Topic: [ANN][DCR] Decred - Community Governance | Bitcoin Devs | Lightning Network - page 93. (Read 1201764 times)

Politeia Platform Challenge

Decred’s Politeia, a proposal system that is part of Decred’s governance system, has a vast amount of potential uses. As such, Decred can only reasonably explore a few of these use cases on their own.

The Politeia Platform Challenge is a competition designed to discover alternate uses for the Politeia codebase. Competitors will use Politeia source code to address alternate use cases besides a public proposal system and then demonstrate how they work. Decred will choose the best of these on Friday, December 1st at The North Door in Austin, TX, US. The event starts at 8 PM CST and ends at 1 AM CST and is free to attend. Drinks and food will be available for purchase.....

https://blog.decred.org/2017/11/03/Politeia-Platform-Challenge/

Why do you think it will be profitable? Since the D3 arrived, the difficulty of Dash just multiplied enormously.  In the first few days, the payback period was about 18 days, after 6 weeks, it is 500 days due to the increased difficulty.
Is there any reason it will be different with Decred ASIC?

When pow ends ?

So we can hurry up and mine the last of the pow coins.  Awesome gonna be the opposite of sia releasing asics cause there is a limit on pow Decred.  Nice work we will see 100+ soon

The Obelisk DCR1, the First Decred (DCR) ASIC Miner looks very interesting to me. I'm really thinking hard about that to order one at the pre-order batch. Maybe this can be very profitable.

Obelisk DCR1, the First Decred (DCR) ASIC Miner Announced

http://cryptomining-blog.com/9247-obelisk-dcr1-the-first-decred-dcr-asic-miner-announced/

Some of you might remember that back in June Sia has announced their plans to develop a dedicated SiaCoin (SC) ASIC miner called the Obelisc SC1 capable of 300+ GH/S at 500W ot less power consumption according to the latest information. Well, it seems that Sia has figured out that since Decred (DCR) uses a very similar algorithm to what SiaCoin (SC) uses (both being variations of Blake) they can also develop the first ASIC miner for Decred as well. The Obelisk DCR1 should be capable of at least 475 GH/s with less than 500W of power usage and both ASIC miners should be available at pretty much the same time.
So now the pre-sale of the first batch of 4000 Obelisk DCR1 ASIC miners for Decred (DCR) is up for pre-sale on the Obelist’s website along the Obelist SC1 ASIC miner pre-sale for SiaCoin (SC). Both pre-sales will run up until November 24th and they are expected to ship on or before June 30th, 2018. Both Obelisk ASIC miners are available for pre-order at a price of $2499 USD and come with a 6 week exclusive mining period and a $250 per-unit coupon for future Obelisk purchases as a bonus. Now, since this is a pre-order for a product that is currently in development we advice you to be extra careful as we’ve seen a fair share of fails in that area and a lot of empty promises. We are not saying anything for the Obelisk, it seems to have a solid team working on the project according to the information available, we are just warning you to be careful as it is a pre-order for a product that is not yet developed and the final device (if/when available) may as well be different in terms of specifications as we’ve seen that happening as well.
If by the second half of next year Sia manages to deliver on their promise with the Obelisk ASIC miners for SiaCoin (SC) and Decred (DCR) they will significantly change the landscape for these two crypto coins. Now it is yet unclear how this will affect things regarding the use of the Sia file hosting services since it is more than just a crypto coin while Decred is more of a traditional crypto coin. The promise of securing the network better with ASICs is not new, the more important question here however is what if a limited number of people hold most of the ASIC’s power in a network… and then it becomes pointless to mine if you do not have access to an ASIC miner and/or cannot afford one.

Decred is still in the band of 30-40 top currencies by market cap, not actually losing ground. Price fiat-wise is only a little lower than before.
Given the situation in cryptoland these days, I see no reason for worry.

Also, if you had seen it's performance last year and january this year, you would not worry either.
It was falling slowly all through the second half of 2016, from 500k to about 45k. Then in January it shot up to 0.02 in a matter of days.

Not saying it will repeat this, the situation is different now. Just that this is a coin that is here to stay. Just stake and forget about short term gains

Cheap DCR doesn't exist. DCR is declining for 8 month straight now, DCR price fall when BTC pump and fall a bit more when BTC correct itself.
After buying BTC with fiat, no point to spend that BTC on DCR as it would be an instant loss.
I would be very happy if that changes, but can't see the way... The tech is good, Hshare managed to make a billion marketcap out of it... Shame it is not us who profit from out project... Something doesn't work here.

lol. And here we go, about to step over that $7k threshold. Looks like dllhg totally fucking called it. Glad I've held onto my btc  

Luckily though, the dcr/btc price is like 1/2 what it was 1 month ago. Nearly time to buy some cheap cheap DCR!!!

Great support for decred at these levels

Good news with very nice presentation over Decred.

Nice! Marco Peereboom developed DCRtime

Marco Peereboom, a Decred developer, presentation on Decred at Texas Bitcoin Conference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRcF2UZiSh0

Long time DCR hodler here!

Just wanted to share something i posted for a group of friends because I believe it's relevant and applies to everyone in crypto. Especially in this thread, being that Decred has such a beautiful vision for the future. A vision based off of governance and inclusion where everyone whom participates is equally important.

Here is exactly what i wrote......

"i know thanksgiving is weeks away, but i wanted to say that i'm thankful for you all! i'm thankful for btc and for this platform which allows us to converge on a regular basis.

let us not forget that the underlying principles of the decentralized, peer to peer experiment that is bitcoin has allowed a group of strangers, who live half way across the country, to become friends.

strangers, around the globe, have become friends as well. we are all satoshi and, therefore, we must act accordingly

it is our duty to defend these principles of liberty which are the backbone of bitcoin and all that has come from it.

if those that understand satoshi's vision allow that vision to be stifled by individuals that wish to see it fail, we will be left with nothing but a memory of what was and, more importantly, what could have been

let us be the souls whom write the history of bitcoin and the free market which has spawned from it

yes, we are here to profit, but may we all share these gifts with those with greater needs one day. the flame of crypto has been lit......it is our job to morph this flame into a raging inferno.

a blaze so large that it engulfs the weak, fearful and phony folk who uphold the system of endless fiat money creation.

we are the trailblazers who must and will tell the story of bitcoin to generations not yet born.

we are tasked with creating a tradition of sound money. we are one and we will persevere and overcome all obstacles which stand in our path

otherwise, we will never forgive ourselves for what we once grasped firmly in our hearts and minds, but somehow managed to let slip away

this is our time! right now!

we have already won, but we are tasked with opening the eyes of those who don't realize this truth. truth is freedom, so let's spread the truth of bitcoin and what it stands for

know that this can and will go away with the blink of an eye if we do not uphold our responsibilty as leaders of this growing free market economy

there is only one true path to financial freedom and it is our job to light this path for those who cannot see"


If this resonates with one person, I will be fulfilled. Thanks to the Decred devs and the community. Looking forward to another great year in 2018!!

Are you using the latest version of paymetheus?
Probably the amount you can't get is one or more voted tickets less than 24 hours.
For security reasons coins can only be used after 256 blocks (~ 20-24 hours) but paymetheus has a bug that shows them as spendable before they really are.
I advise you to install the new decrediton for windows using your paymetheus seed.

Can someone guide me to a tutorial on how to restore a wallet in the Paymetheus Decred Wallet?

Or help me to solve this:
The problem I have is I did some stake mining a while a ago. However all tickets have now voted (via a pool), but I still can only access (send) about 2/3 of what is displayed as my total balance.

I will watch.

out of topic but worth read

these r  the first steps  of all this that we r in to...

“The Satoshi Revolution”



https://news.bitcoin.com/satoshi-revolution-chapter-2-technology-meets-anarchy-both-profit-part-5/

https://news.bitcoin.com/satoshi-revolution-chapter-2-currency-creates-freedom-and-civilization-or-oppression-part-4/


https://news.bitcoin.com/the-satoshi-revolution-a-revolution-of-rising-expectations-part-3/

https://news.bitcoin.com/the-satoshi-revolution-chapter-2-how-and-why-government-outlawed-private-money/

https://news.bitcoin.com/the-satoshi-revolution-a-revolution-of-rising-expectations-chap1-part1/

https://news.bitcoin.com/introduction-to-the-satoshi-revolution-new-book-by-wendy-mcelroy-exclusively-on-bitcoin-com/

says Gembitz with -2 rating.  Butthurt over your emc2 shill fail?

I feel the same... Bought my first ticket about two months ago. Not voted yet... And I have a feeling that it will be revoked, based on my luck, and in the meantime even the ticketprice has risen as well...