Topic: [ANN][DCR] Decred - Community Governance | Bitcoin Devs | Lightning Network - page 554. (Read 1202010 times)

Answered in IRC, but for others' info, you should be able to buy Decred from people/exchanges after mainnet is live - after the projected date of Jan 18th. For now, you can sign up for the airdrop if you want to participate and contribute to the building up of the project with others - but that is strictly unconditional, meaning you won't be held to any expectations (but everyone hopes you do care enough to participate when you sign up).


There will be a simple GPU miner built for AMD/nVidia cards. The project will start working with everyone interested in mining to help them set it all up in the week of Jan 4th - which is, as it stands, the projected date to turn testnet on.


That's pretty cool! Haven't thought about shortening "decred" to "dcred". Both could work well without necessarily being a "change" in name. Super hard to get consensus on a name though - especially when something is new and people are just now beginning to learn about the project and what it represents. One very positive thing about the name "Decred" is that the project was able to secure top-level domains (.com/.org/.net) for a short name, which is somewhat unusual and will help a lot for a general audience as it grows.


Hey iCEBREAKER! Never got the chance to thank you for stopping by. The plan now is to collect all technical questions for the day and answer them in one shot. The devs are working pretty hard, so these are noted and there will be a post to answer them specifically today.


Hah, yes. The vast majority of people working on Decred at the moment are not design-oriented. There has already been interest from new participants in playing with the logo here and here. Anyone who wants to mess with the logo can download .svg files here and here. But a warning: current Decred people are devs, not designers - so any help is greatly appreciated!

Those who buy into this wannabe crap deserve to get screwed up hard.

I like this one and i will be mining.

Always interested in the dispute POW v POS. If the coin is successful then the question can be closed.
I wish success to the development team. With the help of the community. Followed.

dCred.it and 4Cred.it are still both available.

The name is OK but looks like 'decrepit' to me.     D-cred or Dcred is cleaner and dcr.edu is available...

What's the blocktime?  2 min?  10 min?  Is it up for a vote?  Same for max_block_size?  Is there a Monero-like penalty for large blocks?

Is everything up for a vote (including the ~21e6 coin limit)?

And we need to talk about the logo...   

How to download the program for mining? It will be effective only on the ASIC? When can I start mining?

Deltacredits is still active...

Where can I buy Decred? Thanks.

So, no keen with Decred.co.in, eh?

I don't mind the name, I'm just glad they left off Coin.

In essence, you're seeking a quorum to brainstorm the renaming of Decred to something having more cred. How 'bout DeCred.icio.us.

I'm not thrilled with the name either; it's somehow cacophonous. I suggest a brainstorming session, if the devs are open to alternatives.

LoL 31 day till Launch.. not bad

tl dr
Its an ICO with POW afterwards and a special algo/miner .. maybe think a little like ETH

Countdown on their homepage.

So I assume you can not read. DeltaCredits is not dead! It got delisted from c-cex, that is right, but its still been traded on Yobit.
And where did you get the information about broken POS?

Watching with great interest. Nice to see all the comments. Both sides of the coin so to speak being discussed.

Donny
 

What if Decred were some other TLD (top level domain), thus would form a better word and not take away from its original six-letter .com, with the latter redirecting to the new domain, both eventually enjoying SEO juice? decred.io may not work, but that's the gist of what I propose.

Here's the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains

decred.es is available

Wall of text.
Is it POW? Countdown?

Subsidy is reduced every 6144 blocks in the simplest way possible. The starting reward is based around the premine amounts so as to approach 21 million.


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