Ixcoin TODO

[GroundRod]

Not bad, not bad at all Jumbley   

Thanks for the reports kraizi, I've pretty much determined it's not a problem with the network chain, perhaps its wrong in our latest code, I'm not even sure that is true at the moment.  Looking into why the getblock command is returning that 25.16255556 value now, it's being returned as part of the aux-pow coinbasetx fields, when human readable (somewhat) JSON responses are generated.  Found that is true for almost any block I look at, and I'm not sure why or what it means, this is Ahmed's place of expertise, so hopefully we'll hear from him about it later today....in the meantime I'm getting up to speed on this section of the code, if I figure it out will let you know.  My current thinking is that I'm being a little to jumpy, need to cut back on the caffeine, & looking for problems that aren't there or ones that we'll need to fix as we wrap this upgrade project up.... 

GR

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[crabshack]

And I will just note the fact that no-one has considered the technicals of this by replying to my question of "can the software handle empty blocks?".

Because none of you have a fucking clue.

Someone needs to rethink on who doesn't have a clue.

[crabshack]

Now that we dodged a bullet time to buy some more ixcoin :-)

[publicjud]

Now that we dodged a bullet time to buy some more ixcoin :-)

The hash rate has gone down today though.... 

[kraizi]

Now that we dodged a bullet time to buy some more ixcoin :-)

The hash rate has gone down today though....  

Several of the merge mined coins are down in hash rate.  It's not an iXcoin issue.  I still think one of the pools is doing maintenance.  Been going on for over a week now.

[mmpool]

Looking into why the getblock command is returning that 25.16255556 value now, it's being returned as part of the aux-pow coinbasetx fields, when human readable (somewhat) JSON responses are generated.  Found that is true for almost any block I look at, and I'm not sure why or what it means,

If it's pulling values from the auxpow coinbasetx field then it's probably the value of the parent chain's subsidy - in other words the value of the bitcoin block that it was merge mined with.

[crabshack]

And I will just note the fact that no-one has considered the technicals of this by replying to my question of "can the software handle empty blocks?".

You don't think Satoshi considered empty blocks?  Ixcoin is pretty much a copy of bitcoin.

[GroundRod]

Looking into why the getblock command is returning that 25.16255556 value now, it's being returned as part of the aux-pow coinbasetx fields, when human readable (somewhat) JSON responses are generated.  Found that is true for almost any block I look at, and I'm not sure why or what it means,

If it's pulling values from the auxpow coinbasetx field then it's probably the value of the parent chain's subsidy - in other words the value of the bitcoin block that it was merge mined with.

Thanks, Yap that is what I finally figured out <duh>, don't see why it needs to be stored in the ixcoin blockchain and it threw me for a loop earlier today, but if I go back far enough in time on our blockchain it shows up as 50.<something>, guess it's just part of the overall proof of work data structure.

Finally committed the Ixcoin 0.9.3 source code changes to GitHub, that I've been working on this past week.
https://github.com/GroundRod/IXCoin

Not producing a pre-release build on it just yet, nor do I plan on it, kinda depends on Ahmed's schedule.

Generated a pull request so he can bring them into our main repository.  Soon he should be able to generate new builds using the efforts made to keep our code up-to-date and spiffy  

GR

[mmpool]

Thanks, Yap that is what I finally figured out <duh>, don't see why it needs to be stored in the ixcoin blockchain and it throw me for a loop earlier today, but if I go back far enough in time on our blockchain it shows up as 50.<something>, guess it's just part of the overall proof of work data structure.

The block header of the parent chain is serialized in the child chain so nodes can verify the work associated with the parent chain. Without this all nodes would need to run the parent chain as well as the child chain. Done this way only the miners need to run both.

[kraizi]

And I will just note the fact that no-one has considered the technicals of this by replying to my question of "can the software handle empty blocks?".

You don't think Satoshi considered empty blocks?  Ixcoin is pretty much a copy of bitcoin.

Exactly, and empty blocks is just one way iXcoin is breaking new ground and proving the bitcoin algorithms work even before bitcoin does.

[Vlad2Vlad]

Exactly, and empty blocks is just one way iXcoin is breaking new ground and proving the bitcoin algorithms work even before bitcoin does.

BINGO!

With empty blocks, ixCoin just got way faster and more efficient than Bitcoin.

In ~100 years Bitcoin too can be all grown up and match what ixCoin can do today.  haha.

I wonder if all the banks and corporations of the world wanna wait 100 years.

[SuperZeus]

Interesting: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=822100.0

[GroundRod]

Interesting: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=822100.0

That is interesting, thanks for posting.  Will spend sometime researching it more this week.

Was myself looking at the 'Open Assets Protocol', and thinking how it could easily be used with Ixcoin Core.  

An important aspect to both, from just spending a short time reviewing them, is that they appear to me to be non-disruptive concepts to our commitment in keeping current with the latest Bitcoin Core.  

https://github.com/OpenAssets/colorcore

Colorcore is an open source colored coin wallet compatible with the Open Assets Protocol. It supports two modes: a command line interface, and a JSON/RPC server. The command line interface is suitable for managing a local wallet without going through any third-party service. The JSON/RPC interface is suitable for server-side implementations of colored coins and programmatic colored coins wallet management.

Open Assets is a protocol for issuing and transferring custom digital tokens in a secure way on the Bitcoin blockchain (or any compatible blockchain).

ETA: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=767548.0

[FrictionlessCoin]

I've got to admit,  IXC running on zero miner rewards all of a sudden looks ridiculously innovative.

Do we have word yet as to when the 0.9.x client will get into the CEX.IO pool?

[ahmed_]

I've just begun re-porting over the code to a clean 0.9.3 BTC base (direct not forked from DVC like before). Almost done there so now thats life made a lot simpler for me and GroundRod to pull changes from bitcoin core's github..

Once thats done im going to fire it up and see how it runs on the network. once thats fine, then testing on testnet and we should be ready to begin testing on main-net

[FrictionlessCoin]

@GroundRod & Ahmed: all this is supercool. Once you have it ready, I will do my best to transmit it to Jeffrey Smith asap.
@Friction: to run a coin for free is really innovative for miners. Hope for them the price will increase and get a fair tx fee able to support their costs.

Thanks.  Very important that this gets into the main-net.

[Vlad2Vlad]

The price is rock solid.  Pretty amazing; more stable than even Bitcoin.

I've been talking to Zhao - CTO from OkCoin, regarding adding iXCoin to their exchange.  China exposure on the biggest Chinese exchange would be a massive catalyst for iXCoin.

He had only 2 concerns before listing iXCoin.

A) The price needs to be stable.

B) iXCoin needs a bigger market-cap.

I pointed out to him that iXCoin price has been much more stable than coins like Litecoin and DogeCoin and in select periods has been more stable than Bitcoin.

And I also told him that we'd be working on increasing the market cap via more active development [hopefully with some significant involvement from our partner, CEX.io].

Finally, if we get OKCoin on-board; landing Huobi and BTCCHINA would be nearly automatic.

[Vlad2Vlad]

One more note:

And of course I still talk to Brock Pierce nearly every week.  Amazingly, he hasn't told me to F-off yet so that's a really good sign.  haha.

He seems genuinely intrigued by iXCoin but I can't tell if he's not quite convinced by my spiel or he's a shrewd businessman and is playing games with me.  lol.

Either way - I'll keep trying - we need one more big partner [other than CEX.io] - given Jeffrey Smith seems to be taking his sweet time helping us out. 

My patience is [quickly] running out.



[Equifinality]

[Vlad2Vlad]

One day to death.  Has anyone actually checked the software handles empty blocks?  Coz there's gonna be a lot of them.  Or perhaps none at all, haha.

I think zebedee owns us at least an explanation. Otherwise I will be forced to review the level of trust he deserves.

Hahahaaaa.

I'm not sure I'd mess with Zebedee.  He can't hurt IXC but if he is who I think he is then he's actually a real asset to this community and he was just trying to buy some cheap IxCoin by scaring newbies out of their coins.

And who can fault a man for being shrewd.  haha.

But I would like to see him chime in now that he has been proved wrong.  I'd like to hear what he has to say...[before you review his trust rating].  lol

[cinnamon_carter]

I agree with Vlad on Zebedeee ---  lets let it lie.....  He was probably trying to scare people to dump some coins to make a few buys at a decent price and he may have ties and good connections to others. (No proof but it seems logical)

Also thank Groundrod i got & was able to decrypt the information you sent me in seconds !!

I appreciate you sending it by my 'suggested' method. 

Held away for safekeeping in case ever necessary.