Willing to work on just about any project you can come up with.  Give me a direction, and make an offer.

Seriously considering doing a version of Armory for LTC.  If anyone is interested, let me know.

BTC: 1M7MgzkzPQ2rid3mCB8GQPa8dZc1EsaaFG

[This coin is testnet-only and should not be used as an actual cryptocurrency!]

I'm currently working on a new framework for developing my new altcoin, and it is in the earliest stages.  In the meantime, I've been experimenting with the base code from shakezula's "foocoin" to learn the basics of how the current codebase works.  I take no credit for the code involved, as this is pretty much a copy-paste coin until I can work in some of the nice additions I have planned.

This coin is testnet-only and should not be used as an actual cryptocurrency!

If you're interested in giving it a spin, throw a few KH/s at it.  50 coins per block, halved approx every 4 years.  1 minute block times, 15 minute difficulty adjustment (working on integrating some of terracoin's "difficulty-attack" prevention code, but it isn't there yet)

Sources: https://github.com/TrollByFire/TestCoin

[EDIT:] Updated release binaries to try to address crash issues.

Windows QT Wallet: TestCoin.zip (15.9 MB) (MEGA)
Windows QT Wallet (Mirror): TestCoin.zip (15.9 MB)(DropBox)

SHA512 checksums

Code:

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Note: Includes a basic TestCoin.conf to copy into your %APPDATA% folder (change username and password).

P2P port is 20332 (Unused)
Testnet P2P port is 21332
RPC port is 20333

Scrypt-based, low starting difficulty, and testnet is being premined.
Genesis block does not yet exist for main network, and may never be released publicly as this coin is for testing purposes only.

Initial seed node:
addnode=24.199.222.250

If you are looking for a coin to mine at low difficulty and dump on an exchange, this coin is not for you.  If you are creating services such as a marketplace, exchange, casino, or otherwise, you can probably get by using the Bitcoin testnet, but you're welcome to give this coin a try.  For the most part this coin is for other developers who wish to help improve the state of cryptocurrency by writing bug reports, contributing patches, and by extension creating the next wave of innovation to add to our already diverse crypto economy.  Think of it as a testbed for any major change to Bitcoin/Litecoin that exceeds the capabilities of mining on an established testnet.

[Edit:]

Edit: Seems this would have been better suited to the "Project Development" forum.  My apologies.  Could a moderator move this for me?

Hi, all.  Until recently I had been discouraged about mining Litecoin on P2Pool servers.  As I'm sure you all know, tiny transactions like the p2pool payouts tend to carry high transaction fees due to Litecoin's "anti-spam" mechanism.  After a bit of searching, I stumbled onto the official litecoin forums where I found several posts addressing the ridiculous fees, as well as one coder who developed an application to help simplify the process of reducing those transaction fees.  I studied the sources to his app, but was unhappy with his implementation.  His app also had a hardcoded "developer donation" which could not be changed or disabled, and simply sent with each transaction.  As a developer, I felt that I needed to improve upon his design if possible.

This is the end result:




As I posted before, I realize that I have not yet built up a reputation in this community, so I fully expect everyone to be cautious about this release.  Sources will be released alongside the compiled exe, which you are free to run in a sandbox and/or virtual machine.  The app is coded in C# so you can inspect the compiled binaries with dotPeek or similar app to ensure that nothing fishy is going on.

Sample Transaction: http://explorer.litecoin.net/tx/ca5dfd0b7f63dd19e0d649ef846e80be032faa212ab7921e5e5163026afd425b

Litecoin Roller is scheduled to be released later today, however, it may take me a short while to ensure the last of the major bugs are fixed.  With the release I will provide detailed instructions and screenshots on how to use the app.  Also, once the release is finalized, I'll be posting a link to this thread on /r/litecoin.

I hope this application can be of some use to you, and if it is, feel free to donate using either the addresses in my signature or the donation feature built into the app itself.

Thank you.

Messing around, tweaking miner settings, I decided to test things with junkcoin.  For some reason, the IRC connection is failing and I'm constantly out of sync.  Is anyone else having this problem?

[Status]

I know most of you won't find this very exciting, but I know I do.  After countless days of pooled mining, I finally solo-mined my first TRC block!
What a rush!

EDIT:
For documentation's sake:

Status: 4/unconfirmed, broadcast through 8 node(s)
Date: 5/20/2013 00:21
Source: Generated
Credit: 20.00 TRC (matures in 116 more block(s))
Net amount: 0.00 TRC
Transaction ID: f9331a53dbf64e9f838f9851f9a5fa5ab14ac24e10111765e8de67840e61880a

Also of note, this just after winning my first ltcpoker.eu tourney!  Turning out to be a good evening indeed.

PM for offers.  Will likely use dudeami's escrow/exchange for your peace of mind.  Thanks.

I have roughly 94, but will toss in any extra as a tip after sucessful trade.

Also selling 71 PWC and ~5000 GMC.

I'm new here, but expect no quarter from the flames.  I enjoy mining the vast number of various altcoins that have been released as of late, but with a few slight exceptions, we really aren't seeing anything new brought to the table.  I would love to contribute something altcoin related, but I refuse to tweak a few settings and release a garbage coin in hopes of pump and dump riches.  Instead, with this past week's YaCoin FUD debacle, why not reimplement the whole system for a new coin.  Create a generalized client codebase in a language such as Java or C# (anything managed, really) such that decompiling the "precompiled binaries" would be easy enough for anyone to do a safety audit.

I'd be extremely interested in creating this codebase, and even including support for different hash algorithms within the client so per "coin" fork selecting either SHA256, scrypt(1024,1,1), scrypt(n,1,1) would be simple.  In fact, we could extend this to other hashing algorithms as well.  This would give coin-makers incentive to innovate and make a real change within their coin, and it would allow for miners with low-end equipment (CPU-only) to have a fair shot in certain cases.

As I said, I have no plans to actually implement this yet, it is only a suggestion.  A rewrite may help ease the hyper-expansion of all the various coins popping up every day, and may give us something beneficial in a cryptocurrency in the end.

Thoughts?