The Cypherfunks[FUNK]: a coin for a global band! Talking v2. Join! 80+ songs

[MaGNeT]

I still have a month or two before I want to be passing out Cypherfunks flyers at festivals!!

Mobile website and a QR-code on the flyer.

[simondlr]

I still have a month or two before I want to be passing out Cypherfunks flyers at festivals!!

Mobile website and a QR-code on the flyer.

Yeah, a simple one-pager will suffice. Great idea of including a QR code.

[bjmillican4]

I almost forgot.  There's a new exchange being created in the US by the dev of P$, AMK, and GOD.  He and some other people are putting it together because they are sick of all the bullshit exchanges out there.  I can't remember what it will be called, but I'll look it up.  I can ask them when they get it up.  Also, Atomic Trade seems to be another possibility, as they are quite reputable, albeit smaller.

Oh yeah. Bryce? I'll ping him. Also, I'll take a look at Atomic Trade as well [and contact them].

Yep.  I saw something on Twitter about it a few weeks ago from him.  I even signed up for it.  When I find it, I'll contact the site.  I'll ask Bryce and the other owners too.

[simondlr]

Just an update on the Android wallet.

Been busy putting up a proper DNS seed node so that the Android wallet can discover a lot more peers, instead of hardcoding it [which isn't future proof]. But DNS changes to nameserver take ages to propagate!

[jommy99]

Can't wait for the Android wallet!   Hey I have been spending some time hanging around Mintpal https://www.mintpal.com/voting so I keep voting and FUNK is moving up slowly.  It is always good to have a few exchanges recognize and support the trading of your coin, so lets vote also for https://comkort.com/vote/#FUNK  and at https://www.swaphole.com/ too.

[jommy99]

We may need to be looking at this problem, coins with KGW are being attacked!...
Regarding Auroracoin TW exploit (Fix included)  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=552895.0
"The exploit BCX has found in KGW implememtation is real and, I believe, he is most likely attacking with the exploit just now..."

Pandacoin was hit with an attempted attack last night..

[bjmillican4]

We may need to be looking at this problem, coins with KGW are being attacked!...
Regarding Auroracoin TW exploit (Fix included)  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=552895.0
"The exploit BCX has found in KGW implememtation is real and, I believe, he is most likely attacking with the exploit just now..."

Pandacoin was hit with an attempted attack last night..

Yes, it definitely affects all kgw currencies.

[simondlr]

We may need to be looking at this problem, coins with KGW are being attacked!...
Regarding Auroracoin TW exploit (Fix included)  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=552895.0
"The exploit BCX has found in KGW implememtation is real and, I believe, he is most likely attacking with the exploit just now..."

Pandacoin was hit with an attempted attack last night..

Yes, it definitely affects all kgw currencies.

Yep. Actually, the timing for this is good. A fix the KGW needs to be done BEFORE the android wallet is deployed. And Rush is doing maintenance on FUNK. Before we hit other exchanges, I think the timing is good to put a fix in for this.

Other stuff I want to implement. And want your thoughts:

1) Add in the notification/alert system [#1 priority. This is so we can more easily inform users to switch when it is needed]
2) Raise the fees. The fees were never meant to be 0.001 [same as Litecoin]. It's supposed to be higher, closer to the soft dust limit [same as Dogecoin's fees]. Like what happened with doge, if FUNK becomes popular, a spam attack can happen on the network if we don't raise the fees.

If you want to help! https://github.com/The-Cypherfunks/The-Cypherfunks

Anything else? I'm still adverse to changing the hashing algorithm. And I've explained why several times. It comes down to: asic-resistance will always be an uphill battle. Doing mobile development, I'm especially concerned how the hashing verification affects SPV syncing. SPV is supposed to be quick, not the days of syncing a full chain. I have no idea how X11 for example performs for SPV verification. You are doing a lot of expensive verification hashing. Scrypt-N with expensive external memory requirements sounds like a deathknell for mobile SPV wallets. Scrypt is already slower than SHA256 [substantially]. The other factor is simply: development time. Currently I'm spending most of my time doing development on Cypherfunks. Porting native hashing code over to android is just something I don't have time for. There is scrypt native code already. So that solves that.

Also! Dig comkort. Thanks for voting Jommy! I will vote there as well, as well as on mintpal. Let's get the ball rolling, the beats dropping and rhythm flowing.

EDIT: Just to clarify. I'm going to study the TW exploit fully to see if it's needed. It is definitely an exploit, but if its attack vector is too large (like a 51% attack), then we'll reconsider.

[simondlr]

I made some profits from altcoin trading recently, and it's all going to FUNK. Put in paid votes at mintpal & comkort. The rest of it, nicely covers seednode hosting for the next 2 months at least.

Band high five!

[vaudvaud]

Looks like Cryptorush has pulled Funk for now (not that I'd really use them right now unless you like to gamble big time)  Yesterday in IRC they were saying they were going to halt any coin that  this attack can be used agaisnt until they are patched, as they don't want to enable anybody doing it to dump their coins.

I'm surprised that the news of the exploit just now taking off, BitcoinEXpress has been posting about it for over a month and even telling what needs to be done to fix it, and apparently has enough hash power that he can exploit it, and has a timewarp chain in progress on Aurora coin that is catching up. (he's agreed to back it off if they patch it like he's been trying to get them to do all this time)

For low hash rate coins, it sounds like he can warp them in just a few hours, and seems several other people are now exploiting that on those coins, thus all the halting of trading of those coins and them all scrambling to patch them.

[simondlr]

Looks like Cryptorush has pulled Funk for now (not that I'd really use them right now unless you like to gamble big time)  Yesterday in IRC they were saying they were going to halt any coin that  this attack can be used agaisnt until they are patched, as they don't want to enable anybody doing it to dump their coins.

I'm surprised that the news of the exploit just now taking off, BitcoinEXpress has been posting about it for over a month and even telling what needs to be done to fix it, and apparently has enough hash power that he can exploit it, and has a timewarp chain in progress on Aurora coin that is catching up. (he's agreed to back it off if they patch it like he's been trying to get them to do all this time)

For low hash rate coins, it sounds like he can warp them in just a few hours, and seems several other people are now exploiting that on those coins, thus all the halting of trading of those coins and them all scrambling to patch them.

I'll email rush and find out more. Pretty shit of rush (what do you expect), as I have several million in there. All the more reason to vote on comkort https://comkort.com/vote/#FUNK and mintpal https://www.mintpal.com/voting.

The exploit has been out there for a while, it just wasn't obvious how feasible it was (I still don't think it's obvious). But it is an exploit and needs to be fixed. The sooner, the better I reckon. I'll try and get to it asap, but I want to include other stuff with the client update as well.

EDIT: btw. Come hang out with the rest of the band on IRC. There's a few regulars there: https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=cypherfunks

[Wizmaster]

Cool coin and real good vibes behind it!


I've got some FUNK now and i'll be sending some music to Soundclound soon - 


Keep up the good work!

btw the block explorer is offline for some reason.

[simondlr]

Cool coin and real good vibes behind it!


I've got some FUNK now and i'll be sending some music to Soundclound soon - 


Keep up the good work!

btw the block explorer is offline for some reason.

Yeah. I pm'ed him. We are getting a new one up too.

Welcome Wizmaster!

[n00bnoxious]

Cool coin and real good vibes behind it!


I've got some FUNK now and i'll be sending some music to Soundclound soon -  


Keep up the good work!

btw the block explorer is offline for some reason.

Yeah. I pm'ed him. We are getting a new one up too.

Welcome Wizmaster!

I'm just trying to get it to CGI proxy through Apache at the moment, and then it'll be live on a subdomain of my site for testing purposes. If anybody has any experience with Apache CGI I'd appreciate any advice. The error I'm getting on the server (Debian Stable/Apache 2.2) is:
configuration error:  couldn't perform authentication. AuthType not set!: /
This appears to be trying to access / and getting kicked off (as expected), so I'm thinking my Apache config is screwy. I've only set this up on Apache 2.4 before, and the way it uses the <Directory> directive is quite a lot different, and a lot simpler.

Fixed it. Was missing mod-fcgid and had missed a folder location for the user that www-data emulates... Find it here: http://funkexplorer.n00bsys0p.co.uk/

I'll make the code available on Github when I've proven it's working from a clean install. There's a weird issue I'm having, possibly due to me not understanding something, possibly due to ABE being in a bit of a messy beta state at the mo. I'm actually thinking of putting some work into abstracting Abe better than it currently is - it's a nightmare to work with and re-theme. Because of the number of crypto coins out there all with their own concepts and themes it'd be nice to have a proper templating system built in.

[simondlr]

Cool coin and real good vibes behind it!


I've got some FUNK now and i'll be sending some music to Soundclound soon -  


Keep up the good work!

btw the block explorer is offline for some reason.

Yeah. I pm'ed him. We are getting a new one up too.

Welcome Wizmaster!

I'm just trying to get it to CGI proxy through Apache at the moment, and then it'll be live on a subdomain of my site for testing purposes. If anybody has any experience with Apache CGI I'd appreciate any advice. The error I'm getting on the server (Debian Stable/Apache 2.2) is:
configuration error:  couldn't perform authentication. AuthType not set!: /
This appears to be trying to access / and getting kicked off (as expected), so I'm thinking my Apache config is screwy. I've only set this up on Apache 2.4 before, and the way it uses the <Directory> directive is quite a lot different, and a lot simpler.

Fixed it. Was missing mod-fcgid and had missed a folder location for the user that www-data emulates... Find it here: http://funkexplorer.n00bsys0p.co.uk/

I'll make the code available on Github when I've proven it's working from a clean install. There's a weird issue I'm having, possibly due to me not understanding something, possibly due to ABE being in a bit of a messy beta state at the mo. I'm actually thinking of putting some work into abstracting Abe better than it currently is - it's a nightmare to work with and re-theme. Because of the number of crypto coins out there all with their own concepts and themes it'd be nice to have a proper templating system built in.

Thanks nox! The stuff you've done so far for the "band" has been a lot. Thanks again. Updated main page. btw. The BTC donation link is not valid.

[n00bnoxious]

Thanks nox! The stuff you've done so far for the "band" has been a lot. Thanks again. Updated main page. btw. The BTC donation link is not valid.

Aha yeah just spotted it. I'll fix it right now.

[simondlr]

Band meeting! Here's an update of all that's happened in this week:

http://blog.thecypherfunks.com/post/81913737963/band-update-week-ending-2014-04-06

[simondlr]

We have a beta IRC tipbot up and running. Come hang out with us: https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=cypherfunks

[simondlr]

Cryptorush reactivated the daemon.

https://cryptorush.in/index.php?p=trading&m=FUNK&b=LTC

Time to throw up some buy support again.

Meanwhile. Remember to vote:

https://www.mintpal.com/voting
https://comkort.com/vote/#FUNK

I've been receiving conflicting reports on the KGW TW exploit. Potcoin devs are going to remove as it the fix toys with block timing. I'm going away for a week and thus had a lot of admin to do today. But I'm going to a farm with pretty much of nothing on it, so going to have some time to look at the fix again (and it is needed).

[bjmillican4]

Cryptorush has been working fine all week for me.  I just can't withdraw btc, so I trade for something else I can withdraw.  They might pull through this.

In addition to the KGW problem, Coin2 (C2) had a 51% attack yesterday with double spending amounting to 25BTC.  Apparently it was fairly easy since their net hashrate was so low.  Apparently they were slacking on security as well.  I'm not sure how bullet-proof one can make a high value, low hashrate coin.  The hacker explains how he did it in the C2 forum.

neuromode - are you working on the flyer, or were you looking for someone to put one together?