[ANN] SMLY- smileycoin - for rewards in education - page 26.

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Quote from: Haterreact on January 28, 2017, 01:21:32 AM

Quote from: gstefans on January 27, 2017, 11:41:23 AM

Quote from: Haterreact on January 27, 2017, 05:43:28 AM

is there any active development going on?
could we expect something from this coin in near future?

There is no full time programmer on this, if that is what you mean, and things always move more slowly than one would like.

That said, note that the coin is given to hundreds of new students every year. The coin is listed and has considerable volume on its main exchanges. It's tied to the tutor-web system which is in continuous use in several schools and universities, from Iceland to Kenya. This will not go away, only increase in use.

Most of our development takes place during summer. Last summer we saw two new wallets (coinomi and a breadwallet) along with some other stuff.

Next summer we're hoping to add another mining algorithm plus some new features. Our wish-list is pretty long :-)

thanks for reply.
I was looking into trading SMLY, i see on 3-4 occasions, there have been huge dumps. Are these dumps by development team ?or miners taking rewards according to you? Or
Is the premine been dumped?

I can't speak for all the dumps but I know about some:

First: The premine is only used in accordance with the mandate at tutor-web.info/smileycoin - ie mostly for rewarding students and very occasionally for special projects.

Students have been awarded about 2.7 billion SMLY and many students only redeemed their SMLY at the end of the semester causing quite a dump.

Most of these "dumps" are not really dumps - it just that the volume is so low that a sale of 1 BTC worth of SMLY seriously affects the price.

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Quote from: gstefans on January 27, 2017, 11:41:23 AM

Quote from: Haterreact on January 27, 2017, 05:43:28 AM

is there any active development going on?
could we expect something from this coin in near future?

There is no full time programmer on this, if that is what you mean, and things always move more slowly than one would like.

That said, note that the coin is given to hundreds of new students every year. The coin is listed and has considerable volume on its main exchanges. It's tied to the tutor-web system which is in continuous use in several schools and universities, from Iceland to Kenya. This will not go away, only increase in use.

Most of our development takes place during summer. Last summer we saw two new wallets (coinomi and a breadwallet) along with some other stuff.

Next summer we're hoping to add another mining algorithm plus some new features. Our wish-list is pretty long :-)

thanks for reply.
I was looking into trading SMLY, i see on 3-4 occasions, there have been huge dumps. Are these dumps by development team ?or miners taking rewards according to you? Or
Is the premine been dumped?

gstefans

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Quote from: Haterreact on January 27, 2017, 05:43:28 AM

is there any active development going on?
could we expect something from this coin in near future?

There is no full time programmer on this, if that is what you mean, and things always move more slowly than one would like.

That said, note that the coin is given to hundreds of new students every year. The coin is listed and has considerable volume on its main exchanges. It's tied to the tutor-web system which is in continuous use in several schools and universities, from Iceland to Kenya. This will not go away, only increase in use.

Most of our development takes place during summer. Last summer we saw two new wallets (coinomi and a breadwallet) along with some other stuff.

Next summer we're hoping to add another mining algorithm plus some new features. Our wish-list is pretty long :-)

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is there any active development going on?
could we expect something from this coin in near future?

gstefans

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Quote from: marksteven on December 29, 2016, 05:24:33 PM

what about this coin, is it still alive?

Very much alive.

See the posts above.

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what about this coin, is it still alive?

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Quote from: dgmon on December 29, 2016, 02:45:32 PM

Quote from: gstefans on December 28, 2016, 12:54:12 PM

We really need to get into ShapeShift. Let them know that you think SMLY should be included.
Uquid has not replied to a request to include SMLY on their card. Help us get there.
Same with Gift Off
etc etc

Doesn't look like there's much good talking to ShapeShift right now: https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees/status/814547116655869952

PM'd the user uquid: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/uquid-844100

Might not be much point asking GiftOff right now: https://giftoff.com/faq

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Gift Off accepts digital currencies through an integration with Shapeshift.io’s awesome service. We can only accept digital currencies that are accepted by them. If you have a currency you’d like to spend at Gift Off, it’s best to get in touch with them to see if they’ll add it to their service.

Stuff is happening with SMLY, it's true

But the blocktime issues do need fixing before this coin will see volume, and thereby acceptance onto services. And you see that HD seeds are slowly becoming standard in wallets, as well they should be. Is there any way to have a fulltime dev, with your summer students working on stuff that the main dev isn't working on?

'fraid we won't be able to find the time/money for a full-time dev :-(

but i'm hoping the blocktime issue has been alleviated for now, just through more and stable mining...

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Quote from: gstefans on December 28, 2016, 12:54:12 PM

We really need to get into ShapeShift. Let them know that you think SMLY should be included.
Uquid has not replied to a request to include SMLY on their card. Help us get there.
Same with Gift Off
etc etc

Doesn't look like there's much good talking to ShapeShift right now: https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees/status/814547116655869952

PM'd the user uquid: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/uquid-844100

Might not be much point asking GiftOff right now: https://giftoff.com/faq

Quote

Gift Off accepts digital currencies through an integration with Shapeshift.io’s awesome service. We can only accept digital currencies that are accepted by them. If you have a currency you’d like to spend at Gift Off, it’s best to get in touch with them to see if they’ll add it to their service.

Stuff is happening with SMLY, it's true

But the blocktime issues do need fixing before this coin will see volume, and thereby acceptance onto services. And you see that HD seeds are slowly becoming standard in wallets, as well they should be. Is there any way to have a fulltime dev, with your summer students working on stuff that the main dev isn't working on?

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Quote from: dgmon on December 29, 2016, 05:18:20 AM

Coins-e is linked at http://smileyco.in and in the ANN OP but it looks like they've gone down :-( Hope no-one kept much SMLY there~

https://www.coins-e.com/exchange/SMLY_BTC

Info about Coins-e:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=418416.180
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=946810.40

This is a reminder not to keep too many coins on centralised services ;-)

Thank you - I've tried to remove all links to Coins-e.

For those of you mining, note that hashnova is going down so you should request payouts.

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Coins-e is linked at http://smileyco.in and in the ANN OP but it looks like they've gone down :-( Hope no-one kept much SMLY there~

https://www.coins-e.com/exchange/SMLY_BTC

Info about Coins-e:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=418416.180
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=946810.40

This is a reminder not to keep too many coins on centralised services ;-)

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You can trade SMLY using the decentralised Bitsquare exchange.

See bitsquare.io.

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Quote from: dgmon on December 27, 2016, 07:45:40 AM

It's good :-) Hope you will consider reserving more SMLY just for development etc. though~

Even Bitcoin nowadays has the wallet seed system in its Core wallet ;-) It's hard enough to get people to back up in the first place without also getting them to back up every copy they have that's in active use!

Yes. We have spent some SMLY on development (within the rules set out in the mandate at http://smileyco.in), but you're right that we could do a lot more.

You'll recall that we made a deal with the coinomi group and they have a really nice Android wallet which includes the SMLY :-) They have a seed system...

It seems a bit of a pity to sell SMLY at under 1 Satoshi, though :-( -- and if we try to buy stuff for 2-3 BTC by selling SMLY, then the SMLY price plummets...

We're in the enviable position of being able to hire summer students for various tasks. This helps both us and the students so that has been our preferred way of doing things (plus a variety of grants). So our emphasis has been on doing stuff which we can easily do in that manner. The most recent task is a web-page for trading a variety of electronic coupons for SMLY. This is almost ready and initially it is aimed at our largest user group, students in Iceland. We'll see in a few weeks how far we can take this.

I know many of you think we're not doing enough, but we do also need your help and I'll give a few examples.

We really need to get into ShapeShift. Let them know that you think SMLY should be included.
Uquid has not replied to a request to include SMLY on their card. Help us get there.
Same with Gift Off
etc etc

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Quote from: gstefans on December 27, 2016, 06:51:45 AM

It's time to boast a little bit: After 2 years, we're still alive :-)

The highlights:

The SMLY, used to reward students for achievements in the open tutor-web system, reached a ripe and mature two years of age at the end of November 2016.

Students have been awarded 2.7 bn SMLY over the course of the 2 years. The coin is mined in several mining pools and is available on LTC and DOGE markets on several exchanges (see above).

Educational efforts underway in Kenya, through Education in a suitcase give hope to the use of SMLY as a means to support students in low-income regions.

It's good :-) Hope you will consider reserving more SMLY just for development etc. though~

Even Bitcoin nowadays has the wallet seed system in its Core wallet ;-) It's hard enough to get people to back up in the first place without also getting them to back up every copy they have that's in active use!

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It's time to boast a little bit: After 2 years, we're still alive :-)

The highlights:

The SMLY, used to reward students for achievements in the open tutor-web system, reached a ripe and mature two years of age at the end of November 2016.

Students have been awarded 2.7 bn SMLY over the course of the 2 years. The coin is mined in several mining pools and is available on LTC and DOGE markets on several exchanges (see above).

Educational efforts underway in Kenya, through Education in a suitcase give hope to the use of SMLY as a means to support students in low-income regions.

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These pools are now active:

https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/MineShaft/?pool=SMLY&Algo=Scrypt
https://smly.hashlink.eu
https://prohashing.com/

We know hashlink - they've been with us for a while but there was some hickup in SMLY mining until a few minutes ago and now it seems to run smoothly.

Cryptopia is very very nice. Their mining is somewhat commercial but the operation will run for at least a month.

stratum+tcp://stratum-eu1.hashlink.eu:3045   user.miner sswd
stratum+tcp://mineshaft1.cryptopia.co.nz:1000   user.miner sswd
stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3333   user   c=Smileycoin

Just for the record, I'm not sure about Prohashing: I've checked their block explorer more than once and it seems that blocks generated by miners in the Prohashing pool only contain the single transaction to pay the mining fee. Blocks generated by other pools seem to pick up any other transactions. If this is correct, then there is a problem with using Prohashing for mining. If anyone knows better, please correct me!

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Quote from: gstefans on December 23, 2016, 02:11:02 PM

Quote from: dnp on December 23, 2016, 04:47:00 AM

still Litecoin references in the Windoze QT wallet
Settings->Options->Main tab...

and

Help->AboutSmileycoin
the window titlebar says Litecoin
the window body calls it Litecoin version v0.8.7.1...
and you may want to add an extra line for Copyright (c) 2014-2016 "Smileycoin developers" ??
assuming you changed anything other than logos and references to the word Litecoin

oh, and
Help->Debug
the window titlebar says Litecoin

Thanks: We'll try to get rid of these in our next release (none of us use Windows so we don't see any of these).

your platform doesnt use the src/qt/locale/ language files?? that is where most of the program-name references are.

i'm kinda surprised altcoin codebases haven't made some sort of %ProgramName% or #define ProgramName for the qt and .cpp sources

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Quote from: dnp on December 23, 2016, 04:47:00 AM

still Litecoin references in the Windoze QT wallet
   Settings->Options->Main tab...

and

   Help->AboutSmileycoin
   the window titlebar says Litecoin
   the window body calls it Litecoin version v0.8.7.1...
   and you may want to add an extra line for Copyright (c) 2014-2016 "Smileycoin developers" ??
   assuming you changed anything other than logos and references to the word Litecoin

oh, and
Help->Debug
the window titlebar says Litecoin

Thanks: We'll try to get rid of these in our next release (none of us use Windows so we don't see any of these).

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still Litecoin references in the Windoze QT wallet
   Settings->Options->Main tab...

and

   Help->AboutSmileycoin
   the window titlebar says Litecoin
   the window body calls it Litecoin version v0.8.7.1...
   and you may want to add an extra line for Copyright (c) 2014-2016 "Smileycoin developers" ??
   assuming you changed anything other than logos and references to the word Litecoin

oh, and
   Help->Debug
   the window titlebar says Litecoin

i suspect these, and many many more, are hiding in the src/qt/locale/ files for language support

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Smileycoin(SMLY) pool now online!

https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/MineShaft/?pool=SMLY&Algo=Scrypt

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I will just quote what I said above:

Quote from: dgmon on November 29, 2016, 06:59:31 AM

- https://prohashing.com/explorer/Smileycoin/ << This is online, but doesn't have a list of the X most recent blocks AFAIK, making it uncomfortable to use as a main block explorer.

That's the thing I might go to a block explorer for. -- To see whether blocks are coming in frequently or not, and to see whether there've been any blocks since I sent off a transaction.

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