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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Viacoin (VIA) - Safe | Segwit | Lightning Network | Auxpow | Fast
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on: October 22, 2017, 11:53:07 PM
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Before I noticed that the price of VTC and VIA was kinda synced all the time. If VIA fell, then also VTC and vice versa. Then something happened a few weeks ago and VTC went up, leaving VIA in the dust. VTC is dominating, but now I have a hunch that VIA is soon going to lift off. What do you other guys think? VIA has had some very nice features implemented and yet is more to come.
I believe VTC rise is about Segwit and Lightning implementation, facilitating atomic swap testing with LTC. VTC has early-mover advantage in something that may happen in many alts. VIA is not in that testing and unlikely to catch-up to VTC now. viacoin has already implemented and activated both segwit and lightning network a while ago, and did successful atomic swaps with ltc and dcr ...on a network thats orders of magnitude bigger, stronger and more secure ...not to mention, atomic swaps would not be possible without viacoin's original opcode CheckLockTimeVerify which was implemented 3 years ago.
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Viacoin (VIA) - Safe | Segwit | Lightning Network | Auxpow | Fast
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on: July 14, 2017, 06:50:28 PM
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Interesting that at the same time hashrate moves down. Who will support the network while almost all coins are mined?
VIA is merge mined with LTC. if all mined can change to pos or other and all mined need more time... its merge mined, which means miners get coins essentially for free For now you are right, but over roughly 115 days all 23,000,000 coins are mined and who knows what will happen then. I don't think that mining pools will continue to support merged mining when they don't get a single penny reward for it. no, even in 2030-2040 there will be coins rewarded for each mined block just not as many as now, subsidy halving, and all that and dont forget miners get transaction fees too
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Viacoin (VIA) - Safe | Segwit | Lightning Network | Auxpow | Fast
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on: June 22, 2017, 11:28:33 AM
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Someone please where can I dowload a bootstrap file for this amazing coin?
Using a bootstrap.dat is no longer recommended (Unless it's an old coin). Viacoin uses a new faster-synchronization feature. ‘headers-first synchronization’: The Viacoin Core Beta wallet first ask peers for block headers & validate those. In the second stage, when the headers have been discovered, the Viacoin wallet downloads the blocks. However, the wallet already know about the whole chain in advance, the blocks can be downloaded in parallel from all available peers. Yes, it's an old coin. I have VIA coins in my wallet from 2015. So I need a botstrap. Guys please, need a bootstrap or your data folder(exept the wallet.dat file)! its been posted before: http://cryptochainer.com/dir/?page_id=365
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Viacoin (VIA) - Safe | Segwit | Lightning Network | Auxpow | Fast
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on: May 29, 2017, 09:06:25 PM
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Someone please where can I dowload a bootstrap file for this amazing coin?
Using a bootstrap.dat is no longer recommended (Unless it's an old coin). Viacoin uses a new faster-synchronization feature. ‘headers-first synchronization’: The Viacoin Core Beta wallet first ask peers for block headers & validate those. In the second stage, when the headers have been discovered, the Viacoin wallet downloads the blocks. However, the wallet already know about the whole chain in advance, the blocks can be downloaded in parallel from all available peers. Yes, it's an old coin. I have VIA coins in my wallet from 2015. So I need a botstrap. Guys please, need a bootstrap or your data folder(exept the wallet.dat file)! its been posted before: http://cryptochainer.com/dir/?page_id=365
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Viacoin (VIA) - Safe | Segwit | Lightning Network | Auxpow | Fast
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on: April 03, 2017, 09:35:09 PM
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I read it a while ago. Like I said, why rush it? There's no need for it yet & implementing it before pools are ready only pushes miners away. I commented about this in the previous thread & dev thanked me for the heads-up, then BAM - it's happened anyway. It doesn't make any sense to do it before miners/pools are ready for it.
thats why its being tested extensively, dev could have released it untested a long time ago just like some other coins did and then faceplanted on bugs that led to hardforks and problems. i cannot comment on pool readiness but afaik dev has been in contact with major pools, and also runs a segwit ready pool
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Viacoin (VIA) - Safe | Segwit | Lightning Network | Auxpow | Fast
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on: April 03, 2017, 01:42:00 PM
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Not sure why there was a rush to implement segwit, it's not needed on this coin & anyone merge mining viacoin with p2pool (me included) will be unable to mine it once segwit comes into effect.
you should read this: No SegWit's main purpose isn’t a capacity increase. It's for fixing malleability & making scripting easier to upgrade. It also fixes some long-standing issues, like quadratic hashing.
With third-party and scriptSig malleability fixed, the Lightning Network is less complicated to implement and significantly more efficient in its use of space on the blockchain. With scriptSig malleability removed, it also becomes possible to run lightweight Lightning clients.
Reduced UTXO growth will benefit miners, businesses, and users who run full nodes which in turn helps maintain the current security of the Viacoin network as more users enter the system. Users & developers who help minimise the growth of the UTXO set will benefit from lower fees compared to those who ignore the impact of their transactions on UTXO growth.
Easier changes to script opcodes will make advanced scripting in Viacoin easier. This includes changes such as introducing Schnorr signatures, key recovery to shrink signature sizes, supporting sidechains & creating even smarter contracts by using Merklized Abstract Syntax Trees (MAST) and other research-level ideas.
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Viacoin (VIA) - Safe | Segwit | Lightning Network | Auxpow | Fast
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on: March 29, 2017, 11:38:27 AM
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Somehow last night i had found very nice name for a coin and for the whole day was thinking what to do with it and here is an answer for my question. What do you think about "solidus"? It would be unique name in crypto world, good for brending. The root of the name is word "solid" very good root for a currency name IMO. In history Solidus was a gold coin from Byzantine Empire, very valuable and reputable, which is your goals also. Sticker "SLD" is also available.
Always good to have some new ideas coming and your name-suggestion is an excellent choice imo. Nevertheless, with current development and attention of VIA, it seems not good to me, to suddenly have a name change. There is an emotional component to a name and that component is all in favor of the current name VIACOIN. 'Never change a winning 'team' read: 'brand'. what dev meant by "branding" is he has to go through the source code and replace "bitcoin" references to "viacoin" viacoin has excellent brandname, "via" means "road/highway" in latin, so a digital road to a digital future
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