Yes, they are the owners of Cryptopia as far as I know.

I've been talking on and off with both Jahvinci and Adam over the past months and they are very dedicated to the project. You don't need to have big roadmaps and contrary to what people may think, a roadmap is not positive for a Coin because you get many people that buy based on the roadmap because it sounds as if these things are all completed but are yet unrealized ideas so people buy and plans change as Cryptocurrency changes and then get frustrated or angry because what is given is not the same thing as what is delivered. You cannot predict how the markets will change and what your growth will be over a long period of time so if you do not have a roadmap then you can focus on the tasks at hand and adapt to the rapidly changing market.

Wow man, I really like your MaryJane video!

You can reject a lower protocol based on time if you want, being on a lower client version doesn't matter unless it's some change to the way POS works.

I have 1.0.7 Beta version available for Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qwg6ebbti37pun/PayCon-qt.zip?dl=0 and the change here is that it allows for Blocks of lower sizes to Stake without combining multiple Blocks and will only combine multiple Blocks if older than 14 days and less than 30 Coins. There is a bug in the display of the Bluish-White theme and currently working to resolve it but this latest version is more effective with Staking. Best sized Blocks atm are about 150-300, more Blocks being better for more chances.

You can see my Block sizes here: http://www.presstab.pw/phpexplorer/paycon/address.php?address=PQRF5chk9B8j1WmLHc5guGBMWLvUzDfeQx

and I hit a Block with as little as 21 Coins http://www.presstab.pw/phpexplorer/paycon/block.php?height=239702

PayCon is part of StakeMiners, Paycoin is not. Cyberpinoy approached me about learning more and adding PayCon to his Staking pool in which case I added some Coins to his pool and have been helping him with achieving his own Staking goals and created that logo picture that you see here. I even mediated a little when some people were asking him some questions in a rather direct way and he was getting a little offended, I gave him some advice on how to better handle tense situations and it seems as though it helped him.

PayCon is everyone's Coin and I try to emphasize that point because I want people to take ownership and add/fine tune the code but generally that doesn't happen because you see a persons name on the OP and assume that they are getting paid to work on the code or own a very large portion of the Coins which is paying for this, neither of which is true. PayCon Stake allows high returns, but higher returns can be achieved by being more competitive, everyone has the same advantage but higher amounts give you more base advantage, this is the way POS should be because you cannot argue that someone owns a large portion of Coins if they had to either have POW mined and then Staked them, or bought them from people who already owned the Coin and is Staking them but even then they may not Stake as much as someone with less Coins but Staking more efficiently.

Well more efficiency can be achieved by adjusting your thresholds as you go and maximizing your weight so a very large wallet may not be able to achieve as much if not properly managed. You would quite easily be able to match inflation (0.5% per day currently) but to split hairs, that is the difference between gaining 0.5% per day and gaining 1.5% per day but there is also a set amount of coins produced per day so as more people become more efficient that also lowers the amount for other people so if there are also many people with very small Blocks then you may also need larger Blocks. The Staking is actually really good, it allows more rewards for being more competitive.

I wonder how long it will take them to realize that they will need to face the FUD head on and create a topic on Bitcointalk and engage with the largest community holding the largest amount of assets....

The glitch is only on Windows, I'm redoing my build kit so I can test and build more myself but won't have as much time today. I've had the last few weeks off since I moved, thought it was about time to get back to work so yesterday I applied at the place I wanted and start today, lol

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Here is some of the Stakes I've done the last few days so that it may help you with your Block sizing.

6/23 - 2460
6/22 - 2220.55
6/21 - 2490
6/20 - 3240

I am currently averaging between 1-1.5% per day on 220k, the best sized Blocks for me are between 100-300 with a small range of smaller Blocks (40-80) so I can also have some that will hit for bigger rewards. I am aiming to only have 10% of my Coin not Staking at any given time and use as little weight as possible but currently have about 15% under 2 days age. I have about 1430 Blocks which gives my average Block of 150 Coins, current Stake weight is around 765k but should max out at around 1 million weight. The setstakeplitthreshold will split blocks if it can create 2 Blocks larger than the amount set, the combine threshold will take multiple Blocks under the amount set and combine them along with the reward into one Block. There shouldn't be a need to set the age to combine lower than max age but if you would like to change the age at which they will start combining (seeing as you can compile), it is located in wallet.cpp line 22

It's the best Block Explorer around, just keeps getting better and better. I haven't used any other since presstab built it, a true work of art.

Maybe we can Con them into changing the name to PayConhost.exe? and will automatically install the PayCon wallet? I hear Steve Ballmer is a pretty nice guy, I don't think it would take too much Convincing.

Hey so I had the latest changes rebuilt but there was some bug introduced that is making the Bluish-White Theme not display properly. Version 1.0.6 is fine but Version 1.0.7 it looks all funky, I figured it was the Mac changes but it isn't.

I've been on Vacation for the last 3 weeks but I head back to work tomorrow.

I'll throw down a 10k CON bounty to whoever can find and fix the bug that is causing the display issue in the Bluish-White Theme between version 1.0.6 and 1.0.7

Great, updated that now, tested out on 32 bit and also builds properly so you shouldn't need to edit that anymore to build from source.

I'm also going to add in those helpers for 64 bit

Can you tell me if this is correct for you?

transactiontablemodel.cpp

line 553          return (qlonglong)rec->status.depth;

and

walletmodel.h

line 9  #include "uint256_t.h" 

Yes, that is what I have changed and you can compile from the latest source and it won't combine those Blocks anymore.

I was trying to figure out why it was combining Blocks so early, turns out it was combining all Blocks under 500 if older and the minimum age. I changed it now that it won't combine multiple Blocks unless older than the maximum age and only less than 30 Coins (however you can change it now to be higher if you want in your PayCon.conf file)

You can see these 2 commits to help you understand what I mean.

https://github.com/Crestington/PayCon/commit/cdd4058f7cf2dadc7a3ea83b165ae8f269ce09d8 which refactored to work of the maximum threshold.

https://github.com/Crestington/PayCon/commit/885ecda9180dad9564d75e5d95ca3ad7818d4124 which readjusted the threshold even lower but now allows users to set their own combine threshold past the max age.

I have updated the source to fix the Bluish-White theme as well as updated the forums in the social tab to now link to the PayCon sub-forum on the GetHashing forums. The Change for Mac for the themes has been moved to it's own separate branch for now to build from. Version 1.0.7 Should be ready tomorrowish.

This is a little bit Beta, the bluish-white theme isn't displaying properly which was a change to help the theme's on Mac devices so it will look like I will have to revert a previous commit. Always 2 steps forward and 1 steps back but it will be better Staking-Wise by a fairly large margin.

I have been testing all the thresholds over the last week and by changing the combine thresholds, I have been able to Stake with much lower amounts in each Block (typically around 100-200 Coins at the 7 day mark) giving me nearly 100% more Coins per day.

The reason for this is that it would take a smaller Block to Stake (such as 120 Coins), accept that Block and then add multiple other Blocks until over 500 Coins and pay the 30 Coin reward. What you want is that it will not sweep up other smaller Blocks and still have those small Blocks competing for Stake unless it has begun to hit the maximum age so that you can hit POS Blocks with lower amounts of 100-300 Coins and achieve higher rewards and expend less weight in each Block. This would give you more Blocks competing for Stake which will give you more chance to hit each Block. I've hit POS Block with as little as 30 Coins but now that there is essentially no multiple combines until past the 14 day mark, there would be a fairly big increase in the POS difficulty. Increase in the difficulty is good for the network, it provides more security of the network and will create a more average reward among all the users Staking.

Hey for you Windows lovers I have a new pre-release version 1.0.6 with a vast improvement on the combine thresholds. https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qwg6ebbti37pun/PayCon-qt.zip?dl=0

Previous versions would combine all Blocks under 500 Coins into larger Blocks and pay a reward of 30 Coins, however this is inefficient so the change in this latest version will only combine multiple Blocks if over 14 days old and under 30 Coins as the default.

If you would like it to still combine Blocks larger than 30 Coins, up to a maximum of 1000 you can now set your combine threshold in your PayCon.conf file by adding

combinethreshold=500

(if wanting to make the combine threshold after 14 days as 500 Coins however you should not even need to change the combine threshold, it is just optional if you can find that you can receive higher and more automatic combines by adjusting it)

I'm not sure, you could set your buy walls and let people dump into you rather than buying at market price.

I'm currently doing some testing on some adjustable combine thresholds, I've been doing really well recently with small Blocks of 100-200 Coins but had to edit and create a bit of a custom wallet.

I was asked to comment as well on my experiences with Hippie Tech and my experiences with this user have not been positive in the entire time I have been a part of Bitcointalk. I have had many many occasions where Hippie Tech has accused me of being Muddafudda and going on about his conspiracy theories based on no evidence, generally I would just ignore it because the claims he makes are not based on any evidence whatsoever. Muddafudda is from Australia which I had originally gathered from the type of words used, an angry Aussie will call a person a cunt pretty much every time but just the math of the amount of posts combined would prove otherwise. I also had pictures of being in Vancouver, beside the worlds first Bitcoin ATM and even listed in my profile I was in Vancouver but had Hippie Tech still claiming we were the same person and that I was from Ontario? I don't even know where he would make that assumption as I told him point blank where I was from multiple times and many people came to counter his baseless claims. Hippie Tech also claimed that PayCon was a clone of PayCoin (PYC), which was also completely inaccurate as it is a parody of PayCoin (XPY) and the original code was cloned from CzechCoin which he would see if he took 5 minutes to look through the thread or see the commits in the source.

This is just a snapshot of the kinds of claims he makes towards people and projects and rightly so I left him negative trust with a reference (after him abusing the trust system and leaving me negative trust). Hippie Tech contributes absolutely nothing to any discussion, everything is shitcoin this, candy dev that, nothing is ever backed up with any evidence to support the claims he is making, if you want constructive criticism you are not going to find that either. There is no reasoning with Hippie Tech and that is a big problem because new users see a legendary status and assume he knows something about Cryptocurrency.

I hope maybe some of this may have helped you with your gems project and some insight as to how to navigate the Bitcointalk minefield. I think it was a good idea to hold off on the project until you could gather more information and rework the model, listen to peoples opinions and take on their ideas, there are many companies that pay people to find flaws. I was more using PayCon as an example but to extend on that a little more, it is also about the amount of costs in which the currency is used and sold to pay for infrastructure and it's marketcap, a high marketcap is not necessarily a good thing if it's concentrated among a small group of people. I think you may be able to go with the PayCoin model with separate inflation rates depending on wallets but that tends to be a risk in that it centralizes and causes drama/jealousy and when it's centralized and people need to give you their money in order for you to Stake for them to receive the highest payout, you are being classed as a security and that is a security risk.

For me I do not have that issue with PayCon because someone else made it, I've only made changes and everyone unanimously accepted those changes and bought my own Coins and Staked them like everyone else. If I would have received a benefit from increasing the inflation from 50% per year to 1000% per year then that would have also been offset by donating all my Coins and then buying back what I now own (about 2.6% as you can see on the richlist). Just don't put yourself in the situation where you can possibly see some kind of legal action for the things you do, and be as transparent as you can.