VirtualMiner.eu - Development discussion

[LZ]

VirtualMiner.eu BETA Overview

Currency	Blocks-per-hour	Coins-per-block	Coins-per-hour
Tritcoin	3	100	300
Selfcoin	12	25	300
Bitcoin	6	50	300
Earnies	1000	10	10000
RyCoins	12	50	600

[Nachtwind]

reactivated login..

it is now almost 1am here and i had a hard day.
Wasnt able to solve the Exchange stuff yet (rewriting it currently from scratch).. will do that tomorrow with more free time on my hands... But i solved a dozen other bugs i found along the way (yaaay....)

Deposits and Withdrawals are still deactivated, sorry for that inconvenience. If you want your BTC back until everything is solved just leave me a message, but i hope you trust me enough to not want some refunds now..

[LZ]

Strange things! Earnies virtual currency has a highest blocks per hour ratio
but it also has the highest difficulty measure. It should be lowest. Why so?

Also you have to rename Target to something else (blocks per hour) because
Bitcoin Target is an absolutely different thing. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Target

[Ryland R. Taylor-Almanza]

You shouldn't allow people to create chains called "bitcoin", or with the acronym "BTC." It get's really confusing.

[Nachtwind]

Naturally i dont use a "real" Bitcoin-like algorithm to submit shares etc, therefore my algos are a bit different.
Difference is mainly a factor to keep the real Blocks per Hour as close as possible to the targetted blocks per hour (more or less as in Bitcoin). So with a very high block generation and much vHash put into it the diff raises much higher than on other chains.

I hope that is somewhat understandable.. got a headache and my english therefore sucks right now ,0)

As for naming stuff.. yes, i will add a "ban" on names like BTC or Bitcoin - and of all the alt cryptos that are currently arround namingly:
BTC
LTC
SC
I0C
RUC
TBX
FBX

Is there some chain i forgot?

But back to the exchange code for now.. that is my highest priority today :0)
How come noone told me before it was that badly done?! ;0)

[Mushroomized]

Strange things! Earnies virtual currency has a highest blocks per hour ratio
but it also has the highest difficulty measure. It should be lowest. Why so?

Also you have to rename Target to something else (blocks per hour) because
Bitcoin Target is an absolutely different thing. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Target

Because earnies are MAGICAL

[LZ]

Is there some chain i forgot?

NMC - Namecoin
GG - Geist Geld

[Nachtwind]

Is there some chain i forgot?

NMC - Namecoin
GG - Geist Geld

Oh, right, thanks.

Update: 12/21 01:00 CET

Still redoing the exchange.. stupid thing is that i still have a life outside this project that needs much attention as well..

Exchange is almost done, Chain name limitations are finished. login to the website is currently not allowed because some of the changes are not 100% finished. Sorry for that.

[Nachtwind]

Finally finished a vertsion of the exchange that i like... and which seems to be working the way it should Further fixes are now included:
- BTC and Mail address can now be set
- Payment System now works correctly
- Heavy rewrite of "Hashing algorithm", it should lead now to better results at diff..
- Following Names are banned
-- "Bitcoin","Litecoin","Solidcoin","I0Coin","RuCoin","Tenebrix","Fairbrix","Geistgeld","Namecoin" as well as their corresponding abbreviations.
- Added some tweaks to the login system
- Deposits and Withdrawals will be allowed again after 7pm (CET), Login is open again

Currently writing on the following things:
- News on the Desktop (taken from Twitter)
- Alerts for certain events
- Tweaking the UI of the Exchange a bit
- Adjusting the number of Rigs per column to the host's screen resolution

Future features that are planned
- Faucet
- API
- Automatition of certain things


Sorry for the previous fixes taking so long, but naturally the last days of work for the year are always long and stressful. Therefore i normally found the time only after working for like 8 hours at a microscope to do this and then up until late late night.. of course this doesnt lead to any useful results and therefore the "simple" task of rewriting a few pieces of code took me a few days instead of a few hours. But at least i had the chance of testing 6 versions of code for the exchange, allowing me to choose the one that seems to be the most flexible and hence best to adjust and fix if it comes to further bugfixes or improvements.

I did a reset on Chains and transactions again - this was neccessary due to the heavy modifications in how coin transfers are handled and due to the fact that some chains had "bad" names. the current way of handling all stuff looks nice enough to be useful AND extendable in case of need. I also added a 0.3% fee on the exchange to make speculative bubbles a bit harder to achieve... these fees go to the faucet i still write..

So.. have fun with the newest version.. and for a more direct contact you can either pm me on Freenode (Nachtwind) or come to #virtualminer on the same Server.

[Mushroomized]

You forgot ixcoin (I think)

Anyway earnies 2.0 are live 100 blocks per hour at 100 coins per block

[Nachtwind]

You forgot ixcoin (I think)

Added

[norulezapply]

Good work! This looks like it's coming on nicely! I'm going to start playing it again
It doesn't look like anyone is playing though. The exchanges say n/a for all the options?

[Nachtwind]

Good work! This looks like it's coming on nicely! I'm going to start playing it again
It doesn't look like anyone is playing though. The exchanges say n/a for all the options?

I just guess people have just not yet started buying/selling.. site has been up for only about 3hrs though

[Nachtwind]

After some testing it seems that the exchange is still not completely ok.. under certain circumstances stuff doesnt work.. i will test all available scenarios tomorrow and check what works and what not. Thanks to the new way of handling stuff in the exchange debugging and fixing should be pretty easy.. yet not at 2am ,0)

I will return coins currently on the exchange to their users and remove all transactions... but chains and other stuff wont be touched at this time.

Btw: Added a _small_ news display in the upper right of the Dashboard



edit: Might as well tweak the UI of the exchange when doing that...

[Nachtwind]

Christmas "update":

- Exchange reopened - UI tweaked a tiny bit.
- Number of Icons per column now depends on the screen's resolution. I have adjusted the number of icons for: 1680x1050, 1440x900, 1366x768 (or 1024x768). Everything else will be dealt as 1680x1050.. If you have a resolution to add dont hesitate to tell me. But this should be done together since, for example, i cant test HD resolutions with my system.


*edit*
Added a _simple_ API for the game:

From the preliminary Readme:


   api.php?a=action&p1=param1&p2=param2&p3=param3&p4=param4

   Action: GetChains
   Params:
   Return: List of all Chains and their Parameters

   Action: GetTicker
   Params: p1 = ChainID
   Return: High/Low/Last of the Chain defined in p1

   Action: GetLast
   Params: p1 = ChainID, p2 = Number of Items
   Return: Get the p2 last transactions for the Chain defined in p1


More to come there, but not at 2:45am ;0)

[Nachtwind]

Had to wipe transactions again.. sorry for that... some people found out that certain validations werent working... fixed that but had to wipe all transactions due to some change of system again...


Also changed the Screen Resolution Handling a bit. Instead of using a  cookie that is valid till Dec. 31st 2030 I check the resolution at login. SHould be far more reliable now.

[LZ]

Will you remove all chains again? Or is it safe to deposit bitcoins and create a new one?

[Nachtwind]

I think it is safe now. I don't see a reason for another wipe at the moment.. The last wipe happened just to prevent more wipes... So yes, I think you're good to go.

[Mushroomized]

If someone makes a new chain, name it Bertcoins, so we can have Earnies and Bertcoins

[LZ]

Just sent 1 BTC. Transaction: 5da304fb9a01231807eb3aacc5a3f646d1fcdef05534129dace02fc867f14e09.