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Hi Guys,
I'm currently working on a couple of projects (a faucet and a dice site), wich will use json-rpc calls to a daemon to import private keys, generate new deposit addresses and/or let my users withdraw coins to their wallets.
In the past, i always used bitcoin testnet coins to test all features while developing, but the thing is: even the testnet's blockchain is pretty large. It takes a long while to load/parse and reindexing is a pain in the *ss. Also, i don't like the testnet's stability.
I was thinking: does anybody have suggestions for an altcoin that is easily compilable (or has a precompiled binary for linux) with a very small blockchain (preferably only a couple thousand blocks), with a seperated coind and coin-cli (just like bitcoin), wich is virtually worthless (a coin i can still mine a couple blocks off with my cpu, or one that has some faucets, or one where the developer is giving away a couple hundred coins for development purposes?).
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My main question still remains: if i invested time in a good bot with good features, would there be campaign managers that are interested in free trials? If i don't have at least 2-3 campaign managers that are interested in a trial, it would be a waste of time to develop a fully functioning version  Based on logic, no campaign manager would be interested with this. The bot actually eliminate the function of the campaign manager and the owner of the campaign could just use the bot directly without employing anyone to be the sig campaign manager and therefore it will save them cost of hiring people to do a job that now a bot could do you guys are probably right... I'll leave this thread open a couple more days, and then probably close it if there's nobody interested in a bot.... You are getting the wrong idea of my post. Campaign manager will surely not interested in your bot however the campaign owner will be surely interested in it, a bot could definitely do more than what a human could do. Bitmixer is a good example of that, they have no campaign manager at all and everything still runs smoothly I did indeed made a misinterpretation, but now it's clear to me  |
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My main question still remains: if i invested time in a good bot with good features, would there be campaign managers that are interested in free trials? If i don't have at least 2-3 campaign managers that are interested in a trial, it would be a waste of time to develop a fully functioning version If you want my opinion: As hard as it is to say, but I think it would be. My main question still remains: if i invested time in a good bot with good features, would there be campaign managers that are interested in free trials? If i don't have at least 2-3 campaign managers that are interested in a trial, it would be a waste of time to develop a fully functioning version Based on logic, no campaign manager would be interested with this. The bot actually eliminate the function of the campaign manager and the owner of the campaign could just use the bot directly without employing anyone to be the sig campaign manager and therefore it will save them cost of hiring people to do a job that now a bot could do you guys are probably right... I'll leave this thread open a couple more days, and then probably close it if there's nobody interested in a bot... Thanks for the feedback. |
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I've heared some pretty good tips from you guys, thanks... My main question still remains: if i invested time in a good bot with good features, would there be campaign managers that are interested in free trials? If i don't have at least 2-3 campaign managers that are interested in a trial, it would be a waste of time to develop a fully functioning version |
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Thanks for all the input guys... Got some nice extra tips, including an option to automatically kick users with negative trust from DT. As i've mentioned before: i do think a bot cannot replace a good campaign manager, but it would reduce his work to looking at quality (finding members that copy/paste, members that go offtopic to much,...), verifying the numbers, importing the sheet into his wallet and paying. It would basically take a lot of administration out of his/her hands. Thanks for the tip about the PM's, i don't think i'll ever do mass PM's on this forum, seems indeed something that i can get in troubles for . I'm still not completely sure if i should invest time in a bot (in other words: i don't know if i would have clients for my bot in case i made it). Would a free trial month work? If anybody is a campaign manager, and interested in running a free trial month once i have the script up and running? |
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From someone who managed few campaigns so far, I have to say, although your idea and intention is nice, it's not going to work fully since some users getaway and will be rewarded in a way they shouldn't be and this could be easily abused and the signs have been clear to me plus a bot couldn't act as a neutral person and decided if what the person have posted is constructive to the topic or not (for instance, there could be someone who posts letter A 100 times AAAAA... like that and as result gets paid for it too). Also from what I've seen, bots don't kick users out when they get negative trust rating from DT members (Bitmixer mostly and twice IIRC on bit-x campaign). So again there will be work for the campaign manager to check everything. The only good use of bot would be to count number of posts and exclude those sections that are not included as payments).
I didn't mentioned to count for character since that's were many abuse the bot. Also a bot can't determine quality so campaign manager should step in again for this matter. In case I miss some points, I'll add it to this post as update.
Thanks for the input... You are completely right, a bot could never replace a manager, but i still believe it can make his/her job a lot easyer/less time consuming My goal would be to create a bot that can catch the most blatant offenses, and calculate a correct payout for honest users. The manager would still need to weed out the users that find ways to circumvent the bot's detection engine. I actually did make a database scheme before i made this post, and it does include a table to add constraints to filter out posts/users that did not follow the constraint. At the moment, my database would allow a campaign manager to chose a combination of these constraints: - minimum x posts/period - maximum x posts/period - maximum x% of the posts on the same day - posts must be x character long - posts must be x words long - posts can not contain the words x,y,z - at least x% of the posts have to be in board y - at least x% of the posts have to be in topic y - posts in board x will not be counted - posts in topic x will not be counted He can activate the constraints, deactivate them, chose the variables, even add the same constraint several times (especially for the constraints that are targetted towards specific boards/topics/words) |
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as you are in bit-x campaign i think you already know that marco has done similar job and is selling his bot but i have never seen any signature campaign use it (except one that didn't last long)
To be honest, i'm really happy on the bit-x signature campaign, but i did not know marco was selling the bit-x bot. I think it's strange such a bot isn't widely used if it was available... Makes me wonder about the price, features and support level this bot has? I can only imagine the manual task a sig campaign manager has to do, with all the spreadsheets, calculation, verification, addding, removing, paying... I'm pretty sure i can write a bot that reduces a sig campaign manager's job to a fraction of the effort. Anyways, thanks very much for the feedback |
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I think signature campaigns are both great and horrible at the same time. They're great because - they make sure the forum stays active
- they distribute some coins to (new) bitcoiners
They're horrible because - they tend to reward signature spammers
- there are a lot of discussions on the rules/interpretations/counts/payouts
Today, i'm polling to see if there's some people that would be interested in having a signature campaign bot developed. My main idear would be to create a php/mysql bot with a user/admin backend and a frontpage that allows campaign managers to manage (almost) all aspects currently found in campaigns. The system would be hosted. So a campaign owner would basically pay a low fee to create a signature campaign, they would get a username/password from me, log in to the web interface, adjust all the settings, and start entering campaignusers (or let the campaign users subscribe themself using the web interface). My bot would then run daily/weekly/biweekly (any schedule really), calculate how much each user has to be payed (according to the rates and rules the manager entered), and generate an easy importable payout export for the campaign manager. The manager can then send this export to the escrow, or import it directly into electrum (or any other wallet that has documentation for importing) If everything works perfectly for a long time, and i gain a bit more trust, the system can even handle the payouts over and RPC call to bitcoind on my server (offcourse, i know i don't have enough trust right now). The users can either have a personal dashboard with all their stats, or there can be a global overview of the campaign users (this will be an option for the campaign manager). At the moment, i'm not really looking for a lot of tips (i do have a lot of idears in my mind that i didn't write down yet). I'm just polling to see if, if i made such a bot, it would be used by the community. I'm not looking for donations/investors/funds... I have domain names, servers and the technical knowledge to pull this off by myself |
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I can do this loan but isn't the account will get a negative trust if ever OP defaults? That will make the collateral useless right?
not necessarily... Just don't ask DT to tag an account negatively if the borrower defaults, tell them you'll sell the account to cover your losses, and they'll usually leave the account alone. Especially because it's just a full member account. Sr. accounts usually get tagged as sold (neutral) by DT after a default. |
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2) you point to the place where your address is staked, this is worth nothing... Everybody can link to a thread. Please sign a message with the staked address, that way you can prove your account wasn't hacked.
But he's asking for a payment to this very address. I did not realise this fact untill you pointed it out... Sorry, disregard my comment |
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You should fix these 2 problems in order to have a better chance of getting a loan: 1) provide valid collateral... you're asking for $18 equivalent in non-refundable currency on an anonymous forum with a relatively new account... You should offer some collateral 2) you point to the place where your address is staked, this is worth nothing... Everybody can link to a thread. Please sign a message with the staked address, that way you can prove your account wasn't hacked. |
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...I am not sure if I myself will still remember how to decrypt it 5 years down the road nor will the software to decrpyt BIP38 still available...
Yes, exactly. So people in favor of encryption: how do you see this? What if BIP38 is not used anymore? How will I or my kids know how to decrypt the wallet? Real life situation: I encrypted my wallet with my wife's password (really). In case you're paranoid about encryption still being available: you can always save the bittadress.org zip also on your thumb drive |
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So I just created a paper wallet.
These were the steps I have taken:
- I created a Ubuntu 12.04 installation pen drive (drive I)
- I used the generator from BitAddress.org, saved the html file to another usb pen drive (drive II)
- Then booted up my pc from the Ubuntu pen drive (I) with the network cable unplugged
- I chose the 'Try Ubuntu without installation' option
- Generated a paper wallet by running the html file from BitAddress.org in a room with the curtains closed
- I printed the wallet to a .pdf file and stored it on my other usb pen drive (drive II).
Now I have 2 questions:
1. What do I do with the installation pen drive (drive I)? The 'Try Ubuntu' seems to be running in RAM only, but is it completely volatile? Or did it save my private key somewhere on the pen drive?
2. I would like to make a copy of the 'paper' wallet .pdf file and store it in the cloud, so I can restore it in case I lose the USB pen drive. Is there a safe way to do that? I know that the wallet can not be considered 'Cold' anymore once I do so, but I don't want to rely on this one usb pen drive only.
1) you are safe... In case you're paranoid, you can always scratch the usb (dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdd1), but there is actually no need to do this. 2) i would personally just print out the pdf on a printer that allows you to boot from usb. Maybe restart the printer after you're done just to be sure. BTW: i hope you did use encryption for you key. I think good encryption is really important when printing paper keys. |
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This is a good idea and it make sense from all of us here  Can someone quote my bitcoin address also? 3GkYvJeGZ5Dv6kowhPLJxXHaAFrJE745sp Here you go |
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Thanks man... I should have found that one by myself  I'll try to use my seed in multibit HD EDIT: multibit HD didn't work, but i found this tool: https://dcpos.github.io/bip39/I haven't been able to get the private key (yet), but maybe i'll figure it out in the future. |
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A quick question, maybe somebody here knows. Nowadays, i have some basic knowledge about security, wallets and the blockchain itself (not an expert tough), but when i first came to this forum, i made my first wallet on https://web.hivewallet.com/. As a result, some of the first staked addresses from my account are created on this online wallet. I'd like to export my private key (i still have the seed + pin), so i can import it into electrum, and use it to sign messages (in case this is ever needed). Does anybody know an easy way to generate the hive private key beginning with the seed + pin? I already searched the forum and opened a ticket, but since hive is no longer maintained, i don't have a lot of hope to get a reply. |
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Nothing went wrong... The fee is a little bit to low, and the network has a lot of unconfirmed transactions at the moment. Miners will give priority to higher fee transactions, so it'll probably take a long time before this transaction is confirmed. |
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I've been very carefull to: only invest in A and A+ loans, only when i liked the plan of the borrower, only invest if the ammount they were loaning was equal to or smaller than the sum of the ammount loaned in the past. However, lately more and more A+ borrowers seem to default on their loans, i calculated that even with all my precautions i'm going to end at a loss  |
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Since mellowads removed my site because it didn't have a high enough alexa ranking, i started using a-ads... Payouts aren't that high, but at least they pay, and if your site is clean, they don't care about the alexa rating (AFAIK)
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well... The most obvious way is usually forgotten:
1 Bitcoin represents about $420 at the moment. The easyest way is just to get a IRL job, and use $420 of your wage to buy 1 Bitcoin.
I think this method is easyer than working online for bitcoins. Personally, i think the market is flooded with youngsters or people from very low wage countries that want to do about any job for peanuts. So it's pretty hard to get some paying work online at the moment (this is just my personal experience, maybe somebody else had different experiences).
For example: this week some guy asks to install bitcoind and some php script on a server, i made a quote, but some dude offered to compile bitcoind, set everything up correctly, sync, install the php script,... for $6... There's no way i can beat that price. On the other hand, my daytime job gives me a good wage, from which i could easily buy 1 BTC a month (if my wife would have been OK with that).
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