Topic: [ANN] [HVC] Heavycoin - Ultra-secure, Decentralized Block Reward Voting, Fast - page 40. (Read 542276 times)

It is nice to see this coin still going!  Keep up the good work.

Sure, feel free to PM me anytime.

I'm all for having a news bot, but the bot retweeted everything. Good news, bad news, trolling, everything. IDK how we'd fix that, so I think it might be better to use it as an announcement/update avenue?

You can see the implementation here: https://github.com/heavycoin/cpuminer-heavycoin/blob/master/heavy.c#L30

It's a single SHA-256 operation on the input, and the hash of the input as output by the HEFTY1 algorithm.  Note that this only says something about its resistance to current SHA-256 Bitcoin ASICs.  You could (presumably), still run it through a relatively unoptimized generic single-op SHA-256 ASIC - you'd still have to deal with HEFTY1 and the other 3 hashing functions + the surrounding code, though.

Also read through: http://heavycoin.github.io/about.html

Well There was some fud about the algo a lot of pages ago not being asic resistant since there is some sha work in there, I never tried because well I don't have any asics :p and I am not sure if in heavy POW the sha component is the double sha exactly as it is in bitcoin, else asics cannot be used, it would be nice if the dev gives some clarity on this point.

Cheers.

Dude - thank you

I'm reading at the moment, and if you don't mind I may have some questions for you.

On the twitter front, I agree, @bufbvr's re-tweets were a... problem...

Two things,

For the technical aspects, I've got a heavycoin hardware comparison wiki going at http://heavycoin.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Comparison that might be useful when comparing efficiency and wattages. I think we have a real advantage with nVidia cards for HVC.

Second, the @HeavycoinNews feed is just... Broken. Getting spammed in the most annoying ways. It needs someone actively watching it.

Good luck giving HVC a second wind!

final promotion today... help us spread our words... keep working 22 hours....should get some sleep now...

o -greed- you so unsympathy like

Hey guys,

Thanks for such positive feedback - I hope I can live up to it.

I want to hug all of you, but you know, for like a few seconds too long, just to make it super awkward . I'm just glad this place doesn't have a head of HR yet...

To business!

Item 1
I'd like to try finding a story for us to put out there about where Heavycoin is at the moment and what opportunities may be out there for people.

What occurs to me is that Heavycoin won't be affected by the Scrypt ASIC's on the horizon and it may be an interesting choice for miners to point their GPU's our direction as these new ASIC's hit the market.

So the story would be:

- ASIC resistant, Scrypt ASIC's won't affect us

- Low power consumption, attractive for miners, and generally much less of a power hog then most cryptocurrencies

- Take that 'about to be outdated' Scrypt mining hardware and point it to HCV


Let me know what you think about this story - good or bad idea?


To present this to journalists, the more information we can give them up front is going to make their life easier = more likely to get covered. So we've got to do the leg work to provide them with information so they can vet it themselves and, if accurate, report on it as they see fit.


Please feel free to share:

- any technical info I should be reading to back up this story

- Miners out there - any quotes or personal anecdotes you could share about how mining heavycoin vs other alts has been for you?

- are there any GPU mining equipment suggestions anyone would like to recommend (brand X is better then brand Y etc)

- what's the best HVC GPU mining guide out there for new miners?

- any other arguments that should be included?


I don't want to do anything as vulgar as a press release, just a detailed summary to cut down on their leg work so they can ask questions and verify information, but not have to dig up the entire story themselves.


Next question is: who should we be sending this information to - what are the best mining blogs/podcasts/sites?

My personal goal is to reach out to John @ the Sovereign Bitcoin Podcast (http://www.sovereignbtc.com/) - I enjoy his podcast and he's started a mining segment over the last few episodes that might be a good fit for this story.


Item 2
Heavycoin twitter feed - I'd love to get everyone's thoughts here.

I'd like to make sure that the @Heavycoin and @Heavycoinnews feeds are both useful and have their own task that they solve, I would like to suggest:

@Heavycoin = Important information the heavycoin community needs to know (software updates, major developments)

@HeavycoinNews = for the more engaged members of the community (interesting posts, when TheRealSteve posts updated stats, market movements, re-tweet interesting commentary from the wider crypto community)

What do you guys think?



Otherwise, please, feel free to shout out any ideas for promoting Heavycoin any and promotions you think would be interesting - keccak and nomisugi have already shared their list with me and I'm adding to it, we can just keep adding ideas (even if it's too early for the coin) so we have a go-to list in the future.

Cheers,
M

(Cryptocoinrank.com - thanks for the link man, reading about it now)

Price and volume slowly going up. Good times ahead.