Topic: [ANN][DCR] Decred - Community Governance | Bitcoin Devs | Lightning Network - page 49. (Read 1201320 times)
August 08, 2018, 03:56:10 AM
why is the price diving ?
August 07, 2018, 04:13:47 PM
well what is the difficulty like these days for decred? I managed to 'swap' some coupons (got 5 obelisk blake2b miners...a mistake indeed)
for ONE free (supposed) obelisk decred miner 1.5th at 500 watt?) that 'supposedly' will come out end of August. In that they have NOT
shipped the 'doorstop' siacoin obelisk units the coupons came from ..figure Sept 2018 at best.
Even though this was, a free unit (see above) will it even be worth running at that time with more or less current decred prices?
I kinda doubt it but figured I'd ask...(well, if I'm screwed on this as well, at least this doorstop was free) (FML)
thanks for any info/guesses on this
later
brad
edited: more found a decred calculator and man is it ugly!
er....found the calculator of what it would do today...yep doorstop as well it seems ..at my 14c kWh data hall rate with rent anyway...
looks like by end of Sept 2018 say, will be better off just staying in the box also. (for doorstop use, units staying in the box MINT, make
for ease of use (less friction) as doorstops...a helpful hint)
anyway what the what to mine calculator says I'd make TODAY if I had one at the 14c kWh rate at my data hall with rent for electric.
https://whattomine.com/coins/152-dcr-blake-14r?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr=1200.0&p=500.0&fee=0.0&cost=0.14&hcost=0.0&commit=Calculate
.
8c a day...pretty much what the above obelisk sc-1 blake2b doorstops (siacoin) are making a day as well if I had those 5 units as well.
oh well, live and learn (total down after taxes and equip depreciation etc on above 5 obelisk units to get this free decred miner
from coupons was 1.11 BTC, again live an learn)
below for those interested is the price at the USA average electric price (summer rates) of 12c kWh w/o rent at a data hall.
https://whattomine.com/coins/152-dcr-blake-14r?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr=1200.0&p=500.0&fee=0.0&cost=0.12&hcost=0.0&commit=Calculate
yea! you make 9c per day at 12c kWh vs 8c per day at 14c kWh. (FML)
anyway, that is the ugly on all this, thanks for listening..but man do we need a price pump on coin!
later
brad
August 07, 2018, 03:49:47 AM
Devs talk that on this week will bee v1.3.0 RC
August 06, 2018, 12:26:30 PM
Looks like dcrd v1.3.0 is nearing completion, that’s a lot of closed pull requests, go dev team! https://github.com/decred/dcrd/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
Thank you for keeping an eye on github activity and for communicating it to others here, that's very useful.
August 06, 2018, 11:45:51 AM
Looks like dcrd v1.3.0 is nearing completion, that’s a lot of closed pull requests, go dev team! https://github.com/decred/dcrd/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
August 06, 2018, 07:59:39 AM
I'm looking at decredition and its "My Tickets" part. In my opinion you could move the tiles of the relative stages of the tickets reordering them in chronological order to make clear the stages of the "life" of the tickets purchased.
August 06, 2018, 06:57:01 AM
How does everyone see dcr in 5 years?? More of a common payment method that is used in daily life in tiny increments, or more of a store of wealth currency that is rarely used, but extremely robust and stable as a store of wealth.
I don't know. If it is more accurate then to predict it is difficult enough for me. But one thing I know for sure - the price of buying is very tasty now. In the long-term, Decred will be one of the best offers on cryptomarket. 
August 06, 2018, 04:17:31 AM
I have been holding Decred from day one. Still a very decent project and I like the fact that even though they don't do that much marketing, the coin is still doing really good I think
July 30, 2018, 10:51:03 PM
The technical content of DCR project is very good, it is worth the patience of investors to hold 2-3 years, I believe the return will be amazing.
July 30, 2018, 10:38:31 PM
How does everyone see dcr in 5 years?? More of a common payment method that is used in daily life in tiny increments, or more of a store of wealth currency that is rarely used, but extremely robust and stable as a store of wealth.
July 26, 2018, 03:54:12 PM
Everything in Decred is voted on by the stake holders.
The developers write and test code for BOTH outcomes of the vote. In the instance where a fork would occur, Decred's governance automatically selects the code based on the outcome of the vote by the stakeholders.
https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/a-look-at-decreds-governance-system/
That's the important bit! Without being voted on, a chain split can literally not happen. The attacker would need to have so many tickets staked such that for every block in the split chain, they were assured their tickets would be called on to vote for the validity of their split chain. This is the power of the consensus model we have in Decred, and why it is prohibitive (impossible) for the chain to be split in an eth/etc manner.
That makes it clearer. Thanks!
Sure thing.
In case you don't know of it, check here for all Decred stats: https://dcrstats.com/ There you can see the number of PoS tickets that are live, the current cost of tickets, etc. It helps when modeling figures around how expensive such attacks would be. 
July 25, 2018, 02:20:39 AM
LOL, didn't know Btctalk trolling was still a thing. when stakey branded lambos sir?
July 25, 2018, 01:31:12 AM
Everything in Decred is voted on by the stake holders.
The developers write and test code for BOTH outcomes of the vote. In the instance where a fork would occur, Decred's governance automatically selects the code based on the outcome of the vote by the stakeholders.
https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/a-look-at-decreds-governance-system/
That's the important bit! Without being voted on, a chain split can literally not happen. The attacker would need to have so many tickets staked such that for every block in the split chain, they were assured their tickets would be called on to vote for the validity of their split chain. This is the power of the consensus model we have in Decred, and why it is prohibitive (impossible) for the chain to be split in an eth/etc manner.
That makes it clearer. Thanks!
July 24, 2018, 10:05:07 PM
it is obvious that the coin can be cloned like any other, just copy and paste the code
The question was another.
It was about a split in blockchain as happened with eth / etc.
This is impossible in decred because the blockchain stops working without POS voting that will always be directed to only one chain.
This is interesting, although I admit I still don't understand how it is impossible to make a chainsplit even if it does indeed take more work than I assumed before.
But if you insist this is the case and the dev team agrees, I guess I'll take your word for it
Everything in Decred is voted on by the stake holders.
The developers write and test code for BOTH outcomes of the vote. In the instance where a fork would occur, Decred's governance automatically selects the code based on the outcome of the vote by the stakeholders.
https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/a-look-at-decreds-governance-system/
That's the important bit! Without being voted on, a chain split can literally not happen. The attacker would need to have so many tickets staked such that for every block in the split chain, they were assured their tickets would be called on to vote for the validity of their split chain. This is the power of the consensus model we have in Decred, and why it is prohibitive (impossible) for the chain to be split in an eth/etc manner.
why not we remove this silly voting thats controlled by the developers and their buddies themselves lol
= total circle jerk July 24, 2018, 09:55:29 PM
it is obvious that the coin can be cloned like any other, just copy and paste the code
The question was another.
It was about a split in blockchain as happened with eth / etc.
This is impossible in decred because the blockchain stops working without POS voting that will always be directed to only one chain.
This is interesting, although I admit I still don't understand how it is impossible to make a chainsplit even if it does indeed take more work than I assumed before.
But if you insist this is the case and the dev team agrees, I guess I'll take your word for it
Everything in Decred is voted on by the stake holders.
The developers write and test code for BOTH outcomes of the vote. In the instance where a fork would occur, Decred's governance automatically selects the code based on the outcome of the vote by the stakeholders.
https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/a-look-at-decreds-governance-system/
That's the important bit! Without being voted on, a chain split can literally not happen. The attacker would need to have so many tickets staked such that for every block in the split chain, they were assured their tickets would be called on to vote for the validity of their split chain. This is the power of the consensus model we have in Decred, and why it is prohibitive (impossible) for the chain to be split in an eth/etc manner.
July 24, 2018, 04:06:46 PM
it is obvious that the coin can be cloned like any other, just copy and paste the code
The question was another.
It was about a split in blockchain as happened with eth / etc.
This is impossible in decred because the blockchain stops working without POS voting that will always be directed to only one chain.
This is interesting, although I admit I still don't understand how it is impossible to make a chainsplit even if it does indeed take more work than I assumed before.
But if you insist this is the case and the dev team agrees, I guess I'll take your word for it
Everything in Decred is voted on by the stake holders.
The developers write and test code for BOTH outcomes of the vote. In the instance where a fork would occur, Decred's governance automatically selects the code based on the outcome of the vote by the stakeholders.
https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/a-look-at-decreds-governance-system/
July 24, 2018, 03:46:12 PM
it is obvious that the coin can be cloned like any other, just copy and paste the code
The question was another.
It was about a split in blockchain as happened with eth / etc.
This is impossible in decred because the blockchain stops working without POS voting that will always be directed to only one chain.
This is interesting, although I admit I still don't understand how it is impossible to make a chainsplit even if it does indeed take more work than I assumed before.
But if you insist this is the case and the dev team agrees, I guess I'll take your word for it
July 24, 2018, 12:14:26 PM
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This is no guarantee. Sure the changes are voted but that doesn't make them unanimous. In theory there could always be a chain split.
It is very unlikely of course
The decred code was written to make impossible a chain split.
When a hardfork voting happens the old blockchain "dies" instantly.
It's impossible for someone to take control and keep it alive as happened with ETH/ETC and BTC/BCH
watch me fork your coin what you are saying is impossible unless it's rigged and not even an open source project..errrr yeah :\
it is obvious that the coin can be cloned like any other, just copy and paste the code
The question was another.
It was about a split in blockchain as happened with eth / etc.
This is impossible in decred because the blockchain stops working without POS voting that will always be directed to only one chain.
directed by who? If we decide to fork we decide to fork...there shouldn't be some crypto-nazi dictating code..this is open source? :\hmm
July 24, 2018, 12:12:14 PM
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This is no guarantee. Sure the changes are voted but that doesn't make them unanimous. In theory there could always be a chain split.
It is very unlikely of course
The decred code was written to make impossible a chain split.
When a hardfork voting happens the old blockchain "dies" instantly.
It's impossible for someone to take control and keep it alive as happened with ETH/ETC and BTC/BCH
watch me fork your coin what you are saying is impossible unless it's rigged and not even an open source project..errrr yeah :\
it is obvious that the coin can be cloned like any other, just copy and paste the code
The question was another.
It was about a split in blockchain as happened with eth / etc.
This is impossible in decred because the blockchain stops working without POS voting that will always be directed to only one chain.
July 24, 2018, 11:05:33 AM
...
This is no guarantee. Sure the changes are voted but that doesn't make them unanimous. In theory there could always be a chain split.
It is very unlikely of course
The decred code was written to make impossible a chain split.
When a hardfork voting happens the old blockchain "dies" instantly.
It's impossible for someone to take control and keep it alive as happened with ETH/ETC and BTC/BCH
watch me fork your coin what you are saying is impossible unless it's rigged and not even an open source project..errrr yeah :\
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