Topic: [ANN][CLAM] CLAMs, Proof-Of-Chain, Proof-Of-Working-Stake, a.k.a. "Clamcoin" - page 364. (Read 1151252 times)

I'd be willing to help out with the cost of production too. I can also escrow the coins if that helps.

So, I've been following CLAM since December and I've become a clam investor of sorts. One thing that I've noticed is the difficulty involved in not only explaining the claim process (from Btc/ltc/doge) but also the proof-of-stake process as well. What I'd like to do for CLAM is produce a video similar to the famous bitcoin video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo (Yes, I know there is a clam video, but I think a better one with a voiceover is needed). I think getting more people educated and introduced to CLAM would help. People seem interested, but when people have tried to explain it, you can see some puzzlement, even with the bitcoin crowd.

I've produced a couple of them before using an animator and script writer to make a nice animated explainer-video with a professional voiceover from folks on Fiverr paid in BTC (maybe clam oneday ). It would be 150 words and a minute of animation. It would be available for anyone to use on their CLAM site to explain CLAM and it's PoS process.  The videos cost roughly about $100ea, and I'd be willing to put in $40 of it to start with. I would however like to community to chip in if you're willing to help out. I'm sure another trusted community member would be willing to escrow it as well if you don't feel like you can work with/trust me.

If you're interested, PM me or post here to get it started.

He was credited with 7 deposits from just typing 1 private key, so clearly the wallet import before had actually worked. Each private key gets no more than 3 deposits, and most only get 1.

It sounds to me like the closed the client before the wallet import had had a chance to do a full rescan of the blockchain, but maybe it's some other issue. Last time I tried it, the import process wasn't very responsive. The client would just appear to lock up for long periods of time. You need to wait for it to finish doing what it's doing and for it to become responsive again.

One reason could be that your wallet was encrypted, and you did not type in the correct password. The Clam client does not give a warning if the password for the imported wallet is wrong.
The way you can check if the "import" went good or bad, is to not what receive address there is in your Clam client, when the import is correct, then is all the imported address converted and added to the list.

I imported my wallet multiple times and it didn't work but I also had a private key so I entered the private key using the console and I got credited with seven 4.6 deposits. 6 from importwallet and 1 from the private key. Why did the importwallet keys not credit until I entered a private key?

Never mind the last post I figured it out.

However, I am trying to import my dogecoin wallet.dat to get clam on mac and I do not know how. When I click file and import file I click the .dat then enter the password but the console just shows the red - sign and no text.

I just downloaded and synced the Clam client for Mac for the first time and I'm trying to transfer my dogecoin .dat file. I tried doing it and the console just showed the red - symbol and was blank in text. Then I closed the client and went to try again so I loaded up the client and first it showed the normal screen which loads the blocks then a popup said "warning: error reading wallet.dat all keys read correctly, but transactction data or address book entries might be missing or incorrect clam client" I clicked ok and the screen said "Rescanning", then it briefly said "Done loading" the it quits unexpectedly.

Does anyone know what this is and how to fix it?

The great thing about Clams is the large community behind it that helps it be very successful. Sometimes you can have the best product but without community support and active members no one will ever know. That is what attracted me early on even before Just-dice when the price was fairly low. The community was active, encouraging and dooglus went out of his way to explain how the coin worked and best way to get the most out of your stakes. I am happy to be part of such a successful community!

I saw this in the Just-Dice chat:


The price of CLAM doesn't seem to move a whole lot - it's been between 0.005 and 0.008 BTC for quite a while now.

The main use for CLAM is still Just-Dice. Other places are starting to accept it, but I don't think any of them have near the volume that Just-Dice does.

People are investing in the Just-Dice bankroll and earning around 1.7% to 2.0% per week doing so (mostly from staking rewards). If the price holds steady, that's a reasonable thing to do.

ElysianBaws went on to say:


So he's looking to buy back in already. Just trying his luck at day-trading I guess.

the price is going down

Thank you for the detailed explanation, much appreciated.

Any protip about hodling CLAM, any good reason why to dump em or hold em?

You can answer a few of these questions by going to just-dice.com, switching to the 'chat' tab, typing /supply, and hitting return.

You see something like this:

10:15:31 INFO: 67,131 of 3,208,032 sets of 4.60545574 CLAM were dug up so far from the initial distribution
10:15:31 INFO: 309,169 CLAM were dug up and 285,717 CLAM were staked for a total of 594,886 CLAM
10:15:31 INFO: Just-Dice's onsite bankroll of 424,735 CLAM represents 71.40% of that amount
10:15:31 INFO: if all the distributed CLAMs were dug up, the total money supply would be 15,060,118 CLAM

The blockchain targets 1-minute blocks, so 1440 blocks per day. Each creates 1 new CLAM, and gives the tx fees to the staker too.

JD stakes around 1100 per day from its 424k bankroll. From that you can calculate that to stake 1 block per day you need about 424k/1100 = 385 CLAMs. In other words the daily reward is around 0.25%.

There's no maximum set, just a steady 1 CLAM per minute inflation.

The first INFO line above answers your last question. 3.2 million addresses got 4.6 CLAM each for a total of around 15 million. Only 67k of those 3.2 million were moved so far (around 2% of them).

As for the burn issue, the developers created the CLAMs for the initial distribution using a short proof of work phase. They ended up generating too many, and burned the ones they didn't need to fund the initial distribution. Here's the burn address:

  http://khashier.com/address/xCLAMBURNXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX1HaxZH

You better have some rest then.
Sleep well.

1 Minute average block times.

You are welcome!

I'm going to let someone answer your other question because I don't have the answer handy and I should have been asleep a hour ago!

Thanks BAC


What is the target time between blocks?


I am not sure I understand this, what kind of "left overs" are we talking about?

When you first stake your CLAMS I believe it takes 500 blocks in order for your CLAMS to actually have a chance staking.  When you stake a block your coins can't move for like... gosh can't remember (someone will need to answer this question better.)


Block reward is currently 1 CLAM and you also get all the fees.

The block reward may change if the future, but for now it is 1 CLAM reward fo eva.


No hard cap atm... CLAM is like a Just-dice and Doge-dice had a baby.

 

15,059,850 CLAM distributed to 3,208,032 sets of different BTC, DOGE and LTC addresses.  The left overs of the 15,059,850 CLAM got sent to a burn address (I don't have it on hand.)

I have a few questions to the CLAM community.
I finally had some time to redeem some more clams from some old bitcoin paper wallets.
So, I am actually considering to hold on to these fresh CLAM for a while and do som POS, I think it is a interesting initial distribution, and I see more and more accepting clam.

But I need some info:
How long is the stake time for POS on CLAM?
What are the stake award?
What is the maximum total number of CLAM?
How much was initial distributed? (I know this number can be a little fluffy because of the proff of chain distribution)

Thank you very much

I am pretty sure you can go onto just dice and do /dig [adress]. If it says there are CLAMs to claim you can import it into your CLAM wallet.

If you enter the just-dice website, you'll find a guide on how to cash out clams. I remember it having a way to redeem them online too, not sure if that's still there.

How many do you have?

PM me please.