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[CaptEmulation]

I am particularly dismayed at the poor state of the alt-coins forking and ancestry tracking.  Using git, it is possible to have created a full forking tree of all of the clients back to bitcoin.  However, too many alt coin authors (out of ignorance perhaps) failed to fork a repo and instead worked off  of static sources which they just created a fresh (history-less) repo from it once they got it "working".  This cuts off those coins from upstream features being readily mergable into the alt-coins, leaving their client, protocol and development very much cut-off.  

I am primarily joining to post in threads related to building Mac OS X versions of various alt-coin clients and miners.  I have done so and can answer open questions and help point others in the correct direction.  

Also I <3 Lebowskis Coin because it has such a low difficulty that I quickly mined a block using only CPU mining.  Very gratifying.  Also very sad because I ignored the bitcoin crowd when I saw it developer via ./

I spent 11 years on enterprise toolchain development teams, have professional Qt experience and whatnot so I know my way around in that land.  About 9 of those 11 years were spent on Mac development.  I am here to help.

Credentials:
Github: https://github.com/CaptEmulation

Contributed to:
https://github.com/lebowskis/coins
https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin
https://github.com/microcoinsource/microcoin
https://github.com/picoind/pi

[Zouhannes]

did u use only ur computers cpu? could u post a link here where could i learn how to do it on my mac. Btw which osx version are u using?

Cheers!

[172]

I'm new here too. Best of luck.

[pand70]

I 'm worrying most about bitcoin clients that look like software from the 80's. 

[ASAP]

I 'm worrying most about bitcoin clients that look like software from the 80's. 

Use an online wallet. But beware, the website can shut down without any notice.

[stompix]

I 'm worrying most about bitcoin clients that look like software from the 80's. 

Use an online wallet. But beware, the website can shut down without any notice.

He said about clients THAT look like software from the 80's , not about all the clients .

[CaptEmulation]

did u use only ur computers cpu? could u post a link here where could i learn how to do it on my mac. Btw which osx version are u using?

Cheers!

Mac X 10.8.  Using only my laptop CPU, at half speed, over two days, I solo mined over 2,000 LBW using self-built sources.  I also built Dogecoin from sources but could not even get a share accepted at a pool due to insta-mine block speed.  Also 'getnetworkhashps' reports Dogecoin is currently about 10,000x more mined than Lebowski coin o.O.  You just can't solo mine effectively any popular coin.  I picked Lebowskis because it is not heavily mined, I love the movie, and I love the PoS system.

I used pooler-cpuminer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0) to mine.  You need to add the correct .conf file to your wallet folder (e.g. ~/Library/Application\ Support/Lebowskis/lebowskis.conf)  including listen, server, daemon, rpcort, rpcuser, rpcpassword and rpcallowip.  Then you cd to cpuminer and run:

./minerd -a scrypt -o http://127.0.01:{rpcport} -u {rpcuser} -p {rpcpassword} -t {numOfThreads}

Fill in the values between {} for your system.

I do suppose you will need a Mac wallet.  Currently all I have to share is sources: https://github.com/CaptEmulation/coins/tree/mac.  The build I have would only run on my machine.  I would need to make a release build and package the libraries with it.  I should get around to that soon.  I've been pulling in upstream bitcoin sources and updating Lebwoskis because I think that is fun.

[ajax3592]

Mac X 10.8.  Using only my laptop CPU, at half speed, over two days, I solo mined over 2,000 LBW using self-built sources.  I also built Dogecoin from sources but could not even get a share accepted at a pool due to insta-mine block speed.  Also 'getnetworkhashps' reports Dogecoin is currently about 10,000x more mined than Lebowski coin o.O. 

Any prediction for Dogecoin's future value? Currently I have around 400,000 of them.