Pretty sure they caught some of the "bad" registrations, but there were only 3xxx accepted because they closed the airdrop a week early due to people claiming how easily they could fool their "layers of security".
I could be wrong, I only read the thread here and there, but that is what stuck out in my mind.
No fud intended, just speaking my mind.
A bunch of scammers got caught with an unannounced trap. Many of them think they got through and never really did. They may still think that. There will be details about this soon - as soon as there's a chance to breathe and speak again! One should take claims of many multiple accounts with a grain of salt. The airdrop was not closed a week early - it was closed as scheduled. This is why were are detailed timestamps available. |
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Decred is now free and open-source software! Final binaries for mainnet are also available. These are encrypted 7z archives and can be decrypted using a key announced upon launch (12:00 PM CST February 8th, 2016) - through a file archiver such as 7-Zip or p7zip. Announcement is here. |
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We are finalizing our setup and will have a pool with 0.99% fee ready at launch too ! :-)
Get in touch so the project can list your pool alongside all the other pools in one place. |
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webwallet won't stake I guess?
No staking on the web wallet at present. A big priority is native GUIs, and from there staking is of course doable (for those not comfortable with CLI). |
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Decred Constitution is penned. It outlines principles and acts as a framework for blockchain governance, project governance, and funding. It is open to constructive (and proper) feedback for improvement. It will guide all future decision-making.
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And the question of start of a full-fledged network - start will be made on February 3? Date isn't postponed?
12:00 PM CST February 8th, 2016 is when mainnet is turned on. That is 06:00 PM GMT time. |
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OP text has been updated with releases and resources for those that need help - these will be improved as information is created and users hop on testnet.
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I don't see my country  That means you have got a job to do. This was just one phase of the project. Now things start firing up. |
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The airdrop initiative has been finalised, and the project is now in a position to present a general overview of what has transpired and provide more information about the network distribution when mainnet is launched in the future. In total, 3,244 participants have successfully completed the airdrop confirmation process through the submission of a Decred address. The airdrop opened with the public announcement of Decred on December 15th, 2015 and closed on January 18th, 2016. The airdrop sign up was open for 34 days and participants joined the project from 99 different countries. The top fifteen countries based on the IP addresses of successful participants are as follows (in percentages): - United States - 27.0
- United Kingdom - 7.0
- Brazil - 5.7
- Germany - 5.3
- Russia - 4.4
- Netherlands - 4.0
- France - 4.0
- Canada - 3.8
- Italy - 2.9
- Ukraine - 2.4
- Australia - 2.3
- Estonia - 2.1
- India - 1.8
- Switzerland - 1.6
- Japan - 1.5
These 15 countries represent 75.9% of successful participant IP addresses based on geolocation, and serve as a crude overview of airdrop participants who completed the process. This means every successful participant will receive approximately 258.93958076 decred when they import the seed they generated (and saved) into a wallet in the future. The process of evaluation involved a combination of: - Checking each entry individually for an online presence
- Asking the participant directly for more information where the evaluator was unsure about the entry, and/or
- Having a discussion with the participant about their interests, history, and proposed future contributions to the project
Checks were also included to investigate similarity in IP addresses and e-mail addresses across entries - this process was performed manually as well. Whilst no evaluation system is perfect, every reasonable effort was made to pay each applicant as much time as possible and balance these responsibilities against the demands of software development and testing with as few delays as possible. However, in response to community concern, and as a show of good faith, the project has decided to conduct another (and final) sweep of the database to check its integrity and remove problematic entrants that are identified as fraudulent. The outcome of this may result in each successful participant receiving slightly more coins than stated - but no less than 258.93958076. Everyone can be proud of their efforts to help secure a very important first step: to decentralise the network with many early participants; a truly global distribution of the currency from the very beginning. The project welcomes you, and all others that join us now and in the future, to an exciting week marked by the release of a public testnet, miner binaries, and block header specifications! Note: You can also visit your airdrop confirmation link to see the Decred address submitted to the database. Airdrop will go to this address. Source: Airdrop Rundown |
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And please, don't let icebreaker to endorse Decred.
Icebreaker is a despicable human being. He is a professional liar and troller. Be well aware of that.
People are here on the basis of their own free will. This is not a project where there will be personal attacks against others - not from the project's side. You are free to say anything you want, and please know there will be no attempt to censor you, but personal preferences for who and who should not be allowed to post here or be part of the project will have no effect on their participation - everyone is welcome and contribution will always be empowered. Everyone is judged solely on the basis of the merit they show in their work on the project - and that includes discussing the issues here and elsewhere. Contribution only starts at "why do this?" - it is not up to the project to construct a solution to every query. It is up to everyone with a better solution to step up and detail that proposal properly and show clearly why it is a better option. That is no easy task, but that's a fundamental consideration of in-depth critique. |
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To pages ago I've asked about blake256 miner and when POW will start?
The hope is for testnet to fire up this week. That will be accompanied by miner binaries for Linux/Windows and miner specifications. |
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In the past few months/year we have seen many distribution methods over here on the forum. Personally i've never seen a method which can totally filter sockpuppets, even at those with ip checker, or whatever, you can chear easily with a proxy changer. Decred's method it's pretty fair with proof of online presence and email address
Entries were checked based on IP addresses and timestamps as well as manually checking online presences and e-mail addresses. The majority of scammers thought the process would be automatic and did not vary their behaviour in that regard. Again, not saying the process is perfect, but reasonable checks were put in place to balance against the demands of software development, trying to meet deadlines, and addressing concerns on here and other platforms - whilst preserving users' privacy. Impersonation attempts started creeping in at the very end as attacks intensified, but these were also removed as they were flagged on other checks. |
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Just curious after seeing this post from someone saying they were able to register (and receive confirmation) in the airdrop process using only an email address (not even a lightly used social media presence): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1290358.msg13601490#msg13601490Also, afaik there was not any verification that the email address I used to sign up has been checked that it is associated with this btctalk account, implying that you could claim any social media account as your own (that didn't have a public email), and then supply your own unrelated email address(es) to get an undeserved airdrop share. I disagree that it would necessarily be a violation of privacy, since people are nominally registering with public social media accounts. These are all valid concerns. The issue with making participants public is that they did not agree to that. They signed up in good faith and the project has to honour that relationship of trust. Maybe a great many would have no problem with being publicly associated with Decred, but there are people who have signed up and have an interest in the project who want to remain anonymous - and for good reason. There will be tremendous drama if associations are made public. For these reasons, it is left up to the individuals who have signed up to make that public - and it will always remain their decision alone. In fact, a decision was made early on that there will be no record kept of e-mails, URLs, and Decred addresses linked to each other beyond Monday. The project has no way of knowing who signed up after Monday once the addresses are final. Only you will know your association with the project if you possess the seed you verified and saved. Anyway, I was just asking because I've probably seen at most 500 (and that's probably waaay overestimating) people commenting on this thread, irc, reddit, or twitter, so if it comes out that the number of airdrop participants is in the thousands, either we have to believe that the vast majority of airdrop participants are silent but honest participants, that someone or some people are gaming the system by claiming many more than a single share, or that the developers are inflating the number of users who signed up to keep the extra shares for themselves. The only way I could see that the developers can not just have to say, "trust us", is if the airdrop's social media accounts are publicly released, but apparently that isn't an option...
Decred has been under sustained attack almost since announcement. These attack vectors have evolved over time. Big projects came out against this project when it was still small trying to find its feet without any attempt to communicate with its members or community. To put that in perspective, harsh quotes were given in the media by ETH, NXT, and BitNation directly attacking Decred openly. That is not behaviour you will see from this project in the future - a little project will never be attacked like that. In fact, if the ideas are good, it will be empowered and credit given where it is earned. If the project does that in the future, you can take this quote and call it out on that basis. To simply try and bury a project with years of work put into it is disgusting. And that is just one attack - the point is there have been multiple attacks on the Decred, so what you are saying is absolutely real. There have been DDoS attempts, spamming, and of course, scamming attempts to get into the airdrop. To dig deeper into the point you made, the biggest round of attempted scamming occurred in the last batch. In fact, the scamming attempts became prolific after the earlier attacks failed to slow the project down. This represented an evolution of attack. The entries were monitored in great detail as they came in throughout the whole process. If you do that, patterns begin to emerge. You start seeing how scammers change and evolve their behaviour. This is not to say every scammer was caught, but it means a larger pattern was stopped near the end when scammers flowed in through large coordinated efforts. This pattern did not exist in the earlier phases of the airdrop sign up. There is a bit of human behaviour involved here as well. The vast majority of people simply have a technical interest in the project and signed up using evidence of that overlapping interest. Most sign ups are just that - honest and clear attempts to help whoever is to review the application. That is not to say there wasn't scamming, as there were many attempts, but the majority of these were culled. A lot of time and effort were put into that process, but only so much is reasonable without causing significant delays to the project. There is a balance to strike between reasonable privacy, meeting deadlines, and working on the actual software, and the project tries and always will try to do that. It does not mean everything is perfect on every front - such an expectation is not based in reality - but it means the balance can be addressed with integrity. That is part of the reason why the work on btcsuite was presented in extended form. This project is not a run-of-the-mill fly-by-night project. This is long-term and by a group of serious developers and people who care about technology and will always try and address your concerns when they are constructive. It is about building and working together with as little hierarchy and bullshit as possible. Having said that, if the airdrop stayed open for another week, there would have been another evolution and the airdrop would have suffered for it. When the airdrop closed, most scamming attempts were evolved but still dumb - this would not have been the case for long. |
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Are there plans to release the identities of airdrop recipients? So people can see if a significant fraction of the airdrop went to newbie accounts or Twitter handles with a single tweet or friendless Facebookers, etc.
Absolutely not. This will never happen. It would be a complete violation of trust and an invasion of privacy. |
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Immutable transaction hashes ("transaction IDs") by separating transaction signatures from the rest of the transaction data - A permanent fix for transaction hash malleability has been implemented that prevents mutability of the transaction hash by separating it from its input signatures. This allows more efficient SPV validation. Fraud proofs have also been added. Is this similar to segregated witness? Yes, but every transaction has it by default and you do not need to store the witness data outside of the block. |
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The final reminder e-mails are firing now - for participants who have not yet confirmed and finished the process. If that includes you, please do not delay, as the addresses are finalised on Monday, January 25th, 2016. If you have not confirmed your airdrop and submitted an address by this date, the project cannot include you. Every reasonable effort is being made to wait until the eleventh hour and nobody wants to leave anyone behind who has shown adequate interest, but the doors are closing now. To everyone who has already confirmed and completed the process, do remember to strap yourselves in, public testnet is coming!
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