Aargh so yer the scurvy bastard who be hoardin' all the loot.

Doubled the size of the fleet ya did.

I'm getting these up quick becuase these forum contests often end painfully fast.



If you like the theme, details can be arranged.



Also, is there an official "slogan" yet?



What do you think?

EDIT: I think the BTB bar in the big one needs some touchup.  If there's interest I'll improve on these.

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sweet I love bbq

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Marketplace, for sure. When you can buy things it starts to feel like money.

MMMM Powercoin!

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yeaaargh whar's the pirates at?

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So far you're doing it right.

It would be hard to beat the competition.  They're still in beta but it would take a lot to catch up.

If you're in windows that's normal for a *coind.exe

You need to leave one command prompt running the daemon, then you can open a separate command prompt to interact with it.

Once you have browsed to the same directory where the executable is then you can execute it with an RPC command and it will query the daemon.

So if you have that blinking cursor at one prompt you just open another and run it with the command "neucoind getinfo"

Or "neucoind help" for a list of other commands.


if you type neucoind help while the daemon is running you get a different response from when you type neucoind --help for information on how to run the program.  If the daemon is not in the expected state you should see an error.

also I think you have to add the -connect=*.*.*.* to eother the initial command or the .conf file, it's not something you can tell the daemon to do "on the fly".

Personally, I think that a lot of people here are eager to trade ripple and talk about it like it's another alt-coin/cryptocurrency.

While they're adopted a blockchain for their ledger, ripples aren't actually intended to be used as currency, and if I understand it correctly different ripples will eventually carry different values (yes as debt) within the ripple network.

I'm not 100% if that last bit is a good way to describe it, and I haven't been able to get any ripples yet.

However as soon as I do I'll be putting the Rippled client up and exploring their APIs.

The client app is currently available in source at https://github.com/rippleFoundation and they are offering bounties (in ripples) for bugs reported in the software or the system right now.

Anyways from what I've been able to sort out there's a lot of butthurt over ripple as a "scam crypto-currency" right now, when that's not what it's intended to be at all.  This consists of the accusations of "premine" and "pump and dump" and whatnot.

Those guys (The ripples founders or insiders as they're called here)are likely to become fabulously rich if this works.  There's no need to run a short con for a few million bucks. And (also if it gets going like they want) it will be the frosting on the cake of cryptocurrency.

Right now, it's just that they gave a bunch out here at bitcointalk.org and people want to speculate in them. Why not, apparently it's been quite profitable.

In the end, those 100b ripples need to be moving, to make the real money here. It's a centralized, trust based system and trying to compare it to bitcoin just because it has a blockchain is like saying "Hey this orange fruit is a really shitty apple".

Last I read you can fund an account for 200 ripples or less now, and the account reserve (unspendable ripples) is 50.  I read somewhere else you may be able to fund for as low as 100 but i didn't read that anywhere official.

Just my thoughts on it, I'm by no means an expert.  But I'm about ready to buy a few hundred ripples because what these guys are achieving with the campaign is keeping a lot of people "wondering" when they could be in there learning how it works.


I'm trying to sort it out so if you know that I'm completely wrong about something feel free to correct me. Most of what I'm saying is gleaned from their blog/forum/etc or their developer site and github.

I got 15 of these bad boys - asking 5 doubloons, or some btc/ltc.

This ended some time ago but no one locks the thread.

I think most of the posts here were never eligible, anyways.  Mine wasn't but I threw it in here just in case they take pity on all the noobs.

What he posted is dated the 16th, and he says it came today.

Perfectly believable, though I guess you're pissing about the 100k number?

Until some more people claim to have gotten it today we can't be sure.

If you didn't join the mailing list before the 9th you shouldn't get any ripple from this giveaway.  It may or may not be too late to set up for the next one.


And also you need 100 ripple to start using a ripple account at this time. Once you get 100 ripples and open your account, you ahve to leave 50 of them in the account either forever, or until open coin changes the account reserve.

So at this time, you need 100 ripples to start using it, and you can never sell/trade/give away 50 of those 100.



Sweet hook a brother up!  

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0.2% of what they gave you today would get me in.

I want to set up a gateway and give it a run.  Still a slim hope I might get in the dev giveaway, I guess. I just want to get in the damn thing, and I'm not paying to participate in the beta when they gave out something like 50m free so far, and another few tens of millions to go.

They announced on the tenth that anyone who joined before the ninth would be in this 2nd giveaway. That's what I'm talking about.

I'm not sure if it's happening yet but the next ripple giveaway isn't here, and they said it would be like the one here...

Unless you were a member of the list before they made the announcement you won't get any.

I missed it by one day, so I'm REALLY hoping they change it.

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Wow I'm not even into loli but you're pissing me off.

What else shall we delete off your internet?

Sure, I wasn't knocking your gems I hope they do well. I have only so many hashes to spread around so, can't mine everything. I think that all of these altcoins provide value in the long term.

As far as monitoring the size/activity of the network, here's what I'm talking about:

If you explore the many forks of the original bitcoin code, you will find that most of them include a JSON-RPC request for "networkhashps" which returns the calculated hash rate for the network on the previous block (I think). I'm not exploring the *coin code yet so that's just extrapolation.

You happen to have selected one of the forks that removed this functionality.  I think it's because the POS can affect the difficulty which would make the "average network hashes per second" more difficult to calculate.

I'm not 100% sure why it's removed, but that's my guess. The PPCoin white paper didn't say anything about it.

Do you know?

EDIT: Also there's a not-so fine line between a currency and a commodity. I'm not aware of any place in the world where gems are used as a currency. Granted, this is probably just semantics but it can be an important difference when discussing the pros or cons of a particular blockchain, for a particular purpose.

A scarce commodity is a good thing, a scarce currency is a failing currency - whether it's going out of circulation via hoarding (becoming a commodity) or by the market losing of faith in the backing issuer/commodity (losing market cap).

OK, I guess I'm done for now. Please understand, this isn't saying anything negative at all about bitgems.  These are just the thoughts you have inspired in me this morning.  I believe that discussing and clarifying these things while trying many different configurations will eventually lead to the "sweet spot" for a useful cryptocurrency. 

I also suspect that because of the refusal of the bitcoin dev team to address the issues being discovered or adapt to these lessons learned while they have a (relatively) small market, bitcoin is destined to become a "crypto-commodity" (it will survive out of nostalgia and momentum if no government or regulators manage to kill it) as soon as a model is found that will support adoption and long-term development of a physical crypto-currency infrastructure.

Hmm, guess I wasn't done, after all.  Carry On...

can I get my YAC out of BTER yet?

I mean, is the block chain moving?