Topic: BiblePay | 10% to Orphan-Charity | RANDOMX MINING | Sanctuaries (Masternodes) - page 317. (Read 243437 times)

Re-posting this for visibility.  Is anyone interested in helping out on the above R&D and creation of a spreadsheet?  It would help us in our next endeavor, integrating with IPFS by Christmas 2018.  Specifically, I would like to uncover which coin in production already mounts a filesystem, the end-user experience, and the speed in which the up-down works, and the reliability over time.

// Return name of current UI-theme or default theme if no theme was found
QString getThemeName()
{
    QSettings settings;
    QString theme = settings.value("theme", "").toString();

    if(!theme.isEmpty()){
        return theme;
    }
    return QString("bezaleel");  
}

// Open CSS when configured
QString loadStyleSheet()
{
    QString styleSheet;
    QSettings settings;
    QString cssName;
    QString theme = settings.value("theme", "").toString();

    if(!theme.isEmpty()){
        cssName = QString(":/css/") + theme;
    }
    else {
        cssName = QString(":/css/light");  
        settings.setValue("theme", "light");
    }
    
    QFile qFile(cssName);      
    if (qFile.open(QFile::ReadOnly)) {
        styleSheet = QLatin1String(qFile.readAll());
    }
        
    return styleSheet;
}

how soon do you see something in 'transaction' report? i have run it on minersofmen but within 45 minutes nothing yet showing up? Is it same as main pool about every hour it gives out shares?

And which theme did you get as the default? Bezaleel or light theme?

Thats true.  Yes, correct, and I remember testing bezaleel on a new windows box successfully (as the default) and on one of my new linux sancs successfully.

So it appears this was a bad test.

edit:  I deleted the registry keys and re-launched, it appears to select the new theme as default.

Thats true.  Yes, correct, and I remember testing bezaleel on a new windows box successfully (as the default) and on one of my new linux sancs successfully.

So it appears this was a bad test.

If it was already installed/run then the registry settings would hold the old theme preference.

a re-install wouldn't update that setting

I already changed the default theme to Bezaleel, and heard replies back from new users that the default does load as bezaleel.

What kind of OS did you test this on?

I dont think we need a vote to change the default theme; its pretty much universally accepted that Bezaleel is the best (and was created with Anton to be better than the first generation default release).

So on the document storage coins, I think we need to think of other facets characterizing the service as a whole first:  Is it in Production (yes/no),  Est. Time to go live, Centralized/Decentralized infrastucture, Usability/Ease of Use, Speed (how fast can you up/download a file), Reliability (what are the chances of it breaking at random times), Durability (How many drives is it stored on), allows mounting a filesystem yes/no, services file storage or service individual files,  General notes about the experience of using it for a period, Overall Review level, and finally cost per Gig of storage.  

If we could have a volunteer make a spreadsheet of these elements per doc-storage coin, this would greatly enhance our development and roadmap abilities.  (I said once before I dont think price is completely relevant yet when comparing a decentralized storage price to centralized - except for mass document storage, but yes, lets put it on the sheet anyhow), but realize in my opinion, the price in a new endeavor is the least important - as we are in alpha - another words, we are designing a feature in R&D with a high prototype cost - the price could come down later.  Im really more aligned with making the ease of use file transfer, encrypted secure file transfer, business objects features, but I dont want to rule out document storage either as it is a viable option as a biblepay miner (another words, if we have a second miner - other than PODC, we may have a good backup candidate if boinc ever goes down, or for some reason boinc becomes untrusted by the supermajority, it would be nice to flip a spork and start document mining).  

I think you have a good point on this elimination of private send and mixing, possibly.  I want us to be known as having 100% integrity, and know that using BiblePay they are still 100% anonymous if they wish to use TOR themselves - share no data and use nicknames.  Another words, I dont want to introduce things that reveals home identities to make people feel unsafe, but I would also want a coin with the highest level of integrity, so that we are not associated in any way with the dark web.  I also feel that from Togos experience of mixing - we may be enabling a feature that slows down the wallet if people start using it widely (as Dave_bbp pointed out ours isnt working well).  We could potentially remove it from the UI completely and make it a 'use at your own risk' RPC feature, something for a power user like Togo, but take the stance that we dont support the feature, and we dont add features to the wallet that make you lose privacy (unless you use them, like for instance adding your long/lat and email to a contact record yourself).  The privacy issue is tough because as a Christian you have to be a stand up non-shady individual, and thats why I ended up offering the long-lat, as if things get bad (on a civil unrest level),  we at least want to organize Christian camps of people together, and as a church pastor, you must publically expose where your church is so people can worship in person (IE church tithing).  However, a single Mom may not want to expose her long-lat, with good reason.  (Its also related to timing, were obviously not in the great tribulation yet .

Maybe thesnat21 or Rob could do me a favor put in a pull request to change the default wallet theme?

Oh, okay. I didn't know that. I'm in favor of changing the default to Bezaleel (and I already voted).

I just tested a new install.

The default is the pink striped one



Bezaleel clearly has the most votes based on the survey I set up 8 hours ago.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-J8ZHJLYZL/instant/

Are you two under the impression that I just complain and don't take action? I have taken action -- I submitted pull requests in the past: (https://github.com/biblepay/biblepay/graphs/contributors). I contributed in other ways, but I'm discouraged at this point.


I already posted issues on forum.biblepay.org and github, but they've been mostly ignored. I forwarded the communication from the UX Designer from DASH as I had hoped it spark some new discussion about the user experience.


https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=salty

Salty. Are you saying I'm getting upset over little things? User Interface and the User Experience is very important don't you think? All the screens added to the QT wallet is great, but it does need another set of eyes to ensure the features make sense and are usable. Rather than re-hash here, I'll write up the issues on GitHub. Either Rob, thesnat21, or some other kind UX designer may be able to contribute.  

Oh, and btw, isn't Bazaleel default already when you install a clean wallet? (I'm not sure.)

Sun, if you want to help improve the UX of the wallet, could you perhaps create a list of things you think could be made better? ...

Oh, and btw, isn't Bazaleel default already when you install a clean wallet? (I'm not sure.)

So many flavors to choose from, and your choosing to be salty Sun,
instead of complaining why not take action? Submit a pull request, Submit a proposal to vote on it

Are you offering to do said UI work Sun?
Otherwise you need to find a champion to perform the work,
Rob has shown already that he is busy with more important things
Can you recruit someone to perform this work?

I don't see a way around the security issue at present,  i'd be open to suggestions

Currently the issue is without smart contracts to lock up the "wallet funds",  the masternode requires a single transaction to lock up an exact amount of BBP.

I agree on the security aspect. I would never go all-in with my BBP there. Does anyone know a service that provides a shared masternode service that doesn't have this security aspect?