Devcoin

[Unthinkingbit]

To stop scammers, now only administrators can make a new account, so new writers have to contact me to request an account. The request should include a link to your posts or blog or wiki, or your biography, or at least 50 words of your first article. I check the bitcoin forum often, so sending a message to:

unthinkingbit

will get a quick response. I also check my unthinkingbit email address, although less often:
unthinkingbit@gmail.com

If you are porting your own article, you have to show that you have the rights to your contribution.

[Unthinkingbit]

Icoin has backed up devcoin files:

http://92.105.105.155/devcoin/
or by usind DNS
http://solidelement.ch/devcoin/

and will get the 1/5 of a generation share maintenance bounty as long as he maintains the backups.

[Unthinkingbit]

The monthly bonus for writing in consecutive months has been dropped, because it is confusing and doesn't really give an incentive for writers to write or sign up. I was the only person who would of received that bonus this month. Because the bonus is dropped, I will get one less share and all the devcoin shares will therefore be worth proportionately more. The money for writing is now just the signing bonus, earning per word and share of advertising:
http://devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Earn_Devcoins_by_Writing#Income

The signing bonus has been extended to the first 40 people instead of the first 25. This is to encourage more writers to sign up and to simplify the bonus schedule, which used to decrease at every five with some exceptions. Now the bonus decreases at each ten without exception:
http://devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Earn_Devcoins_by_Writing#Signing_Bonus

The old signing bonus was:

"There is a first article bounty of four generation shares for the first five writers, four generation shares for the next five, then three generation shares for the next five, then two generation shares for the next five, and finally one generation share for the last five. "

The new signing bonus is:

"There is a first article bounty of four generation shares for the first ten writers, three generation shares for the next ten, then two generation shares for the next ten, and finally one generation share for the last ten."

[Unthinkingbit]

The round 11 devtome word bounties are pasted below and at:
https://raw.github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/master/devtome_bounty_11.csv

17vec4jQGCzMEsTnivizHPaowE715tu2CB-Unthinkingbit,11-Word Count

They are generated by tomecount.py:
https://raw.github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/master/tomecount.py

The word bounties were generated on 2012-05-08, and the word counts follow below.

Original Word Count: 34,486
Collated Word Count: 53,714
Collated Weighted Word Count: 16,114
Total Word Count: 88,200
Total Weighted Word Count: 50,600

From statistics:
http://devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Statistics

Views total: 26,424
Content pages: 61

[Unthinkingbit]

The round 11 receiver files have been uploaded to:
http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/receiver_11.csv
https://raw.github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/master/receiver_11.csv
http://devcoinblockexplorer.info/receiver/receiver_11.csv

The account file is at:
https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/blob/master/account_11.csv

People on that list will start getting those coins in round 11, starting at block 44,000.  The procedure for generating the receiver files is at:
http://www.devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Devcoin#Generating_the_Files

The next bounties will go into round 12.

[Unthinkingbit]

Because the devcoin block explorers:
http://devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Devcoin_Block_Explorer

are often down, the block explorer bounty is now 2 generation shares for the next 4 devcoin block explorers.

Edit: 3 have been made, so 1 award remains, the third was:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34586.msg1941375#msg1941375

The block explorers can be only devcoin, or have devcoin as an option among many currencies. As long as a block explorer is working, at least part of the time, it would get an ongoing maintenance bounty of 2/5 of a share.

[caston]

Hi Unthinkingbit I would like to offer Devcoins to people that blog on Rejuvepedia about manned exploration and settlement of Mars.

This is to celebrate the new section:

"Mars - Rejuvenation of our neighbor planet"

to go along side

"Earth - Rejuvenation of our planet"


http://www.rejuvepedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page



I am considering offering 2 million DVC per blog post consisting of at least 400 words and two open license images.


I would like to mention that with the money wasted on international war and on bailing out incompetent banking institutions we really have no excuse for not splashing out on Mars exploration. If we started the previous decade with a manned Mars mission followed by a permanent settlement instead of war and property speculations bubbles we'd all be much better off now.

People will need to message me their intention to blog so I can create an account for them.

[caston]

Would anyone be interested in this offer? should I make the reward higher?

[Unthinkingbit]

Hi Unthinkingbit I would like to offer Devcoins to people that blog on Rejuvepedia about manned exploration and settlement of Mars.

Sounds like a good idea.

Thanks for asking, but there's no need to ask my permission to offer devcoins, they're yours.

Would anyone be interested in this offer? should I make the reward higher?

The rate on devtome is a generation share per 1,000 words, which works out to roughly 5,000,000 DVC per 1,000 words:
http://devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Earn_Devcoins_by_Writing

So far four people (Mark, Cablepair, Yasin and I) have written for the wiki. I'm hoping that when the value of devcoin and/or bitcoin goes up that more people will write.

[caston]

Thank you. The bounty for writing on devtome is quite generous. I should look at writing an article to earn more DVC. It certainly looks like a better and more productive way of earning them then simply selling high and buying low on vircurex.

[Unthinkingbit]

Thank you. The bounty for writing on devtome is quite generous. I should look at writing an article to earn more DVC.

Please do.

By the way articles do not have to be purposely written for devtome, you can port articles from Rejuvepedia or any other articles that you have written or whose rights you own.

It certainly looks like a better and more productive way of earning them then simply selling high and buying low on vircurex.

Yup. There's only a limited amount people can make from trading, or earn from mining after deducting expenses.

Of all the threads I've seen on the forums, writing for devtome is the only one where you can make a large amount of coin automatically. No risk of trading loss, or of mining revenues being smaller than costs. Of course writing is hard work, but you get coin for sure.

[Unthinkingbit]

I looked over the forum post of developers on the bitcoinshare list and it seems that some developers were no longer working on bitcoin. I sent messages but could not reach the following people:

Drgr33n
Jackjack
Shads

If someone reading this knows those people, and they are still working on open source of some kind, please ask them to message me. If the open source project is not bitcoin related, they'll simply be moved to the devcoinshare list, but they'll still get a share. If I don't get a reply by time the round 12 receiver file is generated, they'll be dropped from the list until they start developing again.

[kjlimo]

Any plans for http://pool.devcoin.org to come back online?

I'll be more interested in DVC once this pool is back up.

Until then it just seems like more hassle that it's worth and I wish I wouldn't have spent a month dealing with harmful accusations from the DVC pool.

I'll edit this post to remove any FUD as soon as my share of mining is distributed. 

Good luck.

[markm]

I am preparing to open up my merged mining setup as a "DeVCoin pool", that is, as a pool that pays out only in DeVCoins.

It merged-mines as many coin types as is practical, currently bitcoins, namecoins, devcoins, groupcoins, ixcoins, i0coins and coiledcoins; that much already works, and is done by means of p2pool.

It will pay out only DeVCoins though, which it will accomplish by selling all the other types of coins for DeVCoins, hopefully mostly on my Open Transactions server.

It looks like I should be able to set p2pool's "commission" to 100% so that it does not pay out any bitcoins, and compute how much each completed share submitted is worth up to a any given moment by compating how many shares in total have been completed to how many DeVCoins in total have been realised by mining them and by selling all the other types of coins mined. So this should hopefully be opening shortly.

-MarkM-

[cablepair]

Any plans for http://pool.devcoin.org to come back online?

I'll be more interested in DVC once this pool is back up.

Until then it just seems like more hassle that it's worth and I wish I wouldn't have spent a month dealing with harmful accusations from the DVC pool.

I'll edit this post to remove any FUD as soon as my share of mining is distributed. 

Good luck.

pool.devcoin.org was my privately owned pool, it has nothing to do with mark unthinkinbit or really devcoin in general for that matter

i was sent several recovered wallets from the server that had a bad hard drive and the reason the pool disapeared

but in reality the amount of money you are worried about is extremely small, why are you so concerned?

if you would like give me a bitcoin address and I will send you 2 Bitcoins, it should cover anything and some that you may have lost in un spent Devcoins from my pool

[kjlimo]

Any plans for http://pool.devcoin.org to come back online?

I'll be more interested in DVC once this pool is back up.

Until then it just seems like more hassle that it's worth and I wish I wouldn't have spent a month dealing with harmful accusations from the DVC pool.

I'll edit this post to remove any FUD as soon as my share of mining is distributed. 

Good luck.

pool.devcoin.org was my privately owned pool, it has nothing to do with mark unthinkinbit or really devcoin in general for that matter

i was sent several recovered wallets from the server that had a bad hard drive and the reason the pool disapeared

but in reality the amount of money you are worried about is extremely small, why are you so concerned?

if you would like give me a bitcoin address and I will send you 2 Bitcoins, it should cover anything and some that you may have lost in un spent Devcoins from my pool

Last time the website was up, my account displayed 5,291,685 DVC.  Feel free to send those to this address: 14VdUwymcyWK6BB1kJ6QoCbjo59HxWRZv2

Or I'll gladly take 16 BTC to this address: 1Kim32XYXHKcgsqgCCNdZcoMCMEW23L1vv

I'll edit my post as promised once this matter is resolved.  We've been exchanging PM's for the past few months and I just thought I'd let the community know that I may be more interested in the DVC community once this issue is resolved which is a true statement.

I'll read Caston's offer and let you all know if I can help once this issue is resolved.  Again, sorry to mention it here, but it was starting to affect the DVC community (assuming you want me to be a part of it).

Thanks for reading.

[kjlimo]

Just trying to understand how Devcoin is not linked to Pool.devcoin.org

This website http://devcoin.org/  has http://pool.devcoin.org listed.

Is http://devcoin.org/ not an official Devcoin website?

[cablepair]

Not really no,

Devcoin.org is owned by me, although a Devoin enthusiast I am not one of the founders, creators etc

Devcoin.org is not made by anyone that is


how does this affect the Devcoin community?

Btw the fact you say you are owed 5 million devcoins is not true and you know it

I already told you the web site was displaying the wrong amount

you know damn well you are not owed 5 million devcoins, my pool did not even mine that many devcoins when you were mining on it

[markm]

Okay, my DeVCoin Pool mentioned previously now has routing, it should be reachable on the net now as port number 10332 at ot.knotwork.com

Also now routed should be ports for the MUDgaard MUD that had hitherto only been reachable over i2p in web mode, with port 5555 as the telnet-type port used by MUD clients and port 27744 as the port web-browsers can visit to access it via browser.

-MarkM-

[cablepair]

mark where can I get the latest devcoin binaries?

I am going to have to get into this wallet now and see whats in there...