[ANN][DCR] Decred - Community Governance | Bitcoin Devs | Lightning Network

[EmilioMann]

Do I understand it correct? If I buy a ticket, I'll have to wait 142 days, to get my coins back?

you can be voted before.
From the 63 tickets that I bought last week, 13 already have been voted.
The average is around one month so that almost all be voted

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[karamble]

Do I understand it correct? If I buy a ticket, I'll have to wait 142 days, to get my coins back?

98% of your tickets gets a call for a vote during 28 days. If you have bad luck and your ticket won't get selected for a vote, the ticket will expire after 142 days and you will get the coins back. I did many votes so far, none of my tickets became expired.

[wonko86]

where a roadmap?

[_ingsoc]

where a roadmap?

A review of activity will be posted next week so we can take stock of where we're at as a project. v0.1.4 is being prepared right now, which includes a ton of work that isn't quite obvious to the public eye, unless you read Github development activity, as it involves pulling in a large number of fixes, improvements, and optimisations. There are also a number of distinct packages that have emerged for inclusion in the v0.1.4 release and will be documented in the development dispatch that accompany it. RFP-7 and 8 are also getting ready for announcement, so work can begin on those, which will have very visible impact on Decred. And of course, the GUI is progressing too with extra effort.

These are good milestones for review and then forecasting the project's activity based on what we've seen and done. It's important to remember that Decred did not set out with an explicit roadmap, so that users' desires and needs could be taken into account, rather than enforcing a strict policy of where we're going as a project and community. As these views develop organically in the user base, there comes a point where it's time to develop them into a framework and draft a defined proposed route. It may seem chaotic at times without a formal structure for it yet, but everything posted is reviewed and factor into that process. It wouldn't be very open and democratic if it's dictated down, instead of being built up, but there does need to be some actionable direction to make sure the ship is steered. That is the fine balance the project is still learning and adapting to, despite consistent and high development output, with phenomenal people getting involved in Decred.

The v0.1.4 release will mark a good point to document this progress, and paint a realistic future based on activity. The feeling is that it's better to forecast the shorter-term, to allow for continued community and development input, rather than trying to forecast so far into the future that none of those lofty goals are met. Next week will mark a good point to engage in that discussion and put something clear and actionable on the table for the next period.

[decred]

This development dispatch covers work completed since the Decred v0.1.3 release from April 10th, 2016. Since then, developers have merged 89 pull requests of code into 8 software repositories. New repositories were created and populated for an automated smart ticket purchaser known as dcrticketbuyer and extensive Decred documentation known as dcrdocs (https://docs.decred.org). During this period, a total of 129 commits occurred in these repositories and represent modifications to the effect of 36,730 lines of code added to and 6,882 lines removed from the Decred codebase.

A series of RFP milestones were achieved and paid for from the development subsidy. Milestones paid for include (See: Status and Expenditures):

• RFP-1: The proposed design is integrated into a single view (e.g. the Account Summary view) (bebd22a)
• RFP-1: The proposed design style is integrated into the entire application, including a stake ticket purchase view (56889f0)

A number of stake pools have come online in geographically diverse locations to support the network, which means users are no longer required to solo stake mine and can instead use a dedicated pool managed by skilled operators. These are, in alphabetical order:

• https://dcr.stakeminer.com
• https://dcr.stakepool.net
• http://pool.d3c.red
• http://stakepool.eu
• https://stakepool.dcrstats.com

Two new RFPs were opened for proposals and closed for review. RFP-7 will establish Decred's identity, align its different platforms according to that identity, and redesign its landing site. RFP-8 will bring a higher level language for Decred's transaction scripting system, which will enable users to create transaction scripts, such as smart contracts.

Binaries: https://github.com/decred/decred-release/releases/tag/v0.1.4

dcrd

• Synced a large number of fixes, improvements, and optimizations from upstream through July (163-b0255e0, 164-a3ff9f1), August (166-1da2845, 172-bee3c25), September (174-885070a, 175-d5144c5, 177-2cc7e75, 178-28f5ce5, 180-8ff81ff), October (202-415ad8f, 205-85d85e8, 206-e8e81fe), and November (212-4bffbb1, 217-e955b1f, 218-a98085e, 219-ab38a2c, 220-0dd5db0) 2015
• Very old votes are now rejected from the memory pool by default (168-ebade40)
• Votes are now checked by the tickets they spend rather than the vote hashes, which fixes a cached block template issue (169-33dc0c7)
• Adjusted the getblockheader result to reflect changes required by the upstream sync (170-d293c9b)
• Improved memory usage when the sighashall optimization is set in chaincfg/params.go (171-653e13d)
• Fixed a legacy address encoding issue (179-118f795)
• Improved test coverage (181-4e14b54, 210-c052ff9, 214-001ecad)
• Changed the order of service flags to ensure their human-readable representation and to allow for the output to be deterministically tested (182-9c238a8)
• Fixed an issue where searchrawtransactionsresult missed various components of transactions (183-ac0d8fb)
• Added a reverse order option to the searchrawtransactions RPC command (185-718f0f4)
• Improved garbage collection percentage (187-f1f1933)
• Integrated a valid ECDSA signature cache in order to mitigate a certain DoS attack and as a performance optimization (189-e310d1d)
• Added a checkpoint for block 24,480 (190-aac2928)
• Updated the getinfo RPC command to include errors in the result (191-577f33c)
• Corrected verifymessage hash generation (192-9798cde)
• Added a new --minrelaytxfee option to allow the user to specify the minimum transaction fee in DCR/KB in which the fee is considered a non-zero fee (194-096e77d)
• Majorly refactored peer code into its own package and introduced a number of fixes, improvements, and optimizations (197-756eff2)
• Improved heap sorting (199-c3d7ede)
• Moved non-mempool specific functions to a new file (203-29a04bc)
• Added an optional locktime parameter to createrawtransaction (204-1987376)
• Moved DNS seed to chaincfg (209-1cd79a4)
• Fixed various issues with the peer and server packages (211-a27dc48, 215-619de72)
• Reworked and improved efficiency of stake submission (216-3799575)
• Improved error handling (222-708b400)
• Updated configuration (193-0c883ff), documentation (201-40d778d), initial protocol versioning (195-cb9d07a), and versioning (221-f3e603a)

dcrwallet

• Improved block timestamping (240-e4ebb93)
• Disabled ticket purchase by default in preparation for dcrticketbuyer (244-4950977)
• Enabled stake pool mode for mainnet (245-61c3979)
• Added a guide that explains how to spend from a cold wallet while offline and added a utility called movefunds to sign offline transactions (252-7190018)
• Fixed an issue with fee calculation for revocations so that fees for revocations are now calculated on a per kilobyte basis. The wallet now also triggers winner and missed ticket notifications on start up, so that revocations for tickets that were missed while the wallet was offline will be triggered when the wallet is started (254-fa736fd)
• Updated documentation (243-222b7de), logging (246-c48265a), configuration (247-d5c9a96), and versioning (253-c9476fa)

dcrrpcclient

• Synced from upstream through August (20-06e2185), 2015
• Fixed ticket fee info command handling (23-0e48ddc)
• Added an optional locktime parameter to createrawtransaction (24-7df7e90)
• Added a filteraddr parameter to searchrawtransactions (25-231790f)
• Updated documentation (21-51f8ef1) and RPC commands (22-3f0eb39)

dcrutil

• Synced from upstream through July (10-b1f27b6), 2015
• Updated documentation (11-85fac3a)

dcrticketbuyer

• Added a new user interface that shows the number of tickets purchased, fee prices, ticket prices, and the number of tickets in mempool. A sample configuration file is also included (1-471c747)

gominer

• Fixed an issue with shutting down the miner (4-b935bbd)
• Removed unused constants (5-6a7a59b)
• Added a tunable intensity parameter (6-6b8bb1f)

Paymetheus

• Synced with upstream (6-aabe292)

Developer Notes
General use instructions for dcrticketbuyer

dcrticketbuyer helps solve many of the current issues affecting ticket purchase in Decred, such as stabilizing the stake difficulty and ensuring that tickets have adequate fees at low difficulties. It is intended to be a powerful, set-and-forget replacement for the default ticket purchasing code in dcrwallet that does not take into account things such as recently purchased ticket fees, the next estimated stake difficulty prices, and the number of tickets currently in mempool. It automatically provides an advantage to those purchasing tickets at lower stake difficulties by intelligently setting ticket fees and ticket expiry. Larger stake miners may use it to ensure smaller swings in the ticket price, which will enable all users to better purchase tickets at the average ticket price.

An explanation of the features of dcrbuytickets is supplied in the sample configuration file distributed with the binary, or located here: https://github.com/decred/dcrticketbuyer/blob/master/ticketbuyer-example.conf

Those who purchase small amounts of stake tickets will want to disable minpricescale and maxpricescale by commenting it out and setting a reasonable maxpriceabsolute. For persons with larger amounts of stake, it is recommended to have the price scaling features enabled.

dcrticketbuyer requires the following:

• dcrticketbuyer binary
• The webui/ folder included with the binaries to be located in the same directory as the binary from 1
• dcrd and dcrwallet set up and running. dcrwallet will need to be unlocked and contain funds for ticket purchases

Information about how to build the tool can be found here: https://github.com/decred/dcrticketbuyer

A thread for discussion of the tool can be found here: https://forum.decred.org/threads/dcrticketbuyer-new-tool-for-automatic-ticket-purchase.3548/

A sample configuration file has been provided. If you wish to use the tool on mainnet, you will need to change at minimum the following parameters in the sample file:

Code:

dcrduser, dcrdpass, dcrdserv, dcrdcert, dcrwuser, dcrwpass, dcrwserv, dcrwcert, testnet

Comment out features you do not wish to enable by adding a hash tag (#) in front of them. Setup this file carefully if you are using coins on mainnet.

To start dcrticketbuyer with a configuration file, execute:

Code:

dcrtickeybuyer -C ticketbuyer.conf

If the HTTP monitoring server is available, you will be able to see a live chart feed of information about ticket purchasing that is updated every block. The default HTTP server port specified in the sample configuration is accessible in a browser at: http://localhost:7770

[John Constantine]

One of the only altcoins that is worth investing. Nice work guys.

[Buds]

Thanks for another great update Decred team...

Keep up the awesome work 

[Collegestudent]

Very nice coding Decred, good work

[solstice]

Thank you for the meaningful detailed and informative update Decred team. You guys encouraged me more to have a long term investment in DCR.

[revelacaogr]

DCR meaning : Digital Currency Revolution !!

this coin is maded only for strong hands and long investors....

[Jack Liver]

• Disabled ticket purchase by default in preparation for dcrticketbuyer
  
  
  

so there isn't ticket auto purchase in this version, manual works right ?

[EmilioMann]

I am proud to announce Decred Brasil Stake Pool, the first Stake Pool for Brazil and Latin America:

www.decredbrasil.com

Our servers are located in Brazil to better support our South American users, and all the user interface is internationalized, with both portuguese and english versions available. We will provide other languages soon (specially spanish, for our south american neighbours).

Support is available in both English, portuguese and, if need be, "portuñol".

You are all welcome to try it.

[decred]

I am proud to announce Decred Brasil Stake Pool, the first Stake Pool for Brazil and Latin America:

www.decredbrasil.com

Our servers are located in Brazil to better support our South American users, and all the user interface is internationalized, with both portuguese and english versions available. We will provide other languages soon (specially spanish, for our south american neighbours).

Support is available in both English, portuguese and, if need be, "portuñol".

You are all welcome to try it.

Updated the OP text with a link to https://stake.decredbrasil.com. Congratulations on the launch!

[revelacaogr]

I am proud to announce Decred Brasil Stake Pool, the first Stake Pool for Brazil and Latin America:

www.decredbrasil.com

Our servers are located in Brazil to better support our South American users, and all the user interface is internationalized, with both portuguese and english versions available. We will provide other languages soon (specially spanish, for our south american neighbours).

Support is available in both English, portuguese and, if need be, "portuñol".

You are all welcome to try it.

obrigado emilio
Parabéns pelo lançamento

[proletariat]

DCR meaning : Digital Currency Revolution !!

this coin is maded only for strong hands and long investors....

not bad!

wonder if it was premeditated....

[EmilioMann]

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Updated the OP text with a link to https://stake.decredbrasil.com. Congratulations on the launch!

Thanks!

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obrigado emilio
Parabéns pelo lançamento

Obrigado cara!
Legal saber que você é brasileiro!
Se já não estiver por lá, apareça nos nossos grupos do facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/667062416769204/
and https://www.facebook.com/groups/975727812500893/

[forzendiablo]

DCR is one of the best coins out there now

[lanbo]

DCR is one of the best coins out there now

I agree with you, when it comes to development DCR is unparalleled.

[Epsylon3]

Disabled ticket purchase by default in preparation for dcrticketbuyer

so there isn't ticket auto purchase in this version, manual works right ?

just the default setting was changed ; ) to prevent the automatic purchases by error if you just enable the staking

[revelacaogr]

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Updated the OP text with a link to https://stake.decredbrasil.com. Congratulations on the launch!

Thanks!

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obrigado emilio
Parabéns pelo lançamento

Obrigado cara!
Legal saber que você é brasileiro!
Se já não estiver por lá, apareça nos nossos grupos do facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/667062416769204/
and https://www.facebook.com/groups/975727812500893/

eu nao uso facebook.............eu detesto! Mas obrigado pelo convite....