NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information

[Jean-Luc]

SEO is irrelevant...

...because Google-killer will be based on Nxt.

Google will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

[Damelon]

www.nxtcoins.nl has just been updated.

Decided to fork out for a backend that is a bit more flexible and allows me to add future content and keep the site up to date more easily.

If there are some Dutchies out there, consider plugging the site, as well as giving me some input on what needs to be/can be added.

Had a fun afternoon  

[rickyjames]

SEO is irrelevant...

...because Google-killer will be based on Nxt.

Google will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

Uh-oh.  Jean-Luc has become Locutus.

[NxtChoice]

Nxt CubieTruck

CubieTruck arrived here yesterday and I got it online with Nxt Client 0.5.4e and 0.5.5 after several hours work. To set up CT and let it work is not so easy but it can be handled with the help of google and some knowledge of linux. I promised to write a small guide for the set up of Cubietruck, so I will tell you how to do it and hope you nxters get CT set up and happy forging. The following steps may be a little simple and without so many details, but I will tell you what you need to take care and I hope I have time to finish it with details.

Firstly, let's see the box. It's a little bigger than Raspberry Pi. CT was designed in Zhuhai and made in Zhuhai, China. Actually, I just learned it a week ago. Before that, I ran a public VPS node and a Rasberry Pi node. The Pi node has only 512 M memory, and it was very slow as I complained it before. So I was very eager to have one mini PC more powerful to run Nxt 24/7.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4n4pza3id89yu5r/IMG_20140111_145239.jpg


Open the box, you get the red board and the other accessories, including the mini USB you will use to flash the system and power line.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n6pr50fp63fz145/IMG_20140111_145502.jpg


https://www.dropbox.com/s/e1x3ejtev24l6bs/IMG_20140111_145540.jpg


https://www.dropbox.com/s/9907t2g0gn9xvpb/IMG_20140111_145837.jpg


Okay, now let's assemble the board with the plastic case. It doesn't need any other device and it will just take you several minutes. So you get it as following.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e27hq47m6eeena5/IMG_20140111_155551.jpg


After the assembling, now the soft part coming. We need to light up the cubieboard. Before we start it, let's learn a little about the cubieboard 3, that is, cubietruck. The official website is  http://cubieboard.org . One great forum for it is  www.cubieforums.com, which you will reference to for your question. You can find the hardware information about the board, and here I just mention the CPU is ARM A20, and 2 gb memory, and it has 8 gb nand flash memory, so you don't need to prepare additional micro SD card to install operating system to set up Nxt client.

So now we install a operating system to nand flash memory. I choose to install lubuntu system. There are two great guides for it.  =http://docs.cubieboard.org/tutorials/ct1/installation/cb3_lubuntu-12.10-desktop_nand_installation_v1.00Here cubieboard doc and another blog. BTW, I downloaded lubuntu image from http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/a20-cubietruck/lubuntu/ct-lubuntu-nand-v1.01/ct-lubuntu-desktop/ , which is lubuntu 13.04 system, not 12.10.

After download the image and the flashing tool, you can use the mini USB bus to flash the image to the board. It's simple to do according to those instructions. When the system installation complete, you can start the system. However, you don't know how is going on. Don't worry, you don't even need the monitor, mouse and keyboard. Plug the network to the board and wait one or two minutes, and then you can get your board IP address through your router's (here for me is http://192.168.2.1) client list. The client "cubietruck" is just your cubietruck board, and here I get my board IP 192.168.2.105. Now ssh with putty to your board. Wow, I connected to it. The default user name for lubuntu is "linaro", and password is also "linaro". So you login and do what you want to do.

Do something as the above blog recommends to do. One important thing you need to do is to combine two partitions in the nand flash memory so as to get bigger root file system. "/dev/nandb" is mounted as root system, and after the installation you may have about 700 M space for use, but it is too small for install java and other development tools and libraries. There is another "/dev/nandc" partition which owns about 5 gb. You can get help from http://www.cubieforums.com/index.php?topic=1134.msg6783#msg6783  to get things done.

I also installed desktop for the system by "sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop", and then installed x11vnc for vnc desktop connection. After those work, finally, I set up java environment and install Nxt client. I works fine and it's running very fast and easy to deal with vnc connection for web browser operating. The images go here for you.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8y6muyuw9mpjj1y/IMG_20140113_003131.jpg


https://www.dropbox.com/s/lyu2puw4ksqtxxu/Screen%20Shot%202014-01-13%20at%2012.02.27%20AM.png


https://www.dropbox.com/s/xnky9etdf6d0qcb/Screen%20Shot%202014-01-13%20at%2012.06.08%20AM.png

[bitcoinpaul]

I would like to make a few of observations from the point of view of Bitcoin (and perhaps Litecoin) investors who have recently taken an interest in Nxt.

1) This project is being managed and run quite well - you guys are delivering results and improving the code constantly - this is creating a lot of interest.

2) Don't worry so much about all the "bells and whistles" now - get the basic stuff working solidly and keep to strict plans - nothing better than a project that runs smoothly and improves constantly.

3) "The revolution will not be centralised" - stick to this and keep the bounties going for small projects that help do this and help get the initial NXT spread around more.

+1

[pinarello]

NEWS just reached me.

from CfB:

the one that can guess exactly when we will hit page 1000 gets 100 NXT the ones who publish on page 1000 get also 10 NXT each

day:
hour:
seconds:

thank you CfB !

[Passion_ltc]

NEWS just reached me.

from CfB:

the one that can guess exactly when we will hit page 1000 gets 100 NXT the ones who publish on page 1000 get also 10 NXT each

day:
hour:
seconds:

thank you CfB !

100 NXT or 100k NXT? The second exactly? Is this a joke?

[greyw00lf]

Just wanted to let everyone know that my node has been running since:

[2014-01-08 20:37:00.879] Nxt 0.5.3 started.

And I only stopped it to update to 0.5.5.

Very nice!

my RPi running 0.5.3 nearly 4 days without a problem - very stable!
18:35:04 up 3 days, 22:41,  1 user,  load average: 0.92, 0.96, 0.95

500 blocks until messaging? Still coming out at 40k right?

yeah, what will happen then?

[pinarello]

NEWS just reached me.

from CfB:

the one that can guess exactly when we will hit page 1000 gets 100 NXT the ones who publish on page 1000 get also 10 NXT each

day:
hour:
seconds:

thank you CfB !

100 NXT or 100k NXT? The second exactly? Is this a joke?

think he will answer community has to vote

[subSTRATA]

from CfB:

the one that can guess exactly when we will hit page 1000 gets 100 NXT the ones who publish on page 1000 get also 10 NXT each

Maybe if you guys chill a bit this thread might become useful. Seriously, go AFK for few hours and come back to witness just insane
amount of crap added here in the meantime. You are spamming out important stuff like problems with NXT wallet and so on. It could
be that IS the reason behind such stupid contest but long-term you are not really helping anyone.

[PeercoinEnthusiast]

from CfB:

the one that can guess exactly when we will hit page 1000 gets 100 NXT the ones who publish on page 1000 get also 10 NXT each

Maybe if you guys chill a bit this thread might become useful. Seriously, go AFK for few hours and come back to witness just insane
amount of crap added here in the meantime. You are spamming out important stuff like problems with NXT wallet and so on. It could
be that IS the reason behind such stupid contest but long-term you are not really helping anyone.

Important info hopefully is being pulled out of this general thread.

[salsacz]

If you have any opinions about PoW mining vs. PoS non-mining, I created a thread:

Why is mining so important for all Bitcoiners/altcoiners?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=411279.new#new

- I am using it as a source for the Nxt myths paper+video (I will use a lot of citations)
- it is a nice discussion and very helpful for the demythologisation

[pinarello]

from CfB:

the one that can guess exactly when we will hit page 1000 gets 100 NXT the ones who publish on page 1000 get also 10 NXT each

Maybe if you guys chill a bit this thread might become useful. Seriously, go AFK for few hours and come back to witness just insane
amount of crap added here in the meantime. You are spamming out important stuff like problems with NXT wallet and so on. It could
be that IS the reason behind such stupid contest but long-term you are not really helping anyone.

wow

[utopianfuture]

from CfB:

the one that can guess exactly when we will hit page 1000 gets 100 NXT the ones who publish on page 1000 get also 10 NXT each

Maybe if you guys chill a bit this thread might become useful. Seriously, go AFK for few hours and come back to witness just insane
amount of crap added here in the meantime. You are spamming out important stuff like problems with NXT wallet and so on. It could
be that IS the reason behind such stupid contest but long-term you are not really helping anyone.

Important info hopefully is being pulled out of this general thread. works are in progress

I think we need to open some threads based on functionality instead of another thread when everything stays in the same place which  is the same as this original thread.
We should have at least some more threads like this:

1. NXT full feature clients - progress tracking thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412138.0

2. NXT security and user interface improvement - progress tracking thread rickyjames will take care of it

3. NXT arbitrary message and mobile application - progress tracking thread someone should open one now

4. NXT promotion and marketing thread - progress tracking thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412243.0

There threads will run parallel with the main thread here and the NXT source  code report here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=397183.0

This will at least bring some organization to grass-root development we have here.

Someone should do the same for other threads and keep them updated. The updates should be a decentralized effort by everyone. Aslo remember to bookmark all the parallel threads.

Also NXT API 1 thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=313082.0
NXT API 2 thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=406839

[pinarello]

from CfB:

the one that can guess exactly when we will hit page 1000 gets 100 NXT the ones who publish on page 1000 get also 10 NXT each

Maybe if you guys chill a bit this thread might become useful. Seriously, go AFK for few hours and come back to witness just insane
amount of crap added here in the meantime. You are spamming out important stuff like problems with NXT wallet and so on. It could
be that IS the reason behind such stupid contest but long-term you are not really helping anyone.

Excuse me people this was meant to be a joke,
substrata board is all yours. Go ahead

Pin

[abuelau]

from CfB:

the one that can guess exactly when we will hit page 1000 gets 100 NXT the ones who publish on page 1000 get also 10 NXT each

Maybe if you guys chill a bit this thread might become useful. Seriously, go AFK for few hours and come back to witness just insane
amount of crap added here in the meantime. You are spamming out important stuff like problems with NXT wallet and so on. It could
be that IS the reason behind such stupid contest but long-term you are not really helping anyone.

Important info hopefully is being pulled out of this general thread. works are in progress

I think we need to open some threads based on functionality instead of another thread when everything stays in the same place which  is the same as this original thread.
We should have at least some more threads like this:

1. NXT full feature clients - progress tracking thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412138.0

2. NXT security and user interface improvement - progress tracking thread rickyjames will take care of it

3. NXT arbitrary message and mobile application - progress tracking thread someone should open one now

4. NXT promotion and marketing thread - progress tracking thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412243.0

There threads will run parallel with the main thread here and the NXT source  code report here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=397183.0

This will at least bring some organization to grass-root development we have here.

Someone should do the same for other threads and keep them updated. The updates should be a decentralized effort by everyone. Aslo remember to bookmark all the parallel threads.

Also NXT API 1 thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=313082.0
NXT API 2 thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=406839

What about a thread for other service providers such as block explorers, online wallets (non-full feature clients), other tools...?

[utopianfuture]

from CfB:

the one that can guess exactly when we will hit page 1000 gets 100 NXT the ones who publish on page 1000 get also 10 NXT each

Maybe if you guys chill a bit this thread might become useful. Seriously, go AFK for few hours and come back to witness just insane
amount of crap added here in the meantime. You are spamming out important stuff like problems with NXT wallet and so on. It could
be that IS the reason behind such stupid contest but long-term you are not really helping anyone.

Important info hopefully is being pulled out of this general thread. works are in progress

I think we need to open some threads based on functionality instead of another thread when everything stays in the same place which  is the same as this original thread.
We should have at least some more threads like this:

1. NXT full feature clients - progress tracking thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412138.0

2. NXT security and user interface improvement - progress tracking thread rickyjames will take care of it

3. NXT arbitrary message and mobile application - progress tracking thread someone should open one now

4. NXT promotion and marketing thread - progress tracking thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412243.0

There threads will run parallel with the main thread here and the NXT source  code report here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=397183.0

This will at least bring some organization to grass-root development we have here.

Someone should do the same for other threads and keep them updated. The updates should be a decentralized effort by everyone. Aslo remember to bookmark all the parallel threads.

Also NXT API 1 thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=313082.0
NXT API 2 thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=406839

What about a thread for other service providers such as block explorers, online wallets (non-full feature clients), other tools...?

You can make one. Make links to all other progress tracking threads. We want all of them running parallel.

[cfrm]

Woohoo! forged my first block. Feels good, though it was only 1 NXT fee

[salsacz]

I added my idea: University projects (dissertations, masters, bacheleor thesis). This is a long therm thing, but if we have got here any teachers or even university attendants, it would be wonderful if you write your project based on Nxt.

There is one guy who writes his Phd about some Nxt app... There can be many thesis where you programm some Nxt app/add-on..., but I would like to get to the enomical/ecological areas too. There might be serious works based on the PoS, on Nxt, how it could change the world

[jl777]

I know there are a lot of people following this thread who would like to contribute, but with it being so technical, not sure of how they can.

I have an idea that will let pretty much anybody contribute to NXT, but it will require someone to manage a bug tracking system. Not sure what the best bug tracking system is nowadays, but if anybody is familiar enough with it to set one up, that would be fantastic.

This way, people can report API bugs, usability bugs and everything in between.

James