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[mkmdoc]

What happened to Belacoin in Polo the value is kept on reducing. Is there any chance that the price of Belacoin will increase.
Really there is a big drop in the price, this is because of hard fork they mentioned.

[plast555]

We thank you for your concern, but everything is under control. Suprnova, the pool you cited, has found multiple confirmed blocks after that bad batch. We are also preparing for a hard fork that will change the mining difficulty regulator from KGW to DGW that should stop the issue of difficulty changes. This can occur when a large mining pool hops on and off the Belacoin blockchain. Under the Kimoto Gravity Well, the difficulty retargets after every block. With DGW, the difficulty retarget will follow more of an average, so there will not be as much variation in the mining difficulty.

I said ok, that happened on low diff, but diff now was 1500 - 1800, and again someone jump with big big Hashrate, and guess what !!??
All Orphans again !!!!!! And again I lost my money....so definitely I'm out with mining this coin until you fix that problem !!

78514910    BELA    2017-05-02 10:32:10    Credit    Orphaned          679399    35.88652804
78514870    BELA    2017-05-02 10:32:08    Credit    Orphaned          679398    39.42368871
78514823    BELA    2017-05-02 10:32:06    Credit    Orphaned          679397    36.70752550
78514484    BELA    2017-05-02 10:27:59    Credit    Orphaned          679395    37.54002380
78514437    BELA    2017-05-02 10:27:57    Credit    Orphaned          679394    37.92257662

and yesterday....

78390786    BELA    2017-05-01 02:05:11    Credit    Orphaned          678362    47.81157720
78390779    BELA    2017-05-01 02:05:09    Credit    Orphaned          678361    47.34842992
78390772    BELA    2017-05-01 02:05:07    Credit    Orphaned          678360    47.52771543
78390306    BELA    2017-05-01 01:55:17    Credit    Orphaned          678351    47.93435648
78390299    BELA    2017-05-01 01:55:15    Credit    Orphaned          678342    48.11797716
78390294    BELA    2017-05-01 01:55:13    Credit    Orphaned          678340    48.76631909
78390288    BELA    2017-05-01 01:55:11    Credit    Orphaned          678335    48.81996251
78390282    BELA    2017-05-01 01:55:09    Credit    Orphaned          678320    49.16439382
78390278    BELA    2017-05-01 01:55:07    Credit    Orphaned          678319    48.76861305
78390273    BELA    2017-05-01 01:55:05    Credit    Orphaned          678316    47.66077448
78390271    BELA    2017-05-01 01:55:03    Credit    Orphaned          678303    50.00000000
78390270    BELA    2017-05-01 01:55:01    Credit    Orphaned          678302    50.00000000
78390267    BELA    2017-05-01 01:54:59    Credit    Orphaned          678301    49.56843403
78390264    BELA    2017-05-01 01:54:57    Credit    Orphaned          678294    49.53886693
78390263    BELA    2017-05-01 01:54:55    Credit    Orphaned          678290    50.00000000
78390260    BELA    2017-05-01 01:54:53    Credit    Orphaned          678289    49.28336152
78390257    BELA    2017-05-01 01:54:51    Credit    Orphaned          678285    49.81419676
78390254    BELA    2017-05-01 01:54:49    Credit    Orphaned          678284    49.43277818
78390251    BELA    2017-05-01 01:54:47    Credit    Orphaned          678282    49.48793732
78390248    BELA    2017-05-01 01:54:45    Credit    Orphaned          678275    49.63988920
78390244    BELA    2017-05-01 01:54:43    Credit    Orphaned          678274    47.28222566
78390240    BELA    2017-05-01 01:54:41    Credit    Orphaned          678272    47.78849220
78389670    BELA    2017-05-01 01:44:12    Credit    Orphaned          678270    48.08073597
78389666    BELA    2017-05-01 01:44:10    Credit    Orphaned          678268    48.51082153
78389664    BELA    2017-05-01 01:44:08    Credit    Orphaned          678267    49.20634921
78389660    BELA    2017-05-01 01:44:06    Credit    Orphaned          678266    47.79935691

So in less than 24 hours mining Bella, I lost 0.11 BTC...what a beautiful day !!!
Fix network, stop attacks !!

And as you said:
"but everything is under control. Suprnova, the pool you cited, has found multiple confirmed blocks after that bad batch."

Really ?
Did you even checked Suprnova ?

679242    Confirmed    sonicmayhem    05/02/2017 03:11:58    1,796.0606    50.0011    117,706,628    114,403,136    97.19
679085    Confirmed    stankonia    05/01/2017 22:03:47    1,826.2322    50.0000    119,683,951    153,364,840    128.14
678827    Confirmed    anonymous    05/01/2017 12:29:35    2,189.4790    50.0000    143,489,697    525,232,764    366.04
678541    Confirmed    sonicmayhem    05/01/2017 03:50:44    2,269.4605    50.0000    148,731,362    67,798,178    45.58
678535    Confirmed    anonymous    05/01/2017 03:01:07    2,542.0434    50.0140    166,595,355    98,707,717    59.25
678336    Orphan    stankonia    04/30/2017 23:50:58    93.0131    50.0000    6,095,707    7,324,042    120.15
678277    Orphan    Kidryce    04/30/2017 23:43:20    151.9336    50.0000    9,957,118    183,283,503    1,840.73
678120    Orphan    yavuzc78    04/30/2017 11:54:46    489.6238    50.0000    32,087,986    18,857,587    58.77
678117    Orphan    yavuzc78    04/30/2017 11:53:56    501.8534    50.0000    32,889,466    4,356,384    13.25
678116    Orphan    yavuzc78    04/30/2017 11:53:07    505.9549    50.0000    33,158,263    64,013,881    193.06
678094    Confirmed    yavuzc78    04/30/2017 11:48:17    594.9059    50.0000    38,987,753    20,463,968    52.49

after that, they found 1 hey ONE block today and 4 yesterday !!!!!
someone is mining with all 200 MH/s
and the only one who is mining with such big Hashrate is the attacker !

And you still don't see that you have a problem ?

My suggestion is, resend my post to some expert, I can see that you don't understand to read the network and understand why that happened !
mining difficulty regulator will not fix that, Orphans doesn't become immediately but after 50 - 60 confs, what means that someone cross our blocks, someone is on his own fork and when forward us, our network, then he open the ports and our blocks became Orphans, and that is the problem what you have here, so you will not fix that with changing difficulty regulator

[rorschach1]

What happened to Belacoin in Polo the value is kept on reducing. Is there any chance that the price of Belacoin will increase.
Really there is a big drop in the price, this is because of hard fork they mentioned.

I think one of the last news is good chance for rise price Bela coin:
@everyone It's official: Belacoin is coming to the Coinomi.com web wallet!

"The integration takes 2 weeks in average and goes live in the first update after its completion." Integration starts today, so we should see a listing anytime after May 17th!

[The Ambia Fund]

It's official, Belacoin is coming to the Coinomi web wallet, likely within the next 2-4 weeks. They'll be spending the next few days getting it integrated, and then it should be listed with the next update, whenever that is.

[plast555]

Still nothing changed !!
Hack over hack !

78779540    BELA    2017-05-04 21:12:13    Credit    Orphaned          680530    1.78964925
78779228    BELA    2017-05-04 21:08:05    Credit    Orphaned          680526    24.60402887
78779213    BELA    2017-05-04 21:08:03    Credit    Orphaned          680512    36.14180911
78779199    BELA    2017-05-04 21:08:01    Credit    Orphaned          680506    44.52589403
78779186    BELA    2017-05-04 21:07:59    Credit    Orphaned          680501    42.43069780
78779173    BELA    2017-05-04 21:07:57    Credit    Orphaned          680499    41.34464479
78779161    BELA    2017-05-04 21:07:55    Credit    Orphaned          680497    40.52646491
78779151    BELA    2017-05-04 21:07:53    Credit    Orphaned          680496    42.26878962
78779139    BELA    2017-05-04 21:07:51    Credit    Orphaned          680493    40.42771502
78778719    BELA    2017-05-04 21:02:48    Credit    Orphaned          680491    43.39745757
78778679    BELA    2017-05-04 21:02:46    Credit    Orphaned          680486    35.54749630
78778628    BELA    2017-05-04 21:02:44    Credit    Orphaned          680469    40.67773371
78778580    BELA    2017-05-04 21:02:42    Credit    Orphaned          680466    39.08482055
78778533    BELA    2017-05-04 21:02:40    Credit    Orphaned          680464    37.00520684
78778510    BELA    2017-05-04 21:02:38    Credit    Orphaned          680463    46.01427540
78778477    BELA    2017-05-04 21:02:36    Credit    Orphaned          680462    40.06535290
78778429    BELA    2017-05-04 21:02:34    Credit    Orphaned          680458    39.68176771
78778383    BELA    2017-05-04 21:02:32    Credit    Orphaned          680457    40.44509989
78778331    BELA    2017-05-04 21:02:30    Credit    Orphaned          680454    38.28719316
78778280    BELA    2017-05-04 21:02:28    Credit    Orphaned          680449    37.25793988
78778228    BELA    2017-05-04 21:02:26    Credit    Orphaned          680446    40.34544499
78778178    BELA    2017-05-04 21:02:24    Credit    Orphaned          680443    41.41909762
78777960    BELA    2017-05-04 20:57:41    Credit    Orphaned          680437    39.36617785
78777917    BELA    2017-05-04 20:57:39    Credit    Orphaned          680436    41.72222736
78777866    BELA    2017-05-04 20:57:37    Credit    Orphaned          680430    44.71145167
78777830    BELA    2017-05-04 20:57:35    Credit    Orphaned          680426    43.38228745
78777782    BELA    2017-05-04 20:57:33    Credit    Orphaned          680425    42.89209137
78777743    BELA    2017-05-04 20:57:31    Credit    Orphaned          680423    44.21722322
78777710    BELA    2017-05-04 20:57:29    Credit    Orphaned          680421    42.95502593

[dbc23]

Is there a roadmap/feature timeline for Belacam anywhere? 

Also, wondering if there's goals for developing/moving to the mobile sphere?

I understand getting the fundamentals down with a web based project is important, and you want to start small, but it seems obvious that this kind of project will live in the mobile sphere much better than the desktop these days.

Just curious.

[The Ambia Fund]

Thank you for that. As we said before, we are aware and are working to fix it.

Is there a roadmap/feature timeline for Belacam anywhere? 

Also, wondering if there's goals for developing/moving to the mobile sphere?

I understand getting the fundamentals down with a web based project is important, and you want to start small, but it seems obvious that this kind of project will live in the mobile sphere much better than the desktop these days.

Just curious.

We don't have an official public roadmap, but our team does follow an internal one. If you join our slack at Belacoin.herokuapp.com, you'll hear all about our plans for the next month and beyond. These include changing the mining difficulty regulator from KGW to DGW, listing Belacoin on Coinomi, listing Belacoin on another exchange, and going into Belacam Beta 2.0 with a design overhaul. We will be working on the Belacam mobile app once we have the website all worked out and running 100% smoothly. As you can tell, there are a lot of exciting things on our plate coming in the next few weeks. However, we still can only do one thing at a time.

[aoluain]

It's official, Belacoin is coming to the Coinomi web wallet, likely within the next 2-4 weeks. They'll be spending the next few days getting it integrated, and then it should be listed with the next update, whenever that is.

This is great news and nice to see the project moving along
after also being listed on Bittylicious.

Thank you for that. As we said before, we are aware and are working to fix it.

Is there a roadmap/feature timeline for Belacam anywhere?  

Also, wondering if there's goals for developing/moving to the mobile sphere?

I understand getting the fundamentals down with a web based project is important, and you want to start small, but it seems obvious that this kind of project will live in the mobile sphere much better than the desktop these days.

Just curious.

We don't have an official public roadmap, but our team does follow an internal one. If you join our slack at Belacoin.herokuapp.com, you'll hear all about our plans for the next month and beyond. These include changing the mining difficulty regulator from KGW to DGW, listing Belacoin on Coinomi, listing Belacoin on another exchange, and going into Belacam Beta 2.0 with a design overhaul. We will be working on the Belacam mobile app once we have the website all worked out and running 100% smoothly. As you can tell, there are a lot of exciting things on our plate coming in the next few weeks. However, we still can only do one thing at a time.

I can imagine there are a lot of jobs to be completed with this project and
going forward the mobile app will be a massive addition as it means users
can really work the Belacam motto, SNAP, POST, PAID !
[just like Instagram etc. without the ... PAID]

[The Ambia Fund]

There are a lot of exciting things right around the corner. Here are some things planned for the next few weeks:

1) Belacam.com Beta 2.0 (Design Overhaul)
2) Adopt Dark Gravity Wave difficulty regulator (used by Dash)
3) Coinomi Listing
4) Listing on one more altcoin exchange
5) 2nd Belacam Promotional Video

After this, we'll be working to bring some big updates to Belacam. Things like videos, ads (so we can start earning some revenue), chat, and the mobile apps are on our planner for this summer. We're also expanding both The Ambia Fund and the Belacam teams by hiring new people.

[psycodad]

It seems that the orphaned blocks you saw were just a string of bad blocks. The pool you cited, Suprnova, had 5 orphaned blocks in a row at https://bella.suprnova.cc/index.php?page=statistics&action=blocks, but the blockchain is continuing without issue elsewhere: https://prohashing.com/explorer/Bellacoin/

Why that coin still exist on polo? Because all what have Bela is chess game.. which have problem to withdraw coins.. And the problem still no solved

Please check out Belacam.com, the social media site that runs on Belacoin with over 2,000 users and is actively being developed and improved. Community members are building projects on the Belacoin blockchain like a community-managed mining pool and Beladice, a virtual dice game that runs only on Belacoin. Beyond that, we have one of the largest altcoin Slack communities with almost 1,500 members in the Belacoin slack at http://Belacoin.herokuapp.com.

And yes, there is also a chess app/web wallet on the Android app store that runs on Belacoin with 1,000 - 5,000 installs and a 4.2 star rating out of 67 reviews: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vasilkoff.wallet_bela&hl=en

You don't see a pic from hash-to-coins what I posteded ? there is 15 orphans because as I said, someone is attacking the network with 550 GH/s in that moment, I will next time make a screenshot to you with hashrate, and Prohashing in that time didn't found blocks, Prohashing in last 24h as you can see found just 19 blocks, otherwords, Prohashing and Suprnova with just 12 blocks in last 24h, they didn't mining this coin, we are talking about 30 blocks on 2 pool all day, you can not even compare that and figure what exactlly happened. I was found 38 blocks on H2C, in period of 40 min when diff was lower, witch after 50 confs became Orphans, 25 of them !!
And trust me when I say, the same thing happened to Tips !! As soon as you get that sooner you will stop this attacks !!
As I can see we are mining when this coin is out of profit and then when diff finally goes down, that attacker get all the blocks, so what is the point to invest in mining this coin then if we can not participate in all blocks normaly ?
Stop attacks !
Read the network, follow what happened in particular time and you will get that something is fishy, somethings is wrong, some Anon is doing Selfish Mining...you can read on google a lot about that...so exactly that happened on your network wen diff is going down.
Topic of Fedora coin/Tips coin about Selfish mining:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1420302.msg15254849#msg15254849

Confirmed, my last 12 blocks were orphaned. Will stay away from mining BELA until this has been dealt with.

[siberianbreaks]

At this time we can say Belascam¿?

this orphan thing happend before with yocoin, i remember.. first start the mysterous orphan blocks, the devs say "everything its ok", "we will fix it", but never do..

[The Ambia Fund]

As stated before, we are working on a fix for that. Please keep in mind that what other developers do or don't do has no effect on what we do. Just because other developers didn't fix an issue that was affecting their coin, it does not mean that we can also neglect to address this issue.

[beliomir]

Helllo everybody!

maybe it's later into your country in the night darkness, so?

Maybe, you went from far away states, all over the world???
I'm french! I'm mining and trade somes of belacoin, And got somes..

But my wallet doesn't sync? no working nodes!!!!
can you help US?

If another persons are in the same case? maybe this can help us too???

Thank's

[The Ambia Fund]

Helllo everybody!

maybe it's later into your country in the night darkness, so?

Maybe, you went from far away states, all over the world???
I'm french! I'm mining and trade somes of belacoin, And got somes..

But my wallet doesn't sync? no working nodes!!!!
can you help US?

If another persons are in the same case? maybe this can help us too???

Thank's

Please follow the wallet setup instructions at http://Belacoin.org/windowswalletsetup.pdf or use the addnodes from https://novaexchange.com/addnodes/BELA/.

[The Ambia Fund]

After about 3 weeks of beta testing, we have enough info and analytics to start making some big changes to the site. Most of these changes will be made on our own testnet site for Belacam and will be pushed with the launch of Belacam Beta 2.0, set for late May or early June.

Here are some of the changes that will be made:

1) Signup Page
-Removing the fields 'Country', 'Birth Year', 'Gender'
-Only entering the password once
-We will check if the username is taken right after it's been typed, not once the form is submitted

2) Feed/Discover Page
-Combined into one page, similar to scrolling through the homepage of Reddit
-Smarter algorithm for showing posts (currently, we show posts on the discover page in the order they were posted. The new algorithm will take into account the amount of likes the post has, whether you're following the user or not, and the time the photo was posted)

3) User Profile
-Each profile will show lifetime money earned
-Cover Photo
-See users' followers and who the user is following

4) General
-Comments will be likable
-Sending a weekly email to people who have earned money (like "You got paid $3.68 this week on Belacam.com) to keep users engaged and coming back
-Removing "upload page" and integrating the upload form as part of the main feed page
-Showing 24 hour Trending hashtags
-Showing Suggested Users to Follow

With that, the whole site is getting a design makeover. The new site looks much better, and it's the site that will likely carry us through the next few hundred thousand users before we really need to make any more significant design changes.

[aoluain]

Excellent thanks for posting the changes here
and I think they are going to be very beneficial.

I love these:

3) User Profile
-Each profile will show lifetime money earned
-Cover Photo
-See users' followers and who the user is following

Is there plans also to include information or a link to
the profile of those who like my images?

I think I posted something of this on the slack channel 

[Zeehenk]

Hey Ambia Fund. Question regarding BELACAM:

How many active users do you currently have? How are you looking to increase this number... and in what time frame? Is there any roadmap availible?

Thanks!

[The Ambia Fund]

Yes, the new notification system looks and works much better. It's now only a dropdown menu, similar to Facebook's, where you see the profile picture of the person who liked/commented/followed you, and you can click to go to their profile.

Belacam has about 2,100 users. We have been spending the past 3 weeks working on fixing bugs rather than retaining these users, so tracking the active users at this point is not indicative of much. After the launch of Beta 2.0 with the design overhaul, we will begin to focus on marketing to bring in more users and retaining our current users, so the Daily Active Users (DAU) / Weekly Active Users (WAU) / Monthly Active Users (MAU) will be pretty relevant then. The beta 2.0 launch is slated for either late May or early June. At that point, we hope that almost all bugs are stamped out, and we will begin working on things that maximize user retention. This is where we start A/B testing things as simple as the color of a button to see if it can incentivize people to post / like / comment more.

There is no public roadmap, although I will see if we can have someone make one. We follow an internal roadmap through Asana, but it's not in a publicly presentable form.

A simple roadmap could go like this:

• Beta 2.0 with site redesign
• Integrating Ads (so we can finally make some money)
• Integrating Video
• Integrating Chat
• Mobile Apps

Keep in mind that we're also balancing this with our work with Belacoin. On the Belacoin side, we're working on preparing to adopt the Dark Gravity Wave difficulty regulator, getting Belacoin listed on another exchange, and getting Belacoin listed on the Coinomi web wallet (in the integration process now on their end).

[aoluain]

Again, thanks for the updates.

The thread seems to have been focused lately on belacam
and its easy to forget or overlook the other tasks pertaining Belacoin itself.

I like the sound of this "Dark Gravity Wave difficulty regulator"
this is a mining tool from the Dash technology.
What benefits will it have for Belacoin?

[The Ambia Fund]

Dark Gravity Wave will fix an issue that has been affecting the Belacoin blockchain where blocks won't be found for an extended period of time.

The Problem: Occasionally, there will be extended periods of time where no block is found on the Belacoin Blockchain.
What are the consequences of this? Transactions are not processed until a block is found. Your coins are 100% safe, but it can be frustrating to have to wait a long time to receive your coins.
Why does this happen? There are mining pools out there that search for the most profitable coin to mine and switch to it for as long as it is the #1 most profitable coin. A lot of the time, that coin is Belacoin. When these mining pools switch to Belacoin, the current difficulty regulator (Kimoto Gravity Well) spikes the difficulty to keep the 2 minute block times consistent. Then, the mining pools drop off because Belacoin is no longer the most profitable coin to mine, but the difficulty remains very high. Now, it can take several hours for the next block to be found. Once the next block is found, the difficulty readjusts back to normal and everything continues smoothly again.

The Solution: Dark Gravity Wave Mining Difficulty Regulator
Why is is a solution? Dark Gravity Wave (DGW) was created to solve this very problem. It takes more of a moving average so the difficulty does not spike so hard when a new mining pool hops on. It's more dynamic and flexible than Kimoto Gravity Well and will help reduce those long periods of time where no block is found.