A month and a while later and it's still slowly slowly plodding plodding plodding upwards.  This is just what you want, what you don't want is it attracting undue attention on Coinwars, attracting huge miners for strip-mining.  They're the factory ships of the crypto ocean, leaving barren seabeds wherever they roam. 

I downloaded Ubutnu the other day, anticipating that I'll finally have to dig around in it.  Just never had the need!

"I Wanna Bad Girl" by Screamin' Eric and the Erections

Remember this scene from the movie "Cry-Baby"?  It leaves me weak at the knees, every time.

And finally, I've got this picture on the wall of my barn/loft/workshop/abode, my working philosophy.  I scavenge a lot.  Tech is our society's worst throw-away.  Hundreds of dollars thrown away because of a broken wire.  Entire item thrown away because one part breaks.  Disgusting.

URO is backed by Urea wishful thinking!  (Worked for Tinkerbell!)

Oh wait, devs of most obvious scam ever split leaving dust hanging in the air.

Let's restate what you've written there (I was about to say, restate the axioms of your system, but nothing here is self-evident).

1 coupon/coin = 1 work of art.
1 coupon/coin < 1 work of art.  (See, there goes my math right there)

Ergo, all works of art are identical and worth the same.

The value of a work of art is far more subjective than anything else in the marketplace, and it's value is STILL what someone is willing to trade for it.  Any evaluation in your mind will remain there, forever a fantasy.  Only the buyer actualizes a potential value.

You have a real problem with writing sentences that don't have much meaning.  Try putting some actual numbers to them and put up a few clear examples.  For instance, you don't differentiate between these coins, coupons, then make a blanket statement along the lines of "and of course there will be coin stability..." because why?  If I can explain Cantor's diagonal proof to a 12-year-old I'm sure you can explain your meaning, with examples, and with real numbers.

Also, make sure you're using the words you use for their meaning and not effect.  Matrix has a specific meaning, and so does axiom. If you're "figuring out the axioms of a system" you're basically itemizing what everybody already knows, because they are self-evident.

About four days on and off and not using all cores. AMD FX-8350 was and still is the most economical upgrade path.  Got chip and board for $400!  I've got a few things that actually need serous crunching power, like stacking 100+ 70Mb tiff files for astrophotograpy, or stitching about 60 of em for some mega-pano work.  Gets at least 110Kh/s per core though, depending on what I've been doingplaying.  Today it was trying to squeeze some more performance out of the ram.  Did well, stock reads 24,000MB/s and I got it to 29,000MB/s.  Main gains through getting HT link running at 3Ghz and tightening up the timing a bit.  Good to know these things, don't bother overclocking the ram, just improve your timing and signal, etc etc.  Overclocking, hot-rodding for techies.  The other day I told me mum "I finally realized the real reason I'm doing this.  It's to scare the shit out of the other techs." 

http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu53/acatphoto/Tech/BadGirl01.jpg
http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu53/acatphoto/Tech/BadGirl03.jpg

Four water-coolers, one for CPU, three for GPU's.  And I don't even game.  Utterly impossible to fry any of those cards though, period.
I remember when C first came out.  Not C++, not C+, just C.  Not just the backbone of cryptos.  The Backbone.  When we first saw it we all saw that it was going to compile into good tight code.  It really was the birth of modern computing languages.  It's been a long time, really really long time, really really really long long time, we'll see.  So much to do.  I got into the crypto scene because I saw it was the perfect way to sell my photography (thanks by the way).  That itself was a fallback position due to health issues.  I should, nay, must get back into it at least enough to compile a damn wallet though!  *grumble*  Last programming job I had was doing a custom app in Autocad Lisp (a hellish programming language).  That was on Acad-12, the first Windows version.  I fired up the "latest" Autocad a few years back and um.... it was like being trained on two-engine Cesna's and suddenly being tossed into a 747.

Did you code this coin or get someone else in on it?  Why can't the same code that's in the mining software be spliced into the wallet?  Damn... they've outlawed object-oriented programming and I didn't even notice!  Please tell me we've still got C++! 

A coupon-coin which you simply claim has value because you've declared it so.  Who's to believe you?  Why?  Y'know, when I come into the city I usually have a stack of 6x8's of my newer pictures, and I never ever have to pay for a beer when I go out.  Know why?  Because other people offer me a beer in exchange for them.  THEY set the value, and if I turn out shite, I go thirsty.

Choice of payment on work will become the greatest factor to determine these new currencies value.  The primary value of a coin, that which on its behalf the currency was issued, will rise dramatically once a person will ask to be payed on his/her work with this coin.  By making a choice in which currency one is getting paid, this person’s work become valued as a product of the industry he choose to be paid by its currency. Thus the currency is now representing not only the future products of the industry that issued it, but also the future products (of any industry) gained by that person’s work.
This factor will have great effect on the future credit market and will stop the abusive practices of the current banking system.

This is meaningless drivel, nonsense, and it really sounds like "art-speak".

So what exactly is your talent?  You're using their logo, their art, their design, all other people's work and talent.  What exactly are you bringing to the table?  What are you producing?  Um... a limited edition of numbers in cyberspace.  Just because something is rare doesn't make it valuable.  I'm sure the world is slowly running out of MacDonalds E.T. tumblers, but they're not auctioning them at Barkleys.

*sigh*  "Concept Art"  Hits a new high for lazy.  Y'know, I used to live with a guy who was/is a head scenic for I.A.T.S.E.  Scenic artists specialize in fast technique, bang it out fast and cheap as possible, enough to fool the eye and not much more because there's always the budget and the timetable.  And "Twitter Art"  Tweet something and declare it art?  I'll bet it "raises questions" about communication in modern society.

http://www.newcriterion.com/posts.cfm/tampon-in-a-teacup-4737



Just plain lazy.  Can't even be bothered to photograph their own artwork.  Can't be very proud of it.

Makes my 2400 (mined so far) look a bit paltry.  Most excellent launch.  So who needs an exchange for commerce?  What I need is someone to basically just answer questions for a couple of hours while I bring myself back up to speed in a few areas, someone who knows a bit about blockchain programming.  By the way, do you think that doing something as simple as xor'ing the hashing code would hide it from scanning eyes?  I wouldn't think so, or else every damn malware author would be doing the same simple trick.  In any case, I propose trading time for time and expertise.  Whoever's time on IRC, my time doing whatever and maybe some fine photography.

This is mine, works fine.

rpcuser=<user>
rpcpassword=<pass>
server=1
daemon=1
rpctimeout=30
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=29947
port=29948
maxconnections=50
keypool=100
logtimestamps=1

Bought all I could at 35sat yesterday.  Today the bottom is at 2sat.  Gotta love it.

You shouldn't refer to the wallet with mining capabilities as having "...and of course, some viruses" because it doesn't.  Problem is that hashing algorithms set off virus scanners because they look like password crackers, because in essence that is exactly what they are.  That's why keygens set them off too.  It's a false positive that we have to deal with.  The problem is that anti-virus programs can't differentiate between harmful and benign uses of an algorithm.

Edit:  I do wonder though if it might be obfuscated a bit by say, breaking it up a bit, tossing in a few jmp's, or even making some self-modifying code that would say do an XOR on a block of code before execution.

I was going by the "Price Paid" on the rental history page.  0.012375 x $420 = $5.20   He's renting about... damn,... forgot, I'd had some problems with sgminer, quark, was gonna re-check now that I've got the drivers rolled back to 14.4.  Anyways, don't think shiny new equipment.  Downstairs I've got two motherboards quite literally nailed to the wall, P4's, 1G ram, 40G hd, and a 6950 each just chawing away.  Guess we'll just have to wait to hear what he paid, or wait until I check out a few rental agreements, procedures, etc etc, I'm a curious cat.





Yeah, there's a bit of a split-personality thing going on here.  On the one hand, you need the hash power to be distributed, but the asic arms-race has worked to concentrate it.  Optimally you'd want what I hope can happen here, one wallet per comp hashing away and securing your own personal portion of the net.  The next big thing, and it's gotta happen, and it's gonna be big, is for ALL these algos to start DOING SOMETHING!  I get positively ill when I think of the computing power of the Bitcoin network, it makes Oak Ridge's Atlas look like a pocket calculator compared to Atlas.  Only a few attempts to to link it to Folding@home and I mine Riecoin, but there must be more than folding proteins and crunching primes.  Whatever it is we're crunching though it will continue and trend higher.  I think Manitoba would be a good place for smaller independents.  Gotta wrest it away from the asics and turn it back into a cottage industry.

It is interesting.  We're writing science fiction.  There's less than 20 places in Winnipeg where you can use Bitcoin and we're mapping out the necessaries for a new financial system.  My Cryptsy balance is let's see... 0.00960782 BTC.  It was twice that earlier but I blinked, ate, went for a shit, something or other, and one of my coins tanked.    Oh I'm gonna take over the world for sure!

I've heard a lot of "Dogecoin doesn't deserve..." griping in the last year but that's precisely why it IS.  When I first got introduced to this scene I was bugging my buddy about all the different details, technical shit.  He told me to just stop, that it didn't mean a thing, and that the only thing that mattered was the community backing.  I've seen that's precisely true.  With very few exceptions all the coins are basically clones with big "Sucks 50% Less!" stickers on them.  Doge is the only coin which has made some minor inroads into commerce, and that is the only thing that matters, period.  Just thought of the worst metaphor, but it fits perfectly.  Like Claudius in the court of Calligula, playing the idiot until it's safe to come out.

Of course it wasn't the miners who made out well during the gold-rush, it was their suppliers.  It looks like it's all going to come down to electricity costs, and bonus points for cooling.  Manitoba is going to be one of those puddles in the desert one of these days.  Our juice here actually costs less than in Iceland.  6c khr vs 10c, quite the difference.  Might have to talk to a friend or two about this, get something going.

Too funny.  This is the first time I've been curious enough to look up mining rig rental prices.... and I ran across this rig on first click.

https://www.miningrigrentals.com/rigs/7175/

So, three days for about five bucks?  Was it worth it?  How thin are the margins with that?  

Good news.  Just checked out sgminer with quarkcoin kernel.  Looks like it's fairly comparable to cpu mining so although you can use gpu for mining it doesn't have the tremendous advantage over cpu of say, scrypt.  My 6850 was getting 650 Kh/s and my 7950 had issues, probably with these 14.6 beta drivers, but wasn't showing anything extraordinary either.  Looks like this levels the playing field.  Still plenty of coins out there for the big rigs.

Woot!  Ok, this was a nice way to end the eve.  Figured from the peer data that rpcport=29947.  Now mining directly to wallet.  Same speed of course, just smoother, less net traffic.  And ping, block just came in.  *sigh*  System running a bit warm.  Must brush off the rads in the morning.

Once again I'm dropping in here on my last scan before crashola.  Just checked the numbers and it looks like that version of Minerd and whatever code is in the wallet are pretty much the same (and why wouldn't they be).  I get the same hash rate (about 145Kh/s) from 7 threads on my FX-8350 (not overclocked atm).  So then what's easier for Ma Kettle?  That long string command with possible misspellings, pool, wallet address etc, or just "setgenerate true 7"?  What I looked at briefly the other night was weather the sgminer quark kernel used GPU or just plain CPU.  Only had a quick poke at it because I was VERY tired.  Sgminer has forked so many times in the last half a year that the syntax has become muddled a bit.  Can be a pain to the frustrated and bleary-eyed.

This scene has me looking at getting back into coding but it has been a LONG time.  Just had a thought... last code I wrote was back in 2001.  Automated myself out of a job at a small ISP.  Yeah, go me eh!  So now I think, how much change was there between that and the first stuff I was doing in oh, Borland Pascal?  On the other hand, what the hell, so what if I'm starting from scratch?  I still speak fluent 6502, learned Autocad Lisp (and that's a MOFO), I can handle this.  Excellsior!

Edit:  *Sigh*  How did I miss that?  Oh right, tired and a 1 looks like a 7 and I forgot to 'save' before running.  So the wallet software is definitely much slower than Minerd.  I was seeing it's performance on 1 thread, not 7.  Now I've gotta wonder why it was showing 140Kh/s with 1 thread, but now individual threads showing 100Kh/s.  For the morning.

They burn themselves out like ebola, what we want is the common cold.    I have to wonder though, if this is to be a cpu-only coin, why have pools at all?  I haven't bothered putting in any time seeing if I could get sgminer and quark kernel working on this because it would seem to go against the whole idea of the thing.  I say keep it CPU only, period.  It should also be made resistant to cloud computing, digital ocean droplets, things like that.  How about a straight-up limit on hash rate?  That would seem to cut right to the chase eh?

Well now, might I suggest you consider a few of these?

http://dogelet.com/buy/Waterfall-Iceland-V1-by-Atomicat
http://dogelet.com/buy/Waterfall-269-by-Atomicat

Stunning detail in this one.

http://dogelet.com/buy/Waterfall-372-by-Atomicat

Sorry, but you'll have to print and frame them yourself.  Personally I consider the art to be more important than the artist, but I can tell you that my work hangs in the provincial gallery of Manitoba.