Yeah, ignore him.
And yes, I have seen your support for your 888 pool on the 888 thread. And I would have to agree you provide better support than most pool operators.
Haha, thanks
I normally try to avoid smarting off to people and ignore trolls, but his comment caught me right when I was really ticked off, so I had to. Among my numerous projects, I'm turning my main mining rig into a miner/dev box/Mac VM, starting to think I could have saved myself a lot of frustration by NOT using PiMP 1.42 as my starting point, damn thing is broken in so many ways, at least they're getting paid well for it! XD
Jumping into Carbon yesterday was unplanned and unexpected, but definitely caught my interest instantly. Out of the billion things I'm doing the last couple of months, I just hadn't made any time for replacing my dead TeslaX3 pool, so I definitely appreciate Oldminer lighting a fire under me.
It's definitely not easy keeping up with everything, but when I set out to get into the *Coin business "for real", the goal that I set above all others is to take care of my users and customers. You guys probably know me well enough by now to know I don't work in a big fancy office or have a development team or a board of investors, I'm just a lonely 30-something a few months out of a relationship that nearly ended me, lol. I love money as much as the next guy, but if I was in it totally for the money, I'd be doing nothing but launching pools all day every day (like some pool ops I've seen around), ending up with a hundred pools in various states of disrepair and disappointed users everywhere spreading the word. Screw that. I'm prone to screw up every now and then like anyone else but above all I try to put the miners first and stay as transparent as possible about what's happening behind the scenes. It's a formula that has been working pretty damn well these past 5 months. I'm always willing to lend a hand in any way possible, I'm only an email away!
Somewhere on my giant list of stuff to do is stop being lazy and build my "homepage", basically an index of all my pools, games, and services, as well as a support forum and a blog and RSS feed. Things have gotten so bad lately that its hard to make progress simply because I'm bouncing back and forth between, literally, 30-40 tabs of Github pages and 10 ssh sessions, I can't focus on one thing, its a million things at once. But, most of it is for you guys, before long I'll hopefully be announcing a few more interesting ways to entertain you (and a few of your coins :b).
I want everyone's input on if the Carbon crowd would be interested in some gaming apps.. It has occurred to me that gambling apps may not really fit in with the overall theme and vision of CarbonCoin, but it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, but I'd rather have everyone's opinion on it before doing anything. I have one gaming platform that's ready to go, called Coin-Chance, its a Hi/Lo game that's driven 100% by user investments and when PoS comes would be an excellent way to earn extra coins while the interest builds up. The development on it is pretty much in its final stage, I've worked with the developer quite a bit on Github and privately for a few months getting all the kinks worked out, it won't eat your coins, that's for sure. I have a few other things that I've been poking around at but haven't done anything publicly with yet, including a slot machine, a kinda glitchy SatoshiButtons ripoff game (still taking node.js lessons, I'll eventually be able to un-spaghetti it), and working on some other apps and games of my own. I'm praying RunRev's kickstarter campaign to bring their LiveCode engine to HTML5 succeeds, its the one language I do know inside out, once they port their runtime to run in a browser, the possibilities are endless, plus it takes probably 1/4 the time it'd take to do the same thing in node.js.
@Oldminer, I checked out that video. I've been a techno geek since before I was out of diapers but solar freakin roads? Hell naw, I'd build a solar frickin skyscraper with l.e.d's and frickin "laser beams". A few weeks back there was a big discussion on 4Chan's tech board about it and the general consensus is that it is one of the best inventions ever (along with beer, boobs, and the internet) but it was hard to get an idea of its real-world practicality without having them right outside to test out. When I have a bit more free time I want to see if I can get some hard data on its output, the composition of and construction techniques of the solar substrate and the glass. I couldn't really give you any numbers on it off the top of my head, but seems to me like the overhead energy requirements to power a bank of LED's (depending on quantity and type), heating element, plus a microcontroller and board running them, the pressure switch and charge circuit/voltage regulator, wouldn't allow the entire system to generate much of an energy output beyond supporting itself. Looking at the video, it looks like it requires a great deal of wiring and control hardware underneath, especially the way they were talking about lighting up the roadway in all kinds of ways, like when an animal steps on it. Would need some pretty robust processing and signaling hardware. I gotta do some more research now! I'll definitely be extremely impressed if the panels can perform the way they talk about in the video, feed at least some power back into the grid (or someone's house), and stay lit longer than a couple hours after dark. The programmable and pressure triggered lighting effects sound feasible enough to do given the right techniques but I'm not so sure about the heating element. Most methods of increasing temperature with electricity are horribly power thirsty. I remember my dad buying 50 bucks worth of 9-volt batteries for our electric socks on one hunting trip, didn't last but a few hours total. I'd surely cover as many walkways as possible with the things, not so sure about roadways. No matter how tough that glass is, enough semi trucks at 80mph will destroy it, quickly. I love the shape of them but I'd like to see triangular ones too, tesselated like they do the cheese at subway!
Ok, I better go for now, lol.. I've been writing this post on and off for like 8 hours and it's time to go get something to eat, then back to the drawing board. Let me know what you guys think of any of my crazy/stupid/awesome ideas and feel free to give me some of your own!
Oh, also, about the pool, I'll probably lower the TXfee a bit, but for the block rewards atm, 100 isn't a bad withdrawal fee. I'll do some test transactions later on and see what the wallet's charging. I'll have a look at the src at some point. I honestly hate charging anything at all for mining because I love what I do, but I've gotta keep the servers on, the internet bill paid, and cheezburgers in muh belly.
