[ANN][BLC] Blakecoin Blake-256 for GPU/FPGA With Merged Mined Pools Stable Net

[easyrimka]

so the final word is , dont invest in blake ecosystem... ?

It truly comes down to -->  Do Your Own Research & Make Your Own Decisions 

 i know, but the dev is concluding that his work is finished and people need to use the source code to make blake growing .. 

haha No

what input have you made???

oh Investing oh that helps me tons with source code and running the network you have no clue what I do and with my own time too how insulting 

im not insulting, just trying to understand. If you want people to help, you need to maintain the topic , give news, show some updates, even if its very small ... i respect your work , im not insulting you

[BlueDragon747]

so the final word is , dont invest in blake ecosystem... ?

It truly comes down to -->  Do Your Own Research & Make Your Own Decisions  

 i know, but the dev is concluding that his work is finished and people need to use the source code to make blake growing ..  

haha No

what input have you made???

oh Investing oh that helps me tons with source code and running the network you have no clue what I do and with my own time too how insulting  

im not insulting, just trying to understand. If you want people to help, you need to maintain the topic , give news, show some updates, even if its very small ... i respect your work , im not insulting you

I will only post about updates that are inbound and if you could be bothered to read what I have said I have explained why there has been no rush for updates mainly due to newer code not being stable thus no good till I fix it properly which is between work and other projects e.g "if it aint broke dont fix it" but That Is Not = Finished

I have been working on a new wallet on and off for some time just buggy btc code

....... unstable and spaghetti like  

and the answer to when will it be done is I dont know round the time it either must be done or when I feel like putting 10s of hours into it (sometimes I do enjoy working on wallet code just not recently btc code is a mess)

as I have said + sid too its open source you want to get newer code NOW you put time in and got it working sweet? then make a pull request on github just like others do for btc etc... After my testing if its good/stable it will get merged and credit for effort will be given to you  

if you cant/wont code then it does need to fit in with what I am doing as its my own free time not paid so I will suit myself

so far what work I have done on a new wallet code base has not worked out for a stable update which is a must in my book, just updating current with a few checkpoints and odd fix is not going to help the fact some of required libs are getting old hence why I was working on a rebase anyways so yeah thats how it is right now

[bzyzny]

Do you need funding? I'd bet if you organized some kind of fundraising, and showcased some of the game dev you've done, people would throw money at it and you could work on it full time and/or hire some people to help get it done.

[BlueDragon747]

Do you need funding? I'd bet if you organized some kind of fundraising, and showcased some of the game dev you've done, people would throw money at it and you could work on it full time and/or hire some people to help get it done.

its not as simple as that and may not result in a successful project or me even working on it when it completes (e.g EA and Visceral)

Currently

• Most Art and 3rd party assets have licences for me to use in complete games and promotional content as a single seat(1 dev) a couple pre 2016 have multi seat but not most as they cost quite a bit more
• a showcase is easy vs a stable backend framework and client which is whats needed for game play and multiple games
• possible unrealistic expectations by funders either corporate or social exerting unnecessary pressure just to reach a best guess schedule date which often has negative effects on game play
• meetings/training/familiarization can take ages and people still might not stay for whatever reason so can get caught in a loop and little real work on solutions is done just talk and same old stuff again and again
• raise more than $100k and also licence changes for unity engine(tiny amount really for a game even a mobile one ~ 2 devs 1 year *most AAA large team and 3-5 years)
• pretty much worked full time doing game dev during 2015 and towards end of that year into 2016 spent most of that time getting the skills my ex team mates had just so things could continue
• much higher taxation with formal structure inc time needed for accounting also if age > 3 years has even more issues with paperwork and accounts at least here in UK
• If people you work with trust to do their part leave for whatever reason you can be left either redoing/reworking or a total rewrite which is what I did after Andrew left BZ this really screws plans/timeframes up
• if you run out of money project fails and people tend to go own ways rather than tough it out till its complete or at least meets most of its requirements
• limited data to properly cost the expected revenue and CU overheads which could mean funding is short or too much interesting interview here

"The actual process of generating projections - which EA uses to set marketing budgets and judge success - is incredibly opaque, which I think most devs found frustrating. We can't translate our passion into a spreadsheet."

"Dead Space 2, cost $60 million to make and a further $60 million to market" later elaborating that the development budget specifically was closer to $47m. "Once you account for the sizable cut from retailers, distributors and more, 4 million sales is not enough to recoup these costs."

"Survival horror is hard, Horror games in general are expensive to make and hard to sell."

So I will continually reevaluate as time goes on but right now Self Funded works and fits in with what I am currently doing, latter stages specially distribution things change but not close to that right now so does not have an effect on funding sources

The further I get along the line more data can collect to properly value to project which ultimately will result in correct amount(at least a lot closer) for expectations and budgets when asking for funding (ideal would be minimal funding needed for infrastructure to scale with most spent on marketing and basically all initial 3rd party assets/R&D/early work done and paid for e.g Chicken before egg)

Originally I did seek funding and it came down to losing controlling % of any formal entity + tight time frames + penalties for over budget/time if I had gone that way the amount looking back was far too little and time frames impossible let alone the stress for not meeting them  

Social side of funding sources yeah plenty over the years have raised what they asked for and sometimes even much more but many of them still failed as they could not make it work at scale or it was much more expensive once they tried to roll out/release/distribute/production, I am hoping for at least the skill to repeat until I hit a gem without the strings that come with fundraising too early.

I do think at the right time in the project fundraising can be used as part of the marketing and to help fund that part of the process at least from a social side and that can then in turn help have a stronger hand when forming contracts as a company with other companies and not a weak hand with a begging bowl and dire need to pay staff like many projects/companies fail with  

on a positive note the games industry as a whole does seem to be focusing on even more loot boxes and microtransactions systems/game mechanics in most games on mostly all platforms these days so what I have been working on is still very relevant and no clear winner/solution plenty trying even some raising funds to be where I am already  

[bzyzny]

That makes sense, thanks for the detailed explanation.

[bitfawkes]

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best regards.

bitfawkes

[BlueDragon747]

On which exchanges will tokens trade?

Cryptopia allows trading of Blakecoin
www.cryptopia.co.nz  

[cinnamon_carter]

don't count on it

According to this site, blakebitcoin, electron, and photon are dead :/ RIP I guess?

http://deadcoins.com

[easyrimka]

i joined to telegram and waiting to participate for airdrop.
Good luck for the project
 

??
there is no airdrop ...

[nuthatchbold]

I believe in this project!! Are there any signed contracts or negotiations with big companies?

[easyrimka]

I believe in this project!! Are there any signed contracts or negotiations with big companies?

yes, they have signed contract with microsoft and apple ..

[sidgrip]

I believe in this project!! Are there any signed contracts or negotiations with big companies?

No, there are no signed contracts with anybody.

yes, they have signed contract with microsoft and apple ..

Even if your joking, please do not spread rumors that are not true  

[PeterTheGrape]

This has to be the only 2013 fair release with an active dev that is still ~100,000 usd or less.

Are there any others?

 

add

not only active dev but real supporters, an actual real cryptocurrency with no hype except this post


              

[BlueDragon747]

Made some updates on Blakecoin site with merged coins wallet links and new logo/icon from the community  

[PeterTheGrape]

Made some updates on Blakecoin site with merged coins wallet links and new logo/icon from the community 

This was the first coin, as far as I know, to have an automated exchange, Blaketrader, and even though that concept has developed further, it would be impressive to restart that, maybe a little more photogenic than the old site, and then allow other coins to copy the software to create similar sites with a creative commons type opensource. If somebody wants to bounty that I'll try to chip in a little.

[sidgrip]

This was the first coin, as far as I know, to have an automated exchange, Blaketrader, and even though that concept has developed further, it would be impressive to restart that, maybe a little more photogenic than the old site, and then allow other coins to copy the software to create similar sites with a creative commons type opensource. If somebody wants to bounty that I'll try to chip in a little.

Yes BlakeTrader was cool, but I see crypo as a whole gravitating towards the decentralized exchange concept and feel that the blake256 family should be compatible with the future.   

[klamot]

Hi!
 I did mine on Merged EU3. Unfortunatelly due to defected keyboard locked my account. It says email was sent to my email account- I didn't get there since few days. I did try to recover a pssword- again email didn't get there.
My email is thor_klamoty@vp.pl
Is there a way to unlock the account? I did changed keyboard so can log in with correct password
 I hope you can help

  Best regards
            Mariusz


ps. sorry, I do write here but couldn't find a way to contact BlueDragon747 anywhere else

[BlueDragon747]

Hi!
 I did mine on Merged EU3. Unfortunatelly due to defected keyboard locked my account. It says email was sent to my email account- I didn't get there since few days. I did try to recover a pssword- again email didn't get there.
My email is
Is there a way to unlock the account? I did changed keyboard so can log in with correct password
 I hope you can help

  Best regards
            Mariusz


ps. sorry, I do write here but couldn't find a way to contact BlueDragon747 anywhere else

no problem your account should be unlocked now  

if you use twitter @blakecoin also is pretty quick for any support  

[klamot]

Hi!
 I did mine on Merged EU3. Unfortunatelly due to defected keyboard locked my account. It says email was sent to my email account- I didn't get there since few days. I did try to recover a pssword- again email didn't get there.
My email is
Is there a way to unlock the account? I did changed keyboard so can log in with correct password
 I hope you can help

  Best regards
            Mariusz


ps. sorry, I do write here but couldn't find a way to contact BlueDragon747 anywhere else

no problem your account should be unlocked now  

if you use twitter @blakecoin also is pretty quick for any support  

thanks a lot!
I did dig out my 3 old HD5970 and will try them out- they could be still working so will get them to work.
I do not use twitter or Facebook but looks like will have try Twitter

  all the best from Poland

[BlueDragon747]

thanks a lot!
I did dig out my 3 old HD5970 and will try them out- they could be still working so will get them to work.
I do not use twitter or Facebook but looks like will have try Twitter

  all the best from Poland

for old 5/6 series cards Amd stopped support 15.12 onwards *does display and install but moves 5/6 series cards to legacy which does not do opencl  

if I remember correctly 15.11.1 works and does win 7/8/8.1/10 on these cards can get from guru3d here or other stable drivers are 14.4 and 14.9 I think

they may be old but great way to heat your place in the winter months  

you dont really need to use twitter I am fine with posting or pm here and I dont like Facebook myself