Either will do. The array issue has been addressed in master and it builds - as attested by the continuous integration / tests courtesy of Travis CI ¹ but if you prefer to use the longstanding slimcoin branch, you will need to make the change to boost::array by hand.

Cheers

Graham

¹

Those are instances of C99 “convenience” macros for correctly handling numerical precision in print statements (e.g. PRI64u), deprecated in later versions of C++. You're lucky - OS X's later C++ rejects them as errors. You can choose to ignore the deprecations (until an OS upgrade of the C++ compiler forces the issue) or simply do as directed and insert a space between the double quote character and the PRI* macro --- which is the approach I adopted:

https://github.com/slimcoin-project/Slimcoin/commit/1128835139d52858c82b047e1414f7072e547fdf

(Contemporary versions of the C++ compiler have been enriched to allow: %u - at the expense of backward compatibility, I assume)


Another casualty of compiler improvements, array used to be unambiguous with:

but now that C++ has its own array, what was unambiguous is now ambiguous, so one is obliged to be specific. Use either boost::array (the usual choice, supporting older compilers) or std::array if you want a clean break with the past. Again, I opted for backward compatibility:

https://github.com/slimcoin-project/Slimcoin/commit/14c5606871ff6811ac4b0d2cb00d20bd9bfaf071#diff-9a82240fe7dfe86564178691cc57f2f1

(The above commit also addresses the majority of the C99 macros).


git checkout master

Lastly, my compliments to you for composing an enquiry that is clear and complete --- it makes it so easy to provide the relevant information that it's actually a pleasure. Thank you for making my morning.

Cheers

Graham

I sent this explanation to cryptohunter ...


The other comment I made ...

Cheers

Graham

¹ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2042673.msg22194476#msg22194476

The main bitcointalk discussion thread is an inappropriate medium for persistently vague speculations about technical aspects of the performance of the client.

Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access_memory

and raise a github issue including the supporting evidence.

Cheers

Graham

Is that why you deleted all my posts from spreadcointalk? So no-one could call you out on the fact that it was you who created the split by explicitly challenging the other SPR technical contributors to recruit their own group of supporters and let the best team win? The copying of the public ledger to a more contemporary codebase is just the logical and entirely predictable consequences of your instigation.

I've never bought your story; 30 years in IT and still as trivially-minded and butt-hurt as a teenager? Doesn't add up for me. I've largely kept my own counsel on my extremely low opinion of your emotional maturity and intellectual depth as project lead because you've been doing such a good job of communicating it yourself, as the quoted posting above transparently attests.

You failed to take the hint - the Helium folks have bent over backwards, both to adhere to the community-oriented approach they believe in and to support the community of people supporting Spreadcoin from which they freely and earnestly acknowledge Helium's origin. This stance included maintaining a deliberate position of not criticising the Spreadcoin project but instead presenting Helium as a completely independent alternative  which, as I have observed, is an entirely logical and predictable consequence of your initial throwing down of the gauntlet.

By continuing to make these juvenile barbs, you continue to offer yourself as a rather sad figure of fun. Your emotional immaturity was what precipitated this “fork” in the first place and it was also the instrumental and direct cause of my terminating my contributions to Spreadcoin back in March of 2016 - I know a “kiss of death” when I see one.

Now that there is no longer anything that could be easily mis-described as dissent that can be hallucinated to hinder progress on Spreadcoin, I look forward to what are bound to be increasingly entertaining attempts on your part to explain the ever-widening gap between your descriptions of the world and the reality.

The only real hope for Spreadcoin is if you can actually manage to muster a mature response to this event instead of the transparently distorted juvenile view that you apparently hold and are, sadly, unable to rise above.

Cheers

Graham

ACME 's response is sluggish, admittedly but the list of nodes is up-to-date: http://tessier.bel-epa.com:5064/main/node/


Your speculation is off-target, your machine's RAM usage has nothing to do with the growing blockchain length, it is related to the growing number of transactions associated with the addresses in the wallet. <- NB

PoS is an alternative means of securing the public ledger. In that respect, it's not dissimilar to PoW (more hashing == more coins) except that more coins == more hashing. On the server, I run 3 clients: 1 bog-standard client, generously funded and  two empty bsd4.8 wallets (mainnet & testnet) to feed the Slimcoin ACME. top reports the empty mainnet wallet as 12440 RES, the funded wallet as 608668 RES.

Cheers

Graham

Well some might consider it be --- if you can explain how knowledge of the delay leads to an opportunity to exploit that delay - by dumping at that point? Shrewd move, I must admit I didn't spot that opportunity to come out ahead of everyone else by exploiting my secret insider knowledge .

“when the delay was known, before the community knew.” Wow, you have a panopticon, that's cool - can I have a go on it? Oh, you don't have a panopticon, oh well then, these are matters you cannot possibly have knowledge of, your suspicions really are baseless.

Let's remind ourselves of your false accusations of criminality:

This is a false accusation of potentially criminal behaviour by people you refuse to name and you are unable to prove your accusations when challenged to do so.

I don't take kindly to my reputation being brought into question by being the subject of baseless accusations of criminal behaviour.

It was a stupid and thoughtless act to publicly post false accusations of criminality that you cannot prove, that's a long, long way away from the kind of FUD that's often tolerated here.

Cheers

Graham

I noticed. You still haven't said how knowledge of the delay was exploited. I knew of the delay because I was providing tech support for the snapshot and was involved. I hardly had to restrain myself from exploiting that knowledge to .... what exactly? I'm dying to know what I missed.

Cheers

Graham

Perhaps you could dispense with the sarcasm and answer the question - how was this achieved?

Cheers

Graham

It remains important to the people whose reputation you have casually impugned, including me. I don't want it said later that I failed to act with propriety so I must press you for some details. You claim to see a correlation but in what? How did those with inside knowledge profit from this insider trading? Can you narrow down the period of time to a specific day or couple of days at least?

Cheers

Graham

No, you have it reversed. You claim to perceive a correlation where no-one else does, so it's up to you to demonstrate that one exists. I care because I was aware of the progress of discussions.

Cheers

Graham

Oh okay. I understand the perception but you're on very weak ground with the unsupported “pretty obvious”, surely there's a statistics exercise here which would give some hard grounding to your speculations?

Cheers

Graham

Care to supply details? I'd like to know more.

Cheers

Graham

Flush datadir, retry. Alternatively, decanting the contents of https://minkiz.co/noodlings/slm/slm-datadir-snapshot.zip into datadir might work.

Cheers

Graham

Point taken.

FWIW: The current “best effort” codebase is in the master branch of the slimcoin-project repos and reservebalance=99999999 is your friend, unless you actually intend to devote hashpower to staking.

But you knew that already, I'd guess.

Cheers

Graham

Still takes a goodly chunk of the day: https://minkiz.co/noodlings/slm/bootstrap.dat.xz

Cheers

Graham

See the Helium thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1809278

Cheers

Graham

That may be a prevailing view but there's no empirical evidence in support of it, so I'm skeptical and treat it as conjecture.


That's where my marketing and social psychology background gives me a different view, allowing me to respond - “What, like they have to explain the changes in suspension, steering and engine management parameters that lie behind pressing the ‘Sport’ button that you see on many modern cars?” Who says we must explain proof of burn to people who don't want to know?

Cheers

Graham

Some people might continue to believe that Dogecoin was launched as a “joke” but they are obliged to ignore the contradiction that Jackson Palmer searched for a year before being pointed to the (at the time, languishing) Doge meme. Dogecoin was designed as a token exchange system, so people could have a bit of fun with an experimental cryptocurrency, i.e. jokey not “a joke” and that subtle distinction is crucially important because it communicates a completely different set of brand values --- and quite effectively so, as one might logically expect from a Senior Brand Manager at Adobe.

That facetious element has been effective in allowing the group to develop a powerful sense of community membership, prompting a more imaginative, progressive and welcoming approach with a gender balance unmatched by any other cryptocurrency. As a group, the Shibes form a de facto collective intelligence, they aren't going away any time soon, if ever.

Cheers

Graham

I know of one. Strictly speaking, the market cap at $202,587 fails your criteria but all the other informal criteria are informally met, I presume the vagueness allows you wriggle room.

What I'm interested in is i) the broad strategy you intend to take in order to be able to double the exchange price (in what time period, btw?), ii) what support you have for anticipating that shovelling money into an altcoin project with the characteristics you describe would be putting the money “to good use”, i.e. what changes are you expecting to bring about and iii) what level of ROI you're expecting to see with this strategy.

Cheers

Graham