Topic: [ANN] [HVC] Heavycoin - Ultra-secure, Decentralized Block Reward Voting, Fast - page 77. (Read 542277 times)

Exactly, we need/have to go from 582 to 8 HVC reward in approximately 90 days time with a proportional increase in value to offset the difficulty and still keep the coin slightly profitable to mine. It's possible to do but each and every day the votes stay high just makes it harder and harder to accomplish.  Right now the current vote is approximately the same as when it started or roughly in the middle.  If this doesn't change then we'll have the cliff on the 1st day of sustain.

These 3 recent blocks all have vote set to 128:

23207
23249
23269

You can also use voting chart on http://heavycoin.github.io/voting-graph.html - it's refreshing itself automatically.

I'm getting a lag in the pc when I'm mining Heavycoin with my r9 280x. When I try to move the windows or minimize a program, it lags sometimes.

Only me??

Yes,but you'd expect the price to increase proportionally with the reduction in block rewards, However it would be nonsense to imagine an instantaneous 72x increase in price, Seems that it would be prudent as a miner and supporter of the coin to start sliding down your votes as the sustain phase approaches to create a smooth transition.




They HVC speed conf times are fast, it compares favorably.

Thank you for this response.  What I've been asking for.

Yes you are correct I keep saying "sudden drop" because that is what I think is going to happen.  Would you agree with the following 2 items:
   Regardless of any voting being done the sustain phase will pay out AT MOST 8 HVC per 2 minute block?
   Current reward at present is 582 HVC per block?

We are just about exactly one month from launch and we have a supply of 23,096,642 HVC.
The mint phase consists of 45,000,000 HVC so we are just about half done the Mint phase with current voting.  This leaves approximately 1 month at current voting left in Mint phase.
Limit phase is exactly 56 days and will contain exactly 63,476 blocks.

Now the tricky part.  The voting will determine the reward per block during this 56 day period correct?

Now I agree in an ideal world and if everyone works together properly the limit phase could allow a transition from the current block reward down to the 8 HVC block reward which really needs to happen wouldn't you agree for a smooth transition?

I keep saying a "sudden drop" because I think people are being greedy and just trying to get as much out of the coin as possible right now without worry later. If everyone works together we could be fine as long as the value during this 3 month period increments at a proportional level to the smaller and smaller block rewards.

If things don't change and people keep voting at present levels, (what they are voting now), what will the block reward look like during the limit phase?

Thanks,
Carlo

I am constantly refreshing this link http://heavychain.info/reward
Either the graph is wrong or I am missing something.
I can only see 3 kind of votes every time on that page, (0/1, 512 or 1024) I have never seen any 4th kind of vote there !!
Today each of my 3 rigs found 1 block each & I have set vote to 128 on all of them. I have never seen 128 pointing graph on that page.
Can somebody explain me what's going on ?

How does heavycoin compare to UTC ? I have been holding UTC... the transaction speed is very fast... so much better than BTC... It takes over 30 mins for BTC so I don't understand how it can be a mainstream thing... too slow!

If all miners set their vote to 1 we could mine this coin for a long time to come. It is currently the most GPU friendly algo(correct me if im wrong). So it is in the best interest of GPU miners to prolong the mining period. It very well could be the coin of choice this summer. The control is 100% in our hands for the first time ever.

HVC takes a different approach than all other coins. It is a gamble, as are any crypto-currency. You don't have to participate in the experiment, you can mine other coins and watch from the sidelines.

It is a great coin for Nvidia 750ti's, I get 200 coins per day with 5* 750ti's at a fraction of the power consumption as the AMD rigs. If I were selling my coins, I would still be making a profit. Not a huge profit, but I'm not in the red, so supporting the coin through these early days is far more practical. As AMD rigs get pulled off of HVC because they cant make a profit,  Nvidia rigs can happily take their place. With the low purchase price of the 750's and low mining cost of HVC the door is opened to those wanting to get into crypto without spending a fortune on rigs and electricity.

With all coins on the decline the game is changing. HVC coupled with 750ti's can survive on leaner times than other coins can. Of course this is all just my 2 satoshi, but I'll gamble on HVC, and I know I'm not the only one.

+1

You keep saying there will be a sudden drop in the block reward as we enter into the sustain phase.   All of this is speculation, whereas in reality it depends entirely on decentralized voting.

Although the max vote will certainly drop in the sustain phase (a requirement for assuring the long-term duration of the sustain phase), no one knows whether decentralized voting will have already reduced the block reward during the remainder of the mint phase and limit phase.

It is entirely possible that the block reward vote will already be significantly lower than it is now before we draw near to the sustain phase, in which case there would not be a significant drop.  During the limit phase the block reward could be voted down to double digits, in which case there would not be a sudden drop.  Similarly it is also possible (again depending on voting) for the mint phase to continue on significantly longer.  For example, if miners dropped their vote from 512 to 256, this would double the time until the limit phase.

Finally, whether such a block reward drop (if it would happen) would be good or bad is debatable.  Overall, we will not interfere with the decentralized block reward voting.  It is completely up to the voting how long the mint phase lasts and how much HVC is mined in the limit phase.  That was our promise from the start and we will stick to it.

Also worth noting @Cayars Quark and Blackcoin both were mined 90% and 100% within a few weeks of launch and are doing fine. So if we can pull of the publicity I think that's how the sustain phase would actually work.

The problem with the flood of GPU miners is that if they start mining at 200-600 coins/block when it drops they'll likely leave. If we can get some wider adoption (and thanks Kekkak for working on articles!) and the price does rise I don't think we'll have a big issue. The only thing that concerns me is the "network theory" that all alts, or at least most, will die and only a few will survive. I think HVC does have what it takes technically, but we need a much bigger market cap.

Your "exhausted supplu" will be with 90% off coins mined just 4-5 months since lunch..i dont see who is that exhausted supplu ..you missing biggest oportunitu for alt coin and that is when great army of GPY miners redirect from litecoin..coin that atract that miners will be biggest alt coin...there are now gpy worth tens of milions of $ that are mining..coin that will have them will have huge invesments ..but this coin even it ahs most gpy friendly alg going for "we dont need miners" and security will be 0

I wouldn't call it negativity per say, but questioning things or trying to engage a logical discussion of "potential issues" is not only smart but healthy IMHO.  Maybe the tone of my messages didn't come off correctly and that is my fault.

But anyone that is going to vette this coin is most likely going to ask the same questions or have the same observations, I put forward and is going to want to understand how the transition of limit to sustain is going to work in the real world and is going to want to understand the logic behind this sudden block reward drop from the devs. They will also want to know how the HVC network of nodes will react and what the outcome will be short term as this transition takes place.  I believe you are 100% correct that no changes will be made, and that in the end I guess is all the information I need to know for my own vetting purposes.

Carlo

Thanks for wishing us all the best mate but it seems to be a difference of opinion here, like Keccak I do not share your opinions of the coin being dead in a couple of months. You know changes will not be implemented the way you would like so maybe it is best if you stopped posting as your negativity serves no purpose.

So you don't agree with the math I put forward?  Then please debunk the math.

My point is the vote really has little to do with anything.  It's an "illusion" of control.  No matter what the vote is, the limit to sustain phrase changes so drastically in block rewards that it an of itself is a major problem.

You say "A low block reward could detract some miners". I say almost ALL miners unless the value of the coin magically jumps accordingly by 100 fold or so.  

You really think an exhausted supply will put upward pressure on the price and attract more miners?  Really?  If a combination of the value of the coin at current time multiplied by the block reward isn't profitable enough to get miners to switch over to HVC then how will HVC attract more miners? It will take around a hundred fold increase in value of coin to make up this difference to attract miners.

So you are essentially banking the life of the coin on these premises expressed above and don't see the possibility network nodes collapsing and hash rates dropping to the point of causing security issues which will further devalue the coin?

Good to know on the temporal retargeting.  Thank you for taking the time to explain that.

If you don't want to discuss the issues in a logical manner, then I guess we will find out in a couple of months who is correct.

I surely wish you all the best regardless of any "tone" in any of my posts.

Carlo

The issue mostly applies to bitcoin-0.9.0, especially if you've used the payment protocol.

With Heavycoin you are vulnerable only if you set the rpcssl command-line option.  If it is not set, then no immediate action is required.  Otherwise, if you set rpcssl and if an attacker could have possibly communicated with the RPC port, then you should consider your wallet to be compromised.

Regardless, we will announce new builds soon.

We don't plan to address it because we do not share your doomsday opinion.

Like it or not, the current mint rate is what has been voted for.  Also, we do not believe a steep decline in the block reward (if that happens) would necessarily be bad.  A low block reward could detract some miners, but an exhausted supply could also put upward pressure on the price, which would serve to attract miners.  No one can predict the future.  There are some very successful altcoins, most notably Quark, that have undergone sharp drops in mining reward.  Our view is that this factor alone does not determine the future of a coin.  However, miners are free to adjust their votes according to their beliefs.

Wrt. temporal retargeting we conducted large-scale tests and found that it works very well.  We had a look at the timewarp exploit and fix.  As far as we know time-warp does not impact Heavycoin.  We use completely different code in this section.  This does not mean that there could not be an exploit one day, but if there were, it's not the end of the world because software can be updated and further improved.

Could the devs specifically address the problem in the bottom section of the previous post I just made?

How does the coin survive this transition of limit to sustain?

Carlo

You do realize there has to be a market right? You also realize there has to be a solid set of nodes to process the block chain correct?  AHH but this is EXACTLY what will happen.  During the limit phase we'll be getting around 550ish coins per block.  But BEST CASE during sustain phase is 8 per block but more like 5 based on voting.  So that is an overnight transition from 550ish to 5ish.  Remember this IS NOT a gradual shift. Limit phase is 56 days.  When it ends, it ends.  One day you make 550 per block and the next day you make 5 per block.  Most if not all miners will move to a new coin. The network will almost collapse in a day/week period. Hash rates will drop DRASTICALLY over a very quick period of time.  That then causes security issues galore. A 51% attack among others could be pulled off by one miner (not even needing a pool) if they wanted.

Your premise is that somehow the value of the coin will "magically" become more valuable since the mining ability will be cut by 100 or more.  Sorry, but this isn't going to happen. Anyone on the outside looking to invest is going to see the coin doesn't have a future by it's very design. Who or why would someone invest in this coin if it's already 90% mined in a few short months and had super high inflation and also had a 5% or so IPO "pre-mine" and another 1-2% premine on top of that?

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I want to be wrong. I want ANYONE to give a scenario that shows how HVC survives this transition from limit to sustain phase with it's current deployment schedule.  Until someone can show/prove I'm wrong I'll have to assume I'm right.  You and everyone else of course can decide for yourself.

Yes but the value of what you mine is all that matters right now to most miners.  If another coin is more profitable to mine they will mine it.  If they see value in HVC long term they can dump the currently mined coin to purchase HVC.  They would be dumb not to do that actually.  But that assumes HVC does have a future and will gain in value.

I don't call it speculation at all.  It's just math. Just run the numbers yourself through the different phases.  Do best, average and worst case votes to arrive at the numbers.  I'm assuming best case and it still doesn't work "for me".

So I'm not doing any speculation really.  I'll give you the flip side and say you are the one who is speculating the coin will survive as it will need to nearly become 100 times more valuable very quickly to counter the sudden loss in mining profit or all hell breaks loose and the network collapses.

I really don't see how this is difficult to grasp.

Carlo