not at home atm. will add sort of that asap

Alright. The upcoming changes:

- Alerts
Every user can set up alerts (E-Mail, maybe "balloon tooltip"-like) for various events:
-- New Chain created
-- Certain High/Low at the exchange
-- BTC Deposits are counted into the balance

- BitCoin deposits/withdrawals
Once this feature is added your balances, of course, will be zeroed..

- Various bugfixes and cosmetic changes (e.g. Background colour..)

-Early PLayer Bonus
Players from Alpha and Beta will be able to keep rigs up to 1500vH in the final game. All coins though as well as chains will be deleted.

-Faucet code completation
So that some of the "fees" end up in good hands.

That is what i gonna do whenever i find the time on this weekend - once it is done the game will be set to RC and rund for a while with real BTC involved.

You got an address for donations of any kind? Got rid of b228 this way and its worh a little donation!

Alright.. that was a longer hiatus than i did expect.. sorry for that.

I will resume developing the game again this week and implement some major stuff now:

- BitCoin payment (maybe altchain payments as well)
- Sending Fork-coins (with "Business API" - maybe)
- implementing last code changes needed for running the game

yes - but shared between his "trusted nodes" whoever that is.. might be his 10 fingers and a nose plus one of his toes..

What i dont understand is why noone noticed that earnings dropped massivly in the past time.. No not due to diff raise but because of a simple factore.. in the beginning of SC2 the trusted Nodes took but a few seconds to mine their special blocks.. now they take almost a minute. While the chain is waiting for them nothing else gets done hence miners work for nothing, at best, dont mine and hence just waste time.. and this time wasted is but one of the ways to stop the stupid inflation in Solidcoin.. i hope SCs little Botnet wil come out again and drive the diff to more than 100k in order to have more than 64coins per block..

Seen all those freaking 1s blocks.. no way thats due to a few GPU miners.. there is MASSIVE hasing power behind that... and no, i dont mean those blocks for trusted000...

I doubt it. If it was EC2 machines someone really would have had burned money.. but what for? The dick should have now so many coins that he could tank the market at any time - the very reason why trusted nodes exist. Someone with a reasonable share of the community's wealth wont break it. The more reason i wonder whats going on.
As i said it is just strange to me that SC allows a single entity to get so many coins that could as well be used to raise the community. Especially since the coins were not spend on the obvious platforms (assumption since the normal volume is quite low). So who would have interest in accumulating so many coins and playing the diff without spending it. Might be it was a 51% went wrong, but if it was a malicious yet failed attempt that i had done i would have tanked the markets in return - just for the laughs. So whatever the dick is, it's nothing that is going to harm the SC network anytime soon - so it must either be a trusted entity under false flag - or someone toying with the crypto currency just for fun, which i also dont think.

I think RS himself could say a few words on it. Not that i accuse him, but i think he could clarify what the dick is/was or what is assumed it is. It all just looks too strange from my point ov view.

Which is pretty much what happened. you see several drops in Diff with a steeep climb afterwards.. always related to the dick.

Thats exactly what i said... strange is just that it correlates with the Attacks on Bitcoin Pools. "mine for us" has (had?) nice statistics on network speed and diff (though the scales were off..) - and those drops very much overlapped the pools DDOSes..
Strange thing though is the scales that were talked about above.. but when i think about it, it makes sense not to put everything into solidcoin that such a strong botnet should have: If i had several hundred thousand computers to put on SC2 i would skyrocket diff and eventually run out of blocks to get whereas while i have a portion on sc2 i could still mine BTC - with the occasional ddos trying to manipulate Diff, which i dont need on SC2 when i have the majority of network speed anyway.

Are there any numbers of the total has power of the dick available? Looking at the block explorer it looked like it had 20 out of 25 blocks from time to time.. and thta is MASSVE mining power compared to the network as a whole.

Been following a discussion on BTC-e's shoutbox that made me.. sceptical towards SC2.

I've been never a friend of such theories but this one strikes with logic and looks realistic. Here are some of the facts that seem prooven:

- Two days ago there was a massive strike on Bitcoin by DDossing the major pools. Deepbit, Slush and BTCGuild were taken down
- Two days ago SC2's hashrate came to a sudden downfall with a retarget almost 40% lower

It has been proven that there was a single "client" been mining more or less than 50% of the blocks being referenced to as the "dick" because his miner id on the block exporer was "8=====D".
This "dick" was not online during the attacks. (Would love to point at the Block Explorer but it seems to ignore it or not show its miner_id anymore...)



Sothe discussion on BTC-e was as follows:
Why did noone stop a botnet that has such a power on the network? Even with "cop"-nodes or trusted nodes or whatever theyre called. Consensus between many people here and in the discussionw was that it could be possible to ban a miner from the fork, i havent seen evidence for that and will just continue to move along this assumption for this discussion.

So, why did noone stop the dick from mining? Because a large scale botnet with that MH, should be at about 15 to 20mh, maybe more, must be composed of several thousand computers. Of course harnessing a largge potential for DDOSing.
As we know from Bitcoin ban of a botnet always leads to but one thing: a DDOS. So if such a large scale botnet would have been banned from SC2 the fork would have had to face a massive DDOS. It wouldnt be sufficient to take out the nodes, but imagine someone dossed all pools and all but one exchange just for a few days and dumps the amount of coins this botnet must have. Panic sell, end of the chain.

What is now striking is the coincidence of attacks on bitcoin pools while the botnet was evidently not mining on SC2. We have heard a lot about deals with botherders in the past few days - so has there been such a thing with SC2 investors (dont want to name RS since there is NO PROOF whatsoever for that..) to keep BTC low while SC2 is flourishing? When the diff on Sc2 is low many people can harness their BTC Hashing power to run SC2.. especially NOW that GPU mining is released as well (as i type this seems another strange coincident to me..).

I really dont think that this conspiricy could actually have hapened but as arthur c clarke once wrote about random incidents:

One time is an accident
Two times are coincident
Three times is a plan.

So summed up:
Botnet is allowed to mine a shitload of coins but doesnt dump them on the markets (the markets volumes are just not that high). The Botnet is down while Attacks on BTC Pools happen. Diff drops of course. When diff is low a GPU Miner is released to allow BTC miners to profitable swing to SC..

It all just fits nicely.

GO back to the hole you crawled out of, please.. this has been dealt with and you were proven time and again to have simply miscalculated your stuff.

YOur argument goes like this:
Eleu paid for a better infrastructure to defend against DDOS attacks.

Others didnt. So Eleu is responsible for attacks against those who didnt.



Doesnt work for me. Sorry.

Dont feed the Troll.

Honestly.. if you argue like that i could point at several incidents where slush or deepbit would have been the only logical aggressors....

We could start bets on what is the "proof" that btcguild might be related. My guess from previous attacks on my pages (unrelated to bitcoin) is that they often came from Hetzner IPs, the same datacenter where BTCGuild is.
So my very simple guess is that a shitload of those computers (Hetzner hosts Provider hosting free PHP pages) may have something like the IOnCannon running.. would look like it is related to BTCGuild..

I would put my hands in fire for Eleu..

Been talking a lot to him in the past months and that is one of the very last things he would consider doing...

that wont be much of a problem... will include this

Ok... i am now back in the world of computers..

So.. any suggestions after the shakedown?

You might as well ask why i dont run off with the wallet file when the game started and people did put their BTC into it, or if id'd just create virtual Rigs with a quadrillion vH for myself.
Simple answer: I just wont due it. You have to trust me on that one. Why should i do that in the first place? I have put a lot of work into it and make it as usable as possible, so why destroy that and my name by cheating? Na.. also. IF the game takes off and people se it frquently i have achieved what i wanted.
If you dot trust my sense of fairnes then it is ok. Then dont play the game, but it all is still quite transparent and when i am back from my holidays i will add some more points to make it all look even more transparent so that such.. ideas, like adding coins or so.. wont work anymore.