"Live Streaming ist wegen Rechteproblemen in Deutschland leider nicht möglich." - i fucking hate that GEMA censorship on youtube, now even streams are illegal in germany ... congratulations mrs. merkel :S (Translation: Live streaming is, because of rights issues, not possible in germany.) VPN that thing and bye bye Angela (alte Katze)  Awesome. Looking forward to watching this live. Our friend bolehvpn will give out a free VPN trial for a day .... or give you a discount for paying with DASH. https://www.bolehvpn.net/altcoin-payment.phpThere is another bitcoin conference called microbitcoin this weekend in Mexico too. Free streaming too. It is ironic that most of the presentations are microtransactions which can't really work with Bitcoin's high fees and slow speed. They would work perfectly with Dash. http://us12.campaign-archive2.com/?u=4fa9ca82fb5d5c6f0867e4b82&id=df37ee4fd1&e=903d23f40c |
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Anybody here to talk to? Hey, if anyone wants to help me define legal issues Dash may face in the future, such as the validity and legality of ADVC's or taxes or anything we might face in the future? I want to start defining issues cryptocurrencies face in all the different countries and the case laws that might be relevant. I figure some day in the near future, we will be challenged and if we are prepared, it won't cost as much to hire a lawyer  Anyway, let me know if you're interested. It's just a side project, but also keep your eyes open to current events with Bitcoin, etc.... we should log any events and especially rulings. Thanks  I'll probably start a google doc or something to start the list, then we can begin to organize it/them This link should help. Describes where Bitcoin is legal/not legal and summarizes compliance requirements. Pretty detailed. http://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-for-beginners/is-bitcoin-legalKeep in mind bitcoin to bitcoin or Dash to Dash transactions can't really be affected - even if they tried to impose a tax. Well, maybe with Bitcoin if they start tracking transactions and ownership. It is just transactions involving Fiat and crypto that are subject to regulations. That is why a decentralized exchange is key - if you only transfer from fiat to fiat and Dash to Dash never linking the fiat accounts to crypto there is nothing that would trigger an exchange event requiring regulations. bcexchange.org could be just that thorn in the regulators side to avoid these complicated regulations. FYI, I am not a lawyer, and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night so take that for what it is worth. I'll help you out on this at least for research. Maybe you can start a thread on Dashtalk for comments and updates. |
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The next budget is 6 days away. Is the dash.org purchase going to use funds from a new proposal or is this already incorporated in core/public awareness proposals?
The only new proposal for this period looks like the Christmas lottery. Checkout dashwhale.org for a description and vote your preference.
https://dashtalk.org/threads/announcing-dash-org.6969/ Investment
Three of us sponsored this initiative out of pocket, for a total of $20,329.99 including escrow and wiring fees, special thanks to Daniel(Minotaur) and Robert(kot) for helping me finance this purchase. The original asking price from the seller was $30,000.00, which is why it was very difficult to negotiate to a reasonable price. The negotiation process was delicate and lead by Triptolemoose over a 2 month period, this project could not be announced publicly upfront as that would put the negotiation in jeopardy and thus we had to request private sponsorship and now wait for budget refunding after the domain was transferred. We will request funding for this from the budget system over a period of four months at the price at the time of the purchase which was $2.42. We are splitting it up to use as little budget space as possible while at the same time refunding sponsors over a reasonable period of time. This will total 2100DASH/month over a 4 month period. Needless to say, the sponsors are supporters of the coin and will hold their refunds creating no impact in the markets, while making our coin much more easier to find online and helping us raise visibility.
so i assume a budget proposal for 4 months is in the planning..... Thanks. We will see if your planning assumption will start this cycle or the next budget cycle. Obviously, those in the know are also preparing for the Evolution Revolution. With an open budget this cycle, I may just submit an anti-troll budget implementing: An update to bitcointalk code with: - New option for "Report troll post"
- Troll IP blocking.
- Troll fine - any trolls pay a fine(in DASH) if they want to post again
- Troll email bomb - first offense 10 emails, second offense 100 emails, etc.
Not that I have any clue if bitcointalk would accept this, or even how long this post will stay up, but hey, worth a shot. |
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The next budget is 6 days away. Is the dash.org purchase going to use funds from a new proposal or is this already incorporated in core/public awareness proposals?
The only new proposal for this period looks like the Christmas lottery. Checkout dashwhale.org for a description and vote your preference.
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hopefully we can see the show live on internet... Disclosure of Dash Evolution is imminent !!  about the dash evolution obviously Speaking of showing live video from the 2015 Latin American Bitcoin Conference; Any chance we can get a livestream of the DASH presentation? The Samsung Note 5 and Edge have the ability to a do livestream within the camera/video settings. It probably isn't too hard to do on other smartphones either. Video about setting up livestream on Note 5/edge for those interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAZ6d5hs3Xg |
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Why are they not comparing DASH/$? Do they not see that as BTC/$ goes up DASH/BTC goes down? |
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Thanks for the info! I'm mining right now around 13 Mh/s. It's severely non-profitable. Which has me wondering why? Even more so, why are so many people hashing away and perfectly fine with losing money? Faith?
You want to undervoltage and overclock your cards to save energy/maximize hashrate. Along with using the most optimized miner software(hint: wolf0). You will also need to have efficient cards like the 750ti and cheap power to make a profit. If you are in a cold climate, us the extra heat to reduce your heating bill(only adds about 10% in profitability if you heat with natural gas). The best option is to find a place with free power and camp your miners out there. Check out www.coinwarz.com to calculate which coins are the most profitable. Keep in mind the block reward with Dash changes, so this site won't always be accurate. If that still doesn't get you into profitability territory, try the mine and hold until a price increase strategy. It would probably be better just to buy instead though. Still feel like mining and you don't have super cheap power, then sell your gpus and buy the new S7. Then convert your BTC to Dash. (You can setup a shapeshift address to automatically do that if you want) Or better yet, sell your GPUs and run a masternode. It still gives you block rewards but doesn't cost an arm and leg for electricity. |
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Wow, DASH is awesome.
is solo mining for DASH working?
Thanks
Yes indeed, it is awesome, and about to be even more so after the Miami Bitcoin Conference when Dash's next-generation Evolution technology will be detailed. Yes, solo mining for Dash is working, feel free to join in! No it's not. Getwork was removed from the wallet, and I talked to Evan about porting GBT to the miners and he didn't want to. OK sir, if anyone would know it's you! I've edited my post. Thanks for the info! Solo mining via wallet does work with setgenerate. Just fired it up. Using an external miner (cgminer or bfgminer) where you connect via RPC with user/password via getwork won't work. If GBT doesn't work then, stratum should work. If not, there has to be a special pool version of the wallet that can be downloaded on github. |
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Does nobody remember setgenerate true -1 from the console?  Note: The 'setgenerate true' and 'setgenerate true -1' implement the high speed CPU fan test by using all cores at 100%. If you feel confident in your cooling system go for it. If not, 'setgenerate true 1' uses only one core(2=2 cores, etc). You can try this with the debug console in your wallet. 'getininginfo' will tell you how many cores you are mining with and your hashrate. I think just the getwork protocol was removed. You might be able to use stratum or GBT methods to mine to your wallet if you want to use an external miner. I haven't tried this with Dash, so not 100% sure. But then you are much better off mining to a P2Pool node or pool that shows you stats and more consistent payouts. I wouldn't expect more than one block per month even with a high end CPU solo mining. |
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Any mining updates with Dash (or x11 in general), are we still mostly on AMD cards or Maxwell cards, any news of FPGAs?
FPGA is still doable, and still not happening unless you've money to invest. I'm working on designs for FPGA, but it's kind of a side project for now. Are you working on the software side or hardware side? Would it be able to use existing hardware or would the x11 algorithm be too much for the current ones out there? Both, if you mean the FPGA design, and the code on the computer to interact with the pool and such. You'll likely need a custom board, OR a more powerful FPGA, but a custom board with several cheap chips would be easier, I think. Any mining updates with Dash (or x11 in general), are we still mostly on AMD cards or Maxwell cards, any news of FPGAs?
FPGA is still doable, and still not happening unless you've money to invest. I'm working on designs for FPGA, but it's kind of a side project for now. What would be the best hashing algorithm if the objective was to enable easy to produce and affordable ASICs or FPGAs that would still be profitable or at least break-even for regular consumers? Or is that even possible as large ASIC mines would take over anyway if the ASIC was easy to manufacture? Large ASIC miners would just make TONS of the chips - economies of scale: shit gets cheaper when you make more of it. Definitely a custom board with several cheap chips sounds better to me, instead of a custom board with multiple chips how about a backboard that has lots of headers and allows multiple current fpgas to attach? Would this even be possible? No, the multiple cheaper chips would be in order to do ONE X11 hash. You could make those your mini-boards, and then attach those to a backplane if you want. So an example of 11 of these http://www.wayengineer.com/wx-coreep2c8-ep2c8q208c8n-fpga-core-board-p-2221.html#.VlTqStKrQdU would be needed on a backplane to allow it do one hash? Each one reprogramed to a different hash and the slowest the speed actually accepted, or would the chips be able to handle more than one algorithm each? PS: Sorry if I am coming across as stupid I am not very knowledgeable about this. No, you don't get it. The chips would handle one algo each - some chips would be able to pack two - Skein and Keccak, for example. You put all those FPGAs on one board, give them an interface for flashing, and an interface for I/O. THEN, if you wish, you could connect said I/O to some sort of backplane, I suppose. Alright that's what I was assuming for the chips and was thinking the backplane would be the way they communicate to the a main board that would allow the transfer of information through (including flashing) but remain independent. so the power of the chips is what would give the higher hashrate? Well, first, it'd be the chips, the pipelining optimization you'd do with said chips, and the INCREDIBLE power savings you'd get. It'd be ridiculous to put the chips on seperate boards, they need to communicate with each other multiple times PER HASH. Okay I have one last very dumb idea, I have been looking into some neat Pi2 projects and have seen a lot of cluster builds, now how possible would a pi 2 cluster work with 12 pi 2's: 1 controller and 11 clustered using a different algorithm each. I do know they are 4 core and a bit more powerful but I am just wondering if it would be even possible. Now as you said the chips would need to communicate with each other would this also be an issue with the pi cluster since they aren't one single board? It'd make more sense to make one X11 hashing unit board with several FPGA chips, then connect several of those to an RPi2. I will expand on this answer. The advantage of an FPGA or ASIC is that they can do one type of task very fast and efficiently. A CPU like in the PIs is designed to do all things and isn't as efficient to do that one task. Even splitting the CPUs up to just do one part of the X11, isn't beneficial. Actually, the graphic chip on the PI may do better than the CPU if it is optimized. Like wolf0 said, the PIs are really best suited for running the miner software(like cgminer) and connecting to a ASIC or FPGA miner board via USB(Like the Monarch or Antimer). The miners(Like the Cointerras or Bitmain S7s) that have ethernet connections usually have beagle bones or something similar to a PI inside. PIs have a lot more uses, too. You can install Openelec on them for a mythtv frontend. You can also use a PI for running a masternode. PIs will use more power than they make trying to mine, unless wolf0 works some magic and makes an optimized mining software. Wolf0, maybe you would be interested in submitting a project for budget funds for a fpga board. You would need to be creative in how you put the proposal together to give masternodes an incentive(maybe % back in sales or discount on purchase). |
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Ok...another quick question....coin control...how does it function in a wallet. As I mentioned earlier...I have a wallet address showing up twice in my wallet apparently because I sent to rounds of funds to that same wallet address. Now I can't use that for my 14th MN as the address is not showing one 1000MN amount...but 2 separate amounts though belonging to the same wallet address...how the hell that works i'm not sure...advise?
Make sure you set masternode=0 in the config file so the funds aren't locked. Are you trying to set up several MNs in one wallet (so you can do start-many?) If so, each collateral has to be in it's own address. first, add a little coin to your "doubled address" to pay for fees and so fees aren't extracted from the original 1000 coin deposit. Then take the second deposit, and send it to another address in your wallet. Anyway, just make a new address to send to, and I believe the first address will still work for you. As long as the original deposit of 1000 coins isn't touched by fees. Also, use coin control so you know exactly which 1000 coin deposit you're sending to the new address and where the fees will be deducted from. Nice explaining TS Thank you Richard I sent you a PM too how to go through it all FYI, You don't need to use masternode=0 in your config. Just go into coin control toggle the lock on the inputs to send out of an address with 1000 dash. Also if you send 1000 dash from an address that has 1000 dash there are no fees. If you combine two smaller amounts to make the 1000, then yes to the fee. |
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1 is false. It's not equally as decentralized because you need a public IP address. People are using shit like Vultr to run their MNs, not running them from their houses. Well, first I'd say we have to note that decentralised logic and decentralised hosting are two concepts which have nothing to do with each other. I agree that - from a network redundancy point of view - a greater level of hosting redundancy is achieved if there are fewer co-hosted clusters. For example if half the nodes in the world are hosted on Amazon and the Amazon's entire service goes down across the board, then that will take out half the nodes until such time as their holders get them back up somewhere else. But remember the masternode's existence is not particularly dependent on the host, it is dependent on the collateral address. A 'downed' host cannot knock out a masternode for any significant length of time because it only hosts an "instance" of the masternode and it can be "re-instanciated" anywhere, anytime. Remember, I'm not worried about Amazon going DOWN. I'm worried about them being forced to give access to the government. What I'm looking at is if DASH becomes huge - if it really becomes an anonymous currency used by the masses. I find the idea of the government secretly being able to undermine the security of what is believed to be secure against them distasteful. There is a possibility that a government could try to block Dash ports or IPs. Of course, that would be difficult in every country at the same time. There has been testing using tor/.onion addresses for nodes and I see that as the long term solution if big brother feels like playing that game. |
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the word "anonymous" does not come with the stipulation that you must be a lowly crypto nerd without those resources, it means untraceable No. Anonymous does not mean "untraceable". It means that a blockchain address is not associated with a legal (individual or corporate) entity in the way a bank account is. So called "backed" money requires to be obfuscated because it is only based on record keeping - usually that of the quantified level of debt or credit of the account holder who's identity is necessarily synonymous with the account. Cryptocurrency, on the other hand, is not an electronic representation of bank accounts. It is an uncounterfeitable token that is not "own-able" in any legally defined way because your name and address is not rubber stamped onto the blockchain. That is by definition anonymity and even when you buy 'crypto' on an exchange you don't own it in the way that you own your house. You simply happen to have control over a certain blockchain address, but not in any legal sense. So there is no need to "hide" the blockchain to support anonymity. In fact blockchain transparency is essential for there to be money in the first place. What do people do when they think their wallet is lying to them ? They go to blockchain.info or some other public consensus block explorer to assure themselves that what they think they made happen on the blockchain - did happen. You think they don't want to see the balance in the destination address accruing when they send a transactions ? You think they want to have to beg the receiver for a viewkey to assure them that they made a payment ? What do people do when they make an exchange deposit and their cash doesn't turn up in 10 minutes ? They go onto blockchain.info and check A. the sending address B. the receiving address C. the number of confirmations. I'm sorry, but if anyone thinks that users of crypto are going to accept anything less than utter transparency before they endow an unbacked monetary system with value then they are deluded to the point of Disneyland. What's great about Dash is this: [1] - it doesn't compromise any of bitcoin's transparency - in fact it inherits it [2] - it makes bitcoin perfectly fungible - directly, without recourse to obfuscation, loss of commercial compatability or transaction auditability. No other coin does that. The implications of [2] are that electronic anonymity reverts to the level of true cash with all the associated implications for privacy and anonymity. One blockchain address is as visible, verifiable and accessible as the next, but simultaneously indistinguishable. That is money. Not some trainspotter's cyphering system. I wade through all the troll bantering for posts like this. Well said toknormal. |
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I think Dash would be just fine if the lead dev ever decided to hand this project over to others, as his accomplishments would not be lost. I do not think that, by investing in Dash, you are investing in one man (rather, you are investing in one man's VISION, just like Bitcoin), but even if you were (investing in one man, that is), the lead dev of this project has shown a consistent ability to deliver and implement innovative concepts in the cryptocurrency-space. This is a very hard thing to do btw. In fact, ALL he has done is deliver, deliver, deliver...(repeat to fade). For that reason alone, it most be worth putting a few shekels on Evan, right?
Since Vertoe left, we have implemented a budget system. This is really the key to keep a project like this going. It can now be expanded to pay for development and any activities deemed the most beneficial from the masternode voters. I agree Evan is doing a fantastic job and am putting my duffs on Dash. |
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Bummer. Maybe it is time for the code to 'evolve'. Any chance we(as in one the smart gurus here) can pickup the code on github and make it work with Dash? |
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Another decentralized exchange is coming soon. They have plans to accept Dash too. Nothing production level yet. https://bcexchange.org/Coinffeine is still in progress too. Won't be long.... |
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I agree with everything above, but even a person with a lower IQ can probably start a hotdog stand and even make a living if it were allowed to be kept simple. I think there would be more happily employed people in the world if the guvment weren't there with red tape. It's too complex. I'm one of those people who can't deal with taxes. It should be easy but all those damn options and legalese.... WTF do they want in that block? Geepers, and every citizen has to deal with that crap. My aunt, she loves the stuff, but she also takes a class every year to keep up with it. With me, I just shut down. I can't deal man, ugh! I wonder how other people deal with it every year.
IQ does not necessarily determine getting a job, just that the highest paid are usually higher IQ. A higher IQ individual may take out a loan for 10 hotdog stands and pay others to run them. Maybe he expands to run a restaurant, then restaurant chain that accepts Dash, then wallah now he is in the money. The lower IQ guy running a hotdog stand may be happy where he is and not want any stress of managing anything else. The two individuals just have a different way of thinking. I think a lot of people would be better off learning how to run a hotdog stand with managing expenses, inventory, sales, and advertising than any of the economics classes taught in school. TurboTax is your friend...Federal is free if you have a simple return. |
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Andreas Antonopoulos just gave a talk about protecting with bubbles vs growing an immune system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=810aKcfM__QAt 20:48 he says: "We are going to build bitcoin with encrypted anonymous private transactions." (It would have been awesome for someone in the audience to yell out "Like DASH!" right after he said that. LOL!)Hmmmm. How is that possible? That would require a 2nd layer tech to keep 100% anonymous - so then not really Bitcoin? Pseudonymous sure, but not 100% anonymous. Video of the difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RVGpHZUKpwAnyone else think it would be a good idea to get a question out about Dash at each of Andreas' talks? I think Andreas' livelihood relies on Bitcoin supporters, if not MIT, etc... directly. It's the only reason I can see that he doesn't acknowledge Dash. In fact it's been well over a year since he acknowledged Darkcoin briefly. Everything Dash has done and is doing, is / was inspired by Andreas. We're big fans. We've been making his predictions come true, yet he acts as if we don't exist. Why? (not asking you trolls) I think it's because he would get hit hard in the pocket book if he said any more. He may already have gotten in trouble in the past. This is sad, because it means he can't be completely honest. But I can understand that. Good point. Follow the money and we will get our answer. Maybe another Joe Rogan 3hr podcast and he will crack and say Dash. It is bound to happen. |
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Andreas Antonopoulos just gave a talk about protecting with bubbles vs growing an immune system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=810aKcfM__QAt 20:48 he says: "We are going to build bitcoin with encrypted anonymous private transactions." (It would have been awesome for someone in the audience to yell out "Like DASH!" right after he said that. LOL!)Hmmmm. How is that possible? That would require a 2nd layer tech to keep 100% anonymous - so then not really Bitcoin? Pseudonymous sure, but not 100% anonymous. Video of the difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RVGpHZUKpwAnyone else think it would be a good idea to get a question out about Dash at each of Andreas' talks? |
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