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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Maieuticoin | HARDWARE | 2014% PoS | BRAND NEW WALLET READY | on: January 03, 2015, 11:26:26 PM

Going to be doing random MMXIV giveaways this weekend to random addresses mining any algorithm on the pool!

hehe, now that was a nice surprise...  Shocked Cool

...certainly I'm one of those random miners... at least it would explains how that fresh compiled wallet could start with ...well, batteries included  Grin

thanx a lot!

2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Snowballs | 1000% Stake | Win FREE BALLS with the in-Qt Trivia Game! | on: January 01, 2015, 02:25:11 AM
...haha ...left my wallet running and that amazing thing won't stop dropping blobs of coins like a ticking snowball cannon  Grin...
that was no joke with the 1000%...duude, lol... first wallet I voluntarily leave open and running for staking. I'd say, mission acomplished...
award for some serious user entertainment... could have as well named them 'tribbles'

btw. nice way how that diff chart resembles the snowball 'heartbeat'


6 day shift on the multipool and only 8,680 BALLS paid out?  Did something go wrong?  I was expecting about 10x that, especially with the price drop the past couple days.

X11 pulled in a cool 40k  Cool

yup... was pretty surprised myself as I gave the pool like 10 maybe 15 percent mining time at most, and nothing when the shift exceeded 3 days... and I went away with ~1.6k balls... and after watching them doing their stake-thing... holysht... well, one can call it a one trick pony... now, with some dead serious bad ass mofo molahplicator trick and a half  Cool

3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Snowballs | 1000% Stake | Win FREE BALLS with the in-Qt Trivia Game! | on: December 31, 2014, 07:15:39 PM
hmm... depends on how much you've mined. got ~1k each of both last shifts by throwing my aux 6x750 rig some couple hours every other now and then over the last few days... however, multipools are just a nice convenient thing. you might make better deals when you cherry pick coins and trade them yourself to buy a bag of balls...or you let the pool do the job...
that previous shift was a little long so I as well became cautious but remember... holidays  Cool

btw. one has to witness the moment when those bucks go staking, what a drop Shocked...
after that very moment it all so clear why they're called <snowballs>  Grin
4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][ONE]1Coin|First 3S Algo|v1.1.0.1|**Android Wallet Beta Available Now** on: December 20, 2014, 07:56:03 AM
no worries, we're here to stay. I'l keep on developing new things. I'm currently working on http://x41.eu/. this should not take too long. If we get delisted on the 19th we have EmpoEx. I'll have them integrated in the wallet with the next checkpoint release
I like your position... and there's dragons, where some of the time estimations on time consumption of various development tasks originate... yet, the last few days should be good to satisfy the conditions for this market to at least go beyond that checkpoint...

but, if I might suggest ONE thing regarding the market integration thing...

maybe I'm just overly alert and hope you just meant that indicator on the overview page, which I'm pretty ok with that...
(yet, it would be nice if those augmentations could be made switchable @ runtime with some corresponding argc/argv param.
e.g.: --show-markethelper or --marketdisplay=true ...haven't had the time to look at the implementation, but some generic priceapi abstraction layer could make market adaptions way easier to maintain, or turned of if infunct any time in the future) 

...and If you're indeed planing some bigger thing marketing gateway or trading integration, I'd strongly suggest to make it either utter generic and configurable (without need to rebuild of course), or refactor it to become a separate application.
and if you indeed do fancy that idea of integrating some marketing platform gui helper, I'd just kindly ask you to reconsider that plan.

it might look handy and crafty at first glance, but those market integrations are obviously way too specialised single-use (and potential spof) applications. I'm really not sure about the security implications such static integration could suddenly introduce to individual users or even the network and might introduce several potential new attack vectors.... and it would also completely contradict all ongoing efforts to improve decentralisation.

yet, as a side package, a simplified payment gateway app could be awesome...
...bundling it with a special tailored, even smaller footprint p2pool server and if even possible, pimped to be even more turnkey (I'm qt'ing a little helpergui that makes the whole thing integrate somewhat more windows-like...hides to trayicon, detaches p2pconsole, configuration helper, selector, run, stop, logviewer, some essential servermetrics, ...)
could seriously help providing the network with some decent distributed, mining enhanced, extra security and stability benefits.

THAT's one thing I'd try to trim down to some vital ultracompact minimalistic core let it eventually become an integral part of the clients support libraries...


:-)
5  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][ONE]1Coin|First 3S Algo|v1.1.0.1|**Android Wallet Beta Available Now** on: December 20, 2014, 06:02:05 AM
I'm looking for 10,000 1coins.
I think this coin has a great future, it has to be it's just need recognition. But you have to decide it for yourself and as always, only invest as much as you're afford to lose.

I'd say, coin infant mortality on the one hand is very high in altcoin sphere, but there's some points that support my assumption, ONE actually could be among the very few candidates to dwell and thrive in the long run. so it most probably won't be prone to share the fate of most other cryptoalt: solely spending the rest of their unsacred lifetime bufetted behind some marketplace walls. ...til they end up rotting 6 bit under.

... no need to mention that you shouldn't fancy this organic grading of distribution, acceptance, perceptibilyty and value assignmennt to pop-up over the weekend. that would be some ridiculous anticipation and one...
if this coin toddler manages to move on from kindergarden, you're likely to look back to this point in time to realize, it actually might have been not the worst of all ideas if you had bagged some decent amount of coins now... while keeping in mind to just exchange as much, as is covered by funds at disposal for long time speculation (in terms of several months to years), and prepare holding at least the better part if not most of the stash. that's where PoS actually plays a valuable role, encouraging users in bagging vs. dumping.

if you're already chomping at the bit, this most probably is NOT the right coin to invest... you'll find enough fleeting scamcoins already doing an excellent job serving for redenomination purposes of bit- and altcoin values, plus supporting some black hat devs and marketplaces Grin

crazy thing, it sounds even odd in some even more odd to describe way, but some coins are best being kept tight in great numbers inside their wallets, while trading (if necessary) only some minor part untit a proper value agreement does manifest itself, and - most important - a value that becomes accepted and spendable in exchange for stuff you actually need (...and usualy buy with fiat$).

if the better part of some cryptoledger becomes used in the frontend-world ( Cheesy ) you will have a state of constantly recurring demand.
strictly speaking, the term 'currency' doesn't apply to some cryptcoin before it being in some realistic user current in the first place...
...yet, most other alt not even aiming such targets. so, in my eyes they might - while remaining graceful - at best consider being a: trading token per design.

tl;dr: not the worst idea to buy an amount you can afford,  while being aware and confident to hold the best part of the bag for maybe several months...
however, what springs to mind: the outstanding ratio of broken promisses vs. not even promissed, nevertheless already delivered features.
this luckily seems to inverse deviate from the majority of other alts... it's like a solid iceberg on one side... and some drifting floe's drivel about its fantastic ~90% underwater mass ...that's inmidst secret developement... maybe...

still, just my 2cc of pondering... everyone has to calc his own risk assessment and evaluate probabilities... or cast some dice...  
6  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][ONE]1Coin|First 3S Algo|v1.1.0.1|**Android Wallet Beta Available Now** on: December 20, 2014, 12:41:46 AM
I'd say, the last 5-7 days some nice flow came into market... at least 1 or 2 5k packs which I positioned at ~1200-1400somewhat should be sold Grin  lucky me, I wasn't able to remove them when the price went aaaaall the way down to ~400s (my 2fa still is broken and no time to really care yet)... and viola, ONE had some hickup and now it sits on a more decent level of ~1500s again.
bittrex is some kind of pressure market for altcoins. some coins are really struggling (and by far only part of them deserve to do).
yet, even with supposedly the biggest trading volume on that market level, bittrex still ain't kraken or btce...

most of the coins actually do provide little if any benefit, some even damage to what could be supposed the fundamental principle, basic idea, the spirit or main intention behind bitcoin and all the currencies that since came to being... and that's not a high and stable price in comparison to big bank's legacy 'future broken promisses on paper or metal' aka. fiat money.

yet, some of the good concepts that are actually serving their playground time will prevail, evolve, merge, refine and eventually lead to new concepts that might be another step closer to what it's all about:

breaking the unsurpassed power the global financial system implemented over the last centuries, so eventually all of humanity might be one time able, willing and so confidentialy could let go that poisoned mindset of 'live to make profit'... heretofore we have the dubious pleasure to iron out the bugs and flaws (and the whole galore of fraud and scam up to the point those individuals loose interrest by nature)

however, on that way a good trading value undoubtedly helps to fill some gaps Wink

yet, I basically value a coin way more if it's not solely pimped for the shambles to sell more broken promisses Wink

7  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][ONE]1Coin|First 3S Algo|v1.1.0.1|**Android Wallet Beta Available Now** on: December 19, 2014, 01:26:47 AM
c-cex might be a good for 1coin ,there are no bots operating there and they have a decent volume for a low exchange

Couldn't agree more.

I applied a few times with no response. But I'll keep on doing that, perhaps some day they'll respond. You can suggest 1coin too at the following link:

https://c-cex.com/?id=vote


...need to get in contact with them anyway... could not hurt if I mention ONE as a sideline Wink

and btw, that bitbucket repo is nothing less than some full fledged all-round carefree package... Cool
it's only some very small group of developers out there having more than the one-commit-qtwallet-code in their repo@thehub, so
I guess I'm not the only one appreciating to witness some decent amout of dedication here...

I'm eager to get the p2pool online localy... the concept is awesome anyway and should become ever more popular. feels like solomining with a group Cheesy
so, thx so far and keep up the good work Smiley

8  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][STAB] STABLE - ICO is over - Controlled Price Increases on: December 17, 2014, 11:54:38 PM
so according to roadmap tomorrow new wallet with first increase countdown

...now, speaking of wallet

as the stable wallet is a direct descendant of x15coin and seems to be identical twin of aegiscoin, there's just 1 deviation I'm curious about.
I pretty much don't have a clue how to rate that, as I couldn't find a reference anywhere else (not even at cpan).
you'll find it somewhere right in the middle of T512_21


Code:
aegis/src/hamsi_helper.c

static const sph_u32 T512_21[128][16] = {
   ...
 SPH_C32(0x2f353af4), SPH_C32(0xb1337778), SPH_C32(0xc4b6a25d), // <- @22788 this should be: 0xb1152578
                                       ==========
   ...
}

now, maybe you can shed some light on that...

dont know much about codes, what do you think it means

actually I intended to get the dev to comment upon that... as it's a pretty subtle deviation in one of a gazillion values in those lookup table arrays... but if someone changed this I as well suppose him to be able to elaborate on that... or point to a source where this change was implemented when he adopted the code... 
...so, it was actually not you I addressed. just took your comment as a discussion starter Wink


9  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][STAB] STABLE - ICO is over - Controlled Price Increases on: December 17, 2014, 11:20:59 PM
so according to roadmap tomorrow new wallet with first increase countdown

...now, speaking of wallet

as the stable wallet is a direct descendant of x15coin and seems to be identical twin of aegiscoin, there's just 1 deviation I'm curious about.
I pretty much don't have a clue how to rate that, as I couldn't find a reference anywhere else (not even at cpan).
you'll find it somewhere right in the middle of T512_21


Code:
aegis/src/hamsi_helper.c

static const sph_u32 T512_21[128][16] = {
   ...
 SPH_C32(0x2f353af4), SPH_C32(0xb1337778), SPH_C32(0xc4b6a25d), // <- @22788 this should be: 0xb1152578
                                       ==========
   ...
}

now, maybe you can shed some light on that...
10  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] .0015 BTC per GH/s - 5 year contract **www.BitcoinCloudServices.com** on: December 13, 2014, 08:08:40 AM
Its clear their servers are not in at the address on their website as its an accommodation / registered office address.

They may not want to make public their mining farm address for security reasons which is understandable, but I am willing to give an undertaking to them and sign any agreement that I will not disclose the exact location.

I'm note even sure if i should assume they have hardware running somewhere
in the center of london, I don't know if I would...
how much is the average power costs in london? I have no clue...

I guess it could be close to what you'd pay in other eauropean metropolitan
regions. but that power needs would be in the ranges of mW/h, however
the rates differ somewhat compared to standard private conditions.

but there's countries close or within the EU having waaay lower energy costs
and some attractive remote locations... in terms of getting some serious
building for nuts and energy at fractional costs you'd pay at home this is a very
apealing option.
 
abandoned industry class depots and facilities are a steal, no condemned ruins of course...
they might even bring out the red carpet for you, as actually someone is giving them
a bunch moolah for what lay fallow til then Wink

that's however one factor that could change a lot and that'd be factors I would
care for a lot when choosing a location.
low energy costs are a real game changer to keep you running esp. in the
starting months. poland and czechia seems to be very interresting locations
regarding this.


putting 1 and 1 together, my guess would be the whole thing consists of several
different calculations and sub venturing... not just some pure, true oldschool
mining farm from the days when 'cloud' still was associated with that plushy
vapour stuff over our heads and not close to being awarded the
don't-you-dare-saying-it-just-once-more - word of the year.

a lot of eggs in various nests, step by step some physical mining here and there,
some franchising to get things going with little to no initial costs for parting the
earnings... some fixed interred here, some venturing there, dealing with hedged
future options could be a vial option to crank your stock back up if you're actually
into that kind of gamb...err trading.

having the right people at hand to fiddle your own stuff would be also an option
to get a big advantage...
...but in whatever place such engineering would be supposed to happen, one thing
is sure, it's not that stock one time install miner warehouse that we can see in the
image that almost went viral over the last pages of this thread.
guess, that was intended to suggest being representative and provide that techy
look and feel, just enough to send the anticipated 'serious' message Cheesy.

now turning suspicious mode completely of, my best guess would be that they go for
a wildly mixed concept (but want to build up more own physical mining power.)
that would fit exactly the special nature of those type of trading/mining companies
but usually mixes badly with the concept, most people share when making their
estimations if a certain business can be considered 'serious' and 'trustworthy'.

... needless to mention that I suspect at least 80-90% of mankind to prefer
beeing shy and less talkative about such adventurous patchwork calculations
than to go straigh open, as they fear such openheartedness is the way to drive
their crowd away.
so it's more likely the do like most would do and try to vamp up their image
as god as possible, to give the customer what they suppose he need to see to
cut asking questions.
 
that's in fact is how all business works... but all those fraud woven and high risk
assets especially on this sector also help with donating some extra pessure...


I'd prefer if at least part of a walkthrough video as well would include an interview
whith the guys where they tell teir story. something you can actually believe, that
is the point when those human face to face skills are back in game.
you can tell way better if someones telling bull or not if you get input on all
channels... no need for location details, but something plausible no sweettalk...

...pff, as if someone would believe that all those retailer cloud mining backends
actually had only the remotest influence on what actually happens with some miner
hardware?!? ...let alone that minerhardware running on the same continent... let
alone that minerharware running at all ...most things happen in the mind



I'm always at the position, tell it how it is... if someone choose to stay, he knows the stakes.
so he has the feeling to have full controll.

if you tell a nice story to suite the customer who might already being suspicious, he wont
let go the alert mode for a very long time and every little glitch will spill loads of adrenaline...
so he suspects more and more things being beyond his controll.

... and because most people are easy to impress with fine addresses and their imagination
renders some tacky ass office in some fine street, and in fact in most cases it's
just tacky ass postboxes in some fine street.
maybe with some office service you can rent... answering phones, checking the mail,
fax, etc... logistic backbone or an entire staff... even on an hourly basis.

and most people still go 'whow... nice1, that addy' when their imagination goes wild.
sure, save to say you have a slightly different picture of an address somewhere in bromley
than you get picturing an east end office with london tower at hands reach, somewhere
between eastern smithfield and royal mint street... sounds even better Cheesy

everyone can hire such service, it's as much 'office' you need on fixed budget... and as said,
the address looks a lot better on your letterhead...


mundus vult decipi ergo decipiatur...


oups... that was a lot and one...
11  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][STAB] STABLE - ICO (5 days, 25 BTC) - Controlled Price Increases on: December 13, 2014, 01:22:56 AM

now, I wish you the very best... fair enough article, nice and short...

...that 'reserve' thing and especially

providing, promoting & maintaining a multipool are an important step to keep that thing at least running
(that'd mean, being ahead of min. 85% of the other altcoins after, say a year ^^)

how stable it will turn out to be will largely depend on demand. and I mean that sort of demand,
coins like bitcoin or darkcoin are creating in their user environment. and undoubtfully, there are already
users... only hitting a market and beeing shifted around is like juggling futures... and some of these commodities
even don't exist (yet, are well hedged) ^^ ...just 1 rule: play at will. you leave late, you pay the bill.

stability only comes with demand.

- multipool (good 1st step!)
- merchant gateway
- stable and agile network (singleboard nodes/wallets will be a major boost for p2p in near future. target on that)
- simple to use features with some real or even outstanding value (esp. for target users in some niche).
- supported with hardware! hardware (even if optional) provides something you can actually touch! game changer.

...but foremost important still is only one thing, are people'* willing and able to use it as if it's -> money?!
('*people != believers and nerds, digital banksters, prospectors, profit hunters, the daft and the curious)

those few cryptocurrencies currently 'in use' - and even if it only happens within a local reach or the targeted
busines sector... those few altcoins are used to actually create 'real world' transactions. 'value' in exchange for
service, commodities, or other value-keeping items that suffice in trust and certain other requirements.


if cryptocurrency can provide features similar to fiat, chance are good that the global perspective on fiat money
and centralized banking will change one day not too far in the future. and once it's around, it might even happen
pretty fast.

yet, presumably that day is still far from being considered 'around the corner'...

if you want to put some serious work into that coin, go for technology with a future.
- smart contracts (ethereum, codius, halo...!hot)
- coin mixing, ofbfuscating
- multisig wallets (security, lightweight escrow...)
- use technology where p2p excells... name- peer- gridcoin, whatever... just imagine: decentralised,
  transactional, turing complete, high secure, autonomous working, anonymous... everything.
- use hardware! singleboard- and wearable-size pcs (cold or hot wallets, coind nodes, p2p cloud whatever, etc.)

consider the community regarding a coin as experiment, sort of game, marketing trick,
or 'not a joke anymore' (spelled: scam) if not one of the above (or somethin comparabel)
at least is transparent to be a central objective. and I'm speaking of community (men with
 a mission  Cool) ...not the remaining ~95% mainstream branch of society. again, they
are tremdously amazed by those little hardware gadgets Wink

however, all the (sta)b(l)est Smiley




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this book has been written in front of a live audience
 
12  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][STAB] STABLE - ICO (5 days, 25 BTC) - Controlled Price Increases on: December 12, 2014, 10:54:35 PM
is it just me, or is it just happening notably more frequent the recent time... every other
new clonecoin's best showcase only seems to consists of presenting:

- flawful or sloppy research the likes of: the proposed and promoted names or isomark
  already being taken, used, some even popular?  or...
- telling that tacky story of uniting those ultimate features of some other coins for the
  first time in history, to provide you with the glory of that new, highly anticipated currency?   while...
- eventually just taking over some known name, pre- or postfixing it with some fancy
  'dark', 'lite', 'shadow', 'tor', 'black', block', 'bits', 'u name it', and use this to get a free
  attention ride? ...plus maybe some irritaded accidential buyers who bought some coins
  in a trigger happy mood when they thought, they'd get that arbitrage of their life Cheesy
  (which is their very own damn fault, btw. Cheesy)

I'm just wondering, why so much of the proposed work is either not ready, or not even
considered to become assigned to someone (before launch!)
...and on the other hand there's not the slightest sign of beeing concerned about
powerlaunching hat coin anyway whithout having something like an infrastructure,
or plans (apart from some mysterious phantasy drivel) how to get the next steps
done... but however, hype shouted for mining til the gas goes through the floor...

I don't want to say that all aspects show up equaly in any case. * it's just again that
level of unpreparedness I can see here... but that's an ever faster emerging pattern
all around... looks like too many folks still are getting away with just throwing
together some necessary minimum and somewhat sweettalk the community with
another perky story, completely obfuscating that theres lack of ideas, clues, and
experience in the first place. which is - even regarding the whole scam - still fairly
easy... fair enough.
from from time to time that feels like walking over a bazaar. some hyper hyper
boosted launch momentum, sometimes with diff beyond all reason, so most are
focused on that, this there's not much time and attention to ponder about, that some
features which actually even could help making such coin useful to an extent (in
the real world, I mean in the strange place outside the network Wink). those points
are often dealt with in a slightly shy or secretive manner, or rather ignored as if
there were no tomorrow...

I'd even go so far to say, the lions share might as well being pronounced:
ponzi mining venture, coin lottery, chineese dangle, musical chairs... Grin

yet, that was more like some 'cardinal rant'... it was just that all so popular:
'mmkay, there's already stable u say? that went somehow aroundd me...'
that got me started  Wink


...however, I have already created some blocks myself when I noticed, that diff was faaairly low...

hehe, we'll see if the coin lives up to his name eventually... what was it now?

STABLE, STABLES, or STAPLES**...  Wink

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  * so, the whole yadda yadda is not against that stable coin, more like a general
    observation, that draws my attention all too frequent...
** that'd be actually not the worst name if not already taken
13  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Snowballs | 1000% Proof of Stake | Good Liquidity | Staking Hardware | on: December 11, 2014, 04:28:05 AM
for those who haven't noticed yet... website as well back up again:

http://www.mmxivcoin.com/
14  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Spark | X11 | BTer/Bittrex/C-CEX | PoW/PoS | Exchanges | Roadmap | on: December 11, 2014, 01:50:28 AM
so now...

some numbers first:

my wallet shows me, at the moment there should be
- 2.164.130 SPARK already distributed
- which would be close to 9% of  
- a total supply of 25.000.000 SPARK.

and fact is, currently there's almost no new block beeing generated by pure staking.

that would change, if we'd turn on POW again... I'd go and distribute them like so:

Code:
     27623 -   36000    -   ~5 days*  @  1 SPARK -> max. ~7.200 SPARK (warmup phase)
    36001 -  165000    -   ~3 months @ 12 SPARK -> max. ~1.548.000 SPARK / ~3.6% tot.
   165001 -  300000    -   ~3 months @  8 SPARK -> max. ~1.080.000 SPARK / ~2.5% tot.
   300001 -  560000    -   ~6 months @  4 SPARK -> max. ~1.040.000 SPARK / ~2.5% tot.
   560001 - 1000000    -   ~1 year   @  2 SPARK -> max.   ~960.000 SPARK / ~2.4% tot.
  1000001 - 2000000    -   ~2 year   @  1 SPARK -> max. ~1.000.000 SPARK / ~2.5% tot.
  2000000 - max supply -   ~? years. @ .2 SPARK -> max.   ~100.000 SPARK/y / ~0.25% tot./y
 

*the ~days calculations are at most something like a very rough estimation,
as the total amount of blocks generated at the specific height, will consist
of both, POW and POS blocks.


so, about 5.500.000 SPARK - that'd be ~20% of the total supply - could be created
via POW within that next 4 years. so much for the theory... the practical side will
show that this amount in fact will be somewhat lower, as some blocks are
well beeing created via POS... whereas this should be max. 17.5% of the already yielded
coin supply every year.
however, POW will work indefinitely and could be used to generate new blocks,
yet every block just yields another 0.2 SPARK until the maximum coin supply of
25mio SPARK has been finaly worn out.

conclusion:
- final amount stays the same
- distribution allows for auxiliary mining to engage every time
- staking still is more profitable in the long run
- POW distribution of only 20% over a 4 year period doesn't exhaust coin supply
- after 4 years, POW can only generate max. 100.000 SPARK / year. that's 0.25% of the total supply

that is the only solution I could find, that actually could work and wouldn't even touch coin scarcity after all.

this is the one and only last chance I see.


other option would be to drop that thing completely, as I don't see a chance to get SPARK online with POS only.
not any time soon, not even in a hundred years  Wink


well... that been said...

In theory, I'm ready to release the code, as well as to provide a windows .exe (w/o needing some additional .dll's anymore)

but I want to get in touch with bittrex and bter beforehand...
(I think I remember that c-cex already did close their spark market...*)
 
and I want to make sure, someone still is in this thread here and interrested in an update...
...I still get connections to the presumeably dominant network, consisting of 1.2 as well as 1.0 clients...
however, to enable POW, obviously those clients need to be updated as well or any POW block will become
rejected eventually.

so, please leave some feedback, at least to show you're still here and somehow ready to make an update within a few days.
the code changes will be supported with proper comments and so should be easy to verify...



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*) cannot confirm, as with my smashed cellphone, as well my 2fa to enter the site is not available atm. but maybe I can fix that in the same turn...

15  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] .0015 BTC per GH/s - 5 year contract **www.BitcoinCloudServices.com** on: December 10, 2014, 01:18:44 AM
I work in London, so of they let me I could make a video, or at least verify their equipment.

that'd be actually awesome!
16  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Spark | X11 | BTer/Bittrex/C-CEX | PoW/PoS | Exchanges | Roadmap | on: December 09, 2014, 03:10:27 PM
well... how should I start...

right now, it's save to say (at least, that's what I experience here) that the SPARK network is stuck at around block 27622... on the 1.2 clients. thee chain that is at around 27620something supposedly is the one, the most clients are around thus build the whole of the potential network anyway...
...then there's that seednode client at spark.cryptonotepool... RentaMouse had set up and included as seednode for the 1.3 client update... with the new staking parameters... but that's stuck as well I think... I don't know exactly which client version runs on bittrex and bter (bittrex updated to 1.3 and after 55blocks went offline with the wallet is my last info)

so, regarding the facts:
- block generation with the 1.2 client obviously doesn't work as for a full PoS with such parameters, a strong network of staking clients is needed. that will fail if there's just a couple clients online every now and then... staking deadlock, as I guess at least a lot of the small to medium wallets experienced...
- block generation with the 1.3 client as well didn't work, as this network seems to consist of only the seednode and the chain, that forked off ~1000blks ago seem to be abandoned, at least I don't get any new blocks from that side...

I draw the conclusion, that only by turning on PoW again, there is a chance to bring back movement into the stuck chain.

Silkcoin, which is something like SPARKs clone parent, had a similar thing implemented... they turned of PoW for some time and reopened after blk 50000 or something.

atm, I'm calculating some parameters, but I'm planing to release the code any time soon in the new repository. I think I will trim down coin generation at around 1 SPARK per block. it was at: 200 < blk7200, then 100 < blk14400... I will calculate some reasonable values and post them here as soon as I got them. yet, as a rough calculation and first experimental settings I used a new upper PoW bound of 500k new blocks... that'd make 500k new coins over a period of ... many years, have to actually calculate that, not in my head right now... but many many years Cheesy  ...so, staking still would be beneficial and possible... and some miners as well would be able to help maintaining the network with a little amount of mining power, gaining a little amount of extra spark.

well, as I mentioned I'm far from beeing an experienced coin dev, so speaking with that amount of experience and maybe a decent amount of general development experience, I'd say it's the only way to don't let the coin eventually die out in the state we've got right now.

I'm collecting the values now and post them here, will finish the code, contact the exchanges to check upon their wallet status first to coordinate the update... if they have rolled back to 1.2, there shouldn't be the biggest problem anyway... however, I guess it would be even better for them to wait a couple days with the update until the current clients are updated, working and I can confirm to them, that the network has stabilized and generating new blocks again...

if however anyone has suggestions. ideas, objections or concernc, please discuss.

hasta la vista... I'll be back  Cool










 
 
17  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Spark | X11 | BTer/Bittrex/C-CEX | PoW/PoS | Exchanges | Roadmap | on: December 08, 2014, 06:04:56 PM
well well...


some news in all shortness:

on the good side, I might have found a solution to get the SPARK network up and running again... might...
...atm I do not get any connections anymore and I hope that will change back, as up to this morning I had like 4-5 connections more or less constantly.

the downside is, I havent heard from RentaMouse for like 2 weeks now, so no clue which conclusion to draw on that... and I'm only like starting to get a remote clue on how things work in the core of the coin.
...would be a great thing to learn, if not dealing with a patient in the emergency room... and me - to continue with the metaphor - beeing the doctor... yet, of theoretical physics xD

however, it might as well be, that I already found a solution... need to test the code and will release an update, which will be mandatory, within the next 24h... if however I can confirm the code working of course...





------ 4h later...

some bad news, but only regarding my local real world stuff... a couple minutes ago I finaly smashed my cellphone display and touchscreen went byebye, so I'm a little bit into getting into my device as - I know, I know.. - important functionality is stuck with that event... some 2fa, fone, sms, etc. ... so i have to reroute this however and see what I can do to fix that mess xD...  


...but I'm also into debugging that network issues as soon as my head is free to concentrate upon that... hope to tell you asap anyway however if and when there will be a next release that will help getting the stuck chain issue running...
I'd love to give you a well-founded assessment, but that'd be almost solely based upon educated guesswork and gut feeling... (see. the doctor thing above) :/
18  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] .0015 BTC per GH/s - 5 year contract **www.BitcoinCloudServices.com** on: December 08, 2014, 05:41:22 AM
Have not received a payment today as of now. Usually it's paid before 2am.

Same here... Rage is rising  Angry

...now, wait... I'm the one now who say... calm down folks!
yup, it was me  Grin.

...cannot really speak out of personal experiences as I have no contract at btc, yet at least I never heard complaints from any side about not having been payed so far. the source of payments seems to be a pretty distributed model, some mining, some reinvestment, some whatever... how they manage it under the rugs is everything else than thought to be transparent, yet they seem to have a lot of happy customers...
19  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] .0015 BTC per GH/s - 5 year contract **www.BitcoinCloudServices.com** on: December 08, 2014, 03:35:01 AM
that one looks a wee bit more compelling... yet...

but still, I think my point isn't yet transparent. I DON'T want to say they are fraud or scam and do not run miners, no, really Smiley peace

my only point is that in combination of beeing an obvious bargain, beeing secretive about their biz to some extent, and then posting - ...ok, for sake of neutrality say: 'images', let it be photo or 3d rendered - of one of their alleged data warehouses in a not very beneficial quality and say plausibility, that - sorry - looks so rigged to me,
this is - long story short - really an unfortunate move, and by far does'n help in building up trust...
let alone take a look at how much scam has happened and still is to date... I think that increases some sort of sensitivity... esp. if it turns out for certain factors to come together...
I'm all not about fud'ing... but I think, I have a point... after seeing the pictures, I'm more sceptical than before... and I think, that's ok to state  Cool



Is it photoshopped or u used 3Ds Max ?
tbh. it's not even from me, demorender from turbosquid... Wink that's like shutterstock for max, maya, etc... think it was a maya mentralray default render ...and one of the more expensive models, tho.

20  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] .0015 BTC per GH/s - 5 year contract **www.BitcoinCloudServices.com** on: December 07, 2014, 07:57:45 PM


Ah! Now looking at http://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/9b958f34-f0a1-4f1e-8cfb-94bdc987d98f-large.jpeg shows the floor in much more detail, the earlier pictures I had seen seemed to make the floor area look almost like pristine brand new even after supposedly having had all that equipment moved into place !

Thanks for the links mohamedtarmohamed Smiley

 

hm... btw, did I mention my datacenter... it's in my secret cellar... btw, I'm renting some of the ghs, someone interrested?  Cheesy





Uh oh, the guys that spend their entire life analyzing 9/11
photos and videos are into BCS now.
There goes the neighborhood.
You mean that Tower Block didn't fall to the ground because of a Controlled Demolition ?
Well, I gave up on figuring out that shit years ago. Too many cooks with too
many recipes, err theories.

...in a nutshell:
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