[ANN] Woodcoin [LOG] Pure Skein POW, Logarithmic Release, No Premine nor ICO

[pokeytex]

Anything new or any news going on with this coin?  I don't see much in the way of chatter in this forum?  Is Dev still active?

Hey Pokey, we are still here, working on a few things.  A lot of talk has moved to freenode IRC: #woodcoin as well as a dev. mailing list.  IRC logs available at http://woodcoin.xyz.   

Mailing list at

http://fre.erepublic.party/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/woodcoin

Drop by sometime:  http://webchat.freenode.net

I'll try to update this thread more regularly.  There is active development on a couple different wallet projects, as well as some related projects including a community escrowed development fund. 

Some other active urls:

http://www.logaddress.org/index.html   <--  offline wallet generator, address manipulator 
https://c-cex.com/?p=log-btc   <--   exchange
http://www.multifaucet.tk/index.php?blockexplorer=LOG&charts  <--  charts / stats

Woodcutters beat their previous record this week with an all time difficulty high of 44.24.  I can only assume GPU chainsaws are to blame, but one never knows.  The variance has also been high leading to some periods of very slow blocks. 

Keep choppin' and enjoy -   funkenstein_the_dwarf

Awesome!  Thank you for the response.  I am still chopping away!  I will come lurking in IRC once I get some more free time.

[funkenstein]

Wow nice work choppers!   Yesterday we hit a new all time difficulty high of over 63.  That's over 1.9 GH/s of pure double skein hash.  

Sawdust be flyin yo.  

 
This is the push we need to get us through this stage of development.  Every little bit of network security helps enormously right now.  


You may have noticed there is quite a bit of variance on the difficulty.  This is in part because we are relatively few choppers with huge muscle, but also because the readjust period is targeted at 2 hours.  Blocks have averaged as much as three minute apart.  If it causes problems please let us know here or over in freenode  irc:  #woodcoin.  

[funkenstein]

Nodes
/woodcoind getpeerinfo

        "addr" : "199.231.215.253:8338",
        "addr" : "45.55.152.37:42496",
        "addr" : "144.76.238.2:8338",
        "addr" : "46.101.175.137:8338",
        "addr" : "85.25.214.175:8338",
        "addr" : "37.59.24.15:47037",
        "addr" : "[2a01:4f8:201:1401::2]:33805",
        "addr" : "188.134.72.213:54461",
        "addr" : "192.157.254.152:35594",
        "addr" : "[2601:8b:8001:bf43:28d6:8cab:cbb2:773b]:56701",
        "addr" : "71.59.104.158:57092",
        "addr" : "104.238.169.142:61770",
        "addr" : "85.38.56.34:49629",
        "addr" : "91.52.236.97:63244",


OK which one of all y´all brought the magic chainsaw?  What is this artforz-the-dwarf or something?

Difficulty hit 112 last night, and I'm sitting here scratching my beard and resting on my axe wondering what's going on. 

Anyone? 

[notsofast]

Nodes
/woodcoind getpeerinfo

        "addr" : "199.231.215.253:8338",
        "addr" : "45.55.152.37:42496",
        "addr" : "144.76.238.2:8338",
        "addr" : "46.101.175.137:8338",
        "addr" : "85.25.214.175:8338",
        "addr" : "37.59.24.15:47037",
        "addr" : "[2a01:4f8:201:1401::2]:33805",
        "addr" : "188.134.72.213:54461",
        "addr" : "192.157.254.152:35594",
        "addr" : "[2601:8b:8001:bf43:28d6:8cab:cbb2:773b]:56701",
        "addr" : "71.59.104.158:57092",
        "addr" : "104.238.169.142:61770",
        "addr" : "85.38.56.34:49629",
        "addr" : "91.52.236.97:63244",


OK which one of all y´all brought the magic chainsaw?  What is this artforz-the-dwarf or something?

Difficulty hit 112 last night, and I'm sitting here scratching my beard and resting on my axe wondering what's going on. 

Anyone? 

The only person I know who regularly creates GPU miners for new algos is Wolf0.

[pokeytex]

   I have some nuclear powered chainsaws I throw at the forest every now and then... 

[sorryforthat]

Nodes
/woodcoind getpeerinfo

        "addr" : "199.231.215.253:8338",
        "addr" : "45.55.152.37:42496",
        "addr" : "144.76.238.2:8338",
        "addr" : "46.101.175.137:8338",
        "addr" : "85.25.214.175:8338",
        "addr" : "37.59.24.15:47037",
        "addr" : "[2a01:4f8:201:1401::2]:33805",
        "addr" : "188.134.72.213:54461",
        "addr" : "192.157.254.152:35594",
        "addr" : "[2601:8b:8001:bf43:28d6:8cab:cbb2:773b]:56701",
        "addr" : "71.59.104.158:57092",
        "addr" : "104.238.169.142:61770",
        "addr" : "85.38.56.34:49629",
        "addr" : "91.52.236.97:63244",


OK which one of all y´all brought the magic chainsaw?  What is this artforz-the-dwarf or something?

Difficulty hit 112 last night, and I'm sitting here scratching my beard and resting on my axe wondering what's going on. 

Anyone? 

It cant be that hard. My laptop 680M can do about 60 MH/s roughly. So anyone who has a desktop with something considerable better could easily double this with one card. Anyone with 5 decent cards could easily get around 500 MH/s

[l8nit3]

Hey FTD! Great to see you still chopping away at this wicked coin cant wait to see whats coming!

[funkenstein]

Hey FTD! Great to see you still chopping away at this wicked coin cant wait to see whats coming!

Thanks l8nit3!  Great to see you too, was wondering where you were hiding.  

One thing I have been working on is a minimal version of woodcoin.  There's a github repo at the moment:

https://github.com/funkshelper/woodcoin-minimal

or clone with:

git clone https://github.com/funkshelper/woodcoin-minimal.git

Currently I have managed to get rid of all gui, all windows, all mac references, all miniupnpc stuff, all dnsseed references, and a few other things.  There's 1.2 MB of code but it still runs all functions needed for the woodcoin network: chopping and stacking.

It's command line only but if you like a simpler package, give it a shot.  We'll be chipping away at it in the meantime.  

It does require that you use addnode <node> add   or -connrect=<node>  the first time you run, because hardcoded nodes have been removed.  On subsequent starts it keeps a file to check nodes it previously found.  

~FTD~









  

    

[funkenstein]

Merry Christmas! 





https://whydyoueatthat.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/day-8-buche-de-noel/

[funkenstein]

Y'all gonna love this one.  Check it:

https://github.com/funkshelper/fo-realz-woodcoin


Armed and fully operational woodcoinatron.  Builds statically with buildroot / musl, thanks to the hard work of asciilifeform!  

At the moment the thing has trouble loading block from disk after a restart but I'm going to post it here anyway, because the hard part is dispatched.  Node loads and syncs entire woodcoin chain like a champ¹.   No leveldb needed.    

If you are are familiar with "therealbitcoin"  http://thebitcoin.foundation/index.html and you are somehow reading this message, you will be stoked.  

If you're not familiar with "therealbitcoin", that's cool too.  If things go well you won't need to be.  This is basically like the secret weapon we bring out if the shit really hits the fan.  If you are paranoid enough to want to build your own compiler and avoid as many third party libraries as possible, this is what you'll want to use.  

If you just wanna keep chopping, stacking, and spending like you been doing, then please continue.  We got your back yo.

Keep it real -    funkenstein_the_dwarf

  
1)  By "like a champ" I mean, actually doing so, though at a slower speed than any other woodcoin client. 

[funkenstein]

Greetings LOG choppers and stackers!

Update on recent work on the fo-realz-woodcoin project
https://github.com/funkshelper/fo-realz-woodcoin
:

1)  Fixed disk load issue.  It came down to a line in main.h, which afaik all non-sha256 altcoins built from the satoshi codebase have:

(from main.h)

  

Code:

 bool CheckIndex() const
    {
         /** Scrypt is used for block proof-of-work, but for purposes of performance the index internally uses sha256.
         *  This check was considered unneccessary given the other safeguards like the genesis and checkpoints. */
        return true;  //CheckProofOfWork(GetPoWHash(), nBits);
    }  

Where I had to add the comment and the default "return true".  What's going on here is that when the blocks are loaded from disk they are not being checked for proper proof of work.  They are checked when they are downloaded and relayed only.  

2)  I added a signed tarball in the repo.  This being a paranoiac release after all, we shouldn't trust github.  

3)  I added a genesis vpatch and vpatch sig.  This is how "therealbitcoin" development proceeds, so I threw it in there, as this is a fork of that project.    

4)  On that note, we may be the first to have forked that particular wallet.  Let me know if you know another coin that has done so.  

5)  More on that note, this underscores a salient point for altcoins: the "we can take any developments and add them to bitcoin" argument works both ways.  Many people visualize general public coin development as occuring in altcoins (testnets) and if the development works - it might get imported into bitcoin wallets.  In fact the real front line of the battle field is the bitcoin network proper, as that's where all the TXs and hacks seem to be occuring.  Instead, we will be taking bitcoin wallet safeguards and adding them to our codes.  

6)  This fo-realz project like many here has been a boon to my understanding of the satoshi codebase.  What has been learned here will be continuously applied to make woodcoin as long-lived and usable a coin as possible.  

Keep on choppin and stackin and enjoy your holidays!!  

[pokeytex]

Big price move on C-cex today.  Any news why?

[SalimNagamato]

Big price move on C-cex today.  Any news why?

maybe someone too lazy to mine
we have seen that before... but not to 8k high

[garthkiser]

In case this is relevant for anyone else, I could not get the provided Windows QT downloads to run on either of my Windows machines, and I was getting errors when building from source on a Digital Ocean VPS.

Eventually this Dash forum lead me to the solution: https://dashtalk.org/threads/how-to-set-up-ec2-t1-micro-ubuntu-for-masternode-part-2-3.241/

Code:

apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libboost-all-dev libdb5.1 libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev

After that I was simply running out of memory. The solution was found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=304389.0

Code:

free
dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.img bs=1024k count=1000
mkswap /var/swap.img
swapon /var/swap.img
free
make -f makefile.unix

[stuff0577]

In case this is relevant for anyone else, I could not get the provided Windows QT downloads to run on either of my Windows machines, and I was getting errors when building from source on a Digital Ocean VPS.

Eventually this Dash forum lead me to the solution: https://dashtalk.org/threads/how-to-set-up-ec2-t1-micro-ubuntu-for-masternode-part-2-3.241/

Code:

apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libboost-all-dev libdb5.1 libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev

After that I was simply running out of memory. The solution was found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=304389.0

Code:

free
dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.img bs=1024k count=1000
mkswap /var/swap.img
swapon /var/swap.img
free
make -f makefile.unix

Is it already working? I assume that the memory is on 1gb.

[funkenstein]

Greetings Woodcutters!

As you have noticed we have passed the 300,000 block mark recently.  The checkpointless distributed peer-to-peer currency with a sustainable money supply curve lives on! 

Many thanks to all of you for this milestone and for all the interesting discussion and learning (by me at least) that has resulted. 

A few related publications to bring to your attention: 

The Woodcoin whitepaper:
http://vixra.org/abs/1602.0033

is translated to German here:
http://vixra.org/abs/1602.0172

Some comments in Japanese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2rCmZOMhtw


Please bring any support questions to IRC chat on freenode, channel #woodcoin:

http://webchat.freenode.net/





 

[m4nki]

Good job, Funkenstein!

I really recommend to join the #woodcoin IRC Freenode chat.

Awesome conversations going on there and the dev behind Woodcoin is very responsive.

[funkenstein]

Woodcoin Holidays!

Without the "halving days" celebrated by many of the original satoshi codebase coins, choppers and
stackers might be left feeling a little left out.  Not to worry!  There are several crucial days that
we can celebrate, which mark the dropping of the coinbase award past a naturally significant amount.  

Here's a partial list of these holidays and their expected time of arrival.  Of course the actual moment of
arrival of these moments is impossible to predict, and if variance in the difficulty continues as high as it
has been for the last few months, they will be somewhat delayed.
  
Holiday                 Event                       Expected arrival  
  
Pi day-           Reward drops below pi LOG           in 3 days
3 day -           Reward drops below 3  LOG          in a month
e day -           Reward drops below e  LOG          72 days
2 day -           Reward drops below 2  LOG          255 days
gold day -       Reward dropbs belw phi LOG         420 days    (phi ~ 1.618)
sqrt(2) day -   Reward drops below sqrt(2) LOG   543 days
1 day -           Reward drops below 1 LOG           2.6 years
gamma day -  Reward drops below gamma LOG  5.4 years   (gamma ~ 0.577)
dime day -      Reward drops below 0.1 LOG        37 years
penny day -    Reward drops below 0.01 LOG       380 years
millie day -     Reward drops below 0.001 LOG     3800 years


Are there any other significant numbers I should be aware of?  Of course there will also be a PI/10 day, gamma/100 day, etc. Your suggested rituals will be rewarded with
(of course) a bounty of LOG.  

Please do continue the lovely tradition of pouring a sip of dwarven ale on living Earth every 10,000 blocks to remember the kingdom of Durin.  

[funkenstein]

Greetings choppers -

We hit difficulty 150 last week, a new high!  However the massive power of the GPU chainsaw has been a mixed blessing.  Some local mom and pop woodcutters might get discouraged, while the technical requirement to operate a new rig means only a few people control most of the industry.  In the end this has meant a large variance, as difficulty jumps around to compensate for the schedule of the chainsaw crews arriving to the forest.  This means that moving logs onto exchanges might have taken you a bit longer than expected over the last few months.  Other than that, business as usual.  Please report any oddities with chopping, stacking, or exchanging!






 

[funkenstein]

Can anyone help with conf. file??

Thanks

woodcoin.conf?  It should have in it something like this:

Code:

rpcuser=anyStringAtAll
rpcpassword=moreAnyStrinAtAll12312312

There's more that could go in there if you are doing something else but this is enough to run a wallet. 

Cheers --