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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [PRE-ANN] Stone - DAG Data-Structured Private Cryptocurrency
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on: January 29, 2018, 06:35:22 PM
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I think open source is necessary for a number of reasons.
1. Trust, I want to see that the code is well written and reliable. With closed source, we would never know if there was either a deliberate undesirable bit of code or an accidental bug that got missed and that will show up later.
2. Continuity, if something happened to the developer of the code or maybe he just lost interest, we would be left high and dry and no improvement could be made and no fixes could be applied.
3. Perception, if it is felt that the developer is simply trying to control everything and not responsive, the community will break down and the coin will ultimately fail.
That said, I'm pretty sure it was stated that the code would be released once it is completed. I fully understand that since having people picking through your unfinished code and pointing to things you already know about is not fun. I also gives the flexibility to change direction part way through without a whole lot of decenting voices.
I am looking forward to the launch of testnet and really hope I will be allowed to participate. I want to get involved in this project in any way I can. I think this promises to be the perfect coin, RaiBlocks with privacy, just what is needed. I am ready to increase my donation nearer to the close off time and look forward to getting my hands on some of these coins to play with.
Felixandro, please let us know near the close off time for donations the value at that point in time of the donations. Thank you for developing this coin.
I don't believe the dev will release any source code. Maybe he will but after the end of the donation. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] [XDAG] Dagger - new cryptocurrency
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on: January 28, 2018, 11:01:20 PM
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First beta-version of GPU miner is released. Link to download https://github.com/jonano614/DaggerGpuMiner/releasesSource codes https://github.com/jonano614/DaggerGpuMinerGPU-miner is based on OpenCL. You need to have your account address and storage folder to use it. Most of modern video cards is applicable. Current implementation is not optimized, probably hashrate can be increased in about 80% further. My AMD Radeon R9 270x makes 240 MH/s now. Also miner supports CPU-mining. But current implementation is slower than official wallet (v845+). Currently only Windows is supported. Version for Linux is in development. If somebody wants to make version for Mac OS - you can write me. How to use: unpack archive to a folder. Copy storage folder to the folder with miner. Create .bat file with necessary launch parameters. Use it. Launch parameters: 1) GPU benchmark: DaggerGpuMiner.exe -G -M 2) GPU mining: DaggerGpuMiner.exe -G -a <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p <POOL_ADDRESS> 3) CPU mining: DaggerGpuMiner.exe -cpu -a <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p <POOL_ADDRESS> -t N (N - is a number of threads) Different features and optional parametes: 1) "-h" - show help 2) you can list all available devices using parameters "-list-devices -G" 3) by default GPU mining is performed only on the first OpenCL device. You can specify several devices using parameter "-opencl-devices 0 1 3". Use your device numbers instead of "0 1 3". Also use can use parameter "-d " there is count of used devices. Also I recommend you to place "pause" command in the end of the .bat file. If you have question, suggestion or you want to participate in develpment you can write me here in PM or on email jonano614@gmail.com. Further closest plans: 1) get rid of storage folder 2) rewrite logging 3) static position for hash rate 4) optimization of OpenCL kernel PS: if everything works fine you can support author: XDAG gKNRtSL1pUaTpzMuPMznKw49ILtP6qX3 Hi, I'm getting error when using GPU miner on Windows RX580 DaggerGpuMiner.exe -G -a UXXX -p 45.63.58.16:13654 Cannot find storage folder
Pool initialization errorYou are lacking the storage folder, read the instructions  Worked fine. Thanks for your help |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] [XDAG] Dagger - new cryptocurrency
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on: January 28, 2018, 10:48:04 PM
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First beta-version of GPU miner is released. Link to download https://github.com/jonano614/DaggerGpuMiner/releasesSource codes https://github.com/jonano614/DaggerGpuMinerGPU-miner is based on OpenCL. You need to have your account address and storage folder to use it. Most of modern video cards is applicable. Current implementation is not optimized, probably hashrate can be increased in about 80% further. My AMD Radeon R9 270x makes 240 MH/s now. Also miner supports CPU-mining. But current implementation is slower than official wallet (v845+). Currently only Windows is supported. Version for Linux is in development. If somebody wants to make version for Mac OS - you can write me. How to use: unpack archive to a folder. Copy storage folder to the folder with miner. Create .bat file with necessary launch parameters. Use it. Launch parameters: 1) GPU benchmark: DaggerGpuMiner.exe -G -M 2) GPU mining: DaggerGpuMiner.exe -G -a <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p <POOL_ADDRESS> 3) CPU mining: DaggerGpuMiner.exe -cpu -a <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p <POOL_ADDRESS> -t N (N - is a number of threads) Different features and optional parametes: 1) "-h" - show help 2) you can list all available devices using parameters "-list-devices -G" 3) by default GPU mining is performed only on the first OpenCL device. You can specify several devices using parameter "-opencl-devices 0 1 3". Use your device numbers instead of "0 1 3". Also use can use parameter "-d " there is count of used devices. Also I recommend you to place "pause" command in the end of the .bat file. If you have question, suggestion or you want to participate in develpment you can write me here in PM or on email jonano614@gmail.com. Further closest plans: 1) get rid of storage folder 2) rewrite logging 3) static position for hash rate 4) optimization of OpenCL kernel PS: if everything works fine you can support author: XDAG gKNRtSL1pUaTpzMuPMznKw49ILtP6qX3 Hi, I'm getting error when using GPU miner on Windows RX580 DaggerGpuMiner.exe -G -a UXXX -p 45.63.58.16:13654 Cannot find storage folder
Pool initialization error |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [PRE-ANN] Manta - DAG & zkSNARKs - Fast, Fee-less, Private Cryptocurrency
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on: January 16, 2018, 05:08:25 PM
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This is now the third or fourth privacy focused fork off RaiBlocks. And just like all that came before this one, there's no information about the developers, no white paper, no anything really. I'm all for announcing a coin before it's released, but common practice in the industry now is releasing the white paper with the announcement, and also listing all people working on the project along with their past work history and experience. Without this it just comes across a bit shady, especially when your're asking for donations right out of the gate.
I'd gladly make a donation here, but you need to release your identities, and I'm urging everyone that's donating regardless to proceed with extreme caution here. Many people donated to Stone, only to have nothing come from it and no communication from the developers.
If you release your identities, and drop a white paper, I'll have my donation in your XRB wallet immediately. Release a beta wallet and open the faucet to start actually collecting the coins and I'll go HEAVY. But until then this just feels like smoke and mirrors and projects like these are really starting to put a damper on RaiBlocks core.
For the sake of being optimistic here, you guys should consider releasing a newsletter of some sort. One where you can provide progress as you go.. Show us your work, don't tell. Consider creating an open Github repository so people can actually see the progress you're making with the code. If you release your id's and open the faucet, you can notify your followers through the newsletter. Or even a Medium account with regular updates... Just more information is needed in general.
Hey Cawfee, we appreciate the constructive criticism and look to answer your questions properly. As for why we made a PRE-ANN post, we initially weren't going to make our initial post till mid-February, though seeing other projects pop up (though their legitimacy is questionable), we decided to just get our name out there as seniority is incredibly value within the crypto community, with Bitcoin itself being a prime example. The reason we added the option to donate was to allow early adopters to get in while allowing us to achieve some capital to expand our dev team and such. In regards to identities, we do plan on revealing ourselves at the time of MANTA being fully released. We do hope to impress people such as yourself with the release of our whitepaper in mid-February and look forward to releasing our game-changing currency. Sincerely, Brian You don't want to release initial draft of the Whitepaper You don't want to release any source code You don't want release your identity But at least use Escrow Thanks |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: 🌟🚀 [Pre-ANN] AZULIK: adding privacy to DAG fee-less instant transactions 🌟🚀
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on: January 15, 2018, 10:18:43 PM
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Dev,
Could you please use Escrow rather the Dev wallet
Thanks
To be honest given the very small amount of donation we received yet, no need to spend time finding a trustable escrow and pay fees for that. Donation are mainly here to make the project kick out and engage people in the community. The dev wallet will be monitored and nothing will be withdrawn without explaining in details the reason. We already mention what we will do with the donations: Rent an office for weekend work together in peaceful environment, pay for a designer and for a good website and buy some hardware as we can see that our regular computer are very limited for testing our approaches. We would be able to make more simulation and stress-test. Anyway be ready for the results very soon, i think it will be the first time someone will show you transaction time from a simulated network with three approaches to handle privacy. We hope to have finish our testing tomorrow or Wednesday. Cannot wait for the results Escrow was a way to increase the donation since there are a lot of scam in many other projects Good luck |
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