Topic: [ANN] SpreadCoin | Decentralize Everything (decentralized blockexplorer coming) - page 170. (Read 790416 times)

This is a good time to buy more SPR 

I'm super excited about zero knowledge contingent payments. I stated many pages back that zero knowledge proofs was probably the way to go with PoBN and I am even more confident that it can indeed help with validating PoBN.

https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/02/26/zero-knowledge-contingent-payments-announcement/

I make no assumptions but I'd like to think that georgem would ask for help if he was struggling.  What he is setting out to do is achievable and there are plenty of people out there ready and willing to help if he would let them in.

This is a community project but at the moment it feels like georgem is running this solo.

I'm very sorry but georgem is clinging onto an idea that I don't think he can carry out. I know he is time/money and emotionally invested so it's hard for him to be honest about the real progress, which I suspect is dismal and SNs are along way away. The task is epic and ambitious, so I really can't blame georgem. But he should be honest, 100%, let the price correct and build up from there.

Georgem, for your first update can you make sure that you address individual concerns?  Its all very well talking about your commitment to decentralisation and experiments that you have conducted but people want to know how your progress against the roadmap is developing and also when other people will be permitted to assist you.

You've got a team of people with significant experience in crypto who are emotionally and financially invested in this project ready and willing to help you. At the moment you are cutting them off.  You aren't even engaging people in the dev slack channel which is why I am speaking publicly here.  I don't think anybody thinks this is wise or acceptable.  At worst, its disrespectful to people who have offered you support both financially and practically.

Does that mean the standalone vanitygen is useless?

Vanitygen uses uncompressed addresses by default.

Spreadcoin uses compressed ones.

You can best study the structure of any coins addresses by using http://www.universalwalletgenerator.net/
(Set it up for SPR addresses)

I tried the standalone Spreadcoin vanity gen (https://github.com/spreadcoin/vanitygen) but it doesn't seem to work.
It finds matches but when I import the priv key into a wallet it gives a different public address.
I tried specifying a version number (-X) but whatever I add will lead to vanity gen telling me that addresses should start with 1 and not S which is clearly not right so I'm confused.

Automated escrow Is here
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.14021961

hmm i guess it depends on your point of view lol

haha, why, those are the bad guys!

Hail Hydra

Encouraging to hear! Undoubtedly, there will be exciting times ahead!!

Looking forward to learning more about your work up to this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rPLG-svY2w

Thank you, I certainly need to step it up a notch.

I'm still here, georgem, as every day. Your project is great. Keep up the good work !

Don't worry, I think people here are just brainstorming, so always take such unofficial ideas with a grain of salt.

One day we might have a vanitygen-competition, but only if it can run on top of a blockchain-based crowd-funding mechanism, where participants themselves decide the goal of the competition and the prize-collateral they are willing to bet. No middlemen whatsoever. And most importantly: people who don't want to participate, don't need to.
Such schemes must always work in a trustless, permissionless manner, where nobody has any control or liability: with only cryptography as the sole guardian needed.

As a libertarian I understand the principles of decentralization pretty well, so rest assured that everything I research and develop has the goal of increasing decentralization, or finding new ways of decentralization where it hasn't been tried before.
I am not here to please investors or fintech or my own or someone elses financial needs. But in the end, the world is in dire need of more decentralization so all the aforementioned parties will find value in truly decentralized systems.

That's why I'm building the decentralized blockexplorer.
That's also why I am building servicenodes that run with a competitive collateral. (decentralizing away the need for a "king" that decides the amount of collateral for everybody else)
Literally everything I will work on will have the name "decentralized" in front of it, or else I'm simply not going to touch it.

You get the idea: if it can't be done in a decentralized way, we shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

So with this in mind, I understand that not everybody here has the same mindset. Not even all of the core members.
But I am not here to police other people's "ideas".

But I'll do everything I can to not let conflicting agendas dissuade spreadcoin from achieving true decentralization.

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So... I'm putting a few things together.

I understand that what people are most waiting to see is some sort of update about the work I've been doing. And not just once, but in a regular manner, maybe once a week?
It will take me a few days to put all the experiments I have done (and their results) in a digestible form that can be publicly presented.
I do have a promising format in mind that I can use to present updates, possibly in the form of a youtube podcast.

Please bare with me for a few more days, to get everything in order.

Thanks everybody!

You'd find Satoshinakamoto1 through 9 much faster if you'd trying to go for Satoshinakamoto without the number.

Also, there's no way to tie a minimum SPR amount to use the vanity gen. There are vanity gens that are not tied to the wallet.

But the lottery idea is great.

That percentage would detract from node rewards, right? Do you think there would be any sort of noticeable adverse effect on incentives to run nodes/ mine or would it be a relatively small percentage?

I would support the competition, but I think my CPU would have pretty tiny chances of ever finding the winning address lol. But, as lottery players say... "You never know!" (Not to reinforce the lottery comparison)

The 100 or 500 SPR is required to prevent botnets. It also makes the competition more compelling to consider giving away some of the Coinbase.

I think it is a great idea, which could attract a lot of new users.

So, will we have to find a case match for "Satoshinakamoto1" or are variations allowed, such as "SatoshiNakamoto1" (which looks nicer)?

Do you have to have a minimum of 100 SPR to even use the Vanity Gen, or is this number based on something else?