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Can GeistGeld and so on also be GPU mined?
Can they be merged mined with Litecoins?
-MarkM-
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I didn't think anyone had ever claimed it could be merged-mined? Otherwise I would be merged-mining it.
No point hacking it to add merged mining though, might as well instead wait for someone to put the merged mining patches into a very recent version of bitcoin to make a new updated version of some existing merged-mined coin then clone that to make umpteen new currencies that can be merged mined so we can really put merged mining to a stress-test of just how many chains we can merged-mine at once.
If no one updates a merged mined currency to latest bitcoin standards in some undetermined amount of time I will likely do it myself, probably to GRouPcoin as traditionally it is the one for prototyping/testing new stuff with, then use that to make afresh the UKB, CDN, UNS, GMC, GRF etc etc family of chains.
-MarkM-
EDIT: Or oh heck why not, maybe I will add merged mining to it for them for a 2 million RUC bounty, silly to have all that premine set aside for bounty and not use it eh?
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Merged mine it to get its hash rate up, more exchanges will open or re-open once its not so vulnerable to double-spending.
Though if there is no exchange directly to fiat that could be good for using it in games, as it might help maintain the claim it is just a game tokens system not a currency thus playing games with it is not gambling...
-MarkM-
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The new IXCoin Exchange run by DoubleC at Bitparking has over 385,000 in volume and over 300 BTC traded today.
The also have a pool with 32GH/s.
Looks like IXC is here to stay.
Where is the URL?! http://ixchange.bitparking.com/ ? I believe doublec closed it some time ago. Maybe the double spends mentinoed above might have had something to do with it? At least the fact that double spends seemed to be too easily possible. I have prepared my Open Transactions server for IXCoin trading among various other currencies and assets, but I admit this double spend / blockchain attack threat has me somewhat concerned too. I figured though that at the least I could set up DigiIXCoin tokens equal to the ancient IXCoins I have in stock that are so old it is presumably far too late now for anyoen to try to double-spend them... -MarkM- |
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When you say you made a killing with it, do you merely mean that you dumped it and thus are now actually not very rich in number of Ixcoins you control?
Or do you mean that you leveraged your position to such an extent that you now own huge amounts of Ixcoin in addition to various assets you aquired in the course of becoming one of the largest holders of Ixcoin?
There is a character I see from time to time in the Galactic Milieu named Ix, who seems to maybe even be thinking of trying to develop some kind of Ixian culture or nation or species or something but so far has basically mostly just caused other players to think of Ixcoin as a kind of personal IOU or something of this particular character, useful possibly in trading with that character but of questionable use otherwise.
Maybe you and Ix could get together and build up Ixcoin more than just that one character's personal trading, limited by how much loot that one character (albeit quite strong, being an Quetzacoatl) carry to and from his/her/its trading-posts?
-MarkM-
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It can be merged-mined, so serves as one more chain to include in any extended trial of merged mining.
How many chains can be merged-mined at once? We don't know yet, so we also don't really know yet how much it really costs per chain to add more chains to one's merged-mining. Can one mine enough that every stock on a stock-exchange could have a chain of its own? Enough to do that for all stock exchanges? So far all we know is merging a few chains seems to work fine...
...Which means that so far we haven't even really had any pressure for efficiency improvements in merged mining such as selecting which chains to merge at a given moment based on which have fee-paying transactions available, which could be a useful improvement if/when the number of chains one could choose from becomes far larger than the number one can effectively merge at one moment...
-MarkM-
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Many people doubted strongly that an ASIC would come along at all, due to supposedly HUGE startup costs.
If the claims about how prohibitive the initial research/development costs would be are valid, surely it would seem incongruous to have the first few units produced be dirt cheap. Quite the contrary, surely it is to be expected that the first production units would be sold to a select clientele at a premium price? If the price of these first few units were in the "reasonable" price ranges you folk would like to see them at doubtless that would have been taken as further proof it must be a scam, due to the evident failure to attempt to recoup some of the "prohibitive" development costs...
-MarkM-
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Groupcoin, coiledcoin... are those still around?
How to "git clone" and install those two?! For coiledcoin I just tried git pull to see if it would tell me where the repo is that I cloned it from and it got an error: fatal: https://github.com/makomk/coiledcoin.git/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server? So maybe the repo no longer exists or something. GRouPcoin is where it has always been: http://sourceforge.net/projects/galacticmilieu/files/Once you get GRouPcoin set up with an incoming port it could help to tell me the IP address so I can have mine deliberately reach out to it. -MarkM- |
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Are we supposed to make a new GPG identity for this to make it anonymous, or use our existing keys such as the ones we use on OTC, so that we can bring our OTC trust level with us? I couldn't be bothered to have a whole new different key to bother with just to take a look at this application so I am going ahead with my existing public GPG identity for now: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux)
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cvwarez2e0xG/gPuijXlkr6nRj2YAzk9N4NBvU270AMcysssLsCQRkftIeKT7/UO
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dgPVmRuI
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-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
--SSLID--393dc115f5a3879bb9116863ce8c9456;--LOCATION--Desktop;
--LOCAL--192.168.2.9:39433;--EXT--142.177.233.7:39433;
--DYNDNS--crossciv.no-ip.org;
The IP address given there will change before long of course since it is a dynamic one... -MarkM- |
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I have long suspected that so called quantum computing might not be nearly as spooky as its hype likes to hint. These two papers seem to show pretty clearly that the whole mysterious "Bell Inequality" thing is really just a straightforward topological correlation, totally classical, local, and real: http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.4259http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1958Can quantum computing really give the speedups its hype claims if really all the so called entanglement stuff is really just a matter of the topology of rotations in space? -MarkM- |
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They allow merged mining so are basically free to mine. I use p2pool to mine bitcoins as primary and at the same time as freebies on the side I merged mine namecoin, devcoin, groupcoin, coiledcoin, i0coin and ixcoin. Before I got p2pool set up to do my own merged mining I used doublec's bitparking merged mining pool, which didn't include groupcoin and coiledcoin but did have the rest of them.
So basically whatever the price they happen to be selling for on any exchanges there will likely always be people picking them up free by merged mining if only for the practical test of merged mining and to use them in games and such.
-MarkM-
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It is sad that you have no option of hosting at home, Slush. I always figured it would be stupid to think private keys hosted anywhere else are not compromised and thus as long as they have not yet been stolen to assume it is mostly because there is not yet enough value in them to bother stealing them yet.
I have never considered hosting my private keys anywhere other than a site I physically control and know who else (if anyone) has physical access to. Hence, at home or in some kind of locked bunker no-one else has keys to.
Is there really no way you can get your own home hooked up to the net?
-MarkM-
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Yet another web-based game: http://fantasy.mygamesonline.org/You don't have to think only in terms of bitcoins, there are numberous less valuable cryptocurrencies you might find easier to treat as game-currencies... -MarkM- |
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I have just set up yet another web-based game, http://fantasy.mygamesonline.org/ so check it out and figure out how many Litecoins you'd be willing to pay for whatever things you'd be interested in buying there... -MarkM- |
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There are actually quite a few players I see online from time to time in my "CrossCiv" server (which can be reached using the web-launched client mentioned in my sig) who trade in Litecoins, amongst other varieties of cryptocurrency.
-MarkM-
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I am suprised ixcoin is still around. I have just under a thousand ixcoins. I can't even sell them
Great, maybe that means people will actually have some around to use in games instead of turning them all into fiat. I have actually seen a character named Ix on my "CrossCiv" server (reached via the client in my sig) who proposes to use Ix as his currency and maybe that of a whole civilisation of "Ixians"... -MarkM- |
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he is bad shit insane! i wanna see where this is going.
btw. can you point out where it is in the core bitcoin code there are the limit of 1000 coins?
The core bitcoin code only allows approximately 21,000,000 coins. SInce Solidcoin 3.0 is worth at least 21,000 bitcoins each, obviously only 1000 can be afforded. Elemental, WOTson. -MarkM- |
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Okay, so the proposal is multiple reserve rather than fractional reserve, fine.
However part of what I liked about the Freeciv Nations and Multigalactics currencies concept was one could hopefully end up not only stabilising your several hundred (one per galactic nation plus one per multigalactic corp that chooses to issue its own currency like GMC and GRF) currencies BUT ALSO MAYBE BITCOIN TOO.
The concept was our warchest would end up not only having piles of different kinds of fiat and piles of bitcoins and piles of devcoins and piles of groupcoins and piles of i0coins and piles of ixcoins and piles of litecoins but also piles of each of potentially hundreds or thousands of other currencies, each wielded by some despot or royal family or republic or communist-party or democratic process, each using its own "warchest" to stabilise its own currency AND MAYBE BITCOIN TOO.
The whole idea of each and every game-nation being able to issue its own currency or currencies is not intended to detract from bitcoin whatsoever, it is intended to show how useful the whole bitcoin concept and algorithms are and provide endless numbers of possible baskets one could form from one's choice of which of these currencies one thinks the entity behind it is worth your while to ally with or go to war with or ignore or whatever.
Bitcoin provides all of them with the ability to put aside the whole legal crap about fiat currency, and have fun with the whole actual empirical doing of stabilising currencies, coping with what happens when the Foo of the Manchu deliberately turns the Manchu currency into a scam (as if anyone didn't expect him to, like duh, the deviousness of the Foo of the Manchu is infamous) and so on...
-MarkM-
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Hmm maybe exchanges in Europe aren't as heavily burdened with regulations, maybe you can simply buy currencies over the counter at airports and such without having to show ID or passport, maybe even walk into any bank and buy it over the counter without ID, without creating an account, stuff like that?
How did the far across continent money-transfer networks of the Middle Ages work? Haven't they only recently been "purportedly" shut down, yet operated for centuries even before telegraph, telephone, radio, back in the days of the early computer known as the abacus?
Maybe there was something to be said for trust once upon a time? A simpler, more idyllic age when the darkness of superstitious faith kept people honest by threat of jealous gods? ...
-MarkM-
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Intersango doesn't require you to identify yourself and it's legal. What am I missing?
Are you sure Intersango doesn't have to know its U.S.-resident and/or U.S.-citizen customers? Don't even Swiss financial institutions have to do that nowadays? -MarkM- |
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