Topic: [ANNOUNCE] Ixcoin - a new Bitcoin fork - page 44. (Read 128605 times)

Done and done, sir. I can't speak to the purpose but I can speak to the code. A simple KDiff3 comparison of the original bitcoin source and the fork shows very few changes (aside from the obvious bitcoin->ixcoin in nearly every string in every file). The primary change is of course in main.cpp where nSubsidy has been set to 96 and the various necessary changes to the Genesis block have been made. Looks clean to me.

People at 100x the speed you are are the problem

Good point. We were torn on that one. We didn't change the four-byte hello sequence in the end because we wanted to maximize compatibility with third party Bitcoin apps/websites and minimize adoption difficulty.

just out of curiosity i pointed my cpu (8mhps) at ixcoin
its been running for about 30 mins now and no block found...whats wrong here?

You have 580,000 coins already?  Holy early adopter! 

Remember that 10,000 BTC Pizza?

I was meant as a joke .

There is another even more fundamental problem with this and I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread yet:

Bitcoin, at this point in time, urgently needs more of everything, developers, testers, vendors, exchanges and most importantly: users!
So you are here, to start a completely new chain, as competition to BTC, even though Bitcoin itself faces major difficulties and is still in infancy, thereby further diverting recourses from the already thinly stretched Bitcoin community, just to promote your potentially worthless chain? Did I get that right?

If yes, I am offering $1 USD for exactly half (≈250,000 if I got that right) ixcoins. PM me if interested.
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Give me 1BTC worth of those.

16*6 is a reference to the X in Ixcoin, as in Hex/Hexadecimal/16.

As the fees on .0001 BTC would be ridiculously high relative to the total purchase, can you offer instead 960000 IXC for 1.0 BTC, or accept some coin whose transaction fee on the purchase would be a lower percent of the total due to the coin in question being evaluated by you as lower in value than a bitcoin?

-MarkM-

So I generated my first 2 blocks less than a second apart.

Why do you say "16*6=96 IXC" when "96 IXC" would suffice¿?¿ 16*6 means nothing as far as i can tell

So basically it's like Bitcoin, except with even more immensely rich early adopters (especially you)?
I don't see the point of this.

I would rather support a new blockchain with 0.5% / year initial distribution not 20% / year.

FOR SALE

96 ixcoins for .0001 BTC

I have been getting some familiarity with what one needs to change to make a new block chain from an old one, and used diff to compare the source with devcoin source.

You seem to have added a get block RPC but apart from that your changes look pretty normal, except that you seem to have neglected to change the four-byte hello sequence that protects each variant from chatting pointlessly with some other variant when people start using patches that allow them to run on non-standard ports.

As long as people stick to the hardcoded networking port, fine. But as soon as some user of mainstream bitcoin hacks his bitcoind to use some weird port that happens to be the port Ixcoin normally uses, you will get told of thousands of nodes all of which will be happy to flood you the same way if your code too is willing to try connecting to a port other than its hardcoded normal port.

So I'd suggest maybe picking a hardcoded hello string for your main net and your test net and get them in use quick before there are so many nodes it is a bit late for such a change.

I went with the idea a human maybe should be able to read them when watching packets, so I used DEV: and dev- for devcoin main and test nets, GRP: and grp- for groupcoin main and test nets, though doubtless there are people who can pontificate all day about why those were bad choices. (If you go for IXC: and ixc- they can yell at you too hahaha.)

-MarkM-

http://ixcoin.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Mining
Just do solo mining, there are no pools known to me...

EDIT: if you want it easy, i can sell you 100 IXC for some BTC 

I suspect you don't need a point to create new competing blockchains
the good for bitcoin : proof of concept will be demonstrated
and competition is always good, isn't it ?

I've got stacks of them if you're interested 

hello, out of curiosity i would like to mine 100 of these.

how would i do this ? the client wont offer cpu mining

I'd rather trade in Zimbabwe dollars than a "inflationary bitcoin"   because in all honesty I know what ixcoin stands for...

Inflationary Xerox of Bitcoins