I can do the first part to create a new block chain in about 1.5 hours, Sounds like you don't want any fancy changes in inflation so I'll just use the default settings of difficulty and inflation settings. All you would need after I create the new block would be for me to send you the config file for my Multicoin software http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=24209.0 (previosly called freecoin). The secound part I am also interested in having but havn't got it working yet as I call it licenced minning. I hope you get someone to create that for you so I won't have to. you will also have to have at least one system setup as minning your new blocks. It only takes a system that can hash at 300kh/sec to start. If you have any problems setting it up you can catch me on freenode IRC #multicoin
I've now created a MultiCoin-qt that also supports your present groupcoin coin specs. It's now published at https://github.com/sacarlson/MultiCoin-qt It can send and recieve on your new coin addresses spec from the qt lib gui. your present coin spec if you didn't change it again I have published to: http://exchange.beertokens.info/docs/multicoin/bitcoin.conf.groupcoinB the ~multicoin/docs dir also has other coin config specs that can be used for testing if you continue to have problems with your minners. present problem I see in your minners department is lack of listeners. for a functional network you must have at least one node that can listen to connect the group. presently I have never seen any listeners in your #groupcoin so I was unable to test it. A listener doesn't have to mine just enable connections on their listen port. your only minner you have now is behind a firewall that can't be opened due to ISP problems.
Updated: appears today at two different times you have a new steady miner in your network, it looks like from france that is a listener and your net appears to be working ok at this time.
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Topic: [50 BTC total bounty] for Groupcoin development and help - page 9. (Read 26269 times)
Groupcoin would be an alternate block chain, where half of the mined coins go to open source developers and writers, and half go to the miners. To enforce this, only miners on a whitelist are permitted to mine coins. To get on the whitelist a miner must agree to give half their mined coins to people on the open source contributor list; if a miner ever decides break their promise and keep all the coins, that miner will be removed from the whitelist on the next periodic update.
The contributor list would be the Bitcoin Donation Information list:
https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/blob/master/bitcoindonationinformation.html
with groupcoin addresses added to the contributors.
Development of the groupcoin is started at:
https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/groupcoin
Lots of help is needed to make an alternate block chain. Currently, when the groupcoin is started for the first time it makes a 'Generation Address', which is displayed on screen and saved in the database. All mined coins must use the 'Generation Address' for their generated 50 coins. However, I have not tested that code, and there is no validation code at all to check that the generated coins are from an address on the whitelist. So the tasks and corresponding bounties follow:
5 BTC to make the new genesis block. A procedure with the freecoin code is here:
https://github.com/sacarlson/freecoin/blob/master/create_new_genisis_block.txt
It doesn't matter how you make the genesis block, whoever makes it gets the bounty.
1 BTC each for the first 5 people to run miners and keep the new groupcoin network alive until lots of people join.
10 BTC for making valid block with the generation address displayed on your screen, this will require a code fix unless by luck the untested code works.
10 BTC for making validation code to check that the block has a generation address on the whitelist. The comma separated whitelist would look like:
Permit, 1KrtWgJMS4xq3ZEWYfdBRwYG2fHwhZfter
..
10 BTC to incorporate code that would keep the whitelist updated from the web every two weeks (the typical time for a difficulty change).
10 BTC for general help.
If someone contributes to a task, but doesn't finish it alone, they'll get a portion of the respective bounty.
But Wait There's More!!
Everyone who helps with the groupcoin gets a share of half the groupcoins!
That is, after all, the whole point of the groupcoin. It is a way for half the coin generation to go to a good use.
In a typical economy, in the ballpark of 1% goes to charity. So for bitcoin coin generation, that means roughly 1% * roughly 200,000 bitcoins/month = 2,000 bitcoins per month for all the good causes. With groupcoin, half of mined coins go to charity, which means 50% * roughly 200,000 groupcoins/months = 100,000 groupcoins per month for all the good causes!
Which means even if you divide it among many, many developers, there's still enough per developer.
Groupcoin is based on the QT port of bitcoin at:
https://github.com/laanwj/bitcoin-qt
The thread for which is at:
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15276.0
To prevent interfrence with bitcoin, the port and directory of groupcoin was changed. So the home folder is .groupcoin instead of .bitcoin on Linux (Groupcoin instead of Bitcoin for Mac and Windows), also 43,000 was added to the port number. So port 8,333 is replaced with 51,333; rpcport 8,332 is replaced with 51,332 and the testnet port 18,333 is replaced with 61,333. Even with these changes there is a chance that groupcoin development will interfere with your bitcoin installation, so please backup and encrypt your bitcoin wallet and make a new user and operate groupcoin in there. If something disastrous happens, like your bitcoin wallet being destroyed by groupcoin, no bitcoins will be refunded.
The contributor list would be the Bitcoin Donation Information list:
https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/blob/master/bitcoindonationinformation.html
with groupcoin addresses added to the contributors.
Development of the groupcoin is started at:
https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/groupcoin
Lots of help is needed to make an alternate block chain. Currently, when the groupcoin is started for the first time it makes a 'Generation Address', which is displayed on screen and saved in the database. All mined coins must use the 'Generation Address' for their generated 50 coins. However, I have not tested that code, and there is no validation code at all to check that the generated coins are from an address on the whitelist. So the tasks and corresponding bounties follow:
5 BTC to make the new genesis block. A procedure with the freecoin code is here:
https://github.com/sacarlson/freecoin/blob/master/create_new_genisis_block.txt
It doesn't matter how you make the genesis block, whoever makes it gets the bounty.
1 BTC each for the first 5 people to run miners and keep the new groupcoin network alive until lots of people join.
10 BTC for making valid block with the generation address displayed on your screen, this will require a code fix unless by luck the untested code works.
10 BTC for making validation code to check that the block has a generation address on the whitelist. The comma separated whitelist would look like:
Permit, 1KrtWgJMS4xq3ZEWYfdBRwYG2fHwhZfter
..
10 BTC to incorporate code that would keep the whitelist updated from the web every two weeks (the typical time for a difficulty change).
10 BTC for general help.
If someone contributes to a task, but doesn't finish it alone, they'll get a portion of the respective bounty.
But Wait There's More!!
Everyone who helps with the groupcoin gets a share of half the groupcoins!
That is, after all, the whole point of the groupcoin. It is a way for half the coin generation to go to a good use.
In a typical economy, in the ballpark of 1% goes to charity. So for bitcoin coin generation, that means roughly 1% * roughly 200,000 bitcoins/month = 2,000 bitcoins per month for all the good causes. With groupcoin, half of mined coins go to charity, which means 50% * roughly 200,000 groupcoins/months = 100,000 groupcoins per month for all the good causes!
Which means even if you divide it among many, many developers, there's still enough per developer.
Groupcoin is based on the QT port of bitcoin at:
https://github.com/laanwj/bitcoin-qt
The thread for which is at:
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15276.0
To prevent interfrence with bitcoin, the port and directory of groupcoin was changed. So the home folder is .groupcoin instead of .bitcoin on Linux (Groupcoin instead of Bitcoin for Mac and Windows), also 43,000 was added to the port number. So port 8,333 is replaced with 51,333; rpcport 8,332 is replaced with 51,332 and the testnet port 18,333 is replaced with 61,333. Even with these changes there is a chance that groupcoin development will interfere with your bitcoin installation, so please backup and encrypt your bitcoin wallet and make a new user and operate groupcoin in there. If something disastrous happens, like your bitcoin wallet being destroyed by groupcoin, no bitcoins will be refunded.
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