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[Crypto King]

guys https://www.mining-pool.co.uk/cat-catcoin/index.php?page=statistics&action=pool are on a different block now, mining pool is on 25148 and coinium is on 25155???//

[Crypto King]

it might be my mistake, i think its because the diff has gone so low 

[TheTribesman]

C'mon CatCoin, get that Kitteh!



 

[vondi1122]

C'mon CatCoin, get that Kitteh!



 

Here you go

[catcoin1]

Catcoin his defiantly moving on up in value and so it should be, this coin is well worth over a $. I believe we will see a $1 again shortly so things are hotting up.

The demand for catcoin is only going to increase, some great media attention on the way with the diamond collar show and we are paired up with dogecoin, we should be looking at getting catcoin back and give doge a challenge as we are rivals.

I believe this was the vision of when catcoin was released to compete with doge and i think we can and certainly have the potential with having coin specs which are totally opposite to dogecoin.

[Crypto King]

Yeh we really need to get ready for the announcement of catcoin on the diamond collar show and back it up with some other projects for catcoin. Dogecoin is way in front of catcoin and will be for a long time but we need to start using this as a currency, dogecoin is always making headlines via a new store accepting it, or buying a house with doge, lets start trying to buy some stuff with catcoin even if it is on small scale like coffee and tea or some candy, computer hardware. Lets make a catcoin atm and place it in a busy market place with a catcoin team showing users what its about. Anything to make headlines and whats good is the miners of catcoin are dedicated, we seem to be all holders of the coin, if we put the promotion effort in then we will be rewarded for being loyal to catcoin.

Its about time we start having more community projects coming to the table and i will be the first to help. My holding in catcoin is increasing daily and im buying what i can when i can, this could explode anytime. 

[catcoin1]

I agree crypto king, even if its small things like a t-shirt and iphone case, its a great way to trade catcoin on a small scale basis and also great way to advertise, i am working on lots of little projects at the moment.

https://i.imgur.com/42ndtxA.png   https://i.imgur.com/ggsL7j7.png

[kuroman]

I agree crypto king, even if its small things like a t-shirt and iphone case, its a great way to trade catcoin on a small scale basis and also great way to advertise, i am working on lots of little projects at the moment.

   

Nice idea, if I may suggest something for smartphone cases, maybe 3D shoudn't be a bad idea and instead of a painting or a sticker the catcoin logo can have a 3d shape which I believe can be appreciated by people, and I'm sure that cryptofans who own personnal FDM 3D printer would be glad to reserve some catcoins for their work

[catcoin1]

I agree crypto king, even if its small things like a t-shirt and iphone case, its a great way to trade catcoin on a small scale basis and also great way to advertise, i am working on lots of little projects at the moment.

https://i.imgur.com/42ndtxA.png   https://i.imgur.com/ggsL7j7.png

Nice idea, if I may suggest something for smartphone cases, maybe 3D shoudn't be a bad idea and instead of a painting or a sticker the catcoin logo can have a 3d shape which I believe can be appreciated by people, and I'm sure that cryptofans who own personnal FDM 3D printer would be glad to reserve some catcoins for their work

Yes 3D would be good to have, at least it will be current and initiative. I have more little products which can incorporate catcoin but the ultimate goal would be to have a catcoin merchandise store where you can buy catcoin products using catcoin.

For the time being though it would be great to get some catcoin products out there just to get some added attention and supply the catcoin community with these items.

[thenite0wl]

why are transactions taking all day to confirm? missed out on some good trades.

[SlimePuppy]

why are transactions taking all day to confirm? missed out on some good trades.

Unfortunately Owl we got hammered hard and have been sitting in a block that's taken about 11 hours.
http://www.catstat.info/

Things should start moving again next block.  It's not fun but it'll soon be over.

Take a look at testnet today.  We're in the middle of a brutal test and it's looking very good!
http://testnet.geekhash.org/



This phase of the test started at around 1700 - you can see the drop in the red 'difficulty' line as the test was reset.  The approx 2MH/s was my and Blaksmith's hashing.  TheQueen74 paid us a visit from the City of Light and kicked things up a bit.  The block times look good overall in spite of some ~30 minute blocks on the 'down hill' side of things.

The days of long CAT blocks and slow confirms are almost over.

In other news - the Ophrah Network announced the restart of The Diamond Collar episodes - March 28th at 8pm US Eastern/Mountain time (7pm central/pacific).
http://www.oprah.com/own-diamond-collar/First-Look-The-Diamond-Collar

[TheTribesman]

I agree crypto king, even if its small things like a t-shirt and iphone case, its a great way to trade catcoin on a small scale basis and also great way to advertise, i am working on lots of little projects at the moment.

   

[johnny_non]

web hosting that accepts catcoins


http://hjhost.hjreview.info/index.php/

[envy2010]

Take a look at testnet today.  We're in the middle of a brutal test and it's looking very good!
http://testnet.geekhash.org/



This phase of the test started at around 1700 - you can see the drop in the red 'difficulty' line as the test was reset.  The approx 2MH/s was my and Blaksmith's hashing.  TheQueen74 paid us a visit from the City of Light and kicked things up a bit.  The block times look good overall in spite of some ~30 minute blocks on the 'down hill' side of things.

The days of long CAT blocks and slow confirms are almost over.

Looking good on the testnet!

Is that still using the 12% lower limit? A good PID should obviate the need for the lower limit, it just makes for some very very long blocktimes after an attack. If it's been a couple hours since the last block, let the diff drop up to 25%.

[Blaksmith]

Take a look at testnet today.  We're in the middle of a brutal test and it's looking very good!
http://testnet.geekhash.org/



This phase of the test started at around 1700 - you can see the drop in the red 'difficulty' line as the test was reset.  The approx 2MH/s was my and Blaksmith's hashing.  TheQueen74 paid us a visit from the City of Light and kicked things up a bit.  The block times look good overall in spite of some ~30 minute blocks on the 'down hill' side of things.

The days of long CAT blocks and slow confirms are almost over.

Looking good on the testnet!

Is that still using the 12% lower limit? A good PID should obviate the need for the lower limit, it just makes for some very very long blocktimes after an attack. If it's been a couple hours since the last block, let the diff drop up to 25%.

Here is the end of the test, and it looks like it was a successful test.



For those interested, there is no "% limit".  A true PID doesn't have limits, other than a max and min level that it is allowed to travel.  As stated on the testnet page

Code:

Current solution used: PID with 8 block averaging with 20 second dead zone.
Dip of difficulty to 0 denotes catcoind change time.
Last 100 blocks in text.
Slow gains: pGain=-0.005125, iGain=-0.0225, dGain=-0.0075 - When average between 2.5 and 17.5 min.
Fast gains: pGain=-0.005125, iGain=-0.0525, dGain=-0.0075 - When average is outside 2.5 and 17.5 min.

And for those really curious at the code in the catcoind:

Code:

	 	i=0;					// Zero bit-shift counter
	 	while(bnNew>0)				// Loop while bnNew > 0
	 	{
	 		i++;				// Increment bit-shift counter
	 		bnNew = bnNew >> 1;		// shift bnNew lower by 1 bit
	 		if(i>256) bnNew = 0;		// overflow test, just to make sure that it never stays in this loop
	 	}
	 	bnNew.SetCompact(pindexLast->nBits);	// Get current difficulty again

	 	error = nActualTimespan - nTargetSpacing;								// Calculate the error to be fed into the PID Calculation
	 	if(error >= -450 && error <= 450) // Slower gains for when the average time is within 2.5 min and 7.5 min
	 	{
	 		pCalc = pGainUp * (double)error;								// Calculate P ... pGain defined at beginning of routine
	 		iCalc = iGainUp * (double)error * (double)((double)nTargetSpacing / (double)nActualTimespan);	// Calculate I ... iGain defined at beginning of routine
	 		dCalc = dGainUp * ((double)error / (double)nActualTimespan) * iCalc;				// Calculate D ... dGain defined at beginning of routine
	 	}
	 	else // Faster gains for block averages > 7.5 minutes or faster than 2.5 minutes
	 	{
	 		pCalc = pGainDn * (double)error;								// Calculate P ... pGain defined at beginning of routine
	 		iCalc = iGainDn * (double)error * (double)((double)nTargetSpacing / (double)nActualTimespan);	// Calculate I ... iGain defined at beginning of routine
	 		dCalc = dGainDn * ((double)error / (double)nActualTimespan) * iCalc;				// Calculate D ... dGain defined at beginning of routine
	 	}

		if(error > -10 && error < 10) // 20 second dead zone, between 9:50 and 10:10 minute block average
		{
			if(fTestNet) printf("Within dead zone. No change!  error: %"PRI64d"\n", error);
			return(bnNew.GetCompact());
		}	 	
	 	
	 	dResult = pCalc + iCalc + dCalc;		// Sum the PID calculations

	 	result = (int64)(dResult * 65536);		// Adjust for scrypt calcuation
	 	while(result >  8388607) result = result / 2;	// Bring the result within max range for overflow condition 
	 	bResult = result;				// Set the bignum value
	 	if(i>24) bResult = bResult << (i - 24);		// bit-shift integer value of result to be subtracted from current diff

Output for testnet spam log:

Code:

2014-03-06 20:44:35 pCalc: -1.107000, iCalc: -3.573529, dCalc: 0.007095, Result: -306278 (-4.673435)
2014-03-06 20:44:35 Actual Time: 816, error: 216
2014-03-06 20:44:35 Result: 1ccac660 000000004ac66000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
2014-03-06 20:44:35 Before: 1d0c4a91 0000000c4a910000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
2014-03-06 20:44:35 After:  1d0c9557 0000000c95576000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

After dResult is calculated, it is converted into an integer to be applied to the current difficulty.

[ThePeePs]

I like the shirt and iPhone case idea, but how about expanding on it.  There are other smartphones out there besides the iPhone 

[catcoin1]

yeh i have the design available for all iphone, samsung and htc models.

I will release some other products shortly.

If i can raise some funds i would like to get a number of catcoin products together and set up a stand up in centre of London and do a giveaway but also giving out an understanding of crypto currencies and more importantly Catcoin, i am very serious about this and would like to get some media attention sourced beforehand. 

[vondi1122]

yeh i have the design available for all iphone, samsung and htc models.

I will release some other products shortly.

If i can raise some funds i would like to get a number of catcoin products together and set up a stand up in centre of London and do a giveaway but also giving out an understanding of crypto currencies and more importantly Catcoin, i am very serious about this and would like to get some media attention sourced beforehand. 

taking catcoin to another level great

[catcoin1]

yeh i have the design available for all iphone, samsung and htc models.

I will release some other products shortly.

If i can raise some funds i would like to get a number of catcoin products together and set up a stand up in centre of London and do a giveaway but also giving out an understanding of crypto currencies and more importantly Catcoin, i am very serious about this and would like to get some media attention sourced beforehand.  

taking catcoin to another level great

Hopefully, i just want to make the potential of catcoin reality and i just love the coin

[TheQueen74]

Here is the end of the test, and it looks like it was a successful test.

So what is the next step ? Other tests or production ?

_TheQueen74