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[vertoe]

SEEDNODE 178.63.15.130
P2POOL http://178.63.15.130:9171/

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[perl]

node: vtc.crypto-pool.fr ( 88.191.185.113)
Pool:  http://vtc.crypto-pool.fr

[mfpowernl]

And:

0.0038   3879.42063856   14.7417984

WTF?

wish I had 14 btc lying around

Realy stupid people..They dont understand the game or just want to break the coin :-( I hope not t much dumps gone happen! anyway with that prices i can buy some more

[moonbat]

Not sure if this new media piece has already been posted but our very own Aleks is quoted extensively at http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/02/04/vertcoin-going-vertical. Go Aleks.

[ieatm3s]

to people selling right now: thank you

[BorisTheSpider]

VERY IMPORTANT

We don't need people unable to sync wallets when they want to get involved with Vertcoin tonight - there's going to be a lot of attention, and the nodes are heaving and unable to sync new users wallets.

PLEASE DO THIS:

OK guys some other people should be putting nodes up too - my first one is now at 95.85.62.207

Here's the procedure to do it on the smallest VPS available from Digital Ocean https://cloud.digitalocean.com which costs less than a US cent an hour to run - please put some up. These instructions are for ubuntu 12.04.3 x64 server, the default OS on Digital Ocean.

Create an account, and create a droplet, the smallest size, in a location close to you (so they naturally spread out)

The password will be emailed to you when you create it.

Get putty to be able to connect to it - http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe

Just use the IP address in the digital ocean control panel for the droplet, then login as user root with the password you were emailed.

The first bit creates a pagefile because these VPSs are RAM limited, and otherwise you'll have trouble compiling vertcoind

dd if=/dev/zero of=~/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=1024000
sudo chown root:root ~/swapfile1
sudo chmod 0600 ~/swapfile1
sudo mkswap ~/swapfile1
sudo swapon ~/swapfile1

Now we update, install the toolkit, get the vertcoin source and build it:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libdb-dev libdb++-dev libupnp-dev libminiupnpc-dev miniupnpc libboost-all-dev git
git clone https://github.com/vertcoin/vertcoin
cd vertcoin/src
make -f makefile.unix

Copy it to the path:

sudo cp vertcoind /usr/local/bin

Create a config file:

cd ~
mkdir ~/.vertcoin
echo "rpcuser=node" > ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "rpcpassword=34MGFf934ljDRrfd54dsf" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "rpcallowip=127.0.0.1" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "rpcport=9332" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "daemon=1" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "server=1" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf

Start Vertcoin:

nohup vertcoind -listen -maxconnections=250 &

Help it sync:

vertcoind addnode 95.85.62.207 add
vertcoind addnode 46.246.108.216 add
vertcoind addnode 96.252.6.205 add

Now you can

watch vertcoind getinfo

Set this up:

sudo echo "vertcoind -listen -maxconnections=250 &" >>/etc/rc.local

So it auto starts on boot if you reboot the server.

And watch it sync the blockchain

If you're going to (like me) snapshot it and bring multiple ones up, please do let the first one sync fully (see http://explorer.vertcoin.org/ for current block height, 29488 at the time of writing this) before you shut it down to sync it, otherwise you will be part of the problem trying to connect to the scant few wallets out there listening for incoming connections.

To duplicate it, you must shut down:

sudo shutdown -h now

Then in the digital ocean web interface, go to droplets, click on your node, go to snapshots, take a snapshot - it will take a couple of minutes.

When it finishes snapshotting, it will automatically start up again.

Now you can create new ones in seconds from the snapshot. You just create a new droplet, but instead of selecting Ubuntu as the OS, you select the section where your images are and you'll see your snapshot in there.

POST YOUR NODE ADDRESSES

[perl]

How long in general to add a pool to the list on vertecoin.com ?
I have send mail for add my pool http://vtc.crypto-pool.fr There are now more than 6 hours.

[BorisTheSpider]

One of the longest running, most trusted VTC pools around

P2Pool (recommended) and traditional pool available for VTC

P2Pool: http://vtcpool.co.uk:9171
Traditional MPOS pool: https://vtcpool.co.uk

P2Pool setup guide and FAQ


Why use p2pool?

• Mined coins are deposited directly in your wallet in the generation payment for the block,
  they are never held by a pool wallet and can't be lost due to failures or hacking/thefts
• Even if the node you connect to fails, you don't lose the coins you mined - your shares are distributed on the network
• Distributed (less vulnerable to DoS attacks, less chance of big pools having enough hashrate to be capable of a 51% attack)
• Private (you are paid with coinbase transactions and your public key is never seen on the network until you spend the funds)

Feel free to use https://vtcpool.co.uk if you prefer a traditional pool. Especially, users with lower hashrates may find earnings
are better on the traditional pool. There is room for a mixture of pool types, but please help further strengthen the decentralisation
of Vertcoin by using p2pool if it works well for you.

To mine on p2pool, use your VTC address as username, and any password, so your command line should be like:

vertminer -o stratum+tcp://vtcpool.co.uk:9171 -u Vw44xQPqgwbqZVpRzPoHe6M4jAGYceiZZP -p x

Please follow the advice in the P2Pool setup guide and FAQ about setting your minimum
share difficulty - this will prevent HW errors and stales and improve your mining income.

[maxvolts]

VERY IMPORTANT

We don't need people unable to sync wallets when they want to get involved with Vertcoin tonight - there's going to be a lot of attention, and the nodes are heaving and unable to sync new users wallets.

PLEASE DO THIS:

OK guys some other people should be putting nodes up too - my first one is now at 95.85.62.207

Here's the procedure to do it on the smallest VPS available from Digital Ocean https://cloud.digitalocean.com which costs less than a US cent an hour to run - please put some up. These instructions are for ubuntu 12.04.3 x64 server, the default OS on Digital Ocean.

Create an account, and create a droplet, the smallest size, in a location close to you (so they naturally spread out)

The password will be emailed to you when you create it.

Get putty to be able to connect to it - http[Suspicious link removed]

Just use the IP address in the digital ocean control panel for the droplet, then login as user root with the password you were emailed.

The first bit creates a pagefile because these VPSs are RAM limited, and otherwise you'll have trouble compiling vertcoind

dd if=/dev/zero of=~/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=1024000
sudo chown root:root ~/swapfile1
sudo chmod 0600 ~/swapfile1
sudo mkswap ~/swapfile1
sudo swapon ~/swapfile1

Now we update, install the toolkit, get the vertcoin source and build it:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libdb-dev libdb++-dev libupnp-dev libminiupnpc-dev miniupnpc libboost-all-dev git
git clone https://github.com/vertcoin/vertcoin
cd vertcoin/src
make -f makefile.unix

Copy it to the path:

sudo cp vertcoind /usr/local/bin

Create a config file:

cd ~
mkdir ~/.vertcoin
echo "rpcuser=node" > ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "rpcpassword=34MGFf934ljDRrfd54dsf" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "rpcallowip=127.0.0.1" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "rpcport=9332" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "daemon=1" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "server=1" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf

Start Vertcoin:

nohup vertcoind -listen -maxconnections=250 &

Help it sync:

vertcoind addnode 95.85.62.207 add
vertcoind addnode 46.246.108.216 add
vertcoind addnode 96.252.6.205 add

Now you can

watch vertcoind getinfo

Set this up:

sudo echo "vertcoind -listen -maxconnections=250 &" >>/etc/rc.local

So it auto starts on boot if you reboot the server.

And watch it sync the blockchain

If you're going to (like me) snapshot it and bring multiple ones up, please do let the first one sync fully (see http://explorer.vertcoin.org/ for current block height, 29488 at the time of writing this) before you shut it down to sync it, otherwise you will be part of the problem trying to connect to the scant few wallets out there listening for incoming connections.

To duplicate it, you must shut down:

sudo shutdown -h now

Then in the digital ocean web interface, go to droplets, click on your node, go to snapshots, take a snapshot - it will take a couple of minutes.

When it finishes snapshotting, it will automatically start up again.

Now you can create new ones in seconds from the snapshot. You just create a new droplet, but instead of selecting Ubuntu as the OS, you select the section where your images are and you'll see your snapshot in there.

POST YOUR NODE ADDRESSES

I have a vps where i run a few sites Boris, will try to get my head round that lot (linux is really not my thing) and see if i can sort it.

[maxvolts]

And:

0.0038   3879.42063856   14.7417984

WTF?

wish I had 14 btc lying around

Realy stupid people..They dont understand the game or just want to break the coin :-( I hope not t much dumps gone happen! anyway with that prices i can buy some more

Looks like the stupid dumps are finished for now? creeping up again.

[BorisTheSpider]

Having trouble syncing your wallet?

Open notepad, and browse to C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\Vertcoin

Open (if it's there) or create, if it's not there, a file called vertcoin.conf and paste this into it:

addnode=95.85.62.207
addnode=95.85.61.243
addnode=95.85.11.240
addnode=95.85.2.11

Now close and reopen the wallet and it will sync.

OTHER PEOPLE ADDING NODES ACCORDING TO THE HOWTO AT https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404364.msg4938445#msg4938445 - PLEASE QUOTE AND AMEND THIS POST SO THE FULL NODELIST IS ALWAYS IN THE LATEST POST, AND ALSO QUOTE THIS BIT SO THE NEXT PERSON KNOWS TO DO THE SAME.

[moonbat]

Hey fellow verters!

Social Media

We should also start a Social-Media campaign promoting the pro's of vertcoin compared to the other cryptocurrencies. Social media will be especially important in the campaign to reach the mainstream public. ( At wich point known retailers will also start accepting VTC)

Let's get VTC to keep going Vertical!



For more information you can aways send me a PM or e-mail me on Fastpow@gmail.com

Cheers and keep up the good work!
Michael

Thanks Michael I'm trying to keep consistently tweeting and retweeting Vertcoin posts. I'm a bit of a newbie to Twitter but thought it might be helpful to share some of what I have learnt in recent weeks for anyone who hasn't tweeted before. It's easy once you get the hang of it! Twitter veterans ignore this post!

If you want to follow me on Twitter I'm @Moonbat4 (check out https://support.twitter.com/articles/215585-getting-started-with-twitter for the basics if you are a Twitter newbie) and I will follow you back and retweet all your Vertcoin related tweets.

I'm using hashtags #VTC and #Vertcoin for all my tweets and  am trying to link back to the original post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404364.msg4377061#msg4377061 where space allows in my tweets (only 140 characters allowed!). You can use a site like Bitly.com to shorten a URL so it takes up less characters. Just paste the long link into the Bitly shorten box and you get a compressed link back for example http://[Suspicious link removed]/1bkomYO which when you click on it takes you to the original website link.

Including the #Vertcoin and #VTC tags in your tweets and retweets builds up a pattern of interest in the Vertcoin and VTC topics. If we get enough volume we will hopefully see Vertcoin "trending" and the mainstream media will then have no option but to pay attention!

(From Twitter https://support.twitter.com/articles/49309-using-hashtags-on-twitter "hashtags allow categorisation of Tweets by keyword - people use the hashtag symbol # before a relevant keyword or phrase (no spaces) in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets and help them show more easily in Twitter Search. Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets marked with that keyword. Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet – at the beginning, middle, or end. Hashtagged words that become very popular are often Trending Topics.")

Hope this helps and happy tweeting. Lets get #Vertcoin trending on Twitter!

[organizer]

Is this based on a faulty premise? Are scrypt ASICs even price-viable? I've read that they're not much more valuable than GPUs.

I read that they are going to be more expensive (a litle) than GPU but  they need less power. A rig with 2 MH/s comsumes 24 KW/h each day. A Scrypt ASIC of 5 MH/s consumes 2.4 KW/h each day

Exactly, which means we're not going to see anything like the sha256 ASIC influx.

I tend to agree with this. It will happen, people will buy them en masse, but if it does happen i think GPU prices start to go down (they rose pretty dramatically over the past months) and they will still be viable.

[Motjida]

Having trouble syncing your wallet?

Open notepad, and browse to C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\Vertcoin

Open (if it's there) or create, if it's not there, a file called vertcoin.conf and paste this into it:

addnode=95.85.62.207
addnode=95.85.61.243
addnode=95.85.11.240
addnode=95.85.2.11
addnode=107.170.12.12

Now close and reopen the wallet and it will sync.

OTHER PEOPLE ADDING NODES ACCORDING TO THE HOWTO AT https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404364.msg4938445#msg4938445 - PLEASE QUOTE AND AMEND THIS POST SO THE FULL NODELIST IS ALWAYS IN THE LATEST POST, AND ALSO QUOTE THIS BIT SO THE NEXT PERSON KNOWS TO DO THE SAME.

Added my node to the list (107.170.12.12), thanks for the great setup guide Boris!

[BorisTheSpider]

OK guys some other people should be putting nodes up too - my first one is now at 95.85.62.207

Here's the procedure to do it on the smallest VPS available from Digital Ocean https://cloud.digitalocean.com which costs less than a US cent an hour to run - please put some up. These instructions are for ubuntu 12.04.3 x64 server, the default OS on Digital Ocean.

Create an account, and create a droplet, the smallest size, in a location close to you (so they naturally spread out)

The password will be emailed to you when you create it.

Get putty to be able to connect to it - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Just use the IP address in the digital ocean control panel for the droplet, then login as user root with the password you were emailed.

The first bit creates a pagefile because these VPSs are RAM limited, and otherwise you'll have trouble compiling vertcoind

dd if=/dev/zero of=~/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=1024000
sudo chown root:root ~/swapfile1
sudo chmod 0600 ~/swapfile1
sudo mkswap ~/swapfile1
sudo swapon ~/swapfile1

Now we update, install the toolkit, get the vertcoin source and build it:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libdb-dev libdb++-dev libupnp-dev libminiupnpc-dev miniupnpc libboost-all-dev git
git clone https://github.com/vertcoin/vertcoin
cd vertcoin/src
make -f makefile.unix

Copy it to the path:

sudo cp vertcoind /usr/local/bin

Create a config file:

cd ~
mkdir ~/.vertcoin
echo "rpcuser=node" > ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "rpcpassword=34MGFf934ljDRrfd54dsf" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "rpcallowip=127.0.0.1" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "rpcport=9332" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "daemon=1" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf
echo "server=1" >> ~/.vertcoin/vertcoin.conf

Start Vertcoin:

nohup vertcoind -listen -maxconnections=250 &

Help it sync:

vertcoind addnode 95.85.62.207 add
vertcoind addnode 46.246.108.216 add
vertcoind addnode 96.252.6.205 add

Set it up so it auto starts on boot if you reboot the server:

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Then paste:

vertcoind -listen -maxconnections=250 &

above the line that reads "exit 0"

Press ctrl-X to save, and answer yes when asked if you want to overwrite the file.


Now you can do

watch vertcoind getinfo

and watch it sync the blockchain

If you're going to (like me) snapshot it and bring multiple ones up, please do let the first one sync fully (see http://explorer.vertcoin.org/ for current block height, 29488 at the time of writing this) before you shut it down to sync it, otherwise you will be part of the problem trying to connect to the scant few wallets out there listening for incoming connections.

To duplicate it, you must shut down:

sudo shutdown -h now

Then in the digital ocean web interface, go to droplets, click on your node, go to snapshots, take a snapshot - it will take a couple of minutes.

When it finishes snapshotting, it will automatically start up again.

Now you can create new ones in seconds from the snapshot. You just create a new droplet, but instead of selecting Ubuntu as the OS, you select the section where your images are and you'll see your snapshot in there.

POST YOUR NODE ADDRESSES

MY NODES SO FAR:

Having trouble syncing your wallet?

Open notepad, and browse to C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\Vertcoin

Open (if it's there) or create, if it's not there, a file called vertcoin.conf and paste this into it:

addnode=95.85.62.207
addnode=95.85.61.243
addnode=95.85.11.240
addnode=95.85.2.11

Now close and reopen the wallet and it will sync.

OTHER PEOPLE ADDING NODES ACCORDING TO THE HOWTO AT https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404364.msg4938445#msg4938445 - PLEASE QUOTE AND AMEND THIS POST SO THE FULL NODELIST IS ALWAYS IN THE LATEST POST, AND ALSO QUOTE THIS BIT SO THE NEXT PERSON KNOWS TO DO THE SAME.

[maxvolts]

I am getting errors when following those steps boris, i know your busy, but i would be happy to give you my login if you want to try?

[Fastpow]

Hey fellow verters!

Social Media

We should also start a Social-Media campaign promoting the pro's of vertcoin compared to the other cryptocurrencies. Social media will be especially important in the campaign to reach the mainstream public. ( At wich point known retailers will also start accepting VTC)

Let's get VTC to keep going Vertical!



For more information you can aways send me a PM or e-mail me on Fastpow@gmail.com

Cheers and keep up the good work!
Michael

Thanks Michael I'm trying to keep consistently tweeting and retweeting Vertcoin posts. I'm a bit of a newbie to Twitter but thought it might be helpful to share some of what I have learnt in recent weeks for anyone who hasn't tweeted before. It's easy once you get the hang of it! Twitter veterans ignore this post!

If you want to follow me on Twitter I'm @Moonbat4 (check out https://support.twitter.com/articles/215585-getting-started-with-twitter for the basics if you are a Twitter newbie) and I will follow you back and retweet all your Vertcoin related tweets.

I'm using hashtags #VTC and #Vertcoin for all my tweets and  am trying to link back to the original post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404364.msg4377061#msg4377061 where space allows in my tweets (only 140 characters allowed!). You can use a site like Bitly.com to shorten a URL so it takes up less characters. Just paste the long link into the Bitly shorten box and you get a compressed link back for example http://[Suspicious link removed]/1bkomYO which when you click on it takes you to the original website link.

Including the #Vertcoin and #VTC tags in your tweets and retweets builds up a pattern of interest in the Vertcoin and VTC topics. If we get enough volume we will hopefully see Vertcoin "trending" and the mainstream media will then have no option but to pay attention!

(From Twitter https://support.twitter.com/articles/49309-using-hashtags-on-twitter "hashtags allow categorisation of Tweets by keyword - people use the hashtag symbol # before a relevant keyword or phrase (no spaces) in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets and help them show more easily in Twitter Search. Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets marked with that keyword. Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet – at the beginning, middle, or end. Hashtagged words that become very popular are often Trending Topics.")

Hope this helps and happy tweeting. Lets get #Vertcoin trending on Twitter!

Great job there moonbat! Followed you, i'll be looking forward to your vertcoin related tweets

[eskamilio]

Having trouble syncing your wallet?

Open notepad, and browse to C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\Vertcoin

Open (if it's there) or create, if it's not there, a file called vertcoin.conf and paste this into it:

addnode=95.85.62.207
addnode=95.85.61.243
addnode=95.85.11.240
addnode=95.85.2.11

Now close and reopen the wallet and it will sync.

OTHER PEOPLE ADDING NODES ACCORDING TO THE HOWTO AT https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404364.msg4938445#msg4938445 - PLEASE QUOTE AND AMEND THIS POST SO THE FULL NODELIST IS ALWAYS IN THE LATEST POST, AND ALSO QUOTE THIS BIT SO THE NEXT PERSON KNOWS TO DO THE SAME.

Hi Boris,

I did everything as it is written - not syncing, no connections. Please help!

[mattbigblue]

@BorisTheSpider would You create some tutorial for windows users how to create own nod for p2p mining in a spare time? that would be great!

[Motjida]

Having trouble syncing your wallet?

Open notepad, and browse to C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\Vertcoin

Open (if it's there) or create, if it's not there, a file called vertcoin.conf and paste this into it:

addnode=95.85.62.207
addnode=95.85.61.243
addnode=95.85.11.240
addnode=95.85.2.11
addnode=107.170.12.12
addnode=107.170.12.43

Now close and reopen the wallet and it will sync.

OTHER PEOPLE ADDING NODES ACCORDING TO THE HOWTO AT https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404364.msg4938445#msg4938445 - PLEASE QUOTE AND AMEND THIS POST SO THE FULL NODELIST IS ALWAYS IN THE LATEST POST, AND ALSO QUOTE THIS BIT SO THE NEXT PERSON KNOWS TO DO THE SAME.

Added a couple nodes to the list (107.170.12.12/43), thanks for the great setup guide Boris!