Topic: [ANN][DCR] Decred - Community Governance | Bitcoin Devs | Lightning Network - page 540. (Read 1201332 times)

ill test tomorrow with the same settings ( but different address ) and see how we go ...

im finishing off a mates system this week also - and can test his cards as well ...

tanx ...

#crysx

Interesting project, my favorite aspect is the ability of the coin to directly fund development (and not just to c0 folks, but anybody).

Questions for Decred team:

- Will there be support at any exchanges on genesis launch day?

- Is there a privacy policy regarding the identities you're collecting for the airdrop? (I couldn't find mention of this on your website)

- can you expand on what the constitution will look like? who will write it? I ask because you already mentioned a private entity that receives the 10% dev funding, but how will it decide who deserves to be awarded contracts?

- given the undeniable technical skill of your team as well as the team's history with bitcoin, why an alt coin? Have you considered the possibility of implementing the decred feature set as a 2 way peg sidechain [1] ? If you considered this but decided against it, can you say why?

To expand a little on my motivation for the last question: I ask because it seems odd to me that the btcsuite team would choose to compete with bitcoin when there are other options (potentially, maybe you can tell me why there aren't). In other words, you could potentially prove the design decisions behind decred in a sidechain, and bitcoin users could vote with their feet (i.e. coins) by moving to your chain.

[1] for an example of a simple sidechain design, see Paul Sztorc's proposal here: http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/drivechain/

pool: http://www.miners-pool.eu/#!/pools

setting: ccminer.exe -q -a blake --intensity 24 -o stratum+tcp://stratum.eu.miners-pool.eu:8421 -u SMuUBPaqpwTCae7hRqcjc9xE6EAMoE996w -p 1

ccminer for nVidia cards: https://github.com/sp-hash/ccminer/releases/

if you have another nVidia card, write here your hashrate...

which pool are you using for the testing? ...

and what settings are you using on the commandline? ...

this looks like ccminer-spmod78 - correct? ...

#crysx

i confirm, my nVidia GTX 750Ti have 580MH/s for blake256 14rounds with "ccminer 1.5.78" and GTX 960 have 930MH/s you can try it on Saffroncoin, he used blake256 14rounds algo.

PMed you on bitcointalk. I would have done it on the forum, but i wanted to maintain my identity here on Bitcointalk.

I'll sign up for the airdrop once you deem me worthy

I think we've all felt like this at one point or another. You can sign up at the Decred forum if that looks more appealing. The key is to remember if there's constructive discourse happening somewhere, it will be addressed and included, no matter where it occurs.

There isn't a publicly available FPGA port for 14 round blake-256.  

It's absolutely worth setting up GPUs because that's what everyone else will be mining with.  Most people don't have FPGAs anyway..

FPGAs don't give a huge hashrate advantage for blake-256.  It's more of an efficiency thing.

Is the choose of algorithm due to the availability of FPGA implementations of Blake256?

Someone pointed out on IRC that:

And then I found this github repo:
https://github.com/kramble/FPGA-Blakecoin-Miner

Just curious if it's even worth setting up gpus to mine or it's probably not even worth it...

hi, i like the concept and would like to be involved. 
ive created another thread http://metabtc.com/threads/decred-rethink-digital-currency.170/   
it may or may not be used but with past experience here i know that if the mods here get upset members end up getting banned for no reason.
ill be posting regular updates from the devs and relevent media links 
Also you get paid btc for leaving comments on metabtc 

And yet here you are, with a throwaway single-purpose account, begging for free shit.   

Sufficiently advanced thought leadership is indistinguishable from trolling.

I have signed up for the airdrop as offered by one of the devs (via pm).  Admittedly I am skeptical about this coin and the motives so I am running things in a vm sandbox for the time being.  Something that strikes my attention is the quote:  Community based governance - Based on the timeline of discussions that lead up to the development of this cryptocurrency, I have a suspicion that this coin's vote feature partially has the failed actions of the bitcoin foundation (BCF) to thank for creating that need (for a decentralized democratic-like mechanism to circumvent the shortcomings of the BCF).  I may or may not write about the coin in detail on honeybadgerofmoney.com, depending on what I learn about it.  I'll edit this post once I  get more time to read through the pages and can discuss the topic in more depth.  Thanks again for the invite!

It does differ from Blakecoin.  Blakecoin uses 8 round blake-256, which sacrifices an acceptable level of security for speed.

Decred will be using 14 round blake-256, which is overkill for security but still fast.

Both nvidia and ati cards seem to do pretty well with blake-256

I'm also interested to see where this goes, signed up for the airdrop

Well, according to the parameters of the issue became much clearer, thank you.
About the mining program, it already is? (Radeon cards), and does not differ from the Blakecoin (BLC)?  Decred address already possible generate somewhere?

If you have a look at our previous post about the subsidy system

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13412287

you can see how this works out in detail.  For clarity, I'm reproducing the figures here:

• The per block subsidy starts at approximately 31.19 coins and decreases by a factor of 100/101 every 6,144 blocks, approximately 21.33 days assuming 5 minutes per block.
• The total number of coins by the end of year 1 is approximately 4.7M, with 1.68M coming from the premine and 3.02M coming from PoW, PoS and dev org subsidies.
• The dev org will get approximately 302K coins over the first year, most of which will be spent on an ongoing basis on development of the software.

I want to clarify: the time between blocks of 5 minutes, the average block size in the first year, 25-23 coins?, about 105K units a year? This is the right calculations, I assumed that in the first year will produce around 4.7 million coins. That is, the financing of the project will be transferred to 470 thousand coins in the first year? (10%). Just want to understand everything before starting. It's very much like a full line of numbers bitcoin. Okay, the calculation roughly correct? Just earlier I was thinking that the blocks in the first year will be about 9-10 coins.

 

 i signed up for the airdrop too some days ago - it's great to see something new with actual real life backing.

     now if this new community can be as supportive i think there will be no limits  

We do have our own forum for decred at https://forum.decred.org/ although I think there has been some very good discussion in this thread as well (so not abandoning it for sure).

I can easily understand you, @Blizzy, as this btcTalk forum is the home of the trolls (retarded kids). The worst place on the Internet, actually... I hardly ever feel like posting here... only if there's a really good reason.

I hope Decred succeeds and the community will have another forum, far away from this btcTalk.