Ixcoin TODO

[cinnamon_carter]

Hey / this is a good thing /

I am glad I am wrong since this means with a proper set up merged mining can be run much more efficiently than i ever thought. I will test it out when i have time but will have to be a local net test since i lack any real hash power to test on the real chains / Thanks Ahmed

Also to those discussing hashrate remember the value in the rpc console (the one vircurex is displaying) is just an estimate based on a taylor series computation of how quickly recent blocks were solved.


The security of any blockchain based coin is best measured as a factor of difficulty which is an exact known value vs. an 'estimated' hashrate subject to many variables and always an average number at best.

I believe you are wrong cinnamon im afraid. If you look at http://github.com/simplecrypto/powerpool. It runs using a gevent loop as its core. This allows it to spin of the submission of merged mining blocks into a seperate loop so that it does not affect the timing of the bitcoin blocks. This means there can be hundreds of such loops running at once with minimal impact to block finding.

Ahmed

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[mrbodz]

Yep. I run a very highly modified version of that myself.

[edgar]

someone just dumped 100k around 4600-5400 sats

[macbook-air]

The network forked after a 900 KB block we generated. We will withdraw from ixcoin for a while, as most exchanges and pools, include Vircurex, Cryptsy and CEX.IO / GHash.IO are still on v0.3.x, but as many as half of the nodes are on v0.8.x/v0.9.x, include darkgamex.ch block explorer and us. The developers should make a decision on what this coin should be heading to, otherwise any future >750-KB block could fork the chain.

[edgar]

[Vlad2Vlad]

someone just dumped 100k around 4600-5400 sats

Me mom needed the cash!  lol

[Vlad2Vlad]

The network forked after a 900 KB block we generated. We will withdraw from ixcoin for a while, as most exchanges and pools, include Vircurex, Cryptsy and CEX.IO / GHash.IO are still on v0.3.x, but as many as half of the nodes are on v0.8.x/v0.9.x, include darkgamex.ch block explorer and us. The developers should make a decision on what this coin should be heading to, otherwise any future >750-KB block could fork the chain.

Cinnamon, can we update to 9.xx across all the pools?  I'm assuming all the pools are good to go.  Thx.

[cinnamon_carter]

Vlad since I am not the administrator or operator of any pool I am not the person to direct that question to.

The code Ahmed and GR finished has been on github for months so anyone could in theory update anytime.

I am uncertain of the identity of the person above referencing a fork.

It it is accurate information I would advise caution in sending coins , I have a few rl items to deal with the next few days so I may not be on here.

Normally not a good idea to throttle a lot of hash power on and off if that is what really happened , based on comments of others.

Also the developers whoever they are can do anything but if those providing the hash power and paying the bill for it do not want to run code that is up to them. 

The network forked after a 900 KB block we generated. We will withdraw from ixcoin for a while, as most exchanges and pools, include Vircurex, Cryptsy and CEX.IO / GHash.IO are still on v0.3.x, but as many as half of the nodes are on v0.8.x/v0.9.x, include darkgamex.ch block explorer and us. The developers should make a decision on what this coin should be heading to, otherwise any future >750-KB block could fork the chain.

Cinnamon, can we update to 9.xx across all the pools?  I'm assuming all the pools are good to go.  Thx.

[mrbodz]

0.9 was never tested fully in a production environment. So i would say no personally. I'm also not willing to put hours of my time into upgrading IXC to 0.9 or later. When i was willing to, f2pool, ghash and others did not want to help at all. So unless someone's willing to foot the bill for my development time. I'd advise everyone to stick to 0.3.
Ahmed

[Doctor Zero]

I see someone is dumping a lot of iXC.  If you prefer to do the community a favor by not killing the price I will gladly buy any large blocks you have for sale.  Please PM me. 

[edgar]

i bought back 75% of what i sold the next day.

5k of which has disappeared in tx between cryptsy & wallet.

cryptsy has also stopped sending my 2fa auth code for the past 4 hrs.

fml

E2A - 27 hrs later, 2fa is 'fixed' with no explanation as to what caused it to fail.

5000 IXC still unaccounted for..



I do apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you. The reason the withdrawal
is being chopped is due to a large buildup of inputs from all the transactions in the wallet which
become too large to fit into the block chain so it chops the withdrawal to a size where it will fit into
the block chain. I have alerted our wallet specialist who will merge inputs to help larger withdrawals process.
Thank you for your patience as we works on merging inputs.
 



 
Sincerely,

Joyce
Cryptsy.com

[markm]

In light of how active the Crypto Kingdom thread has been lately...

...A thread about the founding of one little town of Monero users, presumably on some planet somewhere...

I thought I ought to point Ixians at http://coinzen.org/index.php/topic,3649.0.html

It looks like Freeciv's web-based client is working nowadays, not as some third party thing no one else can compile but as part of mainline Freeciv releases.

So maybe now at long last people will soon be able to look at the Galactic Milieu through their smartphones, which might help get more folk interested in it.

As one of the original coins merged-mined alongside DeVCoins, IXCoins are of course well known in the Galactic Milieu...

Though as of yet none of the nations thus far set up there have specifically chosen IXCoin to be their national currency.

Hey, does that sound like opportunity knocking for some Ixian entrepeneur(s) ?

NOTE: Although Ixians have not yet set up on the Freeciv scale of play, there is a lone character named Ix in the Crossfire RPG interface to the Galactic Milieu, and a family-type clan of Ixians in the CoffeeMUD interface. They just haven't yet quite gotten ready yet to manifest on the Freeciv scale, for which they would need to form 10,000 characters into a Freeciv scale unit of "Settlers" that can land on a planet and turn into a town/city of size 1, which at Freeciv scale is a town/city of population 10,000.

NOTE2: Freeciv "turns" are one year of game time, so they would also need breakfasts, lunches, dinners, anti-scurvy fruit or juice, suppers, gear, and so on to last those 10,000 characters for one gameyear of travel to their new world. So a lot of room for farmers and preparers of meals-ready-to-eat to do some large scale sales of supplies to anyone who tries to put together a unit of Settlers...

-MarkM-

[cinnamon_carter]

Thanks to Wang from F2pool for suggesting some important fixes to the ixcoin source code that should correct the issues people had with merged mining.  I have compiled and tested wallets on linux and windows and they build sound and test ok but i certainly lack the hash power to try to test hash a block at the coins present difficulty. Tech feedback on 9.3 welcome on github.

Source code is here https://github.com/vladroberto/IXCoin

ixcoind ixcoin cli and ixcoin qt wallets for windows are here https://github.com/vladroberto/IXCoin/releases/tag/0.9.3.a

Here is a screen shot of the mingw tool chain i used to build the wallets with on clean install of windows 7 in virtual box for those who want to build thier own and had trouble 

ixcoind synching up to the network

ixcoinqt https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLzQw8KUAAAPjWa.png

I announced this on twitter also here https://twitter.com/cinnamonshelper/status/629607593128906752

Hopefully this settles all issues anyone was having, I am a busy woman so off I go.

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[edgar]

whats the diff between bitcoin-client, bitcoin-qt & bitcoind?

[markm]

Bitcoin-cli is actually Command Line Interface. Once upon a time the daemon (aka headless server), bitcoind, also contained the code to be used as a command-line interface for sending commands to the copy that was already running as a daemon, but nowadays that part is cut out of the daemon to exist as the separate program bitcoin-cli.

The -qt is a Graphical User Interface'd version of the wallet, with still I think also the ability to act as a server so as to not have to run the bitcoind daemon to do the server duties.

-MarkM-

[kraizi]

0.9 was never tested fully in a production environment. So i would say no personally. I'm also not willing to put hours of my time into upgrading IXC to 0.9 or later. When i was willing to, f2pool, ghash and others did not want to help at all. So unless someone's willing to foot the bill for my development time. I'd advise everyone to stick to 0.3.
Ahmed

I recall a few months back mmpool making suggested updates for v0.9.x, and now F2Pool.  It sounds like we ARE testing iXcoin in a production environment and getting feedback from the pools.  Thanks for the update cinnamon!  And for all your hard work Ahmed!  iXcoin just keeps going and going... and going.

[Vlad2Vlad]

I admire your optimism.

Difficulty: 1,823,728,969
Network: 3,807,638 GH/sec

Can someone with a good understanding of the tech explain the logic behind this massive oscillation in hash/difficulty?

The initial drop I get, f2pool wanted to drop most of their hash power and thus reduce their massive centralized control over IXC in order to invite and allow all of the other pools to mine and secure IXC, and in the process, PAY them to do it (f2pool currently offers 8 IXC for every 1 BTC mined).  Thank you, f2pool - proving generosity is one quality iXCoin embodies.

At any rate, after that initial [freakishly massive] drop - the hash and difficulty shot back up to nearly equal that of Namecoin.  That suggests a huge pool or multiple pools started merge mining IXC.

But now we are back down, way down, [again].

So where is the logic in that?

The only thing I can think of is that we are witnessing some kind of [stealth] test for iXCoin but I don't understand the tech well enough to deduce any logical [but crazy] conclusions.

So can anyone shed some light on what's going on here and what the scope is [assuming there is one]? 

Thx!

[kraizi]

I admire your optimism.

Difficulty: 1,823,728,969
Network: 3,807,638 GH/sec

Yeh, call me kraizi, lol.  

iXcoin is still in the top 4-5 cryptos for hash rate.  As long as we keep a stable merge mined client it should stay that way.  We just need to get the pools migrated to v0.9.3 or later once the bugs are worked out.  Actually, the last issue with the large block wouldn't even have been a problem if all the pools were using the same client version.

[kraizi]

@Vlad @deadsea33

Since you two tend to do the marketing, have you ever thought about hitting up TigerDirect to use iXcoin?  They really love Bitcoin.  The advantage I see for iXcoin is its price is more stable than Bitcoin's.  It has been pretty flat for years which is a big advantage for a retailer.  It's still sitting in the same price range it was in 2013.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/21516/18-months-adopting-bitcoin-tigerdirect-reports-fantastic-experience-continued-growth/


And since iXcoin is on Shapeshift, perhaps the game "Spells of Genesis" could use iXcoin.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/21442/popular-arcade-game-launches-token-sale-shapeshift/

[kraizi]

I admire your optimism.

Difficulty: 1,823,728,969
Network: 3,807,638 GH/sec

Can someone with a good understanding of the tech explain the logic behind this massive oscillation in hash/difficulty?

The initial drop I get, f2pool wanted to drop most of their hash power and thus reduce their massive centralized control over IXC in order to invite and allow all of the other pools to mine and secure IXC, and in the process, PAY them to do it (f2pool currently offers 8 IXC for every 1 BTC mined).  Thank you, f2pool - proving generosity is one quality iXCoin embodies.

At any rate, after that initial [freakishly massive] drop - the hash and difficulty shot back up to nearly equal that of Namecoin.  That suggests a huge pool or multiple pools started merge mining IXC.

But now we are back down, way down, [again].

So where is the logic in that?

The only thing I can think of is that we are witnessing some kind of [stealth] test for iXCoin but I don't understand the tech well enough to deduce any logical [but crazy] conclusions.

So can anyone shed some light on what's going on here and what the scope is [assuming there is one]? 

Thx!

The main problem appears to be the ixcoin fork.  Is that resolved yet? 
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=700411.msg12055440#msg12055440

The reason for the reduction in hash rate may be to remove the forked branch if F2Pool was mining on it.  Once the preferred branch over takes the fork then everything should be back to normal, except any transactions on the fork would be lost.