🌱[ANN] SOIL | Environmental | Agriculture | Smart Contracts | Sustainable

[skidog]

in the interests of full transparency, which we have always held ourselves to, i hve had to empty my developers funds due to a family emergency. my daughter had a miscarriage, and right now, she needs family. so, ive cashed out my developers wallet and sold what was there in order to send her the money for gas to drive from alberta to here in nova scotia. it simply became the last option i had in order to help her out. she's been pretty devastated, and is bringing my grandkids out for some time with me, just to get some time to heal her head and heart.

i hope that you guys dont get too upset over my having to use my developers wallet in such a way. its sat for a long time, and i had no intention of selling those funds, but i really didnt have a choice. im on a military pension and bring in barely enough for rent, bills, gas and groceries in a month, and aside from selling my fender bass guitar that ive had for thirty years, i also tried selling my very old collection of hockey cards as well, to no avail. she will be bringing with her the video cards my little brother had been using (he's quite the gamer and just upgraded to the radeon 300 series) so ill be using those to mine and replace my developers fund as quickly as i can when i get that installed.

i dont make any money from SOIL, and this wasnt a case of wanting to do that. i work with SOIL for the love of the project and my belief in it and what we can make it. i did manage to pour myself into retooling the OP blurb over the last few days, and am writing a guide related to the Homestead changes from ETH that we will be looking at, as well as an updated roadmap. this coming week, ill also be releasing SOIL-ex to the community as well. its not everything i want it to be right now, but as a token marketplace and exchange, it does its job very well. ill be writing up a users guide for that as well when i do release it.

again, i hope that i dont anger anyone for having used my dev wallet. trust me, i feel guilty enough as it is for having to use it. i will be replacing those funds as quickly as i will be able to. 

Hope all is OK.

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[crazyearner]

We were asked for a Windows 32 Bit client version.

Here you go!
Download

instead of having to make different ones like 32 and 64 bit windows. Why not just make one that supports both 32 bit and x64 bit. Would save having to make separate clients to download and clutter up.

[abvhiael]

You should offer your soil here. Some of us would take them. Now...

 ive already sold them on bittrex, a bittersweet action to be honest. i really have a deep loyalty to SOIL, i came into this project realizing that it will be, at the very least, a five year project just to get it to where i have envisioned, and every day, my research into the EVM is simply to discover how best to implement these things on SOIL.

even though my reserves of SOIL are less than 250 SOIL right now, ill be working hard to improve it for the rest of you, and will be setting the video card my brother is sending me to mine our consensus engine perpetually, to replace those funds. im happy to see SOIL finally taking off. and "to the moon!" or something. (smiles)

in this coming week, ill be releasing SOIL-ex to you guys to play with, with a single subcurrency launched with it.. DEV. ill write up a "user manual" as well for it. ill also be writing up an article regarding the smart contracts ive already deployed on teh SOILnet, how they work and how to interact with them. the fancy dApps with sparkly front ends will come, but other than SOIL-ex, right now, ive merely deployed a large number of what i feel are the architectual beams to build larger applications on... oracles, atomic swap and btcrelay, applications such as insureth that can be based towards crop insurance, message board, off-chain computation verification and IPFS gateways that will serve until the Swarm protocol is manageable.

plus, an article regarding the HOmestead protocol changes and what they mean for SOIL, an updated roadmap relating to short and long term projects, and an announcement from peter and i regarding something dApp related for the community to get involved in. BUSY BUSY week ahead.

[altsheets]

Sorry to hear about the tragedy.
Good luck to you and your family.

my reserves of SOIL are less than 250 SOIL right now

I am quadrupling that. Sending you 750 SOIL, please create a new address.

Status: 1000 SOIL. Anyone else? Let's see how often we can multiply ... 

[kawa900jc]

Sorry to hear about the tragedy.
Good luck to you and your family.

my reserves of SOIL are less than 250 SOIL right now

I am quadrupling that. Sending you 750 SOIL, please create a new address.

Status: 1000 SOIL. Anyone else? Let's see how often we can multiply ... 

I donate 1000 SOIL on the new address

[Shkembe]

would like to send some too, whats the adress?

I would like to know the address too, will send 1000 soil...

[altsheets]

quickstart: scroll down

Support Abvhiael
We refill his developer's funds

Read his posts "in the interests of full transparency" and "ive already sold them on bittrex, a bittersweet action to be honest." for the backgrounds of what I am suggesting:

Sorry to hear about the tragedy.
Good luck to you and your family.

my reserves of SOIL are less than 250 SOIL right now

I am quadrupling that. Sending you 750 SOIL, please create a new address.

Status: 1000 SOIL. Anyone else? Let's see how often we can multiply ...  

I donate 1000 SOIL on the new address

would like to send some too, whats the adress?

I would like to know the address too, will send 1000 soil...

Txid: 0x291a9a9a4d1bb52956dcf7644d18980256827874f1583c34db33cbfb25f407fc 1000.01 SOIL
My sig for Abvhiael
IF profits THEN sharing THEN inspiring. Which "socially smart contracts" do we invent?
Read how we're helping someone real now: Support Abvhiael - our good soul of SOIL. Thanks.

Sent 2500.  My best to your daughter and family.  My wife and I went through the same over the summer and tears your heart out like nothing else.  Hang in there bud.
TxId: 0x0a881dfcd4a010dc389f707294c7a0dbaa2efc63810da687c319bb34230e1a1d

I just sent out 2000 Soil. You did great. Keep going SOIL!!!
TxId: 0x0234755bdb8a677936467352a9b321563b6423d62cced60aa1d70b4686262d11

just send you yesterday 2500 soil too.
great to have you and peter as hard working devs for this project and all best to you and your family.

I've supported Abvhiael with 10K SOIL of the community reserve.
0xa117f15cd76e49530428888755bc497c7277247e8e7d397592ef9a60c6e5c096

What's the address to chip into abvhiael's dev fund?
I don't have much, but would like to contribute.
Edit:
Found it.
@abvhiael
Best wishes.
  ...

Abvhiael:

... and in closing, i just wanted to express my appreciation to you, the community at large, for your support today. Theres so often this atmosphere of distrust and contentiousness in the cryptocurrency world, but here in the SOILcoin community, theres such a strong spirit of cooperation and congeniality. As my teenager would say: "YOU RAWK"

... As always, if you have any questions, fire them off here and ill do my best to answer them. If you have any ideas for projects youd like to see up on the blockchain, likewise, let us know. This is one of the most incredible communities in cryptocurrency. Ive watched a LOT of different altcoins and how they interact with eachother, the negativity and belligerence, and instead here with SOILcoin we have a small but dedicated COMMUNITY. Im proud to be a part of this project, to have made such personal connections with so many of you. ...

YIEHAH.    We have been ~quadrupling twice three times.
Current balance > 4 * 4 * 4 * 250 SOIL. Wow, people you are amazing!


For an easy solution: Let us use Abvhiael's developers reserve address:

... Provable transparency ... Developers reserve ...
Wallet address (abvhiael):  0xe4673 ...

For safety & security, copy his address from the bottom third of the OP#1 post.
The old (block 370,676) balance was 4.594496427272894 SOIL (screenshot)


I have just sent already. You can buy SOIL on bittrex, and send it to Abvhiael. Support our dev and his family.


Solidarity is a building block of ecology.

 




EDIT1: altsheets, m4nki, Shkembe, crypto4jan, MB2016, nhutphan, croxx, soil, sussex, you
EDIT2: included (extracts from) all your support msgs above. Hope I haven't missed one, then tell me.

[m4nki]

I also just sent 1000.

Think Soil has potential to become something great (just please try to restructure the agricultural industry in a way that it this time does not fuck up the planet, like it's being done now all over the globe ("land grabbing").

[Shkembe]

TxId: 0x22acc8f626e0c552195af77ab4c42a68171832cbea60b00a5737f2247d74f66e   -  999.9 soil

[crypto4jan]

Txid: 0x291a9a9a4d1bb52956dcf7644d18980256827874f1583c34db33cbfb25f407fc 1000.01 SOIL

My sig for Abvhiael


IF profits THEN sharing THEN inspiring. Which "socially smart contracts" do we invent?
Read how we're helping someone real now: Support Abvhiael - our good soul of SOIL. Thanks.

[soil]

Community,

big props for supporting Abvhiael!

I'm proud that SOIL has such a great community.


altsheets gave us a nice anchor solution for the OP.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.0#post_top

Cheers!

[MB2016]

Sent 2500.  My best to your daughter and family.  My wife and I went through the same over the summer and tears your heart out like nothing else.  Hang in there bud.

 TxId: 0x0a881dfcd4a010dc389f707294c7a0dbaa2efc63810da687c319bb34230e1a1d

[altsheets]

... altsheets gave us a nice anchor solution for the op. ...

Yippieh, I like that. A TOC at the top, for all the chapters. One happy forum fraggle I am *g*

Actually ... bitcointalk tech talk: Please instead of the  .0  link ... rather use the  .msg12385424  link
using the OP#1 post number: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12385424#post_funds

Because that one ... will also work for those of us .... who have found out ... that we can sort the forum posts ...
... upside down: Show most recent posts at the top. After one -terribly confusing- day on bitcointalk and nxtforum ...
My brain has adapted now - and my life here is much better *g*   - try it.


So here is ... the new shortcut link to 'address':

We are refilling Abvhiael's SOIL dev reserve address.

 

[abvhiael]

Ethereum's HOMESTEAD protocol upgrade and what it means for SOILcoin

Theres been a LOT of hype regarding the Homestead release of Ethereum, and many questions here regarding SOILcoin's adoption of the protocol changes that are a part of this release. We will be watching the Homestead release forums for potential bugs, in the case of needed hotfixes, but we are planning on adopting this change in conventions as soon as possible. Just as with ETH, this will require a hard-fork on the SOIL network, as there are backwards-incompatible protocol changes involved, so we want to be absotively sure that it works as advertised.

So, what DOES Homestead change? The simplest explanation is that it brings the EVM out of the "beta stage" as the network there has been stress tested well enough, thereve been no successful attacks on the blockchain, and thus.. where the Frontier release was intended for developers and such, Homestead is intended to be usable to more casual participants. In simplest terms, Homestead is Ethereum's coming of age.

The hope is that Homestead will allow for an easier adoption and mining experience thru GUI wallets and clients rather than the current norm of using the command line interface. The "Ethereum browser" Mist has been out in beta for quite awhile in beta. Peter has actually ported that over to SOIL (tentatively called "Dust") and Ive been using it for a few months as a wallet management and contract deployment tool. Mist has been upgraded to the Homestead code, so Im hoping we can quickly release Dust 2.0 for SOILcoin users as well. It would serve as a much more stable version of our SOILsafe GUI wallet.

The AlethZero development environment is also in the works for a standalone (and stable) client across different platforms. (It didnt work very well for me using windows but worked well on Ubuntu) Im hoping they get this done in a timely manner as Id like to see an implementation of it for SOIL.

Furthermore, its expected that Homestead will act as an infrastructural roadmap for the expected implentation of Swarm (a decentralized and incentivized p2p storage protocol) which is VERY exciting. This will allow information to be stored on the blockchain, retrievable by it's cryptographic hash value. It will hopefully also finalize the execution of Whisper, a sort of p2p cryptographically secure messaging service over the blockchain.

As for the deeper effects of Homestead, these include a few things that will be very important to SOIL. Chiefly among these is a fundamental change to the difficulty adjustment algorithm, which we've seen in negative effect recently with the massively long block times due to a "quick to increase/slow to decrease" adjustment schemata. Ethereum also experienced issues with their block time distribution, as the system had an incentive to set the timestamp difference between blocks to equal "parent_timestamp +1" thus the difficulty algorithm would target the median targeted time, but the mean time began increasing. The new algorithm is built to target the mean block time average instead of the median time, which should, using this new formula, make it mathematically impossible in the long term to have block times exceeding 24 seconds (based on our 13 second targeted block time) This will, naturally, keep the system running MUCH smoother, and keep our mintage distribution model running along the proper curve.

The cost for creating contracts via transactions will increase from 21000 gas to 53000. Also, should a contract run out of gas during deployment, the creation fails, preventing empty contracts from being deployed.

A new opcode, "DELEGATECALL" has been introduced, which allows contracts to store "pass through information" while following msg.sender and msg.value from its "parent contract" to the "child contract". This allows for contracts which can create other contracts, but doesn’t repeat additional exact-information from the parent contract, which saves gas, and thus.. MONEY. This makes it much easier for a contract to store another address as an inconstant source of code and ‘’pass through’’ calls to it.

This will eventually enable the ability for contracts to call other contracts in a much more straightforward manner, so building contract code that references other contracts by their address and allows the fractional architecture to build large scale dApps using contracts that already exist on the SOILnet as part of their superstructure (i.e. - a dApp built to design and optimize solar cell installations can call upon a contract that has a weather forecasting service, or a solar penetration algorithm, without having to build those capabilities into the dApp itself.)

The final change implemented with Homestead is a change to the RLPx Discovery Protocol and  the RLPx TCP transfer protocols. This will certify that all the differing client software presently used on the network (cpp, go, etc.) can cope with future protocol changes to the network. This corrects a problem where older clients werent accepting updates to the network protocol, and were refusing communications.

As mentioned, we will adjust teh SOILcoin network to the Homestead transition, and where there arent many overall changes to the underlying protocol, its generally better to err on teh side of caution. Id assume that we will effect the conversion within a week of Ethereum modifying its system with a hard fork which is scheduled to occur tomorrow. That being said, if you do use Ethereum, UPDATE YOUR CLIENTS.

I think some of the changes will greatly benefit SOIL, especially the changes to the difficulty adjustment algorithm. Hope this article has been helpful... and in closing, i just wanted to express my appreciation to you, the community at large, for your support today. Theres so often this atmosphere of distrust and contentiousness in the cryptocurrency world, but here in the SOILcoin community, theres such a strong spirit of cooperation and congeniality. As my teenager would say: "YOU RAWK"

Ill try to have our updated 2nd Quarter 2016 roadmap written up tonite or early tomorrow. Have a great day! (its sunny and springlike here in cape breton, and even though its been one of the mildest winters in recent memory, its still nice to see the ocean so calm outside my office window and to see the grass in the front yard again)

[nhutphan]

I just sent out 2000 Soil. You did great. Keep going SOIL!!!

TxId: 0x0234755bdb8a677936467352a9b321563b6423d62cced60aa1d70b4686262d11

[Grumlin]

How i can compile my solidity contract?

[abvhiael]

SOILcoin ROADMAP, 2nd QUARTER 2016

Rather than a long range roadmap, which i think anyone who has read through the OP understands where we want to go, I'll be instead concentrating on "quarterly reports", looking at our short term projects. Simply, the technology behind the EVM is growing exponentially, and by 3rd quarter of 2016 there will unquestionably be many new dApps and contracts with which to build on the SOILnet architecture.

I suppose its best to first go over where we are NOW. We've had excellent, steady and smooth growth in our valuation over the last three months, and I think the word about SOILcoin is beginning to get out there. We've been flying under the radar, so to speak, since our genesis, as I'd rather us have a sturdy blockchain and consistent development rather than massive pumps due to hype that doesn't get delivered upon.

Projects such as SOIL-ex are nearing readiness, I'm presently tweaking a few things, and am abandoning the idea for an ersatz commodities exchange on it until the subcurrency protocols are better established to launch the pegged tokens on it. I continue to watch developments regarding two-way pegs to other cryptocurrencies, and while btcrelay and AtomicSwap are deployed on the network, they represent a GLACIALLY SLOW way to transfer Bitcoin in and out of the SOILnet. Average transfer times for SPV (simplified payment verification) proofs to confirm transactions, and then the "contest period" once currencies are on the blockchain to prevent double spending, can take anywhere from 48-96 hours. This is true for any currency currently. SOIL-ex will, for version 1.0, be a simple decentralized subcurrency exchange. A white paper of sorts is nearly finished, and a user-guide needs to be finished.

As mentioned in my previous post, we will be transitioning to the Homestead protocols fairly quickly after Ethereum implements that today, sometime within a week. With that, we will need to update our cosmo dApp development infrastructure, and hopefully have an updated iteration of Mist made available within a couple weeks. Both of these applications will improve contract development. I am watching the improvements on AlethZero very closely, and once a standalone client is released for that, porting this over for SOIL will be looked at. AlethZero is critical in the fact that compiling and deployment of multiple programmatic languages is simple thru that platform.

Several "backbone contracts" have already been deployed on SOIL, and I'll be writing a post regarding those later this week. To date, we have such things as Oraclize, a basic instance of insureth which will be built upon towards crop insurance ideals, scheduled contract calling, notary services, essential IPFS gateway construction, and decentralized forums are ready, and being tested.

Ive been looking at the projects that came out of the ether.camp hackathon recently, and am looking at certan projects that may have application on the SOILnet. EtherTel, enabling decentralized micro-payment telephone calls via the blockchain, is a fascinating project that may be very important in the future, especially when smart phone applications can leverage the blockchain eventually.  DlabBook is a blockchain based laboratory notebook used to document results from scientific experiments, which fits in well with our purpose to provide computational science based services. out-of-band will provide SMS messages regarding transaction records from one's wallet.

Work continues to have SOILcoin listed on at least one other exchange. We had attempted to have ourselves listed on YoBit, but after paying the 0.1BTC premium registration fee which was supposed to guarantee 2-business-day listing, we have waited nearly 6 weeks thus far. I have requested a refund of those funds, but I have yet to hear ANYTHING back from teh support staff there. We have an active twitter campaign going on to request inclusion on Poloniex, which many of the community members have requested. With the disorganized structure behind a lot of current online exchanges, Ive been performing a lot of due diligence on the exchanges to ensure that what exchanges we approach are well-established with good reputations.

Interest has been found by some retailers, namely heirloom seed providers, and communications remain ongoing with them. Likewise, Ive been working on setting up "charitable wallets" for environmental concerns such as Greenpeace and the David Suzuki Foundation, in exchange for a banner displays or endorsements. I dont really know much about similar organizations in Europe, but am researching that.

Likewise, communications with renewable energy projects and university departments have been ongoing, and discussions regarding implementing python written onto the blockchain are being carried out. Much of those wont probably see light before the 4th quarter of this year. 

Ive looked into, and applied, to some Angel Investors, to inject liquidity into SOIL, to pay for third-party dApp development, but those take many months. A few have replied, and more information has been sent, but its a slow process, and the continued progression of developments on the SOILnet will only improve the chances for that sort of fiat infusion.

I'll be presenting an article regarding the currently deployed contracts within a day or so, describing their functions and interactions. By end of the week, I should have SOIL-ex released for you all, with the white paper and HOPEFULLY a well written user manual.

All in all, despite issues with a large farm hitting the network intermittently, raising the difficulty levels to the point we were experiencing day-long blocks, which should be addressed with the difficulty adjustment protocol changes with our adoption of the Homestead protocols, things seem to be going smoothly with SOIL.

As always, if you have any questions, fire them off here and ill do my best to answer them. If you have any ideas for projects youd like to see up on the blcokchain, likewise, let us know. This is one of the most incredible communities in cryptocurrency. Ive watched a LOT of different altcoins and how they interact with eachother, the negativity and belligerence, and instead here with SOILcoin we have a small but dedicated COMMUNITY. Im proud to be a part of this project, to have made such personal connections with so many of you. Both Peter and I will continue working as hard as we have already on making improvements to the system, and hope that everyone who has invested in SOIL sees those bear fruition and great profits.

This is a long term project, and we may not reach our stated goals for several years, but as the technology grows, we will embrace each project that augments the SOIL virtual machine. Thank you all so very much for being a part of this project and I hope you like the improvements we have already made, and those yet to come.

[Nxtblg]

Could someone field a perhaps-dumb question: which ports does SOIL use? I didn't find them in the original post.

[soil]

Could someone field a perhaps-dumb question: which ports does SOIL use? I didn't find them in the original post.

Network listening port:
39420

rpcport:
39421

[Nxtblg]

Could someone field a perhaps-dumb question: which ports does SOIL use? I didn't find them in the original post.

Network listening port:
39420

rpcport:
39421

Thanks a lot!