The receiver_0.csv is the minimum that must be included with a distribution I think, because I am am pretty sure it is where the code gets the URLs that it uses to go get such files.

Usually though I thought we include most of the receiver files when packaging a distribution.

Each cycle when Unthinkingbit tells me to generate the new files for the new cycle I upload them to

http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/ then the admins of the other URLs grab them from there once Unthinkingbit has checked them.

(Plus in theory those other admins also check them, or at least hopefully we have enough admins that on any given cycle someone at least does check them. )

-MarkM-

Apparently some exchanges also have explorers for the coins they handle, I don't know which ones though nor whether it includes any that trade in IXCoins.

By the way I checked my I0Coin's listtransactions and saw that Vircurex has in fact sent me my 18,000+ I0Coins.

-MarkM-

By the way I checked my I0Coin's listtransactions and saw that Vircurex has in fact sent me my 18,000+ I0Coins.

-MarkM-

Ah well for that we have other members of the SHA256 merged mined coins family, such asGRouPcoin (GRP), which has a pool (mmpool.org) but not yet any exchange, and CoiLedCoin (CLC) and GeistGeld (XGG) which have no pools and no exchanges.

So for those looking to the long term, those are the nice sleeper coins to accumulate while accumulation is easy.

I0Coin and IXCoin though are relatively easy to accumulate right now, as people keep throwing them onto my slowly being built buy-side order-books despite my still being far away from having those order-books built up to where they were back before Vircurex stopped honouring bitcoin deposits.

-MarkM-

Money is like an I.O.U. - When you give someone money in return for goods and services there is generally at least to some extent an understanding that what you are giving them is valuable, that it is something you yourself would accept under similar circumstances, it is not some garbage you are dumping on a sucker but, rather, something you would happily accept back in return for other kinds of value.

Thus it seems appropriate as a seller of coins to also be willing to buy the damn things.

It is market-making, liquidity-providing, and also in a way very similar to a shop offering to allow customers to return purchased goods if they choose to, minus a small re-stocking fee (the spread).

-MarkM-

The trick is to ensure XGG (GeistGeld) has a decently high difficulty before deploying p2pool.

When I was almost the only miner mining it, and certainly the only one mining it with enough hashing power to keep up a reasonable difficulty, its difficulty would collapse whenever my p2pool or daemon or miners had problems, because it adjusts/adapts its difficulty very swiftly.

p2pool would choke up, exhausting connection port data structures in the operating system or something like that, from constantly trying to open new connectinos to the daemon while hundreds or thousands of other such attempts were still waiting to time-out.

So what I had to do then was comment out XGG from my p2pool and direct some individual mining machines at it, such as a 50GHash Butterfly Labs miner or two for example, to drive its difficulty back up into the hundreds. Somewhere in the low hundreds or so of difficulty it would be difficulty enough that I could add it back into p2pool, BUT, NOTE THAT in those days I had no Neptune mining machines, just a Jupiter, so my p2pool was only running at somehing over 500GHashes (the Jupiter and some of the Butterfly Labs things and a whack of the early model USB miners).

I have not been able to use my Neptune miners with p2pool because no matter how few coins I merged in the p2pool I found I could only get about one terahash out of a Neptune that normally (e.g. with mmpool.org pool) gave me 3.4 terahashes.

Basically you need GeistGeld's difficulty to be high enough that however much hashpower you have in your instance of p2pool is not going to "instamine" it, it needs to be high enoguh that it will take your p2pool some seconds per block, so there is time to complete connections between blocks.

-MarkM-

A copy of bitcoin with the only change being to add support for being a child chain in a merge is the ideal thing to have for basing all the merged mined coins on, so thanks for that. I tried to build one of those long ago but never got it done before it became out of date.

Although come to think of it, even better would be that plus also with the RAM problems fixes also included, since all the merged coins will also need those fixes.

-MarkM-

Yeah unfortunately I have had to do them each 5 satoshis of price for IXCoin instead of the every satoshi of price I prefer, but hopefully I can thicken that up once the sell offers start being bought.

I am taking my time building the buys back up to 10k satoshis again as by going slow it allows time for weak hands to dump to me at these pathetically low prices before I bother going back up again and certainly before pushing back to the 16k to 18k satoshis that prevailed in the long-ago.

Ultimately of course the goal is still $1 or more per coin, but I think that will require also supporting NaMeCoin getting it back up over $1 as most likely folks are not going to support I0Coin and IXCoin at $1 and more unless they see NaMeCoin well up over $1.

Basically we will most likely have to support all the merged mined family eventually to give them all the best chances.

DeVCoin has been the best consistent money-maker though, as its periodic breakouts to 8 or more satoshis are pretty profitable when most of the coins you sell for such prices were picked up down at 3 satoshis. Even nicer on those very infrequent occassions when you can pick a few up at 2 satoshis. To think they used to hover around 30 though, hmm, will be nice to see them back up there again...

I expect most of my bitcoins for strengthening the IXCoin and I0Coin buy sides will end up coming from DeVCoin market-making profits.

I think of those piles of offers as columns rather than as walls though, as usually when folks talk about a wall it is just one huge offer, so that once it is broken through there is a massive hole on the other side of it. I prefer columns, so no matter how high or low folks want to push there is always something there waiting for them to push against. Actual depth instead of just a thin crust.

-MarkM-

Yeah so few cryptocurrencies are worthwhile, your folks would be better off concentrating on actually viable coins than wasting their money launching yet another useless scamcoin.

Who-ever advised you to create yet another coin should probably be fired as advisor.

-MarkM-

Can you change the PoS difficulty to make blocks more frequent, without changing the PoS percent earnings per year?

Basically make PoS blocks more frequent but with lower payout so earnings remain the same we just get more blocks going by?

I do not actually know what the percent is though, I thought it was something not too out of line like maybe 5% per year, if it is 5% per month that is already outlandishly huge earnings compared to most normal kinds of savings accounts certificates of deposits heck even investing in stocks and such.

I do not have many of the coins because I no longer do GPU mining having lost one too many motherboards (or at least graphics cards slots, making the motherboard unusable) trying to mine with GPUs, so I just have the few coins a few CPU cores pulled in when seemingly no-one else was mining. I have not had any of them long enough for PoS to kick in.

If the PoS earnings are 5% per month though I guess I don't like this coin afterall. I had the impression it was more sensible, so that it would not inflate massively losing value to floods of newly minted coins, and designed to make staking it a serious long term endeavour taking a year to get set up for instead of something people could do within hours or days of getting some coins.

I also do not know if staking is the on again off again kind where you just fire up a wallet every so many hours days weeks months or whatever and shut it down shortly thereafter to accumulate more coin age, or the more serious kind where you have to keep the wallet open all the time?

So maybe it is not afterall as interesting a coin as I had though, or maybe it is, I don't know its details enough.

I did like the fact that mining it was only giving me a very small number of coins because I hoped that would apply to others also thus that there would not be floods of new coins constantly being minted to constantly put downward pressure on the price.

Basically I had thought it was designed to be a rare coin that would retain its value.

The PoS coins that screwed around with their rates I do not touch, I saw that first with that really scammy first clone of Perrcoin, the one that had no source code, bunch of Russians behind it or something like that, Novacoin was it or some such name? Total scam. I don't even touch the ones that gave themselves massively ridiculously high PoS at the start lowering it yearly and such, though at least they set the schedule from the start instead of hacking at it after it was already up and running with people invested into it.

-MarkM-

Fragmented wallets make large amounts unable to move, not small amounts.

When mining I regularly found I had to send only one or two or five thousands at once to move coins from the wallets I mined to, depending how many coins one block mined gives you.

When mining tiny amounts of coins per block it takes more outputs to put together a large sum, and there is a limit to how large one transaction can be.

So if the problem at Vircurex was fragmentation of coin amounts in the wallet large sums should have been affected first, smaller sums only when remaining outputs in the wallet were so small it would take too many of them to build up even a small sum.

-MarkM-

I tried to withdraw 18,000+ I0Coins and the withdraw stuck, no transaction number was shown by it.

Regularly one used to see notices claiming for other coins that such stuck withdraws were being fixed, but they were fixed by putting the coins back in your account.

So I wrote to Vircurex customer support to ask about that and whether they were going to therefore allow people extra time to re-try the withdraw or what, and also took that opportunity to remind them again for the umpteenth time that they still have not put into my account the two bitcoins I sent to my bitcoin desposit address back in February or so, but they did not reply and the 18,000+ I0Coins never showed back up in my account, in fact the listing for I0Coin vanished from my account. And the history of withdraws still showed no transaction number for that withdraw, so as far as I can tell they have stolen two bitcoins and over 18,000 I0Coins from me even if one believes them that it was not them who stole all the coins they claim are "frozen"...

-MarkM-

NO. Increased POS rate is nothing but a scam, scamming everyone who invested into this coin based on its known and, presumably, fixed-forever parameters.

Changing it would be like if bitcoin suddenly decided to issue 50 coins per block again, only worse because you are proposing six times as much POS minting.

Make a new different coin if you want new different parameters, why do you keep posting this scam again?

-MarkM-

A node uses hardly any system resources, it is dirt cheap to run, if you have a machine running already anyway having a node on it is hardly any impact at all.

Sure people who blew extra money to run extra machines specifically to run a node will probably shut the extra machines down but they were never really people that a network would want anyway, they are the slash and burn miner types, that run around destroying coin after coin, it maybe would have been better to make the distribution payouts low enough that no one would want to fire up a rented node specifically to run it, set the payouts to where only people who already have machines up and running doing other things but with spare capacity would bother to add a node to one or more of their already-running machines.

-MarkM-

They are coins everyone has had years to accumulate, and pretty much for free too since they are merged mined so any sensible miners got them basically free while mining bitcoins.

But it is a good time to accumulate still I think, as those of little faith have not done dumping yet most likely, so I expect as the buy sides gradually grow higher and higher more and more dumpers will come out of the woodwork to dump cheap coins on us.

Heck I already had a few small sells dumped on my I0Coin buy offers before even having reached 3000 satoshis. Kind of makes me want to take it slow, allowing plenty of time for more dumpers to get impatient and dump instead of spending all day every day typing in offers building up the buy side as fast as I can. Taking it nice and slow looks like it might work better.

I actually spent months before over on Vircurex, resulting in a long term growth in price of I0Coin and IXCoin, until they sabotaged both coins by no longer honouring bitcoin deposits so I could no longer build the buy sides except when someone bought from my sell side, and every time I got the price up over 10,000 satoshis it would get dumped down below that again, which was fine until bitcoins I sent to the exchange to keep building with failed to arrive.

-MarkM-

It is not intended to stand alone, it deliberately is created by making use of as many free open source software systems as possible, the intention is to alter their code as little as possible, and ideally even to have any code changes needed take place upstream so that it is not necessary to modify the existing software systems again and again each time we upgrade to a newer version of an upstream system.

Thus ideally it is mainly content that we need to develop, although sometimes maybe upstream developers might not approve of how we are using their system enough to incorporate needed changes.

An example of a desired change is the fact the Freeciv civilisation game only deals with one planet, thus has no facility for exporting units so they can move from one world to another.

For now we just shut down both worlds and run scripts on the savegame files to remove units from one world and insert them into another, but eventually it would be nice if the units could move from one running world to antoher without needing to shut down the worlds during the transit of the units.

Another thing that would be nice would be fixes to the "permadeath" system in Crossfire RPG, it has a permadeath config setting but that setting is not supported and maybe even deprecated, so it has some horrible holes in it such as the fact that when a character permadies any player can create a character of the same name, thus inheriting the character if someone casts ressurection on its corpse to bring it back to life.

Hopefully though the changes desired will remain small enough that eventually they can be accomplished right in the mainstream releases of the software systems we use, so that we can keep up with development of the upstream without getting bogged down in a whole mess of problems involving patching each new version over again and such.

-MarkM-

Surely if the pump works you're going to make money, and the more people who take part the better the pump will work, so why even charge anyone to join in, why not just announce for free to everyone so the maximum number possible take part making it the largest pump possible?

Stinks of scam to me...

Right now for example Vircurex has forced me to start pumping I0Coin from scratch over on Cryptopia, first Vircurex crippled both I0Coin and IXCoin by refusing to honour bitcoin deposits thus not allowing me to place buy offers offering to buy I0Coin and IXCoin for bitcoins, now they have decided to discontinue these two coins that they themselves crippled by their refusal to honour bitcoin deposits that were intended for building the buy side orderbooks of I0Coin and IXCoin.

So I am starting I0Coin pump all over again from scratch on Cryptopia, which is currently the only public, website-type exchange offering an I0Coin market.

IXCoin I am doing on Cryptsy.

Since many readers will not believe, telling everyone publicly like this should not pose any problems or difficulties, indeed it might even help encourage folks to dump these coins on you cheap since undoubtedly they will not believe how high these coins are going to go.

Vircurex's repeated sabotage of these coins also should help keep belief low so that plenty of people will be happy to dump these coins on you cheap.

On Cryptsy I am so far only building the IXCoin buy-side 5 satoshis of price at a time, and having to work downwards as well as upwards because so far the buy side depth is not built solidly all the way down to the bottom-most possible price.

On Cryptopia though I am building the buy side up from the very bottom, with an order of 100 coins at each satoshi of price, which is of course taking a while since I type in the offers manually so it takes a while, it will be many days before I start having to delete my sell orders (placed currently at each 5 satoshis of price from 10,000 satoshis and building upwards) to make room for more buy orders...

So come on in, welcome aboard, pumps ahoy!

Other merged mined SHA256 coins will wait a while yet, since they are still minting and indeed some of them will keep minting the same number of coins per block forever (DeVCoin, GRouPcoin and so on) thus do not present such easy targets as IXCoin (which does not mint at all anymore) and I0Coin (which mints just a tiny amount).

-MarkM-

Currencies and corps are integral to the Galactic Milieu, with the main place where "the rubber hits the road" being the corp known in the game as "General Holding Corp" and outside the game as "General Hosting Corp".

GHC is basically the fulcrum of the game's funding, functioning by charging civilisations hosting fees based on the eventual long term needs while currrently not having nearly as much in actual costs due to not yet actually hosting the full level of detail the long term plans call for. (Such as full 3D immersive representations using things like OpenSimulator.)

This may initially sound as if the civilisations are paying way more than cost for the hardware infrastructure upon which the game runs, but really it just motivates the civilisations to own shares of GHC, so that they actually like the fact that GHC makes a profit by charging fees in excess of its costs.

The currencies are also integral to the game, because the conversion rates shown at http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/latestrates.inc are used by GHC to allow the civilisations to pay the fees in any of the listed assets.

The same conversion rates table is also used by the Deuterium depots that both General Mining Corp and General Retirement Funds maintain in the inner layer of defense galaxies surrounding the galaxies in which the civilised worlds reside, so the intergalactic mining corps can sell Deuterium, and sometimes also Metal and Crystal, against any of these assets, subject of course to availability of the asset (a depot cannot pay in an asset its mother Corp does not own, and mining corps who are still paying off their startup loans are of course credited in the currency their loan is denominated in, against their loan.)

So yeah, these currencies and assets are totally integral to the game, ultimately they are how the game development and hosting and bandwidth and so on are financed.

Also, conversion to and from fiat currencies tends to be handled within the clan / guild / etc (groups) systems within the game, so that for example Brits (members of Britclan) wanting to convert United Kingdom Britcoins to or from the British fiat of the planet known as Earth would do so through the clan officers of Britclan, Canucks wanting to convert Canadian Digital Notes to or from the CAD fiat of the planet known as Earth would do so through the clan officers of the Canuck clan and so on.

(A good motivation possibly to join a clan or guild or somesuch or to form one yourself?)

-MarkM-

Higher stake rates is just more inflation, undermining the rare-and-valuable nature of the coin.

It would just turn it into yet another worthless ultra-inflation garbage-coin.

Plus it would cheat all the folks who have invested in it at its current staking rate and mining rate.

It would be a scam to start issuing you and your cronies shitloads of free coins diluting the value of the coins people have been slowly and expensively mining at fractions of a coin per block all this time.

But maybe this vampirus character basically is just another garbage-coin scammer already?

Go scam someone else someplace else.

-MarkM-

Remember that IXCoin is just one out of a whole family of merged mined coins, all mined together.

IXCoin and I0Coin help us see what no more mining rewards is like (I0Coin also giving us 1.5 minute blocks instead of the more common 10 minutes per block used by many other familiar coins), GRouPcoin and CoiLedCoin show us what forever mining the same number of coins per block is like, and DeVCoin has the same number minted per block forever while also giving 90% of the coins toward free open source development.

Notice that all of these coins are all free open source, and development of all of them goes together, just like when I0Coin solved the RAM problem and all the other coins then were able to make use of the solution.

So with all these development-needed ideas, you-all should be involved with DeVCoin as well as the rest of the merged mined family.

They all go together, and the funding-of-development department is DeVCoin.

Development proposals should probably be couched in terms of projects that benefit all the merged mined SHA256 coins, and bounties applied for from DeVCoin.

Let us not forget too of course the other members of the family, NaMeCoin which provides domains and aliases and such (usable by various things such as Open Transactions); GeistGeld (XGG) which shows us the bleeding edge of how fast blocks can be, and is so darn fast it might even need slowing down, unless maybe we are just waiting for hardware to catch up or something; and the new member of the family, UNObtanium, which gives us the rare-coin member of the family.

(Keep an eye on HuNTercoin too of course, in case they ever manage to get their merged mining working...)

-MarkM-