they don't work like html tables, since you are not allowed to define widths (neither in percentages nor pixels)...
so they will always look weird.

Yes, PoBN is priority nr 1.

You always find the best links and papers, thanks!

 

You are right.
ATM we are working on a better more structured website, so we can list all the necessary informations.
So that everybody can find the most recent destillations of the ongoing discussions.
I don't think that the OP is the right place for all this, we will only post in the OP what has been accomplished, not "what is going on".
That belongs to the roadmap/website/forum.

Yes, servicenodes will be an integral part of spreadcoin.


True decentralization demands very well thought out solutions. This takes time.

Stay tuned, lots of stuff happening in the background.

exactly the tool I need right now. Thanks!

I agree.

So our first goal should be to bring on this confidence and change our situation so that we can make this happen.

Stay tuned.

Here you go with the most recent windows wallets:

New preview wallet that will always find a block source within 20 sec and has all the recent bug fixes:

http://www.spreadcoin.info/downloads/preview_wallet_1.zip

Or if you choose to use the old wallet, I updated that too (so that it always finds a block source):

http://www.spreadcoin.info/downloads/SpreadCoin32.zip


I will create builds for mac / linux later.

One moment please, I will prepare new wallets, will have them finished in 1-2 hours.

Not at the moment, but it's part of my plan to even put a GPU miner inside the wallet. (current CPU miner is a joke, just a relic from the past, maybe useful for testnet wallet versions)

Yes, that would be possible without problem.

The VanityGen inside the spread-wallet is 100% based on the original vangen (by samr7): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0
I had to tweak and change quite a few things to make it work within the wallet and with SPR addresses, but it should be very easy for even a beginner to create a standalone GPU vangen for SPR.

And it should be quite rewarding:

on an AMD 8-core 4Ghz I get about 1.2 M Keys/s,

And an example for GPU, based on the calculation formulas mentioned here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0
an AMD HD 6970 with 1536 Stream Processors and 880 MHz, should be able to hash about 18 M Keys/s, ...

so on average a GPU should work 10-20 times better than CPU, maybe even twice that.

Funny you should say that.... I had the sudden urge to go to the bathroom after watching the video.
It's like it stimulated the release valve of my bladder.

It happens sometimes when I watch liquifying things... 

Absolutely,

I've been thinking about shortening the name to spread since mr. spread left.
Well, it's very difficult to find any domainname that is spread only,
but we can still just call it spread.

We can think about maybe calling the currency unit itself spread instead of spreadcoin.
e.g.
"How many spread does this sandwhich cost, spread101?"
"Damn, I am out of spread!"
"Wow, someone just gave me 1000 spread, just like that..."

etc

Yeah, in no way can we force people to download and run a certain bitcoin version.
This would take away all their "voting power" and would be a horrible centralization we impose on the community.

So the "proof" that a servicenode runs a bitcoin node must basically allow a fork to happen, if it has to come to that.

So checking that the a bitcoin node is installed (and is constantly running) must happen not by crosschecking it with some master-bitcoinnode, but differently.

Asking what kind of government I want, is like asking me in what exact way I like to get rapped. (bent over, from behind or in your face? Please choose)

The key thing to understand here is that nobody here was ever involved in the creation of any government.
Governments are never created by the people!
You were just born into a system whose rules you are expected to follow... OR ELSE!
(Kinda like people are just belonging to a certain religion, because their parents also belonged to that same religion, and their grandparents etc etc, was there ever a voluntary decision?)

Government is never voluntary. There was never a contract between you and THEM!

So asking what government I want is like asking me what slavemaster I would like.

None ofcourse.

Can a government exist that leaves me alone and that I can just choose to not interact with?

No, they are all infringing, extorting, abusing systems of power that will never give you any real choice.

The only choice you ever get is: comply OR ELSE.

But this is not a choice at all.

People tend to forget the nature of government and they still believe in the absolute necessity of it. (without it there can only be chaos you see. That's what they tell you...)
They don't see it as the evergrowing cancer that will one day kill the host if we let it.

We have a long way to go, and cryptocurrencies will help...

Decentralize everything is the only solution.

No matter who of the devs is right or wrong, this needs to be discussed openly,
so the monopoly some admins have over all the important forums and the censorship we have seen is quite scary.

When threads become threats then something is wrong.

One day I might deserve that honor, but not yet, ... 

If I knew about those specific tests I would do them myself.  

No sir, what we need to look for are bugs that we don't even assume can exist.

So, it's pretty trial and error, and doing things that are unconventional. (whatever that means)

For example click buttons in an unexpected order, or start functions but abort them in midair etc...
Or try breaking things, forexample by adding lots of VanGen Jobs or by Starting/Stopping VanGen insane amounts of times, etc...

You get the idea.

We talked about enabling both in-wallet GPU mining and in-wallet GPU VanityGen in a future version.

This will take some time and we need to figure a few things out first.

Use with caution, it is still in beta-stage.
(So for example don't use it to send/receive large amounts of SPR in combination with the vanity-gen-addresses generated.... yet)

So I'd be glad if you gave me some feedback after you have done some testing on mac.

We have found some bugs with the windows version and improved it, but no real testing has happened yet on a mac.

So in effect this means that the mac version is buggier than windows still.

Thanks.

Yes, here it is:

http://www.spreadcoin.info/downloads/preview_wallet_0.dmg