The only question and problem is why this person who are robbing the network after 10 days still doing that.
So why Dev still didn't stopped him ? and why Bter still accepting his stolen coins ?
There is NO dev per say, only 1) original team and 2) some individuals attempting to take over the coin for their own purposes. Only "someone" with an "altered" wallet and some serious hash power could be disrupting the chain like has been happening. Any names come to mind???
Anyone who has any interest in keeping this coin from being taken over by a single entity, and we all know who that is, should only be using the official 1.1.0.0 wallet. I also suggest we rely less on the "larger" exchange and use the smaller exchanges.
P.S. To get things started, I'll pledge 1,000,000 TiPS and 2 LTC to the original "dev" team for programmer(s) who contribute to a real wallet update that includes some features that strengthen the security of the coin. Psychodad, give me a wallet address(s), and I'll deposit them today. (to be returned if the wallet isn't updated
)Cryptoid, I appreciate your trust, thank you.
OK, so lets try to get something rolling. I have talked to a reputable dev* (ahmed) and he estimated the cost for forking the source to a POW/POS hardfork to 1 BTC. While this sounds a lot at current BTC rate, I mind you folks, everybody willing to do it reliably and supporting the community during the hardfork should stand up now and post his offer, else please do not argue about the price.
I have asked the current dev-team around testbug what they think about it and I would like to ask here if this is an amount you guys think we could collect to pay ahmed for his work.
If you all think this should be done and i.e. 20 users are willing to donate 0.05 BTC to the cause we could get this done and defeat the malicious "Mallory" in this game.
Please note: I have no personal interest in this despite my love for TIPS as stated before, I will get no kickbacks from ahmed and if the community desires that I manage this fund collection I will manage this in the most transparent way possible (publishing all tx's etc.). I am more than happy though if another reputable member comes up for this task but I am ready to do it if the community wishes so.
As a little reward for those donating, I propose to mention everybody who donates (and wishes so) in the about dialog of the new wallet.
Please voice your opinions and if you want to donate, commit yourself to an amount. I'll make a start by committing myself to said 0.05BTC.
* In this place when people talk about a dev they mean a community a manager, I'd say that is testbug here. In my posting I mean a dev in an original sense, like a seasoned c/c++ developer.
Bter instigate miner do the attack,If we can update from block 12900000,The miner and bter will lost tips.
The good news is: You don't need a dev to add checkpoints to TIPS, if you look at the source you will see how easy that is.
The bad news is: Checkpoints do not help the slightest. Please read about selfish mining to understand the problem.
If you want a src with newer and more checkpoints, I'll be happy to push my src tree to github. It really syncs faster and the getchainvalue call stops to be a cpu-hog. But that's all about it. Or why do you think a checkpoint in the past can avoid a fork in the future?
Check point may protect exchange,If deposite confirm numbers higher than check point interval numbers,The deposite will not confirm.If attacker do not mined 2 check points block,Block will orphan.Otherwise if you check pool ,When many blocks mined,The attacker calculate hashrate and start mining(attack),Made all blocks orphan,Add check point,If he want get all blocks,he had to always mining,It is not attack.
Change the difficulty algo,Can increase attack cost.
