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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: !<~~~~~[BAT] BatCoin - The Reincarnation [Stay tuned] ~~~~~>! on: November 09, 2018, 02:37:57 PM
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2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][VOT]: VoteCoin - a new era of anonymous crypto democracy on: May 09, 2018, 07:41:48 PM
Tom, with all respect, but IntenseCoin network had 51% attack just 2 weeks ago: https://intensecoin.com/2018/04/16/imminent-hard-fork-and-network-attack/
They ended up rolling back their blockchain and then forking it again! Another real mess with out-of-sync wallets for weeks and lockedown exchanges.

I know nothing about IntenseCoin internals. What I was able to learn from the article is this:
1) somebody gained significant hashing power and at the same time he exploited some weakness in IntenseCoin to find 6000 blocks himself.
2) IntenseCoin developers decided that this is bad and they made a hard fork, causing A LOT of troubles.

I believe that there are two problems. First one is the exploitable weakness, and second trouble is mad developers making hard fork as a solution for this problem.

If the very same problem happened with VoteCoin, 6000 blocks would be worth 750K VOT coins, which the "attacker" could actually sell at TradeSatoshi exchange to get 1.33 BTC.
The price of VOT would drop down to 100 sat. But that's the worst case scenario. Nobody gets hurt. All coins held by all users would be safe. There would be no need for any hard forking in my opinion.

VoteCoin uses a dificulty adjustment algorithm based on DigiShield v3/v4 [DigiByte-PoW], with simplifications and altered parameters, to adjust difficulty to target the desired 2.5-minute block time. Unlike Bitcoin, the difficulty adjustment occurs after every block. So I would say that VoteCoin does not have such weakness as like IntenseCoin and it would prevent such situation anyway.

There is no need to fear the upcoming ASIC release...

-Tom

"The Zcash Foundation has announced that it will make maintaining ASIC resistance an “immediate technical priority” in response to Chinese mining hardware manufacturer Bitmain’s claim that is has developed an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miner that is compatible with the Equihash mining algorithm."
https://www.ccn.com/zcash-foundation-to-make-asic-resistance-immediate-technical-priority/
BTCZ, Snowgem, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Private, possibly Hush, Zencash want to change algorithm. 

Still thinking about staying on equihash?
3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][VOT]: VoteCoin - a new era of anonymous crypto democracy on: May 08, 2018, 11:40:25 PM
Yes, of course, I have the abilities to change the algo myself.

That is actually good news as I left with impression that you kinda would struggle to change the algo and therefore piggytailing on ZEC.

Z9 provides only ~4x advantage over GPUs, so I do not really understand why are people so overreacting.

It's more than just 4x hashing power. It is 10x less power consumption. 10x time less heat and therefore 10x less heat extraction. also quite a space saver too. ASICs have lots of advantages against GPUs, but lets leave ASIC advantages alone and look on community itself.
I see @Skydreamer points/worries. Ordinal miners or just curious people have an option to try and mine VOT and have a play and test it. Somebody with just a single GPU can get involved in VOT.
If VOT becomes ASIC driven then you lose out those people and community - running ASIC is a business so if VOT is more of a business project then that's ok, just say it Smiley. People would like to know what to do, to leave VOT community or in contrary, join it with ASIC power Smiley. What direction are we going?
There are some thoughts for you Tom: if you make it ASIC resistant then lots of miners may soon join you. If you do not make it ASIC resistant then ASIC farms will join and so part of community may leave. I am not sure which route is best though. Maybe the best one is the one you are doing - just wait and see Smiley, but some may hate such waiting games. There is no way you can please us all Wink.


Most of the above is absolutely true, you clearly conveyed the idea that I wanted to convey
4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][VOT]: VoteCoin - a new era of anonymous crypto democracy on: May 06, 2018, 07:46:39 PM
And what's the benefit to you? Do you know what will happen in the end? Bitmain with its ASICs will absorb the whole algorithm, all ordinary users will leave you.

I do not agree with your conclusions.
Bitmain will not "absorb whole algorithm".
If bitmain's Z9 miners are successfull and if all ordinary users switch to Z9 miners instead of GPU, then the entire network will be mined with Z9. But that means nothing wrong. It has nothing to do with Bitmain company, they will not absorb anything. Each user will choose his preferred pool.

From what I've read so far in emails and facebook messages and other posts, it looks like people freak out about the upcoming ASICs, it looks like the majority of people think it is very big problem, while I do not share this negative attitude, really, there is no need to be afraid of ASICs in my opinion.

Tom, not to lead a long dialogue, answer a simple question. Do you have the ability to change the algorithm yourself? Yes or no? As I understand you do not have such a technical opportunity, so why then all this to discuss, just admit it, and that you are completely dependent on the network Zcash.
As I said before Zcash does not care, because its 2,
5 coins from each block they already get. Votecoin in the first place became famous thanks to miners, who spread the information about your coin. Asic for the average user is a high-risk device. Profitability falls quickly and it becomes worthless. Everything will come to the conclusion that Votecoin will produce large factories and huge farms,
and the community you lose, I guarantee you, there are lots of examples. You are not zcash, ethereum, siacoin, and others who can calmly take it, for all have long been known and have a great capitalization.

Asics are in the majority large factories and not thousands of people with their graphic cards
5  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][VOT]: VoteCoin - a new era of anonymous crypto democracy on: May 05, 2018, 09:55:12 PM
Tom, with all respect, but IntenseCoin network had 51% attack just 2 weeks ago: https://intensecoin.com/2018/04/16/imminent-hard-fork-and-network-attack/
They ended up rolling back their blockchain and then forking it again! Another real mess with out-of-sync wallets for weeks and lockedown exchanges.

I know nothing about IntenseCoin internals. What I was able to learn from the article is this:
1) somebody gained significant hashing power and at the same time he exploited some weakness in IntenseCoin to find 6000 blocks himself.
2) IntenseCoin developers decided that this is bad and they made a hard fork, causing A LOT of troubles.

I believe that there are two problems. First one is the exploitable weakness, and second trouble is mad developers making hard fork as a solution for this problem.

If the very same problem happened with VoteCoin, 6000 blocks would be worth 750K VOT coins, which the "attacker" could actually sell at TradeSatoshi exchange to get 1.33 BTC.
The price of VOT would drop down to 100 sat. But that's the worst case scenario. Nobody gets hurt. All coins held by all users would be safe. There would be no need for any hard forking in my opinion.

VoteCoin uses a dificulty adjustment algorithm based on DigiShield v3/v4 [DigiByte-PoW], with simplifications and altered parameters, to adjust difficulty to target the desired 2.5-minute block time. Unlike Bitcoin, the difficulty adjustment occurs after every block. So I would say that VoteCoin does not have such weakness as like IntenseCoin and it would prevent such situation anyway.

There is no need to fear the upcoming ASIC release...

-Tom

The problem is not at all in this. The fact is that the company Bitmain (manufacturer AsicS - supports for the door, hair dryer, heater) just gets rid of used Asics, to sell greedy idiots who want easy money and who eventually lose their money by buying a large calculator that quickly losing profitability.
In place of old Asics new more powerful ones will come and if you do not change the algorithm (and I understand why - you use their ZEC network (hello t1) and do what they do? But the greedy Zcash team gets 2.5 coins from each block all the same, even better.
And what's the benefit to you? Do you know what will happen in the end? Bitmain with its ASICs will absorb the whole algorithm, all ordinary users will leave you. And you will have one member named Bitmain (hello Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dash). Electroneum for this reason decided to hold a hard fork for began to lose its community.
I, as a holder of Votecoin, are not indifferent to the fate of the coin. So I advise you to think over my words Tom.

Sorry for my English, I write this with Google translate
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