[ANN] SpreadCoin | Decentralize Everything (decentralized blockexplorer coming)

[coins101]

REDish Alert

If using Bitcoin

F2Pool is building on a wrong side and there is fake confirmation since block 363731.

If you use light weight wallet or with old version of Bitcoin Core, you should stop accept bitcoin for a moment

Can someone explain me like i am five. Thanks.

ELI5 is difficult .  I try for a higher age...

The developers designed a soft fork BIP66 that does not allow some malformed bitcoin transaction (that have a strange signature that may not be accepted by newer versions of openssl).  To make sure that there is only minimal forking, they had some rules accompanied with the fork.

• Miners vote for the fork by setting version 3 in the block header.
• Only when 75 % of the miners vote, the change has any effect at all
• When 95 % of the miners vote, the new client ignores all miners voting 2 and orphans them off.

The latter should have produced a few orphans for the 5 % that didn't update.  However, it looks like f2pool and antpool just voted by setting version 3 but did not implement the rules of the fork, at least not the last one.   They built a fork on top of a block from a miner that didn't update.  Since they have a lot of hashing power they managed to produce a longer fork that was alive for some time before being overtaken by the miners implementing the soft fork correctly.  The effect is that we may see transactions with 6 confirmations that are later double spend.  Also f2pool will loose a lot of blocks since they are orphaned later.

If you have a full node that is updated, you have nothing to worry.  It will just ignore the invalid forks.   If you have a SPV client, it will trust the miners to not do something stupid like this and thus it may be on the wrong side of a fork.  There is a small chance that you see a transaction with a few confirmations that doesn't make it to the 0.10.x chain.

Reddit discussion.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3c2cfd/psa_f2pool_is_mining_invalid_blocks/

[coins101]

12m video views for a vanity gen demo. That would be cool. lol




Found my service address  

'Service.....' takes around 12 hrs and the estimated find time was spot on.

@Boss

Address has the wrong spelling in the pop-up

[georgem]

12m video views for a vanity gen demo. That would be cool. lol




Found my service address  

'Service.....' takes around 12 hrs and the estimated find time was spot on.

@Boss

Address has the wrong spelling in the pop-up

Congratulations and thanks.

Is there a more decentralized word than "Boss"?
If not, can we invent one?
 

EDIT: fixed the typo in the new version, see below.

[georgem]

New preview version out: http://www.spreadcoin.info/downloads/preview_wallet_0.zip

Features:

JSON file is used to automatically load/save the state of everything vanitygen related
(worklist, state of checkboxes, sliders, preferences etc...)

Now you can close the wallet and open it later and it will continue the vanityjobs... you don't even need to restart the vanitygen when it was running the moment you exited.
it will also keep track of any not yet imported private and public keys.

Please test and have fun.

that's the structure of the vanitygen.json file:
(you don't need to create this file, it will be automatically created when missing)

Code:

{
	"state": {
		"running": "true",
		"threads": "1",
		"matchCase": "true",
		"showPrivKeys": "true",
		"autoImport": "true"
	},
	"workList": [
		{"pattern": "ShutUp", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "SexyM", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "Service", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "Satoshi", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""}
	]
}

Although you can change the json file by hand, it is not recommended. You should only let the programm change this file.

[georgem]

people can now also easily share their vanitygen worklists...

This is what I call the "golden" pattern list:
Looking for Servicenodes and SatoshiNakamoto and spitting out partial solutions.

Code:

{
	"state": {
		"running": "true",
		"threads": "1",
		"matchCase": "true",
		"showPrivKeys": "true",
		"autoImport": "true"
	},
	"workList": [
		{"pattern": "Satoshi", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "SatoshiN", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "SatoshiNa", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "SatoshiNak", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "SatoshiNaka", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "SatoshiNakam", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "SatoshiNakamo", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "SatoshiNakamot", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "SatoshiNakamoto", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "Service", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "Servicen", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "Serviceno", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "Servicenod", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "Servicenode", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "Servicenodes", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "ServiceN", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "ServiceNo", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "ServiceNod", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "ServiceNode", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""},
		{"pattern": "ServiceNodes", "pubkey": "", "privkey": ""}
	]
}

Attention, do not ever share a list with privatekeys!

[coins101]

..Is there a more decentralized word than "Boss"?
If not, can we invent one?
 

De'Boss

 

[georgem]

Linux 64bit version of preview wallet is ready:

http://www.spreadcoin.info/downloads/preview_wallet_0.tar.xz

Here are some screenshots:







A few things are slightly different between linux and windows, but never have the wallets looked so similar over multiple OSes.
Please help with the testing, I appreciate it.
I also appreciate donations!

Stay tuned.

[coins101]

Nice update  

Satoshi estimated to take ~15hrs on windows, with 2 cores; but only a few hours on linux with 1 core

[georgem]

Nice update  

Satoshi estimated to take ~15hrs on windows, with 2 cores; but only a few hours on linux with 1 core

No this was just because of the specific moment I made the screenshot.
One second later it said about 20 hours.

It's how vanitygen makes an estimation. Takes it a few seconds to get a good average value.
It goes like: "this is so easy.... no ... wait...."

 

[AnotherNode]

Linux 64bit version of preview wallet is ready:

http://www.spreadcoin.info/downloads/preview_wallet_0.tar.xz

A few things are slightly different between linux and windows, but never have the wallets looked so similar over multiple OSes.
Please help with the testing, I appreciate it.
I also appreciate donations!

Stay tuned.

Kudos 

I usually run Windows, but I'll try to spin up Linux to do some testing.

[chrysophylax]

Linux 64bit version of preview wallet is ready:

http://www.spreadcoin.info/downloads/preview_wallet_0.tar.xz

A few things are slightly different between linux and windows, but never have the wallets looked so similar over multiple OSes.
Please help with the testing, I appreciate it.
I also appreciate donations!

Stay tuned.

Kudos  

I usually run Windows, but I'll try to spin up Linux to do some testing.

finally a linux version ...

im on it ... ...

sourcecode ( git ) ? ...

edit - looks great georgem ... no block source - but ill fix that in a minute ...

work well done so far ...

#crysx

[georgem]

sourcecode ( git ) ? ...

edit - looks great georgem ... no block source - but ill fix that in a minute ...

work well done so far ...

#crysx

I will release the sourcecode as soon as I have the mac wallet ready.
I need to clean the code up a little bit.

Blocksource should be available if you just wait 30 - 60 sec, then it will start accessing the backup nodes.

Kudos  

I usually run Windows, but I'll try to spin up Linux to do some testing.

Thanks, the new wallet really needs some thorough testing.

[chrysophylax]

sourcecode ( git ) ? ...

edit - looks great georgem ... no block source - but ill fix that in a minute ...

work well done so far ...

#crysx

I will release the sourcecode as soon as I have the mac wallet ready.
I need to clean the code up a little bit.

Blocksource should be available if you just wait 30 - 60 sec, then it will start accessing the backup nodes.

Kudos  

I usually run Windows, but I'll try to spin up Linux to do some testing.

Thanks, the new wallet really needs some thorough testing.

all good now ...

will 'play' with it today mate ...

#crysx

[coins101]

Been playing with the wallet.

Can't really find any bugs. I'm sure there is the odd one, so I'll keep playing.

Who is AWOLAND that is updating Spreadcoin's github?

https://github.com/awoland?tab=activity

Look like good contributions. But who has access to the repo?

[georgem]

Been playing with the wallet.

Can't really find any bugs. I'm sure there is the odd one, so I'll keep playing.

Who is AWOLAND that is updating Spreadcoin's github?

https://github.com/awoland?tab=activity

Look like good contributions. But who has access to the repo?

he's an early legendary forum member that has been around since 2012.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=63082

I have no problem with the update he made on github (it's just a small change in the qt wallet, that will show the datetime with seconds), it's just weird he didn't communicate with us before doing so.

wait, .... if you look at his posts, they are mainly in russian language....so that's probably the reason why... lol

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=63082;sa=showPosts

 

let's see how we are going to handle this communication barrier.

There even seems to be an active russian spreadcoin subforum here at BCT:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=818442

We need to reach out to those guys.
I will mention their subforum in the threadstart. (but wait, their thread still talks about the old website etc... and has dead links.... so we need to fix this first)

[georgem]

Mac wallet (preview) is ready for you to test:

http://www.spreadcoin.info/downloads/preview_wallet_0.dmg





I will clean and comment the sourcecode now and upload it later today.

Stay tuned.

[stonehedge]

Downloading now.  Thanks georgem!

[georgem]

Downloading now.  Thanks georgem!

Thank you for testing.
Please let me know first if it even works and what MacOsX version you are using.

You can do a more thorough testing later.

I quickly tested it on 10.7.5 and it works.

[stonehedge]

Downloading now.  Thanks georgem!

Thank you for testing.
Please let me know first if it even works and what MacOsX version you are using.

You can do a more thorough testing later.

I quickly tested it on 10.7.5 and it works.

Looking very smart and downloading the blockchain on my 2013 11" Macbook Air running 10.10.3 (Yosemite)

[coins101]

I got my Satoshi van gen



Can I suggest that every service node starts with "Satoshi......" to be valid.

This will make sure that everyone tries out the new Van Gen 

Actually, I think we should make this an enforcement as a way to stop some people flooding the network with farms of nodes. It takes about 10 hrs to get a Satoshi address. So there are only so many nodes you can create overnight.

Any views?