This is quite an interesting and innovative use of blockchain, very old school (biblical) mixed with new school (blockchain). I'll check it out...

Regards,

c_p

The dev, Truckman, has not logged into btctalk in 19 days, so he has not read any posts, PMs, he is not involved in the community and does not provide ANY support to DAS users. See his profile here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=996485

The dev, Truckman, has done NOTHING to the code of DAS on github since July 25, shortly after DAS was listed on NovaExchange, and has not merged any pull requests with changes and corrections to the master since at least July 27. See here: https://github.com/Truckman83/DAS-source

There is NO whitepaper, no roadmap, no planning, no project management, no short and long-term goals, no effective communication. Just what Truckman feels like saying about once a month or so to prove he is alive and still aware of DAS' existence. :\

These are FACTS, not opinions nor FUD disinformation.

All work has been done through the time, effort and expense of individual community members, including the creation and maintenance of http://dascryptocash.org/ .

Truckman is the SOLE DEV, but as you can see, has done no code dev work in 2 months and has been gone from the only DAS forum I know he is involved in for almost 3 weeks. He used to read every day even if he did not post or respond to PMs.  Over time he does less and less while holding about 25% of all created DAS. He is the dev only in name, not action. He is the weakest link in the DAS community when he needs to be the strongest link for DAS to survive and thrive.

He, along with all of the inherent problems associated with a simple fork of Dash with a bare minimum of changes to be able to call it an altcoin, is why I no longer hold DAS nor operate any masternodes. The only redeeming factor about DAS is it's community, which deserves much more than what Truckman is able to deliver.

I will still help DAS holders and community members in tech support as I am able to, but I am no longer a holder of DAS as an investment, short or long, because I see no future for DAS. It is easy mining profits for large hashrate auto-switching x11 multipools and easily manipulated by day traders on NovaExchange. If it weren't for all the profit motivated mining pools conversions to BTC and the day traders, there would not be much, if any, activity on NovaExchange.

I took a chance in early August on 20k DAS but over the past 2 months, all of the cons have proven to strongly outweighed the pros, but that is my own personal investment and technical analysis. I sold all of mine in small batches over the past 2 weeks so as not to negatively affect the value. To each, his/her own. Make your own decisions...

Regards,

c_p

PS: I *AM* working on a new innovative blockchain project and I will let everyone know the details when it's ready, and not a moment before. It will be good to go right out of the gate along with a process for rewarding members of the DAS community prior to exchange listing/trading. You deserve better than DAS.

I submitted a ticket to zpool previously to clarify that they were mining DAS, which is completely different and has nothing to do with DA$.

zpool.ca response:
"Thanks for cleaning that up as I too was confused to which coin was which and which name it was.

fixed now. cheers"

Something which will come up again and again and again until ALL sources of the confusion are corrected. :\

Regards,

c_p

There was a TWO HOUR DELAY from block 44455 to 44456. Looks like kabi123 is trying to break the hard blocks that the big pools ignore and is having some luck on the lower difficulty blocks in quick succession thereafter before granatgas-pool gobbles up most of the profits. A lot of lower difficulty blocks in 3-5 mins, then a LONG delay, repeat. And the delays will get longer and longer and longer until the dev does something about it. granatgas-pool, zpool and the other unknown high hashrate pools are taking in all the profitable blocks.
kabi123 is either mining and/or spending personal BTC via nicehash contracts to break the blocks this weekend just like I have for the past 4 days. After I spent an equivalent of 3500 DAS (.16 BTC) the past 4 days on nicehash putting 10-50GH/s intermittently into the pool at sopool.us to keep the DAS blockchain afloat without major delays and sync problems, it has been a huge financial loss (50-70% loss depending on competing hashrate then I resell partial mining rewards and put back into mining contracts) for me so I give up. It would be nice for Truckman to reimburse those who are doing his job for him, but I doubt it after all the information I've given to him with absolutely no response nor action anywhere at all. Basically, I threw out hundreds of USD in DAS profits to try and balance the mining and it worked short-term, but is NOT a viable solution long-term. Hours and days wasted personally to make up for an absentee dev. Just not worth it anymore and I throw in the towel after over 6 weeks.

sopool.us: kabi123 = finder D61UnLj... / me = finder D5kEYpx... That's why the DAS network has been fine the past few days. Once kabi123 gives up, good luck on transaction time and transfers. (will be few and far between like last week)

You just CANNOT compete with an influx of 300 GH/s to 1 TH/s of hashpower on low difficulty/high reward blocks to make DAS mining profitable as a little guy on a small pool. We used to have a constant 80 GH/s keeping DAS afloat. Now down to about 25 +/- GH/s constant with 3-5 minute bursts of the HUGE hashpower multipools taking advantage of the situation regardless of how it affects the DAS network, transactions and value.
DAS is on community life-support and the dev is in a coma, IMHO. At some point, the plug will be pulled after the big pools squeeze every BTC they can from DAS and leave a shell of a frozen blockchain and dysfunctional network. That's how little x11 non-dev'd coins die. A slow, painful death as they get eaten by profit-switching x11 multipools. IT takes a LOT OF DEV and constant change to survive. That is not the case with DAS. The sales of the multipool mining rewards seems to be the only thing propping up NovaExchange. When they throw the mining difficulty higher permanently and blocks are stuck you won't be able to even transfer DAS from your wallet to Nova to jump out unless you pay for mining on nicehash to confirm your own transactions!! It will take hours and even days like what happened last week without someone throwing BTC at DAS mining via nicehash to "break the blocks" for the DAS community.
Again. I give up. It is just not worth the time, effort and BTC to fix it as a single member of the community. Truckman is the one sitting on approx 25% of DAS (approx 30 BTC/over $100,000 USD) and he is doing absolutely NOTHING to dev HIS coin. OUR coin. YOUR coin. W.T.F?!

Regards,

c_p

Why fork the coin with all the inherent problems? Like buying a broken common car and spending money to fix it up to mint condition when it's cheaper to just buy a car in mint condition. (ie, new fork from Dash (NOT DAS) with a fix to the difficulty algo, mining reward algo, x11 PoW limitations/weaknesses and more).
Make sure it works like it should out of the box in a parallel, not series, development.
Faster and cheaper and better.
Regards,

c_p

Unfortunately, there is not. Truckman is holding around 25% of circulation and can kill any takeover of DAS or profit from everyone else's labor in the long run.

It is actually easier and cheaper to fork a NEW coin that is done correctly from the start, properly coded, thoroughly tested, alpha/beta'd with constant dev by a 4-8 person dev team, proper resources and constant, efficient  involvement in the community.

I am putting together a post to state all my current opinions of DAS and to solicit interest in the dev of a new coin that will be what DAS could have been and much much more. There WILL be a reward to the existing DAS community for involvement in the new coin community when this new dev project goes pre-ANN/pre-exchange.

Regards,

c_p

Re: mining, difficulty algo and rewards

a.) the difficulty algo needs to be fixed with a "x" block lookback WITH TTF taken into account to balance an average TTF of 2.5 mins regardless of hashrate for the life of DAS mining until max coin achieved. *edit* If difficulty rises over time and reaches new ranges (which it is apparently doing), more hashpower is needed to continue the blockchain progression to keep things moving. A masternode network is useless unless there is a constant progression of the blockchain.
b.) The current difficulty algo is NOT working. Was something changed from the original DGWv3? It is supposed to prevent exactly what is happening. Have you looked at MIDAS? (an alternative to DGW when looking to upgrade the Kimoto's Gravity Well (KGW) limitations)
c.) The current mining block rewards is NOT working as spec'd. Was something changed from the original default? (I have the #'s to prove the calc is WRONG)
d.) HIGH difficulty blocks (harder to solve, more time, more hashrate, more cost) SHOULD be rewarded with higher block rewards. LOW difficulty blocks (easy to solve; lower cost/hashrate) should have LOWER rewards. Doesn't this make sense? It seems something is inverted somewhere in the code.
e.) IF the algos worked as they were intended and some MINOR adjustments were made, this will balance out the mining, create equitable rewards, keep the blockchain consistently timed for transactions and confirmations (reliability), create regular expected MN rewards like clockwork and prevent huge hashrate mega autoswitching x11 multipools from even getting interested in DAS to exploit EXACTLY these problems to their profit.

*edit*But ALL of this is addressed in your DAS whitepaper, right? (It SHOULD have been....) Also, just because the code works without errors (from a coding standpoint) doesn't necessarily means the output of the code is as was intended. That's what testnets and verification and calculation of all outputs compared to intended algorithm and specs are for and is what should have been done before any ANN or sale of DAS. I wasn't around at that time, but I AM analysing the outputs compared to your documented specs in the ANN. And diving into the mining this past week was a real eye-opener on what has been going on with DAS and all it's problems recently.

Truckman: THIS IS YOUR JOB TO FIX. Really, bro. IF you really don't understand nor know how to fix it: GET HELP! We can help identify problems and come up with various solutions, but it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY and OBLIGATION as the SOLE dev (holding approx 25% of all created DAS to date) to fix it. You have premine to contract freelance coders and if you need help in the process, ASK. Sooner rather than later or they may be no DAS to fix. :\

I have been willing to help you with technicals for 6+ weeks but you choose to ignore it or just do not care and minimize what is wrong and what needs to be done. I may not be around much longer to help you nor the DAS community unless you ACT NOW. Thank you.

Things are very off kilter and it is currently detrimental to the future and success of DAS.

Regards,

c_p

So in reviewing granatgas-pool:

10 different miners yielding **269 GH/s** on easy blocks (<3000 difficulty) that switch in for 5-30 mins based on next block low difficulty, or switch out based on next block high difficulty caused by the MASSIVE hashpower. That is .25 TH/s being thrown in at will to maximize DAS blocks for max mining rewards. Compared to the regular 30-40 GH/s provided consistently by all other mining sources? Damn!!

There is NO way to compete with nor dilute that hashpower within reason. 269/309=87% hashpower in the hands of ONE autoswitching multipool. It would take the DAS community and consistent miners of DAS to bring to bear a min of 300 GH/s to hold a 51% mining. The x11 multipool there has up to 1.2 TH/s to bring to bear against all or one coin in their pool. That is the world of x11 ASICs.

I just hope the other pools are mining consistently, but I don't think so. EVERY time there is a difficult block over 5000 when I'm mining, I am the ONLY one who solves the block. ("breaks the block").

That is just rough. But that is one of the cons of an x11 single algo coin and the x11 ASICS now out there. Dash has a HUGE network, higher difficulty, with a lot of Dash in circulation at a high value with expensive masternodes= that's their protection). DAS = "same" system but very LOW cost, MUCH lower difficulty, low circulation, high mining possibility and easily exchangeable to BTC for immediate profit = no protection. (Why Vivo went neoscrypt? A little overboard on mining power/costs needed, IMHO)

Take it up the port from the ASICs? Or change something down the road to protect the integrity and reliability of DAS?

Regards,

c_p

I'm verifying profitability calculations with buying hashrate on nicehash - x11 before buying a nice ASIC rig. I'm trying to expand the profitability calc to take into account other miners mining a coin since that is a MAJOR factor in profitability. For example, you calc the profitability on 10 GH/s at x difficulty. Yes. IF you are the only miner. IF total rate is 60 GH/s, you are only 1/6th of the total hashrate and in constant competition. Profit calcs (that don't have that factor) vs real life mining can be very different and the more competing hashrate for the same coin decreases that profit calc. Especially pooled mining. I know too many who have gotten burned by not realizing this beforehand.

Of course, you can always rent out your hashrate on nicehash regardless, to help cover overhead costs of gear.

Regards,

c_p

I say no on Yobit. Last resort site that has a LOT of crap coins and the site also takes MUCH more CPU/RAM than needed for what it provides. I've used Yobit and it is at the BOTTOM of my list. Do not pursue. We need more in circulation and a higher value before we expand exchanges, else we risk delisting. With the much decreased sellbook on Nova and the current average price, we should be careful when/where listed. Nova is easy, cheap and anon.

c_p

IMHO, Mr. Truckman owes some DAS to quite a few peeps around here, including you and I (I'm currently putting 10 GH/s for 24 hours into DAS via sopool.) Will add/remove as needed to prop up network and fight "Hash Wars: A New Hope" vs granatgas-pool. I hope it becomes such a pain that they voluntarily bail. Will be sending the granatgas-pool op an email later too to reinforce their unprofitability with orphaned blocks.

c_p

PS> Who/where is pool for addy DH5gpm9VyYDiN3vfAtbD9eZSxJkdtbyibq ?!

In reviewing the "blockchain bully" https://granatgas-pool.info/site/block?id=1533, I'm noticing that one of the effects of dropping out on high difficulty then jumping back in for easy with more mining on other pools is causing long strings of orphan blocks more frequently. Yep, one of the down sides of doing what you do and I hope you choke on orphan blocks and waste your hashpower and electricity until you give up on DAS.

I'm watching them very closely...

Thanks to EVERYONE that is mining DAS consistently on other pools to support the stability and growth of DAS as it was intended.

Regards,

c_p

IP search showed USA due to Cloudflare interface.
Thanks. Updated.

c_p

**CURRENT DAS MINING POOLS IN OPERATION**

Topcoins (2% fee): (unknown; Ukraine?)
http://mining.topcoins.biz/
-a x11 -o stratum+tcp://mining.topcoins.biz:3533 -u <YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS> -p c=DAS
DAS Pool Wallet: DMqRsejTbi9uV3QWPrjyqPiYraAxNdMFcj

NEW!!!
SteamOctanePool (0.25% fee!!): USA
http://sopool.us/
-a x11 o stratum+tcp://sopool.us:3533 -u <YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS> -p c=DASx
DAS Pool wallet: DPcNKxhvuqjSyTdjfr6BjwDgKgsCnjznmp

JUST ADDED
AltMiner (0.45% fee): EU
https://altminer.net/
-a x11 -o stratum+tcp://eu1.altminer.net:3533 -u <YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS> -p c=DAS
DAS Pool wallet: DRZpdd1ouj5rDNjxYDZJ66dTDdsfbEB8LW

Any other reliable, secure DAS mining pools that are up and operational with multiple algos and coins?

Regards,

c_p

EDIT:
WHAT UNKNOWN POOLS DO THESE DAS ADDRESSES BELONG TO?!

DH5gpm9VyYDiN3vfAtbD9eZSxJkdtbyibq (edit: found to be zpool.ca)

D5gzmDN9Zy9cmvCmT466Fo9VZfHbJPrFgh

(FYI: DDfTcnWUu1tcpQ4dY5WQhHY9KVv833QnFu is granatgas-pool DAS pool address)

Anyone have any idea on the unknown(s)?

Between those unknown pools and granatgas-pool, they are taking the lion's share of easy blocks and their larger rewards.
(Shouldn't difficult blocks be higher rewards, easy being lower rewards? Why is it inverted. It rewards granatgas-pool behavior instead of avoiding it?

You want hashpower on HARD blocks and the more hashpower needed (ie, cost), it should be a higher reward.

Anyone care to comment or elaborate?

Truckman?! I have some REAL WORLD DAS difficulty calcs and block reward calcs (vs specs in the ANN) that you would be VERY interested in seeing.

One miner? Not the case. Several pools can be up to 400-500 miners at one time total, but when 400+ jump out to maximize profit? LONG TTF on hard blocks. No new block = no transactions = no confirmations = no mining rewards = no MN rewards, etc.

SEVERAL pools, but the hundreds of miners on the x11 multipool at granatgas is maximizing their profit on EASY blocks and when the difficulty gets over a certain threshhold (3000?), they autoswitch to another coin, leaving the remaining DAS miners on other pools to work the hard block with lower hashrate. Before hexpool went down, we had a consistent hashrate of about 75-85 GH/s. Now it varies from 5 GH/s to 75 GH/s, with granatgas controlling the hashrate and holding DAS ransom basically.

This is what DGW was meant to prevent, but as mining tech improves, the algos on cryptos ALSO needs to diversify. Having a multi-algo crypto protects an altcoin from the x11 ASIC autoswitching multipools.

WE NEED MINERS ON http://mining.topcoins.biz/ and http://sopool.us/ ASAP. And find a pool(s) of altcoin miners who are willing to mine DAS cinsistently to make it profitable. Losing hexpool to the yiimp hack was a HUGE blow to DAS while granatgas was milking easy blocks in the background.

DEV NEEDS to find a solution with granatgas-pool. Either do something to have them STOP mining DAS (payment?), blacklist them somehow, change difficulty algo to react to major hashrate spikes/extremely fast TTF, dump DAS to manipulate price lower to make unprofitable for granatgas-pool until fixed/resolved, or change to a multi-algo after a certain block with a major core update? Otherwise DAS will be held hostage, like every other small altcoin at some point or another, by huge hashrate single algo autoswitching multipools who care nothing about the coins they mine, just the BTC profitability vs mining costs regardless of the consequences. Pure greed at any cost. Period. And that is one of the major downsides and potential killers of crypto, esp altcoins, in general.

DEV? The ball is in your court. Time to earn your premine!

Regards,

c_p

https://join.slack.com/t/godas/shared_invite/MjI5OTE5NzkyMDk2LTE1MDM0OTQxMTgtNDEwZGQyM2RjYg
Expires in 1 week

Anyone who is on the Slack can provide an invite, not just the dev. The community takes care of the community.

Regards,

c_p

Here we are again.

Block 42726
Difficulty 5420
Time since last block: 15 hrs 18 mins
No block, no transactions, no confirmations.

W.T.F.

Regards,

c_p

Exactly! And not a cover band either...

Re: multipools and autoswitching in single algo coins, I came across this interesting thread that EVERY dev, current or future, should read (ahem, Truckman):
https://www.reddit.com/r/litecoinmining/comments/1vrish/multipools_are_bad_for_the_health_of_cryptos/

I'm going to look into the issue further when I'm free later (even though it's not my job). I'd like to hear about the status of hexpool and what happened and whether it will be back up?

For the time being, let's try to get more miners interested in mining DAS to point their rigs to topcoins and sopool to get some growing and stable hashrates to counter the effects of granatgas-pool entries/exits in DAS. That's the only immediate solution I can think of.

Truckman: I've sent several PMs. This issue REQUIRES your immediate attention.

Regards,

c_p

Again, the "burst mining" by granatgas-pool on low difficulty blocks causes ever increasing difficulty with the DGW algorithm and once the difficulty reaches a certain threshold, then burst mining stops leaving the remaining small pool of miners to solve the highest difficulty blocks. See the curved cliffs of difficulty on the POW Network Difficulty chart http://das.thecryptochat.net/index.php? ? What used to be a much smoother "wave" is now a fast peak and drop thanks to granatgas-pool controlling most of the hashrate after hexpool went DOA. Previously having hexpool consistently mining DAS prevented these cliffs and manipulation of the blockchain.

Right now stuck on block 42726 with base difficulty of 5420.38. Once the long-term (ethical) miners solve this, then here comes the burst mining from granatgas-pool to quickly gobble up the easy blocks and their higher mining rewards.

Personally, I consider this a mining ATTACK against DAS. Using difficulty monitoring and thresholds, the multipool at granatgas-pool is exploiting a weakness with DGW that is built in with Dash-forked coins. Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should. Apparently profit is the main motivation at all costs.

a.) the difficulty algo needs to be adjusted to deter these burst mining attacks

b.) the offending pool needs to somehow be "blacklisted" or prevented from submitting blocks to the DAS blockchain due to the malignant nature of their activity

This needs to be analyzed and solved SOONER rather than LATER and is just another reason why there should be a DEV TEAM for a coin to pool skills, experiences and resources in REAL TIME to correct issues like this and the many others that need to be addressed with DAS.

Regards,

c_p

Be patient. ANOTHER high difficulty mining block (42621 with base dfficulty of 5995) is holding things up now that we are at the mercy of profit-seeking, difficulty-averting miners at granatgas-pool, Just give it time.

I've been looking into the DGW versions and looking at the code to see if there is a solution for the "high hashrate multipool insertion for low difficulty blocks with retreat for high difficulty blocks" that is possible. Looks like profit-seeking miners are staying ahead of the protective difficulty algos that are used to prevent just what they are causing. They directly cause a situation (increasing difficulty) but don't want to hang around for the effects of what they cause, only to come back when difficulty low (and block rewards higher). That's why DGW is on v3. We need a balance on this DGW difficulty roller coaster. :\

Truckman!!!!

Regards,

c_p