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You should create a dedicated forum to keep your project communication organized.
It would increase the quality of this community-in-creation.

Dev, are you open to the creation of a think tank?
Are you open to discussion?

Due to adverse reaction about any change proposal in the wealth transfert to XCP & it's early adopter reward:
I'd like to propose the creation of a new project, on top of yours.

That would be a totally unique kind of asset.
As it is very special: it would require your help, cooperation and openness to discussion.

I call it MSH.
Mixing Share Holding.

This meta-asset would give a divident of the XCP mixing service usage.

The project and it's long term implications are quite vast and complex.

I'm happy to develop more if there is questions and interest.
Let's create a think tank.


Here is some more details about my MSH project:

It's trustless.
You send your XCP to a special address with a special command.
x% of XCP is taken, and shared amongst mixingshareholder.

- Got 1000 XCP, I want them to be splitted in two pseudoentity. I pay 2x%.
- Wanna it splitted in 3? in 4? You pay 3x% fee or 4x% fee.
- All the money you want in one clean address = 1x%.
- Cut in two and two again later? 2x% of 1000XCP, then 2x% of 2~500 XCP.


Example with x = 1:

Cut in two:
2x% of 1000 XCP = 20 XCP.
In 2-2 (cut in 2 and then again in 2, 50% proportion):
20+10 = 30 XCP.
Cut directly in 3?
1000 => 3x% = 30XCP fee.

You can specify with the new-to-be counterpartyd command the origin, the amount and the number of pubkey/which one you want it splitted in.

The 0.10$ BTC transfert fee doesn't disturb me at all.
The value & fee-concept I mean.
The fact it's so tightly linked with the bitcoin unity annoy me more.
But that will be a talk for another time.
It's long term implications.

I'm convince since months already that proof of burn is THE way to go for trustless wealth transfert and distribution.

If we're lucky: there might be a possibility to burn XCP without relying on Eligius pool?

That POB-way:
"MSH-project XCP burning" would be well cleanly separated from your "XCP-project BTC burning".

Nobody can anymore say I'm trying to change the early adopter reward of XCP.
That is a completely new project proposal.
With clearly defined minimal effort requirement from the start.
You HAVE to use the software.
No overeasy way, real reward.

I wish it to be maid with a more drastically decreasing reward over time.
Details can be publicly discussed.

This took me quite some time.
Everyone, please express yourself about it.
Have a nice day.

(Just that you know: I will have less available time during the next 36h)


PS: obviously (I hope) this idea is not a project in competition with XCP-project.
On contrary, it gives it more weight and extent the possibilities of the XCP-project. Increasing it's quality and appeal.
I work for communities.
That's called enlightened self-interest.
Human nature being selfish, we need trustlessness technologies.
& quality thinker's communication.

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2FA needs a central server, so I don't know how it can be implemented in a decentralized system.
humm... does it necessary does?
I thought it was just the result of a function on a private key in relation to a referential clock.
Sure the time ref is centralized. But if that only that it can be solved.
Now maybe the verification need a central server. Haven't thought about that.
Unperfect 2FA technology if that's the case.
'thought it worked with multisignature reconnaissance or something similar.
My understanding is vague, I admit.
But with a net of trust amongst master node, 'well doesn't seem completely impossible.
I cannot solve the tech aspect, that much is certain.

Thing is: current security is not enough.
Doesn't seem to be.
Security is not my strong suit.
But if there is a real risk that someone connect to my computer and stole my unencrypted wallet.dat (let's say), then the risk of him having a keylogger, a live watch on my screen, or something taking screenshort regularly:the risk is pretty much the same.
If the guy have the skill for the first, what prevent the second?
He just have to wait until he see either a privkey or your wallet password.

That's why I'm uncomfortable about not being able to move my XCP.
Sole place my coin are safe to me is in privkey outside wallet who never touched an internet connection.
I entered my wallet password in a terminal with a space upfront.
But it happened many time while 'computer is online.
Has to be to use the soft.

I'm not at peace with that.
I have no clue if my computer is secure enough.
Fresh GNU/Linux is better than old XP for sure, but I don't know much more about security.
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When I enter "counterpartyd --testnet market" on the testnet it gives me the following output:

Code:
Open Orders
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console3.py", line 2
7, in
  File "C:\counterpartyd_build\dist\counterpartyd\counterpartyd.py", line 534, i
n
  File "C:\counterpartyd_build\dist\counterpartyd\counterpartyd.py", line 39, in
 market
  File "C:\Python\64-bit\3.3\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 19, in encode
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2026' in position
483: character maps to

C:\Users\User>

It works on the mainnet though. Why isn't it working on the testnet?
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2FA needs a central server, so I don't know how it can be implemented in a decentralized system.
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Is the bitcoin wallet the only thing that needs to be backed up?  Does counterparty have its own wallet or other data that requires a backup?
Yes.
BTC privkey or wallet.dat containing it is what give you access to your XCP.

Also, if I encrypt my Bitcoin-QT wallet. Will 'counterpartyd' still be able to work with it.
Yes of course. For example you are able to use this at any time to check your ballance, or someone else
Code:
counterpartyd wallet
counterpartyd address pubkey
But if you wish to burn, and certainly send, you need to unlock your BTC wallet before.
Like that to unlock for 120sec:
Code:
 (space)bitcoind walletpassphrase yourpassphrase 120
  bitcoind walletlock
Don't forget the space, otherwise history of your pwd in clear is kept.

It would be awesome if the dev are able one day to add 2FA-GA for XCP transaction.
That would make this project top 1 on security level.

Noticed: 80 BTC burned is less than 24h. Reached 230 in 5 days.
We probably gonna break the 1000 BTC / 1'000'000$.
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Very interesting project. You mentioned the possibility of using the Counterparty Protocol with other cryptocurrency blockchains. If this happens, will XCP created by burning BTC be directly useable on other blockchains besides the Bitcoin blockchain, or will it always be married to Bitcoin?

Also, I love the idea of a 100% PoB system with a blockchain supported entirely by PoB. The PoB white paper that I read a while ago proposed such a system, if I remember correctly. Any thought of developing XCP into such a complete self-supporting system? It seems to me that with recent advances in PoS and now PoB, the only thing PoW has going for it is that it happens to be the method that Bitcoin (unfortunately) uses.
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I think the protocol in https://github.com/PhantomPhreak/Counterparty needs to be updated (still saying burning to miner fee there). Especially, it's helpful to explicitly finalized what's the requirement of burning. Then third-party block explorer could be done to help people to show their XCP balance.

For example, It is said "Burn messages have precisely the string ‘ProofOfBurn’ stored in the OP_RETURN output." there, but as you have already clarified that OP_RETURN is not necessary in burning, and I believe all coins burnt in blockchain.info wallet has no OP_RETURN.
NWO
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Sending (or any form of use) will come with the OP_RETURN feature that is almost guaranteed to come in Bitcoin 0.9. Even if OP_RETURN is not implemented, the burn record remains forever, allowing an alternative implementation to be designed. At least that's what I gather.

Do you know when that will be release? Could you kindly check 1HGuoV6CUaqCm8CkWRGffxsp6ABYJK9YDR again. I'll have to get this client  Tongue

+-------+---------------+
| Asset |     Amount    |
+-------+---------------+
|  BTC  |      Huh      |
|  XCP  | 1144.93630909 |
+-------+---------------+

No idea, ask in the main bitcoin forums (do people go there anymore?)

Niice, thank you! Haha i'll ask around Wink
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Sending (or any form of use) will come with the OP_RETURN feature that is almost guaranteed to come in Bitcoin 0.9. Even if OP_RETURN is not implemented, the burn record remains forever, allowing an alternative implementation to be designed. At least that's what I gather.

Do you know when that will be release? Could you kindly check 1HGuoV6CUaqCm8CkWRGffxsp6ABYJK9YDR again. I'll have to get this client  Tongue

+-------+---------------+
| Asset |     Amount    |
+-------+---------------+
|  BTC  |      Huh      |
|  XCP  | 1144.93630909 |
+-------+---------------+

No idea, ask in the main bitcoin forums (do people go there anymore?)
NWO
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Quote
$ ./counterpartyd.py -v --rpc-password=$BTCPASS server
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./counterpartyd.py", line 21, in
    from lib import (config, api, util, exceptions, bitcoin, blocks)
  File "/home/counterpartycoin/counterpartyd/lib/api.py", line 7, in
    from werkzeug.wrappers import Request, Response
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/werkzeug/__init__.py", line 154, in
    __import__('werkzeug.exceptions')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/werkzeug/exceptions.py", line 111
    return u'

%s

' % escape(self.description)
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

works fine if I checkout commit a75806b1e54bfc9e128b3fd6245175c9a8d495ac.  The next commit and later fail per above.  Looks like it was this one that breaks:

Quote
commit bd2802eeac860926c3ca4b17af50f5a653a65d84
Author: PhantomPhreak <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Jan 6 17:14:04 2014 -0500

    read‐only JSON‐RPC API

Note that I initially got an error about missing module werkzeug, so I installed it via pip-3.2 install werkzeug.   Then I started getting this error.

NWO
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Sending (or any form of use) will come with the OP_RETURN feature that is almost guaranteed to come in Bitcoin 0.9. Even if OP_RETURN is not implemented, the burn record remains forever, allowing an alternative implementation to be designed. At least that's what I gather.

Do you know when that will be release? Could you kindly check 1HGuoV6CUaqCm8CkWRGffxsp6ABYJK9YDR again. I'll have to get this client  Tongue
sr. member
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Sending (or any form of use) will come with the OP_RETURN feature that is almost guaranteed to come in Bitcoin 0.9. Even if OP_RETURN is not implemented, the burn record remains forever, allowing an alternative implementation to be designed. At least that's what I gather.
NWO
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Okay, I burned some spare change. Where do I see my XCP? Could someone please help  Huh

https://blockchain.info/tx/9a0a7b95604e84fd670f5332e2a0dbe11c0b95aa7958172756f2885f00408522

Looks like you've got some:

C:\Program Files\counterpartyd>counterpartyd address 1HGuoV6CUaqCm8CkWRGffxsp6ABYJK9YDR

Balances
+-------+--------------+
| Asset |    Amount    |
+-------+--------------+
|  BTC  |     Huh      |
|  XCP  | 143.09312727 |
+-------+--------------+


So I need to download the actual client to see my XCP?

For now I guess. I presume some sort of block explorer is coming (if I knew more python, I'd try coding one myself).

PS For the record, we're at a market cap of over $200K right now. NXT launched with 1/10th of that. Not a direct comparison, because Nxt is not PoB.

Cheers! I'm guessing there currently isn't a way to send these to people? I burned through blockchain.info. This is a much greater distribution technique than Nxt.
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Okay, I burned some spare change. Where do I see my XCP? Could someone please help  Huh

https://blockchain.info/tx/9a0a7b95604e84fd670f5332e2a0dbe11c0b95aa7958172756f2885f00408522

Looks like you've got some:

C:\Program Files\counterpartyd>counterpartyd address 1HGuoV6CUaqCm8CkWRGffxsp6ABYJK9YDR

Balances
+-------+--------------+
| Asset |    Amount    |
+-------+--------------+
|  BTC  |     Huh      |
|  XCP  | 143.09312727 |
+-------+--------------+


So I need to download the actual client to see my XCP?

For now I guess. I presume some sort of block explorer is coming (if I knew more python, I'd try coding one myself).

PS For the record, we're at a market cap of over $200K right now. NXT launched with 1/10th of that. Not a direct comparison, because Nxt is not PoB.
NWO
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Okay, I burned some spare change. Where do I see my XCP? Could someone please help  Huh

https://blockchain.info/tx/9a0a7b95604e84fd670f5332e2a0dbe11c0b95aa7958172756f2885f00408522

Looks like you've got some:

C:\Program Files\counterpartyd>counterpartyd address 1HGuoV6CUaqCm8CkWRGffxsp6ABYJK9YDR

Balances
+-------+--------------+
| Asset |    Amount    |
+-------+--------------+
|  BTC  |     Huh      |
|  XCP  | 143.09312727 |
+-------+--------------+


So I need to download the actual client to see my XCP?
sr. member
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Okay, I burned some spare change. Where do I see my XCP? Could someone please help  ???

https://blockchain.info/tx/9a0a7b95604e84fd670f5332e2a0dbe11c0b95aa7958172756f2885f00408522

Looks like you've got some:

C:\Program Files\counterpartyd>counterpartyd address 1HGuoV6CUaqCm8CkWRGffxsp6ABYJK9YDR

Balances
+-------+--------------+
| Asset |    Amount    |
+-------+--------------+
|  BTC  |     ???      |
|  XCP  | 143.09312727 |
+-------+--------------+
NWO
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Okay, I burned some spare change. Where do I see my XCP? Could someone please help  Huh

https://blockchain.info/tx/9a0a7b95604e84fd670f5332e2a0dbe11c0b95aa7958172756f2885f00408522
legendary
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Another bug report

Quote
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./counterpartyd.py", line 465, in
    deadline = round(datetime.timestamp(dateutil.parser.parse(args.deadline)))
AttributeError: type object 'datetime.datetime' has no attribute 'timestamp'
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I've burnt my bitcoin using blockchain.info. Is it possible to see how many XCP I will get without running the counterparty software on my local PC?

Is there a rough figure per bitcoin? Is there some type of early bird bonus? I'm cool if there isn't, just trying to decide if I should burn more today, or can I wait until later without any penalty?

cheers

If you post or PM the address you burnt from, one of us which has counterpartyd running can check for you. I'd be happy to check if you'd like.

PM sent, thanks Smiley

Thanks led_lcd! I can confirm that using a blockchain.info wallet to burn the bitcoin works perfectly!

Follow the instructions on this page. http://counterpartyd-build.readthedocs.org/en/latest/HowToBurn.html#without-using-counterpartyd
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