk,
will return to normal during the night.

bring back some photos.

I am a selfemployed programmer for over 10 years now (working for customers in EU, CH and US)
I'll post more info about this soon, the more we progress.

For now: I am here to stay!