[ANN][XCP] Counterparty - Pioneering Peer-to-Peer Finance - Official Thread

[Janitor]

I still can not get anyone to use counterparty

Me neither.

What's the point of these messages except to let us know that you possibly need to improve your skills?

[1714006016]

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[cityglut]

Announcement: We have implemented completely trustless gaming in Counterparty. Read more here!

[Patel]

Announcement: We have implemented completely trustless gaming in Counterparty. Read more here!

fixed: https://www.counterparty.co/counterparty-introduces-fully-trustless-games-on-the-blockchain/

[xnova]

Counterwallet 1.3.0 RC1 Released and live!

New features in this release:

* Added Rock-Paper-Scissors
* Added Zeroconf support (show pending balances for assets)
* Added IP-based blocking capabilities for betting, RPS and dividend issuance features. We are currently blocking people with US-based IP addresses from using these features on counterwallet.co itself.

(Please don't complain about the last one. As US citizens, we are voluntarily choosing to do this in good faith, to reduce any potential legal risk from the operation of counterwallet.co.)

The full changelog is over at https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterwallet/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

[nutildah]

I still can not get anyone to use counterparty

Me neither.

What's the point of these messages except to let us know that you possibly need to improve your skills?

To let other people know that they are not alone in their frustration.

[xnova]

I still can not get anyone to use counterparty

Me neither.

What's the point of these messages except to let us know that you possibly need to improve your skills?

To let other people know that they are not alone in their frustration.

We are still in the "innovators" stage, so this is not very surprising. We have several more large UI changes upcoming, which should make it easier for people to use Counterparty, and help move us into the "early adopter" stage.

[nutildah]

We are still in the "innovators" stage, so this is not very surprising. We have several more large UI changes upcoming, which should make it easier for people to use Counterparty, and help move us into the "early adopter" stage.

Sounds good. I like Counterparty and I think it has a lot to offer. Am looking forward to the upgrades. Are the new changes whats causing this to happen when I try to log in right now?

"No counterparty servers are currently available. Please try again later. ERROR: Request Time out."

Never seen that one before. Thanks.

[benjamindees]

XCP - The future of crypto-commodities trading, direct from farmer to food.

If you have 1 SOYBEANS, you can trade it in for 1 pound of my food grade soybeans before the end of 2014.

...

DISCLAIMER: This is not a currency, security, or any other sort of money transmission instrument or regulated commodities trade. If you buy SOYBEANS, you are buying a pre-order coupon(s) exchangeable for 1 pound of food-grade non-gmo soybeans. The transaction is only considered final once the US dollars for selling bitcoin actually end up in a 7 elements LLC bank account.

LOL, good luck with this.  Technically, a "coupon" that represents an ownership interest in soybeans is a security.  A "coupon" is literally, historically, a little tear-off piece of an actual security document.  But you would at least have a decent argument against facing any kind of regulatory action, in that the SEC makes absolutely no attempt to regulate similar securities issued by companies such as Groupon and LivingSocial.

[prophetx]

Hello everyone,

In the past couple of days, XBet.IO has been the subject of a massive DDOS (destributed denial of service) attack and therefore was not accessible.

The matter is being dealt with and XBet.IO is back online.

If you can't beat them, DDOS them - so we must be doing something right.

Thank you for your paitiance.

Expect a new, game changing, feature real soon.

I really don't understand why you wrote this here, this thread not about XBet.IO.

don't think too hard.... might hurt too much

[prophetx]

I was just checking out the number of assets on blockscan  =  1477

pretty cool, the protocol is still charging all these asset squatters 5 xcp each right?

http://blockscan.com/asset.aspx

that would mean that there is about 0.3% less xcp in circulation, exciting

btw if anyone wants some LOVE or ROSE let me know - these are vintage non-divisible assets created during the burn.

http://blockscan.com/assetInfo.aspx?q=LOVE

http://blockscan.com/assetInfo.aspx?q=ROSE

Only 1 Trillion ROSE and LOVE in the entire world!  that's less than 200 for every man, woman and child!  

You just need to send me some small amount of btc to cover the cost of sending them back to you

[xnova]

We are still in the "innovators" stage, so this is not very surprising. We have several more large UI changes upcoming, which should make it easier for people to use Counterparty, and help move us into the "early adopter" stage.

Sounds good. I like Counterparty and I think it has a lot to offer. Am looking forward to the upgrades. Are the new changes whats causing this to happen when I try to log in right now?

"No counterparty servers are currently available. Please try again later. ERROR: Request Time out."

Never seen that one before. Thanks.

The new counterblockd is having some issues with a few of the non-essential periodic checks that are causing it to become unreachable for brief periods of time. I've tried disabling these checks in the code for now, and we'll see if that fixes the problem, pending more tweaking of the logic to not cause issues.

[Jpja]

I'm testing out Rock-Paper-Scissor. I'm playing with 1 XCP.

It's still pending after four hours. It will be matched as soon as someone else plays, right?

[cjanthony]

To resolve this issue, Counterparty has developed the first step towards trustless multiplayer games such as poker and chess. Due to the distributed nature of this solution, nobody can control the outcome of any game except the players themselves. Using Counterparty and Bitcoin transactions, the future of online gaming can be like the future of money itself: decentralized.

To show you what we mean, we actually built Rock-Paper-Scissors (RPS) and Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock (RPSLS) into Counterparty! And the underlying system allows you to do a lot more than just play rock-paper-scissors… You can play any game of this type with an odd number of possible moves.

Blockchain based poker? I'm absolutely floored. Is such a thing even possible? 

[JahPowerBit]

I'm testing out Rock-Paper-Scissor. I'm playing with 1 XCP.

It's still pending after four hours. It will be matched as soon as someone else plays, right?

Yes, exactly. I just played 1 XCP: just keep you wallet open and "may the best man win" ;-)

here how RPS works:

1) You broadcast a hash of your move (i.e. hash('rock' + random bytes))
and a wager (and an expiration).

2) Your move is matched with precisely one other move with the same
wager.

3) Both you and your opponent wait for one confirmation and then reveal
your move and the random bytes. When both moves have been broadcast, the
winner takes all (but there are ties).

This implementation of RPS is agnostic in the number of possible moves,
so rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock, etc., is also supported.

of course, Counterwallet do all this automatically. You just need to pick your move and your wager, click play and keep your wallet open.

In counterpartyd.py there is 2 new transactions:

rps --source=mtQheFaSfWELRB2MyMBaiWjdDm6ux9Ezns --wager=1 --move=3 --possible-moves=3 --expiration=20

Where:
source: the source address
wager: the quantity of XCP to wager
move: the selected move
possible-moves: the number of possible moves (odd number greater or equal than 3)
expiration: the number of blocks for which the bet should be valid

Counterpartyd return a random number, that should be used in the second transaction, when the game match with another one (same wager and same possible-moves).

rpsresolve --source=mtQheFaSfWELRB2MyMBaiWjdDm6ux9Ezns --random=a9423a12c065aab67f25614372dd1370 --move=3 --rps-match-id= 092f15d36786136c4d868c33356ec3c9b5a0c77de54ed0e96a8dbdd8af160c23

Where:
source: the source address
random: the random number used in the corresponding rps transaction
move: the selected move in the corresponding rps transaction
rps-match-id: the concatenation of the hashes of the two transactions which compose the rps match

[romerun]

Pending Game: As you have one or more pending game, please stay logged in so that the game(s) can be properly resolved. Once your game has been matched, it will take one more block for the game to complete.
Be careful, if you close the Wallet before the end of the game you can lose money!!

If I'm the first person opening the game, and I close counterwallet. Will the game be matched by others and I automatically lose ?

[JahPowerBit]

Pending Game: As you have one or more pending game, please stay logged in so that the game(s) can be properly resolved. Once your game has been matched, it will take one more block for the game to complete.
Be careful, if you close the Wallet before the end of the game you can lose money!!

If I'm the first person opening the game, and I close counterwallet. Will the game be matched by others and I automatically lose ?

Yes, if you not re-open your wallet during the 20 blocks after the matching, and the other player resolved the game, you lose.

[Janitor]

We are still in the "innovators" stage, so this is not very surprising. We have several more large UI changes upcoming, which should make it easier for people to use Counterparty, and help move us into the "early adopter" stage.

Sounds good. I like Counterparty and I think it has a lot to offer. Am looking forward to the upgrades. Are the new changes whats causing this to happen when I try to log in right now?

"No counterparty servers are currently available. Please try again later. ERROR: Request Time out."

Never seen that one before. Thanks.

That's because you haven't looked. If you just googled the error you'd have found that it's been reported before on more than one occasion, for example here:
https://forums.counterparty.co/index.php/topic,188.msg2342.html#msg2342

Status of Countewallet servers is available here and sometimes it's possible to get around the problem by connecting to another Counterwallet server.
http://status-backend.counterparty.co/

[nutildah]

To resolve this issue, Counterparty has developed the first step towards trustless multiplayer games such as poker and chess. Due to the distributed nature of this solution, nobody can control the outcome of any game except the players themselves. Using Counterparty and Bitcoin transactions, the future of online gaming can be like the future of money itself: decentralized.

To show you what we mean, we actually built Rock-Paper-Scissors (RPS) and Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock (RPSLS) into Counterparty! And the underlying system allows you to do a lot more than just play rock-paper-scissors… You can play any game of this type with an odd number of possible moves.

Blockchain based poker? I'm absolutely floored. Is such a thing even possible? 

It seems like it would take far too long to play a hand, but I'm all for improvements in decentralized gambling. At the end of the day, there must be some sort of human hand in programming the decentralization, so it can never be truly "decentralized" or free of human bias. Any way to lessen reliance on user trust is probably beneficial.

[BTCfan1]

I saw the news about Rock Paper Scissors being built with Counterparty, I'm wondering if I can make a tic tac toe game so I can blow the people in my programming class away! is this even possible?

[nutildah]

We are still in the "innovators" stage, so this is not very surprising. We have several more large UI changes upcoming, which should make it easier for people to use Counterparty, and help move us into the "early adopter" stage.

Sounds good. I like Counterparty and I think it has a lot to offer. Am looking forward to the upgrades. Are the new changes whats causing this to happen when I try to log in right now?

"No counterparty servers are currently available. Please try again later. ERROR: Request Time out."

Never seen that one before. Thanks.

That's because you haven't looked. If you just googled the error you'd have found that it's been reported before on more than one occasion, for example here:
https://forums.counterparty.co/index.php/topic,188.msg2342.html#msg2342

Status of Countewallet servers is available here and sometimes it's possible to get around the problem by connecting to another Counterwallet server.
http://status-backend.counterparty.co/

For your information I did look. I did type the message into Google and nothing relevant to the current situation came up. There's a variety of different reasons why the error message could come up.