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[LucD88]

Right now 250000 but in the near future 50000. Need more BN's as tx validation is being moved to them..

thanks, in a few days we will release a test version that addresses many of the developments discussed here. A Bank node is going down to 50K , so be sure to check in again soon

I see, thanks for the explanation! Currently in the process of obtaining my 5th BN (per 50k BCR). If there's anything I can do to help testing feel free to PM me!

Any guide available on how to setup a BN?

All good, for now i actually need people who can review the changes i made to the code and people who can argue for/against them. As a human being i can make mistakes in both reasoning and coding so a different view is always welcomed and appreciated.

For now use this http://bitcredit.wikia.com/wiki/Bitcredit_Wiki

It will be updated when the new rules go live.

I have a developer background, although it's mostly based on front-end web development. I could still have a look at the code, won't hurt I guess.

Thanks for the guide, will take a look at it.

[bitcreditscc]

Right now 250000 but in the near future 50000. Need more BN's as tx validation is being moved to them..

thanks, in a few days we will release a test version that addresses many of the developments discussed here. A Bank node is going down to 50K , so be sure to check in again soon

I see, thanks for the explanation! Currently in the process of obtaining my 5th BN (per 50k BCR). If there's anything I can do to help testing feel free to PM me!

Any guide available on how to setup a BN?

All good, for now i actually need people who can review the changes i made to the code and people who can argue for/against them. As a human being i can make mistakes in both reasoning and coding so a different view is always welcomed and appreciated.

For now use this http://bitcredit.wikia.com/wiki/Bitcredit_Wiki

It will be updated when the new rules go live.

I have a developer background, although it's mostly based on front-end web development. I could still have a look at the code, won't hurt I guess.

Thanks for the guide, will take a look at it.

Yes please , thank you.

[thelonecrouton]

well i keep trying to think on the roll out, the code looks great, bu how about phasing the updates so we can see how it all works out and instead of a shock change we slowly phase things in?

I see you have figured how to add live bids to the blocks (great work), but how about we have a scedule of changes and each in a different release?

This allows people to experience the changes slowly and also gets the nay sayers time to see the advantages and get them aboard before the complete PoW shift.

@thelonecrouton, do you agree ? Great work btw i built the new branch and can see all the work you've put in.

@bitcreditscc , can we have multiple stylesheets? maybe have a option to switch between one that a person likes?

No disrespect to bitcreditscc, but I think the updates will be incremental anyway, some pretty hefty changes suggested recently, they aren't all going to get released in one giant and fully functional upgrade.

Also, halfway there with the 'pick your own ugly paint job' thing:

Finding these themes will be an exercise left entirely to the user.    However, you have a choice of having the browser point at and only at a specific directory as above (eg. ~/.bitcredit/themes) or allowing the user to roam free and try to load christ knows what...

...which would mean I'd probably have to add some 'is this actually a valid css/qss file' code to prevent complications when someone tried to load an .mp3 or a .pdf or something. I would prefer the former, we could ship additional themes as they got tested for actual usability.

[thelonecrouton]

Any guide available on how to setup a BN?

Any of the DASH guides will also do as a reference, but BCR doesn't have the fixed IP + port 9999 restriction. You can specify any port you want with a 'port=xxxx' line in your bitcredit.conf file(s) - you might also need to tick the 'Map port using UPnP' box under Options > Network if you're launching them from your local QT client.

had a chance to read further into the Elements thing? I just pushed a branch you can play with, 0.30.16.8b it's the master branch + Mining changes (60% done) need to just write the verification code.

I need time off from writing new stuff so i am completing the BCR- Elements branch as a curiosity project.

Having a gander at the recent commits now, still mostly Klingon to me... 

[bitcreditscc]

well i keep trying to think on the roll out, the code looks great, bu how about phasing the updates so we can see how it all works out and instead of a shock change we slowly phase things in?

I see you have figured how to add live bids to the blocks (great work), but how about we have a scedule of changes and each in a different release?

This allows people to experience the changes slowly and also gets the nay sayers time to see the advantages and get them aboard before the complete PoW shift.

@thelonecrouton, do you agree ? Great work btw i built the new branch and can see all the work you've put in.

@bitcreditscc , can we have multiple stylesheets? maybe have a option to switch between one that a person likes?

No disrespect to bitcreditscc, but I think the updates will be incremental anyway, some pretty hefty changes suggested recently, they aren't all going to get released in one giant and fully functional upgrade.

Also, halfway there with the 'pick your own ugly paint job' thing:

Finding these themes will be an exercise left entirely to the user.    However, you have a choice of having the browser point at and only at a specific directory as above (eg. ~/.bitcredit/themes) or allowing the user to roam free and try to load christ knows what...

...which would mean I'd probably have to add some 'is this actually a valid css/qss file' code to prevent complications when someone tried to load an .mp3 or a .pdf or something. I would prefer the former, we could ship additional themes as they got tested for actual usability.

I agree with the incremental updates some of the easier stuff has already been done. 0.30.16.8b is the most current branch. This will be released without IBTP in a few hours after hack_ and thelonecrouton confirm that it is working.

This update reduces base Bn cost down to 50K at block 145000, it also lays in the ground work for block bidding and future separation of BNs.
It features many other updates, and i will write a changelog for it with the last push to the public master branch of the git. Also you will start to see branding being replaced by that of the company.

Great work with the GUI, we are nearly there !!!

[bitcreditscc]

Any guide available on how to setup a BN?

Any of the DASH guides will also do as a reference, but BCR doesn't have the fixed IP + port 9999 restriction. You can specify any port you want with a 'port=xxxx' line in your bitcredit.conf file(s) - you might also need to tick the 'Map port using UPnP' box under Options > Network if you're launching them from your local QT client.

had a chance to read further into the Elements thing? I just pushed a branch you can play with, 0.30.16.8b it's the master branch + Mining changes (60% done) need to just write the verification code.

I need time off from writing new stuff so i am completing the BCR- Elements branch as a curiosity project.

Having a gander at the recent commits now, still mostly Klingon to me...  

Sorry if the git is confusing at the moment.

let me guide

Current branch (Master plus immediate update material)
0.30.16.8 --> WIP (Current branch + Meganet + IBTP)
0.30.16.8-+_elements --> WIP WIP ( 0.30.16.8+ elements)
0.30.16.8 -+-coinspark (0.30.16.8-+_elements + colored coins)
0.30.16.8 -+-FIX (0.30.16.8 -+-coinspark + nothing new yet)

These will be the basis of 0.30.17 which will be the major version update which all previous updates would have cumulatively contributed to it.

[thelonecrouton]

Just some food for thought, here's our competition: https://bitreserve.org/en/homepage

I'm looking forward to putting our in-wallet version of this together: https://bitreserve.org/en/status  

We can beat them primarily on decentralisation and therefore security, privacy and no signup crap. Downloading the BCR wallet should be it.

Oh, and BCR reserves will belong to everyone with BCR, not just the parent company, and that's an ongoing revenue stream...  

[thelonecrouton]

Select Your Own 'Orrible Theme 'feature' now fully working!

Use at your own risk, may induce dizziness, nausea and rage...   

[RenegadeMan]

Select Your Own 'Orrible Theme 'feature' now fully working!

Use at your own risk!  

Oh that's gorgeous lonecrouton. What colour is that, puce?

[bitcreditscc]

Just some food for thought, here's our competition: https://bitreserve.org/en/homepage

I'm looking forward to putting our in-wallet version of this together: https://bitreserve.org/en/status  

We can beat them primarily on decentralisation and therefore security, privacy and no signup crap. Downloading the BCR wallet should be it.

Oh, and BCR reserves will belong to everyone with BCR, not just the parent company, and that's an ongoing revenue stream...  

Hehehe, if you look in the code, you'll see i had already hinted at this. We already have decentralized proof of reserves and soon will have multi-asset support, even fiat will be visible on the blockchain.

[thelonecrouton]

Oh that's gorgeous lonecrouton. What colour is that, puce?

Don't panic, eyeball-torture for testing purposes only. 

[bitcreditscc]

What Section 32 is working on in the real world

If someone wants to buy BCR they need to go to a bank, convert local currency and transfer to an exchange---5-14 working days (3% conversion charge + 3-7% transfer charge)
Then they need to buy BTC and send to another-- trade fee + exchange Tx fees + withdrawal fees (1 hour -3 hours for 6 confirms)
Then they need to buy BCR and finally send to their wallet-- trade fees +exchange fees+ (3 minutes-1 hour 30)

Do you see the problem here? And it's roughly the same procedure to do the reverse.

Imagine a user just wanted to buy some 50K BCR, maybe for a BN or to sit on it, they have the $ 70 in hand but by the time it got to trex , it would be only $56 maybe and only two weeks later. This is an incredible barrier to entry for the 99.99% of the world we intend to make this available to.

They want to remove all the middleman and cut the time down to a (1 hour -3 day) range in either direction, with only withdrawal fees this means that the exchange will have zero trading fees.

[bitcreditscc]

Please update your clients

BN owners please note that @ block 145000 you will need to re-intialize your BN with a 50K input.

All other users can start a Bn with 50K @ 145K

[alganonim]

Please update your clients

BN owners please note that @ block 145000 you will need to re-intialize your BN with a 50K input.

All other users can start a Bn with 50K @ 145K

Newest win wallet force close after update for me right after "Loading Done" message, so I deleted all except wallet.dat, all was ok until next opening and closing, same force close, so it's not stable for me.

As for BankNodes I will wait for compiled version and passing block 145K, don't see any sense in doing it now.

[thelonecrouton]

OK, my live theme picker was throwing segfaults if you changed the theme more than once in a session and I couldn't figure out why, so I have gone with the "stick a theme=/path/to/your/beautiful/stylesheet.qss line in your bitcredit.conf file" approach instead.

Which incidentally is a far more efficient way of doing things in a number of ways. Also knowing how to do this will be really handy for future mischief.

For people who are afraid to edit a textfile, tough.

In action:
Currently for debugging purposes, if a "theme=/your/beautiful/theme.qss" line exists in bitcredit.conf, you get a popup telling you you're about to load a nonstandard theme and to have a vomit-bag ready:



It then gets loaded. Remember, the user agreed to it!
(apologies, testing purposes only remember...)



Total overhead = about ten more lines of code. And some lost breakfast.  

If there's no 'theme=blah' line in the conf file it loads the default Serious-Grey-With-Orangey-Bits one. No idea if the client will automagically handle Windows pathing with \ instead of / but I suppose we'll find out.

[alganonim]

139147 block stuck ?

[thelonecrouton]

139147 block stuck ?

The Momentum algo in action! When it's all shifted to BNs this will be a thing of the past hopefully. Should be just a steady (very minimal) hashrate without much delta.

[thelonecrouton]

Working on a vanilla (mostly, I do like a splash of orange) theme for any aesthetic degenerates who don't love and adore the dark grey one.



This will also make it a lot easier to build future themes from, the stylesheet file is getting a lot more organised.

edit: new pic with added border and revised logo that'll work with both the light and dark themes currently extant.

[hack_]

Working on a vanilla (mostly, I do like a splash of orange) theme for any aesthetic degenerates who don't love and adore the dark grey one.



This will also make it a lot easier to build future themes from, the stylesheet file is getting a lot more organised.

Excellent, though in my personal version i will make the splash green

looks like the 50K BNs will kick in in 7 days

[Bagdar13]

Working on a vanilla (mostly, I do like a splash of orange) theme for any aesthetic degenerates who don't love and adore the dark grey one.



This will also make it a lot easier to build future themes from, the stylesheet file is getting a lot more organised.

Excellent, though in my personal version i will make the splash green

looks like the 50K BNs will kick in in 7 days

Might want to post that on like the alt-coin calendars/heralds and such maybe a crypto blog or 2.