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7161  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: FreiCoin (FRC) Fork WITHOUT 80% Of Coins Given To FreiCoin Foundation on: January 04, 2013, 09:27:25 AM
1. Somehow you're failing to comprehend it. Blocks created by this client will not be rejected by the network at the moment.

False (try it). Specifically, see lines #2004-2005 of main.cpp. And no, it doesn't matter if you change that line either - it only matters what code the rest of the network is using.

I like how you (not singular, but foundation) think you own Freicoin, the network, and all coins, which is probably why you decided to even come up with this 80% idea.

Come back to reality. Industrial mining has become dominated by a privileged technological elite. Maybe when bitcoin started it was democratic (before GPU mining, before ASICs), but it certainly isn't anymore. The purpose of an initial distribution is to get currency in the hands of everybody as quickly as possible, and to get money flowing in the marketplaces (and not just the currency markets). If you have a good idea for accomplishing that goal in a fair and democratic manor, submit it to us. Or come work with us and become a part of the foundation.

3. Every single satoshi that you're taking in right now will be blacklisted and won't be able to spent once this network takes over. And it will - it just takes a few pools to see the benefits in making Freicoin more decentralized, secure, and better for miners (vs your foundation).
20% + perpetual subsidy of an active, vibrant economy is worth infinitely more than 100% of a dead coin.

My impression of original freicoin developers have changed dramatically after seeing how they spread FUD to get their 80% cut.

THIS WILL NOT BE REJECTED BY THE NETWORK. Wanna know why? Because the blocks are still valid to the network with the 80% foundation backdoor.

"come work with us"

Is that what you're seriously saying? "Come work with the Feds - we can print you a bit USD if you support us!"
7162  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: FreiCoin (FRC) Fork WITHOUT 80% Of Coins Given To FreiCoin Foundation on: January 04, 2013, 09:08:05 AM
Your claim that this is incorrect is incorrect, because it does generate your forced tax at the current moment. But it will not soon, and it will block all of your foundation (aka "federal freicoin reserve", a private, exclusive group with 80% control of the monetary supply) will be blacklisted.

?

That sentence doesn't even make sense. You've made a hard-fork. Blocks created by your client are rejected by the network. Nodes running your client get blacklisted by the rest of the network for forwarding invalid blocks as a denial-of-service protection. The OP incorrectly implies otherwise. You could have million times the hash of the rest of the network and it wouldn't matter.

We've said this so many times I've simply given up on repeating myself. But here it goes once more: every single satoshi of the Foundation outputs will be given out in grants in an open, transparent process. You can take part in that discussion here:

http://www.freicoin.org/freicoin-foundation-development-thread-t81.html

Or simply start drafting your own grant proposal.

1. Somehow you're failing to comprehend it. Blocks created by this client will not be rejected by "the network" at the moment.

There isn't just the network. There is multiple networks. Let's call it the Central Freicoin Reserve network. We have this Open Decentralized Network. These two networks will conflict, but the blissful days of expecting nobody will fork an open source project like you did for bitcoin are over.

2. Blocks created by YOUR (80% goes for you to spend on a "open transparent process" see later) client will be rejected by this network, which will beat "your" network simply because people will migrate given the choice. I like how you (not singular, but foundation) think you own Freicoin, the network, and all coins, which is probably why you decided to even come up with this 80% idea. No. This, along with every bitcoin fork, is an open source project.

3. It just takes a few pools to see the benefits in making Freicoin more decentralized, secure, and better for miners (vs better for your foundation). Your claim would have some merit if everyone has a fair say into the matter, because it's not hard to see that the Foundation won't reject anything that benefits them or their members. Like Congress passing themselves a pay increase - some members would vote no to appear better knowing that it will pass, but they all want it.

Open transparent process? Heck, go look at what happened with OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Sure, open source and stuff, but people migrate if you decide to eat the cake selfishly.
7163  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: FreiCoin (FRC) discussion (was FreiCoin (FRC) for TRC, PPC, LTC or BTC) on: January 04, 2013, 08:57:06 AM
How many times must we explain that this foundation fund is for the distribution to people who do not and can not mine, not the property of developers.  If you distrust us that is one thing but stop repeating these accusation that we these funds have 'gone to developers'.  Mining over the last few years has become so capitol intensive and centralized that it is simply too undemocratic a process to distribute a coin base upon when the goal of any legitimate currency is broad circulation amongst the general public, not the enrichment of the first adopters.  Mining needs to become a sustainable business and this is why we have provided for an ongoing revenue stream that will support mining in perpetuity.

Mining may not be the best way. Proof of stake might not. But this is NOT decentralized. It is centralized. There is a "federal reserve" for FreiCoin, and that was developed by the FreiCoin developers.

You cannot claim that this is a coin "for the 99%" when you have 80% of coins given to a select group of people. You can call it a foundation, corporation, whatever, but it is being given to a group of people in an undemocratic manner.

Vote with your hashpower - if you feel that 80% of what coins should be yours, instead is given to a bunch of hard coded addresses, use the default client.

But if you don't think that's what should happen, use a fork of this open source project that is a fork of bitcoin.
7164  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: FreiCoin (FRC) Fork WITHOUT 80% Of Coins Given To FreiCoin Foundation on: January 04, 2013, 08:51:27 AM
Q. If I run this fork will there be any disadvantages to me?
A. Nope. All of your shares, blocks, etc will be accepted.

This is incorrect. Any block that does not contain a valid budgetary output is summarily rejected by the Freicoin network, regardless of the hash-power thrown at this fork.

Want to share in the 80% distribution? Then spend your time putting together a grant proposal for something constructive.
Your claim that this is incorrect is incorrect, because it does generate your forced tax at the current moment. But it will not soon, and it will block all of your foundation (aka "federal freicoin reserve", a private, exclusive group with 80% control of the monetary supply) will be blacklisted.

This fork will ACCEPT blocks without the forced tax.

It should be noted that Makuu and other Foundation/Reserve members have a direct monetary benefit and goal to disencourage you from using this fork.
Meanwhile, I'm not making any profit out of this like him.
7165  Economy / Services / Re: Have an idea for a bitcoin / site / service? Web developer here. on: January 04, 2013, 08:39:00 AM
Bump Smiley
7166  Economy / Services / Re: [WTB] Looking for a Dev Team on: January 04, 2013, 08:36:24 AM
PHP developer here! Please send me a PM/
7167  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: FreiCoin (FRC) discussion (was FreiCoin (FRC) for TRC, PPC, LTC or BTC) on: January 04, 2013, 08:21:33 AM
I don't think that "compatible fork" will work. Even if it does, you're getting a different distribution than was designed, which, by the way, was already different from bitcoin's (better IMO): http://www.freicoin.org/freicoin-generation-graph-t41.html
I haven't bothered to calculate what distribution you would get though, but I think you will take lots of years to get final fixed supply.

I don't think we need more profit for miners, I would rather give it to the free software foundation (for example) even if they "sell them into existence". But if you really want this, I would start a new fork (without trying compatibility) from scratch.


Block reward will not be changed. The coin creation will not be changed. Only the distribution will. Instead of putting 80% to the developers (you could call the 1%), 100% is given to the miners.

Vote with your hashpower. It's how cryptocoins are decentralized and open.
7168  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: FreiCoin (FRC) Fork WITHOUT 80% Of Coins Given To FreiCoin Foundation on: January 04, 2013, 08:19:52 AM
Start your miners guys. You will get much more FRC than if you mine Maaku's version.

More coins for all!  Grin Grin Grin

False. More coins will not be created.

When this fork reaches stage two, the DISTRIBUTION will be changed. Still the same amount of coins.

Let's use BTC as an example. Right now, each block can have 25BTC from coinbase. But the Bitcoin Foundation takes 20 bitcoins out of the 25 BTC, and you only get 5 btc per block.

7169  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: FreiCoin (FRC) Fork WITHOUT 80% Of Coins Given To FreiCoin Foundation on: January 04, 2013, 08:09:03 AM
LOL make your own coin and screw the original devs.
Yes, screw the devs out of their 80% that they are "entitled" to... so they can pump'n'dump!

Bitcoin is an open source project. If the creator of 7 ZIP decided to add a secret backdoor so he can decrypt everyone's encrypted files, then there's going to be a new fork without that feature. If there's any flaws that the dev won't fix, fork it.

The whole point of *coin is that you vote with your hashing power. That's what Satoshi envisioned, and this fork is exactly in that direction and will be the first real world example in the cryptocurrency world.
7170  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: FreiCoin (FRC) discussion (was FreiCoin (FRC) for TRC, PPC, LTC or BTC) on: January 04, 2013, 07:47:45 AM
Where is the 80% tax? I'm not too familiar with the sourcecode but that's absolutely ridiculous and I want to remove it.
If you do I expect that none of your blocks will be accepted by the FreiCoin network. Have a look in main.cpp for 'GetInitialDistributionBudget'. This shows the addresses that receive the Foundation percentage.

Check out this awesome Freicoin fork:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134629.0
https://github.com/gladoscc/freicoin


All of your blocks WILL be accepted by the current FreiCoin network. This simply removes the check to see if there is the 80% tax, and will accept all (otherwise perfectly valid) blocks. Migrate to this fork, tell all your friends to do it, get pools to do it. Why?

Because this will soon be changed so that the coins normally given to the Foundation forcefully will be given to the miner instead! First of all we will need people running this fork. So make it Smiley
7171  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / FreiCoin (FRC) Fork WITHOUT 80% Of Coins Given To FreiCoin Foundation on: January 04, 2013, 07:45:01 AM
Did you know that 80% of new coins are given to the FreiCoin Foundation. Yes, really. That's basically taxation. Foundation, Central FreiCoin Reserve. Developer's personal wallet. Whatever you call it, it means one thing - your coins are going to hard coded addresses. Pump'n'dump (foundation sells their 80%, crashing price to zero and making a nice profit for the devs) are highly possible. Don't forget about how the project wasn't promoted in the first few days to give the insiders extra time to mine their own coins.

Freicoin foundation member:
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Total coins in miner's hands are only around 2 million
yet there has being over 10 MILLION Freicoins created. Make no mistake - if you are not a foundation member, you are the 99% and they are the 1%.

Cryptocurrencies are open because we vote with our hashing power. So why are you voting for 80% of coins YOU should be getting going to the foundation? Vote with your hashing power - the way satoshi envisioned it in his white paper - and join this fork today.

FORK:
https://github.com/gladoscc/freicoin

It will simply accept blocks WITHOUT the 80% "tax". All of blocks generated will be accepted by the FreiCoin network. Soon, this network will replace the one running the Foundation backdoor.

What to do
I'm a user > Download and make this. Remove existing Freicoin. Your existing wallets and blockchain will work seamlessly. Feel happy that you're protecting the network.
I'm a pool operator > Download and replace the existing Freicoin with this. Once 51% of hashpower uses this code, this fork will be updated to stop paying the 80% tax and giving it to miners.
I'm a developer > Work on this fork - even fork it if you'd like. Unlike the Foundation version, you're not going to get proceeds from the forced tax, but that's open development.


When a significant amount of people have migrated to this fork, it will be changed so that it will generate blocks without the forced budget to hard coded addresses. It will also be kept up to date with each release of Freicoin.

FAQ

Q. If I run this fork will there be any advantages to me?
A. Yes, by running this fork you will ensure that we will be able to move to no 80% tax as soon as possible. This helps us protect against a Pump'n'Dump by the invisible freicoin foundation, and means that you (the miner) will get 5x mining profits until a certain block number.

Q. If I run this fork will there be any disadvantages to me?
A. Nope. All of your shares, blocks, etc will be accepted.

Q. If I run this fork will there be any advantages to Freicoin?
A. Yes! It will allow us to migrate to a safer network without pump'n'dump by the FreiCoin foundation, and forced taxation. It is planned to reject all transactions coming from the built in tax collection addresses.

Q. Is this going to work?
A. Of course! Miners and pools will see that they will make more and protect FreiCoin. This is going to be a historical moment in alt currencies Smiley

Q. Have you embedded your own addresses into it?
A. It's open source. You can check for yourself!

Q. Can I work on this fork?
A. Feel free to! Just submit a pull request and it will be discussed.

Q. How much is mining going to be more profitable?
A. 5 times! Yes, that's right. And it's not going to create any more coins!

Pools, switch to this fork today Smiley There's no reason why not to, as there are no downsides.
7172  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: FreiCoin (FRC) discussion (was FreiCoin (FRC) for TRC, PPC, LTC or BTC) on: January 04, 2013, 07:31:52 AM
Ok, just forked it. Working on removing it and distributing it democratically to miners.
7173  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: FreiCoin (FRC) discussion (was FreiCoin (FRC) for TRC, PPC, LTC or BTC) on: January 04, 2013, 07:08:41 AM
What's the 80% thing?
7174  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Terracoin a FPGA coin? on: January 04, 2013, 06:53:16 AM
subStratta & FuzzyBear,

I'd like to thank you both for helping me figure out this TRC solo mining process and also using Coinotron.

I have a few TRCs and it's not much, but I'd like to donate 1TRC each to you both.

Would you please reply to this message with your TRC donation address?

Thanks,
Miner2049
substrata has deleted all his posts here.
7175  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Best way to get a list of all transactions involving an external address? on: January 03, 2013, 11:20:05 PM
What is the best way (preferably with JSON-RPC API calls) to get a list of all transactions that are received or sent to a particular address? It is not in the local wallet.

I think this can be done by looping through all transactions and having a separate database, but hopefully there is a better way... Huh
7176  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Usagi: falsifying NAVs, manipulating share prices and misleading investors. on: January 03, 2013, 12:36:35 PM
usagi had the intention of bringing his investors returns. I do not know if he has actual financial experience, (probably not), but he's hardly a scammer. He wasn't being fraudulent as a whole at the very least

if he has 5,000 BTC in BMF/NYAN/WTF he's not paying out, then he's a scammer

if he defaulted on loans, then he's a scammer

but he's not here to scam people.
7177  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: PENDING - [SCAMMER - 10 BTC loan ($130)] *name removed* on: January 03, 2013, 12:32:52 PM
Stephen:
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i have given my brother my sick certificate from the doctor for work. ive asked him to scan it and post it to you. thereis very sensitive personal information on it so im trusting you to blank it out and post it on the forum. i wont have my name blackened. is that cool ?

WOW

> i

> ive

> thereis

(iPhone autocorrects this)

> im

SO OBVIOUS THIS WASN'T TYPED FROM A PHONE.
7178  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: PENDING - [SCAMMER - 10 BTC loan ($130)] *name removed* on: January 03, 2013, 11:50:25 AM
WARNING: He was lying about him on his phone. If he was on his phone, the messages sent will be like this:

"I like ponies. I think they're really cool"

You CANNOT get messages like this unless you manually remove the caps lock which is real tedious:

"i like ponies. i think they're really cool'
7179  Other / Meta / Re: WARNING! DON'T DONATE! on: January 03, 2013, 10:56:53 AM
torac: be a pen tester.
7180  Other / Meta / Re: POLL: Sales of hacked, compromised, and/or unauthorized transfers of accounts. on: January 03, 2013, 10:53:45 AM
Wow, so much drama.

I'm almost compelled to donate to bitcointalk over torac's postings, but it seems like the funds are not used for anything of value at the moment.
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