Tested it on one of my development vboxes running Win7 with Safari 5.1.4 (7534.54.16) and it seemed to work normally. Sorry I can't help you out with this one.

Thanks for mentioning those (I'm collecting hidden BitcoinWisdom pairs)! I was unaware of 4 of them and added them to http://www.cryptocoingrid.com/. And while I was at it I also added the ones on http://utccharts.com/.

@untalented

Nice work on the logo! New version looks a lot smoother. It resembles a coin a more but doesn't go too much towards an 'iconized' logo.

Personnaly I would skip the rounded text for the following three reasons:

• too many technical terms (non tech savvy persons might get scared )
• if any of the terms would change in the future you'd have to replace the base logo (which can be a real pain in the *** when it's widely used)
• the text would become hard to read and make the logo less readable when using smaller versions of the logo (small chest logo on a T-shirt, favicon, small logo's on the various exchanges)

In regards to the rounded text, the mention of the transaction time could be done as kind of a slogan below the actual logo. That way you can use the logo separately or combine it with a slogan. Then depending on it's use, use one or the other. Adjusting the slogans would not affect the base logo. For example, when using it in an arbitrage context the 6 sec. transaction time is great, for mining the ASIC resistance makes sence and general promotional 'Ultrafast' would be a very good one. It gives you much more flexibility.

@TheStuhlman

I've had some time today to read along the thread again after loosing track a while back and I've noticed the dilemma UTC is having in regards to Nitro. I'm not sure if the following idea has passed by already but I just wanted to post them in case they could be useful.

The impression I got is that there are a lot of miners out there with Nitro as primary and an alternate fallback. What would happen if you would force everybody to manually update their configurations, that would at least force a rather large portion of miners to reconfigure their setups, if (sorry that I need to make the assumption) we could convince miners to make their fallback pool the primary one we might end up with a more evenly distributed hashrate.

Ways to force everybody to change /update their config could be running the pool on a (slightly) different DNS name, different IP (if people have hardcoded it to avoid DNS problems) or reset/flush the passwords on the workers themselves.

Thanks for posting that one! Saves me from looking that one up (I knew it was that simple). As stated in the post with the steps, it was rather late last night so I had to catch a few hours before the kids would wake up Didn't have time to sort it out, just wanted to have it operational.

AFAIK, it should work on Windows and Linux, you just need to get the correct binary (or compile it from source). The Scrypt-Jane code was added recently so older binaries probably won't have it.

I put my steps to get things operational for Ultracoin in: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=413978.msg4891707#msg4891707

CudaMiner

After trying many different ways out last night I managed to get CudaMiner to start mining me some Ultracoin I grabbed a fresh Ubuntu 12.04, installed Cuda 5.5, cloned CudaMiner from Git (and this was crucial as Ultracoin settings were added in the code only yesterday! https://github.com/cbuchner1/CudaMiner/commit/ec3f4d3acbcb70b17049a1d9d8d4dc3b936c220d) hassled around with the settings a bit and it was working smoothly!

These are my steps:

wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1204/x86_64/cuda-repo-ubuntu1204_5.5-0_amd64.deb
apt-get install gcc git rsync libghc-curl-dev automake
dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1204_5.5-0_amd64.deb
apt-get update
apt-get install cuda
export PATH="/usr/local/cuda-5.5/bin:$PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/cuda-5.5/lib64:/usr/local/cuda-5.5/lib"
git clone https://github.com/cbuchner1/CudaMiner
cd CudaMiner
./autogen.sh
./configure
PATH=/usr/local/cuda-5.5/bin:$PATH make

Then run:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-5.5/lib64 ./cudaminer --algo=scrypt-jane:UltraCoin -o [pool-info] -O username:password -q -l 70x4 -H 2 -C 1 -S &
tail -f /var/log/syslog #miner output is logged to syslog

-l was set to 70x4, haven't been finetuning that one yet but it was one of few that actually worked. Any advise is more than welcome!
-H is set to 2 as 0 or 1 would result in 1/3 hash rate compared to 2

At the time I was done last night the eyes closed automatically so I haven't had any time for fine-tuning (or doing something about the library paths for that matter).

CudaMiner has a separate thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167229

I got it working yesterday after downloading the sources from Git and compiling them (on Ubuntu 12.04). Ultracoin info wasn't in the code until yesterday (https://github.com/cbuchner1/CudaMiner/commit/ec3f4d3acbcb70b17049a1d9d8d4dc3b936c220d), so a version that's 12 days old will probably mine with incorrect settings.

I also had some trouble with the launch-config, 70x4 works for me. Please let me know if anyone finds a better value, haven't had time to play with it yet. In addition, -H (hash-parallel) should be 2, 0 and 1 were hashing at 1/3 of the speed I got with -H 2.

Nice to see some more logo's pass by I do really like the coloured one!

Thanks for the 'unreal' association and the impossible object suggestion, I might mock something up based on that just for the fun of it.

I do think it would be good to pick a logo before the 1st as it's a lot easier to change it before you go live than to do it afterwards (trust, familiarity and branding are all affected by choosing a different logo). Also considering you're putting a lot of effort in getting it right from the start.... Keep up the good work!

Thanks itsallpc for designing a logo. I've been reading the comments and it's nice to see the positive vibe of all the reactions, great work!

Your post has given me some food for thought. Please don't take me wrong on the following, it's my opinion and I'm hoping it will help the project in a positive way (if nothing else then just the though behind a logo, what does Ultracoin stand for) but I've been thinking a lot about the Ultracoin logo.

First off I'm not a graphical designer, just a nerd with an interest in graphical design so I started playing around with PS a bit. The reason for doing this is because I think a coin logo should have a solid base design and from there you should be able to use it in many different ways with different colours, backgrounds and purposes, but always the same recognizable base design so people would instantly recognize the logo to be Ultracoin's. After looking at all the major fiat/crypto currencies out there it seems the most common way of depicting a logo is by grabbing a character and pierce it with one or two bars (dollar, euro, yuan, yen, bitcoin, litecoin, etc...). That said I figured I'd take the same approach, which is not that original from a graphic design point of view but it does make it easier for people to associate it with money/currency/value.

The result and thoughts behind it are below.



I like the initial logo that was posted when Ultracoin was announced, it's kinda slick and simple and it lends itself for a lot of different purposes (to my taste). I started by grabbing the first font I came across and fiddled around a bit. Starting point is the U (duh...). The bars are made with the same rounding in the ends as the top of the U which was added in order to fit it into a circle (to fit a coin shape). I figured I wanted the angle of the bars to be 'off' from fiat (which is usually horizontal or vertical) as we are taking things into a different, upwards, direction. At this point I ended up with the bottom row and played around a bit with the bars fully visible. I wasn't really happy with the 'weight' of the logo's in the bottom row so I figured to cut the bars away from the middle so the U-shape becomes more clear. At this point it looked like something where you can store something in (value) and even if it would topple a little the bottom bar would keep it steady. TC could be one of many fillings (gives a nice ring to it in the urban dict. ).

I prefer the top-left logo as it's the cleanest version and leaves a lot of 'space'.

Please note that this is about the shape of the logo, not the colors, background, highlight effects or any other form of appearance, as they are all quite trend/taste sensitive.