Does anyone know why the binaries have disappeared from the GitHub page? I use vanitygen to generate private keys on an offline computer running Windows. Fortunately I was able to paste OP's link into the Internet Wayback Machine and grab it from there but most people probably wouldn't think to do that and lack the skills/time/effort to compile it from the source.

Hi everyone, does anyone know how big the current Datacoin blockchain is?

I want to set up a node but I definitely won't be able to if it's terabytes in size since I don't have terabytes of free disk space. The OP in the old thread mentions this:


Datacoin is now a decade old so 513GB * 10 = 5TB. Of course that's assuming that every block since creation was filled to its maximum capacity which I doubt since this coin isn't very popular.

Thanks in advance.

Sounds like the problem is with the service (Changer.com) rather than the coin itself. The devs can't do anything about a third-party service. Bitcoin didn't become a scam when Mt. Gox refused to let people withdraw their coins for example.


Bytecoin and Monero are CryptoNote coins but DASH and Zcash aren't. DASH and Zcash use different technologies to provide anonymity.


The flaw was patched a while ago:

https://bytecoin.org/news/bytecoin-2.0.2-software-update/

Bytecoin had a "ninjamine". Basically it was developed and mined in the dark web by a (probably) small group of people from 2012 to 2014 and only surfaced on these forums in 2014. Strictly speaking, it's not exactly a premine in the true sense of the word.

The price just went up by over two times overnight. Now it's in the top 15 with a market cap of $120 million.

Compared to many other altcoins, it's underperformed overall since the price has increased by only 4-5 times since Jan 2017 even after taking into account the recent price increase. Even just a week ago it was at historic lows (300 sats). Could still be a good buying opportunity. Ripple seems to be doing very well and Stellar and Ripple share many similarities.

I think one problem is that India has dozens of languages.

Hindi is the most widely spoken and is the only one that shares official status alongside English but only about 25% of the population actually speaks it as their mother tongue:


Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers_in_India

I don't think anyone could have predicted that NEM would be such a success.

My first mistake was reading the NEM thread but being too lazy to claim a stake.

My second mistake was that after it became obvious that NEM was a serious project, I still kept thinking that NEM would always remain NXT's "little brother". So I always had more in NXT than NEM.

My third mistake was that I only bought the minimum limit of 0.1 NEM stake on the NXT asset exchange.

I bought a few hundred thousand more on Poloniex for about 100 satoshis each just after NEM launched though with the goal of getting up to 1 million XEM.

Which brings me to my fourth mistake. I forgot about NEM and cryptos due to college just as the bear market was beginning to reverse. So I put my original goal to reach 1 million XEM on the back burner.

I came back in early 2016 to see that the NEM market cap had risen 16 times to $16 million. So I thought it was too late to reach 1 million. That was my fifth mistake.

I still have my original 300,000 XEM. But I could have had so much more...

Wasn't Litecoin intended to serve as a backup for Bitcoin in case the latter fails?

Then again, if Bitcoin fails then I'm sure Litecoin will too.

Just a note... I once heard that most USB ASICs are unlikely to reach ROI. You might be able to profit if you can resell it for a good price though.

Bitcoin (and altcoins) currently only represent about 10 percent of my wealth so I wouldn't be too devastated if it dropped to $275. That was April 2013's ATH. No way will I be leaving. This is too important.

Just a heads up. There is a typo in the thread title. It should be "Signature" not "Signaure".

You could try building your own computer using parts from a website like Newegg or TigerDirect. Buy all the parts that you would need for a normal computer minus the wireless networking card.

Is the dev gone? I'm a New Zealander with a bit of coding experience. I know HTML, CSS, Python, and Java. If anyone wants a new dev to help develop and market this coin, I can help.

1,000 BTC sounds about right.

A whale is somebody whose actions tend to cause noticeable shifts in the market. In the Bitcoin market, 100 BTC would be enough to achieve this, but most whales don't play with their entire balance.

Significantly premined. It's not a 100 percent accurate description for BCN though since it was technically not premined before launch. It's just that the launch happened in the deep web and not out in the open as is the case with most other coins.

Generally very small amounts of bitcoins, i.e. the stuff you'd normally get from faucets and the like.

EDIT: Does anyone know what the precise limit for "dust" is? I find faucet payments of ~10,000 sats to be quite useful because they can be used for paying fees when moving larger amounts around.

Um... Bitcoin's Satoshi was a pseudonym. Peercoin? Primecoin? Those were created by Sunny King - also a pseudonym. Or Nxt? Qora? Those were also developed by pseudonymous devs: BCNext and qora respectively. The Auroracoin dev was anonymous/pseudonymous too. Lots of quality coins were launched by devs who preferred to remain anonymous.

I'm in a unique situation at the moment where I get free electricity since I live with my parents.

The cheapest USB miners I've seen go for about $20, maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less. I've noticed that there are two types - one type that runs at 330MHash/s and another type that runs at about 2.2GHash/s. I had the opportunity to snap up 6 of the latter types for $50 once but didn't take it. Now I definitely regret not buying those while I had the chance.

So anyway, at these prices and with free electricity, do you think it is worth attempting to mine Bitcoin and SHA-256 altcoins?

Or does electricity not really come into play since USB miners use so little anyway?

I think faucets are alright for newbies to get their first taste of the Bitcoin experience. After I downloaded my wallet, the first fraction of a bitcoin I earned from faucets. I spent an hour filling captchas and after reaching the minimum payout limit, I was able to get 5,000 satoshis. Later on I found out that the 5,000 satoshis I had was only worth about 3 cents and would probably cost more in fees to send but it was interesting to see how the whole thing worked.

Then of course I bought a proper amount of bitcoins from an exchange. My ultimate goal is to have 1 bitcoin. I am already about 25 percent there!

So yeah, faucets aren't all that bad.

And remember when faucets used to give away whole bitcoins? Well, if the Bitcoin market cap reaches a level similar to gold in the future then each bitcoin should be worth $300,000. If it replaces fiat entirely then each bitcoin should be worth $1 million. Those 5,000 satoshis would then be worth $15.00-$50.00. Not too bad for an hour's work!

I only just got into NXT a couple of days ago so I don't claim to be an expert but my understanding is that it costs 1 NXT to make a NXT transaction. So in order to send 300 NXT to your friend, you will next to pay a 1 NXT fee. It is these transaction fees are given back to the forgers who engage in proof-of-stake forging and the amount of coins they forge is proportional to the amount of coins they have. And there are now much more than 73 people who use NXT because the original stakeholders sold their coins on exchanges and/or gave them away via faucets, etc.

There was an IPO. 73 people contributed 21 BTC in total to the IPO and each person received 1 NXT per 2 satoshis. So if you had invested 1 BTC (i.e. 100 million satoshis), you would have received 50 million NXT. The NXT you get from proof-of-stake forging comes from transaction fees so the 1 billion NXT coin supply doesn't change.