I will say very little here, you can all fill in the blanks for each other.

I looked at the link to the source code.

1) Not one commit to github in 3 months and there is no testing branch.

2) Whoever did this is more likely in someplace like Hackensack Nj. than Russia

3) Before you invest in anything just because it sounds like a clever idea I suggest making sure it is either fully working or at least tested first. There are millions of computer programs written by people all over the world every year and most of them are provided free of charge.   

4) If you paid a building contractor money to build you a new garage & driveway and after your check cleared he came and dug a hole in the ground and never returned in the United States you could complain to the Attorney General in your state or you could try to file a civil suit in court if you could serve paperwork to anyone you wanted to name in the suit that you felt you had proof or evidence that they breached a contract or other foul play you might win a judgment against them.  Still even then they could appeal. Finally if they have no assets having a judgment is no guarantee you will ever get paid the money awarded to you.

5) Most cryptocurrencies are released under the mit license (they must be if they are derived from bitcoin source code).  Here is part of the language to that. (full text available at link below)

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE. 

http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

6)  If you wake up one day and realize you were ripped off and are angry at yourself for allowing it to happen learn a lesson from it and move on.
The world of cryptocurrency is mostly like the real world. Quick enrichment is a dream many people chase but hardly any ever find.

7) If someone posts in these forums about a new coin and wants you to buy it run screaming if it is on a self moderated thread.
(Personally I would run from anyone who 'expects' me to buy a coin unlaunched all premined)

as far as the wallets go, you may get different 'performance' with a wallet depending on what version (and patches) of windows you are using and about a million other variables too !!

if you guys want a whirlcoin-qt wallet that does not have the dll files built in I can make one, i could also compile it with older /outdated versions of things...

for example I could use boost 1_53_0 instead of boost 1_55_0  ect,,,,,

Normally the latest library of compiling tools is the best to use.

When you are referencing speed do you mean how long it takes for the wallet to start when you first launch it , or does it 'hang' if you go to send coins ect..... or something else.... Also if we are going to compare performance we should know if you are running win 7 , 8 ect... and if 32 or 64 ect...

 

I placed a request to have Simple Inflation Coin added to voting for the Coins-e exchange   https://www.coins-e.com/voting/

Hopefully it is accepted.  I did not have contact information for the developer and a few other items.  

I will let you know.  I may have time to code the block crawler this weekend thanks to gjhiggins

please see this post on the english language thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240894.msg9862563#msg9862563

First may I suggest you stop thinking in dollars, euros, yen or any of these.

Just count how much btc you have. Save as much as you can.

Too many people involved with bitcoin are trying to hurry things along and have bitcoin knock on the door of other world currencies or integrate itself into present financial sectors it was actually created to replace.   

Just sit back and relax. 

These sacred cows will need to knock on bitcoin's door sooner or later and with a few of the items I hear in the news related to some international markets I think it may be sooner vs. later although not all the knocks will be from the US. 

Also if you cannot think like I suggest and must think in dollars please remember less than 2 years ago 1 btc was what.....$30 ?

If your honest expectation is that bitcoin is going to be valued at anything like $5000 to $10000 for 1 btc anytime soon it may not happen.
You have to face that.  I would have no problem if it did happen but I think it very unlikely. 

I have said in the past and stand behind my prediction that by mid 2015 I would expect some price increases on the high end to maybe $3000.

Still this is just my personal prediction based on many things. 
The next real shot in the arm should come when each solved block only pays 12.5 btc +fees.

Try to think of bitcoin as a one way trip.  If you are thinking about selling bitcoin in the future for large dollar amounts per btc consider if there is hyper inflation ?  In a case like this even people who are millionaires would be no better off as those earning minimum wage. If a weeks worth of groceries cost you $100,000 what good would all the dollars be ?   The dollars would turn to dust in your hand.


Anyone who thinks it can't happen here , well I hope you are correct and I will be happy to be wrong.

I don't want it to happen.  It would be very hard for many people.  Still what we see in other nations of the world now are microism's of what our future may look like unless large drastic changes were made to many things that I do not ever see happening.  The last several presidential administrations in America have pretty much doubled the debt during their terms. For ever dollar the government creates since banks only need keep a small amount on reserve they can 'create' up to 90% more in 'new money' out of thin air.

This is not about party politics this is about kicking the can down the road.  Since the entire American economy is subject to manipulation from several powerful entities to a lesser or greater extent they may be able to kick the can down the road for a long time still.  How long I don't know.

It depends on many external factors.  Internal too. It could be 5 years, probably more like 30 years.  Maybe 50.  I think it  doubtful it can last 100 years or longer before there is a full blown financial collapse.   While many factors could delay this (like proposals to scrap the dollar and make a north american dollar to throw other countries into the fire too)   I don't think it can be delayed forever under the present system of fractional reserve banking , free trade and without the government issuing its own fiat currency vs. paying a private corporation ( the federal reserve) to do so.

It is no accident the Federal Reserve is in the white pages of the phone book not the blue pages , although many believe it to be a government agency it is a private corporation just like Apple or Starbucks.


To me one of the strongest long term properties of bitcoiin is that it will have the ability to protect people in the future from loss of their life savings to situations like I mentioned.



If you invested in bitcoin with money you cannot affort to tie up long term I can understnad your impatience.  I may suggest you speculate in something that is more likely to produce the short term gains you need for your investment since bitcoin , great as it is in concept and practice can offer no future price guarantees. 

imagine putting videos in a blockchain , considering the future and cost of storage it might actually be possible, of course it could open a can of worms if someone were to upload certain types of video to the blockchain --- i suppose to use the client you could let normal users use a lightweight wallet to just send and receive coins , leaving the heavy hitters and miners to hold the nodes with the large blockchain that would be created.

Thanks Graham

Indeed hopping on may benefit those who have been with the pool not necessarly the person with large hash power who jumps on if a block is solved.


See here:

Bitcoin: PPLNS vs PPS

http://www.etcwiki.org/wiki/Bitcoin:_PPLNS_vs_PPS

Nice Visual that compares pool payout methods.

http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH-3/

I posted this tweet to all my followers on twitter to try and drum up some new blood and hash power !!

https://twitter.com/cinnamon_carter/status/544697892360175617

https://twitter.com/cinnamon_carter

last time i built it, and with 9.x i think it will show up in src/qt

older 8.x builds tend to show up in the release folder.... fyi

Here is something to debate or discuss

I have been monitoring the iX network on and off for a few months along with other projects I am involved in.

Recently, Earlier this month in fact I saw someone moving around massive amounts of iX into single addresses of 500,000 coins each.

Here are some examples from a public block crawler.

http://darkgamex.ch:2751/block/4726dfa9f9d688300247a2ba64cd2cc21765b374578ef35cf76fa6f612f743e2

http://darkgamex.ch:2751/block/9aeec6e88f05e602b543f4c92849f049bd3276a1e51358b119a576e3447b0805

http://darkgamex.ch:2751/block/6e400dc3ccf7d4377b34af4b68f1519d54a39a61f2bc4ae0ddd8387147482da7

http://darkgamex.ch:2751/block/f2314d3e7fb9a2e33ff14c277e6e5b4391fa2f92d1e7446c946336ad788df6a4

http://darkgamex.ch:2751/block/54336d0beb952dedb125e3af315919d47afc862fb0ad81b41c213b9eab708590

http://darkgamex.ch:2751/block/e0999821a184ff0fb1df853d52af2a2b815439e0a28eafe116c5bd8dacc86404

http://darkgamex.ch:2751/block/87b5ba0bef6449e21a878e41cea3793a76f75e4561b8a9b0f38075a08dfca655

http://darkgamex.ch:2751/block/bbc4b29561df8aa21ac0340140cf3e42694ff7ad973775d036004279b035b3b5

Now there are 4 million coins of the supply of 21 million right threre at those addresses.

The only facts I can tell you with 100% certainty is they are not my coins and I have no idea who they belong to (nor any proof that whoever owns one key owns any of the others although it seems statisticly unlikely that several people around the world would do this at random around the same time)

I can certainly trace the coins that arrived at these addresses to see where they came from and when.

I doubt I will do this however since my time is best spent on other things.

As for those deleting posts I find it 'unusual' to mass delete posts.  You are all free to do as you think best but my thoughts on deleting old posts is why bother ? Why even waste the time ?  Who is going to read them ?  Unless you said something you regret.....

Being a woman in a forum with almost all guys and a locker room type atmosphere at that is something that gets on my nerves from time to time. I was a visitor only to these forums long before I finally ended up joining. I have lost my temper more than once and while tempted never deleted any of my bitching people out.


As to the philosophical question raised between Vlad and Ahmed....

I would like to believe that cryptocurrency has the ability to (over the long term) make some very positive changes in this world. 
We should all be greatful for the code from 'Satoshi' and the other developers who have added important things after.

If you use bitcoin as an example and read all the different comments and gitpulls you can see the community is quite divided on many things.  In the end who controls the code has a lot of control of bitcoin.  I hope they make the 'right' choices.  Changing bitcoin around so it can fit into regulation is a bad idea.  Bitcoin is designed to replace traditional systems not 'integrate itself into it' .  Now that sounds great coming from me but for all the people who are investing millions of dollars in paymnet systems and other things they want and need things to happen quickly.  If you study history the power of the wealthy and those 'in control' has many lessons to teach us.  A few examples and things to consider....

1) Those who control the central banks of large Nations will never give up the grasp they have willingly.  All they need do is to demand that tax payments are only accepted in dollars, euros, yen, pounds ect... and they can force those currencies to stay around for hundreds of years like the Talley Stick was around for hundreds of years in England since it was the only way you could pay the Kings taxes (look it up)

2) Gold was made 'illegal' in the United States from the 1930's to the early 1970's.  You could only own (by law) a small amount or the government had the right to confiscate it.  This was done to 'force' people to not seek shelter outside of the dollar.  Other nations generally take similar steps like outlawing foreign currency ect... when they face extreme economic conditions. (Conditions imposed on them or conditions of their own doing)

So there are two examples to consider.  I don't have the answers for you but I hope I brought up a few of the right questions for others to discuss.

I realize most of the 'guys' who visit these boards take the word of a woman with a grain of sand. Go ahead if you must.

Finally, Looking into the future and taking current events in perspective a lot of resources by different people have gone into supporting iX when just months ago it was supossedd to just die off and no one would ever solve another block.  Couple these events with the millions of coins I see moving around and I would imagine (although I could be wrong) someone or several people have long term plans for iX. There is no guarantee the plans will be a success and I could just be wrong but having parties devote resources is better than not having them.

Also consider this..... If Satoshi's Whitepaper goes all the way and bitcoin becomes ....let's say like a digital gold for the world it is unlikely that such a system would not have a back up or several backup's.( I mean dual systems running ready to take over at a moments notice)  After all if bitcoin grows in 'market cap' (although I hate to use extrapolated data) very large from where it is right now..... I find it hard to believe that trillions of dollars/euro/ect..  will be invested in it if there is no backup system ready to be switched on in case something, someday , somewhere goes wrong.  In fact I think we will end up with multiple systems to 'be on standby' just in case .....

iX is well suited to be one of these......  I am involved with other coins (blake256 based) because the design of the algorithm is perfect for these to also be very well suited to stand like this also.  While I think Lite Coin has appeal any algorithm to really make a run in the long term has to be effecient speed wise, memory wise, resource wise...... (yes I know scrypt 1024 is sha 256d however the memory requirements make it kind of like designing a car to get poor mileage)  Taking other 'multiple algorithm' coins only make it worse from an energy/speed point but a security point as well.  (There are several academic papers available on this and I have posted them in the past) 

So what is left..... sha 2 , or a few of the sha 3 candidates....  I will not get into a long tech fact list on which one is better or why.....

I've done that before on other threads.    This is the iX TO DO thread.  If you are here you have some level of interest in iX so what is to do ?

The last stable release I use is pretty much equal with bitcoin 9.2 except for a few cosmetic items built from my fork of ahmed's repo but a few commits back. 

I posted that  wallet a way back to test and verify the build and while it works great some of the text in the wallet still says ' bitcoin' or 'btc'  so to avoid confusion unless you really know what you are doing I don't recommend my build. 

The best build to date was by groundrod also I believe 9.2 compatable but closer in a few areas to 9.3   

iX needs mobile apps/wallets developed at some point.

Most of all iX needs people to stop thinking they are going to buy it today and get an instant return of 10000% tomorrow. 

Things just don't usually happen that fast. 

iX also could use a few people who have static ip addresses , servers available, or cloud virtual servers to run nodes.

Finally I think iX needs a working testnet and Vlad and I have discussed this.  In 2015 it will probably become a reality. Any suggestions are welcome it is still under discussion right now.

i understand and respect that, good luck with your own python block crawler

eventually when i have time i may add it to abe ,

looks like you have all the right things in there,

you and I appear to be the only two people doing any development (even part time) work on this coin....

ironic

well , thankfully once confirmed looks like my concern for luck got turned around in a hurry

on vircurex in the past few weeks the exchange rate vs. btc has gone up 3x,  out of nowhere, looks like in past 24 hours there is almost 2 btc trade volume alone, for months on and off i watched this , hardly any volume ever since early 2014 really..... strange to see..... i wonder whats up

nice work, i will have to check this out !!

would urge you if you get time to do a git pull to add support to official abe on github

https://github.com/bitcoin-abe/bitcoin-abe

jtobey regularly adds different algorithms....

at 300 ths it could take (on average) much much longer than a week
Not that I am going to bail,

difficulty still up and down but never dropping too low,

I agree well done !!

Thank you very much for the answers.  I am familiar with nitrogenetics famous posts.

I will retry again when I have time.  No real urgency there since I can use the wallet you built/distributed or since memory coin is something based on your second part answer is still a cpu reliant coin which right now with what I have to use would probably run in linux on cloud 'droplets' for max effect.   I can understand that any gpu to mine this would need a lot of ram. As time goes on and ram is 'cheaper' to produce I think cards will come out that may have the ability to mine things that previously were only mined with a cpu like primecoin, riecoin and also memory coin and the others it is based on.

One advantage of an algorithm like this is that at least 'in theory' it can remain de centralized much longer as you look years into the future vs. something like sha 256 and now even scrypt 1024 or even the sha 3 candidate algorithms. (Of course I do admire the speed and lightweight nature of the blake 256 algorithm obviously from my signature)  Still..... I think it unwise for anyone to be 'closed minded' regarding different algorithms and coin systems. 

One thing I like about Memory Coin 2 that you can say about few networks.  It is a 'real' coin with 'real' developers that regularly update the code on github and are obviously not just copying something else or pulling a short term run and gun.

There are probably over 1000 alt coins now, amazing to see how fast they all popped up.

More amazing still is many that get a lot of 'talk' and 'chatter' here in the forums and the press ect.... are really obvious ponzi schemes and (pardon my language) 'shit' coins.

I believe most of this 'hype' is created to an extent by 'marketing' and posting and bumping pages here in the forum and elsewhere to create a 'false' perception that many many people are on board with a coin.  Then when a coin hits an exchange these 'developers' (most of who cannot write a line of code instead pay others to do it for them) open a few accounts on the exchange and buy their own coins back and forth to again..... create a 'fake' sense of 'value'  ......

One thing I have realized after time is if you want to find a coin that is run 'honest' look for coins with 'real' developers that are not 'obviously' buying their own coins back from the market to pump and dump it off and walk away with a profit.

I think 98% of alt coins are created with the intention of the developers 'exchanging' the coin for btc.

This is one of the few that I personally feel stands away from that category. It may take some time but eventually all the bs is going to work itself out and the only things left standing will be true /real alt coins with developers actually interested in developing a coin (vs. exchanging for btc).....

Keep up the good work.....

Saving Coin appears dead, I actually tried to 'save' it updating the code and such (even though i am not the original dev, original dev appears to have abandoned the coin) but no wallet connections at all.......


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=285621.0


One thing you should consider is that not all coins or developers launch or ever even discuss coins on this forum and may use just a website , another forum , or github to update their code. For example I know of many coins only launched on www.cryptocointalk.com

If you are only going to pronounce coins dead that have threads here I know for a fact that some people have launched coins elsewhere, never intending to ANN them here and someone else (could be anyone) does an ANN thread for the coin......

To me the ultimate test if a coin is alive or dead is if it can connect or not. 

If you cannot connect to a network after trying for several days or weeks and there are no recent commits to the source on github from the developer I consider it dead at that point. 

2 little questions to devs,

certainly not urgent but when you have time if you don't mind,

1) To compile are you using cmake or qt or what exactly to make the windows binary wallets you are distributing ?

I only tried to compile it 2x quickly the other day and got some weird errors , was using qt 4.8.6 i believe , with boost 1_55_0 , open ssl1.0.1j and the most recent qr code libraries and miniiupnpc. I was tied up at the time and figured I would have another go at it again this week.

2) Has there been any additional releases of open sourced miners with more optimizations /open  cl support ect..  in the past few months.  While I did not see any on the thread I still felt it worth asking. Thanks guys.