Dosh-Kapital

[mere-mortal]

Its Great that we have our first Pool, but it goes without saying that it is not healthy to have just one, I have pm'ed and freenoded various Operaters, but some help on this front will be appreciated

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[minerjoen]

Well, I'd love to spread the word about Dosh and earn myself some free coins but doesn't look like 32 bit systems are catered for here
No disrespect but mere mortals use 32bit machines, advanced/super mortals use 64 bits 
Anyways good luck with your project! 

lol? i dont know where u from, but in my country an 32 bit system is rare...
in the shops u cant even find an 32bit system anymore for a few years.

So ofc 64 is used by the most people, 32 bit is rare.

[mere-mortal]

Well, I'd love to spread the word about Dosh and earn myself some free coins but doesn't look like 32 bit systems are catered for here
No disrespect but mere mortals use 32bit machines, advanced/super mortals use 64 bits  
Anyways good luck with your project!  

lol? i dont know where u from, but in my country an 32 bit system is rare...
in the shops u cant even find an 32bit system anymore for a few years.

So ofc 64 is used by the most people, 32 bit is rare.

Hi minerjoen

To answer your pm:

There are bounties out on other cryptonote based currencies for a GUI wallet, It looks like its going to happen in the future. CryptoNote technology makes up for it in other ways. Read CryptoNote Technology  

[mere-mortal]

DEV:
you should add coin to https://cryptonote.org/coins.php

Will be doing that today, thought I would give it a day.

Done

[ikanunaki]

Block reward formula??

[Vlad2Vlad]

What's a dosh?  Well, at least it made me look.  lol.

Good luck!

[mere-mortal]

Block reward formula??

Starting at around 175 DOSH and gradually declining over 30 years ending on 184 million (as with Bitcoin, transaction fees will maintain mining interest)

[mere-mortal]

What's a dosh?  Well, at least it made me look.  lol.

Good luck!

Dosh is a slang term first used by the English (British) to refer to money.

[yampi]

Cryptonight is dominated by a private gpu miner.
Basically, you are stuck with slow cpu mining while people who will pay 5% fee to a private gpu miner and the guy made it are going to mine the heck out of this.

[mere-mortal]

I am getting some help with improving the OP, but would like to take some time to urge people to suggest or recommend. I would prefer not to get to a point where people are unhappy with the coin for lack of effort. I can do legwork, and even if I disagree with suggestions, its good to have dialogue. 

[mere-mortal]

No news is good news, I guess

[mere-mortal]

New Op design shortly

Any suggestions for a giveaway would be welcomed.

[johndec2]

Pool has been down all day.

[mere-mortal]

not mining, myself, but will look in to it

[mere-mortal]

not mining, myself, but will look in to it

I have asked them to check, on face value it looks like the pool is fine here.

Can you give me more details

[johndec2]

It appears to be a problem at my end.  Sorry about that.  My ISP (Optus in Australia) has been having problems accessing certain ports/websites for a few days. I just successfully accessed the page on my mobile which is not with Optus.  Sucks. Time to change ISPs!! Strangely, I can access the main extremepool page no problems and some of their pools but not others, including dosh.  Almost all the pools show up on my mobile.

[mere-mortal]

Taken from extremepool, at present the Network Hash rate is about 23 KH/sec, with extremepool acounting for 17% of hash rate.

Only mentioning it because I would like to get some feedback.

If all is good I am planning on doing a exchange drive

[MisO69]

Taken from extremepool, at present the Network Hash rate is about 23 KH/sec, with extremepool acounting for 17% of hash rate.

Only mentioning it because I would like to get some feedback.

If all is good I am planning on doing a exchange drive

Its quiet because no big plans, ANN is plain, Logo needs to be a little better, well maybe a lot better. I see you have a bounty for it, that is good.

Any chance of getting a GUI wallet going for it? I know that other cryptonote coins have something already.

How about focus on promoting the coin at shops, like strip clubs. Who doesn't like strippers? I think we need a crypto they can use.

Lay out a roadmap for the coin in the ANN post.

[QuadraQ]

I am getting some help with improving the OP, but would like to take some time to urge people to suggest or recommend. I would prefer not to get to a point where people are unhappy with the coin for lack of effort. I can do legwork, and even if I disagree with suggestions, its good to have dialogue.  

I must say I'm impressed with your communication and commitment so far, so keep that up. This coin reminds me of BitStar which flew under the radar (and well still does to some extent) but has very solid and committed developers, and a good community. Any coin with good fundamentals that builds a community and seeks to constantly improve itself can succeed in the long run.

Giveaways can be a great way to get people interested and excited about your coin, but caution is in order. Again referring to BitStar, learn from some mistakes that were made there. A small pre-mine was used primarily for promotional purposes and for charity (all announced and above board). Anyway they gave away a lot of coins via #IRC, but people started gaming the system to hoard coins, and since they didn't have to do anything but show up to get their coins, most didn't value them, and simply dumped them as soon as an exchange was available. This depressed the price and set the bar low for a long while.

So whatever you do with the giveaway make sure of a few things: 1) People need to do SOMETHING to get the coins 2) That "something" promotes the coin in some way and gets the word out, 3) Try to avoid things where people can easily cheat, 4) If it helps people feel like part of the community that's best.

As for the logo, yeah we need something a lot better. I suggest again that you learn from what's worked well for others here. WhiteCoin did something very smart when looking for a new logo. They created a three round contest, where for the first round anyone could submit an entry and then the community would "vote" by submitting coins to an address for each logo. After a week or so (can't remember the exact time frame) the top three choices were promoted to round 2 and the artists had a chance to refine their artwork if they chose to, and again users voted for the winner by sending coins. After another week the winner becomes the new logo, and all the coins submitted as "votes" for that artwork are then given to the artist as his/her reward. All the coins collected for the non-winning entries are kept and used to fund further promotions/charity and development of the coin. I can't remember the site they used to organize all this, but some google searches should turn it up.

Finally, there is a real opportunity to set Dosh apart from the other crytpnite based coins out there, and that's to develop a good GUI wallet. I know Monero did a contest, and I was never a fan of that because then you have several competing wallets, none of them are that great, and it's just confusing. One of the things that's held back all the cryptonite coins is the lack of a familiar wallet. If you can create a QT based wallet (so that it's cross platform) that works just like (or better!) than all the other coin wallets out there, then you'll get a LOT more users of Dosh. I know that's not easy, but it is a real opportunity. There is a half-way decent QT based wallet for Monero that might be useful as a starting point. It's still pretty buggy, and it doesn't quite nail the interface elements that most Bitcoin/Litecoin based QT wallets have, but it would still be better than starting from scratch I imagine.

[mere-mortal]

I am getting some help with improving the OP, but would like to take some time to urge people to suggest or recommend. I would prefer not to get to a point where people are unhappy with the coin for lack of effort. I can do legwork, and even if I disagree with suggestions, its good to have dialogue.  

I must say I'm impressed with your communication and commitment so far, so keep that up. This coin reminds me of BitStar which flew under the radar (and well still does to some extent) but has very solid and committed developers, and a good community. Any coin with good fundamentals that builds a community and seeks to constantly improve itself can succeed in the long run.

Giveaways can be a great way to get people interested and excited about your coin, but caution is in order. Again referring to BitStar, learn from some mistakes that were made there. A small pre-mine was used primarily for promotional purposes and for charity (all announced and above board). Anyway they gave away a lot of coins via #IRC, but people started gaming the system to hoard coins, and since they didn't have to do anything but show up to get their coins, most didn't value them, and simply dumped them as soon as an exchange was available. This depressed the price and set the bar low for a long while.

So whatever you do with the giveaway make sure of a few things: 1) People need to do SOMETHING to get the coins 2) That "something" promotes the coin in some way and gets the word out, 3) Try to avoid things where people can easily cheat, 4) If it helps people feel like part of the community that's best.

As for the logo, yeah we need something a lot better. I suggest again that you learn from what's worked well for others here. WhiteCoin did something very smart when looking for a new logo. They created a three round contest, where for the first round anyone could submit an entry and then the community would "vote" by submitting coins to an address for each logo. After a week or so (can't remember the exact time frame) the top three choices were promoted to round 2 and the artists had a chance to refine their artwork if they chose to, and again users voted for the winner by sending coins. After another week the winner becomes the new logo, and all the coins submitted as "votes" for that artwork are then given to the artist as his/her reward. All the coins collected for the non-winning entries are kept and used to fund further promotions/charity and development of the coin. I can't remember the site they used to organize all this, but some google searches should turn it up.

Finally, there is a real opportunity to set Dosh apart from the other crytpnite based coins out there, and that's to develop a good GUI wallet. I know Monero did a contest, and I was never a fan of that because then you have several competing wallets, none of them are that great, and it's just confusing. One of the things that's held back all the cryptonite coins is the lack of a familiar wallet. If you can create a QT based wallet (so that it's cross platform) that works just like (or better!) than all the other coin wallets out there, then you'll get a LOT more users of Dosh. I know that's not easy, but it is a real opportunity. There is a half-way decent QT based wallet for Monero that might be useful as a starting point. It's still pretty buggy, and it doesn't quite nail the interface elements that most Bitcoin/Litecoin based QT wallets have, but it would still be better than starting from scratch I imagine.

The length and detail of your post is much appreciated.

I have a few things going on via pm that hopefully be a step forward.