Topic: [ANN][SIC] Sifcoin - inflation fork - page 3. (Read 46550 times)

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cinnamon_carter, please write him, have block explorer, hashrate stable. My english is bad, so I beg you.

At one point, I hacked up a Python sifcoin-hash module (https://github.com/gjhiggins/sifcoin-hash) to get a Sifcoin version of Abe up and running:


The Abe.Chain.SiFChain subclass is quite straightforward ...



(I continue to run a SiFcoin node but I've migrated away from Abe in favour of ACME, my own (as yet unfinished) lightweight RPC-based blockchain explorer implemented in Python: https://minkiz.co/acme/sic --- it's basic and atm, barely better than the raw JSON but I have plans for it).

Also, fwiw: on a whim, I transcribed the Sifcoin code back into the full commit history, added getnetworkhashps to the API and squeezed a “diffplot” chart on to the overview page:

https://github.com/gjhiggins/sifcoin/commits/diffplot


Cheers

Graham

difficulty still up and down but never dropping too low,

difficulty holding --- network pretty stable

well well well....... difficulty now spiking up fast --- 

difficulty slightly down


here are the nodes my full node is connected to now


sudo ./bitcoind getpeerinfo
[
    {
        "addr" : "198.211.117.175:8373",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1416160436,
        "lastrecv" : 1416160436,
        "bytessent" : 5720439,
        "bytesrecv" : 51059065,
        "conntime" : 1416031431,
        "version" : 70001,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.3/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 146695,
        "banscore" : 0,
        "syncnode" : true
    },
    {
        "addr" : "83.136.243.162:50092",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1416160436,
        "lastrecv" : 1416160191,
        "bytessent" : 90137,
        "bytesrecv" : 181051,
        "conntime" : 1416032043,
        "version" : 70001,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.2.2/",
        "inbound" : true,
        "startingheight" : 146697,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "212.98.191.170:50504",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1416160436,
        "lastrecv" : 1416160192,
        "bytessent" : 87021,
        "bytesrecv" : 162920,
        "conntime" : 1416032473,
        "version" : 70001,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.2.2/",
        "inbound" : true,
        "startingheight" : 146698,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "69.253.31.197:49192",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1416160436,
        "lastrecv" : 1416160193,
        "bytessent" : 90453,
        "bytesrecv" : 207426,
        "conntime" : 1416043309,
        "version" : 70001,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.3/",
        "inbound" : true,
        "startingheight" : 146744,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "176.51.48.131:10374",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1416160436,
        "lastrecv" : 1416160191,
        "bytessent" : 91391,
        "bytesrecv" : 69066,
        "conntime" : 1416061873,
        "version" : 70001,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.2.2/",
        "inbound" : true,
        "startingheight" : 146806,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "5.9.56.229:51595",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1416160436,
        "lastrecv" : 1416160436,
        "bytessent" : 227510,
        "bytesrecv" : 197235,
        "conntime" : 1416067120,
        "version" : 70001,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.6/",
        "inbound" : true,
        "startingheight" : 146825,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "89.254.195.93:49756",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1416160436,
        "lastrecv" : 1416160191,
        "bytessent" : 127452,
        "bytesrecv" : 105366,
        "conntime" : 1416090139,
        "version" : 70001,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.3/",
        "inbound" : true,
        "startingheight" : 146900,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "89.254.196.52:1316",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1416160436,
        "lastrecv" : 1416160190,
        "bytessent" : 109134,
        "bytesrecv" : 84473,
        "conntime" : 1416090181,
        "version" : 70001,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.2.2/",
        "inbound" : true,
        "startingheight" : 146900,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "69.253.31.197:55648",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1416160436,
        "lastrecv" : 1416160436,
        "bytessent" : 63338,
        "bytesrecv" : 124695,
        "conntime" : 1416101193,
        "version" : 70001,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.3/",
        "inbound" : true,
        "startingheight" : 146943,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "46.159.104.16:56861",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1416160436,
        "lastrecv" : 1416160191,
        "bytessent" : 52780,
        "bytesrecv" : 32420,
        "conntime" : 1416125345,
        "version" : 70001,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.2.2/",
        "inbound" : true,
        "startingheight" : 147013,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "128.204.24.52:50008",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1416160434,
        "lastrecv" : 1416160436,
        "bytessent" : 46773,
        "bytesrecv" : 33243,
        "conntime" : 1416137539,
        "version" : 70001,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.3/",
        "inbound" : true,
        "startingheight" : 147063,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "95.58.187.221:15102",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1416160436,
        "lastrecv" : 1416160191,
        "bytessent" : 50082,
        "bytesrecv" : 13320,
        "conntime" : 1416143172,
        "version" : 70001,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.2.2/",
        "inbound" : true,
        "startingheight" : 147073,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "83.104.61.47:26287",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1416160436,
        "lastrecv" : 1416160436,
        "bytessent" : 53063,
        "bytesrecv" : 27906,
        "conntime" : 1416148988,
        "version" : 70001,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.6/",
        "inbound" : true,
        "startingheight" : 147098,
        "banscore" : 0
    }

Well, if you consider how many coins there are now, bitcoin almost had it easy. There are so many coins exist today, that even great coins with nice features getting lost and forgotten. However, this is crypto so anything can happen.

well, look back in history a bit,
people collected bitcoin when it was worth nothing.....


someone i know told me when it hit $13 it was like hitting the lottery !!

simple inflation coin has only been running a little over a year now, and people have been mining all along

personally i think it a crime it is not traded on every major exchange

but no one cares what i think ......

look at it as an experiment , nothing more,

likely outcome will be no big 'cash out' 

you can tell if you really are into cryptocurrency , bitcoin, or any coin if you are willing to spend time mining it , maintaining it, or even posting about it when everyone else is obsessed with VALUE

true value today in alt coins is mostly created by the developers buying thier own coins back or hyping things up via one method or another or more than one.... and duping others to buying the coins....sad but true.....

simple inflation coin has none of this baggage,  it is what is is - nothing more

the russian devs who put it together really did well, 

the code is not perfect and i will not tell you multiple rounds of hashing are more efficient or even more secure from a cryptography standpoint than a single proof of work algorithm,   

they are less efficient and less secure,  this is a proven fact from several academic papers......

still i learned a lot from the code these guys made, and if they are too busy now or whatever to maintain it, i felt the least i could do out of respect for what SIC made possible on the scene was just do a small update,   and now im probably going to run a node so we have some north american coverage......


here is a linux build if anyone wants one based on my fork of the code ----  generally i recommend everyone compile linux daemons themself however someone got in touch with me and said they were having trouble building it so here she is compiled on ubuntu -- its called bitcoind since they never changed the name but
when you run it create a .sifcoin directory in root and put your sifcoin.conf there

run from command line

sudo ./sifcoind -daemon

commands similar to rpc console  i.e.

sudo ./sifcoind -getinfo




https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz8503hoyr74V2hjc3BNdERNWWc/view?usp=sharing

The coin is fine, but we stiil need pool and block explorer for this...

Is there any place that you can use/exchange this coin?  I know there has been lots of voting, but I haven't seen any results. What good is it to accumulate a coin that can't be used anywhere, no matter how great it is?

Good news. I'm glad SIC is still alive. We are certainly need an active developer to reveal all potential of this undeservedly forgotten coin.
I'm sure, no one will mind about cinnamon_carter should takeover the development.

I cannot commit to being the developer of this coin due to other responsibilities however it has been well over a year since it's release and I did want to update it since no one else has.  I made a new repo based on the old one so you can see exactly (how few) changes were made. The larger change is I compiled a wallet with open ssl 1.0.1j the most recent version.  There are a few other minor upgrades I threw in including a fix to rpc console when not running in server mode, changed bitcoin to sicoin on qr box, checkpoint and updates to pro file and mingw and linux build files from the older outdated ones if you are building yourself.


The wallet is here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz8503hoyr74SWtZVFFFMFlkSXM/view?usp=sharing

The exact changes I made to source are here https://github.com/cinnamoncoin/https---github.com-cinnamoncoin-sifcoin/commit/02d053566bbbb0dea2d982a299943f33aa0802e1  (if this link does not work go to my github here and find the correct repo https://github.com/cinnamoncoin?tab=repositories  )  

Here is my repo of Simple Inflation Coin   https://github.com/cinnamoncoin/https---github.com-cinnamoncoin-sifcoin
                                                      

If you are having issues connecting here are some recently active nodes. I regularly get 10+ connections but I am not running a node 24 /7.

addnode=95.85.45.65:8373
addnode=198.211.117.175:8373
addnode=93.81.218.247:53612
addnode=89.254.229.70:57217
addnode=89.254.251.12:8373
addnode=178.90.217.240:28777


Again this is an 'unofficial' release, non mandatory --- but recommended since the shellshock and poodle issues of open ssl have come along since the original release. Finally to me a checkpointed coin is a lot safer then one not checkpointed ever......


Remember this english thread is not the real home of this coin that would be the russian thread located here

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/sifcoin-2013-06-23-240884


I cannot promise any future updates but I always respected and liked this coin.  

Cpu miner https://github.com/ig0tik3d/sifcoin-miner

Gpu miner https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6030812

Enjoy  


EDIT DECEMBER 20 ---- ADDITIONAL CHANGES /UPDATES WERE MADE AND THE REPOSITORY WAS RENAMED

actualy u can "takeover" SIC development.
we dont mind, coz we perhaps "lost" both of former devs...
just plz, announce it in russian thread too in plain english.
goggled translations are so ugly  
those russians of SIC supporting crowd have good command of english.

Difficulty is rising again and rather fast ---- if you cannot connect something must be wrong --- make sure you are using a UPnP enabled wallet and are not behind a firewall or that your firewall is not conflicting with the wallet.  On my to do list since the people who launched this coin have never checkpointed it or applied a few other upgrades when I have time I will work off my forked repo and release the updates myself. Should happen within the next few weeks.   I am tied up with a few other things right now and studying the impact of the most recent open ssl issue.

NOTE --- I am not attempting in any way to take over the coin or the project.  I have no desire to do so.  This coin was started by some talented developers in Russia and the Russian language thread is quite active.  I just will be updating a few simple security items when I have time that I feel are 'necessary'. 

Please post good addnodes......unable to connect to block source.....I am currently using....

addnode=206.248.191.155
addnode=89.254.233.248
addnode=178.32.218.153
addnode=217.25.223.37
addnode=95.58.175.26
addnode=178.33.22.10
addnode=90.0.121.179
addnode=95.85.45.65:8373
addnode=212.98.191.212:8373

I am still mining & hitting a lot of blocks

i apologize , i got sick a few weeks back and then purchased a mac to learn to make mac wallets for a few other projects I am working on and the abe block crawler for this got put on hold.   Still on my list of things to do , difficulty (as i remarked on the russian thread earlier this week) remains low, lower than it has been in months, excellent opportunity for cpu mining --- the only cpu coins i mine now are riecoin , sic, and a new high n factor scrypt variant called "imacredit" which may not have even been announced in these forums (picked it up on cryptocointalk)  both of those other coins are on exchanges poliinex and others,  I know everyone wants to see SIC get to an exchange but I think it would have happened by now if it was going to .

I will continue to cpu mine it a few times a week and run a node for now.  Have 13 connections here in the united states.

SIC is obviously flying under the radar since if people were mining with a gpu I think the difficulty would have stayed up or at least level.

I went from hitting zero or 1 blocks in a 48 hour time frame a few weeks ago to hitting nearly a dozen in about the same amount of time this week..


If bitcoin is really outlawed in russia I think it possible since SIC started there SIC could still be a 'sleeper'  .....  but thats just me.

note

block crawler delayed at least a week, got held up on personal non coin world related thiings this past week and am trying to catch up on some coin and other technology proecects i am working on , 

along with all the other charms life brings us

so sorry for delays,


if anyone wants to jump in front of me and do it i suggest posting to the abe github for advice explaining how the coin is similar to quark and that quark and the others are actually derived from this,  should be a basic re aranngment from there,

honestly i may be able to just pull it off,  not sure yet,  in the mean time difficulty is higher than i have seen it in months, 


i have an i5 i mine this with twice a week usually 24-48 hours a shot,  not one block until this morning,

guess i will have to see what our russian friends are doing on their thread,  sorry for no progress

Block crawler on my to do list, however, not in top slot.

Please vote for SIC https://www.swisscex.com/voting