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[metacoin]

how come the v0.8.7.3-unk-beta wallet is saying 2 active connections? shouldn't I see 8?

I have 48 connections active on the Block Explorer (ports open), and 2 connections on my personal computer.

Have you updated your addnodes list? (I have to do this too!)

so you have 2 connections like me then?
where can I find a list of nodes?

Yeah, I also have 2 connections on my personal computer.


Here's my new addnode list:

Code:

addnode=54.209.141.153
addnode=54.164.167.95
addnode=198.27.69.59
addnode=37.187.27.4
addnode=192.241.171.45
addnode=146.185.148.114

This covers the major pools and block explorers, as well as nodes that have more than a year of uptime. Does anyone else have any addnodes they'd like to share?

I think the decline of solo mining is having a negative effect on full-node count. By the end of the year, we should have two new distributed applications running on Florincoin, which will help increase the connection count.

[Vlad2Vlad]

Who wants to buy 1 million Florin at 25,777 Litoshi?

Offer is good for 24 hours.  You send first.

Cheers!



Edit: Actually, no need to trust me by sending first.  I'll put up the 1 million block right now for sale at 25,777 [on Cryptsy] and if anyone wants to buy one big block [~1.4% of all Florin] at once then hit it up like Tupac Shakur.  lol.

I will be taking the offer down within 24 hours.

Regards...

[Vlad2Vlad]

Order for 1,000,000 Florin at 25,777 litoshi is hot.

24 hour limit order.


Cheers!

[socoban]

Order for 1,000,000 Florin at 25,777 litoshi is hot.

24 hour limit order.


Cheers!

Lol, I was wondering who placed there such a big FLO sell order.  You obviously own at least 2x more FLO than me:D. But I am not willing to sell at 25k like you.

[Vlad2Vlad]

Lol, I was wondering who placed there such a big FLO sell order.  You obviously own at least 2x more FLO than me:D. But I am not willing to sell at 25k like you.

Yeah, Florin is a great coin so I don't mind holding long term.  I feel very confident I can get 10 times that in less than 6 months but right now I have more pressing matters which require many bits so I'm selling coins I'm not personally attached to.

That said, I'm not in a hurry to dump a great coin and I don't want to cap Florin's momentum; hence the 24 hour time limit.

If someone has the money then grabbing 1.4% of florin in one bite is a great deal - even if it is at a considerably higher price than market.

Cheers!


Edit:  For the record, I am not selling all my FLO - only about half.  Like I said - I really like the developers and their consistent development of Florin.

I only wish they would take my advice and cut the inflation and dilution but that's another story.  lol

[Pmalek]

FLO was my favorite coin in 2013. Is it recovering? Any reason?

[Vlad2Vlad]

FLO was my favorite coin in 2013. Is it recovering? Any reason?

Great and consistent development always comes back to pay in spades.

That is the single sole reason why I bought nearly 2 million FLO when it got to a stupid low price.

Look around - how many coins have such dedicated developers for such a long period of time.

That's true value.

[metacoin]

I'd like to thank everyone here for the support given to our dev team - it means more than anything to see recognition for our work on this beautiful open source madness that Satoshi started and has since branched into thousands of different projects, one of which is Florincoin. I think the next decentralized app that runs on Florincoin will make it clear to the community how powerful the technology behind the blockchain really is.

I saw this quote on reddit the other day:

That is the bit of genius in the design of Bitcoin, and other blockchain apps:
Give users the ability to contribute to the network, and pay them for it.

I'm a hobbyist miner myself, and someone who got interested in Bitcoin years ago but didn't realize its potential until I truly understood the blockchain and the idea of power and change derived from consensus.

--

I only wish they would take my advice and cut the inflation and dilution but that's another story.  lol

This is something I didn't address last time it was brought up on this forum, and I apologize for that. It's my belief that the majority users of Florincoin would opt to stick to the chain that began with a set amount of coins and stuck to that rule hard and fast. Of course, there's nothing stopping anyone from forking a new version of FLO with a lower coin cap, and re-implementing all of the apps that we've built on top of it. Such is the nature of Bitcoin and all of its related free-software programs. Personally, I'd like to stick with the 160 million limit. Besides, the block halving is only a few weeks away, so perhaps that strikes a timely and fair medium between the two philosophies? I hope not to discourage discussion on this issue; any and all suggestions are welcome and the ramifications should be carefully considered and discussed at length before a hard fork is planned for the network.

[FakeAccount]

how come the v0.8.7.3-unk-beta wallet is saying 2 active connections? shouldn't I see 8?

I have 48 connections active on the Block Explorer (ports open), and 2 connections on my personal computer.

Have you updated your addnodes list? (I have to do this too!)

so you have 2 connections like me then?
where can I find a list of nodes?

Yeah, I also have 2 connections on my personal computer.


Here's my new addnode list:

Code:

addnode=54.209.141.153
addnode=54.164.167.95
addnode=198.27.69.59
addnode=37.187.27.4
addnode=192.241.171.45
addnode=146.185.148.114

This covers the major pools and block explorers, as well as nodes that have more than a year of uptime. Does anyone else have any addnodes they'd like to share?

I think the decline of solo mining is having a negative effect on full-node count. By the end of the year, we should have two new distributed applications running on Florincoin, which will help increase the connection count.

Thanks!!

[metacoin]

Thanks!!

No problem!

By the way, does anyone know what these messages in the blockchain are for? (from http://florincoin.info/explorer/messages)

[metacoin]

Florincoin was featured on today's Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast

http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bitcoin-154-on-the-road-again

[ThePanCakeKid95]

I had a guy contact me who's looking to buy 5 million plus FLO, does anyone know of anyone who has that many willing to sell?

[URSAY]

Florincoin was featured on today's Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast

http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bitcoin-154-on-the-road-again

Great job on this!  It's about time FLO was featured on LTB! 

[Vlad2Vlad]

I had a guy contact me who's looking to buy 5 million plus FLO, does anyone know of anyone who has that many willing to sell?

Why would anyone want nearly 8% of all the outstanding FLO?

I mean, what's the purpose?  Given how tight the supply is anyone who wants to buy such a big chunk would have to offer a big premium to the current asking price.  Unless you find desperate buyers of course.

But I would like to know why so many people are looking to buy such large chunks of FLO all of a sudden.

Besides the fact FLO has good active devs - this was the case months ago and nobody wanted millions of FLO.

[socoban]

I had a guy contact me who's looking to buy 5 million plus FLO, does anyone know of anyone who has that many willing to sell?

Why would anyone want nearly 8% of all the outstanding FLO?

I mean, what's the purpose?  Given how tight the supply is anyone who wants to buy such a big chunk would have to offer a big premium to the current asking price.  Unless you find desperate buyers of course.

But I would like to know why so many people are looking to buy such large chunks of FLO all of a sudden.

Besides the fact FLO has good active devs - this was the case months ago and nobody wanted millions of FLO.

3 scenarios:

1) Classic market pumper :
If you want to pump cheap coin long-term, you need to buy high volume at low price, to prevent expensive dumps and slowly sell later. But buying is never announced publicly.

2) Scammer:
Claim you want to buy high volume publicly, so others will think pump is incoming. People will pull sell orders and buy more and pump the price. This is good when scammer has already bought high volume cheap and want to sell to others expensive.

3) Long term investor


Since there is constant buy pressure on FLO last month, high volume of cheap coins was bought already. Your 1 million FLO at 25777 price were not bought.  Price is already 4-6x higher than it was in July-August. I would expect profit taking period at this stage. In my opinion scenario 2 is the most probable.

[metacoin]

But I would like to know why so many people are looking to buy such large chunks of FLO all of a sudden.

I usually try to stay away from speculation but I have some theories on this. As a disclaimer, I am not an expert and I would advise extreme caution when investing and speculating on any market, especially the crypto-currency market. There is a lot of risk involved.

If you look at the market history on Cryptsy, it looks like a lot of people are putting up sell walls that are getting bought up slowly, probably because of how high the price is compared to 2-3 months ago.

The block halving is happening soonish, so perhaps those that are holding long are suddenly realizing it's happening soon and reacting to this now.

The hashrate has gone up a lot in the past few weeks, probably 10x what we usually have on the network. This sometimes causes an increase in price when new miners are speculative rather than opportunistic (it is possible we have more miners that hold their funds instead of immediately cashing out to recoup electricity and maintenance costs).

Also, I'm working with a team to develop software that will be run on the Florincoin blockchain to archive cultural and market data. This project will use FLO to pay for blockchain messages (tx-comments) so the volume of coins traded on the blockchain is going to increase (and has been increasing due to my tests). There is absolutely no reason to believe that this will raise the price of FLO. If you want to learn more about the project, listen to the Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast I posted earlier on this page.

Using FLO to pay for this application will be possible so it would be the first application to make use of the FLO token for something other than trading, which is kind of cool. Certainly volume on the market could increase if people buy or sell FLO to use the the app, but it doesn't necessarily mean the price will increase or decrease.

[Vlad2Vlad]

There's 300,000 FLO for sale are 19000.

[FakeAccount]

There's 300,000 FLO for sale are 19000.

too expensive... 2mil just went for 15700

[Vlad2Vlad]

There's 300,000 FLO for sale are 19000.

too expensive... 2mil just went for 15700

It hit 21,000 a few times this past week.

I'm not in a hurry.  I just wanna buy more IXC but I can wait.

Cheers!


Edit:  I'm gonna raise it to 500,000.  Maybe the whale buying up millions will jump on it then.

[tx42]

I just stumbled on this one. Very nice and solid after so many months.