UPDATES!! 

Good morning woodcutters.  There's been a flurry of activity in the clearing as a few people straighten their woodpiles and sharpen their chainsaws, pausing their work to enjoy a gesture with the forest spirit. 

Just to be clear there are no changes to the core protocol of this coin under discussion.  No forks, soft or hard, no news about Skein being broken or prime256v1 being an NSA termite trap or network ddos vulnerabilities.  So if you aren't feeling the need for a break you can just go right back to your chopping and stacking.   

What has changed is as follows.  Bitillionaire has brought in some nice paper wallet production functionality into the QT wallet.  Using paper wallets previously would have required you to go to logaddress.org/index.html and deal with some rather broken images there.  In practice I used that site to generate and manipulate woodcoin addresses, bringing the keys into other software for printing or encrypting.  Now, you can make paper wallets from the comfort of your own woodshed.  A nod of the head goes out to the dogecoin team for being the first that I know of to implement this.     

There's also been the addition of a new "Woodcoin.org" information page, also thanks to Bitillionaire, no longer based on Wordpress.  Construction there is ongoing, while the old site is still up temporarily at archive.woodcoin.org.  Work continues on making the QT wallet nicer to use, and in formalizing the reference implementation of woodcoin to be even better prepared to fight off the goblins of nondeterminism.  There should be some nice festivities in the works as we near the first-full-revolution-of-Earth-about-Sol mark in our history. 

There's also a new pool in the works courtesy of l8nite-miner.  Get your chain-hatchets and VPSs ready.     

Global hash rate is down a bit recently, so chopping should be more profitable.  Small quantities of LOG can also be obtained on C-Cex for a lower price than it has been in at least a few months, at about 1/2 of the all time high price.  Last trade was at 520 sat per.         

funkenstein_the_dwarf out. 

If he can't tell you, I will.

Anyone imprisoned for "trafficking controlled substances"  is wrongfully imprisoned. 
This has nothing to do with Ross who wasn't doing that, but it is an unarguable fact. 

   

Hi, glad to hear it's working for you and welcome new chopper!    Yeah the block chain is tiny at the moment, daily TX rate has been very small. 

That being said, you raise an interesting question.  Typically with bitcoin proper the block chain download is time-limited by CPU verification of all the ECDSA signatures.  That's why it's so much slower than just a download.  I don't know offhand if Woodcoin's elliptic curve (prime256v1) will give any different performance for this task.  I expect it to the be exactly the same (the only difference is the constants, not their length nor the operations)  but it's worth running some tests to see.  I'll get back to y'all on that  

Thanks bittamak   I'm glad to see an exchange doing well too!  Will we get a spot?

"Long time" is relative.  Woodcoin is 0.0000004% through it's release schedule at present.  But yeah, the altcoin world hasn't exactly been known for its longevity. 

lol w/ hippietech!   

in other news:

Stop what you are doing and have a little chat with your own death.  Then get back to me about being "stressed". 

Companies attempting to use bitcoin are crushed just like an intelligence asset is terminated: fiat bombardment, aka "bought out".  Lets hope the people involved are made of stronger stuff and can continue the fight.   

There's only one way to deal with spam.  Ignore it.
Perhaps you have something more interesting to do with your time. 

A vote is in no way dangerous, it is simply an opinion poll.  A coin-vote is a verifiable opinion poll, nothing more.  To algorithmically decide life and death based on the results of one of these polls, sure that would be dangerous.  But nobody suggested that. 

Our Coin-vote project is just an easy way for people to register their opinion.  Somebody could do the same with dpaste really, just that tallying them would be more of a pain.  How is that dangerous? 

   

Thanks for your reply.  You have a point.  However consider that such a person with an agenda could also for a similar price "decide the fate of bitcoin" by using those coins to DDOS the network, or using them to buy asics to attack the network, or otherwise (buy off pool operators, form standing army, who knows).  

It is also worth pointing out that buying half the bitcoins will cost you A LOT more than a billion USD.  My guess is the figure would be more like a trillion, but even then you might not get to 7million BTC.  A lot of hodlers are of the "come get these private keys out of the clenched fist of my corpse or don't get them at all" variety.  Others are of the "I laugh at any number of USD" variety.    

It's also worth noting that even with a huge stake demonstrating their opinion, it doesn't mean bitcoin will comply with said opinion.  

Thanks for your comments BitProdigy! I have no argument with your points here.  Indeed, a coin-vote is weighted by coin ownership, not because it's my opinion that this is what the people want, it's just how it works.  Also it requires caring enough to go and make an ECDSA signature, that is also just how it works.      

It is of course possible to be as paranoid and secure with your private keys as you like, as adamstgBit points out, just as when spending bitcoin.  

For another example, if you wish to declare your support for BIP -001, you need to sign the string "How-should-bitcoin-be-sca-BIP--001---b327d7b79e70eeb".  

You could print that out, take the paper into your hardened Faraday Cage bunker through the airlock (which is built to ensure no robotic insects enter with you), start up your raspberry PI in there and use your choice of signed / vetted software to generate the signature with your 10000 BTC address.  Then, print out the signature and carry it back out through the airlock.  Once back outside of the Faraday cage you can post your signature here to the forum using a stranger's mobile phone and we'll enter the vote into the coin-vote database for you.    

    

If you think this kind of thing could somehow be useful but you're not sure you trust Themos to officiate, you could use a public fraud-proof voting system:

http://coin-vote.com/poll/55e8a33299baadff0a34acb7

Relevant consensus tool:

http://coin-vote.com/poll/55e8a33299baadff0a34acb7

Oh, and here's a coin-vote on which proposal you like, or add others:

http://coin-vote.com/poll/55e8a33299baadff0a34acb7

Thanks to OP for suggesting the wording. 

For the record, I have no idea what you are trying to do here.

Sending one satoshi "from all your addresses" to a burn address ?  Note that I could make as many addresses for myself as I like. 

Why?  I thought you were trying to do a proof of stake vote?  One can simply sign with their private key; what you suggest requires getting the private key out of cold storage anyway to move the 1 sat.   

The mechanics of a coin-vote are self explanatory if you give them some thought, and we have created a platform so you can do exactly that.  Please take a look at our FAQ:

http://faq.coin-vote.com/

and read the white paper here:

http://frass.woodcoin.org/introducing-coin-vote/ 

Such a vote could be decentralized, but there seems little reason to do so.  All votes are public.  No money ever changes hands.  There's no way for the centralized counter (database administrator) to alter the tally --  every voter can verify his/her vote is on the list at any time and the tally is public.   

       

What about BIP000?   

http://www.cryptomashup.com/2015/09/bitcoin-i-support-bip000/

It appears to be the default, but if counting votes -- it should still be an option. 

Aha,

  I like your interface!  
  You may have seen our offering in the space:  http://coin-vote.com

  There is another service coming on line soon:  cryptovoter.com


  These all have similar ideas in terms of "proof of stake" voting, we should all make it possible to dump the votes so anyone can verify them.  It would be wise of us to choose a precise wording if we wish to combine results.  

  I'm not yet convinced a coin-vote or stake vote will influence the future of bitcoin on this issue, however I am glad to see that we have the option to look at what the biggest coin holders are saying.  

  I expect nothing to come of these votes unless big holders sign some signatures from cold storage, to the tune of 100kBTC in votes or more.


  Cheers --   funkenstein the dwarf

  

So let me get this straight: you think collecting counterfeit tokens pushed by secretive foreign scamcoin operators is the ultimate definition of a great country?