re: time to start making alternative arrangements
tis smart to have plan B, redundancy ... looking forward to a blockchain based repo
build it and they will come
I was labouring under a misapprehension, I'd misinterpreted the “Bitcoin” commit comment as the committer's affiliation. Nevertheless, the identity of the originator of that particular DCMA takedown request is not revealed and I don't welcome either the opacity or what it implies. Minimally it prevents checking the claim that Solidcoin2 was indeed the first “proper” PoS. Its features and clone heritage are now essentially indeterminable and the removal of the source code effectively prevents any remediation. If anyone has a copy of the code from which they can report details of: genesis block hash, root merkle hash, nonce, ntime, starting diff, etc. I'd be grateful for a PM. Cheers Graham |
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Each FBA seems much more interesting than a typical meme-based altcoin that pays nothing but hope of speculative appreciation.
I agree, “seems” is the right word to use in the context of the straw man you offer but is it something you can provide solid support for or is it basically an adopted position? Cheers Graham |
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Any other ACTIVE coins running a masternode system?
What's your definition of active? Active, as in still traded and developed and maintained Okay, I have “quite recently listed on coinmarketcap.com”, if that will suffice for “still traded”? As to whether the coin is still developed and maintained, only a close inspection can determine that. Coin name links to bitcointalk thread, symbol links to Minkiz’ rendering of the DOACC entry - “extant” means “not listed on coinmarketcap but not known to be inactive”: Cheers Graham |
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Syscoin goes from $300k marketcap to $3m marketcap in less than a few months. Gets lots of free publicity.
Not sure why.
Services include:
Alias reservation, ownership & exchange
Data storage
Digital document storage, ownership & exchange
Distributed marketplate & exchange
Digital Services Provider marketplace & platform
Digital Asset Creation and Management (alpha)
(soon) Escrow
(soon) Distributed gaming
(soon) Distributed elections and polls
(soon) Distributed encrypted communication & shared content storage
Could have something to do with it. Cheers Graham |
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Any other ACTIVE coins running a masternode system?
What's your definition of active? Cheers Graham |
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we are asking the community if some dev time should be allocated
Well-motivated but needs more thought. Spreadcoin is not a legally-constituted entity in any jurisdiction so cannot be a party to a contract. No-one can enforce exclusive representation of Spreadcoin and no-one can legally represent Spreadcoin as a party to a contract. No-one's permission nor agreement is required to pursue an application for MS to add SPR the list of supported alts (AIUI, it reduces to persuading someone to create and submit a Docker file for MS to add to an MS-hosted directory). So, supplementary question - who is offering to shoulder the responsibilities of: - development - testing - maintenance - continuous integration - technical support - liaison with MS - ensuring continuity About a week's initial devops work there I reckon (for the bulk of it), about $2500 at contract rates. Plus the ongoing maintenance task, of course - well, once the paradigm is established, it would do SPR more harm than good to have a publicly broken Azure-hosted service than to not offer a service at all. Cheers Graham |
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BTCU need a new dev .... primary target.... and if we can merge i think is a good notice.... vcoin dev we can administrate btcu  Oh, I see - thanks for the clarification. Merging the coin distributions isn't feasible because they have different distribution models and different protection models. The BTCU distro is an airdrop of of a PoW-PoS hybrid (based on Novacoin) which is now in the final pure PoS phase whereas the released version of VCoin is pure PoW (based on Bitcoin), has finished its primary mining distribution phase and rewards are now tx only. As different as chalk and cheese, as they say. I'm sending you a PM with a few more details and some suggestions. Cheers Graham |
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No, that's not what you meant.
You said your biggest objection to BARR was its dependency on NXT.
I indicated that was my biggest objection in principle (and which I'll now refine further to “its relationship with NXT”). My biggest objection in practice is the arbitrary targeting ... people who launch a coin and then abandon it after a few weeks
#2, It must be listed on an exchange or otherwise available to be traded
#3, It must be functioning and have a working block explorer
#4, It must be at least 6 months old
It's difficult to see how anyone can be oblivious to this contradiction. Thank you for confirming my perception that the “deadbeat dev” and “dead coin” rationale is bogus and that there's a different motivation at play. As difficult as it is to resist your persuasively-worded challenge to solve your problem for you, pressing matters elsewhere dictate that I regretfully must decline. Cheers Graham |
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We swap coins that were dependent on deadbeat devs
That's the impoverished, unidimensional perspective I meant. Idiosyncratic and simplistic definitions such as “deadbeat devs” and “dead coins” means that your targeting process is weak and that undermines both your principles and the effectiveness of your solution. Why, for instance are you now targeting Chaincoin, there are 40 extant nodes - is that not enough for your demanding standards or is it that your selection process is so ill-conceived that it is basically random? Cheers Graham |
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we can merge vcoin whit bitcoinultra?
You don't indicate why but sure, if you want to, go ahead; there's nothing to stop you. Cheers Graham |
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dependency may not be a big issue. Maybe Jl777 will be giving an example soon!
Er, how can dependency not be an issue when it's all dependent on what jl777 wants to do? As BARR notes, there's nothing to stop it happening all over again. It's a shame that realisation came so late. How do you see the better approach, for BARR?
I don't agree with BARR's impoverished and unidimensional view of altcoins. BARR is exploiting disgruntled people who consider themselves to be “bagholders”, a sadly self-serving label that absolves them of all the responsibility that accrues to an investor in an endeavour. All they can see is short-term petty gain, not long-term deep influence and are condemned to be ever on the short end of the deal. I would think “good riddance” except for the deleterious effects on the coin supply wrought by artificially restricting availability, thus deepening the stagnation that the approach is supposed to relieve and deepening the divisions between the different interests that comprise an altcoin “community”. The altcoin scene is corrosive and poisonous enough without further divisiveness being introduced and given a fake moralistic spin. Cheers Graham |
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what will be CHC/BARR exchange rate ?
Hopefully it will be pretty good. We'll try to set the rate on or before the 7th. Hard to see how you can maintain that stance, given the developments in Nxt assets. The Nxt dependency was always my biggest objection in principle to your approach. What vote? Cheers Graham |
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in the long term the inflation will be too high, resulting in a low value of CLAM, so people will be less inclined to use it.
Is there any evidence from the altcoin domain to support this assertion? Cheers Graham |
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Any current or future blockchain is invited to join.
Can a blockchain be prevented from joining? Cheers Graham |
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When grammatical errors became necessary to start new coin?
When the dev's language skill fails totally - the code doesn't match the ANN (ANN = 1 coin block reward, code = 15 coin block reward, not to mention the unmentioned 2 billion premine) - is that from a deficit in language skill or in integrity? Cheers Graham |
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1min. blocktime
1 coin per block
The source code would seem to disagree profoundly with the ANN. Have the available binaries been compiled with the source code provided? unsigned int nTargetSpacing = 2 * 60;
// miner's coin base reward
int64_t GetProofOfWorkReward(int64_t nFees, int nHeight)
{
int64_t nSubsidy = 15 * COIN;
if (nHeight == 1)
return 2000000000 * COIN;
// Force block reward to zero when right shift is undefined.
int halvings = nHeight / 1000000;
if (halvings >= 64)
return nFees;
nSubsidy >>= halvings;
if (fDebug && GetBoolArg("-printcreation"))
printf("GetProofOfWorkReward() : create=%s nSubsidy=%"PRId64" nHeight=%u\n", FormatMoney(nSubsidy).c_str(), nSubsidy, nHeight);
return nSubsidy + nFees;
}
fwiw, parentage is Hackcoin -> Mineralscoin -> Bitdolar Cheers Graham |
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Unfortunately our source code was in a private status
Oh? That's not the experience I had:  Cheers Graham |
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