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[muf18]

I don't know why, but nova turned off SLM exchaning for a few hours, and then they turned it on, but reset whole order book. We must get to other exchanges, because it's bad behaviour.

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[Ayatollah Blunt McSpork]

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It's well beyond discussion. Blocknet, the first decentralized exchange, is in testnet and expected to go live in a few weeks.  

However, Blocknet DEX compatible coins will need to be BIP65.  I'm not sure if Slimcoin has BIP65 or what would be involved in upgrading Slimcoin to the standard.

Sorry to sound ignorant, but when this decentralized exchange thing is done a coin's website can link to what to enable people to buy?

A person goes to http://slimco.in/ or http://www.slimcoin.club/ or wherever and there is a page called "Buy Decentrally".

Where does that page lead?

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Also, fwiw, my review of Nova exchange. Early on an exchange opened called Nova Exchange. There were obvious problems, they were clearly not suited as an exchange, then they announced they had been hacked and were shutting. Some time later this Nova exchange opened, not sure if the two are the same. At this Nova once I saw an impressive opportunity in one of the order books on a coin that is traded on one other exchange. Once I logged in, the order book changed. The appearance was that possibly they, or somebody, is trading based on who is logged in and what currencies they own. It may be inappropriate to make an accusation like that without proof, and I apologize for that, and it may have been a one off thing, just a coincidence, but I am cautious there. On the other hand, their interface is done extremely well. The amount of effort they put into fine tuning all aspects of the site itself is impressive. If I am mistaken about the first point then their excellent work on the interface by itself is enough to make them a better exchange.

[Sorai]

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It's well beyond discussion. Blocknet, the first decentralized exchange, is in testnet and expected to go live in a few weeks.  

However, Blocknet DEX compatible coins will need to be BIP65.  I'm not sure if Slimcoin has BIP65 or what would be involved in upgrading Slimcoin to the standard.

Sorry to sound ignorant, but when this decentralized exchange thing is done a coin's website can link to what to enable people to buy?

A person goes to http://slimco.in/ or http://www.slimcoin.club/ or wherever and there is a page called "Buy Decentrally".

Where does that page lead?

In the soon-to-be-released version, it's my understanding that you would install Blocknet's decentralized exchange on a computer that has wallets running of the coins you plan to trade.  In the next version, you won't have to download the blockchains of any coins and there will be a mobile app for it.  

[muf18]

Because of whole order book reset there were 2 trades for 150 and 50 satoshi, which are now reported as main exchange rate. For me - bad manipulation. And I thought that this was the first good exchange. Also they didnt respond me about resetting whole order book - they didn't even consider it worthwhile I guess.

If they give out the reason why they suspended for a few hours trading, and then clear out the whole order book, maybe I would change my mind and today opinion, I don't have any trouble with them, but this isn't open, when you just shut down and reset everything without warning.

[gjhiggins]

Also, fwiw, my review of Nova exchange.

T&C's reference Dunkers IT and assert validity under Swedish Law. Some ducking and diving (lol) led me to:

http://listings.findthecompany.com/l/254990000/Dunkers-It-Ab-in-Kping-Sweden <- inaccessible 'cos system problem

“Linus Dunkers runs SCRYPT mining operations here in Sweden, he is also founder of Dunkers IT AB and BTC Sweden”

https://bitjoin.me/2016/04/02/linus-dunkers/

https://www.facebook.com/dunkersitab/

I think it's a reasonable match, can't be bothered to estimate the probability.

Cheers

Graham

[d5000]

Early, publicly-accessible version of ACME block and tx explorer customised for Slimcoin:

http://tessier.bel-epa.com:6053/

I have tried ACME now and it seems to work fine - only address queries seem not to work still, but that should be related to what you said about the still lacking SPARQL strategy for these queries. Thanks again for your work!

And the services offered could be expanded to include storage and retrieval of metadata pertinent to an inscription (e.g. dc:title, foaf:image).

Looks good!

About NovaExchange: Doesn't look too professional, although the "exchange rate problem" is solved easily - simply someone must buy 100 SLM for the lowest sell price and we'd a ~1000% bullish change (Unfortunately as of now I have only SLM and LTC on Nova). Maybe it's time to try Bitsquare (now rebranded "bisq") again, until solutions like Blocknet become available. Although I'm pretty skeptic about BIP65, I think it was integrated into a later version than Bitcoin 0.6 (the base for Peercoin/Slimcoin).

I have nothing against Yobit, have used them sometimes for smaller "shitcoins" like COMM and they seem to work fine. The "shitcoin problem" will be there at all exchanges where everybody can list their coins for a fee ...

[muf18]

@d5000 - it isn't about 'shitcoin' problem. It's about that yobit sometimes makes unavailable to update chain after hard fork, and they live coin on old chain, which would cause an unusable after hard fork, there were a few problems like this I've seen with yobit. Also they had one coin which had exactly the same name, but have totally different addresses structure thus it was different, and there was a big pump there with it. Just I don't like it, because it sometimes feels like scammers exchange.

[drbarber]

newbie miner here, using OSX unfortunately.

I'm using the QT graphical client.

To mine it says I need to enter "setgenerate true" into the console but it doesn't respond back with anything. Is that normal? Just running in the background?

[dzarmush]

Where do I put downloaded blockchain files on Mac? They unzip in the same directory as archive and the client doesn't see them.

[gjhiggins]

newbie miner here, using OSX unfortunately.

I'm using the QT graphical client.

To mine it says I need to enter "setgenerate true" into the console but it doesn't respond back with anything. Is that normal? Just running in the background?

Code:

$ slimcoinbdb48d help setgenerate
setgenerate <generate> [genproclimit]
<generate> is true or false to turn generation on or off.
Generation is limited to [genproclimit] processors, -1 is unlimited.

If you didn't specify a number of processes limit with genproclimit on the command line or in the config, then you should see slimcoin at the top of the list produced by running top in a terminal.

Also, getmininginfo presents information on number of hashespersec.

Code:

{
    "blocks" : 1043744,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 0.02014334,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : false,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "hashespersec" : 0,
    "networkghps" : 0.00074582,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "testnet" : false
}

Cheers

Graham
 

[gjhiggins]

Where do I put downloaded blockchain files on Mac? They unzip in the same directory as archive and the client doesn't see them.

/Users/dzarmush/Library/Application Support/SLIMCoin

          ^^^ your id here

Cheers

Graham

[dzarmush]

Where do I put downloaded blockchain files on Mac? They unzip in the same directory as archive and the client doesn't see them.

/Users/dzarmush/Library/Application Support/SLIMCoin

          ^^^ your id here

Cheers

Graham

I have Macintosh HD/Users/dzarmush/ and that's it, no Library there
I also have Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support but no SLIMCoin directory there. I copied it there anyway but it didn't work, the client just continued blockchain sync from where it stopped last time.

[dzarmush]

oh, I forgot about slimcoin-qt.exe unarchived file, where do I put this one?

[gjhiggins]

If they give out the reason why they suspended for a few hours trading, and then clear out the whole order book, maybe I would change my mind and today opinion, I don't have any trouble with them, but this isn't open, when you just shut down and reset everything without warning.

https://novaexchange.com/news/

“2017-07-14 15:00 - Some orderbooks was accidentally emptied

When removing and adding markets there was a mistake causing some markets to be closed that was not supposed to be closed. When they were activated once again the orderbooks was empty. All orders was automatically cancelled and refunded to users account balances. Sorry for this, luckily only a few active markets was affected by this.”

Cheers

Graham

[gjhiggins]

I have Macintosh HD/Users/dzarmush/ and that's it, no Library there

So make one and the subdirectory SLIMCoin, that's the assumed location of the Slimcoin datadir on OS X:

https://github.com/slimcoin-project/Slimcoin/blob/master/src/util.cpp#L862

Cheers

Graham

[dzarmush]

I have Macintosh HD/Users/dzarmush/ and that's it, no Library there

So make one and the subdirectory SLIMCoin, that's the assumed location of the Slimcoin datadir on OS X:

https://github.com/slimcoin-project/Slimcoin/blob/master/src/util.cpp#L862

Cheers

Graham

You didn't read till the end ) That's what I did. But when I start the client it doesn't see these files. I reinstalled the client and interesting thing happened. It continued sync from around block #15000. It was there before I deleted the client. It looks like it stored blockchain somewhere, but not where I put it.

[gjhiggins]

You didn't read till the end
 

Yes I did. OS X has a /Library as well as a ~/Library for each user. Your message indicated that you used /Library, not ~/Library.

Cheers

Graham

[dzarmush]

gjhiggins, what do you think of that for Facebook cover? I used original logo so there wouldn't be any re-design, just an artwork based on current logo.

[dzarmush]

You didn't read till the end
 

Yes I did. OS X has a /Library as well as a ~/Library for each user. Your message indicated that you used /Library, not ~/Library.

Cheers

Graham

In Users I have Guest, Dzarmush and Shared directories. There's no Library in my Dzarmush directory, only in Shared. Copying SLIMCoin in Shared didn't work.

UPD: Hold the Option key on your keyboard, and click the Go menu at the top of the screen. With the Go menu open, you'll notice that pressing and releasing Option will display or hide the Library choice in this menu.

So I've found right directory and it worked. Thanks a lot for the help! I can now help Mac users myself )

[gjhiggins]

gjhiggins, what do you think of that for Facebook cover? I used original logo so there wouldn't be any re-design, just an artwork based on current logo.

Looks fine. May I use it for the wallet splash screen? Are there rights?

Altcoins rely on two different types of consensus. The first type is the cryptographic consensus that must be created in order for the currency to function at all; the second type is the social consensus that is created by people choosing to hold the coin and/or run nodes. It is the social consensus that gives the cryptographic consensus its semantics, its meaning.

So, “official” this and “official” that are meaningless in the context of a cryptocurrency because no-one has the authority to stamp anything “official”. Or rather, anyone and everyone has the opportunity to stamp anything they want as “official” or make a claim to be “the official dev” but it carries no inherent authority, only that which it can engender by it own efforts. When it comes to p2p apps, the bottom line is that as soon as the source code is publicly released, no-one is ”in charge” of anything.

The witticism “herding cats” doesn’t even come in to it; people are completely free to do as they like: run a node, not run a node; hold coins, don’t hold coins; set up a foundation, a faucet, a business, promote the coin, fud the coin, set up webwallets, offer an alternative wallet design, provide off-chain features, pay to spam the blockchain, pay to clean up the blockchain, generously contribute to a faucet, mischievously drain a faucet dry.

An altcoin “community” is an egalitarian group of pseudonymous strangers. These are the ground conditions to which any altcoin community is obliged to accommodate itself when conducting its affairs.

The requirement for egality means that the only viable activity model is self-organisation. The requirement for pseudonymity means that the only sustainable relationship model is self-interested co-operation.

In short, it should work best if you do what you like for yourself but try to respect that a consensus exists.

Cheers

Graham