Does anyone have any active nodes they can give me ie. addnodes? It seems dtc.graymines.net recently went offline which was what I used to rely on, sometimes I would see a couple of other nodes but my client can't find them either. bytestamp.net's block explorer shows fresh blocks so the DTC network is still out there ..

To be honest datacoin is a perfect opportunity for a good C++ developer who's interested in the technology. The coin is super-cheap due to being abandoned by its original dev. You could quite happily buy yourself into the top 10 addresses without too much outlay, fork the coin on github and start doing interesting things with the code.
You would have a financial incentive, an already respected coin that clearly was not premined and has a fair distribution and also the cachet of working on doing something innovative with blockchain technology. I'm surprised it hasn't already happened.

I've messaged and e-mailed maxsolnc, the owner of datacoin.info, to see if he'll accept free hosting so we can keep the site going. No reply yet, if anyone can contact him more directly please put him in touch with me, thanks.

A few observations and info for posterity 

Maybe you should mention on the front page how to look up your lottery results once you've played ie. double-click on the Ticket in the Transactions view.
How long does it take for a draw to take place btw?

I used my dogecoin wallet (after moving all the dogecoin) it also imports the dogecoin transaction history which stays at the top of Recent transactions grayed out. Ugly and harmless, just thought I'd mention it, I'm currently too lazy to copy everything to a new wallet.

I got twice my doge allocation 160LTS (woohoo!) I guess more than 1 dogecoin address above 500 in the same wallet.

The following is only if you compile lottoshares yourself on Linux : You need to import all the angelshares.txt, bitcoin.txt text files from the release/ directory in the git repo. Otherwise you get the following error if you run lottoshares-qt from a terminal :


Quick instructions : copy the bitcoin.txt etc files to the same directory as lottosharesd, tail -f ~/.lottoshares/debug.log to follow progress, run ./lottoshared in its directory, let it do its stuff. Then go and run lottoshares-qt.

I was stuck on a fork at block 2370 lottoshares-qt -reindex didn't fix it I had to remove the chainstate & database directories. This meant I then had to reimport the angelshares.txt, bitcoin.txt etc

I have a bug (or possibly an unintentional feature) If you select a set of numbers that do not increment ie . 1 2 3 4 5 4 then pressing the Play Ticket button does nothing. I imagine you intend to reorder the numbers sometime and allow the idiot player to continue.

Lastly running from a terminal lottoshares-qt outputs the following :

Something not joined up? System : Fedora 20 x86_64, compiled with non-standard SSL libraries.

small edit for grammar

Until it gets merged with what?

The datacoin source code doesn't seem to have any hardcoded dns seeds, unless I'm just looking in the wrong place (/src/net.cpp), the original author just commented out the primecoin ones.

They could be cold wallets ...

My subjective viewpoint (I'm not claiming objectivity):


Litecoin's (very) recent rise is due to adoption by large Chinese exchanges, it's not a good example. The snowballing of tag is just due to a thin market and lots of negativity on the only major forum for it  .. this thread!


Small businesses generally are incapable of rapidly producing quality software products because they literally do not have the resources (I know I worked for a small specialist software house for 7 years). The game they withdrew is a case in point. They tested it, it seemed to be ok, they released it and it didn't shape up .. what do you do at this point, pretend that it works? (been there too) The better thing to do is pull it and fix it. This is completely normal. As you say "Time will tell." Maybe you should wait a while?


Low mining hashrate is a product of the debate about orphans that transpired in this thread, there seemed to be some confusion as to what the exact problem was with some people blaming Mark and his team but essentially these was no adequate conclusion.  In fact, as you say, the evidence about orphan blocks was circumstancial. Links to your "admittance of various attacks" (careful with the English language there .. it's fragile) and "whitepapers on attacks on altcoins" would be nice.


Not really sure what "asian vs general market coin" even means. So Mark's trying to develop a market in the Phillipines and SE Asia, so that means he has to talk to real businesses in the real world (which takes time) rather than hype his coin on reddit and this webforum so that he that he can offload his premine once the coin's listed on cryptsy. I'm sorry, his strategy is a billlion times more ethical than the majority of cynical pump 'n dumps on this forum. And the weird thing is I know that you think the same, you are clearly a major player here, so I don't understand the negativity.

Markets go up and down, giving the coin a hard time with opinion masquerading as "facts" is not going to help the up bit.

edit : the forum's post editor doesn't seem to like the site's own URL  .. weird

Meh, none of the fundamentals that existed when the coin was worth four-times as much have changed. All the hot air re: mining orphans, Mark Vernon's supposed disinterest or the thread being dead have no substance. Mark and his team are still beavering away on realising their business plan and tag is still very much a part of it. The fact is that the majority of established alts are suffering from bearish sentiment and Tag is no exception, the market on Cryptsy has reached a point where it can be moved by "whales" with a few whole bitcoins, they are just looking for bargains, this is nothing to be worried about.

In short, a perfect opportunity to buy. 

You are not alone I also can't withdraw TAG from BTer, clicking on the withdrawal link gives me "TAG withdrawal is disabled" and some Chinese that I can't read. I withdrew LTC and DTC yesterday so it is only a problem with TAG. I also e-mailed support.

Long-term (in bitcoin terms at least) vircurex trader, just never felt the need to post here until now.

Why vircurex? I like the clean interface. The fees aren't too high (0.2%). There's no distracting trollbox (this is a plus!). Trading engine seems solid, no weird scary delays when submitting orders. I can cancel my trades from the same window I create them from (I'm looking at you bter & bitstamp). You get e-mails on successful trades. Withdrawals are quick and painless, 'though there's a fee. Lastly you earn interest on your deposits .. although that's a bit meh.

Downsides? Low volume, OK for alts. They have been hacked in the past and graciously passed the loss on to their investors .. ahem. The main admin "Kumala" is anonymous, which I always find a bit creepy with an exchange. The site doesn't seem to get much extra web-dev love and attention, some new little tweaks would be nice.

mtgox - solid, great volume, ok interface, never tried extracting fiat from it so feel no need to join the great crowd of 'gox whingers.
bitstamp - as above, but prefer the interface
bter - I've seen chinese characters in the interface, also the bar on the left and the trade history don't update properly which is just annoying. Good for crazy alts.

I was a fan of Bitcoin-central before it got hacked and the guy paid everyone back and took the whole thing offline, now he's redeveloped it but the AML/KYC authorisation is a bit over the top. In a way that's a good thing (exchanges should be legit until someone works out how to do a P2P exchange)

btce - scary anonymous Russians (or are they bulgarians?), trollbox .. gah!
cryptsy - whole heap of issues at the mo'