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June 08, 2017, 08:55:15 PM
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0.00000020 BTC (464.69%) BRAWO SmileySmileySmiley Happy day Smiley  everyone
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June 09, 2017, 09:08:28 AM
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Sooo.... There haven't been any SMLY blocks for over 5 hours :-/

c-cex has stated that they have lost a lot of coins and are not happy with this. One possible reason may be a 51% attack back in March or so. They have not answered our requests for what needs to be done for them to reopen for trading.

cryptopia has said that they are investigating a possible fork. They have given no answer to questions on how long this may take or how it is coming along.

Would be good if they kept in touch with their users about this.
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June 11, 2017, 10:08:48 AM
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Sooo.... There haven't been any SMLY blocks for over 5 hours :-/
Yeah, we've been plagued a bit by a few issues in the past few days/weeks and we're still trying to figure out what the heck is going on.

I *think* the problem is fixed and I *think* the actual source of the problem is at the prohashing mining pool.

This is what we observed:
  • 1 An ever increasing mempool with some very old transactions not getting confirmed
  • 2 Prices (at novaexchange) stabilised around 10 Satoshi, from several months at 0.2 and yearly average close to 1
  • 3 Difficulty levels much higher than we've ever seen before


c-cex has stated that they have lost a lot of coins and are not happy with this. One possible reason may be a 51% attack back in March or so. They have not answered our requests for what needs to be done for them to reopen for trading.

cryptopia has said that they are investigating a possible fork. They have given no answer to questions on how long this may take or how it is coming along.

Would be good if they kept in touch with their users about this.

Exchanges told us they were seeing apparent transaction reversals for old, confirmed, transactions. If anyone can tell us how that can happen (apart from a 51% attack), then we'd like to know! I've been looking at this for some time now (ever since c-cex froze our wallet) and I see no convincing evidence of a 51% attack since these things only happen while prohashing is the sole mining pool.

The folks at prohashing acknowledge the problem in how they handle allocation of hashpower to small coins and have said that they were implementing mods to their algorith, but so far we have not seen any improvement. The resulting behaviour is not just detrimental to us, but it also results in lower payouts for their own customers, so one would think they had an interest in doing something about it, but...

Here is a bigger problem:  Blocks mined at prohashing commonly do not include available transactions!

I don't know why that is or how that can be done. Note that they are a merge mining pool so they do some weird stuff to each block. Whatever the reason is, they have allowed the SMLY mempool to steadily increase by mining without picking up SMLY transactions. Prohashing have the hash power to completely dominate all mining for coins like SMLY.

They have not responded on why they do not include transactions in blocks.

Until recently we also had hashlink as a pool and this problem did not occur with them. But when hashlink died a while ago - no reply from the sysadmin - prohashing became the only pool and with that our problems seemed to escalate.

The folks at Novaexchange have been extremely helpful in diagnosing the problem and finding ways to move on.

We obviously need our own pool - one that we control: one that does not go down at someone else's whim and one that actually puts transactions into blocks. That will be set up during the week and from then on we will be picking up transactions through any mining done with that pool.

The longer-term solution is to include more mining algorithms and that is being worked on, as described earlier on this page. It will take a bit longer but we should get it out this summer.

Now, I don't know how a large mempool can affect the exchanges so that confirmed deposits disappear. If anyone has thoughts on this then I am all ears!

Some of you have coins at c-cex and cryptopia. I do hope they will reopen their markets for SMLY so that you can access your coins.




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June 11, 2017, 08:03:48 PM
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The hashlink pool is back up. Thank you, Asemov!
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June 11, 2017, 10:42:40 PM
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SMLY trading at novaexchange is back on again.

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June 14, 2017, 04:50:35 PM
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There are suggestions earlier in this thread concerning the use of a Kimoto Gravity Well.

Any comments on whether we should include this for the SMLY (in the planned changes)?

It's not immediately obvious that this is an improvement on just adding more mining algorithms -- and setting the maximum change to a factor of 1.2 rather than the current 4, inherited from Litecoin/Bitcoin.
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June 15, 2017, 10:34:46 PM
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Our team has been looking at the changes needed to convert SMLY into a multi-algo coin. This is a fair bit of work and it's probably less of a change to convert the AUR wallet into a SMLY wallet.

This way we'll get the following hashing algorithms: Grøstl, Qubit, scrypt, SHA-256, Skein.

We don't really need SHA-256 and this doesn't give us X11, but neither aspect is really a show-stopper.

As always, comments are welcome.
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June 16, 2017, 05:39:35 PM
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Our team has been looking at the changes needed to convert SMLY into a multi-algo coin. This is a fair bit of work and it's probably less of a change to convert the AUR wallet into a SMLY wallet.

This way we'll get the following hashing algorithms: Grøstl, Qubit, scrypt, SHA-256, Skein.

We don't really need SHA-256 and this doesn't give us X11, but neither aspect is really a show-stopper.

As always, comments are welcome.

No objections here  Smiley
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June 17, 2017, 05:32:50 AM
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seems to me like an attack to get cheap smileycoins... just sayin..

yeah need more pools..

let me know if I can help in PM.  I will set up something if someone can tell me what to do.

I do not necessarily think it is good to give financial rewards for educational achievements directly to the students...however I generally support educational efforts and alt-finance and love the side projects (setting up internet, etc. in under-served regions..)!

Multi-algo is probably good idea..

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June 17, 2017, 07:50:33 AM
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seems to me like an attack to get cheap smileycoins... just sayin..
mmm. sure looks like it.
yeah need more pools..

let me know if I can help in PM.  I will set up something if someone can tell me what to do.
thnx

I do not necessarily think it is good to give financial rewards for educational achievements directly to the students...however I generally support educational efforts and alt-finance and love the side projects (setting up internet, etc. in under-served regions..)!

Yeah, paying students money is hotly debated by lots of people. We're just interested in finding out what we can do to get students to study :-)

i.e. it's initially just  a research question.

-- and also to see whether we can have an impact on education in low-income regions: A dollar isn't much up here but consider a region where a family may live on a dollar a day and there is no tradition of getting an education. Maybe it will give more justification to education in the students' surroundings if they're making the occasional dollar from studying.

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June 26, 2017, 10:52:51 PM
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Its a pure POW of hybryd ( POW + POS ) coin ?

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June 28, 2017, 09:03:02 AM
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Its a pure POW of hybryd ( POW + POS ) coin ?

It basically becomes a hybrid POW+POS.
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June 28, 2017, 05:43:27 PM
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Our team has been looking at the changes needed to convert SMLY into a multi-algo coin. This is a fair bit of work and it's probably less of a change to convert the AUR wallet into a SMLY wallet.

This way we'll get the following hashing algorithms: Grøstl, Qubit, scrypt, SHA-256, Skein.

We don't really need SHA-256 and this doesn't give us X11, but neither aspect is really a show-stopper.

As always, comments are welcome.


Would be terrific to see these two Iceland-based coins working together. Hopefully there can be sharing of developer resources to the benefit of both projects.
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June 28, 2017, 11:23:20 PM
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I was so happy and felt lucky when I saw this particular link and coin. I'm in 300 Levels (Final year) of my undergraduate studies (Bsc in Computer Vision).I'm a self funding student but now, I am currently stuck and needs assistance. Am posting this here because the coin promised assistance in education. Please kindly assist me. I am so passionate about education, I wanna study, I have good grade (Distinction) in my previous studies. I need to raise 15,000USD. any assistance rendered will be appreciated. Please kindly let me know if you need proofs, So that I can send my school documents to you and even also school contact, in case you need to write them for confirmation
My wallet:
Smileycoin:BEfuy8uZhfwFqxfyzyN87yrKrUCaiGNsdF
Bitcoin:15GfGhXLgjzDev1nWtz6E9BEQckw8qVG8J
Dogecoin:DEihA4RcAP3Kxxru5hgszgpUACxBTUdSYJ


Thanks dev for considering poor people like us and for inventing a coin like this.
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June 29, 2017, 07:16:03 AM
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I was so happy and felt lucky when I saw this particular link and coin. I'm in 300 Levels (Final year) of my undergraduate studies (Bsc in Computer Vision).I'm a self funding student but now, I am currently stuck and needs assistance. Am posting this here because the coin promised assistance in education. Please kindly assist me. I am so passionate about education, I wanna study, I have good grade (Distinction) in my previous studies. I need to raise 15,000USD. any assistance rendered will be appreciated. Please kindly let me know if you need proofs, So that I can send my school documents to you and even also school contact, in case you need to write them for confirmation
My wallet:
Smileycoin:BEfuy8uZhfwFqxfyzyN87yrKrUCaiGNsdF
Bitcoin:15GfGhXLgjzDev1nWtz6E9BEQckw8qVG8J
Dogecoin:DEihA4RcAP3Kxxru5hgszgpUACxBTUdSYJ


Thanks dev for considering poor people like us and for inventing a coin like this.

There are two ongoing mechanisms:

  • The Smileycoin rewards are obtained directly and automatically by studying in the tutor-web, at http://tutor-web.net
  • The Education in a Suitcase project specialises in providing the tutor-web software to low-income regions by crowdfunding or getting grants. This is directed at entire schools or classes and is built up through cooperation with local teachers and administrators.
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June 29, 2017, 07:17:00 AM
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Our team has been looking at the changes needed to convert SMLY into a multi-algo coin. This is a fair bit of work and it's probably less of a change to convert the AUR wallet into a SMLY wallet.

This way we'll get the following hashing algorithms: Grøstl, Qubit, scrypt, SHA-256, Skein.

We don't really need SHA-256 and this doesn't give us X11, but neither aspect is really a show-stopper.

As always, comments are welcome.


Would be terrific to see these two Iceland-based coins working together. Hopefully there can be sharing of developer resources to the benefit of both projects.

Yes!
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June 29, 2017, 02:29:20 PM
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Our team has been looking at the changes needed to convert SMLY into a multi-algo coin. This is a fair bit of work and it's probably less of a change to convert the AUR wallet into a SMLY wallet.

This way we'll get the following hashing algorithms: Grøstl, Qubit, scrypt, SHA-256, Skein.

We don't really need SHA-256 and this doesn't give us X11, but neither aspect is really a show-stopper.

As always, comments are welcome.


Would be terrific to see these two Iceland-based coins working together. Hopefully there can be sharing of developer resources to the benefit of both projects.

Yes!


do you know where the Auroracoin foundation office is in Reykjavik?
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June 30, 2017, 09:25:54 PM
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do you know where the Auroracoin foundation office is in Reykjavik?
I didn't even know you have one :-)
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June 30, 2017, 10:50:11 PM
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News from Education in a Suitcase, see recent posts on https://www.facebook.com/education.in.a.suitcase/
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July 05, 2017, 10:14:44 PM
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The first block using the proposed coinbase split was generated today. See block 212106:

1000 SMLY to the miner (and pool fee)
4500 SMLY for donation
4500 SMLY in dividends


This is being implemented as optional at the moment, but it will become mandatory eventually.

Note that current pool software is unlikely to support this. Modified p2pool software will be made available.
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