BTCD is no more

[Azeh]

You could use my escrow

Don't trust this "BadAss" guy.  His VPS service is very shady and he supports Dash's instamine.

For escrow services, there are much more reputable people available.

Pff, i don't even have had one single dash coin. Tell me why my VPS service is shady while this is about escrow? I have had hundreds of btc's in escrow and never fucked anyone up. JL777 and BTCDdev are very pleased with my VPS and dedicated server service, so stop acting like a little kid.

And my escrow is also free, people.

I second BadAss's excellent service. 

@Icebreaker, you can troll all you want, but please don't intentionally smear someone's reputation without direct evidence. It ain't cool.

[PondSea]

Still looking for bulk BTCD buy of 20 BTC.

Can use escrow obviously!

[yassin54]

SuperNET Weekly No. 7

http://coremedia.info/index.php/supernet/item/245-supernet-weekly-no7

CORE Media Token issued on the NXT blockchain
https://www.mynxt.info/asset/1584198250936051677

[Azeh]

Week 47: 17 BTCD have been paid to 479 unique BitcoinDark addresses for successfully staking blocks 1049662-1060433

[BTC-BTC-BTC]

It appears this btcd block explorer is up to date and showing the correct balance.

https://www.blockexperts.com/btcd

[bitkokos2]

BTCD friends I have an announcement for you.
Those of you who would like to stake and support the BTCD network and do not like to have your computer online 24 hours a day, a friend of mine and I have successfully installed the BTCD wallet on a Raspberry PI 2 model B micro SD card and loaded the whole blockchain.
The bootstrap failed to load so we had to load the blockchain from the beginning. It took around a week to load on a Raspberry Pi 1 up to 90% so we tried Raspberry PI 2 from scratch. It loaded within 3 days.
We decided to sell the card to any of you who wishes to support both BTCD network and/or us and also benefit of not having to experiment with the installation. Everything is ready. Just plug and stake!
The card runs Raspbian latest version, the wallet is installed and will be synced up to the last our before we ship it.
The only thing you have to do is put your wallet.dat in the bitcoindark folder and you are good to go.
The card is a Genuine high quality 8GB SanDisk micro SD Ultra class 10 48x speed

Those who are interested please PM me.
The price is 30 BTCD including Shipping with tracking number.
It will be shipped within 2 working days.

Those of you who do not have the Raspberry PI 2 model B (Quad-code) but are interested, we can arrange to ship it for you with a black case and the micro SD card for 110 BTCD. You will need to have a 1.5A 5V micro USB adapter.

This order will take a little more time to process.

Those who just need the image which takes around 5 minutes to install on their own micro SD we will gladly give the URL for 10 BTCD.

Thank you and keep stakin.

[sigwo]

SSH to your Pi, log in, and then copy/paste this:

Code:

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sigwo/54c26f01eed1c71da12638e26df6968e/raw/24fa148370cd1955284093b93fbd8e4ae0ab996e/build_bitcoindark.sh;chmod +x build_bitcoindark.sh;sh ./build_bitcoindark.sh

Then press 'Enter'. The script it will run is found at https://gist.github.com/sigwo/54c26f01eed1c71da12638e26df6968e. Works like a charm. If you have any issues, PM me and I'll assist.

[Azeh]

Week 48: 13.8 BTCD have been paid to 598 unique BitcoinDark addresses for successfully staking blocks 1060434-1071205

[Scofield]

BTCD is almost 2 years old now. What features are live now? Is there an ETA for the rest of them? I would like to know if this is the right time to buy.

[yassin54]

SuperNET Weekly No. 8

http://coremedia.info/index.php/supernet/item/246-supernet-weekly-no8

CORE Media Token issued on the NXT blockchain
https://www.mynxt.info/asset/1584198250936051677

[cienki7]

BTCD is almost 2 years old now. What features are live now? Is there an ETA for the rest of them? I would like to know if this is the right time to buy.

It's a good question, I am also wondering if I should buy some.

[jl777]

I posted in slack about a 0.12 hardfork to very positive reaction, so I will describe here the plan:

Currently iguanacore is in testing of the RPC layer, this will allow iguanacore to be a dropin replacement for BitcoinDarkd/bitcoind for all except creating new blocks. During the transition phase, we still need the normal BitcoinDarkd nodes to create the blocks.

However, yesterday I studied the exact staking method and also the 0.12 codebase and realized I could relatively quickly get a BTCD0.12 release, once the staking code is put into an isolated module. I did get a 0.12 to start syncing with the existing BTCD network, but the protocol has changed enough that it didnt really get going, other than to find some peers after genesis

In my opinion, the safest path is to update the BitcoinDarkd to the 0.12 codebase and have it take over the block generation. The iguanacore would be able to submit staked blocks to the network, but by having the 0.12 nodes doing the actual new block creation, we will benefit from all the improvments in the bitcoin codebase. especially regarding all the various fork resolutions.

Eventually, iguanacore will handle all this, but by having the 0.12 nodes take this over, it allows a faster deployment. Also, it will allow me to create a (0.12 <-> iguanacore) interop network and enhance the 0.12 codebase with other iguana interop features.

as a bonus, I also figured out an enhanced staking that will add value to the staking process, but I dont want to disclose details until I get at least a proof of concept working.

This would require a hardfork, which means older nodes will eventually go off onto their own fork. So all nodes would need to upgrade. We can make it so that the 0.12 is deployed well ahead of time in a follow the existing chain mode, until the hardfork block. At that time, it takes over block generation.

The following are the release points, without the 0,12:

1. bitcoin RPC compatible
2. instantdex API stable
3. tradebots API stable
4. pangea API stable
5. PAX API stable
6. asset passport API stable

The RPC compatible iguanacore is doing quite well in testing and once that is released, theoretically all existing bitcoin RPC apps would be able to work with it.  We will test it with MGW and a few other standard bitcoin RPC based apps.

Now, I am speaking about the iguanacore and not the GUI, which is quite independent of the core by using the bitcoin RPC as the interface layer.

Assuming the community wants the 0.12 hardfork, we need someone to coordinate it. I will disclose to the hardfork coordinator the new enhanced staking, so proper marketing plans for that can be made. I just dont have time to deal with all the non-technical aspects for the hardfork

James

P.S. There is also the chrome app release that will require existing nodes to be deployed first, so that is not a specific release point.

[yassin54]

Tweeted!! https://twitter.com/MagicNxt/status/725814903022469121

[Nxtblg]

BTCD is almost 2 years old now. What features are live now? Is there an ETA for the rest of them? I would like to know if this is the right time to buy.

It's a good question, I am also wondering if I should buy some.

Thanks for the memory-jog. I (regretfully) sold the bulk of my BTCD some time ago, but these low prices gave me a chance to refill my bag.

[mybitcoin101]

Seems that the stake reward is dust.
Help me out, why is it?

[jl777]

Seems that the stake reward is dust.
Help me out, why is it?

5% per year
how much are you staking?

[clovis A.]

Seems that the stake reward is dust.
Help me out, why is it?

5% per year
how much are you staking?

From my experience, it seems one can earn approximately 1.0 BTCD per 24 hours by staking between 6k and 7k BTCD.

[jl777]

Seems that the stake reward is dust.
Help me out, why is it?

5% per year
how much are you staking?

From my experience, it seems one can earn approximately 1.0 BTCD per 24 hours by staking between 6k and 7k BTCD.

which works out to ~365/6500 -> 5.6%, well within expected range

I guess if dust amounts (< 0.0001) are being staked that would be less than 1 BTCD staking, which would indeed stake dust amounts

[Azeh]

I posted in slack about a 0.12 hardfork to very positive reaction, so I will describe here the plan:

Currently iguanacore is in testing of the RPC layer, this will allow iguanacore to be a dropin replacement for BitcoinDarkd/bitcoind for all except creating new blocks. During the transition phase, we still need the normal BitcoinDarkd nodes to create the blocks.

However, yesterday I studied the exact staking method and also the 0.12 codebase and realized I could relatively quickly get a BTCD0.12 release, once the staking code is put into an isolated module. I did get a 0.12 to start syncing with the existing BTCD network, but the protocol has changed enough that it didnt really get going, other than to find some peers after genesis

In my opinion, the safest path is to update the BitcoinDarkd to the 0.12 codebase and have it take over the block generation. The iguanacore would be able to submit staked blocks to the network, but by having the 0.12 nodes doing the actual new block creation, we will benefit from all the improvments in the bitcoin codebase. especially regarding all the various fork resolutions.

Eventually, iguanacore will handle all this, but by having the 0.12 nodes take this over, it allows a faster deployment. Also, it will allow me to create a (0.12 <-> iguanacore) interop network and enhance the 0.12 codebase with other iguana interop features.

as a bonus, I also figured out an enhanced staking that will add value to the staking process, but I dont want to disclose details until I get at least a proof of concept working.

This would require a hardfork, which means older nodes will eventually go off onto their own fork. So all nodes would need to upgrade. We can make it so that the 0.12 is deployed well ahead of time in a follow the existing chain mode, until the hardfork block. At that time, it takes over block generation.

The following are the release points, without the 0,12:

1. bitcoin RPC compatible
2. instantdex API stable
3. tradebots API stable
4. pangea API stable
5. PAX API stable
6. asset passport API stable

The RPC compatible iguanacore is doing quite well in testing and once that is released, theoretically all existing bitcoin RPC apps would be able to work with it.  We will test it with MGW and a few other standard bitcoin RPC based apps.

Now, I am speaking about the iguanacore and not the GUI, which is quite independent of the core by using the bitcoin RPC as the interface layer.

Assuming the community wants the 0.12 hardfork, we need someone to coordinate it. I will disclose to the hardfork coordinator the new enhanced staking, so proper marketing plans for that can be made. I just dont have time to deal with all the non-technical aspects for the hardfork

James

P.S. There is also the chrome app release that will require existing nodes to be deployed first, so that is not a specific release point.

Attention BitcoinDark community, Please read Jl777's message above and vote in the new poll!!!

[yassin54]

Voted!! i am agree 1000%