[ANN][AUR] Auroracoin - a cryptocurrency for Iceland

[Klacik]

Mooncoin has a fix for the KGW exploit, it appears the Aururacoin devs need to address this issue also.

yes, it will be fixed..

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=552895.0

Still nothing on git and no new release.

Just another saga of devs not fixing things in a timely manner.

..well if it's that easy for you, why don't you help balduro (and others involved) instead of trolling on every single thing you don't like?  

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[lunas]

mintpal has frozen deposits and withdrawals of AUR pending a patch.

[avw1982]

mintpal has frozen deposits and withdrawals of AUR pending a patch.

Cryptsy also.

[ghur]

..well if it's that easy for you, why don't you help balduro (and others involved) instead of trolling on every single thing you don't like?  

Why would I? I have no stake in this.

It's not my job to clean up their incompetence.

[balduro]

April 4th: Automatic checkpointing introduced.

Update ASAP to v. 1.3.0.0
https://github.com/baldurodinsson/auroracoin-project/
http://auroracoin.org/resources/auroracoin-qt.zip

[mmouse]

April 4th: Automatic checkpointing introduced.
Update ASAP to v. 1.3.0.0

Does this update fix the KGW timewarp attack?

[balduro]

April 4th: Automatic checkpointing introduced.
Update ASAP to v. 1.3.0.0

Does this update fix the KGW timewarp attack?

This does not explicitly deal with TW. That will require a hard fork that will be introduced at a later date.

This ensures that such an attack (and 51% attacks) will be rendered useless. But the network needs to update to 1.3.0.0 for the protection to work. Also gives us time to carefully think through any changes we make.

[ghur]

April 4th: Automatic checkpointing introduced.

Update ASAP to v. 1.3.0.0
https://github.com/baldurodinsson/auroracoin-project/
http://auroracoin.org/resources/auroracoin-qt.zip

Why did you merge in code Auroracoin does not have the license to?

The following is taken directly from src/checkpointsync.cpp:

Copyright (c) 2012-2013 PPCoin developers
Copyright (c) 2013 Primecoin developers

A perpetual use license of this advanced checkpoint technology is granted
to feathercoin by Sunny King on behalf of PPCoin developers and Primecoin
developers.

Permission is hereby granted to any person obtaining a copy of the advanced
checkpoint technology, for perpetual use in feathercoin network, including
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, subject to the
following conditions:

a) This license is not transferrable, no sublicense, and applies to
   feathercoin only.
b) The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
   in all copies of source code distributions.

Feathercoin is waived from displaying the above copyright notice in
'About' for the inclusion of advanced checkpoint technology. Reference
in file 'COPYING' is appreciated but not required.

Does Auroracoin not respect the copyright owned by developers of different coins?

If you have received permission, why does the header not reflect this?

[mineabit]

Mineabit pool has been updated:

./AuroraCoind getinfo
{
    "version" : 1030000,
    "protocolversion" : 1030000,
    "walletversion" : 60000,

[Astroxjr]

Gj Balduro

[bushstar]

Why did you merge in code Auroracoin does not have the license to?

The following is taken directly from src/checkpointsync.cpp:

Does Auroracoin not respect the copyright owned by developers of different coins?

If you have received permission, why does the header not reflect this?

The license for Feathercoin was a special one which is why it is not transferable. We paid Sunny to do the implementation in Feathercoin and he granted us a special license where we did not have to include any copyright notices for Peercoin. The COPYING file from Peercoin copied in below is a bit different.

Apologies for the confusion I created over this. Auroracoin and others are well within their rights to use automatic checkpointing.

Copyright (c) 2011-2012 PPCoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Bitcoin Developers

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.

[C-Morpheus]

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https://c-cex.com/

[mullick]

Cryptsy has updated our wallet and brought deposits/withdrawals back online

Happy trading!

[Nite69]

April 4th: Automatic checkpointing introduced.
Update ASAP to v. 1.3.0.0

Does this update fix the KGW timewarp attack?

This does not explicitly deal with TW. That will require a hard fork that will be introduced at a later date.

This ensures that such an attack (and 51% attacks) will be rendered useless. But the network needs to update to 1.3.0.0 for the protection to work. Also gives us time to carefully think through any changes we make.

I agree. Automatic checkpoints will prevent such attacks. However I don't like centralized checkpoints they are good solution at this time; they don't require hard fork so they gives more time to make the the TW fix effective and thus reduces the (albeit small) natural risks associated with all hard forks.

[molecular]

updated http://blockexplorer.auroracoin.eu to 1.3

[Nite69]

updated http://blockexplorer.auroracoin.eu to 1.3

Also http://auroraexplorer.atorox.net/ is up to date with 1.3

[hyeoam]

Charts here: http://crypto-prices.com/AUR

[filipe3x]

http://aur.bitember.com/ is updated as always  

[Maurizio]

Balduro please tell us whats next for Auroracoin.
Something you can pay for with AUR in Iceland?

[Bimmerhead]

Balduro please tell us whats next for Auroracoin.
Something you can pay for with AUR in Iceland?

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