[ANN][GRA] Graincoin - New PoW/PoS coin | Fast, secure | Version 1.5 Released!

[damnation]

By the way thanks for starting a trade thread for Grain.. it was sorely needed.. Question though does anyone have any idea on how to price a new coin?

[xazure]

pre-mined??

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Grain Block Explorer

Scrypt, PoW/PoS. Bitcointalk.org. Time: GMT+0.

Hash: 00000141cb2925052ecd7e7d80dcefc531ac74d82ee32413f39e392cb3e9fa28
Previous Block: 1e4e17cf6e6d757540b5d306578b1ce8ed44f5189bc66c893acba0307953f571
Next Block: 00000e09b5f95dd33fb67f785b61315f49b0c3142872aea41b201030fc50d96e
Height: 1
Version: 4
Transaction Merkle Root: eacd26e5a8853e50ba441112b234575583111af77f7730539021f598134d23e7
Time: 1386436823 (2013-12-07 17:20:23)
Difficulty: 0.000 (Bits: 1e0fffff)
Cumulative Difficulty: 0.000
Nonce: 1626213888
Transactions: 1
Value out: 500000000
Average Coin Age: 0 days
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[bosian]

Hello all!

New to the forum and cryptocurrencies, and with a few hours of spare time on my hands, i decided to give the GRA logo a shot .. Hope im not too late? I am no photoshop professional, more of an amateur hobbyist, but still ..

Thanks to Maconi for the inspiration for the grain-thingy in the circle. I went with gold, perhaps not that original, but it kinda is the color of wheat/grain, and in my opinion it looked nicer then the brown from Maconi's picture A. Personally I also prefer the one with the letters over the one with the plain edge.

I am ofcourse open for suggestions, improvements, comments, etc. Let me know what you think, changes are no problem


Picture 1  
1024x1024: https://i.imgur.com/4b73wYM.png



Picture 2
1024x1024: https://i.imgur.com/VpuGAnt.png



Picture 3
1024x1024: https://i.imgur.com/UR5hbhq.png



Picture 3 with reflection
1536x2048: https://i.imgur.com/70GnNdlh.png



Myself, I like picture 3 best.

And here with a transparant background
Picture 1:   https://i.imgur.com/FO2KP0Q.png
Picture 2:   https://i.imgur.com/kz5qPS9.png
Picture 3:   https://i.imgur.com/BCDLWhx.png

wow great logos!

[bosian]

I think picture 3 is the best, what do you guys think?

[Maconi]

Sorry for the delay, like I said it's been forever since I've touched Photoshop so I'm a bit rusty lol.

Probeer's coins look awesome, glad I could inspire someone to recreate that design. I've been working on another design that caught my eye, more options never hurt anyone lol.



Let me know what you like and don't like. I tried to make the gold realistic but can make it more yellow to reflect the "grain" aspect. I also had no idea what to make the background color so I just made it brown to help show off the gold rather than distract from it. I could also put something around the edge of the coin (text or what not) and/or change the texture of the gold. Just limme know. ]

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Just for reference, for this design I took inspiration from these:


(top 3 grains)



Thanks to the simple design I was able to recreate it with simple shapes. As long as I don't have to draw I'm good to go lol.

[damnation]

Question though does anyone have any idea on how to price a new coin?

I would place fair market value at 1.20 USD per 10,000.

Lol actually i was wondering on how calculations are normally done...

[bosian]

Sorry for the delay, like I said it's been forever since I've touched Photoshop so I'm a bit rusty lol.

Probeer's coins look awesome, glad I could inspire someone to recreate that design. I've been working on another design that caught my eye, more options never hurt anyone lol.



Let me know what you like and don't like. I tried to make the gold realistic but can make it more yellow to reflect the "grain" aspect. I also had no idea what to make the background color so I just made it brown to help show off the gold rather than distract from it. I could also put something around the edge of the coin (text or what not) and/or change the texture of the gold. Just limme know. ]

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Just for reference, for this design I took inspiration from these:


(top 3 grains)



Thanks to the simple design I was able to recreate it with simple shapes. As long as I don't have to draw I'm good to go lol.

awesome!

[bosian]

We really have some great logo design. We'll choose the best one for GRA's official logo!

I created a poll, please come and vote the logo you like the best!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=369348.0

[Galimore]

Question though does anyone have any idea on how to price a new coin?

I would place fair market value at 1.20 USD per 10,000.

Lol actually i was wondering on how calculations are normally done...

I pegged the value on Litecoins. 1.20 USD per 10,000 Grains is the same returns you would get if you were mining Litecoins instead of Grains.

Seems like a good way to do it. I would say that they actually have to be more valuable than litecoins to be worth mining, though. I can turn around and exchange litecoins in 15 minutes, whereas there's a pretty good chance a brand new altcoin may never even make it to an exchange (or could have a fork, or the devs could abandon it, etc). If they're equal in value, why would anyone mine the way riskier option? I think that's a big reason why all the smaller alts are more profitable than BTC/LTC mining.

[maryvale]

Question though does anyone have any idea on how to price a new coin?

I would place fair market value at 1.20 USD per 10,000.

Lol actually i was wondering on how calculations are normally done...

I pegged the value on Litecoins. 1.20 USD per 10,000 Grains is the same returns you would get if you were mining Litecoins instead of Grains.

Seems like a good way to do it. I would say that they actually have to be more valuable than litecoins to be worth mining, though. I can turn around and exchange litecoins in 15 minutes, whereas there's a pretty good chance a brand new altcoin may never even make it to an exchange (or could have a fork, or the devs could abandon it, etc). If they're equal in value, why would anyone mine the way riskier option? I think that's a big reason why all the smaller alts are more profitable than BTC/LTC mining.

I'd say pre-exchange coins will always worth more than LTC if it goes to exchange (at least initially). This is like the pre-IPO stocks. Because some will never make it to exchange, they are higher risks thus higher reward.

[xinyichao]

have share but nothing to get, shit coin.

[tekkx2k13]

Can anybody explain why the pool at altminers.com is not finding any block since more than 3 hours?
not even the last found blocks get confirmed.

kind regards,

tekkx2k13

[bosian]

Can anybody explain why the pool at altminers.com is not finding any block since more than 3 hours?
not even the last found blocks get confirmed.

I noticed that too.

Time Since Last Block:3 hours 57 minutes 58 seconds

Something is messed up, stop mining there till its resolved.

pool may be stuck... may need a reboot. Coin network chain is fine.

fitsbach can you please check?

Also please vote for the GRA new logo at the poll thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=369348.0

[Rubberduckie]

71K Grains for sale


0.11 BTC for the lot

PM me if interested

cheers

[paladin281978]

I like this logo. Only better to alternate GRAIN GRA GRAIN GRA...

[udjin123]

New pool for GRA - Let's test!
http://gra.forkpool.com/

1. Sign up
2. Create worker
3. Start cgminer or cpuminer with params

-a scrypt -o stratum+tcp://gra.forkpool.com:8372 -u Worker -p Pass

stratum
registration needed
Email confirmation disabled
PPS
fee 2% (1st day testing - fee 0%)

[bondi]

New pool for GRA - Let's test!
http://gra.forkpool.com/

1. Sign up
2. Create worker
3. Start cgminer or cpuminer with params

-a scrypt -o stratum+tcp://gra.forkpool.com:8372 -u Worker -p Pass

stratum
registration needed
Email confirmation disabled
PPS
fee 2% (1st day testing - fee 0%)

Testing right now

[ptjames]

Fork pool's working well, whilst its a shame there's temporary problems with the original pool it's actually likely a good thing - mining will be split across more pools going forwards... Yet another improvement

[probeer]

I'm really glad with the positive feedback on the logo, thanks guys!

I didn't want to mess up the logo poll topic with a new version, but I made a few adjustments so it looks even better (higher resolution, and more prominent text when scaled). So I thought I just post it here ..

I also followed paladin281978's advice and changed the text to GRAIN - GRA - GRAIN - GRA .. etc. Ofcourse I can change it back. (Or for example change the grain field background if it's too complex, but that's of later concern ..)

Without white background or shadow
http://imageshack.us/a/img594/2363/0j08.png

Without white background but with shadow
http://imageshack.us/a/img69/6638/j70o.png

With white background and shadow
http://imageshack.us/a/img7/6476/s3mn.png

And one with a plain centre (no grain field), without background and shadow
https://i.imgur.com/ce0WFfl.png

So .. please all vote in the poll topic!

[udjin123]

Some problem with rpcwallet in linux.
I think the first pool has this problem too
See Est. Shares this Round   573 (done: 31031.94%)


2013-12-13 12:07:53,588 INFO interfaces # 00000001a4dbc011747de40b1237c50e4283c201cdc81199fd960d602f40471e (39863) valid N0pht123.gpu2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/stratum-mining-litecoin/lib/bitcoin_rpc.py", line 49, in submitblock
    resp = (yield self._call('getblocktemplate', [{'mode': 'submit', 'data': block_hex}]))
Error: 500 Internal Server Error