Hey just2laff where have you been, I missed you. 

If you like to donate SPR please use this address:

ShutUpHxbuLdy22g9NE4afviUr2Cnqd68H

I'm now really close with releasing regular updates.
Much of the groundwork has been done.
Stay tuned and thanks again for your donations.

Ok, great, I'll take a look at it. http://screencast-o-matic.com/home

Hey everyone,

do you know a free screen recorder software for macs?

I found a good free screen recorder for linux (RecordMyDesktop),
and I have a camtasia license for windows.

But I need something similar for mac, if possible for free.

Any recommendations?

 

GIFs can't get any better than that!

I would pay good SPR if someone would create similar sexy GIFs for spreadcoin.

I don't have time to create them myself anymore obviously, but I will pay atleast 100 SPR for every GIF created.

Only requirement: it must be high quality, both in animation and choice of model.

I reserve the right to pay less or NOT AT ALL if quality sucks.

Anyone interested?  



You can post GIFs here:

http://spreadcointalk.org/index.php?topic=76.0

lol, this thread was created when the original mr. spread was still around.
How time flies by!

We are talking about distributed consensus, that's our holy grail.
POW and POS are examples of how distributed consensus is (pretended to be) achieved.
We have to show which one does a better, more stable and more flawless job in achieving this goal.

The conclusion of the paper I linked:


Contrast that to the essence of bitcoin's breakthrough achievement (distributed consensus):


I guess that's what I love about POW... that it adds true real world economic incentives to the game.

If POS wants to get rid of this capitalist/economic/meritocratic part of bitcoin, it better damn well make sure that it replaces it with something equally as good or better.

Which I highly doubt exists.  

I don't think that "everybody ogling the stakes of everybody else" can even be considered an economic incentive. What is this anyway... "money creation through book keeping"?  

Therefor:

Agreed, I'm not a big fan of democracy, since it's the "original 51% attack". Or mob rule as some like to call it.


Well, that's what you need to prove. Scientifically.
You need to show that POS will be in every case a better solution than POW.
Buzzwords and assumptions are not doing that.
Yes, I'm aware that a raspberry pi requires less energy than a 2kW ASIC, but that is irrelevant.

What is relevant is whether we achieve true distributed consensus or not.

If this can only be done in an energy intensive way, then so be it.


The problem with all the links you posted (if I may say so) is that all of them have already made up their mind that POW is bad, and that it needs to be replaced with their new favorite: POS.

I find this rather suspicious and unscientific, this certainly won't convince me.

I need a paper where someone unapologetically and mercilessly wants to falsify whether POS or POW is better, without prefering POS from the getgo.
The premise can't be "POS is the solution - don't you see that it requires barely any energy??? - let's find justifications/rationalizations why POS will replace POW",
but rather "let's compare POS and POW and figure out what they actually do regarding distributed consensus".

I think this paper here tries to do that:

https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf

And here's the reddit discussion about this paper: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2jwbvr/excellent_paper_on_why_proof_of_stake_is/

If POS is really this super solution then we need to scrutinize it mercilessly. Not cuddle with it.

If POS still stands after such a beating, then you convince me.

That's pretty flattering, thanks for reading through all my posts, lol.

But I warn you, if you find one or more weird posts (especially from the early days) don't complain.

At what point do I consider this a "denial of service" attempt on my available time?  

I'm kidding, I will never get tired of teaching you guys a little bit about decentralization.

Now back to work.  

BTW I'm in the BCT forum all the time, but 99% of the time it's because I'm looking up technical bitcoin stuff.

Hey guys, don't forget to visit the spreadcointalk forum from time to time:

http://spreadcointalk.org/index.php?topic=763.0

minerpage just posted an interesting article.

I wouldn't mind to see a little bit more action in the forum.

Thanks guys.

Big thank you to all the miner's out there.
I consider any hash thrown in Spreadcoin's direction as valuable as any dollar I receive as donation.

But that would be the essence of centralization.

One key factor of decentralization is to make it easy for newcomers to enter and compete.
Adding regulations of any kind always makes it harder for the newcomers, and further helps the already "established" early investors who already have more SPR than they can count.

Miner's aren't just extracting wealth from the community, they are solving ridiculously hard mathematical problems.
They are already burdened with the collateral they pay in the form of hardware and energy, and the reward they get they quickly sell back to the SPR community anyway. Often at dumping prices.
So it's a closed system, and not a problem that most miner's aren't really affiliated with SPR.

Cool.

I love it when devs forget to disable error reporting and broadcast to the whole wide world where exactly an error happened, what DB they use, etc.... 

 

Actually from what I've heard and read (and seen with mr. spread), most of their growth/maturity happens within the first 3 months.
But the curious thing is that after that they still keep growing forever, although only slowly.
So a 2 year old djungarian dwarf hamster (Phodopus sungorus) will be up to 30-40% larger than what he was after 3 months.

This picture of DPR is from yesterday:





He has this unique character trait that he bends his head sideways when looking at us humans. Like saying: "What the f*uck is this..."
 

Thank you very much.

In hamsteryears, it's like Mr. Spread died 65 years old. Not too old, but also not too young. I had hoped he would have lived another 6-12 months...

DPR's weight is now 35 g. Now that I have a bigger "data set" of dwarf hamsters, it looks like Mr. Spread was a veritable Bud Spencer among dwarf hamsters. Pretty big and heavy with his 65g (on average).

Here are some of the best shots of him:













And pictures like this are my favorite:



He used to hang out at the plexiglas door gap, sniffing and looking.... "there is something going on out there!"

BTW, I have tons of video and foto material, I will create a compilation and use much of it in the podcast, where appropriate.
It's very MEME worthy material.  

As soon as I have more time I will answer your questions in more detail.

For now, just as a foretaste:

2 weeks ago you asked:


A bitcoin node doesn't talk with the bitcoin blockchain, only with other bitcoin nodes.
The bitcoin blockchain doesn't even "really exist" in a static form since it's in a constant state of flux in the top few most recent blocks. (multiple blockchains exist at the same time, until "it's been decided" who the orphan blocks are, but this process repeats ad infinitum since new blocks keep coming in all the time as the height increases)

I don't think that the average confirmation time has much to do with the fee, with the only exception when you send a zero-fee transaction and are then at the total mercy of a miner to STILL put you on the blockchain even though you didn't incentivize him to do so. That's probably a little bit different for coins who hit their max block size all the time. But even then, it will remain unpredictable how long it takes your transaction to be confirmed. Paying a higher fee is NOT a guarantee that your transaction will be confirmed earlier. It only creates an incentive. Incentives are not the same thing as guarantees.

And therefor I don't think you can use that for any reliable system of "node scores". Too many parameters and uncertainties.

I'm afraid it's not as simple as that, since we want to make it work as part of a large decentralized and permissionless system.

It looks like we are going to have some sort of smart contracts that will be handled by servicenodes and that's what will allow things like "decentralized exchange" to come into existence. (Among other such contracts).

But if you think that a spreadwallet alone is enough to make this work you are mistaken. People will abuse the shit out of it. 

Will have more tangible insights once I start my podcast.

What do you mean with "one deamon talking to another" in this context?
A bitcoin node and a spreadcoin node CAN'T talk to each other.
The messages they send are incompatible.

But yes, I design Spreadwallet as a multi wallet, you as the user have complete control over the privatekeys of any wallet/coin you create or import into the Spreadwallet.

I'm sorry to inform you that Mr. Spread has died a few weeks ago. 
That's what dwarf hamsters do, you know... just live 2 years on average. Was a sad, sad day, but we got over it.
I wasn't sure when or if to report it to you guys.... it was just too heart breaking.

He just silently passed away one night. He was nearly 2 years old.



Farewell, sweet prince.

Even in his death, he looked cute.

So... about a month before Mr. Spread died we obtained a new dwarf hamster, a female, born end of july. (I'll show her another time).
So I built another cage for her.
Then after Mr. Spread's death, we thought we would get us a new boy dwarf hamster, since we had an empty cage now.

And we found an incredibly rare specimen:



A boy dwarf hamster, with very rare colors, born in the middle of august 2016.

Since you, rhinomonkey, have been extremely helpful with the donations you made (top donor!) towards the development of the Spreadwallet,
I asked you if you wanted to become this little guy's god father. You agreed and already found a name for him.

So I'd like to now publicly present to everybody...



DreadPirateRoberts!

He's the chief scientist overlooking the Spreadwallet. I'm his main employee right now.


Hm, DreadPirateRoberts would probably say that Imagineering is not something to centralize but something that everybody should do.
He'd probably invite everybody to write whitepapers and give their input, lol

He likes to stare upwards into the sky all the time, as if he knows something about spreadcoin's destination!



Everybody please welcome our newest member: DreadPirateRobers, godson of Rhinomonkey.

Yep, pretty good summary.

I was just about to answer myself, lol  

I think this will be like Brexit, nothing bad will happen, only lots of fearmongering before and after.

I welcome President Trump. (Lord Pepe has blessed him, praise KEK.   )



To me, even politics is about "Decentralize Everything".
More decentralization: good
More centralization: bad

And much like Brexit was a big FUCK YOU to the EU centralizers,
Trump (and the Movement behind him) is a big FUCK YOU to the globalist establishment.

2016 is a good year.

The monster Angela Merkel is the next in line, ...
Germany needs to have its FUCK YOU moment soon, they are hurting...  

Praise KEK, blessed be his name, and if Pepe wills it, more FUCK YOU'S to be heard soon!



Now back to work, ... sorry couldn't resist making this post.