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

[levinobre]

DecHelp is a DecPayments project which aims to raise funds to donate for organizations around the world, this is possible without bureaucracy, using cryptocurrency. Each month is selected an organization, and all donations will be passed to it. Our goal is move the cryptocurrency users to a noble cause, helping to make the world a better place.

You can contribute to this campaign, transfer any value, in Decred, to the project or disclose it: decpayments.com/dechelp.

Organization of the Month: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

[Abou Talha]

Doctors Without Borders ? Pfff
I'll never donate anything to the masonic organizations.

[forzendiablo]

Doctors Without Borders ? Pfff
I'll never donate anything to the masonic organizations.

donating mean they will sell DCR and get USD.

so we will loose in value.

[nrg_wolf]

DecHelp is a DecPayments project which aims to raise funds to donate for organizations around the world, this is possible without bureaucracy, using cryptocurrency. Each month is selected an organization, and all donations will be passed to it. Our goal is move the cryptocurrency users to a noble cause, helping to make the world a better place.

You can contribute to this campaign, transfer any value, in Decred, to the project or disclose it: decpayments.com/dechelp.

Organization of the Month: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

newbie account, no proof of that actually happening nor a legit looking website, smells like a scam to me......

[levinobre]

DecHelp is a DecPayments project which aims to raise funds to donate for organizations around the world, this is possible without bureaucracy, using cryptocurrency. Each month is selected an organization, and all donations will be passed to it. Our goal is move the cryptocurrency users to a noble cause, helping to make the world a better place.

You can contribute to this campaign, transfer any value, in Decred, to the project or disclose it: decpayments.com/dechelp.

Organization of the Month: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

newbie account, no proof of that actually happening nor a legit looking website, smells like a scam to me......

I don't use the bitcointalk usually.

[Dick Roman]

DecHelp is a DecPayments project which aims to raise funds to donate for organizations around the world, this is possible without bureaucracy, using cryptocurrency. Each month is selected an organization, and all donations will be passed to it. Our goal is move the cryptocurrency users to a noble cause, helping to make the world a better place.

You can contribute to this campaign, transfer any value, in Decred, to the project or disclose it: decpayments.com/dechelp.

Organization of the Month: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

newbie account, no proof of that actually happening nor a legit looking website, smells like a scam to me......

I don't use the bitcointalk usually.

DecPayments not a SCAM, we give +1  and use on chameleonbit and no problems with platform.

Check it on talk on wind where . 

[koody]

DecHelp is a DecPayments project which aims to raise funds to donate for organizations around the world, this is possible without bureaucracy, using cryptocurrency. Each month is selected an organization, and all donations will be passed to it. Our goal is move the cryptocurrency users to a noble cause, helping to make the world a better place.

You can contribute to this campaign, transfer any value, in Decred, to the project or disclose it: decpayments.com/dechelp.

Organization of the Month: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

This sounds like a Scam.

[KLONE]

how many staking pools are there? which is the biggest/best?

The https://dcrstats.com/ site shows you the pools and their statistics at the bottom of the page.

Thanks for that! Does polo and those pools still accept deposits initial ico coins via seed importing? Or was that bluetrade that did that? I can't remember now. I've never moved my airdrop coins

I dont think any exchange did that ... u gotta import the seed into your wallet first, to access the coins.

I thought the first exchanges in the first weeks let users import their seed directly into an exchange account, to save people from installing the client.

[souljah1h]

Newbie accounts vouching for other Newbie accounts. Just be careful

[allinbox]

DecHelp is a DecPayments project which aims to raise funds to donate for organizations around the world, this is possible without bureaucracy, using cryptocurrency. Each month is selected an organization, and all donations will be passed to it. Our goal is move the cryptocurrency users to a noble cause, helping to make the world a better place.

You can contribute to this campaign, transfer any value, in Decred, to the project or disclose it: decpayments.com/dechelp.

Organization of the Month: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

This sounds like a Scam.

This is not SCAM, I have acount there and never lost one penny!
Levi Nobre is an active member of the Bitcoin community Brazil on facebook, he is known for its innovative designs and highly respected there, there many have done business with him, including me. I recommend. I even get donations from my blog (http://hardfacil.blogspot.com) there and never had any problems.

how many staking pools are there? which is the biggest/best?

The https://dcrstats.com/ site shows you the pools and their statistics at the bottom of the page.

Thanks for that! Does polo and those pools still accept deposits initial ico coins via seed importing? Or was that bluetrade that did that? I can't remember now. I've never moved my airdrop coins

I dont think any exchange did that ... u gotta import the seed into your wallet first, to access the coins.

I thought the first exchanges in the first weeks let users import their seed directly into an exchange account, to save people from installing the client.

Not that I know of ... first exchange was bleutrade and bittrex if I remember right ?!
They both didnt do that. Its not so hard to import the seed into your wallet. Just need to read the guides (;

[allinbox]

DecHelp is a DecPayments project which aims to raise funds to donate for organizations around the world, this is possible without bureaucracy, using cryptocurrency. Each month is selected an organization, and all donations will be passed to it. Our goal is move the cryptocurrency users to a noble cause, helping to make the world a better place.

You can contribute to this campaign, transfer any value, in Decred, to the project or disclose it: decpayments.com/dechelp.

Organization of the Month: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

This sounds like a Scam.

This is not SCAM, I have acount there and never lost one penny!
Levi Nobre is an active member of the Bitcoin community Brazil on facebook, he is known for its innovative designs and highly respected there, there many have done business with him, including me. I recommend. I even get donations from my blog (http://hardfacil.blogspot.com) there and never had any problems.

The question is if this was planned by the decred devs and is handled/approved by them or not.

[axxo]

DecHelp is a DecPayments project which aims to raise funds to donate for organizations around the world, this is possible without bureaucracy, using cryptocurrency. Each month is selected an organization, and all donations will be passed to it. Our goal is move the cryptocurrency users to a noble cause, helping to make the world a better place.

You can contribute to this campaign, transfer any value, in Decred, to the project or disclose it: decpayments.com/dechelp.

Organization of the Month: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

This sounds like a Scam.

This is not SCAM, I have acount there and never lost one penny!
Levi Nobre is an active member of the Bitcoin community Brazil on facebook, he is known for its innovative designs and highly respected there, there many have done business with him, including me. I recommend. I even get donations from my blog (http://hardfacil.blogspot.com) there and never had any problems.

The question is if this was planned by the decred devs and is handled/approved by them or not.

I think it wasn't planned at all by the dev team, but any project made by the community in support of Decred does not necessarily needs approval from the devs.

[allinbox]

DecHelp is a DecPayments project which aims to raise funds to donate for organizations around the world, this is possible without bureaucracy, using cryptocurrency. Each month is selected an organization, and all donations will be passed to it. Our goal is move the cryptocurrency users to a noble cause, helping to make the world a better place.

You can contribute to this campaign, transfer any value, in Decred, to the project or disclose it: decpayments.com/dechelp.

Organization of the Month: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

This sounds like a Scam.

This is not SCAM, I have acount there and never lost one penny!
Levi Nobre is an active member of the Bitcoin community Brazil on facebook, he is known for its innovative designs and highly respected there, there many have done business with him, including me. I recommend. I even get donations from my blog (http://hardfacil.blogspot.com) there and never had any problems.

The question is if this was planned by the decred devs and is handled/approved by them or not.

I think it wasn't planned at all by the dev team, but any project made by the community in support of Decred does not necessarily needs approval from the devs.

Ofc not but it would make sense to take a look on it and tell opinion at least. And if its some payment thingy in any way then it could hurt the image of the coin if it is fishy. No way to protect anybody but its often not hard to see if theres anything behind a project or not

[mistercashking]

Hello everyone,

The developers have put forward a development roadmap for the software that details short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. These are actionable goals, many of which already receive active development, but they are considered actionable as development activity in these directions will produce the stated outcomes, which users will see, be able to use, and benefit from in the software.

In the drafting of this development roadmap, it was important not to forecast too far into the future, so that Decred may remain versatile and adaptable to changing conditions in the field. Users can have confidence that these goals are on the developers' minds as they continue working toward them and will begin taking form as progress manifests in the different areas. Attainment of these goals will lay a very strong foundation both through the software and the project upon which to continue building and eventually expand into new areas.

All of these goals aim to work together to establish Decred as a global decentralized network and platform for accessible representation through collective voting and consensus-based decision-making on issues. And that's where it starts.

Short-term (Current) Goals
Daemon

• Sync in the new database from btcd to prepare for voting on hard and soft forks.
• Integrate existing Decred consensus rules into the new format inherited from btcd.
• Demonstrate voting on a simple hardfork.
• Clean up codebase, extend test coverage, better integrate new btcd features that were quickly merged in.
• Clean up cryptographic libraries and remove the interface from chainec. Instead, use simple wrappers to reduce overhead.
• Integrate latest Bitcoin softforks.

Wallet

• Speed up calls that are heavily used by dcrstakepool, such as getstakeinfo.
• Add new RPC functionality to the gRPC interface, preparing it for general use.

Governance

• Make voting simple and easy to use across platforms, from the stake pool to the wallet.
• Create a website to track voting and easily display information about voting to the end user.
• Create the initial Decred Assembly and begin making decisions to steer development in public.

GUI

• Finish the GUI for Windows and polish the externals for presentation.
• Wire in stake related components of the GUI.
• Create a one click file to setup and start the GUI, with Tor integration for connectivity.
• Add a simple functionality to look up and update the daemon and wallet if a new version comes out.

Stakepool

• Speed up stakepool by using asynchronous calls to the various wallets.
• Handle situations in which the wallets are desynced without causing failure.
• Allow external modification of the server's state, e.g. allow triggering maintenance mode.

Scripting language and IDE

• Finalize the specifications and syntax for the scripting language.
• Complete the initial implementation of the scripting language, with emphasis on optimization and ease of use.
• Ensure the scripting language is backwards compatible with Bitcoin scripting, so that the entire Bitcoin-derived ecosystem benefits.

Mining

• Get gominer functional and into production across multiple platforms.
• Create specifications and a proof-of-concept implementation for a new mining protocol based on stratum.

Medium-term (3-6 Months) Goals
Daemon

• Discuss and implement new opcodes to further extend the functionality of the scriping language.
• Implement multipeer syncing.
• Design specifications and an implementation for a merkle tree tracking the UTXO set, to enable very fast syncing.

Wallet

• Separate voting into its own independent process, similar to dcrticketbuyer.
• Discuss and add basic privacy features, such as single use accounts and merge avoidance.

Scripting language and IDE

• Have scripting language IDE functional. Integrate new opcodes into the scripting language.

Long-term (6+ Months) Goals

• Investigate low-cost bidirectional sidechains that operate as PoS chains feeding from the main chain. Discuss the integration of other popular scripting languages or advanced privacy features on a PoS sidechain.
• Begin integration of the Golang implementation of the Lightning Network.
• Discuss the application of smart contracts to governance, and building a traditional corporate structure aided by smart contracts. If possible, transfer the development subsidy funds to more decentralized ownership.

Sincerely,
Decred Project

Source: Development Roadmap

Amazing! Thanks, devs!

Nice keep em coming.  Goodluck to the decred devs.

[skunk]

This development dispatch covers work completed since the Decred v0.1.4 release from May 27th, 2016. Since then, developers have merged 58 pull requests of code into 6 software repositories. During this period, a total of 53 commits occurred in these repositories and represent modifications to the effect of 9,220 lines of code added to and 4,481 lines removed from the Decred codebase.

Two additional stake pools have also come online to support the network (in alphabetical order):

• https://dcrstakes.com
• https://stake.decredbrasil.com

Binaries: https://github.com/decred/decred-release/releases/tag/v0.1.5

dcrd

• Synced a large number of fixes, improvements, and optimizations from upstream through November (223-26a3200, 229-08f7b6b), December (230-fe65e81, 231-77b2c53, 235-e433c18) 2015, and January (240-e190b7f, 243-1c4314e, 244-7d4646c, 246-0aeccc0, 253-6febb7b, 255-16a5842, 256-4e878a8), 2016
• Introduced the concept of a new interface named TxSource which aims to generically provide a concurrent safe source of transactions to be considered for inclusion in a new block. This is a step towards decoupling the mining code from the internals of dcrd. Ultimately the intent is to create a separate mining package (225-9031d85)
• Introduced a new mempool config in preparation of moving mempool to its own package (226-d73e576)
• Created a skeleton mining package as a step towards decoupling mining code to ultimately house all of the code related to creating block templates and CPU mining (227-42550a5)
• Added DisableRelayTx to config to set a value in the version message which informs the remote peer on whether to send inv messages for transactions (228-f0389a3)
• Simplified PushAddrMsg to ensure that all addresses have an equal chance of being included in the addr message and moved the pseudorandom number generator seeding to package level so that it can be overridden for testing if required (232-c9c32d5)
• Cleaned up wire code (233-c44f08b)
• Improved test coverage (236-18e35fe)
• Optimized the filter address handling code in the RPC server (237-d1d65c7)
• Improved JSON RPC consistency (238-164f677)
• Fixed ticketfeeinfo sorting (239-33bcf33)
• Implemented a sendheaders command to request that a peer send header commands instead of inv commands when announcing new blocks (241-1cb038c)
• Consolidated several public methods to make the creation of inbound and outbound peers more homogeneous (242-0d67c15)
• Implemented banning based on dynamic scores. Dynamic ban scores consist of a persistent and a decaying component. The persistent score can be used to create simple additive banning policies. The decaying score enables the creation of evasive logic which handles misbehaving peers (especially application layer DoS attacks) gracefully by disconnecting and banning peers attempting various kinds of flooding. Dynamic ban scores allow these two approaches to be used in tandem (245-e3c5cd5)
• Added a logger message containing the time it takes to process a block (247-e47d83c)
• Modified the peer package to add support for the sendheaders protocol message (254-208eaba)
• Prevented nodes from repeatedly requesting and rejecting the same transaction as different peers inv the same transaction (257-5125078)
• Simplified block template exports (258-2ad0b1a)
• Optimized map limiting in the block manager to improve efficiency (259-c21db7a)
• Modified the chaincfg package to register the default network params via the init function instead of manually hard coding their data into the maps. This is less error prone when adding new default networks (260-d6ac2f0)
• Consolidated tests into the chaincfg package (261-848d9fc)
• Created mempoolPolicy to configure the mempool policy and decouple the values from the internals of dcrd to move closer to a mempool package (263-157d1cd)
• Fixed an issue that often caused slow processing of calls through the block manager (265-eda86f5)
• Created a new internal package for fast access to live tickets (roughly 14x faster access) (266-92635a4)
• Added rescan and scanfrom options to importprivkey and importscript (267-63fc4e7)
• Updated documentation (234-3117ae7, 248-2030b4d, 252-8a9956d, 262-9b3e7d7), formatting (249-d3ef588), naming (250-70f6de8), and versioning (268-b869593)

dcrwallet

• Removed unused functions (256-8eebdff)
• Fixed an issue where transactions were previously removed in the forward order when rolling back a block, which may cause transaction faults if there are transaction chains. Instead, roll back in the reverse order (263-3e31373)
• Added new optional resyncing options to importscript and importprivkey for convenience. A rescan height can be included as the last argument so that the user can easily rescan from a height that is not the genesis block (264-3942d8b)
• Updated versioning (265-cc02f1b)

dcrrpcclient

• Added gettickets to the wallet RPC client handlers (26-65f9d22)
• Added rescan options for importprivkey and importscript (27-f3c620d)

dcrutil

• Added AmountSorter used by the median function in ticketfeeinfo (12-4a3bdb1)

dcrticketbuyer

• Set HTTP server to localhost only by default (3-cef1a81)
• Fixed an issue where the fee from a difficulty window could incorrectly return as zero if the first window was the newest, incomplete window and there were not any new tickets in that window yet. This has been corrected by checking for the size of the first window, and also by skipping any zero fee windows (5-e30f1c5)
• Added the ability to choose which price average to use. Before, the user could only use the average of the pool price and the VWAP price for the ticket average price if not specifying
  a price target. Now users can select the mode of their choosing using the avgpricemode flag, and also the number of blocks to use in the calculation of the VWAP (6-700ecd3)
• Added a warning on startup if the wallet is not connected or unlocked (7-5cc29df)
• Updated configuration and fixed an unlikely simnet panic (8-65641c4)

dcrweb

• Rewrote the landing page, made it cleaner, smaller, and SEO friendly (4-1b17a2d)
• Added a stake pool finder utility and caching infrastructure for the block height display (5-)
• Added the latest stake pools to the finder utility (6-53c795a)

since this update i've missed 3 votes while the wallet was online, something that never happened before. somebody else?

[karamble]

https://i.imgur.com/GxAkmlv.jpg

Please take a look on which Blocks you missed the vote, if they were forked and how long it took before the next block appeared in the blockchain!
 
My missed votes mostly were forked Blocks or Blocks that took only 20 seconds until the next block were incoming, so miners don't wait till your vote was spread trough the network.

[rajeshgarnaik]

This development dispatch covers work completed since the Decred v0.1.4 release from May 27th, 2016. Since then, developers have merged 58 pull requests of code into 6 software repositories. During this period, a total of 53 commits occurred in these repositories and represent modifications to the effect of 9,220 lines of code added to and 4,481 lines removed from the Decred codebase.

Two additional stake pools have also come online to support the network (in alphabetical order):

• https://dcrstakes.com
• https://stake.decredbrasil.com

Binaries: https://github.com/decred/decred-release/releases/tag/v0.1.5

dcrd

• Synced a large number of fixes, improvements, and optimizations from upstream through November (223-26a3200, 229-08f7b6b), December (230-fe65e81, 231-77b2c53, 235-e433c18) 2015, and January (240-e190b7f, 243-1c4314e, 244-7d4646c, 246-0aeccc0, 253-6febb7b, 255-16a5842, 256-4e878a8), 2016
• Introduced the concept of a new interface named TxSource which aims to generically provide a concurrent safe source of transactions to be considered for inclusion in a new block. This is a step towards decoupling the mining code from the internals of dcrd. Ultimately the intent is to create a separate mining package (225-9031d85)
• Introduced a new mempool config in preparation of moving mempool to its own package (226-d73e576)
• Created a skeleton mining package as a step towards decoupling mining code to ultimately house all of the code related to creating block templates and CPU mining (227-42550a5)
• Added DisableRelayTx to config to set a value in the version message which informs the remote peer on whether to send inv messages for transactions (228-f0389a3)
• Simplified PushAddrMsg to ensure that all addresses have an equal chance of being included in the addr message and moved the pseudorandom number generator seeding to package level so that it can be overridden for testing if required (232-c9c32d5)
• Cleaned up wire code (233-c44f08b)
• Improved test coverage (236-18e35fe)
• Optimized the filter address handling code in the RPC server (237-d1d65c7)
• Improved JSON RPC consistency (238-164f677)
• Fixed ticketfeeinfo sorting (239-33bcf33)
• Implemented a sendheaders command to request that a peer send header commands instead of inv commands when announcing new blocks (241-1cb038c)
• Consolidated several public methods to make the creation of inbound and outbound peers more homogeneous (242-0d67c15)
• Implemented banning based on dynamic scores. Dynamic ban scores consist of a persistent and a decaying component. The persistent score can be used to create simple additive banning policies. The decaying score enables the creation of evasive logic which handles misbehaving peers (especially application layer DoS attacks) gracefully by disconnecting and banning peers attempting various kinds of flooding. Dynamic ban scores allow these two approaches to be used in tandem (245-e3c5cd5)
• Added a logger message containing the time it takes to process a block (247-e47d83c)
• Modified the peer package to add support for the sendheaders protocol message (254-208eaba)
• Prevented nodes from repeatedly requesting and rejecting the same transaction as different peers inv the same transaction (257-5125078)
• Simplified block template exports (258-2ad0b1a)
• Optimized map limiting in the block manager to improve efficiency (259-c21db7a)
• Modified the chaincfg package to register the default network params via the init function instead of manually hard coding their data into the maps. This is less error prone when adding new default networks (260-d6ac2f0)
• Consolidated tests into the chaincfg package (261-848d9fc)
• Created mempoolPolicy to configure the mempool policy and decouple the values from the internals of dcrd to move closer to a mempool package (263-157d1cd)
• Fixed an issue that often caused slow processing of calls through the block manager (265-eda86f5)
• Created a new internal package for fast access to live tickets (roughly 14x faster access) (266-92635a4)
• Added rescan and scanfrom options to importprivkey and importscript (267-63fc4e7)
• Updated documentation (234-3117ae7, 248-2030b4d, 252-8a9956d, 262-9b3e7d7), formatting (249-d3ef588), naming (250-70f6de8), and versioning (268-b869593)

dcrwallet

• Removed unused functions (256-8eebdff)
• Fixed an issue where transactions were previously removed in the forward order when rolling back a block, which may cause transaction faults if there are transaction chains. Instead, roll back in the reverse order (263-3e31373)
• Added new optional resyncing options to importscript and importprivkey for convenience. A rescan height can be included as the last argument so that the user can easily rescan from a height that is not the genesis block (264-3942d8b)
• Updated versioning (265-cc02f1b)

dcrrpcclient

• Added gettickets to the wallet RPC client handlers (26-65f9d22)
• Added rescan options for importprivkey and importscript (27-f3c620d)

dcrutil

• Added AmountSorter used by the median function in ticketfeeinfo (12-4a3bdb1)

dcrticketbuyer

• Set HTTP server to localhost only by default (3-cef1a81)
• Fixed an issue where the fee from a difficulty window could incorrectly return as zero if the first window was the newest, incomplete window and there were not any new tickets in that window yet. This has been corrected by checking for the size of the first window, and also by skipping any zero fee windows (5-e30f1c5)
• Added the ability to choose which price average to use. Before, the user could only use the average of the pool price and the VWAP price for the ticket average price if not specifying
  a price target. Now users can select the mode of their choosing using the avgpricemode flag, and also the number of blocks to use in the calculation of the VWAP (6-700ecd3)
• Added a warning on startup if the wallet is not connected or unlocked (7-5cc29df)
• Updated configuration and fixed an unlikely simnet panic (8-65641c4)

dcrweb

• Rewrote the landing page, made it cleaner, smaller, and SEO friendly (4-1b17a2d)
• Added a stake pool finder utility and caching infrastructure for the block height display (5-)
• Added the latest stake pools to the finder utility (6-53c795a)

since this update i've missed 3 votes while the wallet was online, something that never happened before. somebody else?

Nice it seems gui wallet soon.

[MarSas]

since this update i've missed 3 votes while the wallet was online, something that never happened before. somebody else?

No missed votes for me since switching to 0.1.5. 8 in total, most of them in the first days of staking.

[JPred]

I'm happy - finally I've done my very first Decred POS pool vote casting today. yippee. Only the first of many many more to come.

[nrg_wolf]

DecHelp is a DecPayments project which aims to raise funds to donate for organizations around the world, this is possible without bureaucracy, using cryptocurrency. Each month is selected an organization, and all donations will be passed to it. Our goal is move the cryptocurrency users to a noble cause, helping to make the world a better place.

You can contribute to this campaign, transfer any value, in Decred, to the project or disclose it: decpayments.com/dechelp.

Organization of the Month: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

This sounds like a Scam.

This is not SCAM, I have acount there and never lost one penny!
Levi Nobre is an active member of the Bitcoin community Brazil on facebook, he is known for its innovative designs and highly respected there, there many have done business with him, including me. I recommend. I even get donations from my blog (http://hardfacil.blogspot.com) there and never had any problems.

Yea still not buying it. still looks alittle scammy to me, just because of a blog and some private facebook sites does not mean that there is no intention to rip people off. usually when something like what your claiming is legit there are ways of proving that fact. but facebook groups and blog sites mean 2 bits of jack shit.
No legitimate proof of the foundation has been supplied and until then most will think your just trying to scam others, its been done before so not surprised if its trying to happen again. Crypto world is full of ICO/scammers trying to rip people off.