So N will be updated in the future? What's the mechanism/schedule for that--does it increase regularly in the same way block reward changes? 

The current round shows as 11,300% complete, and I haven't been credited any coin in the last few hours.  Am I wasting my hashes, or is this just something the web app does from time to time?

I want to link my Bitcointalk name with BTCJam's. Verification code: b99df8b3-ba34-4d88-9902-80a0b2d7e7be

Thanks for getting this back up.  It would be cool if everybody that checks allchains frequently could send a donation.

After chatting with dev at BTC-e, it turns out the number of decimal places they will accept is limited.  It seems that I could have 5 digits after the decimal for LTC->BTC trades, and 4 for LTC->USD, but I'm not sure if that's the official limit. 

In case I'm just doing something stupid here: When I attempt to sell LTC for BTC, I get a "You incorrectly entered one of the fields" message, but selling LTC for USD works just fine.  Here are the parameters for each:

LTC->USD: nonce=1344119831&amount=1.000000&rate=0.045100&pair=ltc_usd&type=sell&method=Trade

LTC->BTC: nonce=1344119854&amount=1.000000&rate=0.004570&pair=ltc_btc&type=sell&method=Trade

Anybody know what's going on here?

So (if I read btc-e's command correctly) in C you can just use the value returned by the time() function (in time.h) as the nonce, or int(time.time()) in the Python script, as long as you don't want to make more than one API call per second.

I think the only time I've seen that nonce message is when I've accidentally called the API more than once with the same nonce.  As far as I can tell, it remembers forever the largest nonce it's seen so far, so you have to make sure to increment even if you're just calling the API for testing.

In case it's useful to somebody, here's a Python example showing how to call the getInfo method (adapted from jeremy88's PHP snippet in the BTC-e comments): http://pastebin.com/ec11hxcP

Sure, if there's interest and somebody's not already working on full auto-configuration in cgminer.  That's mainly what I was looking to find out--I don't want to spend a bunch of time hacking on miner code if everybody already knows how to find optimal settings for their setup.

I've personally found it quite useful for locking up my machine.

I was playing with the reaper code, mostly just pulling it apart to get an idea of how it worked, and I thought it would be useful to hack it up to run through a range of scrypt GPU settings and measure the performance so I don't have to slog through it manually.  It seems like the "stab in the dark" settings I was previously using for my NVIDIA cards were way off base, because I've easily picked up another 50% hash rate by using settings found with my hacked miner.

If anybody else wants to try it out, I can post the (still extremely ugly) source and some Windows binaries on Github this weekend.  Right now I've only run this on NVIDIA cards, but I'll pop an ATI card in my machine and make sure that works before I post it.  I'm not sure I'll get around to making sure Linux works before I post, but I can do that later on this week.

I don't plan on spending a lot of time polishing this thing, as I'd still prefer to work on things that would be more useful for making LTC adoption easier (assuming I can learn the things I need in order to do that effectively), but I did want to throw this out there if it seems like it would save people some time.

Thanks, I'll have a look over the weekend.  Python is probably my favorite language, but most of my day jobs have been with C and C++, so I can get by pretty well in any of those three as needed.

Thanks, I added a link there. 

Hi folks,

I have about 8 years of programming experience, mostly in engineering-related software and scientific computing, with some real-time image processing thrown in there somewhere.  Most of the work I've done has been in Python, C++ and C, primarily on Windows but sometimes on Linux.  I also have some recent experience with DirectX 11 and DirectCompute, and a tiny bit of OpenCL/OpenGL.  My educational background is mostly applied mathematics with some computer science thrown in for good measure.

I'd be glad to work on just about anything for BTC/LTC as long as you're not asking me to do your homework or slog through a lot of C# or Java code.   Since I don't have any reputation here at the moment, I'm willing to be flexible about rates and payment arrangements for the first few jobs.

If a job is outside my skill set, I'll be up front with you about it--I have no interest in over-promising and under-delivering.

Cheers,
Max

That's really what I was trying to get at: there are lots of things that would be fun to play with (tweaking the OpenCL miner code, for example), but that doesn't make the currency any more useful in the long run.  So I'm really offering to do some of the un-fun things; I just wanted to get a better idea of what those were.

I can't tell if you're just generally criticizing the existence of litecoin, or trying to get me to go down a certain path of thought to figure out what you'd suggest working on, but in either case:

I presume we are early enough in the history of cryptocurrencies where most merchants support neither bitcoin nor litecoin, and then the choice for them is most likely to be,"which one should I choose?" instead of the choice you present.  What are the most painful parts when a merchant tries to adopt either coin?  Are there ways to make the process less painful if they choose litecoin?

What sorts of things could a programmer do that would be most helpful for making litecoin a successful currency (i.e. what would support merchant and customer adoption the most)?  I'd be willing to work on just about anything, and I'm not looking to collect bounties up front.  If people find something useful, that's enough for me, and donations are just a nice side effect. 

Most of my "day job" programming experience to date has been scientific computing and some real-time image data processing, with a little bit of hobbyist web development in the distant past, but I'm fine with trying out something new.

If nothing else, I'd be happy to be paid in litecoin for non-litecoin related development tasks.

I think if I had a lot of money in BTC or LTC, I'd want a hard copy of the wallet as well, or at least a couple of digital copies burned to a CD and in a safety deposit box somewhere.

Trying to contact a business through a message board when they're not responding to emails seems strange.  Do they have a phone number?  Mailing address? 

Thanks, I'll do that!