How much of a blind fanboy or obvious shill do you have to be to try to justify why the GUI wallet is 32 months late? It's as if you don't want people to use your crypto...
Decent distribution is basically arguable at best.

And yes, I can't stop beating the dead horse of it being botnet-friendly, but it's hard not to.
I know botnets have an arguably positive effect on the security of the network and that there's very little to non morale in crypto but I still find it hard to justify turning a blind eye to botnets.
And yes, devs could stop it by using a more GPU-friendly algo, there are literally dozens of them exist with optimized miners.

And yes, trade volume has shifted a lot, from 96% being polo to 74% but it's still a long way from being healthy.

Merry Christmas wood choppers!

It's a good way of getting accused of being a scammer because the people who would buy such a PC are definitely not savvy enough not to download all the viruses and get their coins stolen.

Where were you a year or two ago?

Back then at least one coin launched every day and there were times when like 5+ different coins were launched in a single day.

Besides the retardedly high amount, that doesn't matter. Even if the pope or Obama had the coins it would still introduce the element of having to trust someone.

Kind of bumping this as I'm interested in more discussion.

That could be caused by a lot of things.

Badly seated GPU/riser or memory, faulty hardware, short, bad PSU, etc.

Try double checking everything and then removing all GPUs and trying to turn it on and if that works, try putting back everything one by one.

Probably around 2, maybe 3 months for most rigs with Win7 with a few tweaks and most scheduled tasks disabled so there's nothing going on in the background that could degrade it over time.

But then again 2-3 months without a short power outage is super rare. And some rigs are less stable whatever I do and only usually go for a couple of weeks tops.

For most rigs that won't go long it's almost always caused by poor USB powered risers. 3 parts per risers, it's a pain in the ass trying to find out which part (out of 18 for a 6 card rig) is at fault.

Was about to say the same. Weird that not every second comment is about vanilla.

Some people has to invest otherwise barely anyone would mine it. But I see what you mean. Unfortunately ZEC was way overhyped and likely heavily manipulated as well.

And the slowstart was so slow that ZEC was essentially instamined in a sense. Not amount wise, of course, that amount is nothing now but the first couple of people made a lot of money even with a fraction of a coin. Miners were virtually ripping pool owners' throats for payment delays. And then there's early private miners which also hurt distribution.

Anyway, my point is that you don't need ~34 days of climbing to avoid instamining, that's ridiculous. Even if there's a new algo waiting with no public miners.

But this day and age newly a released big coin without a windows wallet and some basic GPU miners for both teams is kind of laughable imo and makes it hard to take it seriously. Even Eth got a lot of flack for it and rightfully so.

A coin with linux/mac/windows wallets and basic GPU (not just CPU) miners at launch and some proper marketing way beforehand shouldn't need more than a few days of slow start.

And if you don't have all that, what's even the point of releasing a half-cooked coin - even if it has a killer feature (other than the obvious answer of making money)? It's not like you want as many people as possible to use it... oh wait.

True. But anything's better than Zcash's slow start imo.

~34 days from 0 to 12.5 means exactly what we experienced; crazy high initial price followed by a continous slow dump because the slow start is basically nothing but a super high inflation period which makes it a stupid idea to invest into it during that time.

But by the time the slowstart ends, the price is already low.

And then the blockreward staying the same for 4 years is another stupid idea because it's just another super high inflation period.

It made sense for bitcoin because barely any people mined it back then and now that it's established it doesn't matter. I might end up working for ZEC in 4-8 years but by that time it would also very well end up being ancient tech.


I think Zcash should have started with something like 6 ZEC per block and after the slow start the blockreward should have gradually decreased over time. There's no reason not to do a gradual decrease instead of the old school sudden halvings every 4 years.

Good idea but it means emission is unpredictable which means less speculative investors will bother.

It would need some real world use or some incentive for people to hold it.

This again?

This is live for a while:
12th Sep 2014

Blocks: 1289037

How much money you want to flush down the toilet.

There's no reason for them to remove it so I guess it will just take a while.

Doesn't really matter that much as they disabled it just before we sailed smoothly beyond the fork block. So no wrong fork, not lost transactions, etc, we just have to wait a bit longer.

New algo? If so, that would be weird as you'd be incentivized to keep a highly optimized miner to yourself and release a much slower one.

Personally, I don't invest in any ICO but a hands on with a completely new wallet sounds nice.

I don't pick ICOs, in fact I have never ever bought into any ICO/IPO scam while I have 273 different wallets on my computer, most of which I mined at some point.

Regardless, your post perfectly reflects your (along with most ICO participants') lack of realization that you're playing a slotmachine where the house has more edge than in any casino - which says a lot.

If you have any logical justification of giving money to a random anon dude over the internet (as a legit investment) in exchange for some magic internet moniez the dev made out of thin air with zero effort and some nice pictures and ambitious promises, I'm all ears.

For me only about 40% is on 1.3.2 and the rest is on 1.3.0.

You know way more than me so I'll just ask, shouldn't a new version refuse connections to old wallets?

However you want to justify it, you're throwing money at a random anon dude over the internet in exchange for some wild promises and pretty images.

That's the lowest form of gambling there is.