you are on the wrong chain


Redownload your chain while using the block explorer as a node.

Looks like it crashed, happens sometimes. I've asked him to check on it.

I am so far unable to replicate the sync issue. All my wallets are in sync and so is the block explorer. Anyone else having this issue?

On that point, we will be taking a quick snapshot of the chain as is. This snapshot will be use to just migrate us to a new codebase.

NRB now has functional wallet and i am just waiting on exchanges to respond then i will make the new one public.

with regard to tax...it works with fiat because it is nationalized.... i see no true viable means of taxing bitcoin because it is global. even U.S citizens can open an account with an offshore exchange.. how then will the gov know about these activities?

This is top priority.

Do you have GF shares or NRB? You are eligible to a % if you have either, so much so if you have bothe, you eat two pieces of the same cake.

That would be unfortunate, but rushing doesnt produce worthwhile results either.


Who is this we?? the we i know are NRS and NRB holders, of which none are mentioned above.

Freetrade is a very good dev, he was the first to actually implement momentum, he has my deepest respect and there are even times he gives me pointers on certain ideas and code. But tell me, how long did it take him to go from MMC to LTS? Or even MMC 1.0 to MMC 2.0?  I've been around a while and i've watched most of these projects from scratch, some i have even participated in, and i use that experience as well as my own ideas to introduce new ideas. These things take time.

Indulge me a bit while i point out some aspects :-

Service: Built in lottery game, 6 of 42
Block target: 2.5 minutes
// very nice, I even like his implementation, it's very unique

Proof of Work: Scrypt Merged Mining Capable
Codebase: United Scrypt Coin
Block Subsidy: Custom block subsidy (1 to 10 LTS) inversely related to difficulty
Difficulty Retargeting: Every block with Dark Gravity Wave
Total Shares: 100 Million

You'll note that above i expressed some concern about this, let me explain.  The PoW attribute potentially opens up an avenue of rewards through mining only, this means that there are two "serious" games at play here, ie mining and betting. I am thus far looking for a way around this because i want the only "game" to be betting. This means we need something else to make the blocks pass by quickly enough to maintain a viable betting and tx pace, i instead think PoS is a much better suited vehicle for a lotto, since a looto is not about the number of passing block or their speed, but about the bets themselves.

LottoShares allows shareholders to use their coins to play a lottery style game, choosing 6 numbers from 42.

Players can choose the size of their stake and prizes are fixed-odds -

6 numbers = 1,000,000 X stake
5 numbers = 5,000 X stake
4 numbers = 100 X stake
3 numbers = 10 X stake

Users can play tickets from the 'Play' tab. Make sure all 6 numbers played are different and the stake must be .00001000 or greater.

To check the numbers drawn, double click on the play transaction (after it is confirmed) in your wallet. This will bring you to the web interface.

Draws usually take place within about 5 to 10 minutes of tickets being included in a block.

If you had been on skype and/or read some of the comments i have made here earlier, you'll find that I agree with and actuall praise the idea of being able to choose numbers in a lotto style manner, however this implementation is centalized, basically, you are wagering then sending to an address, the actual lotto RNG is centralized at a website. This is not what we have in mind and has been one of the chief causes of blockchain bloat, below is an explanation of how we want ours to work:-

1) Bets are sent to the smae address :- same as above,
2) All bets are tallied and the "pot" is a field in the block struct that maintains a tally of entire day's bets (this eliminates most exploits we could think of)
3) Winners are chosen by the code it'self, using a still being discussed mechanism similar to the above.

The MAIN difference is that we want all the components to be on the chain. Easily viewable and auditable, not only for transparency sake but also so we can improve the code, quickly catch any exploits and at the same time keep our promise of "DECENTRALIZED". I would guess that LTS saw the bloating of the chain if you did it over a day and were keeping track of all tx in every block to keep an accurate tally, and chose to instead have a centralized component, i want to keep fighting because i know there exists a solution, most likely using timed expiry based on block count.

Distribution

(These coins are available to be played immediately)
20% Bitcoin - Each of the top 1,000,000 Bitcoin addresses received 20 LTS in the genesis block. (Block 302,000)
20% Dogecoin - Each of the top 250,000 Dogecoin addresses received 80 LTS in the genesis block. (Block 232,000)

(These coins are vested, and mature over a period starting 2 months from launch, finishing 14months after launch)
10% distributed to MemoryCoin (MMC) holders (Block #39,983)
10% distributed to ProtoShares (PTS) holders (Block #65,959)
10% distributed to AngelShares (AGS) holders (End of May 2014)
8.0% Devs for ongoing development and maintenance
6.6% FootballCoin - 7080 coins to each of the users on the distribution list (80 coins available for use immediately)
10.9% ShareCoin - 7080 coins to each of the users in the inital distribution (80 coins available for use immediately)
4.5% gifted to btctalk users, exchanges, crypto projects, bloggers (80 coins available for use immediately)

As you can see clearly, there is no WE, our distribution model may end up including some partner coins, especially from the devs who have taken time to chime in, but our main objective is to provide for our own ie NRB and NRS with a much more decentralized model without any point that cannot be verified or queried.

So yes, i need to go back to work before like you said, we lose everyone.

It's the whole making plumbing visible that had some of you sending me PMss telling me the new NRB is not working.
  it  wasnt even finished and people were already downloading trying to be the first one mining it. If you look at the git , you'll see that once i passed the specs i have put in NRB, i slowed down on commits, this is directly because of being badgered by people telling me theat it wasnt working. I can count at least 6 different genesis blocks spread across 4 codebases , each very different, and some people were already mining I quote :-


and


both of which were scrapped.

All i ask is patience, i like to be confident when i do things, rushing me or saying crap to me doesnt motivate me at all. Other devs that i know, release coins under new accounts almost on a weekly basis, within a month they abandon their projects and start new ones. I'd think that my sticking to NRB for over a year and NRS  6 months says something.

Give it time and play the long game, most of the investors are quiet they'll get their dues and then some.

You showed online at certain times on BCT.

I think i was only barely a few minutes while i was indisposed. i had to communicate rather erratically with the other officers and movement only started when i came back. BCT can say one is online, but i think it just means you have a page on the forum open.

but you were online in the time being, oh? i was actively online?


you could have arranged for people to take over during that time// if only you knew what you are talking about. just how many devs do you know? ever asked them to do something?

If you run a company, the company has to be able to go on when the CEO is indisposed // well, lets see, i havent been doing any CEO stuff lately because i was deving then i got indisposed then i came back to finish NRB...so yeah what as a CEO going to do? it's pointless to be CEO with zero development going on so i chose to focus on development and keeping my promise to the early supportes who started with NRB.

And choosing only skype for communications is blocking people out.   lol, so if i tell you where you can find me easily i am blocking communication? Skype/viber/whatsapp/anyotherinstantmessagingapp makes for fluid conversation and has ready prompts.   i don't spend my day trolling the forum, i only use it on a as required basis. so tell me, how can we have a conversation here if we are online at different times and one only uses the forum for a few minutes?

BTW, in the event i am just asked to launch NRL as it is, it will have to be launched and deployed in phases.

Phase 1) as it is at the moment

Phase 2) Implementation of stable betting system with little or no bloat at all (looking at the mini-blockchain idea or else the Expiring block chain idea)

Phase 3) Implementation of sub protocols like Zerocoin and maybe interactive betting items like secure chat

For those who are curious, here is a quick run down of how it's all supposed to work

1) User imports NRB/NRS key to take control of their balances

2) User starts betting engine

3) Engine Automatically places bets based on User input until told otherwise

4) bets from all users are tallied over the duration of 24 hours (still thinking maybe we should add a small PoW component , just to keep busy)

5) At Day's end Winners are selected (either you mine the block that rewards you or it will be a random allocation)

6) Once the Jackpot block passes all previous bets are nullified and the cycle starts again.

Where are the challenges?

1) Keeping track of bets + transactions in every block is causing serious blockchain growth eeven in the smallest enviroment

2) Deciding on winning mechanism,( using PoW opens up exploitation by huge miners ) i am thinking of using a even more modified allocator in comparison to the new NRB one, using maybe the entire day's blocks as an entropy source, then parsing the chain and picking a random active address to send winnings to. (opens up possible bloating as well, and maybe problems for those with slow connections.)

3) Choosing betting parameters ie house take, minimum bet (should we have a set minimum bet amount) eg etc.

These issues seem small in text but actually mean a lot of work and testing in code as well as making them logcally and financially sound.

Patience is important guys, as you know, i work on this mostly alone and only get help once in a while. It takes time.

Furthermore, NRS hasnt tanked, i just want to point out that most of you are holding, and also that it takes less than 2 BTc to triple it's current value. Let those who wish to panic sell, you just play the long game. You;'ll see the scramble for NRS and NRb when we are ready for snapshots. Koontas and his LemonFries will keep posting whatever they want but i'm still here, and i am working.

Heads up on NRB...yes it may be another momentum codebase, but the modifications we have made mean it will be cpu only for a while, which is just how i like it.

You panic way too much. Anywho, we just successfully tested NRB 2.2 over the global network and it connected quite easily.

So, now we are contacting the exchanges and alerting them to the codebase shift.

Quick Summary of the past few weeks

1)NoirLotto alpha is in testing, however it is suffering EXTREME blockchain bloat due to the need to track every betting tx all the way up to the jackpot block .

2) I was quiet because simply, i was indisposed. Not ignoring any of you ar hiding or whatever it is you have been posting here.

3) NRS price, this falls to you guys. You complain that the price is low, but then you post derogatory stuff about me and my efforts, who do you think will support the price if you are posting unfounded comments?

4) NRB has a functioning chain that brings in some new ideas and a funny little accident that i'm sure small miners will appreciate.

5) The NoirSlots idea has been scrapped, as we are now looking to put all those and related ideas onto a website, rather than incessant production of new token, it's smarter to base our products on existing ones.

Near Future Plans

1) NRB relaunch -obvious

2) Once NRB has had a good run ~50k blocks we will combine a snapshot of it and NRS to create the Lotto codebase. It makes sense from a logical point and financial.

3) We will be hiring more people to handle stuff like graphics design and maintaining the Forum, over the next few weeks noirbitstalk will be very important as we plan to move our conversations there permanently. This is because maintaining NRB, NRS , Lotto, Help and Support eg etc threads here will become troublesome as this place is crowded.

4) NoirLotto is still on the desk due to bloating, once this is cleared up, snapshots will be made and we will commence betting. The system has proven more difficult than anticipated mainly due to the need of keeping every detail on the chain to ensure transparency and avoid invisible exploits.

5) The NoirSpace idea hass been scrapped, rather we'll be focusing on a web-based platform post NoirLotto to accomodate some of the ideas that have been tabled. The reason being, having multiple QT's is not an ideal situation, even the three that will exist in a few weeks ie NRB NRS and NRL will at some point be merged into a single QT to ensure sanity.

6) There will be a vote after the launch of NRL on the officer positions, all of them are game, even CEO.

7) The CFO has a complete accounting of the company's financials and will ensure to make them available before NRB 2.0 goes live.


Note NRB codebase is in a private git toensure fair launch, trying to use the experiments that are public on the git will result in wasted effort. Same goes for NoirLotto and NoirSlots.

Questions can be posted here but preferably on skype for immediate answers.

Likely launch date of NRB 2.0 is within the week. You need only move your coins to an exchange that lists it and they will credit you your version 2.0.

Using a sock puppet I see. It's getting old, find something else to do.

I'll provide a link in the skype group, for now there is no windows version, it's all linux unless you build one yourself.

keep holding, it's gonna be worth more soon.


Thanks for the patience. I'm here, only quiet because talking takes time away from thinking and working.

Update:-

Talked to cryptsy, now approaching other exchanges that have us NRB/NRS listed, just making sure we are on the same page before moving forward.

This is partially something i read here on the forum, can't find the thread, but it got me thinking.

An in-QT listing of items being sold for BTC, or any other alt-coin. Rather than storing all the listings on the chain, they are stored on host nodes. Basically if i am selling something i just make a small tx, 0.00001 BTC and place the item details in the tx comment. The client would then parse the comments (ie, we'd need a standard format) in the chain and present them like a "classifieds" adverts. Clicking on an item would take you to a (secure) browser in the app that retrieves the information from the host machine (the sellers computer) for proper viewing of the item(s) for sale. Basically, we use the tx hash as a pointer to the items being sold.

Not sure if i phrased this right. But would such a system be feasible (maybe with a custom QT ? ) and would it actually be something worthwhile for the community?

Not to give the guy too many ideas, or encourage others on the forum, but I just want to point out that this is incorrect.

Let me use an example:-

In short

1) send a multitude of periodic transactions to obscure exchanges with small amounts to different accounts, maybe use new ones every time ( there are tons of other exchanges now, much smaller and discreet than the big ones, all reputable)
2) Sell coins and send fiat to numbered accounts of unregistered visa cards
3) Go to ATMs and cash out
4) As an extra layer of security, rotate the ATMs you use.

And to top it all off, there is no guarantee the hacker is in a jurisdiction in which the hackeds' country's laws have effect, so even if you find him, short of illegal means, there is little recourse.

LOL, he's doing a giveaway to get support and help cleaning his coins.

What a haul though, sorry to the previous custodian.

As for the new custodian, feel pity on the man, split him some coin, even with just half, or 25%, you would greatly ease his misery and still go to town on what you'll have left.

Software is already in testing, and we are working out known issues.

Well.... thanks for the laugh. I think many people fail to understand why BTC and it's plethora of (functional) babies exist. People are trying to leave the fiat system behind, to actually back one with fiat (IMO) actually increases the DCs' volatility and opens new avenues of exploitation. For a currency to have value, it usually needs to be backed by finite resources and in it's self be finite.

To back with  fiat currency means to value it at the entire fiats' value. Which is diluted everyday as the printing presses never stop running.

Unless they introduce some radical means of limiting this, this will be a flash in the pan and doomed to fail. The evry idea of backing with fiat means opening yourself to national regulation, banking regulation and you can be accused of subversion of bankjing systems , so much can go wrong.

Good idea, stocking up for the very near future