I'm actually quite excited for this update, DCgirl has been working on a few theme's for the theme competition and they looks great (I'm asking her if it's alright to post the previews she sent). I have been working with pollforall to do a little restructuring of the menu along the left side instead of at the top for easier navigation and automatic TOR integration, and have pulled in the hashdrift settings from HYP to help reduce the amount of orphans. There is also the combine threshold settings as well which was part of the beta a few pages back (and works quite well). The costs for the help from pollforall should be around 1 btc all up which I already have available from the sale of my personal CON (sold my 220k CON for 1.18 btc), and there is the 20k CON for the theme's. I have been super busy with work over the last week so it's better sometimes to try to pay others to be able to help introduce new things and try to recoup some of the costs afterwards. I have Thursday and Friday off to really sit down and go through it all, test and finalize it all so hopefully if everything goes smoothly I can have it all ready for Friday.

Shh, don't tell the scryptards but the end is near. The warnings are coming in full speed at every angle and has been increasing over the last few weeks, with so many people proving that it cannot work there cannot be enough deposits to outweigh the withdrawls and keep the Ponzi going. The deposits of some 500 BTC to the deposit address over a few days was not new users depositing new funds but the admin depositing funds to try and make it look like a rush to buy khs for cheap. I would estimate that the actual amount that was sent was closer to 50 BTC, maybe less.

Whale lounge, that's a great idea. What would be great would be to have a humpback whale mating call every time a person Stakes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLPmFeux_2o

You seem to be trying to defend Josh and those that would take advantage of the market for the own personal gain at the expense of others while negating the evidence at hand. It's arrogant and foolish to believe that you can try to hide the things you do, to think you can hold all the Coins from a full premine and then sell them into the market and blame it on the people that say the math cannot work, to think that the Blockchain is anonymous and can't be seen and proven. Private jets, $2000 a night rooms, fast cars and bodyguards, that money is coming from somewhere so to say that an innocent man is being dragged into a bizarre world of conspiracy is delusional at best. If you want to prove innocence then you cannot prove that, only Josh could have proved that by being fully transparent with the costs, accountability, and the investors behind the "CAF fund". The only lives ruined because of the things that transpired are those of each persons own doing, the greed and sheer ignorance of those involved caused their own losses, there is only karma and it can be glorious or a bitch depending on the things you do.

I have been working hard recently putting together a new update for everyone. I have sourced 1.18 BTC from the sale of my Con to get some help finalizing a couple wallet features (some work of ascetics of layout of the wallet and TOR integration), along with a couple features I have been working on (integration of the combine threshold settings, and hashdrift settings), and still have 20k CON as part of the theme competition and have been provided previews of 2 new themes. I should expect all this to come together in the next week for a nice well-rounded release across the board, estimated time is Friday.

Aim higher and goals that seem insurmountable by others are infinitesimal by comparison.

All good, was just making sure. I had people still on old versions months later and since there was an original OP I couldn't control, there were also people trying to download there too but they could never connect and ask about it, I'd ask them what version it was and if they didn't know I'd get them to post a picture (It's also helpful if there are some cosmetic changes too) and then can just get them sorted and on the right version.

I would suggest that if coding in a fork to also bump the protocol number and reject old clients once the fork is in effect. Even if the fork is set a month in advance, there are many that would not upgrade and will just use their old client and this can lead to chain conflicts, stuck blocks. If you reject old protocols then they will not be able to sync with the rest of the network, this is fine because if someone cannot sync, they will come here anyways and ask why, realize they need to be on the latest version and upgrade and back up to speed. If you do not reject old clients then they may be able to sync, it won't be apparent they need to upgrade and won't so it's best not to allow that to happen.

You can add it to the main.cpp file and Block old clients based on time and protocol number, this is an example from PayCon.

        if (nTime > 1430124800 && pfrom->nVersion < 70122)
        {
            // Since February 20, 2012, the protocol is initiated at version 209,
            // and earlier versions are no longer supported
            printf("partner %s using obsolete version %i; disconnecting\n", pfrom->addr.ToString().c_str(), pfrom->nVersion);
            pfrom->fDisconnect = true;
            return false;
        }

Yup that's what I was trying to explain. Just make sure you are not overwriting any wallet.dat containing any balance and make backups incase anything happens. I had a laptop of mine overheat and burn out last year so just make sure you are planning for worst case scenarios.

I have been mostly active in the development of PayCon but I would not suggest putting all your eggs into one basket and to diversify among different Coins. If you buy a large amount of one type of POS Coin you also need to be able to sell that amount as well so the larger amount you have in any one Coin, the harder it is to sell into any buy support or to put on sell orders to wait for other people to buy. There are two types of POS, passive and competitive Staking, passive coins give you the same percentage reward based on what you own such as MintCoin, TekCoin, HyperCoin, or MaryJaneCoin, competitive POS give a fixed reward per Block such as HyperStake, PayCon, Clams and Bitbeans and for these Coins it relies more on the sizing of your Blocks in order to receive maximum reward and general rule is more Blocks give you higher rewards and can receive over the actual inflation as there is never 100% Stake participation. Best place to start is to begin researching Coins in the list, looks at what types of volume each Coin is doing, how much inflation they pay and then start asking questions, look for good entry points.

HYP is very good, I have been working closely with presstab on a number of different things. A number of people around this topic also warned about XPY and why it could not work and you get the same resistance from people, you present the math of the matter of why it cannot be possible with solid arguments and proof and people turn a blind eye and call FUD, lose a bunch of money and later on realize the trolls were trying to help.

I posted a pretty good list of POS Coins a few pages back if you are looking for a few alternatives.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444495.msg11776285#msg11776285

I would probably just delete the Blockchain (not the wallet.dat) and then resync from fresh using either the bootstrap.dat or downloadable Blockchain available from the OP.

Yeah, the splitting of Blocks for optimal rewards. I really like your work with Clams, I love the distribution method of it and when it comes to altcoins there have been many people that have come to you for support. I still remember that it was you who had verified the legitimacy of those leaked primenode keys for PayCoin. Why would you recommend the khashier Block explorer when the Presstab Clams explorer is way better? http://www.presstab.pw/phpexplorer/CLAM/index.php

These guys should just forget this Scrypt.cc Ponzi mining shit and go for Proof of Stake Coins, there is atleast 10 or so good POS Coins making good headway and provide nice rewards while allowing users to always have control over their own funds.

In a way yes, when Blocks are static in POS it's a little like a lottery (because the same amount of reward is being generated each Block and each day) you would assume that larger Blocks are better because they would Stake sooner. The Skill is in finding that sweet spot in which you can generate the highest amount of Stakes possible with the amount of Coins you have. I thought larger Blocks were better too until presstab broke up all his Blocks super small, I called him crazy but he proved me wrong. There is such a thing as too small as well and may dwindle at max age if going too low, if lots of people start using small Blocks, then you would need to use larger Blocks in order to compensate.

Are you sure? punctuation says otherwise.

lol how do you propose that someone would be gay and have kids?

Do you want to be gay together? I'll let you lick out my ass and won't even wipe, we'll call it one Homoero, no cup.

How's the babysitting of your husbands lovechild coming? I suppose the child support payments should be fairly easy with the money Josh received from the terminally ill.

POS with a fixed Block reward works a little bit like a lottery, large Blocks will let you Stake a Block sooner but more Blocks will allow you more chances but you don't want to have it so low that your Blocks will idle at max age and never Stake. I have been Staking with an average Block size of 200 and yielding approximately 1.5% per day in which I've tailored my Blocks where the majority will Stake around the 7 day mark.

http://www.presstab.pw/phpexplorer/paycon/address.php?address=PQRF5chk9B8j1WmLHc5guGBMWLvUzDfeQx

I've also hit with some of my small Blocks too http://www.presstab.pw/phpexplorer/paycon/block.php?height=249473

The risk there is that with lots of very small Blocks like that there may be many that could linger at max age.

As far as I know, I am yielding the highest rate of Stake that can be achieved.


You cannot Stake in an exchange wallet, you could however have your own Virtual Private Server. I was recommended https://crowncloud.net/openvz.php for cheap hosting ($3.50-$5 a month and can pay in BTC) and you could even Stake multiple Coins (CON, HYP, TEK, NET etc.) on the same VPS. You will want to setup SSH keys (with password) and 2FA for your servers and email as well as encrypt your wallet as Mintonly with a strong password as well. You can use this guide to help you compile and setup your server https://forum.gethashing.com/t/how-to-setup-a-paycon-wallet-in-the-cloud-for-5-a-month/3832/18

When setup you can upload your wallet to the server and it will Stake, when you connect to your wallet locally you will receive the same Stakes (as long as you are not creating new addresses on one instance).

Well the thing I think about is that there are many old Coins which have very large Blockchains and so people justify it being so large but yet it limits new people from joining in. I'm talking atleast 8-12 months from now so we could start planning and having everything setup with lots of notice, everyone likes high reward Coins so you could keep those high rewards and just do a stock split every once in a while and shrink the Blockchain at the same time. In order to do it, it would have to be redeemable automatically with the same private keys similar to Clams.

Any idea can be good, it's about how it's implemented and if it's equal among holders.

Good to know, haven't heard too much about those ones but will keep an eye on them. I'm not really a fan of all the Dark trend Coins, makes for unoriginal name so it gets lost in the other dark coins like BlackcoinDark, DogecoinDark, LitecoinDark, etc.