NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information

[EvilDave]

Cross posted from marketing thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412243.new#new

Huge Marketing Opportunity

Great job Salsacz and the rest of the Berlin crew!  NiftyNikel will be contacting you today to talk a bit about our charity drive we're about to start for SongsofLove. Our marketing group, CoinTropolis, will start the party off by donating 10k Nxt. I've worked with the foundation director before... they are completely behind it.

Not only does giving back feel good, it gives us a story worth printing with the 200+ writers we have in our media list.

OK, I've just had the time to take a look at the website for SongsOfLove.
http://www.songsoflove.org/

Hmmmm.....I'm going to sound like the Grinch who stole Christmas here, but I am not on board with this. At all....

I admire SongsofLoves apparent aim;  to bring some happiness to kids in hospital.
However, I think that this charity is not a good fit for NXT.
They appear to be offering the same deal to every crypto, so I am sure that the kids will get enough personalised songs to get them thru their illness, even if NXT doesn't get involved.

Sorry for being a grouch, but my vote is no.

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[landomata]

Pls send TextNxt 14748752939103314660


Thanks
Lando

[d13id]

thanks.
yes i did it.
I thought that i need ~1000$ for finish. But here guys saying that there is people who can help me with sound and voice without $s. So we are waiting

good work d13id. (4k nxt -> 8987437801852093688)

Thank you!

[ChuckOne]

Examples of VS API calls:

?requestType=createPoll&secretPhrase=123&name=Best+singer&description=Choose+the+best+singer!&option0=Madonna&option1=Elvis+Presley&option2=Justin+Bieber&minNumberOfOptions=1&maxNumberOfOptions=1&optionsAreBinary=true&fee=1&deadline=1440

?requestType=castVote&secretPhrase=123&poll=28765873427562395&vote2=1&fee=1&deadline=1440

What does 'deadline' mean in both cases?

[Bitventurer]

Dear supporters,

 I want to talk with you about the future of Nxt.org. I'm working with Passion_ltc together to make this website the center for the whole Nxt ecosystem.

We have many great ideas for the website, but before we start we need to talk about something inconvenient: the money.

I paid 157,000 NXT and 6 BTC for the domain. A few guys maybe are thinking that this is far too much, but I don't think so. With Nxt.org we finally have a quality domain for a quality product, and if we consider that Nxt will be the future of money then the money was well spent!

2Kool4Skewl asked on nextcoin.org about acquiring the domain. And I'm pretty sure that someone said there was a bounty for this domain.

So I want to ask you if someone knows more about the bounty. Maybe I could get a nice sum of the money back though this?

Thank you very much!

Greetings,
BitVenturer

[fmiboy]

Examples of VS API calls:

?requestType=createPoll&secretPhrase=123&name=Best+singer&description=Choose+the+best+singer!&option0=Madonna&option1=Elvis+Presley&option2=Justin+Bieber&minNumberOfOptions=1&maxNumberOfOptions=1&optionsAreBinary=true&fee=1&deadline=1440

?requestType=castVote&secretPhrase=123&poll=28765873427562395&vote2=1&fee=1&deadline=1440

What does 'deadline' mean in both cases?

it is for TX as usual I guess

[Passion_ltc]

Dear supporters,

 I want to talk with you about the future of Nxt.org. I'm working with Passion_ltc together to make this website the center for the whole Nxt ecosystem.

We have many great ideas for the website, but before we start we need to talk about something inconvenient: the money.

I paid 157,000 NXT and 6 BTC for the domain. A few guys maybe are thinking that this is far too much, but I don't think so. With Nxt.org we finally have a quality domain for a quality product, and if we consider that Nxt will be the future of money then the money was well spent!

2Kool4Skewl asked on nextcoin.org about acquiring the domain. And I'm pretty sure that someone said there was a bounty for this domain.

So I want to ask you if someone knows more about the bounty. Maybe I could get a nice sum of the money back though this?

Thank you very much!

Greetings,
BitVenturer

I set up a subdomain for this huge thread here.


http://thread.nxt.org

[landomata]

Dear supporters,

 I want to talk with you about the future of Nxt.org. I'm working with Passion_ltc together to make this website the center for the whole Nxt ecosystem.

We have many great ideas for the website, but before we start we need to talk about something inconvenient: the money.

I paid 157,000 NXT and 6 BTC for the domain. A few guys maybe are thinking that this is far too much, but I don't think so. With Nxt.org we finally have a quality domain for a quality product, and if we consider that Nxt will be the future of money then the money was well spent!

2Kool4Skewl asked on nextcoin.org about acquiring the domain. And I'm pretty sure that someone said there was a bounty for this domain.

So I want to ask you if someone knows more about the bounty. Maybe I could get a nice sum of the money back though this?

Thank you very much!

Greetings,
BitVenturer

I think the funding committee should reimburse you for the cost....but it should be a landing page with some basic latest news/info etc.

Nxtclient.org should be a prominent link.

Edit: lets not recreate the wheel but try to tie in together the various Nxt properties all over the internet.

[mkmen]

Cross posted from marketing thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412243.new#new

Huge Marketing Opportunity

Great job Salsacz and the rest of the Berlin crew!  NiftyNikel will be contacting you today to talk a bit about our charity drive we're about to start for SongsofLove. Our marketing group, CoinTropolis, will start the party off by donating 10k Nxt. I've worked with the foundation director before... they are completely behind it.

Not only does giving back feel good, it gives us a story worth printing with the 200+ writers we have in our media list.

OK, I've just had the time to take a look at the website for SongsOfLove.
http://www.songsoflove.org/

Hmmmm.....I'm going to sound like the Grinch who stole Christmas here, but I am not on board with this. At all....

I admire SongsofLoves apparent aim;  to bring some happiness to kids in hospital.
However, I think that this charity is not a good fit for NXT.
They appear to be offering the same deal to every crypto, so I am sure that the kids will get enough personalised songs to get them thru their illness, even if NXT doesn't get involved.

Sorry for being a grouch, but my vote is no.

Agreed, I'd recommend looking at these
https://www.eff.org/
http://www.childsplaycharity.org/

Also, related video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYrW8cBb91o (skip the price movement talk - first 3 minutes)

[Come-from-Beyond]

Voting System provides only a way to create polls and cast votes, interpretation is left to a poll creator.

Here is a possible scenario:

Someone creates a poll. The others cast their votes. When the time comes (should be written in description) the poll creator takes a snapshot of the blockchain with current balances of all voters and calculates the result.

Key points:
1. It's possible to "rewrite" a previous vote by sending a new vote from the same account
2. Votes can be "weighted" (if optionsAreBinary = false)
3. Nxt core doesn't validate data, it's left for client software.
4. Any approach to calculate a result can be used, it's not limited to PoS.

[marcus03]

Here is version 2.0 of my Windows NXT client "NXT Solaris".

It is now open-source. Source code is included in the download archive.


Changelog
-The open-source version now is open source. :O) Source code is included in the download.
-The whole GUI now feels much slicker.
-NXT Solaris no longer works on and downloads the complete blockchain, but only the fetches transactions for the personal accounts
-Closed source version: Dropped the blockchain explorer functionality
-Added a market graph (price and volume) for assets
-Added support for startForging and stopForging API requests (these fall back to a web lockAccount/unlockAccount request if the API calls are not available)
-Included an option in the NXTSolaris Starter to run against the testnet (automatically keeps the testnet and prod. settings/data apart)


Download
64-bit Version: NXTSolaris-v2.0-64bit.zip (81.8 MB) – Download here
SHA256 checksum for NXTSolaris-v2.0-64bit.zip: 8A167C9DDB6F53498EA5107D427A6B38E03EA7BCFA71094199EC7AFA9B51FE62

32-bit Version: NXTSolaris-v2.0-32bit.zip (77.8 MB) – Download here
SHA256 checksum for NXTSolaris-v2.0-32bit.zip: 5FF237349556798207B38C949F2FA34B5750028034CE313395C6E9F34DD2C098

For more screenshots and everything else please visit: http://nxtsolaris.wordpress.com/


Installation
Simply unzip the archive and run the NXTSolarisStarter.exe file.

The current version 1.8 is compatible with the previous versions 1.6 to 1.8.

If you are updating from version 1.6, 1.7 or 1.8 simply replace all files with the files in the version 2.0 zip archive.

Roadmap
1.) Move current version of my code to XE5 and release closed source 32-bit and 64-bit versions for Windows. [DONE]
2.) Refactor code to a MVC architecture, so that I can create separate GUIs while using the same version of the business logic code. [DONE]
3.) Create new GUIs for Windows and OS X using the same business logic, but based on the cross-platform Firemonkey libraries. [DONE]
4.) Release Windows version (32 and 64 bit) based on FireMonkey. [DONE]
5.) Implement new features from the TODO list [DONE]
6.) Release source-code for FireMonkey Windows version (February 16th, 2014 latest) [DONE]
7.) Implement new features from the TODO list
8.) OSX compatibility changes
9.) Release OSX version based on FireMonkey.
10.) Release source code for FireMonkey OSX version.

TODO list
-Offer a simple and advanced GUI, with the simple GUI targeted at new users
-Implement client side Curve25519 encryption/signing
-Arbitrary message encryption


Donations
I hope you like my client and I’d be extremely happy to see some donations for the future of this project!

NXT: 1758531264253431177

[Damelon]

Here is version 2.0 of my Windows NXT client "NXT Solaris".

It is now open-source. Source code is included in the download archive.

Donations
I hope you like my client and I’d be extremely happy to see some donations for the future of this project!

NXT: 1758531264253431177

Do I get a prize for writing the "Fastest Obsolete Review"?

Exactly 4 hours!

[bitcoinpaul]

Here is version 2.0 of my Windows NXT client "NXT Solaris".

It is now open-source. Source code is included in the download archive.


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Donations
I hope you like my client and I’d be extremely happy to see some donations for the future of this project!

NXT: 1758531264253431177

Huge!

[wesleyh]

Is it just me or has there not been a block forged in 2 hours on test net?

[Eadeqa]

Compiling java as native windows executable

Has anyone tried this compiler

http://www.excelsiorjet.com/

This allows the java code to be compiled as native exe file. The user doesn't have to download and install java. The speed is faster than JVM  too.

[Damelon]

Interesting read here for those who were around in December:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=459631.0

Drexme confesses.

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

Cross posted from marketing thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412243.new#new

Huge Marketing Opportunity

Great job Salsacz and the rest of the Berlin crew!  NiftyNikel will be contacting you today to talk a bit about our charity drive we're about to start for SongsofLove. Our marketing group, CoinTropolis, will start the party off by donating 10k Nxt. I've worked with the foundation director before... they are completely behind it.

Not only does giving back feel good, it gives us a story worth printing with the 200+ writers we have in our media list.

OK, I've just had the time to take a look at the website for SongsOfLove.
http://www.songsoflove.org/

Hmmmm.....I'm going to sound like the Grinch who stole Christmas here, but I am not on board with this. At all....

I admire SongsofLoves apparent aim;  to bring some happiness to kids in hospital.
However, I think that this charity is not a good fit for NXT.
They appear to be offering the same deal to every crypto, so I am sure that the kids will get enough personalised songs to get them thru their illness, even if NXT doesn't get involved.

Sorry for being a grouch, but my vote is no.

I'm not quite sure why you're sorry, it's an opinion that holds equal weight and I sincerely appreciate the response.

If the community doesn't want to directly fund it, that's fine.. I'll decide what type of campaign I want to put together.  People joke about Dogecoin, however, there's a reason why they are kicking ass with far inferior tech. All the marketing in the world targeting nerds like us simply won't push us to that next level in my opinion. But what do I know.

Very few charities accept Bitcoin. Of those charities, most want a digital currency converted to Bitcoin before they accept it. I know, I've done this when I lead initiatives for both Feather and Peercoin. From a PR perspective, that doesn't do us much good. Having a charity that directly accepts Nxt and willing to cross promote is a different story. Being able to call my contact back from Wired and WSJ and say "Ok, now I have a story for you" is different story.

 We have a massive PR list, guess how many want to talk about Nxt outside of the hardcore crypto community? Interesting, Dogecoin gets mainstream coverage because they are seen as the non-nerd, tipping/charity currency of the Internet. When their PR people call up the different media publications, it's a much different conversation based on the marketing they've done in the past. I don't have to own any of their coins to appreciate how they are attempting to leverage themselves outside the hardcore communities.

I love charity, however, I'm taking those personal feelings out of the picture. For me, this is simply a business decision looking at ROI.  I was right about pushing conferences to start the conversation (I trained Nikel in Miami), I feel I'm right about this one as well.  

** Action **

I'll put a video together explaining the idea. Those that want to contribute, great.. those that don't, that's cool too.

[Hegemon]

For me, this is simply a business decision looking at ROI.

Combining charity and ROI is a bad idea in my opinion.
Why going on the charity ground like others ?
There must be many others options to spend in communication (sport, contests, ...).

[swartzfeger]

Any testNXT, por favor?

11369639962571180006

Thanks

[wesleyh]

@CFB / JL , I get error "Unknown account" when i do startForging (on testnet) , is this because the account is new and not yet 1440 blocks old? If so, maybe another error would be more appropriate?