[ANN] GME | GameCoin - Unofficial fork and Windows QT Client.

[Sondey10mg]

Cryptsy would be nice. Lots of trades happening there, and also the less known coins

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[PoolMinor]

I think the original(unofficial) plans for this coin sounded great, but without constant feeding and nurture this coin will continue to die.

[emdes]

This coin, WILL NEVER DIE ! 

[Miner-TE]

This coin, WILL NEVER DIE ! 

Indeed.  It looks like it has life in it yet

"difficulty" : 0.06903813

[emdes]

2mh/s only    (not me)

[emdes]

This coin, WILL NEVER DIE ! 

Indeed.  It looks like it has life in it yet

"difficulty" : 0.06903813

GME to Gox in December 

[Miner-TE]

Still rising .... "difficulty" : 0.09361113,

[PoolMinor]

Is it possible to set this block chain to only allow the correct wallet version or protocol version? My thoughts are that this may mitigate the perceived wallet sync issue.

[barwizi]

I've seen good changes here, the current dev(s) should keep it up. I hit a block just now with 300kh, smooth sailing. 

[qwep]

a coin to push on cryptsy

[Petr1fied]

I'll look into releasing an updated client with up to date checkpoints and change the IRC channel so that the rogue peers with 300K+ blocks should no longer be an annoyance.

For those of you currently mining, how is the difficulty algorithm holding up? Is it OK or does it need some further tweaking?

[Carra23]

I had posted about Gamecoin in the satoshi dice clone game thread as a joke and now its viable? Should have just a mined a few instead 

[Sondey10mg]

Diff algorithm works great Petr1fied. Very smooth

[Petr1fied]

I had posted about Gamecoin in the satoshi dice clone game thread as a joke and now its viable? Should have just a mined a few instead  

There's nothing wrong with it aside from the syncing issue which is only really a display issue in the QT wallet and doesn't impact the coin functionality. The initial release was botched because the original developer used the same genesis block as Litecoin or Feathercoin (can't remember which) so someone had the bright idea of dumping the entire blockchain from whichever it was on to it. The original developer then added some checkpoints which solved this issue but the difficulty got stuck at > 1.0 with no miners and a long way off the next retarget. Somewhere around this point the original developer abandoned it.

Some time after this a few of us took it upon ourselves to mine at high difficulty with the limited hashing power at our disposal and get it past the retarget. After this the difficulty algorithm was improved (hopefully) to make it less susceptible to miners jumping on and off. 48 blocks between retargets is a hell of a lot better than 2016.

That's pretty much where we are now, unfortunately it seems most people have no interest at this point, least of all any exchanges who still perceive GameCoin to be broken.

As to future plans I am currently working on an ebay style auction site which rather than being exclusive to a single coin will accept as many coins as possible and offer the buyers/sellers a choice of how they want to make/receive payment.

The system will allow the buyer to make payment in any of the accepted crypto currencies, even doing a mix & match payment with several cryptos. The seller will be able to select the method of payment they'd like to receive for example if they wanted purely BTC that is what they'd receive, regardless of how the buying party paid.

Key to this is implementing the API's of various exchanges so that we can trade the coins in real time to convert them to whatever the seller is requesting so obviously seeing GameCoin implemented on an exchange is key to being able to implement a system such as this and also include GameCoin as a method of payment.

[Petr1fied]

OK I've pushed some changes to my own gamecoin fork. I'd ask jayo89 to pull them but he's not logged in here since July 7th. If you want to access my repository you can do so here:

https://github.com/Petr1fied/gamecoin

What's new?

• The IRC channel has been changed to hopefully stop mixing between the old and new clients. (I'm currently bridging between both to prevent this causing a hard fork).
• The client name has been changed from "Satoshi" (used in pretty much every coin) to "GameCoin" and the version number incremented as appropriate.
• Added a getnetworkhashps method fix, using the correct 48 block retarget value. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124303.msg2515204#msg2515204).
• Added more checkpoints.

For some reason, despite my best efforts and following various instructions to the letter, I've never been able to successfully compile a Windows-QT wallet and I've attempted to do so on Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8, so I'll probably need to ask tyrion70 if he wouldn't mind compiling a new Windows QT wallet from the current codebase.

I can however compile Windows Daemons without problem so here is the latest compile:

https://apps.memopal.com/e/D43KRJX4

(This daemon comes complete with UPNP support)

If you intend to use this, please be sure to delete %Appdata%\gamecoin\peers.dat before starting the client so you don't end up spreading contact details for dodgy 300K block peers with your fellow peers. It does us no good to use a new IRC channel if you're going to spread bad peer details via P2P anyway.

The new client will display as following in getpeerinfo:

   {
        "addr" : "127.0.0.1:54354",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1374941237,
        "lastrecv" : 1374941238,
        "conntime" : 1374940941,
       "version" : 60003,
        "subver" : "/GameCoin:0.6.5/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "releasetime" : 0,
        "startingheight" : 48562,
        "banscore" : 0
    },

[PoolMinor]

Ok this is great but how do I mine with only the daemon?

Edit: Petr1fied, thanks for your help on an outside channel, I am currently mining away.

[Petr1fied]

shakezula has offered to compile a QT wallet. Stand by.

EDIT: Link from shakezula -  https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B49exKIsGBn5dU0xLWNGTmVhWDg/edit?usp=sharing

[qwep]

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[PoolMinor]

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Try downloading the whole rar package.

[Petr1fied]

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Looks OK here:


I've mirrored the archive here though:

https://apps.memopal.com/e/JBXRB4ZH