Spreadcoin Project Update 5
25/09/2015
An Apology
Sorry for the update delay. Beer happened.
Development Update
The dev team spent last week working on the following items:
- Finalising and releasing the new wallets. Thank you to everybody who helped test!
- Working on the web site to incorporate a news and blog section.
- Working on a DNS seeder for the official block explorer.
- Scrutinising the previous planned hard forks in an attempt to understand why they worked but in a slightly unexpected fashion.
Blockchain 2020
As you may be aware, we are running a conference in London on the day of the next Bitcoin block reward halving. During the conference, there will be a live Broadcast of the popular Mad Bitcoins show, with special interviews planned.
http://blockchain2020.com/block-420000/blockchain-2016/
Topic: [ANN] SpreadCoin | Decentralize Everything (decentralized blockexplorer coming) - page 236. (Read 790391 times)
September 28, 2015, 03:11:27 PM
September 28, 2015, 09:23:15 AM
I am impressed by the maturity here and the spirit within this communauty : price has declined somewhat during the latter months but this communauty has still a rather positive and constructive attitude (in constrast of a lot of coins in similar situations).
The team who has taken over has done a good job.
Now, I am keeping most of the coins I mined...
The team who has taken over has done a good job.
Now, I am keeping most of the coins I mined...
Thanks for the kind words.
We're really confident that we've got something that is going to make big waves. We just have to be careful to keep the momentum going. Price will rise as we reach our more glamorous milestones.
September 28, 2015, 08:37:14 AM
I am impressed by the maturity here and the spirit within this communauty : price has declined somewhat during the latter months but this communauty has still a rather positive and constructive attitude (in constrast of a lot of coins in similar situations).
The team who has taken over has done a good job.
Now, I am keeping most of the coins I mined...
The team who has taken over has done a good job.
Now, I am keeping most of the coins I mined...
September 28, 2015, 04:58:43 AM
Ok, I understood ! I have downloaded the new wallet and the facelift is really nice 
! Good work !
! Good work !Don't forget to check out the in-wallet vanity address generator.
Don't forget to allocate 30% of the coinbase to the satoshinakamoto1 competition, in BTC
We shall see about that competition.... by the time it's ready you will not crave for BTC anymore, my friend.
Hey, that's pretty cool. In addition to being lead dev, you're a brand marketing genius.
But craving BTC is what we do: PoBN
PoBN is the golden egg but having a distributed services network is going to open a LOT of doors.
September 27, 2015, 07:31:11 PM
Hey, that's pretty cool. In addition to being lead dev, you're a brand marketing genius.
But craving BTC is what we do: PoBN
But craving BTC is what we do: PoBN
Let's say we are trying to create a WIN-WIN-Situation. It's not WIN-LOSE:
September 27, 2015, 07:24:08 PM
Ok, I understood ! I have downloaded the new wallet and the facelift is really nice ! Good work !
! Good work !Don't forget to check out the in-wallet vanity address generator.
Don't forget to allocate 30% of the coinbase to the satoshinakamoto1 competition, in BTC
We shall see about that competition.... by the time it's ready you will not crave for BTC anymore, my friend.
Hey, that's pretty cool. In addition to being lead dev, you're a brand marketing genius.
But craving BTC is what we do: PoBN
September 27, 2015, 05:10:47 PM
Ok, I understood ! I have downloaded the new wallet and the facelift is really nice ! Good work !
! Good work !Don't forget to check out the in-wallet vanity address generator.
Don't forget to allocate 30% of the coinbase to the satoshinakamoto1 competition, in BTC
We shall see about that competition.... by the time it's ready you will not crave for BTC anymore, my friend.
September 27, 2015, 05:02:34 PM
Ok, I understood ! I have downloaded the new wallet and the facelift is really nice ! Good work !
! Good work !Don't forget to check out the in-wallet vanity address generator.
Don't forget to allocate 30% of the coinbase to the satoshinakamoto1 competition, in BTC
September 27, 2015, 04:41:00 PM
Ok, I understood ! I have downloaded the new wallet and the facelift is really nice ! Good work !
! Good work !Don't forget to check out the in-wallet vanity address generator.
September 27, 2015, 04:38:47 PM
Also, does a mandatory update happened since the takeover because I still hold my SPR since November 2014 so I'd don't like to lose them by not updating the wallet !
No, we still use the same protocol as always, no new hardfork has happened since mr. spread left, just the wallet has been given a facelift.
You will be informed here early enough when a hardfork is exactly going to happen.
No worries!
Just stay tuned and follow us here and in the forum: http://www.spreadcointalk.org
Ok, I understood ! I have downloaded the new wallet and the facelift is really nice
! Good work ! September 27, 2015, 04:29:48 PM
I did a little github house cleaning.
all of mr.spreads original branches (master, mn-test and cpuminer1.2) are now in their own repository called mrspread:
https://github.com/spreadcoin/mrspread
And the main repository spreadcoin https://github.com/spreadcoin/spreadcoin
contains now only a branch called master and one called newwallet.
master will always be the most uptodate and well tested version of spreadcoin.
newwallet will always be the current beta wallet where new wallet functions will be introduced and tried out over time.
Eventually after a while, newwallet will merge to become the new master, as has just happened now.
That's why master and newwallet at the moment are identical, because we just had the new release, but I will start working on new wallet-features right away (there is always something to be fixed, improved or introduced),
so if you want to test new wallet features always look into newwallet branch.
Thanks, and stay tuned.
all of mr.spreads original branches (master, mn-test and cpuminer1.2) are now in their own repository called mrspread:
https://github.com/spreadcoin/mrspread
And the main repository spreadcoin https://github.com/spreadcoin/spreadcoin
contains now only a branch called master and one called newwallet.
master will always be the most uptodate and well tested version of spreadcoin.
newwallet will always be the current beta wallet where new wallet functions will be introduced and tried out over time.
Eventually after a while, newwallet will merge to become the new master, as has just happened now.
That's why master and newwallet at the moment are identical, because we just had the new release, but I will start working on new wallet-features right away (there is always something to be fixed, improved or introduced),
so if you want to test new wallet features always look into newwallet branch.
Thanks, and stay tuned.
September 27, 2015, 03:06:38 PM
Just about recovering from my hard drive failing. Didn't lose any data, but have a lot of specialist Enterprise software that needed to be reinstalled and re-licensed.
Whitepaper PR is due to be issued this week. Let's see who picks it up.
Whitepaper PR is due to be issued this week. Let's see who picks it up.
I'll give it a read
You already have. Just doing a tidy-up. I'll post it on Slack before sending it out.
Whose up for helping to organise Blockchain2020 event next July? We've already got a provisional confirmation for a live Mad Bitcoins show which will be broadcast from the venue.
http://blockchain2020.com/block-420000/blockchain-2016/
(Seriously impressed with SSDs. Might buy a 1TB next year - hopefully, they'll come down in price as I can't justify taking out the one I've just put in).
September 27, 2015, 02:51:36 PM
Just about recovering from my hard drive failing. Didn't lose any data, but have a lot of specialist Enterprise software that needed to be reinstalled and re-licensed.
Whitepaper PR is due to be issued this week. Let's see who picks it up.
Whitepaper PR is due to be issued this week. Let's see who picks it up.
I'll give it a read
September 27, 2015, 02:39:33 PM
Just about recovering from my hard drive failing. Didn't lose any data, but have a lot of specialist Enterprise software that needed to be reinstalled and re-licensed.
Whitepaper PR is due to be issued this week. Let's see who picks it up.
Whitepaper PR is due to be issued this week. Let's see who picks it up.
September 27, 2015, 02:02:17 PM
Also, does a mandatory update happened since the takeover because I still hold my SPR since November 2014 so I'd don't like to lose them by not updating the wallet !
No, we still use the same protocol as always, no new hardfork has happened since mr. spread left, just the wallet has been given a facelift.
You will be informed here early enough when a hardfork is exactly going to happen.
No worries!
Just stay tuned and follow us here and in the forum: http://www.spreadcointalk.org
September 27, 2015, 01:53:55 PM
P.S Does anybody know how on earth BBCode tables work?!
to the google! I don't know, but every forum markup language seems to always be confusing and frustrating.
Also, I'd highly recommend switching to the ISO 8601 date and time format YYYYMMDD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
keep up the good work!
I prefer when the time is displayed as DD Month YYYY, or maybe DD-MM-YYYY. I don't know to which ISO it refers to.
as far as i know, there is only 1 iso standard refering to date / time, and that is ISO 8601, there are different revisions of it,but thats about it..
the problem is, there is so many ways different countries express the date, that they ended up making that ISO standard, now
some countries do DDMMYY(YY) (fx denmark) some do MMDDYY(YY) (i think it was either UK or US cant remember) some do (YY)YYMMDD (fx sweden) and i think it was 2 or so doing (YY)YYDDMM
now all these would, in our day and age, only add to alot of confusion, that is why the standard was purposed, and defined.
Here in France it's DDMMYYYY so this is why I would prefer to see it this way, because it's what I've always seen, but if it isn't the same thing, I won't die
. Also, does a mandatory update happened since the takeover because I still hold my SPR since November 2014 so I'd don't like to lose them by not updating the wallet ! September 27, 2015, 01:17:45 PM
If the 2nd hard fork was for solo-mining enforcement, what was the first hardfork for? Block reward change?
Amongst other things, yes.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8280156
Cheers
Graham
Exactly. Reduction of both blockreward and blocktime by a factor of 10 so to speak.
But what I don't get is.... if the first Hardfork happened at exactly after the block 2200 ....
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as can be seen in the code: https://github.com/spreadcoin/spreadcoin/blob/master/src/main.cpp#L96 getFirstHardforkBlock() is defined as 2200.
Code:
unsigned int getFirstHardforkBlock()
{
return fTestNet? 0 : 2200;
}
{
return fTestNet? 0 : 2200;
}
And we change the protocol behaviour according to if we are greater than > getFirstHardforkBlock(), for example see here:
https://github.com/spreadcoin/spreadcoin/blob/master/src/main.cpp#L1343
Code:
if (nHeight > (int)getFirstHardforkBlock())
}
... then why did it take until block 2202 to come into full effect?
What caused that behaviour?
See blockexplorer (block 2200) : https://chainz.cryptoid.info/spr/block.dws?2200.htm
See blockexplorer (block 2201) : https://chainz.cryptoid.info/spr/block.dws?2201.htm ----> Blockreward still 66
See blockexplorer (block 2202) : https://chainz.cryptoid.info/spr/block.dws?2202.htm ----> Finally!
Can someone explain why this can happen?
Why didn't it change at block 2201?
After all the second Hardfork happened exactly after the defined block 43000. So why was the first hardfork off by a block?
September 27, 2015, 01:05:24 PM
Hey there everybody, can't wait to see and use the new wallet!
The Windows wallet link in the OP is busted, could someone lease fix, thanks!
Best wishes here, great community
The Windows wallet link in the OP is busted, could someone lease fix, thanks!
Best wishes here, great community
I fixed it.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
I switched from .7z to .zip and forgot to update.
September 27, 2015, 07:22:40 AM
If the 2nd hard fork was for solo-mining enforcement, what was the first hardfork for? Block reward change?
Amongst other things, yes.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8280156
Cheers
Graham
September 27, 2015, 06:57:31 AM
BTW, I am working on a block-explorer visualization tool
that helps me (and everyone interested) to look thru all the hex-code-jungle and get a better grasp of all the information within the blockchain.
That's what it looks like at the moment:
This is block 43000, right before the second HardFork happened, back in sep 11th 2014:
And this is the next block 43001 with 2 new fields introduced for solo-mining enforcement: hashWholeBlock and MiningSignature:
I still need to decipher all transactions and their inputs/hashes and script codes...
that helps me (and everyone interested) to look thru all the hex-code-jungle and get a better grasp of all the information within the blockchain.
That's what it looks like at the moment:
This is block 43000, right before the second HardFork happened, back in sep 11th 2014:
And this is the next block 43001 with 2 new fields introduced for solo-mining enforcement: hashWholeBlock and MiningSignature:
I still need to decipher all transactions and their inputs/hashes and script codes...
If the 2nd hard fork was for solo-mining enforcement, what was the first hardfork for? Block reward change?
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