[NEW CURRENCY] Maria 2.0 was banned, here is her proof. The birth of Bytecoin!

[ProfMac]

When I am able to learn C++, I will code a merge mining patch. Yeah, it breaks Bytecoin's ideals of being a Bitcoin copy, but it will have to do.

Or I can couple with someone's hosting plan and set up a merge mining pool where Bytecoin is the master, and Ixcoin, Namecoin, and Devcoin are the slave coins. Basically bitparking but switch out Bitcoin for Bytecoin. Leaves Bytecoin ideals intact, while getting the other coins.

I will have as much as 30 GH/s to put on it any day now.  I'm thinking I will only mine blocks when there is a transaction that needs confirming.  I should be able to outrace the griefers who are mining and orphaning the chain. 

That should clean things up without merged mining.  It should drop the difficulty back to where it was without the ASIC-griefer's interference.

I am curious what blocks the difficulty has changed at.  Seems to me I though the difficulty would drop a few hundred blocks ago.

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[jaywaka2713]

When I am able to learn C++, I will code a merge mining patch. Yeah, it breaks Bytecoin's ideals of being a Bitcoin copy, but it will have to do.

Or I can couple with someone's hosting plan and set up a merge mining pool where Bytecoin is the master, and Ixcoin, Namecoin, and Devcoin are the slave coins. Basically bitparking but switch out Bitcoin for Bytecoin. Leaves Bytecoin ideals intact, while getting the other coins.

I will have as much as 30 GH/s to put on it any day now.  I'm thinking I will only mine blocks when there is a transaction that needs confirming.  I should be able to outrace the griefers who are mining and orphaning the chain. 

That should clean things up without merged mining.  It should drop the difficulty back to where it was without the ASIC-griefer's interference.

I am curious what blocks the difficulty has changed at.  Seems to me I though the difficulty would drop a few hundred blocks ago.

I also have a 30 GH/s rig I will also throw at it. With both of our rigs combined, if I could get the merge mining patch, making Bytecoin the masterchain to ixcoin, devcoin, and namecoin, we could probably successfully fork the blockchain. Bytecoin currently isn't a mirror of Bitcoin. It is everything Bitcoin is, except for the fact that it isn't a master to those currencies, and cannot be merge mined with them...yet.

[bitpop]

You should already be able to merged mine like that. Try it with p2pool. No fork needed.

[ProfMac]

I have looked at the blockchain.  The current difficulty level started at block 18144 on May 5.  There have been 245 blocks mined since then, a very small number.

I try to think of ways to repair this.  One way that has come to mind is to backtrack in the block chain before block 18143 and to fork the blockchain.  I assume that a single block mined as a fork on block 18,143 would reset the difficulty to about 512, instead of the current 35794, and then mining would be possible for the currently active mining community.

It should be possible to set the miner so that the forked chain pays out to the same miners as the original chain, so that miners get replacement coins for the ones that are obliterated. 

The only transactions this would disrupt are for coins in blocks 18144 through 18228 (18388-160), a total of 84 blocks.

I don't know how many transactions this would disrupt.  It should be possible to parse the blockchain and learn that answer, but I have not done it.

Setting the chain back further would obliterate the coins that were mined by the disrupter, but would require deeper analysis to minimize the disruption to everyone else.

[prdkojistic]

ASICs got us there and they can get us out too.
Once they are widely accessible, someone will point them to Bytecoin for sure. I will, when I get mine...

[ahmed_bodi]

if you'd be able to code a p2pool for merge mining bytecoin rather than bitcoin along with the other coin's ill host it on my vps

EDIT: looks like the owner of my server has decided to shut it down and leave, ill increase the instance size of my ec2, but would anyone be willing to provide some bitcoins or bytecoins to help fund a new server,

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[ProfMac]

ASICs got us there and they can get us out too.
Once they are widely accessible, someone will point them to Bytecoin for sure. I will, when I get mine...

I have the ASIC, but no where to point it.

[ahmed_bodi]

i now have a pool pretty much setup i just need a miner to test it, would any of you guys be up for it?

[ProfMac]

i now have a pool pretty much setup i just need a miner to test it, would any of you guys be up for it?

Does it take stratum? 
Details? 
Perhaps a URL for instructions?

[ahmed_bodi]

it will take stratum when its finished, if i manage to get it to work itll run just like every other pool. url will be done in a min just trying to get a testnet up

[ahmed_bodi]

I think i might be pretty much ready with a pushpool for bytecoin but i need some nodes for the client

[Digigami]

I think i might be pretty much ready with a pushpool for bytecoin but i need some nodes for the client

try 75.156.208.65, this is my main BTE node 24/7

which port are you using for p2pool? I was going to try and get one setup myself here in the next day or so

[ahmed_bodi]

i decided to for a pushpool setup, although due to the frontend im using im going to have to put a notice up for eveyone to continually withdraw all their coins, in the event i get hacked which hopefully wont happen

[Digigami]

Ahh I see, read your post too quick and assumed p2pool.. Either way, hope my node helps get your client synced up

Side note, is there anyone out there currently running a p2pool node for Bytecoin?

[ahmed_bodi]

yup thanks for that, now im just trying to get it to accept connections, or perhaps because its downloading blocks :s

[ahmed_bodi]

right i believe ive got a working pushpool up who here would be willing to try it out, its far from finished on the looks tho

EDIT: im cpu mining on the actual network lets hop i can get a share on the pool to confirm its working

[ahmed_bodi]

Back with an update guys, ive got a pool up and running, all i can confirm is shares are reported. Now then the bad news, the frontend im using is buggy mainly due to the bytecoin client using an old bitcoin base. Now would anyone here be willing to work as a team to repair bytecoin's daemon, and get the whole network going again. If anyones interested post here or pm me, ill make a list and we'll see where we go from there.

My first idea was anyone who joins as part of the team will get an equal share of any PROFITS from the pool weekly aslong as they do their job well.

Skills i think we'd need:
Coder- preferably someone whos created a coin before( i could help here)
Marketer- Someone who'd be able to put the coins name out there
Maintainer, someone who will help to maintain the pool and answer support questions

anyone up for it?

[ProfMac]

Back with an update guys, ive got a pool up and running, all i can confirm is shares are reported. Now then the bad news, the frontend im using is buggy mainly due to the bytecoin client using an old bitcoin base. Now would anyone here be willing to work as a team to repair bytecoin's daemon, and get the whole network going again. If anyones interested post here or pm me, ill make a list and we'll see where we go from there.

My first idea was anyone who joins as part of the team will get an equal share of any PROFITS from the pool weekly aslong as they do their job well.

Skills i think we'd need:
Coder- preferably someone whos created a coin before( i could help here)
Marketer- Someone who'd be able to put the coins name out there
Maintainer, someone who will help to maintain the pool and answer support questions

anyone up for it?

I would take a different direction.

There are Avalon units, an ASIC based device of about 65 GH/s, in the field hashing at the moment.

They need pretty good work management to keep up with their capability, and pretty much nothing less than ASICs will pull Bytecoin forward, so I think Bytecoin has to produce an environment that is very Avalon friendly.

So I would find software that works with Avalons, Google is your friend, and install it.  If you do that, I will point my Avalon to it for some test runs, and ask the entire Avalon community to give Bytecoin a kickstart when the stratum capable pool is working.

[ahmed_bodi]

right okay, no problem with that but in order to use those we need s fully working bytecoin client. the current one is missing a lot of rpc calls such as getnetworkhashps. if all those were implemented it would make it a lot faster and easier to go with the above solution

[ProfMac]

right okay, no problem with that but in order to use those we need s fully working bytecoin client. the current one is missing a lot of rpc calls such as getnetworkhashps. if all those were implemented it would make it a lot faster and easier to go with the above solution

gmaxwell, one of the developers, compared the source and posted that the only differences with bitcoin-qt were the name, the hardwired genesis block hash, and the initial constant.

Any software that worked with 0.8.1 bitcoin should work with 0.8.1 bytecoin, with, at most, those three things changed.