[ANN][THC] The Hempcoin (THC)

[fartbags]

Staking will be fixed one day. The current plan that everyone seems to be happy with is moving to the Ethereum 2.0 code base (which doesn't exist yet). It's a 100% Proof-of-Stake model. That means there is only about 6 to 12 months of Proof-of-Work mining left.

The Ethereum 2.0 code name "Casper" development is coming along quickly and anyone who wants to see their thoughts can check out their public transparent hangouts:
https://youtu.be/1psYnHtjooI

Who is the developer who is going to do that with hempcoin?

I will. If anyone want to help out we will need a new blockexplorer and other things like a PoS mining pool that will work with Ethereum 2.0.

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[sillypothead]

the Destiny team did a pretty successful swap to Expanse assets. and if they have any chance of delivering what they promised, swapping to EXP instead may be a better choice.

[fartbags]

the Destiny team did a pretty successful swap to Expanse assets. and if they have any chance of delivering what they promised, swapping to EXP instead may be a better choice.

I would be into switching to an $EXP token while we wait for Ethereum 2.0. Do $EXP tokens have a block explorer? Can bittrex.com list?

[coinfello]

Watching closely, I feel a pump coming soon

[sillypothead]

the Destiny team did a pretty successful swap to Expanse assets. and if they have any chance of delivering what they promised, swapping to EXP instead may be a better choice.

I would be into switching to an $EXP token while we wait for Ethereum 2.0. Do $EXP tokens have a block explorer? Can bittrex.com list?

as far as i understand EXP is a clone of ETH, with a more grass root marketing and distribution.  so anything that ETH implements in the future EXP should be able to port over.  DES chose EXP for swap because of that, and DES is the token on the EXP platform.

here's their thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1370260.0

something to keep an eye on since we are considering a swap also.

[spinttt]

i think soilcoin would be a better fit. Since where dealing with plants.

[Joint Force]

Hi THC community, I was accepted to the Microsoft bizspark Azure platform and they have given me $600 a month of free hosting for 3 years. It comes with the possibility of even more free hosting if needed. I'm thinking I will host the HTML5 hemp cash wallet there. @fartbags told me it cost $300 a month to host before it was shut down due to these costs. I'm peer reviewing the code right now. I will try to make optimizations so it can handle more users for cheaper.

[fartbags]

Hi THC community, I was accepted to the Microsoft bizspark Azure platform and they have given me $600 a month of free hosting for 3 years. It comes with the possibility of even more free hosting if needed. I'm thinking I will host the HTML5 hemp cash wallet there. @fartbags told me it cost $300 a month to host before it was shut down due to these costs. I'm peer reviewing the code right now. I will try to make optimizations so it can handle more users for cheaper.

I can donate 5,000 coins for an Air drop like last time. When I ran that last time it went viral in Indonesia.

[HempCoin]

Hey guys...

Just fired up the website permanently hempcoin.org. We linked to the working block explorer.

Looks like THC is riding HEMP. THC is the original NO PREMINE Coin.

We are open to ideas. We do not want to change the wallet that would warrant any type of fork. The code has run perfect for some time leaving no room for suspicious hoards of coins. Hempcoin remains true to 100% authentic.

[HempCoin]

Does the wallet not need to be updated just for heartbleed bug or similar things?

2 years seems like a long time to not update a wallet.

If anyone is willing to update the wallet without damaging the credibility of the THC we are open to looking at it. We would test it for a short period before release.

Tim

[fartbags]

Does the wallet not need to be updated just for heartbleed bug or similar things?

2 years seems like a long time to not update a wallet.

If anyone is willing to update the wallet without damaging the credibility of the THC we are open to looking at it. We would test it for a short period before release.

Tim

We need any security issues fixed. I believe heart bleed was fixed with the upgrade that happened last time.

What I would want to see if the PoS fixed! I'm not sure how to do it though.

[fartbags]

A new check point would be good also. Like where you hard code in the hash of block 1,000,000 into the wallet.

Hempcoin block #1000000
Hash   = 000000000750de0539581c42712ae19ecab35ba4e7bb22313ef37a9efb36c495
Merkle Root = 5060fee7ea3e3b89875fa1305fb7ac09f44ef625226c41e3dab4bc3faac00469


That way if someone is syncing the wallet they know something went wrong if they don't get that at block 1,000,000

[fartbags]

It kind of sounds like everybody agrees that somebody with credibility should update the wallet.

How should a person go about finding somebody to do that?

It seems like there must be somebody who advertises that, sort of like http://dev.cryptolife.net/altcoin-repair-alterations/

This seems like a good idea. Most coins get a testnet set up. We should pay a bounty to someone to fix PoS and update any security bugs. BTW this wallet was upgraded 1 time before.

[fartbags]

It kind of sounds like everybody agrees that somebody with credibility should update the wallet.

How should a person go about finding somebody to do that?

It seems like there must be somebody who advertises that, sort of like http://dev.cryptolife.net/altcoin-repair-alterations/

This seems like a good idea. Most coins get a testnet set up. We should pay a bounty to someone to fix PoS and update any security bugs. BTW this wallet was upgraded 1 time before.

Here is the problem, sorry to be cynical.

A bounty is great for translating or making a logo.

But for fixing code you are saying "Here is some cash. Go to your computer and alter the wallet in a way I don't understand, then I will distribute the wallet to others who, like me, have no idea who you are".

Why not take bounty money and hire a specific person who at least is identifiable, so if he fucks with the wallet you can put a bounty out to have his legs broken?

Of course a public developer doing the work would be a great idea. Unfortunately they are at a premium. I've seen public people who will check wallets to make sure they work correct and have no viruses. Also set it up on a testnet first.

[blakeaholics]

Does the wallet not need to be updated just for heartbleed bug or similar things?

2 years seems like a long time to not update a wallet.

If anyone is willing to update the wallet without damaging the credibility of the THC we are open to looking at it. We would test it for a short period before release.

Tim

More like THC would need someone with any credibility to take over, period.

Tim: I've reached out to you before, and I'm sure others have before, offering help with absolutely no reply. If you want the coin to keep going you either need to:
A) Be present, active and somewhat timely.
B) Handover the project to the community or someone else.

You had a large number of people offering free work and services about a year ago and you squandered it. We were handing you essentially finished works and yet it was pretty much wasted.

I use to think this project had potential because there was a talented community backing it and investing but here we are, seeing the same pattern repeat and repeat and repeat...
Pop in before a BT removal, tempt a fix, and then nothing. Not even a sense of a fix.

Honestly, if you even gave two shits you could have paid $30 for someone to fork a stable POS/POW base, which a dozen of sites offer as an automated service, and fixed the problem a year ago.

Not hating, just my two cents on this coin. Holding 15k for nostalgia.

[arseaboy]

... Holding 15k for nostalgia.

My opinion.

HempCoin started the coin, evidently the code was actually done by somebody else but he started the project.

Recently fartbags has been keeping the coin alive and sort of trying to look for a way to stabilize everything, even improve.

blaleaholic seems to be offering some kind of wallet fix or something in that direction.

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So everybody agrees for the most part that it would be good to update the wallet and fartbags has even been exploring some other advancements.

Updating the wallet is the first priority, and if an updated wallet is provided by somebody like blakeaholics I'll accept it as useable, as long as there is no objection from others.

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HempCoin, are you okay with a new wallet? It can be "tested" by the people who use it, but blakeaholic seems to have been around a while and is familiar with the coin. A wallet he produces is likely a step up from the current artifact.

It is a good solid old weedcoin that only needs a wallet update. If that can be done without forking or starting world war three then this could be one of the better weedcoins, especially if fartbags develops some of the ideas that I don't understand.

--I am an extremely minor holder of this coin but I like medicinal plants and until somebody starts opiumcoin I'll try to encourage this as the coin for people who respect the power of using plants properly.

I do believe that the owner or dev of this coin is thinking for the future dev and they are doing there best to keep us hold on
if the dev is intact with hin plan I'll stick on it and hold my coins I might have that much but believing on it would be worthy
when the time comes.

[blakeaholics]

That's the point no-ice-please, all that is needed is a simple wallet update which at this point in time I could provide but have no desire to. What's the point? If the man in charge isn't willing to take smallest amount of effort or investment to continue his project then why bother? While a year ago I had little to no experience with writing for cryptos and so I couldn't offer it, it still doesn't matter; I know others have been willing.
Stable bases of a variety of flavours of coins could have easily been forked and slapped with the THC logo to at least continue POS for the last two years but oh no, that's too much work.  

As someone with over a decade of programming experience, and my own project which has currently eaten up over two years of my time, this amount of time for a fix is complete bullshit. A multitude of fixes should have been supplied by now but nothing. Fork from a stable base, reissue coins and move on. It's been done a successfully hundreds of times. I work full-time in the film industry which is at minimum a 70 hour work week, on top of being extremely physically and mentally demanding, and yet I find the time to continue my solo projects and am a lazy piece of a shit.

This is the shit that completely pushed myself, and I'm sure many others, away from most altcoins. I still think the principle idea behind altcoins has merit but that thought is quickly closing.

[fartbags]

Tim should fix the PoS for $THC. I'm not sure why he ignores this project so much.

[no-ice-please]

Tim should fix the PoS for $THC. I'm not sure why he ignores this project so much.

From reading his posts e.g.

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If anyone is willing to update the wallet ...

Tim

the impression is that he is a supporter of Hemp and sponsored the original wallet, but evidently is not an actual coder or developer, nor am I, nor are most of the supporters of Hemp.

So what is it exactly people want Tim to do?

Should he hire another coder? My guess is he probably shelled out his own money for the original wallet since it isn't a premine coin. Should he be responsible for paying for all future development,? It seems a bit messed up, since he probably got no money from the premine, since there wasn't one, nor from the ico, since there wasn't one, nor from the crowdsale, for similar reasons.

But okay, I'm fine with that. If somebody can get him to continue paying then okay. Otherwise either he or somebody else attached to the coin, like fartbags, could hold a fund wallet for donations to pay for a wallet upgrade.

[fartbags]

I believe Tim did lose a lot of money getting this coin built/running and that is why he isn't very active here anymore.