It could explain the drop in hashrate experienced by everyone. The missing power could charge a loic.

I highly doubt this scenario.

SC users mine with cpu's unless of course sc has lazors in it....

I was wonder about this too. I asked CH in an earlier post but I think that section of the post got derailed.

I seems implausible that they would go to all the trouble of adding in interleaving blocks (What I called a vector clock) without realizing they could be used in fork detection. Basically this would supplement or override "the longest chain" rule in cases where a long fork appears out of the blue. Otherwise, anyone who could isolate a single trusted peer could run wild.

However, I didn't think it was plausible to invent ten 1.2 MSC accounts to make interleave feature work either.

Is it possible that the solution to "GPU Hostile" crypto-currencies lies within the IE9 Hardware Acceleration and an older lesser known work around for previous anti-parallel computing by the cryptocommunity?

Maybe a modded hardware accelerator could turn GPU's into APU hybrids and could crunch at tens of thousands times faster than every CPU on the network combined. A mere 1 GH /s machine would be a beast...I would shutter to think what a 68 GH /s farm would do.

I would love to claim this as my own idea but it in fact is the (theoretical) brain child of a couple of iOS engineers I know. They (theoretically) adapted it from from previous failed attempts at cryptographers to prevent parallel computing in cracking MD5 hashes.  "GPU Hostility" was solved a while back.

I would also speculate that someone needed a testnet and really didn't want to disrupt Tenebrix as there is already an exchange and pool. I would venture to say this theoretical attacker may in fact have nothing against Fairbrix and is developing a Solidcoin killer.

All just theory on my part.  

~BCX~


PS I would also guess the test is complete and I wouldn't worry about it.

The pchar message headers were changes AND a new genesis block was created. So there's no way that the old fairbrix client was the culprit. It is possible that this chain reorg was accidental, but not likely. Anyways, it seems like the overall network hashrate has grown and it's harder to pull off this attack now. And given that fairbrix has no value right now, it's not really worth it to keep attacking it.

I expect a better release, under a new name to come.  It will be properly tested and released to thwart potential attackers.  Stay tuned.

Here is a "for dummies" product I plan to introduce soon.

I am working on a non-denominated gold-plated bearer bar that looks expensive but isn't.  On it is a hologram with embedded private key.  The bar comes with 0 BTC and the hologram explicitly says "zero BTC" on it.  But there's an address on it and a space where you can put (engrave, or sticker) your own denomination.

Someone who wants to save BTC can send their BTC to the bar and stick it in their safe.

The whole point of the bar is that it looks valuable.  Someone's heirs will treat it as such, and will probably store it or look for a way to sell it to somebody, exactly as if it were gold.  On the other hand, a flash drive in an envelope with a bunch of instructions about "TrueCrypt" and "PGP" will, in my opinion, probably get disregarded as not worth the trouble by most non-technical people (your mileage may vary - everyone's family is different).

On the other hand, while you are still alive, it's cool and novel to have a safe full of bitcoins - that looks like a safe full of gold bullion.

720 is the current block per my client.
No blocks since the first maybe 150 or so actually have coins in them as far as I can tell.


May have been a good idea to premine further after all!  There's some irony for you.

EDIT:
Sidenote:  The client (not the miner!) is eating a tremendous amount of CPU power on linux, is there a miner built in or something?  When I say tremendous, I mean literally every cycle it can get it's hands on.

He doesn't know whats wrong because he can't code and doesn't understand any of the errors. It's hilarious.

i've changed my mind on this, it's not 1 guy with 7million coins, it's a currency with an equivilent 3 year money supply for a laundry to facilitate anonymous transactions (one of bitcoins possible weaknesses).  If this laundry is used as a laundry it will actually add value to the currency, and i've become convinced Locust is serious about this laundry, well convinced enough to gamble what i've mined so far on it.  

That said I would still like to see a faucet with 1-2mil in it for non early adaopters, distributing it to the early miners seems entirely pointless to me(and i'm an early miner).

That was before you were forced to admit that you had premined 7.7 million coins for your money laundering operation. Once I found out about that I wiped the usb key containing GG and chucked it in a river.

I had this error when I want to compile GG on Linuxcoin, anyone know how to resolve?

make: wx-config: Command not found
g++ -c -O2 -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wformat -g -D__WXDEBUG__ -DNOPCH -DFOURWAYSSE2 -DUSE_SSL  -DGUI -o obj/auxpow.o auxpow.cpp
In file included from auxpow.cpp:4:0:
headers.h:30:19: fatal error: wx/wx.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [obj/auxpow.o] Error 1

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First bounty: Update Notifier

One of the things Geist Geld desperately needs to avert various unfavorable experiences down the line is a means to somewhat meticulously and insistently (within reason) notify the user if the majority of peers he is connected to have a version different from his own.

This will help to draw the user's attention to the fact that his version is lagging behind the general Geist Geld frontier and he'd better catch up until something bad happened.

The bounty on this one is 69 777  Geists, and of course proper credit in the  Contributors section of the website (which gonna go up real soon)

Meanwhile, I would ask the kind community to provide feedback as to possible pitfalls and implementation suggestions.

Thank you very much in advance

Another nice donation, some more nice pix!  This is the better half at her largest *well, largest for now*!  This is part of her "green top" series.

Enjoy!