Topic: [ANN] [VIA] ★ Viacoin ★ ~ the future of digital currency ~ ★ - page 126. (Read 825850 times)

My, quite a lively discussion between viacoin and bitcoin developers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2pd0zy/peter_todd_is_saying_shoddy_development_on_v010/

Nice to see that Viacoin devs are committed to working with bitcoin devs to improve the entire crytpocurrency ecosystem, not just their own coin's. On a side note, it's also good to see that viacoin devs have the ear of folks like Gregory Maxwell and Pieter Wuille; it lends confidence to the viacoin project.

yes, we can wait ,and anyone has time to help the dev do some promotion, it's better.

Viacoin is absolutely not in competition with Bitcoin and neither do I believe any one product can gain 100% market share. I'll leave presentation and marketing to others. Viacoin complements the ecosystem and contributes to Bitcoin development. We sponsored work on BIP65 and the getting a working CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY patch (PR coming soon) which will be good for everyone. Viacoin has more freedom than Bitcoin because it's newer and has a smaller code base so we can also be more adventurous in our infancy. Bitcoin does not like embedded consensus whereas Viacoin was created specifically for embedded consensus, which comes in the form of ClearingHouse. This helps with "bitcoin scaling" because, just like "sidechains", viacoin aims at taking some of the transaction activity away from bitcoin and done on an alternative chain. Ostensibly the only difference between sidechains and other altchains is sidechains get their tokens from a 2 way peg to the bitcoin blockchain, as altcoins mint their own coins through mining.

You might be interested to know, Ethereum, in 2.0 at least (and there isn't even 1.0 yet) is planning a similar scaling exercise by being able to spawn many of altchains for specific purposes. So you can think of altcoins with a purpose, as helping with the scaling issues of bitcoin instead of trying to compete with bitcoin.

it might be an idea not to call Via an 'altcoin', but a 'Bitcoin alternative'
Altcoin might have some negative associations. And: Is Via in competition with Altcoins or Bitcoin? I remember a tweet by Peter Todd referring to Bitcoin and Via.

Instead of 'awesome coin':
'Crypto currency'
'Bitcoin alternative'
'Fast flexible currency'
A 'fast flexible bitcoin alternative'

Should 'Treechains' be mentioned?

Viacoin is an open-source Bitcoin blockchain based open-source project that integrates ClearingHouse. ClearingHouse is a protocol that allows for asset issuance and p2p trading on the Viacoin blockchain.

Looks good Yingsena, I think the only thing your missing is a few key mentions regarding Viacoin's lightning transaction times.  Other than that, great job.

Let him work to the fullest and will get more updates.

has anyone done for that, btcdrak is busy and r u Ok now?

This weekend.

You lost 373 VIA?

Lost just over 373 That pushes my 300% ROI into about 45% for that rental ah well, you win some you lose some lol

Thanks for the update. I saw that you guys worked hard on it and I really appreciate your commitment.

Regarding merged mining, we have successfully mined merged mined blocks on testnet.

I received a note from CoinPayments.NET asking "We will be releasing a newsletter about the recent coins that were added to CoinPayments as well as some of the new features. Was wondering if you could provide 100-300 words to put in the newsletter about your coin."

Would any of you like to produce a draft as I don't have time to write anything atm.

Sorry to hear that bigman. How many did you loose? The algo change made it much more profitable and predictable to mine via. Keep on mining man but choose another, more responsable, pool.

No, it means the pool failed to update as requested on Nov 1st for a planned hard fork three weeks later and has been out of sync ever since.

Apparently it hard forked at the weekend. This could well mean that mine were lost Fingers crossed mine were mined before the hard fork and when the pool reconnects they with get the confirmations!

Here's to hoping!

Must be your pool.

https://explorer.viacoin.org/

Is it just the pool I am on or was the last block over a day ago now...?

I'm guessing it is something to do with my pool rather than VIA itself...?

Got some coins that I mined that aren't maturing

good news the development is still happening at viacoin.

ya, he is a diligent dev.