Great update and thanks a lot for your work!
As I saw a bit of activity on the repository I played with a few of the branches during the last few days.
The master branch didn't compile, but ...
Thanks for the feedback, that is most useful. I'll attend to master and ensure that it compiles (temporarily ignoring the auto_ptr deprecations) and (all but two of) the tests succeed (below is a description of how to compile and run the tests)
.
cd slimcoin/src
make -f makefile.unix test_slimcoin
./test_slimcoin
I found it just a little too tedious to keep all the branches merged with master and frankly, once ported, there isn't much to do other than add tests, so I merged the lot into prerelease and will then merge that with master to create a release (which, on Github, opens the opportunity to provide OSX/Win binaries downloadable from the GH repos “Releases” tab. That's the overall plan at any rate.
Just a word about the OP_RETURN features. Did you hear about AKASHA (
http://akasha.world)?
..
This project may go in the direction of that "collective intelligence" you talked about in some of your previous posts.
Thanks for drawing my attention to AKASHA. I did see it and I passed it by - I'm being brutalist; any social-networking-oriented effort that is insensible to the implications of a 99.9999:0.0001 m/f ratio can safely be ignored as doomed to fail. (see Simon Baron-Cohen’s work on the “Extreme Male Brain” and note carefully that this a
spectrum [1, 2])
As for Slimcoin, still a huge fan and looking forward to the OSX release. Right now I'm moving all the Slimcoins from the linux machines (including the raspberry PI) to the OSX version, in which I enabled staking. So mining and burning is done on Linux and staking only on the visual client.
OP_RETURN debugging continues - I'm beginning to suspect that (at least part of) the problem lies in what I've coded to be
written as OP_RETURN data rather than what's being read but neverthess, OP_RETURN txs are being correctly recognised by the code:
The (lifted from Torrentcoin) code correctly reads the OP_RETURN data and (incorrectly in our case) splits the data by space characters and assigns the (expected) third chunk (the split is 0-indexed) to be processed.
It's not getting what it expects and there's no clue in the Torrentcoin code as to what was written originally as OP_RETURN data (I can only assume there was a separate RPC script that did the heavy lifting) so I'm obliged to use the C++ code to build an understanding of what the code expects to see - and then decide whether that's actually suitable for Slimcoin's particular use of OP_RETURN.
There is an overall direction to the work I'm doing on the Slimcoin code. The codebase is now (reasonably? arguably?) stable - but what are we going to
do with it?
So, I'm looking at “Server-less & domain-less websites updatable via torrents and bitcoin blockchain.”
https://github.com/elendirx/web2web/I've already got this running (on a 0.13.X Core codebase) using the Qt5 WebEngineWidget. The disadvantage is that QWebEngineWidget uses the Chromium JS engine and (so) there is no MXE cross-compilation path to Windows. I'm given to understand that native compilation on Windows is feasible using a recent version of VS but I'm not really in a position to go down that route, so it's tentative at best. However, it's a pure soft fork, uses the standard OP_RETURN tx feature and doesn't need anything out of the ordinary, so QWebEngine-capable Linux and OS X “publish-by-torrent” Slimcoin clients can happily co-exist with vanilla WIndow clients
[1]
https://iancommunity.org/cs/understanding_research/extreme_male_brain [2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathizing–systemizing_theory
“Here comes the science ...”
According to Baron-Cohen, females on average score higher on measures of empathy and males on average score higher on measures of systemizing. This has been found using the child and adolescent versions of the Empathy Quotient (EQ) and the Systemizing Quotient (SQ), which are completed by parents about their child/adolescent,[11] and on the self-report version of the EQ and SQ in adults.
More recently, Simon Baron-Cohen, a prominent autism researcher at Cambridge University, has proposed the extreme male brain theory of autism, which attempts to explain the remarkable similarities between traits generally associated with human "maleness" and traits associated with the autism spectrum.
What are these traits? For one thing, typically developing males tend to show strengths in mathematical and spatial reasoning and the ability to discriminate details from a complex whole. Compared with typically developing females, however, males tend to be at higher risk for language impairment and at a disadvantage on social-judgment tasks, measures of empathy and cooperation, and imaginary play during childhood. 12 Many of the traits associated with ASDs could be thought of as an extreme profile of "typical male" strengths and challenges. Where, on average, typical men may be good at detail-oriented processing, people with ASD may be incredibly good at perceiving detail...and impaired when it comes to seeing "the big picture." Where typical men may be less able than women to make social judgments or empathize with others, people with ASDs are literally disabled in these areas.
It's a
spectrum which prompts me to think objectively about the implications for altcoin communities which are, in practical terms, all-male groups.
Cheers
Graham
