Wallets are now live. PoSv3 tested and the mining pool is open.
PS. To answer a few questions.
No Code? Code has been there the whole time. When people have *PAID* github accounts it allows you to make private repo's. These do not show up to users. This is pretty simple. From the lack of people saying this i assume, that people here have little to no github experience.
So if your one of the few who said no code? scam? well understand how your "Scam" is called a false positive.. We see this a lot with people who have little experience but think they do.. People now have equaled if your breathing its a scam.. I wish they would stop, they make a mess of everything.. But its the internet i should expect this from trolls, but not from investors. And the code we worked on was dash/stipend. We liked the c11 proto, and we wanted to make a coin that had something for everyone. so moving forward from that...
Why the name? Why the ticker? Simple. I liked it. My ideas came from computer security vuls. read about them here :
https://meltdownattack.com/ While doing research i did see the other coin. And from what i saw, it didnt matter. Different use cases totally. Maybe our coin will bring some people to theirs and they will get some good pr from it? Who knows but from what i saw, they could use that... a lot of it... I did not see anything that said they were trying to solve a issue.. just another priv coin that the dev mis-managed the funds and they are trying to recover. So now anyone who does anything in the name of spectre will now be a threat to them.. Is this our fault? Nope.. If we wanted to scam them, i would have stole the project. We would have forked their code, respinned the wallet( cause they forked it already ), and air droped to the community and did a complete take over. Its not who we are or what we are about.... We dont care if they close, or continue being open. Or anything about them in fact.
Discord is our main method of contact. That's why we have our id tags in the website. Its so you can come and talk to us and know who your talking to.. A lot of imposters use discord to steal or get funds. We solved this that way. Know who you are talking to.
With that said, no one has come to talk that has said scam or anything bad. I have been waiting.. But no one. So im just going to chalk these people up as fan boys that really just want to cause issues on an ann thread and ignore them.
Opening a coin is a lot of work. You need to have decent network. ( we have almost 20 VPS ) You need firewalls, servers ( windows, Linux ), you need a website, block explorer, pow pool, and dns and ddos protections.. This is nothing to do with the coin base. But it is a lot of work.
We put seed servers all over the world and peers as well. We have them in singapore, japan, germany, london, the usa.. we put up about 10 externally to the usa. All over the board. Just so we can have proper peering..
So to now there is the hosting.. Our servers are at an old cold war att communication bunker in iowa, that was converted to a data center. It will take a 20 kiloton nuke blast and still keep ticking. Its all underground and has multi 10 GIG connections. It has 2 main POP's and when the net gets saturated to 60% they spin up another. Take a minute and read up a little :
http://www.infobunker.com/ Our use case? Its a good one. I have years in large scale software distributions. And thats from ground up. That's from building the tech and the departments, to running them. Before crypto i spent years in security.. So why this coin? Crypto devs for the most part don't want to work with security people, and vice verse. Each says the other is pretty much a idiot. But here is the main issue. I have been on both sides of this fence and i know people from both sides. Exchanges get hacked, coins get hacked, everyone points at the other. In truth its both parts. Thats my main use case. I can bridge this gap. Thats better for investors. Part of what we aim to do ( and have clients already ) is help other coins improve what they are doing. And thats good for investors. Thats good for the coins, and thats good for the community.. So this is consulting work. Nothing to do with our wallet code.
Other use cases? We have some security outlets and companys that have agreed to take XSPC for services. We plan to offer our own scanning and testing suite in the future.
We also offer bug bounty for security researcher. This is a way for coin developers to get the help that need ( often dont want to admit ) to secure the code, website, webwallet, server, or service they are providing... Researchers get awarded in crypto for this work. Again its better to get these two type working together instead of letting the investors get the hit due to a bug or vul. Lets face it. Just because you can write some code does not make it secure code. And just because you can write or create a coin does not mean you can secure a network. And just because you can secure a network does not mean someone isnt going to social engineer their way through your people. Security is a big focus for us.
Masternode Sales? Yup!! Got to get on exchanges and get a fund going to secure the future. But we are only selling limited numbers. They work pretty good too. We are being open and honest. And if you look at the amount we want to raise its really low. Most people wont do a ICO for less than a million.. Why? They want enough money to make sure they can sit on thier butt full time.. We all have jobs and other income streams so thats why we are only releasing a limited amounts and raising a modest sum. Some exchanges cost $120K to list on. And if you dont hold volume they delist with no refund. Everyone knows this who has a coin. Its common knowledge to investors and communitys as well. We have all seen it happen.
Exchanges? Yes of course we want exchanges, we are already in the process of getting on some exchanges.. We are infact friends with some of the owners. So exchanges will happen.
POW/POS/MN? All of them? Yes.. I need to get people going and the only way to do that was to give them PoW to feed them. Its only 5 coins. Not alot they can do, but its enough to start the pos process to keep block moving. So after the user POS for a while they can get a masternode. There is a scale. in the end MN is the best reward. 80%... PoW is only there up to block 250k. After that.. gone.. Also pre-mine was done in the first 10 blocks. it is Split into 10 Addresses and the wallet has staking=0 in it. PoSv3 Was started at block 6000 and a checkpoint has been made.
I am considering all questions answered. If anyone wants to know more. Just research or come and talk with us. We are pretty friendly people.
BTW
Here is a sample conf. it also contains a peers list from our servers.
https://media.spectresecurity.io/files/SpectreSecurityCoin.conf
