I still intend to launch ThirdCoin, around 2016-11-11T03:57:33Z (estimated time of the next Bitcoin halving).  Thirdcoin will have a testnet, which I should probably launch earlier.

In the meantime, I still like Bytecoin, Terracoin, and BBQcoin.  I'll probably be happy to facilitate trades in lots of different coins, but that's a lot of blockchains to maintain.

Thanks!

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I privately call it a "bitmilray."

Way cool.

If he's an ASIC designer and the two of you can't figure it out from the above bolded documentation and need help beyond that, I don't think the two of you are qualified for this project.


You need to become an expert, and I don't think you'll do it by asking this sort of question on the forum.

For starters, read through the Satoshi source code.

Could everybody please stop handing out fake Vircurex twitter accounts?  The last time Vircurex had an issue, this happened, and kumala confirmed that wasn't a Vircurex twitter account.

The only source of info I know on Vircurex that is genuine is kumala's postings here on bitcointalk.

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As usual, I have to ask: What is this "we" business?

I saw it mentioned on Slashdot around the time of the Gox crash of 2011.  I think it had been somewhere in my peripheral vision before, but I hadn't paid attention.

The first thing I noticed was the claim that the coins were "generated" by computers around the internet, yet somehow finitely limited.  I scoffed, figuring that there was some faith in a cartel-like agreement that would never hold.  But the idea stuck in my mind, and I thought "surely these people can't be so foolish as to be putting faith in something like that - do they have a real means to limit production to a finite number"?  My curiosity got me looking, until I hit a point where reading about Bitcoin, including the whitepaper, saturated a couple of days until I understood it.

Then I did nearly nothing about it for nearly two years!  I just looked for headlines every so often, and occasionally got the source code and looked at it.

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Oh, I've been doing that for awhile, now!

It's clearly working; some of my Bitcoins this morning wouldn't work because there were too many Chinacoins and Bitbars gumming up the system.


I haven't even started yet.

"I don't trust people to act in their own best interest.  Instead of trying to understand their reasoning, I'll use disrespectful terms for their decision, like "cannibalizing," to try to pressure them to do what I think they should be doing."

What is this "we" business?

That sounds like an interesting test, too.

ThirdCoin estimated release: 2016-11-12T01:55:59Z

(Source: bitcoinclock.com)

Cool.  I support you.  In fact, I had something of the same feeling when all the updates came out, but I felt that my best way forward was to stick with what the developers did.

There is really something to be said for the idea that the rules should not change substantially after the chain is launched.  Most of us felt that either the rules had to change to maintain viability, or felt that we had to go along with everybody else in order to maintain viability.  But I did feel, in a way, that it was the end of Terracoin and the start of something new.

It's a little bit like when the original thirteen American colonies adopted the "perpetual" articles of confederation and then, a scant decade later, all thirteen-member states unanimously abandoned those articles and adopted a new constitution.  In a sense, the original "USA" died at that event, and a new institution with the same name was born.  You're Rhode Island, the last holdout!

So: more power to you.  Will you be putting up a block explorer for the original chain?

That's fantastic.  I noticed the other day that there are some RPC calls that the current Bitcoin client has that BBQcoin doesn't -- any chance of these being added?  I'm planning some projects that I would like to use on several coins with a minimum of porting difficulty.

We could call it the Ninji, or the Triganic Pu.

But so far, I prefer ThirdCoin.