Topic: [ANN] SMLY- smileycoin - for rewards in education - page 27. (Read 77288 times)

OK, first I'd like to apologise for the above wording. I like Prohashing and it is really very good for certain things, it's just that it doesn't give what I often use a block explorer for. Let me explain by comparing https://chainz.cryptoid.info and https://prohashing.com/explorer/Smileycoin/

What I really like about Prohashing: When searching for abuse in the tutor-web, prohashing is the perfect thing. You enter a suspect address and you get all the blocks, cumulative up to the current amount. You can then click on a withdrawal and see the corresponding transaction simultaneously with the address. Basically it is incredibly easy to search for a culprit, find links between addresses and find where coins are being aggregated.

What is better in a "traditional" block explorer: A classic block explorer begins by showing the list of the most recent x blocks. This was done in the late coinplorer and it is done in Chainz. When looking at whether the chain is healthy or there are hiccups such as occasional long delays in block generation, or see difficulty development, this is the thing one looks at. Also in both of these, there is (was) easy access to a "rich list".

In summary, it's not clear to me that you want to change prohashing.com or simply stay different. I honestly think you are better for the casual user, but you lack features which a tech geek uses...(or maybe I didn't find them!)

I suppose the one thing which I missed most often - while Prohashing was our only explorer - was a way to visit a block or transaction through a url. Your interface is nicer than most, but I do often like to store or send someone a transaction to look at and it is very nice to be able to send just a link https://chainz.cryptoid.info/smly/tx.dws?b29d44602926a1705b8d7bbf6553ed672f36c76be0f8f72f1336812eb8b45f31.htm.

I'd appreciate feedback on how we at Prohashing can improve our block explorer.  What would make it better?

We have a new block explorer: https://chainz.cryptoid.info/smly/

Please consider prioritising development of the coin a little more.  That's how the value of the coin increases and how the coin becomes useful beyond being a token to immediately exchange for a satoshi    Everybody wins, including the students.

- The time gaps between the blocks need to be resolved.
- Like most cryptocurrencies, there's the issue where the desktop wallet will eventually generate addresses that aren't in earlier copies of the wallet.dat (so if you copy your Windows wallet.dat to use in Linux, you might end up losing coins).  Could it be set up to use the same kind of HD seed as Coinomi?  Could it allow the user to import Coinomi seed words?
- Like most cryptocurrencies, you can't use the desktop wallet until it's synced.  Can it not operate in SPV node until it's synced?

By the way:
- ANN OP says "Android wallet, ipones, iPad etc: Search for Smileycoin in the Google Playstore or the Apple App store." << iOS wallet is gone now  
- https://www.scryptpool.com/pool/SMLY << "This pool is disabled. This could mean the pool is being set up, in maintenance or being removed." (I don't know whether this is news or not.)
- https://coinplorer.com/SMLY << "Website is offline No cached version of this page is available."
- 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.
- http://coinofview.com/coin/Smileycoin.html << Is listed as a block explorer in the OP, but is it one?  (EDIT: Oh, it's under the category 'Block explorers and coin info' -- Can we give Block Explorers their own heading?)
- I suggest you consider paying someone like Chainz (CryptoID) to host a block explorer -- Msg fairglu on this forum.
- http://bitcoingarden.tk/forum/index.php?topic=3422 << ANN posts on other sites do not seem to be being kept up to date.  Cryptopia and NovaExchange are not listed in that ANN's OP.  Is Vindyne8 so expensive?    BitcoinTalk is a little shady (donations from users were apparently embezzled) so not everyone wants to use it.  ANN posts on these other sites should be kept updated, and in various languages too, and linked to from this site's ANN OP.

Cheers!

On this topic there is also another thing which I've been meaning to bring forward on this forum.

We do have some further options with regard to development, but we need to be very careful how they are used. On the smileycoin home page (https://tutor-web.info/smileycoin) the following text has been from the beginning: As explained elsewhere on this page, the pre-mined coins are used to reward students for their performance. In addition, the project will award grants to developers and entrepreneurs, who aim to use the smileycoin in their systems or otherwise develop environments which lead to increased use of the SMLY. Uses may include but are not limited to gaming projects requiring the use of SMLY as a currency.

It would be in accordance with this to use the equivalent of a bitcoin or two to pay for particularly important development. Again, we need to be very careful since we don't want to just spend the premine willy-nilly on pet projects. By far most of it needs to go to students.

Yeah I think the development is key.  I love this project but I just do not know how to support it.

Either of those is fine by me.  You might also consider using them for the development of the coin, for instance solving the issue of the occasional long gaps between blocks -- An experienced dev might accept some SMLY as a bounty.

I have a Request For Comment:

As you will know, (almost) half the potential SMLY were premined, to be used inside the tutor-web educational system.

The way this works is that the tutor-web system gives SMLY rewards. The goal is to spend roughly the same number of SMLY on students as get mined by miners, i.e. about 12 billion SMLY over the first 7 years of the project (at which point halving occurs).

When a student earns SMLY these SMLY are allocated to them but only transferred once the student has provided a wallet address into which to redeem the SMLY.

The tutor-web system thus has its own internal wallet which receives SMLY occasionally from cold storage. These are then held in the tutor-web wallet until a student decides to redeem the SMLY into their own wallet. The tutor-web wallet only needs to hold enough SMLY to pay all the active students.

But many of the students simply ignore their SMLY. In fact we've recently announced that the tutor-web system will not keep their SMLY forever, i.e. after a couple of years the students have forfeited their SMLY. Note that these have already been removed from the premine wallet(s) and allocated to students, but not redeemed.

So here is the question: What should we do with unclaimed SMLY?

I'd like a discussion on this, but there are two obvious options:

• Re-allocate them back into the tutor-web and then to new students
• Donate them to the sister project of the tutor-web, Education in a Suitcase

Re-allocating them back into the tutor-web could certainly be done. That would not change anything.

EIAS could easily put the SMLY to good use. This would certainly help in buying tablets&servers for students&schools in Africa etc. The way to implement this would be to announce on the tutor-web grade-page that SMLY which have not been redeemed will (after x years) be donated to EIAS.

I'd like your feedback on this.

SmileyCoin now has a market traded directly against PiggyCoin on NovaExchange!

https://novaexchange.com/market/PIGGY_SMLY/

Oink!

Another pool for SMLY:  http://wmikrut.com

Yeah, I meant miners. I figured the more miners the more users. But I see what you're saying.

OK, I presume with this you mean more miners :-) 

We're actually getting 500-1000 new students "participating" every year! They get rewards from the tutor-web system where this is used internally.

So although I agree with you  and others in this thread that there are many good reasons why we should make this a multi-algo coin, we do actually have a fair number of new users :-) 

Those users are not really affected by the algorithm (any more than most Bitcoin users are) - there are other reasons for implementing an alternate algorithm.

Doesn't that ruin the popularity of a coin? I mean if it was a GPU coin then more people can participate, get into it.

I really, really like the logo for this coin.

Yeah, @smileycoinnews has a tweet out.

Very very cool!  Is there something about this I can retweet?   

SMLY is now in the coinomi wallet!!

Now we would really, really appreciate it if ShapeShift will accept SMLY also.

If you have not looked at coinomi then you should do that - this is a really nifty little wallet.

Cool service!

I'm sure you've noticed that for a while now you've been at the top of our list of block explorers in the opening page of this thread. Hope you don't mind :-)

For your information, we mine Smileycoin and have a block explorer at https://prohashing.com.