[Coming updates & coin swap]1. Regarding recent questions about the coin swap, here below are some numbers:Initial coins the swap wallet held: 1,237,505 XMG
Total coins minted so far: 1,657,042 XMG (i.e., freshly mined: 419,537 XMG)
Other expense: translation bounties - 8,000 XMG (this is more than expected cause we promised the bounties before taking into account the actual swapping ratio)
1st coin swap 5% done between 09/24 - 10/01: 45,348.82747990 XMG
(Coin swap+bounties) : (mined coins) = 1 : 7.86
The scheduled 2nd swap has been delayed. As I have mentioned before (
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8950501), we may delay or reduce the swapping ratio in order to protect the XMG market.
We will keep the swapped coins over totally mined coins at 1 : 5 ~ 1 : 10.
Miners and prior magicoin holders please let me know your suggestions if you have different opinions. If XMG minting happens in a significantly slow pace, swap will be accordingly extended to maintain the above ratio.
2. Wallet updates & algoI have an update in mind regarding the mining algo. The current block-rewarding system is basically resistant to even higher hashrate. This makes generic computer still minable, though ROI remains to be a concern. I am looking into some kind of numerical computation algo which would be even unlikely programmable for the GPU. Initial attempt was made by using Fortran, however we got compiling issue and had been dropped off. I will make one more try on this (fully implemented with C++) to make us even safe with CPU mining.
The progress of coins minted so far actually proceed slower than expected. Initially we consider significant amount of new XMG minted to dilute swap coins. However, since we changed the swap plan by limiting under a ratio, we can go with the current rewarding system till the end of PoW-I. Noticing the advantage of this block-rewarding system, I now consider this system to be better to be used in the PoW-II stage; TBD
3. PoS-II initialted at block 10,080This graph summarizes the PoS-II.
The percentage is calculated based on the base of 5,000,000 XMG, for exampe, 0.1% means 5,000 XMG in a transaction.
4. MagiAnon: TOR and other Anonymous featureWe will deliver the TOR soon nearly at the scheduled time. In the mean time, I will be looking into anonymous features, such as merging with the Darksend, in the following months. The block rewarding system seems triggering some interests in maintaining a set of rewarding nodes. While I don't think about it in details, this may get us advantages over implementing in other coins.
5. MagiConnectionsIn addition to the technical development, one of the focus XMG will emphasize is the connections among people using XMG. A tipping system will be the one we should look at, since we have seen the advantages in prior posts: people who help others receive tips. If you can give a hand on this, please let me know, or I will be looking into this once other stuffs are settled.
I also hope people can suggest/host a campaign, having fun as well as promoting XMG. You can think of any kinds of campaigns, for any approved XMG provides support. I am going to create a MagiCampaign tab in our subreddit /r/coinmagi. Please fill up the list. An example on-going is here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-proof-of-mining-campaign-xmg-magi-1st-pos-ii-tor-m7m-cpu-only-802681I will give a roadmap for these stuffs sometimes.