[ANN] official NovaCoin thread - the original PoS+scrypt coin.

[penek]

Hi guys

Just a little competition. The one who finds the first PoS block after the 1391641017 UNIX timestamp (1 year since genesis block) will receive a small bonus.

If you wish to support a winner, donations are accepted here:

4PenekGWGr55XUaeDDeTQEsbTg7wG2JyTz

Currently we have 16.39 NVC in this wallet.

A winner of a competition
I think theire deserved award...

P.S. Of course, this tradition should continue and next point of award perhaps block number 100 000

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From Russia with love

[Balthazar]

New p2pool has been published:

SRC: https://github.com/novacoin-project/p2pool
Win32 pyexe: http://sourceforge.net/projects/novacoin/files/p2pool_win32_13.4-21-g670eab5.zip/download

Please note that it uses a new share chain and has no relation with 11.4 version.

Network info:

• PPLNS rewards system, N=4320;
• 15 seconds shares target spacing;
• Working stratum support;
• ~20-30% lower share size.

Also there are no raw public keys anymore, regular wallet addresses are used instead.

Network is pretty small at the moment, so some seed nodes would be helpful.

Code:

2014-02-08 01:54:55.209270 P2Pool: 157 shares in chain (158 verified/158 total) Peers: 1 (0 incoming)
2014-02-08 01:54:55.209451  Local: 32297H/s in last 10.0 minutes Local dead on arrival: ~0.0% (0-1%) Expected time to share: 14.7 minutes
2014-02-08 01:54:55.209687  Shares: 5 (1 orphan, 0 dead) Stale rate: ~20.0% (3-63%) Efficiency: ~86.1% (40-104%) Current payout: 0.1007 NVC
2014-02-08 01:54:55.209769  Pool: 1142kH/s Stale rate: 7.1% Expected time to block: 15.6 days

[mkonecny]

Added a new node, the coin looks like it has some potential.

May I humbly suggest that the Sourceforge download page is cleaned up a bit? Most wallets have Windows/OSX/Linux files, this one has 17!!

[Balthazar]

P2Pool repository and py2exe were updated to resolve compatibility issues.

[Balthazar]

As requested before, Linux i686 static build of novacoin-qt and novacoind has been published:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/novacoin/files/novacoin-0.4.4.6-update1-ubuntu-lts-i686.tar.bz2/download

[Balthazar]

May I humbly suggest that the Sourceforge download page is cleaned up a bit? Most wallets have Windows/OSX/Linux files, this one has 17!!

Currently we are performing build removal only when it becomes incompatible with network. But maybe you are right...

[Balthazar]

First valid block was generated by new P2Pool:

http://explorer.novaco.in/block/0000000000149d66a514b2f53f2ac4cc9cbc79bbe2cc8402dd9a78652c0cd4be

 

[Balthazar]

Second block generated:

http://explorer.novaco.in/block/0000000000a429027c95bca920c4545c65140ceb3764139bd1b575f21aa66d37

[Balthazar]

Linux client builds were added. This builds were created on debian squeeze.

Debian [ARM6L | i686 | x86_64]

You can use it if your system is unable to run a static binaries created on Ubuntu LTS.

[glendall]

Wow PoS difficulty is really taking off     

Good for Novacoin and the users. Bad for me personally though 

[Balthazar]

Wow PoS difficulty is really taking off    

Yep, that's crazy   I wonder what would happen with proof-of-stake difficulty if this holder will open his wallet.

P.S. It's planned to remove JSON-RPC interface support in the next p2pool update. So, next p2pool release will be stratum-only. Postponed to a future release.

[Balthazar]

P2Pool was updated to 13.4-25. It's recommended to apply this update because it fixes an issue with block header timestamp. This issue could cause generation of invalid blocks.

SRC: https://github.com/novacoin-project/p2pool/
Py2Exe: http://sourceforge.net/projects/novacoin/files/p2pool_win32_13.4-25-g6da08c4.zip/download

[Balthazar]

Just another p2pool update reminder message

SRC: https://github.com/novacoin-project/p2pool/
Py2Exe: http://sourceforge.net/projects/novacoin/files/p2pool_win32_13.4-25-g6da08c4.zip/download

If you have not updated yet, don't delay upgrade without serious reasons. Don't risk wasting your hashing power.

[Balthazar]

By the way... From this day I'm starting to divide some coins between active p2pool miners once per 24 hours.

If somebody want to do the same, it's quite simple.

There are a few examples:

1) Distribute 1 coin proportionally between active miners:

Code:

novacoind sendmany "" "$(wget -O- http://IP_P2POOL_SERVER:8336/patron_sendmany/1)"

2) Distribute 1 coin per 24 hours automatically:

Code:

0 0 * * * novacoind sendmany "" "$(wget -O- http://IP_P2POOL_SERVER:8336/patron_sendmany/1)"

3) If you have no experience with linux or cron you can distribute some coins manually. Just open http://IP_P2POOL_SERVER:8336/patron_sendmany/N in your browser, copy the output and execute the following command using your RPC console:

Code:

sendmany "" 'OUTPUT'

Have fun

[flound1129]

So what version am I supposed to be running now?

[Balthazar]

So what version am I supposed to be running now?

An actual client version is 0.4.4.6 update1:

Code:

"version" : "v0.4.4.6-nvc-update1-beta",
"protocolversion" : 60012,

It's available at sourceforge and github.

v0.4.4.5 and v0.4.4.6 also can be used without any problem.

[Balthazar]

Recent Novacoin commits:

https://github.com/novacoin-project/novacoin

• -confchange option added. This setting allows user to prevent an unconfirmed change from being spent, disabled by default;
• -enforcecanonical option added. This setting enforces canonical PUSH operators for unconfirmed transactions, enabled by default.

Stratum server update:

https://github.com/novacoin-project/stratum-mining

• Switch to regular addresses instead of public keys;
• Merge all changes from the latest snapshot of upstream.

[ShadowAlexey]

http://bitcoinexaminer.org/novacoin-developer-proof-of-stake-system-solution-cryptocurrencies/

[Balthazar]

Users & hasrates from Test public nodes (average last hour):

Node name   User (address)   hash rate
85.234.62.99   4SUJpbxMJ7rPVpTJ5iy5C1RqUHz3oZMzB5   4.825Mh/s
p2pool.novaco.in   4QnD1b4Apds1Abff3b9f5qkp1DGFWyS9Py   226.816kh/s
p2pool.novaco.in   C5SYQoWDRZj8kSHayCUJFctxWndNFSykCn   1.241Mh/s

C5SYQoWDRZj8kSHayCUJFctxWndNFSykCn, it seems that you have specified incorrect address. 

[flound1129]

It looks like my cold wallet somehow lost around 250 NVC after downgrading..  Any way to recover these coins?