Thank you aspa! Your feedback helped me immensely. Now I know a little bit more how much I don't know

Hi,

My very first TA, voluntarily simple. I'm not a big fan of TA but I wanted to give a try, so be gentle with a newcomer in TA.
Basically, I consider it is possible for BTC to continue up once at $370 - with probably some overcorrection going first, so that a buy at $360 could make it.
TA. I'd appreciate you tell me why you think it is plausible or what is lacking in it, for education.

Thanks.

Two days ago on IRC, I started Project Giveaway. Objective: to create a self-sufficient giveaway address to increase the visibility and interest for HYP. Once, the idea came from cycoinminer, who is also the originator of the HyperLoan idea. Hat tip to yoy, cycoinminer!

This is how Project Giveaway will work:
If we reach 50,000 HYP, cycoinminer will give away 25 bunches of 25 HYP every Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday. On Poloniex trollbox, Cryptsy trollbox on anywhere else.
If we reach 100,000 HYP, either the number of giveaways or the amount of them will double. At 200,000 HYP, it wil double again. Beyond this, donations shall better be spent elsewhere, like HyperSanta.

Calculations are as follow:
25 HYP per giveaway, 25 giveaway a day, three days in the week, two weeks (period for staking) = 25*25*3*2 = 3,750
To achieve self-sufficiency (endowment approach), we assume principal must be ten times bigger so 37,500
Finally, the first two weeks, there won't be any stake, so we'll have to provide an extra 7,500
Total is 37,500+7,500 = 45,000 HYP
50K HYP is a round enough number and gives some extra for security.

At the time of writing and after only two days, we already got 47466.179688 HYP (and growing)!
cycoinminer, I believe tomorrow you'll be able to start giveaways
Polo trollbox, Cryptsy trollbox, reddit, elsewhere... Let the HYP begin... again!

I will put my copist monks on this task, if it pleases Your Majesty. I took the liberty to have them make some small changes to see of they can perform - obviously their rate will go much faster once they will be fully operationnal.

• Luxury
• Housing
• Rulebook (latest changes)
• Character levels and details on each one

The explorer is not searchable by address. Can you give me your name on the block list as well as your position?

Doesn't load for me, which plugin is needed (Ubuntu here)? Link for the plugin?

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I added a new page on the wikia: http://hyperstake.wikia.com/wiki/Free_HYP

At the latest meeting of the town council, d"Armagnac brought an imposing set of parchment - it had keep him busy for the previous weeks.

"Dear councillors, you know that I have some affinity with the art of building, maintaining and destroying castle, the art of poliorcetics. Since the construction of the citadel is closer to inception, I decided to share my knowledge in a practical way with you and His Majesty.

D'Armagnac points at the parchments.

"The incanubulum per se will be in royal hands and so will not be available for you to read. So are some other documents containing sensitive information. Still, here is a brief summary of the plan I humbly suggest for the citadel. Here for you perusal. His Majesty will decide if it even worth reading, let alone discussed."

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Treatise of poliorcetics applied to Crypto-Kingdom

Dear council members,

This treatise was written by His Excellence the Right Honourable Earl David d'Armagnac in the year of our Lord 1462. This extensive volume is meant as a general guide to build and defend the capital of Crypto-Kingdom against invaders of any kind. It draws upon d'Armagnac's extensive knowledge of poliorcetics (the art of attacking and defending a castle) and is written in a deliberately pragmatic way. It is not a monograph or a general consideration on the building of castles, but a guide in building and defending this very citadel.

Below is a summary of the Treatise.

Terminology

• Donjon: the main building, reminiscent of ancient stronghold, not large enough for withstanding full-fledged, month-long sieges. Still symbolically, architecturally and defensively important, since it is impressive and testify for the power of the castle-owner, can host a lot of people and, by virtue of its height, allows one more line of defense to retaliate against the besiegers
• Castle: an extended fortification made of a donjon plus a court and building and surrounded by one or more walls/ To be considered a castle, a building must fulfill these requirements, (according to Schwabenspiegel.
  - a ditch deep enough that one cannot displace earth out of the ditch just  with a showel
  - a wooden or stone building of more than three storeys with wall ending with a parapet (the parapet doesn't not need to be crenelated)
  - a bailey surrounded by either by a curtain wall high enough to prevent a horseman to touch the top or by a curtain wall with a parapet (crenelated or not)
• Palace: a large building with no defensive purpose. A lot of castles became palaces with time.
• Citadel: a fortified city

The "citadel" of Crypto-Kingdom is not a citadel per se. Instead, it is a castle lying deep inside (although not geographically at the center) of the fortified city of Crypto-Kingdom, the actual citadel with city walls. Still, by virtue of its widespread use, the word "citadel" will be used for describing what is technically the castle of Crypto-Kingdom (the Royal Palace is not - and had never been - a castle).

Overview



The citadel doesn't benefit from any topographical advantage, such as a narrow entrance, a mountain on its back or water access. It thus follow the traditional motte-and-bailey architecture, the motte being a raised earth mound built with the earth extracted from the construction of the moat.

It is entirely made of stone and, with the exception of the donjon, all towers are horseshoe-shaped, so that the external side better protect against projectiles, which rip off the curvature of the towers, while the rectangular internal side gives more internal space and a better battling platform

The citadel is a concentric castle. That is, it uses an onion-like structure, with two layers of wall before reaching the donjon

Layers

• layer I: six-storeys pentagonal donjon, atop the motte. It has an elevated entrance[1] at the second floor, accessible though a wooden, easily destructible, staircase and is surrounded by a chemise, which makes it very difficult for a sensible amount of soldiers to attack at the same time (similar to Thermopyles). Place of last-resort defence, very thick walls, food reserve in the dungeon, small rooms. Behind and protected by the donjon is the palas, place of residency.
• layer II: inner bailey (higher court) with a well and premium dwellings
• layer III: inner curtain wall (2.50 meters thick, 12 meters high), with some posterns for sorties or escaping. The base of the internal curtain wall and the donjon may be built - this would not help the attackers much and would provide substantive incomes in times of peace.
• layer IV: outer bailey (base-court), with workshops, livestock stalls and stables; storage facilities such as barns, sheds and granaries, brewery, bakehouse, cistern as well as quarters for servants such as maids and farm workers. Should the besiegers arrive here, they would be in a killing zone, since defenders would attack from both the inner curtain wall and the hollowed outer curtain wall. Plus, reaching the entrance in the inner curtain wall require following a chemin de défilement meant to maximise exposure to defenders' attacks.
• layer V: outer curtain wall (6 meters thick because of inside corridors, 7 meters high, lower than the inner curtain wall, itself lower than the donjon so that the three structures can retaliate at the same time) with a gatehouse including an ankle breakers-equipped flooring on the drawbridge[2]. The base of the wall is free of any construction or noticeable vegetation, to ensure a clear view for the defenders and also given a stone skirt around its base to deter undermining. The walls are particularly thick because they are hollow: they host soldiers who can flank the besiegers should they enter the outer bailey (the arrow slits are only in the inside-facing wall). Like the inner curtain wall, the outer curtain wall as posterns, none of them giving access to the "wall tunnels".
• layer VI: water-filled moat[3], to prevent further undermining as well as to make it difficult for siege weapons to come close enough. The scarp and counterscarp (respectively inner and outer shore of the moat) are filled with semi-immerged trous de loup and caltrops to hinder enemies. Additionally, a tunnel runs below the counterscarp, allowing soldiers to shoot attaquants - only small doors communicate with the outer bailey, rendering an intrusion from the counterscarp particularly challenging and these tunnels are only used in time of war, since they are unpleasant and humid. Fish living in the moat are usually hardly edible, because of the poor quality of the water - the latrines empty here.
• layer VII: barbican[4], if deemed necessary. It could benefit from a bent entrance[5], a complex, chicaned entrance meant to hinder the progression of troops but it would be at the expense of some real estate and would only make sense it the citadel is not supposed to be used much in peace time, as the bent entrance makes daily traffic difficult.
• layer VIII: wooden stockade.
• layer IX: open-ended jousting area, making any besiegers an easy target. In peace time, the jousting area is used for jousting, celebration and as a marketplace.

Curtain walls
The tops of both curtain walls includes battlements with crenelated parapets (with mantlet-protected arbalestinas on 0,48 cm thick merlons), chemins de ronde (walkways) and full-lenght closed machicolations (other example and another) as well as gargoyles to evacuate the rain. The curtain wall ended up in a glacis, to make approaches and ladderscaling harder and to increase the lethality of stone thrown from machicolations) Corner towers (the castle is too small for flanking towers) have embrasures with cross-shaped arrowslits (arbalestinas) with oillets (a larger opening at the bottom to allow a better observation when not shooting) as well as a bartizans for reducing dead angles. Straight staircases large enough for two persons lead to every courtine (example)

Both curtain walls have a single entrance, a heavily guarded gatehouse with two projecting towers, one on each side of the entrance, to prevent blind spots. The entrance itself is a long corridor with a portcullis at each end; the corridor itself sports meurtrières – a pierced ceiling where defenders can throw stone and fire-heated sand - as well as arrowslit on the wall. Provision is made for accommodation of a rotating team of soldiers.

Projectiles
Out of arrows and particularly bolts (crossbows are better at defending a castle than bows and have a range of 150 m, source)), projectiles (from murderholes and machicolations) include stone, boiling water (rare, boiling oil being almost non existant); quicklime and even beehive (Blâmont, 1475).

Staircases
Every inside staircase is a counterclockwise spiral staircase. Spiral staircases are the most dense and being counterclockwise (from the point of view of someone going down), they make it difficult for right-handed attackers to fight

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Here stops the summary of the Treatise. The full treatise goes into much further details and also address the topic of military tactics and sensitive information.

For the betterment of Crypto-Kingdom,
d'Armagnac

1. Examples of elevated entrances
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/1c/be/dc/way-in-up-the-stairs.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Warkworth_Castle's_keep,_2007.jpg
http://l-atelierdemaminette.blog50.com/images/medium_donjon_et_chemin_de_garde.JPG
http://gailingis.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Keep-details-full-page-at-Dover-castle-England.jpg
http://www.crdp-strasbourg.fr/data/lcr/chateaux/images/big-donjon1.jpg (show that the dunjon is located at ground floor, with the entrance of the donjon is at first floor)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Donjon.Chateau.Gaillard.png/440px-Donjon.Chateau.Gaillard.png (particularly high entrance)

2. Examples of drawbridges
http://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/195460/108116621/stock-photo-drawbridge-at-an-medieval-italian-castle-108116621.jpg (small)
http://www.featurepics.com/FI/Thumb300/20110217/Castle-Drawbridge-1787698.jpg (large with swipe-beam)
http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/lookandlearn-preview/M/M815/M815849.jpg (how to raise a drawbridge)

3. Examples of water-filled moats
http://www.exploring-castles.com/image-files/beaumaris_castle_autumn.jpg
http://masonmyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/canstockphoto3921322.jpg

4. Examples of barbican
http://www.castlesandmanorhouses.com/castles/pics/carcpicchateau02.gif
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/images/arts-architecture/architecture/castle.jpg

5. Example of bent entrance
http://carneycastle.com/Dinefwr/model1.jpg

Known issue, I reported it to presstab around one week ago and this is fixed: move to latest version.

I never experienced this. Any possibility that the amount is now too low to be on the richlist? Also, the blockexplorer maintainer upgraded the whole thing no so long ago.

Welcome Young Jesus! Check the HyperLoan Logs for live feedback from stakers. We also are developing constantly the wallet and the features, like HyperPool. Join us on ##hyperstake on IRC, you will be gladly welcomed.

I didn' think about it, nice catch! Using extra HYP was not part of the original plan but since it HYP from raining, I'd say it's OK. More variety in experimentation.

A new one every day, so people would get notified of new activity and there would be more bumping of the thread.

My own personal architect, Quentin Moon, is at your disposal for all your building need. Contact me for any inquiry.

Thank you Jan for the tweet - it helps getting more people on board - we have 10 BTC of volume, this is good.

There have been some misunderstading so to make it correct:
freedomsr40 AND okae AND kawa900jc won. The three of you. And I sent the Loan already.

Presstab, some suggestion for the OP. The first list could replace some existing entries. The second list is an addition.

How to get FREE HyperStake

• Faucet
• Rain on ##hyperstake
• Hypillionnaire, part deux
• HyperLoan

Initiatives:
HyperShield, to reduce volatility.
HyperSanta, Bringing Christmas to a poor soul near you.
Multisend, S4C on steroids.

Round 3 nominees announced - round 4 starting Swag, I added you the list, but you must confirm first that it is an empty address, not you regular one.

How to increase your chances:

• Every week, you get a +1
• Contributions give you an edge. This is subjective, you could win above a +10 with an excellent contribution
• Being recognized as active or worthy by the community
• Dedicated address in the list (not necessary to populate it with faucet): priority
• Other?

How to decrease your chances:

• Having less than 100 posts at the time registering will get a -1

Candidates:

• +3 awangn6600
• +3 Butoeskor - pD3ME8QQTYTB2eFDzYSxUtJ5FB3jjzaSTE
• +3 Prints_ (on IRC)
• +2 eatthetree3 - p9qwRDJz8Rm7Xexfq4BiYJNqJJfKLwcPWA (42 posts)
• +2 kronicblazer (on IRC)
• +2 checkpoints16 (on IRC)
• +2 blitz78
• +2 coinmaster222
• +2 mailmansDOGE
• +2 worhiper_-_
• +1 semidead (56 posts)
• +2 johan11 (via PM)
• +2 wickedsick - pFVxQp6VhMFDgjS9kqtcPG57Qce51uKEpf
• +2 kliown (on IRC)
• +1 foroplus - p5j7fqtr8rr3faYRsyqSnvrSVz1eczhigH
• +1 Tpruvot (via Wikia, a first!)
• +1 denis72 - p8o4HNTBoiimkmnWSh2Cy8g326EtDuXAV1
• +1 UroCEO - p65vV1RHVBMVQtAqGFBksrBipGhSuWSEkj (on IRC)
• +1 Swag - pMWV9QohbMNV954p72gccGKeAGftgscRHa (awaiting confirmation it is empty)
• -1 diabanhxeo - pAXaGf6oNNJevd6pnQGoJP4UFU7mXbpNG6 (45 posts)

(delisted: kliown)

What you, as a nominee (not just a candidate) will have to do:

1. Create a dedicated address in your wallet and post it on the forum, so that anyone can track the progress. If you don't know how to do so, just ask on the forum
2 Once you have received the 4K HYP, you will start posting on HyperLoan logs about your feedback. It can be just one posts several posts tracking your increasing understanding of HyperStake, questions... and of course, everyone can post there too.
3. At the end of the 30 days, you will send the principal (4k) back to the originating address pHypLoanFPWT6awN1TYRQ4v3wD3yY1n8KT (courtesy of iDunk).

Happy loaning, happy stacking!

New Monday, new nominations

As promised, this Monday there will be three winners, one more than last week (and two more than the one before).

But before I give the names, I would like to inform you that HyperLoan Logs has a lot of interesting post on how previous candidates are performing. Most excellent news, jaybeeuk (the winner of round 1) just staked! Chances are he will stake again before the end of the loan.
Round 2 nominees decided to follow the same strategy (one boring block at 4000) but at least one round 3 nominee is considering splitting block to experiment possible better returns. Still, I would like to mention paulsonnumismatics, who is particularly active at explaining how it goes and draw conclusions, on top of is plan to propose microloans to his customers. I decided to award him 500 HYP for this. HYPster and jaybeeuk also give details of advancement, so I give them 200 HYP. Finally, 100 HYP go to jaybeeuk for staking.

So, yes, the nominees for round 3. As planned, I chose according to time of waiting, contribution and presence of an address and accounts with less than 100 post had a malus. So you may already guess by looking at the waiting list. With no further ado:

• +2 freedomsr40 - pGHRz8HRvGz6DzUkY7ZdMjRA67s1CwCx3X
• +2 okae - pT7Ff3gXZ4RJA2ydTYNFi7xFjrRMfgJAip
• +2 kawa900jc  (contribution) - pUpyFwkmiqs4eaZSdNiiRP9VeqZugBsJw8

Congratulations to all of you, you made it!

What you, as a nominee (not just a candidate) will have to do:

1. Create a dedicated address in your wallet and post it on the forum, so that anyone can track the progress. If you don't know how to do so, just ask on the forum
2 Once you have received the 4K HYP, you will start posting on HyperLoan logs about your feedback. It can be just one posts several posts tracking your increasing understanding of HyperStake, questions... and of course, everyone can post there too.
3. At the end of the 30 days, you will send the principal (4k) back to the originating address pHypLoanFPWT6awN1TYRQ4v3wD3yY1n8KT (courtesy of iDunk).

Happy loaning, happy stacking!

Edit: paulsonnumismatics, HYPster and jaybeeuk, please send me your regular address on top the HyperLoan address, for your bonuses.

I need an evidence that you claimed your address.
You can get some HYP with the faucet or by hanging on ##hyperstake.

How is it going?

I agree wholeheartedly. Empowerment is key.

d'Armagnac bows and go check the nascent brewery. Soldiers and besieged citizens alike will need good drinks to fortify their morale.

It is my great pleasure to remind everyone that our monks are constantly writing new pages of the history of Crypto-Kingdom. Rules, edicts, inventories, proposals or visions, the scriptarium is fully active and everyone is welcome to visit the Library of the Monastery.

cryptokingdom.wikia.com

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In plain language: the wikia is meant to become a place to exchange tips and tricks, getting started actions for newcomers, reference lists... If you already saw some wikia like http://masseffect.wikia.com/, you know what I am talking about. Plus, actually writing something on a wikia empowers people and give them more incentives to play.

K2 - 20 mil - David Latapie