Devcoin

[termhn]

Script run for today will come a bit late sorry about that.

[markm]

TL;DR: Return readership / fan base!

Unique content is undermined by the copyright requirements of the devtome.

Anything on devtome can be freely copied elsewhere.

So, anything so unique that its sheer uniqueness makes it valuable should presumably be among the first things that people will use that freedom-to-copy clause on, promptly making it non-unique by "borrowing" it to put somewhere where hopefully it will get more traffic than it gets sitting among the mixed bag of content found on devtome.

That is a lot of why I have been aiming at content that is so byzantine that you'd pretty much have to clone the entire wiki to try to actually capture its intricacy, the depth and inter-woven-ness that makes it so deeply engrossing and take thousands upon thousands of pageviews to understand. (Any one person would need to view many many many pages to even begin to understand even just some tiny fraction of the vast byzantine "rabbit-hole" into which they have fallen or could potentially fall by getting lured into browsing the devtome.)

And even then, as someone already mentioned, merely reading only the devtome STILL isn't enough to really grasp it! You need to interact with players, or run certain free open source games using certain modules, or gosh knows what else to ever really penetrate the "fourth wall" and enter into the thing enough to really hope to grok it!

This is partly motivated by the "alternate reality gaming" concept, in which anything anywhere could be part of the (or a) game, and all things everywhere are co-opted into the game as part of the game or backdrop for the game or location involved in the game and so on. Such games are intended to be pervasive and all-engulfing. The term "rabbit-hole" has been used to characterise encounters where some aspect of such a game can, at least by observers who are "in the know", be observed.

Typically all the fictional websites mentioned in the game turn out to actually exist on the real internet, all the phone numbers and addresses characters in the game, companies in the game and so on are said to have turn out to actually exist here on the planet known as Earth, domain names mentioned turn out to actually exist and to be registered to the fictional entities that, in the game, are said to be the owners of that domain and so on.

Total breakdown of "the fourth wall".

Given such a game, any topic whatsoever is perhaps best looked up through a "rabbit hole" or in general a site imagined to have some, however tenuous, possible or potential or tinfoil-hat-theorised connection to the game because any other sites on whatever topic you might want to read about are less likely to contain "easter eggs", clues pertaining to the all-pervading all-engulfing game, and suchlike bonus layers or snippets of interesting or useful or intriguing data over and above whatever possibly very mundane topic you are looking up.

Wikipedia, for example, might be a great place to read about, say, Group Theory (Mathematics), if you are not involved in a game wherein Group Theory (Mathematics) has some bearing upon Chronodynamics (a technology some planets purportedly are researching right now that, some speculate, could lead to advantages in war and combat or even just in economics...)

Thus really it maybe makes less and less sense to read about anything anywhere else than a rabbit-hole simply because any other place really does not comprehend the Grand Nexus Uberplan in which our puny world, in its possibly rather backwater galaxy, is embedded...

-MarkM-

[psybits]

I propose a Devtome twitter and facebook account - which both autoupdate / autopost from the Devtome RSS feed when new articles are added.

I am more than happy to set this up if someone can tell me where to get the Devtome RSS feed  

I'm also happy to do some SEO work for Devtome generally, such as some high quality backlinking etc. I would need to invest a little for a decent SEO campaign but if there is a bounty for the above I am more than happy to do my part.

[twobits]

But presumably that is merely cosmetic, the array of IPs-as-integer should work with decimal integers too assuming that is actually what they are showing there.

So, using their page on our four stable node IPs, I have arrived at

Code:

unsigned int pnSeed[] =   
{
        3331996855, 3331996733, 1815951733, 84535656,
};

But... was your version backward deliberately?

Does pnSeed actually need a bytewise-reversed version (different-endian, or something) ?

Yes,  as the bitcoin code is written to be unfortunately dependent on x86 byte order, instead of the network byte order and do conversions as needed.

As for it being cosmetic, I don't know about you but I can convert each byte of the quad over and get the integer dotted quad form in my head using the hex notation, but just can't manage it with the integer one, so for debugging
I find the hex a far better notation to use.


Here I made a q&d tool for you to use if you dont like doing it in your head.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Twobits twobit integer dotted quad to reverse hex convertor
#  designed for q&d use to put seeds into pnSeeds in *coins

my $ip;

if (@ARGV) {
    $ip = shift @ARGV;
} else {
    print "Enter an (dotted quad) ip address: ";
    chomp( $ip = <STDIN> );
}

printf "0x%08x\n",  unpack 'N', pack 'C4', reverse split '\.', $ip;

[FinShaggy]

I propose a Devtome twitter and facebook account - which both autoupdate / autopost from the Devtome RSS feed when new articles are added.

I am more than happy to set this up if someone can tell me where to get the Devtome RSS feed  

I'm also happy to do some SEO work for Devtome generally, such as some high quality backlinking etc. I would need to invest a little for a decent SEO campaign but if there is a bounty for the above I am more than happy to do my part.

I've got SEO I can't afford adwords till I get paid, but I am going to shout "Devcoin" and "Devtome" from the rooftops about a week or two into next round.

I'm a member of many forums, and have tons of followers on all the social media outlets.

[twobits]

I'm curious what people thought about my idea a few pages back: there should be a dedicated site with 1) a section devoted to explaining how the shares work, how valuable shares were in the past, and a section (updated daily) showing how many shares are slated to be distributed in the next round, and 2) a section listing all the bounties, a section where people can propose bounties and vote on the amount of shares each bounty is worth.

I'd propose a bounty for such a site, but I would love to work on this, so I don't want to be too biased.

I would say devcoin.org would be the obvious site for a dedicated site.   I think someone proposed a bounty for the design of it already.  Perhaps though we should come up with the sites requirements first and part of that would be deciding that this should be part of that site.
 

[weisoq]

All right,   so something like https://www.box.com/s/3smwokd1rt83andsfpsh

This seem to work for people that don't have, or delete old versions on their computer and clean out the old data directory. So it should work great for new users.  Not sure what to do about current ones yet.

Thanks for this, works great with saved wallet from the earlier windows bundle. A few questions - why does it generate 2 additional addresses to my original one and does that matter? Do we still need to add the receiver files manually? And what is the 'random number' file for?

[emfox]

Hello, I have just build up a faucet site of devcoin, that is, a free coins giveaway site. It's here http://faucet.d.evco.in or here http://d.evco.in/faucet/, I have deposit my 5000 DVCs into it.

It may not be very mature now, help test it, and donation too.

Help promote it : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=191553.0 , please!

Edit: forgot to say, the site also provider some chain infomations, such as current blocks and difficulty at the header line.

[FuzzyBear]

Hello, I have just build up a faucet site of devcoin, that is, a free coins giveaway site. It's here http://faucet.d.evco.in or here http://d.evco.in/faucet/, I have deposit my 5000 DVCs into it.

It may not be very mature now, help test it, and donation too.

Help promote it : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=191553.0 , please!

Nice work looks to work as far as i can see, will have to confirm payments work when i get home, but i'll help u promote the site as well added u to http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=faucets

[markm]

I have updated, with a new checkpoint and new seed-nodes, the source code on github at

https://github.com/knotwork/old-devcoin-qt

and

https://github.com/knotwork/old-devcoind

-MarkM-

EDIT: And by the way, the "random number" file is probably for randomly picking a block number at which to request the next upcoming receiver-file, so that not all clients all try to download it at the same time due to all picking the same block numbers as the perfect time to download it.

EDIT2: This version assumes that the person who admins the devtome.com domain is going to create hostnames in that domain of dvcstable01 through dvcstable04, which point to the same IP addresses that those same hostnames on the devcoin.org domain point to. This is so that if I get run over by a bus or godaddy's DNS goes down, there is someone else controlling the other domain, and hopefully maybe if we are lucky they also have it on some other DNS provider than godaddy, so that we have both a backup hostname-admin and a backup DNS-provider to go along with our backup domain for people to use to look up the IPs of our only four so far stable nodes. The code actually also looks up dvcstable05 on the assumption we will try to find a fifth stable node to plug in, and plug it into the DNS of both domains alongside the others. So please who-ever controls devtome.com get these hostnames plugged in there ASAP, same IP addresses as they have on devcoin.org.

[metazilla]

Big update to my Cryptocoin Tickers app. It now supports Mtgox and BTC-E. Check it out: http://dvcticker.appspot.com/

BTC price on Mtgox:
BTC price on Vircurex:
BTC price on BTC-E:

10BTC in LTC on Vircurex:
10BTC in LTC on BTC-E:

Also, better error handling, eg.

[Balthozar]

Hello, I have just build up a faucet site of devcoin, that is, a free coins giveaway site. It's here http://faucet.d.evco.in or here http://d.evco.in/faucet/, I have deposit my 5000 DVCs into it.

It may not be very mature now, help test it, and donation too.

Help promote it : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=191553.0 , please!

The "Slide to fit ad" never loads.

[emfox]

Hello, I have just build up a faucet site of devcoin, that is, a free coins giveaway site. It's here http://faucet.d.evco.in or here http://d.evco.in/faucet/, I have deposit my 5000 DVCs into it.

It may not be very mature now, help test it, and donation too.

Help promote it : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=191553.0 , please!

The "Slide to fit ad" never loads.

Maybe try refresh it several times would be ok.

I think if the situation goes, I should change a captcha provider...

[marticps]

Hello, I have just build up a faucet site of devcoin, that is, a free coins giveaway site. It's here http://faucet.d.evco.in or here http://d.evco.in/faucet/, I have deposit my 5000 DVCs into it.

It may not be very mature now, help test it, and donation too.

Help promote it : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=191553.0 , please!

The "Slide to fit ad" never loads.

Maybe try refresh it several times would be ok.

I think if the situation goes, I should change a captcha provider...

It happened also to me (Chrome 26.0.1410.64 m), I opened the window in incognito and it worked properly.

[marticps]

I've modified a little bit my logo proposal following some users' suggestions in order to make it more readable.

Do you like it? I think it is better than the previous one, especially in small dimensions.

High resolution: https://i.imgur.com/gE9oloJ.png

[Balthozar]

Hello, I have just build up a faucet site of devcoin, that is, a free coins giveaway site. It's here http://faucet.d.evco.in or here http://d.evco.in/faucet/, I have deposit my 5000 DVCs into it.

It may not be very mature now, help test it, and donation too.

Help promote it : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=191553.0 , please!

The "Slide to fit ad" never loads.

Maybe try refresh it several times would be ok.

I think if the situation goes, I should change a captcha provider...

It happened also to me (Chrome 26.0.1410.64 m), I opened the window in incognito and it worked properly.

I tried refreshing and opening in incognito, no success. I suggest switching to a normal 2 word captcha.

[Balthozar]

I've modified a little bit my logo proposal following some users' suggestions in order to make it more readable.

Do you like it? I think it is better than the previous one, especially in small dimensions.

High resolution: https://i.imgur.com/gE9oloJ.png

I think it looks great! Good job.

[emfox]

Hello, I've made some sinple icon (or logo or symbol?), could these three fulfil the requirement?



they are all downloadable full-sized, say 1000x1000 , I just narrow down them when inserting into post.

[markm]

The blue ones are illegible. (Cannot read the blue-on-blue.)

-MarkM-

[FinShaggy]

I think there needs to be a "Devil Coin" symbol. That might help grab people's attention...

Like an upside down star, with a goats head with glowing red eyes, then -Coin