NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information

[NxtChg]

And add sources. Without sources any infogrpaphic is just a PR brochure with hype.

Without critical reviews of all aspects of Nxt, the source can be only "BCNext told so". We should fix this issue asap.

That's understandable. But he quotes some numbers and facts that can have source links, even if they lead to sites, which hasn't acquired mainstream credibility yet, like coinmarketcap.com.

[salsacz]

Ricky, thank you for your investigation and help. NXT community should be proud of having such members.

I trust in case #3, possible another person found the poisoned code and changed it to sniff passwords to this own server instead of default hosted by EpicThomas.

Let's refresh my and other people memory by posting some facts again.

Did [ plasticAiredale, Framewood, PaulyC, sparta_cuss, or newcn ] report about running infected NXT client software ? It's quite important part of the investigation.

newc downloaded it from Thomas's link:

newcn
Today at 02:21:33
the 0.4.8 client I used, I forgot where I downloaded it, but from chrome history,  the link was http://162.243.246.223/n...

all reports: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg4272067#msg4272067

[swartzfeger]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qgagt6cxcpx4l7u/nxt%20vs%20qrk.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d0bvchrxqahwwu1/NXTvsBTC.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ucwbhutar5t8f2/nxtvslite.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d4rkob6fgmh6307/NXTVSPPC.png

These look good, but for the love of god - proofread! I started reading about NXT vs Bitcoin and in the first sentence - "world wide". Then its "fly by night". Made me chuckle actually, thinking of Batman "some fly by night!" Epic superhero cryptocurrencies fly by night and save people from greedy bankers.

And add sources. Without sources any infogrpaphic is just a PR brochure with hype.

I just mentioned that a bit ago -- look great, bad spelling. 'Seperate' (sic) just makes us look amateur. These info graphics need combed through with more than a cursory glance (and I found a few just taking a cursory glance).

[fmiboy]

Anyone has access to dgex.com ?

Can't log in but I can see trades are being made http://dgex.com/API/trades.json

never mind, log in working

[swartzfeger]

So far we are a handful of "activists" over at nextcoin.org that is responsible for the majority of PR for NXT. It seems PR has been neglected completely which we decided had to be stopped and so we stepped up. Sadly we have recieved almost no NXT to make our jobs easier.
But we have managed to get infographics, videos, a press release that is currently being sent to several different news sources, especially those that are involved with cryptocurrencies.

Uniqueorn, I just posted some preliminary business card designs in the Activism forum. Others are free to look at, offer suggestions, ridicule, etc:

https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,2326.0.html

They're simple, nothing fancy.

I do have some pretty cool flyers cooking up... I hope to do a flyer with a few alternates, as well as some different things like tri-folds, etc. The kind of stuff you see at corporate expos, trade shows, etc. Today (Sunday) is my last day of work and will be off Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I hope to have some preliminary things to show Mon January 5 to get some ideas going and hopefully some final, community-approved designs by Wednesday.

[NxtChg]

I just mentioned that a bit ago -- look great, bad spelling. 'Seperate' (sic) just makes us look amateur. These info graphics need combed through with more than a cursory glance (and I found a few just taking a cursory glance).

I recommend ProofreadNOW.com or similar. Not affiliated with them, just used them in the past, liked it very much and the prices were reasonable.

[wesleyh]

Adjust timezone to what? The correct value or something else? Why does timezone matter?

Adjust to correct time. Timezone matters coz of day-saving.

And does this mean that if transaction never appeared in the list of transactions, it can still be included within 24 hours and I should wait a day?

Aye, it can and u should wait a whole day.

Because that would suck for people who requested a withdrawal and now have to wait additional 24 hours...

Use broadcastTransaction API call.

So is this what we should do:

TransactionID = sendMoney(..) //deadline 900
TransactionBytes = getTransactionBytes(TransactionID)
broadCastTransaction(TransactionBytes)

Do we do this immediately after sendMoney? Or do we need to wait 1 minute or so?

[salsacz]

Nxt promotion at the Conferences

No official leader here for now, people working on marketing for conferences and organizing it are Uniqueorn, NiftyNikel and Salsacz with help of JustaBit.

Miami Bitcoin conference: https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,853.0.html (some tickets already funded)

Attending: NiftyNikel, eB101, cryptobanks

Berlin Bitcoin conference: https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,1518.0.html
(for now funded only mcjavar's expenses by his own sponsor fund [15k Nxt])

Attending: salsacz (travelling from Prague), narknark (travelling from Hamburg), mcjavar (flying from Vienna), l8orre (local)
Speakers: not chosen yet, JustaBit is helping us to get to the speaker position

Preparation of marketing materials:

For Berlin only, not chosen yet:

EXHIBIT SPACE (Limited) €2200 / $3,000* Includes:
2×3 metre (approx. 6×10 ft.) raw exhibit space, table and two chairs and an Exhibitor Service Manual.
Includes:
Listing as an exhibitor on the website and in other promotional materials as available
Two free full-conference passes for staff members
20% off conference passes for additional staff members.

PROMOTIONAL ITEM DISTRIBUTION (Limited) €1,000 / $1,500*
Distribute your company’s advertising material, flyer, or ad-specialty item directly into the hands of every conference attendee. You’ll gain exposure at the event and your message will travel home with each conference attendee.
Please note: The sponsoring company is responsible for creating, producing, and delivering the promotional item by an established deadline. Rising Media must approve item. Items not allowed: pens, notebooks/notepads, or lanyards.

For Miami, Berlin and others:
Business cards:
- https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,1201.msg13532.html#msg13532
- graphic designer: Dumple

Infographics:
https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,1565.msg20180.html#msg20180
- graphic designer: silversurfer

Nxt flyer:
https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,2183.0.html

Articles:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.0
https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,2176.0.html

Nxt video for the Conference:
- not posted before 3 January

People resources from googlesheet..
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgAGADgnQcrtdHRrV3V3Z1lzOXVEMWtqdElUaEtqV1E#gid=9

Next Conference: Amsterdam, March 2014

I'll take party in a private gathering/meeting with top exchanges of China and some other companies and investors in Beijing around next Thursday. I will give a short introduction of Nxt to them. Any suggestion for me and some promotional materials?

Thanks.

you can check quoted link with infographics or here is a new link for business cards:
https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,2326.0.html

[Come-from-Beyond]

I'm wondering whether there are bugs for Raspberry Pi due to hardware or OS compatibility. It seems that the "numberOfBlocks" is always greater than the actual number of blocks. The following are the data from API call @PI.

Orphaned blocks r stored too.

[Come-from-Beyond]

So is this what we should do:

TransactionID = sendMoney(..) //deadline 900
TransactionBytes = getTransactionBytes(TransactionID)
broadCastTransaction(TransactionBytes)

Do we do this immediately after sendMoney? Or do we need to wait 1 minute or so?

This is what I send to those who ask how to accept/send nxts:

Here is one of the ways to handle deposits:

1. U generate a string of 50+ chars. This is ur master passphrase, it must be very strong. Let's assume it's "secret".
2. Each time when a user wants to deposit coins u generate a unique ID, u can use user ID if it's not necessary to create a new address for each deposit.
3. U use "secret"+ID to generate a passphrase for the deposit account, for example "secret8475347836".
4. http://localhost:7874/nxt?requestType=getAccountId&secretPhrase=secret8475347836 will return the corresponding account id. U should give it to the user.
5. Periodically u should check if the address got incoming transactions - http://localhost:7874/nxt?requestType=getAccountTransactionIds&account=6975576163363041725&timestamp=0
6. For each id in the list u can get transaction info - http://localhost:7874/nxt?requestType=getTransaction&transaction=83492836836338756
7. When u get enough confirmations (at least 10) u can increase user's balance.

Some very important things:

Blocks can become orphaned and transactions cancelled, so pay attention to timestamp and deadline values of a transaction. Timestamp is measured in seconds since the genesis block (24th of Nov, 2013 12:00:00 UTC). Deadline is measured in minutes. A transaction expires when timestamp + deadline * 60 < current time, it can't be included into a block with timestamp > timestamp (of the transaction) + deadline * 60. Current time can be obtained via http://localhost:7874/nxt?requestType=getTime
So, to make sure that u won't lose the transaction u should check that a user uses large deadline and doesn't try to cheat u by setting timestamp too far in the past. Also, until a transaction gets 720 confirmations u should check it's still confirmed and if not (due to blockchain reorg), rebroadcast it to the network using http://localhost:7874/nxt?requestType=broadcastTransaction&transactionBytes=f11234bd3a2fc19c2ba6b7c0d108deea9fcbafda5f544e4648c651ec4ed34ed2. Transaction bytes can be obtained via http://localhost:7874/nxt?requestType=getTransactionBytes&transaction=83492836836338756.

To send coins back to a user:

Do http://localhost:7874/nxt?requestType=sendMoney&secretPhrase=123&recipient=2983475693816&amount=5000&fee=1&deadline=32767
This request will return transaction id and transaction bytes. Save the both and periodically check that transaction is still in the blockchain. If it becomes unknown or unconfirmed then rebroadcast it via broadcastTransaction. Once it reaches 720 confirmations u can forget about it.

[NxtChoice]

I'm wondering whether there are bugs for Raspberry Pi due to hardware or OS compatibility. It seems that the "numberOfBlocks" is always greater than the actual number of blocks. The following are the data from API call @PI.

Orphaned blocks r stored too.

Why the Pi has so many orphaned blocks? Because of the limitted memory? How to clear those orphaned blocks, or should I just wait some time?

[salsacz]

Nxt Myths Questionnaire

Friends, please, fill in this very short Questionnaire about Nxt myths, it takes only 60 seconds:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ksk6tgs6gfrYZLd30NWQw3VfrTkKavHPHlxvnV0sD1E/viewform

Thank you a lot, it will be used for my Nxt video project

Thank you, I've already collected 22 answers, 9 were blank, 3 people added some myths. If you didn't read original post and still want to participade on a little survey about Nxt Myths, you are welcome

[darkspartan]

Faucets

wesleyh
Profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=173482
Project: http://nxtra.org/faucet/

Utilities

wesleyh
Profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=173482
Project: Random net nodes list
http://nxtra.org/nodes/

darkspartan
profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=210713
project: Nextcoin to other currency calculator
http://www.mydigital-life.com/nextcoincalculator/

videos

Salsacz
Profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=93314
Project: NXT video presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktMGC-Nq9Zo&feature=youtu.be

Articles

opticalcarrier
Profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=165191
Project: NXT news
http://info.nxtcrypto.org/nxt-news-is-now-online/

laowai80
Profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=155505
Project: Deployment of VPS
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg4103726#msg4103726

[Come-from-Beyond]

Why the Pi has so many orphaned blocks? Because of the limitted memory? How to clear those orphaned blocks, or should I just wait some time?

Number of orphaned blocks depends on network topology. Ignore them.

[seek4dream]

Is the transaction fee applied in DGEX or not?
I just put orders and the fee is still 0.

[EmoneyRu]

Time from last block API request (add to getState)

Useful for stop-on-fork-chain monitoring

[Jimmy2011]

I'll take party in a private gathering/meeting with top exchanges of China and some other companies and investors in Beijing around next Thursday. I will give a short introduction of Nxt to them. Any suggestion for me and some promotional materials?

Thanks.

you can check quoted link with infographics or here is a new link for business cards:
https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,2326.0.html

Thank you salsacz for your response and suggestion.

The infographics are so great. I will print them out with the business card to show to those guys.

BTW, could some graph guys help to design the business card similar to Peercoin business card here: http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=1544.msg11805#msg11805

[landomata]

LOVE the new look on https://forums.nxtcrypto.org

looks MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better than before!


Edit: The logo still needs some more work...or make it bigger

[freigeist]

So is this what we should do:

TransactionID = sendMoney(..) //deadline 900
TransactionBytes = getTransactionBytes(TransactionID)
broadCastTransaction(TransactionBytes)

Do we do this immediately after sendMoney? Or do we need to wait 1 minute or so?

This is what I send to those who ask how to accept/send nxts:

Here is one of the ways to handle deposits:

1. U generate a string of 50+ chars. This is ur master passphrase, it must be very strong. Let's assume it's "secret".
2. Each time when a user wants to deposit coins u generate a unique ID, u can use user ID if it's not necessary to create a new address for each deposit.
3. U use "secret"+ID to generate a passphrase for the deposit account, for example "secret8475347836".
4. http://localhost:7874/nxt?requestType=getAccountId&secretPhrase=secret8475347836 will return the corresponding account id. U should give it to the user.
5. Periodically u should check if the address got incoming transactions - http://localhost:7874/nxt?requestType=getAccountTransactionIds&account=6975576163363041725&timestamp=0
6. For each id in the list u can get transaction info - http://localhost:7874/nxt?requestType=getTransaction&transaction=83492836836338756
7. When u get enough confirmations (at least 10) u can increase user's balance.

Some very important things:

Blocks can become orphaned and transactions cancelled, so pay attention to timestamp and deadline values of a transaction. Timestamp is measured in seconds since the genesis block (24th of Nov, 2013 12:00:00 UTC). Deadline is measured in minutes. A transaction expires when timestamp + deadline * 60 < current time, it can't be included into a block with timestamp > timestamp (of the transaction) + deadline * 60. Current time can be obtained via http://localhost:7874/nxt?requestType=getTime
So, to make sure that u won't lose the transaction u should check that a user uses large deadline and doesn't try to cheat u by setting timestamp too far in the past. Also, until a transaction gets 720 confirmations u should check it's still confirmed and if not (due to blockchain reorg), rebroadcast it to the network using http://localhost:7874/nxt?requestType=broadcastTransaction&transactionBytes=f11234bd3a2fc19c2ba6b7c0d108deea9fcbafda5f544e4648c651ec4ed34ed2. Transaction bytes can be obtained via http://localhost:7874/nxt?requestType=getTransactionBytes&transaction=83492836836338756.

To send coins back to a user:

Do http://localhost:7874/nxt?requestType=sendMoney&secretPhrase=123&recipient=2983475693816&amount=5000&fee=1&deadline=32767
This request will return transaction id and transaction bytes. Save the both and periodically check that transaction is still in the blockchain. If it becomes unknown or unconfirmed then rebroadcast it via broadcastTransaction. Once it reaches 720 confirmations u can forget about it.

Hello.

Basically you are suggesting to to create one NXT account for every user that subscribes or uses a service (webservice) application etc...
I' wondering if wouldn't possible and easier to have one single NXT account where users makes their deposits and then check against
the block chain if the transactions have reached 720 confirmations and then add a positive balance to the user's
account?
Is this possible anyway? Can user cheat somehow?!

Thanks.

[notsoshifty]

16204974692852323982  also contains 1155  NXT moved from four other accounts over a four minute period centered around 29.12.2013 08:20:00

One of these (502nxt) seems to be: 13165887354532139837 / jojon29 / https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,1930.msg19183.html#msg19183

Perhaps he still has a copy.