I was responding to a supposedly "imminent" threat to the DGC community for no reason.

Out of curiosity, what do you have to do with that BitcoinEXpress?

People like to get excited here don't they?

Challenging a newbie who claims to be attacking coins and taking them down DOES NOT constitute a challenge to anyone else.

You should go be a retard in a different thread, perhaps this one -- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=109126.0

booo fucking hooo he still stole peoples money

I doubt anyone here will take any significant action.  There have been situations like this in the past... who remembers the pirateat40 (Trendon Shavers) scam?  We're coming up on the 1 year anniversary as a matter of fact.  He scammed the community for something like 500,000+ BTC. His name, address, phone, picture, and everything were posted here.  Nothing happened to him... I think one guy called his dad, but that was the worst that this community was able to muster.  

Yeah it's a good thing someone cloned litecoin and renamed it feathercoin to give these people something to attack because you're right, a 500 megahash attack on LTC would have rendered it long dead (although had they attacked LTC instead it would have been referred to as a "3% attack" :lol:)

SO, it was this simple and u didnt compile it for windows.

PREMINE!

and i was just meaning, i only called this shit coin premine. (well, there is other, but that was in the tittle called premined)

Nah I think your logic is missing a bit

See, you have to pay for quality dev in any event

So WT is saying that he is going to leave his payment in LTC rather then just take FIAT and spend it.

This may even be provable as if he sends it to address provided, you can see if it is all just siphoned of to another address.

So WT is investing and building a stake. Also nothing concentrates the mind when you have a stake in what you are doing rather than just a hired gun

so the right strategy all around

Sorry Simran, you clearly misunderstood what I was talking about.  I PMed you some info.  I hope you withdraw the 'greedy' argument.

Asking for donations is the second thing on developer minds. First one is ensuring proper development of the reference client and health of the network. Donations are merely a tool provided by the community to support the development of the infrastructure around the network and help us grow it.

The development team is comprised of software developers with 10-20+ years of experience in software development. Please don't tell us what should be or should not be first on our minds.

As for the list of things I made earlier, they are _nothing_, merely a drop in an ocean of the actual work and efforts that go into research and development of the reference client which is currently a core system that maintains the Litecoin blockchain. I don't even consider what I listed as work or projects comparing to the real development that goes on behind the scenes.

Also, please keep in mind that everything Warren says, he says on behalf of the development team. So I don't know to which developers you have chosen to donate in the past, but if you don't want to donate to the development fund organized by the team managed by Coblee (who has created this network), it is your business and I have nothing to say to you anymore.

Simran, really?  You of all people?  How about you take some of that rather large round anonymous donation you have received mid last year for your projects and share that with the dev team?

Simran, really?  You of all people?  How about you take some of that rather large round anonymous donation you have received mid last year for your projects and share that with the dev team?

Simran, really?  You of all people?  How about you take some of that rather large round anonymous donation you have received mid last year for your projects and share that with the dev team?

Have you bothered reading other posts where Warren describes the work that has been done?

Warren has been working 24/7 non-stop for weeks porting code to 0.8.2; Fixing numerous issues, identifying and fixing various network vulnerabilities, strengthening relationship with people involved in Bitcoin development, running a plethora of tests and simulations of different fee algorithms (and eventually coming up with what I think is a genius implementation for a fee structure that will strengthen the health of the network long-term).

We all are really really lucky that Warren has taken the helm here.  I don't know how much Coblee would have been able to pull by himself.  This is a huge and a very complicated project where a single mishap can cause serious problems to everyone.

As for other people who "do not code", have you been following the scene lately?

Here are some items that come to mind:

• We redesigned http://litecoin.org with multiple languages.  Since then, out of ~4,000 visitors per day, 8% of them are from China  (site peak has been at 10k visitors/day, which IMHO is not bad)
• We migrated wiki to http://litecoin.info and implemented LitecoinCryptoPayment spam protection (http://litecoin.info/Special:CryptoPayment - you need to login to use that)
• We have developed a custom block explorer in effort to gather statistical data from the blockchain http://ltc.block-explorer.com/charts  (this platform is in beta and will be used in the future to provide additional services)
• We have implemented a p2pool scanner which allows people to find public p2pool nodes in their countries so that they can mine on p2pool without having to set anything up http://p2pool.litecointools.com  (currently under maintenance)
• We have implemented a whole bunch of custom internal tools - for example, all our sites are monitored for downtime and potential hacking attempts.
• We have established plans to develop blockchain monitoring solution similar to that ran by LukeJr which allowed him to detect the May 12th fork on bitcoin blockchain.
• During the last two weeks have found and fixed two vulnerabilities in external pool software which allowed bad miners to submit fake shares making pools think that these miners were providing much higher hash rates then they were (pooler, you rock!)
• We have been moderating forums from various scammers & spammers posting trojans etc.
• We have established contact lists for developers, supporters and major pool operators so that everyone can be reachable IRL.
• We have setup 4 DNS seeds much needed for the network, especially since IRC seeding has been removed.
• We have re-established a healthy working testnet (which is actively used for in-house testing); this also includes DNS seed servers for testnet.
• We have been working with variety of service providers discussing and supporting their integration of Litecoin.
• We have been actively providing support and responding to plethora of inquiries sent to contact@litecoin.org, handling press, redirecting users to appropriate places containing information they seek or simply helping them with their problems.
• We have been actively working with members of our community to ensure that informatio "Donan they publish and work they do is oriented toward the same vision.
• We have worked with p2pool developer forrestv to make appropriate modifications to the p2pool in effort to increase long-term health of the network (hence the upcoming new version of p2pool)
• I myself have put together a site to help new developers get started http://litecoindeveloper.com

I do not like to speak, but when I speak I prefer that it counts.  I hope this brief overview satisfies your criteria for donation. By donating, you ensure that the development team has resources to support the server infrastructure and to get external help in effort to implement variety of projects much needed to expand the reach of the network.

Also, if anyone is wondering, donations are strictly tracked and every expense is discussed and agreed upon by the majority of developers.

Current alpha to display a few items for the http://Give-Me-LTC.com pool! Just needs API Key!

Comes with home screen widget too!
More features to be added!

Thanks to
- ninchuu for the base( github.com/ninchuu/wemineltc-android )
- doublejdesign.co.uk for the nice icon
- the fam'
- IRC

Source will be uploaded to github in moments.

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*Initial commit. 06/06/13

Litecoin Dev Fundraiser: 5,000 LTC Matching Donation Challenge
A big sponsor who wishes to be anonymous is willing to support the Litecoin Development Team.  They are offering a challenge grant where if we receive an additional 5,000 LTC in community donations by June 18th noon GMT, the anonymous sponsor will match with an additional 5,000 LTC.  These combined funds will go a long way toward enabling long-term development of the Litecoin software and related vendor integration tools.

The dev team donations prior to the challenge amount to 3,059.8868 LTC at LRNYxwQsHpm2A1VhawrJQti3nUkPN7vtq3.  The challenge will be complete when gross received funds at this address reach 8,059.8868 LTC.  Bitcoins donated to 1KD5tt1p3mdZH8DDXeEwdsJNpiwUZCfzkF converted and deposited to the LTC address count toward the challenge.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AnlrnfU-U6E-dFVuUnlfZUlqek9JbzlNYjVENWp3ZlE&gid=0
A list of sponsors, donations, and expenses of the Litecoin development project are listed here.  If you contact Warren with your txid and cryptographic signature proving ownership of the sending address, we may add your name or business name to the sponsor list, at our discretion. 

“The 5,000 LTC matching challenge funds is currently sequestered at LXhTDTv1cwGUb67DX88xtkQriYWmTFAVyr.”
Cryptographic signature of the quoted string proving the matching challenge funds: G/JW/UyKeN/Uplj1EVa2gmOZBN9g4FXXvNRHCnHJAdv7rtVMDX1pmfrpyLW47LaVKj7uPAfT/hKQuoMVJwPn/b4=

The identity of the anonymous sponsor will be revealed later.

Note from Warren: It is technically Tuesday June 4th, 2013 11:03PM HST at my current location. =)

IMO, any thread I would start would also be moderated due to all the threadcrapping that goes on too.

Coming from people that want to moderate stuff and have some kind of "control" calling out people on self moding LOL

More people aren't doing it because more than 90% of the people on this forum think it's a stupid fucking idea to release new coins with no new innovations (like you do every day).

And to be clear, I usually defend people creating scrypt-clones with no new innovations because I like to see how coins respond to various changes in the base parameters, but what pisses me off about you is that you have the audacity to charge people for something that is as easy as editing a few values in pre-existing code, and you act like you are doing something that requires skill and real coding.

The hardest part of what you are doing is building the genesis block which is only considered difficult because most people have no understanding of how the genesis block is made, but even that can be easily learned with a proper google search.

If you want to make new coins with no innovations and minimal code changes, fine, I have no problem with that, but don't misrepresent what you are doing as real, actual coding for those who don't know how because from what I can tell from what I have seen so far, you don't know how to code either, you just know how to change a few numerical values and find/replace the coin name.

@Simran,

I don't think anyone hates you for being an early supporter of LTC. Just ignore the shitcoins and they will eventually die.


BTW the mods have made it clear in the stickys at the top that there will be no favored coin period.

Bitcointalk considers all "Alt Coins" equally shitty.


To them there is no difference between Litecoin and Hazzard's Fastcoin 2.

 


~BCX~