Vertcoin - First Scrypt N | First Stealth Address - Privacy without mixer

[BorisTheSpider]

If a translation to spanish is needed i'm able to help, native speaker.

Minero, that would be great.

For anyone translating materials, I think the most important things to emphasise are:

- Vertcoin is not premined at all
- It is innovative and different and is not just another scrypt clone
- We are second in volume behind DOGE on CoinedUp
- We are listed at two exchanges already

The main materials to translate are the website (vertcoin.org), the OP and the paper linked to on the website by David Mueller that covers some of the reasons why Vertcoin is different and special.

I'd appreciate any input from other users in the thread regarding what other points they feel should be particularly emphasised in translated materials.

[undroid]

hey guys. im new to vertcoin, but was mining it in vert.bitcrush.info and now its down. i had a considerable amount of coins there and obviously i cant access the site anymore. does anybody know whats up with that? do i have a reason to worry?

[drakoin]

Is there a wish for a German translation?

I could write it IF there is a similiar bounty. Who wants to contribute?

German is more frequent here than Chinese, second language after Russian.


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 P.S.: Let's spread the word, imagine the altcoin network starts saving 1/4, 1/3 or even 1/2 of electricity.

[XBATTO]

hey guys. im new to vertcoin, but was mining it in vert.bitcrush.info and now its down. i had a considerable amount of coins there and obviously i cant access the site anymore. does anybody know whats up with that? do i have a reason to worry?

It's been down for a while now... I am wondering too ...

[shirenlihei]

The new wallet with Kimotos Gravity Well and updated N-factor scheduling is now available.

THIS IS A MANDATORY UPDATE - PLEASE UPDATE YOUR WALLET NOW

We have chosen a fork height of block 26754 which should occur on or around Saturday 1st February 2014 (5 days from wallet release). Difficulty will retarget every block after this block height.

We have also backported all the fixes from Litecoin 0.8.6.2, so this release is Vertcoin 0.8.6.2

Please use the following links rather than using vertcoin.org to download the new wallet, the links on vertcoin.org
are to the new updated wallet, but it would be appreciated if you would please use the links below instead to spread
the server load.

0.8.6.2 changes

• Fork to Kimoto Gravity Well difficulty adjustment at block 26754 (Around midday UTC on 1st February 2014)
• Implement new N-factor schedule
• Update to boost 1.55 to fix Windows connectivity issue
• Fix custom build on MacOS X 10.9
• Fix QT5 custom build
• Update Debian build instructions
• Update homebrew build
• DNS seeds updated to include vtc.kilovolt.co.uk and vtcpool.co.uk
• Checkpoint at block 24200

Windows installer: https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/share?s=uLJdNjcnQN4n9VbuUuZbVk

Windows QT (non installer): https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/share?s=EICOyiLjSWks3W-ZJBDaBw

Mac OS X: https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/share?s=0cyjLd8fRvIjZLFf6Y3ZWg

Source: https://github.com/vertcoin/vertcoin

Pool operators, please note that to make MPOS display the correct interval between difficulty adjustments, you will want to update /var/www/MPOS/public/include/config/global.inc.php to set

$config['coindiffchangetarget'] = 1;

please do this on fork day, at or as near to block 26754 as you can.

Do you and other devs have the plan to build wallets for portable devices?

[BorisTheSpider]

Do you and other devs have the plan to build wallets for portable devices?

No plans right now. I will ask around and see what everyone in the dev team knows about developing for Android/iOS.

[BorisTheSpider]

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.

[BorisTheSpider]

Request VTC at more exchanges

If you'd like to trade VTC at more exchanges, please request via the following links:

• Coinex.pw helpdesk
• Coinex.pw Request Thread
• Cryptsy hepdesk
• Crypto-trade.com helpdesk
• Tweet to Coinex.pw using hashtags #Vertcoin and #VTC
• Tweet to Cryptsy using hashtags #Vertcoin and #VTC
• Tweet to Comkork.com using hashtags #Vertcoin and #VTC
• Comkort.com facebook page

Please emphasise that we are 2nd in volume behind DOGE at CoinedUp

[BorisTheSpider]

A couple of interesting news/comment items for you about VTC, by Jarred Walton who contributes to Anandtech:

http://www.holynerdvana.com/2014/01/scrypt-asics-alternate-proof-of-work.html

http://www.holynerdvana.com/2014/01/vertcoin-about-to-go-vertical.html

[shirenlihei]

A couple of interesting news/comment items for you about VTC, by Jarred Walton who contributes to Anandtech:

http://www.holynerdvana.com/2014/01/scrypt-asics-alternate-proof-of-work.html

http://www.holynerdvana.com/2014/01/vertcoin-about-to-go-vertical.html

Is the big hashrate provided by him?

[ejhuff]

Thanks.  On reflection, the code copied from openssl belongs in a separate file with header (say, secp256k1.c and secp256k1.h), and src/key.cpp should only call that code after the standard openssl call fails.  That way, the patch to key.cpp is only a couple of lines.  I'm looking at doing that.

Oh yes, please do. That would be helpful and make reviewing the code to merge it easier as well. Thanks again.

Here it is.  vertcoind compiles, links, and runs on Fedora 19.  Had to add the object
file to makefile.unix (didn't change the others) and the rule to compile C files.  Of
course, you could convert it to C++, but openssl is written in C.

http://pastebin.com/RiR7pt9w

[ejhuff]

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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.
...

JayCoin and vedalken254 ran a pool which was a node in the p2pool networks of several different coins.  It was a lot of mostly unpaid work and they didn't recover when vedalken254 was unable to work on it for 2 months.

The website code is available:

Link to code http://serason.com/p2pmining.zip

You will need to build the database by inspecting the code. Shouldn't be too hard. Haven't updated p2pool code edits since stratum was implemented.

Enjoy

The server is down. I sent a message to the guy who runs the server. Maybe he is on vacation, but I think it is more likely that he stopped paying for the server. He hasn't been on the forum or contacted me fort a while. Anyway, I am going to post the code on github next week after the new year. Someone else can give it a go.

Well fuck real life... I sincerely apologize guys. Server went down due to me not being on the reasonable internet for over 2 months. However, I will be contacting JayCoin to see about running the sucker again if he hasn't already posted the shit to github. Again, I apologize.

Veddy

JayCoin's motives were noble I'm sure but I never quite got the point of joining a pool that's nothing more than a node in p2pool.  It defeats the whole purpose of p2pool  which is DDOS-resistance.

P2Pmining's focus was 2-pronged...

First, it allowed smaller miners to still participate with p2pool without the big variance headache.

P2Pmining would earn shares of its own on the p2pool network, same as any miner, but it also ran its own share system, to further subdivide the p2pool payouts proportionally among the P2Pmining userbase.

This worked well for small miners that only had a couple hundred MH/s to work with.

The other focus was it also facilitated merge-mining for the userbase, saving them from having to run 4 or 5 different daemons at the same time on top of their own p2pool node.

IMHO, P2Pmining was nice to have. I usually had my miners set up to round-robin between my own p2pool instance, P2Pmining, and BTCGuild. What P2Pmining offered me at the time was that it was also merge-mining DVC, which I couldn't merge-mine locally as there wasn't a windows binary daemon for it, although there is one now.

As more ASICs hit the scene, P2Pmining would have become even more important for GPU miners, who are finding it harder to hold onto the shares they generate as their orphan rate climbs.

(the TRC p2pool was having this problem when I got fed up and segregated my own TRC p2pool network so it didn't touch the main network... some very high hash miners just kept orphaning 75-80% of my shares, sometimes a whole minute later, and there weren't any more than 7 or 8 connected nodes at the time. Latency of basically empty blocks and a small p2pool network, shouldn't have been an issue at all, but those high rate miners just overwhelm the lower rate ones... and I can't confirm it,  but I also think one of them was intentionally ignoring shares of others, only building on their own, but that is beyond this topic)

P2Pmining just helped with scale. As the p2pool network difficulty climbs, P2Pmining was a way to still offer lower difficulty shares without having to have the whole p2pool network change to accommodate it.

-- Smoov

[Failed]

After you update wallet (3 days ago) I can't find any block, but before I could find 2 or 3 blocks in a day, what the problem?

[Failed]

After you update wallet (3 days ago) I can't find any block, but before I could find 2 or 3 blocks a day, what the fuck!?

Difficulty increased 2+ fold. CPU mining dead.

i mine on 2x280x

i found 3 blocks in a day with 13 diff

[PROFIT]

But the new VERTCOIN pool from Russia.

Mining pool with 0% commission - http://vtc.coinsprofit.com/

Planet interested in this new digital currency.
 
VTC gaining popularity including for mining, with its mixing functions SHA-256 algorithm and Salsa20 with increasing requirements for memory usage.
 
Worth it on the already known portal coinsprofit.com, which gradually develops into multipulovy portal. Rliable pool and 0% commission.
 
Welcome Mining Vertcoin (VTC) - http://vtc.coinsprofit.com/ !

[BorisTheSpider]

After you update wallet (3 days ago) I can't find any block, but before I could find 2 or 3 blocks a day, what the fuck!?

Well lots of the pools are running the new wallet and hitting blocks. Sorry to say, you're just getting unlucky the last 3 days!

[mfpowernl]

How long and how many votes  does it take to get vertcoin finally on cryptsy?

[pdaddy]

After you update wallet (3 days ago) I can't find any block, but before I could find 2 or 3 blocks a day, what the fuck!?

Difficulty increased 2+ fold. CPU mining dead.

i mine on 2x280x

i found 3 blocks in a day with 13 diff

Wallet doesn't mine on GPU, only CPU.

[coins101]

just found this 

[Vertcoin]

But the new VERTCOIN pool from Russia.

Mining pool with 0% commission - http://vtc.coinsprofit.com/

Planet interested in this new digital currency.
 
VTC gaining popularity including for mining, with its mixing functions SHA-256 algorithm and Salsa20 with increasing requirements for memory usage.
 
Worth it on the already known portal coinsprofit.com, which gradually develops into multipulovy portal. Rliable pool and 0% commission.
 
Welcome Mining Vertcoin (VTC) - http://vtc.coinsprofit.com/ !

Please send your url and api key to dogepool@gmail.com, they will add your pool in Vertcoin.com