BitShares PTS (formerly ProtoShares) Mandatory Upgrade & Snapshot Announcement

[cryptrol]

Is there a chance that difficulty goes to oblivion or beyond on the next retarget and we get stuck there for some time ?
What is the point of having 2 coin weeks retarget ( or one week as originally intended) instead of a much lower retarget time ?
Just asking, not arguing.

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[bahamapascal]

Is there a chance that difficulty goes to oblivion or beyond on the next retarget and we get stuck there for some time ?
What is the point of having 2 coin weeks retarget ( or one week as originally intended) instead of a much lower retarget time ?
Just asking, not arguing.

I would have the same question aswell, would be nice if one of the devs could fill us in on there itentions/reasons for that

[FreeTrade]

I would have the same question aswell, would be nice if one of the devs could fill us in on there itentions/reasons for that

It was my mistake that it was set to 2 weeks rather than 1 week. The 1 week difficultly was a parameter chosen by ByteMaster and he might be able fill in some more details about this choice later - I suspect he's asleep at the moment.

I think there will be fewer miners when the difficulty adjusts, but I doubt we'll fall off a cliff. There's probably 2x as much hash power than is reflected in the block chain already, because of the stale and orphan blocks.

[sumantso]

Mined 2 blocks, and the price is around 0.01 BTC/ PTC - which means I have a BTC!! woot

Firstly try to sell them  .
Everybody wants to sell PTS, but nobody wants to buy. It seems that price 0.01 BTC per PTS is overvalued.

Indeed, where did you pluck this price from?

You are right. I saw in one thread that some trades went at that price so I got excited.

Maybe the price will pick up after the difficulty adjust, or people will just dump and collapse the price.

[alexrossi]

any blockchain explorer?

[bahamapascal]

I would have the same question aswell, would be nice if one of the devs could fill us in on there itentions/reasons for that

It was my mistake that it was set to 2 weeks rather than 1 week. The 1 week difficultly was a parameter chosen by ByteMaster and he might be able fill in some more details about this choice later - I suspect he's asleep at the moment.

I think there will be fewer miners when the difficulty adjusts, but I doubt we'll fall off a cliff. There's probably 2x as much hash power than is reflected in the block chain already, because of the stale and orphan blocks.

Ok, well I guess we will wait for him then, am cuerios what reason he has fo that.
Have you contactet bter.com alrady, if they add it?

[Jamievs]

I ran the client like 15 minutes ago, and it still can't connect to the network.
I'm working on Windows 7, enabled all the firewall exceptions it asked me to, and have never had similar problems with bitcoin-qt / litecoin-qt etc.

I'm just seeing zero peers.

Same problem here. Any fix available? I already added all the nodes. Still nothing

[ryen123]

I ran the client like 15 minutes ago, and it still can't connect to the network.
I'm working on Windows 7, enabled all the firewall exceptions it asked me to, and have never had similar problems with bitcoin-qt / litecoin-qt etc.

I'm just seeing zero peers.

Same problem here. Any fix available? I already added all the nodes. Still nothing

These are my current connected peers. See if you can connect to these.

{
"addr" : "84.200.84.72:3888",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1383745056,
"lastrecv" : 1383745036,
"bytessent" : 160471,
"bytesrecv" : 169214,
"conntime" : 1383731876,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/FreeTrade:0.8.5/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 2520,
"banscore" : 0,
"syncnode" : true
},
{
"addr" : "165.225.133.184:3888",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1383745057,
"lastrecv" : 1383745011,
"bytessent" : 65228,
"bytesrecv" : 125535,
"conntime" : 1383731882,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/FreeTrade:0.8.5/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 2520,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "146.185.173.206:3888",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1383745057,
"lastrecv" : 1383745035,
"bytessent" : 96466,
"bytesrecv" : 117874,
"conntime" : 1383731906,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/FreeTrade:0.8.5/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 2521,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "192.241.199.117:3888",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1383745036,
"lastrecv" : 1383745057,
"bytessent" : 70337,
"bytesrecv" : 111301,
"conntime" : 1383731913,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/FreeTrade:0.8.5/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 2521,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "188.165.216.59:3888",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1383745056,
"lastrecv" : 1383745056,
"bytessent" : 112154,
"bytesrecv" : 141691,
"conntime" : 1383732108,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/FreeTrade:0.8.5/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 2528,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "106.186.30.223:3888",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1383745059,
"lastrecv" : 1383745036,
"bytessent" : 119924,
"bytesrecv" : 139046,
"conntime" : 1383732126,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/FreeTrade:0.8.5/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 2528,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "8.19.32.102:3888",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1383745036,
"lastrecv" : 1383745058,
"bytessent" : 131309,
"bytesrecv" : 150811,
"conntime" : 1383734018,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/FreeTrade:0.8.5/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 2586,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "118.244.236.250:3888",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1383745057,
"lastrecv" : 1383745035,
"bytessent" : 49472,
"bytesrecv" : 71309,
"conntime" : 1383742145,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/FreeTrade:0.8.5/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 2830,
"banscore" : 0
}

[alexrossi]

I ran the client like 15 minutes ago, and it still can't connect to the network.
I'm working on Windows 7, enabled all the firewall exceptions it asked me to, and have never had similar problems with bitcoin-qt / litecoin-qt etc.

I'm just seeing zero peers.

Same problem here. Any fix available?

Yep: Set the time zone of your pc at UTC -8.00 (pacific coast)
After that, if nothing happen, try to manually add some nodes:

The client should connect to the network automatically but if you have trouble connecting, try opening the debug window console and type these commands,
addnode 162.243.67.4 add
addnode 162.243.54.126 add
addnode 37.139.29.236 add
addnode 64.90.183.137 add
addnode 180.183.205.118 add

[Sy]

No one compiled 64 bit binaries yet? Or just not giving them out? 

[alexxy]

No one compiled 64 bit binaries yet? Or just not giving them out? 

Not for windoze =D On linux i run them from lunch =D

[Skinnkavaj]

Selling PTS for 0.08 BTC each.
I have 100 PTS.

[refer_2_me]

My system has a lot of memory (48GB), is there modifications to the code that I could make to use more memory that will increase my block rate? A quick glance at the code indicates that maybe the following variables are important. But unfortunatly there are no code comments, so I can't tell what they are for.

Code:

	#define MAX_MOMENTUM_NONCE  (1<<26)
	#define SEARCH_SPACE_BITS 50
	#define BIRTHDAYS_PER_HASH 8

[barwizi]

i'll buy 1000 for 5 LTC

[refer_2_me]

Can't seem to get a connection to the network..

Code:

$ ./bitcoind getpeerinfo | grep addr
        "addr" : "162.243.54.126:3888",
        "addr" : "165.225.150.143:3888",
        "addr" : "192.241.194.67:3888",
        "addr" : "119.1.109.79:3888",
        "addr" : "106.186.30.223:3888",
        "addr" : "76.102.71.50:3888",
        "addr" : "184.73.53.42:3888",
        "addr" : "118.244.207.5:3888",

[AnonyMint]

ProtoShares



ProtoShares uses a new Momentum Proof of Work (POW) algorithm that is designed to be GPU and ASIC resistant.
http://invictus-innovations.com/s/MomentumProofOfWork.pdf

There's a $5000 bounty for anyone who can prove it is vulnerable to GPUs or ASICs.
http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=22.0

I am awaiting a reply from Daniel (bytemaster) before I describe how I believe GPUs can be programmed to run much faster than CPUs:

http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=22.msg597#msg597

It is possible I am incorrect or have misunderstood some aspect of the algorithm, so let's not jump to conclusions yet.

[digitalindustry]

ProtoShares



ProtoShares uses a new Momentum Proof of Work (POW) algorithm that is designed to be GPU and ASIC resistant.
http://invictus-innovations.com/s/MomentumProofOfWork.pdf

There's a $5000 bounty for anyone who can prove it is vulnerable to GPUs or ASICs.
http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=22.0

I am awaiting a reply from Daniel (bytemaster) before I describe how I believe GPUs can be programmed to run much faster than CPUs:

http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=22.msg597#msg597

It is possible I am incorrect or have misunderstood some aspect of the algorithm, so let's not jump to conclusions yet.

cool don't talk about it do it and get 5 k - or wait until the bounty is raised then have a crack -

also

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=326215.0

i started a topic because this is a "department of homeland security" like , moderated topic. .  .

the dude literally deleted my post because i said "its better to have an open discussion"

[digitalindustry]

I'm a huge supporter of the protoshares algorithm by the way ! 

MPoW!

^^

even sounds dynamic...

[Sy]

No one compiled 64 bit binaries yet? Or just not giving them out? 

Not for windoze =D On linux i run them from lunch =D

Linux is easy, got it up and running with 32 threads  but i need windows too -.-

[alexxy]

Linux is easy, got it up and running with 32 threads  but i need windows too -.-

I know =D i run 24 threads so they use ~20G ram