The timetraveller eviction fix can be trivially copypasted from Geist Geld git.

Not at this point, but should an actual proposal for a sufficiently versatile scheme emerge, I would definitely consider it.

Nifty, though I already sent you the bigger one.

I liked the first one color scheme more, and TBH the thing in the center is supposed to be the pupil so perhaps you could filter it differently ? (Am I being to nitpicky for 500 geists lol ? )

You mean the Fundamental Exploit of 51% as described in Satoshi's paper or the "attacker with 51% screwing up diff without invalidating blocks"?

The former can be sort-of addressed with a clever implementation of licensed mining, I suspect, but that is my bellyfeel nothing more.

The latter is solved already, like, at the moment of reset.

Well, RealSolid is the security expert in all things coin

You gotta give exploits catchy names, lol

Zeit is time in German

Relevance of Geist is, well, obvious 

And it sounds nifty

What BN said.

Try switching the controller to IDE mode and see if that helps.

Well, at some point there will be a semi-final GUI (probably waaay after signing is implemented), though Crutches makes for a bearable GUI replacement (and versatile in terms of easily implementing a "tab+batch" for the more unwieldy or just exotic functions, see Escrow tabs, for example)

I will make a Crutches for Namecoin after the whole "upcoming storm" thing resolves one way or another.

Yes, it would be nice if floks just made pull requests with patches.

It would be also nice if Annie Cruz was in love with me.

Sometimes, life just gives you, well, lemons. And you have to figure out how to burn a house down with lemons


I happen to be part of a culture  with very strong propensity for reciprocity and thus tend to thank people when they help. Simples-s! *sqeek!*


Um, no, Gavin is not the Bitcoin Queen Bee (Queen Bit?).

He's an awesome developer and a well-mannered person, but he isn't in "charge" of the "community" found within bitcointalk (Or did I just miss the Queen Bit election, folks ?!)


I only picked on Coinhunter, and even that after he made hilarious claims of "improved security" (Of which he had, and still has, none.), and even then I started quite polite and did my best to remain so until he went fully loco.




Thanks





I think you should just take it easier.

Alt coins aren't yet as much srs business as Bitcoin, so it would be best if people treated them more lightheartedly.

I wonder why you don't partake in namecoin, it's by far the most innovative

Generally, it would be interesting to see if it behaves this way with other, known-good hard drives.
 

Hm, maybe a faulty motherboard ?

Did you try other SATA ports on the MB ?

One would think that someone who even tries to code knows to rather not say such things to programmers, lol

It seems to be due to many peers not bothering to do an ntp=1, and/or you managing to find yourself a "weird" ntp server for that particular request.

OKAY, ONCE AGAIN, EVERYBODY PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO TURN ON NTP

ntp=1

must be in the config.

Okay, this is itchy...

That I can relate to, though I suggest you take everything (including posted by me) somewhat more lightheartedly.


At this point, I feel like asking for a compensation (100 GeistGeld would do) for the discomfort inflicted via making me shoot carbonated water (which I was drinking) through my nose.

I take it you never heard of, oh I dunno, the Fabulous Sony Rootkit ?

Well, good to know that, though technically, it is somewhat hard to draw a direct parallel due to apparent lack of customers in case of parties carrying out the acts in question.


I made no such claim, though I do understand that other parties have, and might even believe that strange idea.

Well, that's the reason why I created GG (that, and the dream of running my very own "quasi-pseudo-kindasorta money laundering setup" on the internet), though I don't believe one could seriously hope to take the "attacks" out of the equation.

Consider this - attack on GeistGeld has granted the community a straightforward way to trump various "timetraveller invasions" before a more dramatic application of "timetravell" has emerged. In the end, a net gain has resulted.

  And lastly the unfounded attacks on people that are actually out there "doing" something productive with their time.


Um,  do you honestly think that I could discourage the attacks by making a condemnatory statement, or  my immense force of will ?

The most horribly evil thing I could do without ruining Geist (and thus the Superfund, and the Laundry which I so dearly hope to create) is to sell off enough Geist to buy meself a keg of beer and hire a hooker (and get "investigated" for "suspicious buying patterns" by the honorible police of my glorible  president )

BTW, assuming Geist doesn't choke on blocks or something equally terrible, in less then a year  Superfund (the entire thing, both laundry and the bounty and the "small things") won't look that Super (it will still be somewhat  impressive, but given the upper bound for total number of Geists in the hundreds of billions and demonstrated capacity for sustained operation, not that zomghuge as it might seem now).

  I am thus mildly concerned that I have, in fact, premined too little a sum to get a decent laundry going


Hm, if you "emboss" the "sorta-official Geistgeld logo" on it (You can see the small version in the background of windows bundle, file itself is in the Data/scripts folder of the bundle, but I can send a large-ish PNG if needed), I will part with about 500 Geists

Sorry, I just am somewhat less-than-rationally attached to the logo I've cobbled together from stuff and recycled stuff while waiting for the first build to compile ^__^

Difference between "thanks for attacking" and "thanks for fixing it up"

As soon as Geist gets Contract code, I will seek out a way to manage the bounty + faucet (-beer +vodka + hookers +cigar ) part via an open, publicly accountable decentralized management system it presents.

Managing the Laundry Buffer in such a manner seems... problematic (and I am attached to the idea of starting a "squeaky clean laundry that can help cleaning any coins as long as they can be converted to Geist and Back")


Um, print out the part of the blockchain that "contains" the Superfund and wrap it around my genitals, screaming "behold the mighty lolopenis!!!" ?

What exactly can you do with 4-7 mil of any neo-coin except use them as a buffer in a laundry-like system or veeeryyyy slooooowwwwlllyyyyyy spend them (and again, the wisest spending is that on project itself, since it makes the remaining coins increase in functionality and perceived value) ?

There is no chance in hell of selling-off even a fraction of that in one go, and if you have to sell them sloooowwwwwlllllyyyyy (veeeeryyyyy) you may as well start slowly spending them to convince people to contribute useful code (increasing the value of whatever remains and benefiting the community at large due to the whole open-source thingie )


Depends on whether your jurisdiction recognizes "digital coinsis" as money.

Mine would beat me to the death for having this conversation, so I may as well start "laundering" abstract mathematical constructs.


Due to the size of Superfund, it has virtually no other use.


Errrr... now I lost ya.

Where did I "promote" an "attack" on Geist ?  


I do contemplate investing some USD into it, but there aren't much USD I can throw at a coin without facing Dire Secondary Consequences

I also hope that some people will just implement stuff into Geist because they've got this cool idea nobody (especially not Lolcust) ever thought about, but yes, I do intend to post large bounties on Geist features (stuff such as thin clients and blockchain optimizations that later could be ported to other chains) in hopes that some devs will consider it worth a stab.

Um, so far, this approach has not even been tested, let alone demonstrated.

Besides, I think that somewhere later on I said I was "giving away everything except the Laundry and Bounty fund".

Not so much "wouldn't mine" (everyone and his dog can plainly see that the only use millions of Geists could have is 1) Binding them in a huge laundry 2) slowly, very slowly spending them, with a solid chunk being spent on the project itself (so that the utility, and thus price, of the remaining Geists would rise) but "would start a 10 page long discussion about how to best manage the Fund and how large a buffer does Lolcust Laundry need to server an order of laundering 500 000 bitcoins through GeistGeld instead of addressing technical issues which are of far greater importance.

People mined IxCoin after all, and I don't remember ixCoin dude setting up a Really Huge laundry (or even intending to do so), or even bothering to pre-mine his rations in a manner that places minimum burden on the chain, thus I don't expect people to run away screaming because of Fund.

I do expect it to be a potent flame vector, though.

I wasn't explicitly hiding it though - in fact, relevant commands can be found in the config in plaintext, and given how every-single-coin (except namecoin maybe?) premined, I honestly did not expect people to even entertain but a single doubt that I did premine.