[ANN][CLAM] CLAMs, Proof-Of-Chain, Proof-Of-Working-Stake, a.k.a. "Clamcoin"

[crazyivan]

What would be the best strategy regarding block size? Keep all my CLAM in a single block? Several blocks 5-10 CLAM each?

[dooglus]

as I have said now pass around 10

I don't understand that part, sorry.

and expected time to earn reward still 18-20 day,(currently I staking 25clam but not in one block) and another question:  in my client  coin control panel I see that coin  weight increase, but in  dashboard I see my coin  weight- 25 without change around week long?

The weight of each output is the same as its value in CLAMs. It shouldn't increase ever, except that the weight is 0 if the output is immature or has been involved in a transaction in the last 4 hours.

If the coin control panel is showing changing weights, I think it must be wrong. I only ever use clamd, not clam-qt, so that's where I focus all of my bug-fixing attention. I don't think anyone is putting much effort into fixing clam-qt bugs, unfortunately. It's probably still worth creating an issue in the CLAM github issue tracker to make a note of the bug.

On the other hand, it's normal for the "expected time to stake" to go up and down a little, since it is calculated using the current network difficulty, which also fluctuates. It's typically around 500/balance days, give or take. So if your balance is 25, that's 20 days.

Edit: I made an issue in github:

    https://github.com/nochowderforyou/clams/issues/224

[SuperClam]

as I have said now pass around 10

I don't understand that part, sorry.

and expected time to earn reward still 18-20 day,(currently I staking 25clam but not in one block) and another question:  in my client  coin control panel I see that coin  weight increase, but in  dashboard I see my coin  weight- 25 without change around week long?

The weight of each output is the same as its value in CLAMs. It shouldn't increase ever, except that the weight is 0 if the output is immature or has been involved in a transaction in the last 4 hours.
If the coin control panel is showing changing weights, I think it must be wrong. I only ever use clamd, not clam-qt, so that's where I focus all of my bug-fixing attention. I don't think anyone is putting much effort into fixing clam-qt bugs, unfortunately. It's probably still worth creating an issue in the CLAM github issue tracker to make a note of the bug.
On the other hand, it's normal for the "expected time to stake" to go up and down a little, since it is calculated using the current network difficulty, which also fluctuates. It's typically around 500/balance days, give or take. So if your balance is 25, that's 20 days.
Edit: I made an issue in github:
    https://github.com/nochowderforyou/clams/issues/224

The issue at https://github.com/nochowderforyou/clams/issues/224 has been fixed and closed by dooglus.

Well done

[dooglus]

The issue at https://github.com/nochowderforyou/clams/issues/224 has been fixed and closed by dooglus.

Well done

Well, yeah.

Someone who uses clam-qt should build the latest version from github (master branch) and check that my fix is reasonable before I make a release with it in.

[TooDumbForBitcoin]

The issue at https://github.com/nochowderforyou/clams/issues/224 has been fixed and closed by dooglus.

Well done

Unfortunately I cannot quote your sig, which says "anyone who owns BTC has CLAMs".

I own BTC and, as a result of your distribution, owned at one time some CLAMs.  I quickly sold them.

Consider correcting your sig.

[dooglus]

The issue at https://github.com/nochowderforyou/clams/issues/224 has been fixed and closed by dooglus.

Well done

Unfortunately I cannot quote your sig, which says "anyone who owns BTC has CLAMs".

I own BTC and, as a result of your distribution, owned at one time some CLAMs.  I quickly sold them.

Consider correcting your sig.

Unfortunately I cannot quote your username, which says "TooDumbForBitcoin".

Consider correcting it to "TooDumbForCryptocurrenciesInGeneral".

[nix_on]

What is  easest way to check Do I have clams on my LTC address.?
Some blockexplorer or something?

[dooglus]

What is  easest way to check Do I have clams on my LTC address.?
Some blockexplorer or something?

The easiest way is probably to visit Just-Dice.com, go to the 'chat' tab, type:
  /dig Ljfik3gh938f82g132789gf

where that's your LTC address, and hit return.

It will tell you whether you have CLAMs waiting for you or not.

If you're prepared to tell it the private key as well, it will claim the CLAMs for it, and credit them to your account. Then you can withdraw them to an address of your choosing.

[nix_on]

What is  easest way to check Do I have clams on my LTC address.?
Some blockexplorer or something?

The easiest way is probably to visit Just-Dice.com, go to the 'chat' tab, type:
  /dig Ljfik3gh938f82g132789gf

where that's your LTC address, and hit return.

It will tell you whether you have CLAMs waiting for you or not.

If you're prepared to tell it the private key as well, it will claim the CLAMs for it, and credit them to your account. Then you can withdraw them to an address of your choosing.

Ok thanks
But
What date should I have ltc on my address or is it imoprtant or not ?

[dooglus]

Ok thanks
But
What date should I have ltc on my address or is it imoprtant or not ?

On the 12th of May 2014 a snapshot was taken of the BTC, LTC, and DOGE blockchains. All addresses bearing a non-dust amount at that point in time were given 4.60545574 CLAMs for free. This was the initial distribution of CLAMs, and it how all the CLAMs were created. The intent was to make the distribution as fair as possible, since everyone involved in any of those three coins automatically got free CLAMs.

The specific blocks at which the snapshots were taken:

   BTC block 300377 (2014-05-12 12:48:17)
   LTC block 565693 (2014-05-12 13:06:31)
  DOGE block 218556 (2014-05-12 13:09:17)

[BayAreaCoins]

What is  easest way to check Do I have clams on my LTC address.?
Some blockexplorer or something?

Feel free to try: http://clamchecker.com

Everything on the site works right now and we are just polishing up a few typos her n there + security stuff.

Checking to see if you have CLAMS is completely free and anything further than that has fees (addition posts coming once we launch.)

[SuperClam]

What is  easest way to check Do I have clams on my LTC address.?
Some blockexplorer or something?

If you are 100% positive you know what pub/priv key pair the LTC existed "at" on May 12th of last year, and understand "change" addresses - the methods listed so far would likely be the easiest most sure-fire way to claim.

If you, however, don't understand "change" addresses, it is recommended you use the official CLAM software to claim.


EDIT:

The important point is that simply looking at your "receive" addresses in the GUI of a wallet will not guarantee that you get all of the CLAM you deserve.

[TooDumbForBitcoin]

What is  easest way to check Do I have clams on my LTC address.?
Some blockexplorer or something?

If you are 100% positive you know what pub/priv key pair the LTC existed "at" on May 12th of last year, and understand "change" addresses - the methods listed so far would likely be the easiest most sure-fire way to claim.

If you, however, don't understand "change" addresses, it is recommended you use the official CLAM software to claim.


EDIT:

The important point is that simply looking at your "receive" addresses in the GUI of a wallet will not guarantee that you get all of the CLAM you deserve.

This seems to contradict the claim in your sig that everyone who has LTC has CLAMs, despite your casino manager's spirited and emotional objections.

[SuperClam]

What is  easest way to check Do I have clams on my LTC address.?
Some blockexplorer or something?

If you are 100% positive you know what pub/priv key pair the LTC existed "at" on May 12th of last year, and understand "change" addresses - the methods listed so far would likely be the easiest most sure-fire way to claim.
If you, however, don't understand "change" addresses, it is recommended you use the official CLAM software to claim.
EDIT:
The important point is that simply looking at your "receive" addresses in the GUI of a wallet will not guarantee that you get all of the CLAM you deserve.

This seems to contradict the claim in your sig that everyone who has LTC has CLAMs, despite your casino manager's spirited and emotional objections.

Let us dispose of straw-men, ad hominem, and other such cruft.

If you have a legitimate qualm - please state it evenhandedly.


Updated signature to contain past tense text; as it was entered around launch time in the present tense.

[dooglus]

What is  easest way to check Do I have clams on my LTC address.?

If you, however, don't understand "change" addresses, it is recommended you use the official CLAM software to claim.

EDIT:

The important point is that simply looking at your "receive" addresses in the GUI of a wallet will not guarantee that you get all of the CLAM you deserve.

This seems to contradict the claim in your sig that everyone who has LTC has CLAMs, despite your casino manager's spirited and emotional objections.

So much misunderstanding and inaccuracy in one sentence!

1) I don't see any contradiction here. While it's true that not everyone with LTC has CLAMs, no statement here refers to that at all.
2) Her signature doesn't say that everyone who has LTC has CLAMs.
3) I'm not her casino manager.
4) I'm neither spirited nor emotional.
5) I've not objected to anything.

What did I miss?

[Fuzzbawls]

The issue at https://github.com/nochowderforyou/clams/issues/224 has been fixed and closed by dooglus.

Well done

Unfortunately I cannot quote your sig, which says "anyone who owns BTC has CLAMs".

I own BTC and, as a result of your distribution, owned at one time some CLAMs.  I quickly sold them.

Consider correcting your sig.

So, you did indeed have clams, then sold them. It stands to reason that, of course you don't have any clams now, because you sold them. When you sell something, you usually don't get to keep it, at least not in this reality.

[crazyivan]

Someone pls address my question, can I keep all of my CLAM in one block? Should I break it to smaller blocks?

Also, where do you see how long it takes for CLAM to stake? In other words, how long until CLAM reaches maturity?

[Zeta0S]

Hi, just downloaded the wallet and waiting for synchronization, but how big is the wallet gonna be? It`s on my laptop and i have a limited hard-disk space on it.

Thanks!

[SuperClam]

Someone pls address my question, can I keep all of my CLAM in one block? Should I break it to smaller blocks?
Also, where do you see how long it takes for CLAM to stake? In other words, how long until CLAM reaches maturity?

Common understanding at the moment is that a user might be more efficient to split their outputs up.
The reasoning is that when a block is staked, only a single output goes immature - with the remaining outputs continuing to attempt to stake.

Hi, just downloaded the wallet and waiting for synchronization, but how big is the wallet gonna be? It`s on my laptop and i have a limited hard-disk space on it.
Thanks!

I don't have an exact number handy but, I expect the chain is still less than 2 gigs in size.

[Zeta0S]

Someone pls address my question, can I keep all of my CLAM in one block? Should I break it to smaller blocks?
Also, where do you see how long it takes for CLAM to stake? In other words, how long until CLAM reaches maturity?

Common understanding at the moment is that a user might be more efficient to split their outputs up.
The reasoning is that when a block is staked, only a single output goes immature - with the remaining outputs continuing to attempt to stake.

Hi, just downloaded the wallet and waiting for synchronization, but how big is the wallet gonna be? It`s on my laptop and i have a limited hard-disk space on it.
Thanks!

I don't have an exact number handy but, I expect the chain is still less than 2 gigs in size.

That`s sounds great, i only have 12 GB left on my Laptop. Hope synchronization will not take 12 hours.

Thanks buddy