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

[bosian]

Logo contest will close soon, and I will announce the winner  

Actually I see there's one more day.... please vote anyway.

[Michiel]

So, what are the future plans?

[fitsbach]

fitsbach, your pool is stuck, please check...

the other pool seems working fine

Seems ok the pool, fitsbach, can you confirm?

Crons were stalled, just had to restart it manually. Everything's fine!

[ccooll]

As long as there is no exchange site I present to you

http://graincointrade.freeforums.org

The perfect chance to make the first transactions
and proove the Grain as profitable.
Sign up and trade with us.

[Michiel]

As long as there is no exchange site I present to you

http://graincointrade.freeforums.org

The perfect chance to make the first transactions
and proove the Grain as profitable.
Sign up and trade with us.

What is the difference between trading in this topic (or a separate topic) and your forum?

[ccooll]

having a forum where we have only trade.
means nobody is lost between other thread parts.
Plus I can ensure escrowing service

[paladin281978]

Community, please support GRA to be listed in cryptsy!
https://cryptsy.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/44936
On cryptsy necessarily press on - "like this idea" - This is the vote!

[r47351]

Any more activity or progress with this coin?

[bosian]

Any more activity or progress with this coin?

The logo contest will ed soon, and I am preparing a new release with more checkpoints and new logo etc.

We will also get support for games, shops etc.

[r47351]

http://coinblockchain.com/grain/block/00000141cb2925052ecd7e7d80dcefc531ac74d82ee32413f39e392cb3e9fa28

http://coinblockchain.com/grain/address/98sNiCGjGK6L4ukoxTQvW99Mxx3SxFLqUW

Is that 500,000,000 and the first 240 blocks?

How did "1% Premine" become the standard?

[bosian]

Premine 1% was stated from the very beginning. This is to support dev, giveaways, bounties etc. And this compares to many other coins which have 5% or 20% premines. You can choose a non-premine coin to mine, the problem is, these coins often have no supports from dev.

Premine 1% was made public from the very beginning, nothing is wrong with it, you choose whatever coins you want to mine and support.

[bosian]

Community, please support GRA to be listed in cryptsy!
https://cryptsy.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/44936
On cryptsy necessarily press on - "like this idea" - This is the vote!

Please support us. So far 46 votes for us! Much more than some other coins!

[Galimore]

Premine 1% was stated from the very beginning. This is to support dev, giveaways, bounties etc. And this compares to many other coins which have 5% or 20% premines. You can choose a non-premine coin to mine, the problem is, these coins often have no supports from dev.

Premine 1% was made public from the very beginning, nothing is wrong with it, you choose whatever coins you want to mine and support.

Except that this is bullshit, as are pretty much all copy-cat coin premines. "1%" premines are far more than 1% when you consider that fact that the vast majority of those 50 billion coins will be made years down the road when nobody cares any more. The giveaways and bounties total barely more than 11 million right now. That means that you're holding on to the other 489,000,000 coins.

To put that into perspective roughly 600,000,000 coins will be mined in the first six months. That's long after the point when this coin will either be on an exchange and be getting pump & dumped like the other 100 identical scrypt coins, or will have failed and everyone will have moved on. At that point your "1%" premine will represent nearly HALF of all the coins in circulation. Even a year down the road it will still be well over a third of all coins. People aren't as stupid as you think, please don't pretend like you need the majority of all the coins we're likely to see for "the good of all the coinholders" or some other such garbage.

[Nolo]

Premine 1% was stated from the very beginning. This is to support dev, giveaways, bounties etc. And this compares to many other coins which have 5% or 20% premines. You can choose a non-premine coin to mine, the problem is, these coins often have no supports from dev.

Premine 1% was made public from the very beginning, nothing is wrong with it, you choose whatever coins you want to mine and support.

Except that this is bullshit, as are pretty much all copy-cat coin premines. "1%" premines are far more than 1% when you consider that fact that the vast majority of those 50 billion coins will be made years down the road when nobody cares any more. The giveaways and bounties total barely more than 11 million right now. That means that you're holding on to the other 489,000,000 coins.

To put that into perspective roughly 600,000,000 coins will be mined in the first six months. That's long after the point when this coin will either be on an exchange and be getting pump & dumped like the other 100 identical scrypt coins, or will have failed and everyone will have moved on. At that point your "1%" premine will represent nearly HALF of all the coins in circulation. Even a year down the road it will still be well over a third of all coins. People aren't as stupid as you think, please don't pretend like you need the majority of all the coins we're likely to see for "the good of all the coinholders" or some other such garbage.

Agreed, but I also agree with dev.  So far this coin is being run very well.  I'd rather mine a coin that has a stated "1% premine" that is run well, than one that is not. 

[bosian]

Guys, no need to argue here. We are in a free world, if you don't like this coin, simply don't mine it. 1% by no means is unreasonable. There are plenty coins the premines ranging from 2% to 5% to even 20%, and still many people like it.

So any coins you don't like, just ignore them (and they will ignore you too ).

[bosian]

Our contest on the logo is completed.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=369348.0

The winner according to the vote:

• Logo Design (2) - 57 votes - Clear winner!
• Logo Design (1) - 14 votes
• Logo Design (3) - 2 votes

Logo Design (2) is the clear winner! Congratulations probeer! Probeer won 200K GRAs!

Probeer get inspiration from Maconi's initial suggestions. And Maconi's logo, with metallic contours, also an excellent design. Thanks to Maconi's hardwork and great logo. Maconi also won a 100K GRAs bounty!

Finally thanks also given to fitsbach for his logo contribution, and 50K GRAs bounty to him!

Congratulations guys!

Let's enjoy the new logo of Grain, which I will put in our next release!

[Nolo]

Excellent choice and excellent looking logo. 

[bosian]

Excellent choice and excellent looking logo.  

Thanks Nolo.


Version 1.1 released with new logo and more checkpoints, to make the coin more secure. Though the upgrade is not mandatory, you are encouraged to use the latest version to minimize the possibility of being attacked.

Download links below are updated.

[bondi]

Logo looks really well done. It was an excellent choice.

[Steam20]

To download the new wallet using the updated links on page 1, you need to copy and paste the whole link in your browser, not just click on it.
Can someone please fix it.

That goes for the links on http://graincoin.webs.com/downloads also - using IE11.