NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information

[nexern]

Hi NXTers!

NXT's greatest competitor seem to be Ethereum. It's main feature that NXT still lacks is scripting, which is a wonderful idea (along with it's risks of course) - kudos to Vitalik and his team for bringing this up!

Because I want NXT to be competitive and because this is a great feature on it's own, I decided to personally fund a team led by CIYAM and CfB (as long as he is with us), to implement this technology in NXT too!

The code will be open sourced when the feature is finished and extensively tested.
We will use a private github repo if others want to easily review the source during development.

Let the good times roll!

very good! based on a subset of luajit or a new design?

[furball]

Breaking news: STOP TRADING AT BTER! THEY ARE ON A FORK. I WAS JUST INFORMED VIA EMAIL!

still ?

Oh man...wish I'd seen this earlier...just sent some BTC to BTER in order to buy some NXT...it is confirmed on the Blockchain but not showing up in BTER.

Anybody else having the same problem?

[marcus03]

Thanks JL!

Added startForging and stopForging API requests.
Parameters: secretPhrase, required for both starting and stopping.

While you are at it, can we have "isForging":0/1 returned with getAccount?

+1

I have been asking since December!

Then we need "isForging" : yes/no/notAvail coz we don't know if OTHER accounts r forging.

I don't get it. NRS doesn't know which accounts are forging on the local node?


When I use stopForging call on an account that I used startForging on before, I get "foundAndStopped":true, if I do it on an account that I didn't use startForging on I get "foundAndStopped":false, so why isn't it possible to check if an account is forging on the local node?

[CIYAM]

very good! based on a subset of luajit or a new design?

We are still in the very early stage at the moment so no decision has been yet made although we are likely to go down the path of creating a "low-level" assembly language 1st and then perhaps adding a "higher level" language above that later (it is much easier to "control" things such as "fees per step" if you use a very "low-level" language as the basis).

[Come-from-Beyond]

I don't get it. NRS doesn't know which accounts are forging on the local node?


When I use stopForging call on an account that I used startForging on before, I get "foundAndStopped":true, if I do it on an account that I didn't use startForging on I get "foundAndStopped":false, so why isn't it possible to check if an account is forging on the local node?

Could be confusing. Then this API call should be "isForgingLocally".

[brooklynbtc]

Breaking news: STOP TRADING AT BTER! THEY ARE ON A FORK. I WAS JUST INFORMED VIA EMAIL!

still ?

Oh man...wish I'd seen this earlier...just sent some BTC to BTER in order to buy some NXT...it is confirmed on the Blockchain but not showing up in BTER.

Anybody else having the same problem?

go to your funds page on bter

http://bter.com/myaccount/myfunds

and click the "sync" to the right of the BTC column.

[wesleyh]

TestNet appears to be down?

[utopianfuture]

Guys, i want to promote NXT on reddit now that the tipbot works and want to start a giveaway that i crosspromote on other subreddits. Would there be some communityfunds available for that?

We should take a big effort to explain why P-O-S is different from P-O-W coin and the term pre-mine does not apply. Also take an effort to stress on how P-O-W coin have been dominated by mining industry which is a big extra burden for a self-sufficient blockchain.

[marcus03]

I don't get it. NRS doesn't know which accounts are forging on the local node?


When I use stopForging call on an account that I used startForging on before, I get "foundAndStopped":true, if I do it on an account that I didn't use startForging on I get "foundAndStopped":false, so why isn't it possible to check if an account is forging on the local node?

Could be confusing. Then this API call should be "isForgingLocally".

Include it in the getAccount result like this

{"publicKey":"640050ac792a37bc327b76de539a8ebb99f2fc8428e7fe0d95cdbaaa6bfdad49","balance":22200,"effectiveBalance":22200,"isForgingLocally":true}

[nexern]

TestNet appears to be down?

running fine, still buying and selling

[Come-from-Beyond]

TestNet appears to be down?

No, but works slower.

[Come-from-Beyond]

Include it in the getAccount result like this

{"publicKey":"640050ac792a37bc327b76de539a8ebb99f2fc8428e7fe0d95cdbaaa6bfdad49","balance":22200,"effectiveBalance":22200,"isForgingLocally":true}

This is not effective. Need to think how it's better to implement.

[TwinWinNerD]

Guys, i want to promote NXT on reddit now that the tipbot works and want to start a giveaway that i crosspromote on other subreddits. Would there be some communityfunds available for that?

We should take a big effort to explain why P-O-S is different from P-O-W coin and the term pre-mine does not apply. Also take an effort to stress on how P-O-W coin have been dominated by mining industry which is a big extra burden for a self-sufficient blockchain.

Yes, we will start also a seperate info campain. When i start this giveaway i will need a list of clients and links where one can get started with NXT. Reddit is currently a Doge dominated place, but i think we can penetrate that market with our superior features!

[Passion_ltc]

Nxt is growing quickly the last few days. 


Nice to see. I hope that the price stays low until march.

[joefox]

CfB:  When I issue the startForging call, I get {"deadline":0} as a response.  What does this deadline represent?  Most of the time it says "0" but occasionally I get other numbers (e.g. -67900).

And on a side note:  I can't help but notice that the only exchange NOBODY is complaining about right now seems to be DGEX.

[Damelon]

Nxt is growing quickly the last few days. 


Nice to see. I hope that the price stays low until march.

Actually, it's rising today

[punkrock]

AT ALL: PLEASE UPDATE YOUR CLIENTS TO 0.7.4 BEFORE WE REACH BLOCK 67000!

[TwinWinNerD]

@C-f-b you said that the fee won't be lowered this week. But can you give a roughly ETA? Because we need to know that to do our planing on reddit.

[utopianfuture]

Guys, i want to promote NXT on reddit now that the tipbot works and want to start a giveaway that i crosspromote on other subreddits. Would there be some communityfunds available for that?

We should take a big effort to explain why P-O-S is different from P-O-W coin and the term pre-mine does not apply. Also take an effort to stress on how P-O-W coin have been dominated by mining industry which is a big extra burden for a self-sufficient blockchain.

Yes, we will start also a seperate info campain. When i start this giveaway i will need a list of clients and links where one can get started with NXT. Reddit is currently a Doge dominated place, but i think we can penetrate that market with our superior features!

I have been advertising massively in Dogecoin reddit in more than a week. Click-though rate is very decent at more than 1500 unique clicks. It probably does not work that well for NXT since NEM is still in registration phase and everyone is curious. Here's the thing about crypto-subreddit spaces; everyone protects their spaces like crazy. You could not book an advertising spaces in Peercoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin subreddit up to 1 month forward, however Doge spaces are relatively open so that I did find some slots while NEM registration is still open. I have one day in Bitcoin subreddit later this month as well.
That's something if you manage Reddit you should keep in mind. When the readers there grow, have NXT related businesses advertise in the sub-reddit far into future.  

[jl777]

The homepages we currently have are not so userfreiendly and contain too much information for Avarage Joe.

NXTclient.org

I don´t think it´s a problem if we have the same landing page (or different landingpages) on several domains. The most important thing is to allow newcomers to get on the boat easier.

Especially if we are able to get clickthrough statistics, download statistics and even new acct creation statistics from the landing page.

Then using standard optimizing techniques, we can probably double the conversion rate, eg. new NXTers from each visitor