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legendary
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October 02, 2014, 06:26:29 AM
 
Today I've got some penises while chatting at poloniex.

Still don't know what penis is for but I'm happy anyway.
legendary
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amarha
October 02, 2014, 04:48:09 AM
Does this coin even have a POD?
Doesn't seem legit
No POD = Red Flag


Disregarding the obvious work that's been done on the project so far which others have pointed out, is being a trustee/escrow of the ~5700 BTC superNET project enough "POD" for you?

Personally, I would be much more skeptical of any currency that feels the need to participate in a system such as "POD" rather than earning value and letting the development speak for itself. That doesn't mean all projects that have done "POD" are scams of course, but we all know how many shady projects also happen to proudly flaunt their "POD" status.
full member
Activity: 159
Merit: 100
October 02, 2014, 04:18:11 AM
if anyone is looking to mine Bitmark, i suggest that they read the whole project from the start, but if its too long to read there are some good links in the OP. i was lucky enough to get into the Bitmark thread early on in development so was able to keep up with the stages that occurred as it progressed, giving an understanding of the system.

we are ready to commit more hashing speed to the coin, but also need others to commit the hashing speed to support a stable growth, rather than the jump in for half hour or so at a time that is now occurring on the difficulty shift.

in my opinion BTM would have greatly benefited from not being listed in coinwarz, the instant top of the list that the network received has been the biggest issue recently with mining, so now we get to a similar fate as other coins with farms jumping on to reap before exiting quickly.

having the slow shift of 720 blocks, the multipool hash rape and dump cant happen so to speak, as coins take a week or so to be released. we just have to sit it out until the liquidity is reached and other miners realise that it is beneficial to stick with the network, as with Bitcoin mining.



hero member
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October 02, 2014, 02:27:09 AM
Than you just got marked dbkeys
full member
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Merit: 104
October 02, 2014, 01:39:04 AM
Does this coin even have a POD?
Doesn't seem legit
No POD = Red Flag

explain POD  Huh

POD = Proof of Developer
ICO = Initial Coin Offering

thnx! If I could Mark you here I would  Smiley

Welcome !
I'm dbkeys on the Poloniex 'troll box'  Wink
hero member
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Merit: 500
October 02, 2014, 01:29:30 AM
Does this coin even have a POD?
Doesn't seem legit
No POD = Red Flag


Thanks for a good laugh. As Project Bitmark is open source, anyone can recognize the innovation in the works here. Smiley

As far as my thoughts on POD goes, it adds nothing but false security. It's not working, and will never work - Cryptocurrency is supposed to be decentralized.
hero member
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Merit: 500
October 01, 2014, 05:25:51 PM
Does this coin even have a POD?
Doesn't seem legit
No POD = Red Flag

explain POD  Huh

POD = Proof of Developer
ICO = Initial Coin Offering

thnx! If I could Mark you here I would  Smiley
full member
Activity: 486
Merit: 104
October 01, 2014, 12:50:57 PM
Does this coin even have a POD?
Doesn't seem legit
No POD = Red Flag

explain POD  Huh

POD = Proof of Developer
ICO = Initial Coin Offering
legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1000
October 01, 2014, 12:04:55 PM

I am also not the only developer or community member, if I pass away the project continues with or without my presence.

This is an open source decentralized project where anybody can do what they want to, and they do. There is no single point of failure.

Good point,
Once BTM has enough momentum, Mark could probably leave the project completely and it would be fine, much like Satoshi did.

At this point, he's very important to it's future still.
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
Bitmark Developer
October 01, 2014, 12:03:51 PM

I am also not the only developer or community member, if I pass away the project continues with or without my presence.

This is an open source decentralized project where anybody can do what they want to, and they do. There is no single point of failure.
legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1000
October 01, 2014, 11:56:45 AM
Does this coin even have a POD?
Doesn't seem legit
No POD = Red Flag


LOL.

Mark has proven himself as by far the most reputable dev on this forum.
he doesnt need POD, in fact he needs to protect itself, BTM will one day be very big.

Does Satoshi have POD? Didn't think so.

Mark has no BTM to speak of, and gives anything he receives to the foundation and new members. He know he will always have enough.

This isn't an "ICO" bullshit where you need "POD" - even though I've seen it result in many, many scam coins anyway (shadecoin, anyone?)

His "POD" is his extensive work on the project, why don't you check it out?

Come to the trollbox on Polo and I'll mark you 500 Marks.

hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
October 01, 2014, 11:52:23 AM
Does this coin even have a POD?
Doesn't seem legit
No POD = Red Flag

explain POD  Huh
member
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Merit: 10
October 01, 2014, 11:38:34 AM
Does this coin even have a POD?
Doesn't seem legit
No POD = Red Flag
full member
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Merit: 106
Old Account was Sev0 (it was hacked)
October 01, 2014, 11:19:38 AM
not sure what's wrong - my wallet (0.9.2.2-beta) is sync'ing but looks like it's hanging - saying 2 hrs behind - and stuck on block 43646.. 8 active conn..
hmmm what could be wrong?
Dito.

I think this is because of the extremly low network Speed combined with the very high Diff.
The Result of this two factors is that Blocks came so slow that the wallet "thinks" there must be more blocks and I must be out of sync.
But it isn't so.
Take a look on the Blockexplorer http://bitmark.co:3000/
In about 8 days the next 720 Blocks will pass maybe in about 2 hours.  Cheesy
And then slow again   Undecided
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
Bitmark Developer
October 01, 2014, 11:18:42 AM
not sure what's wrong - my wallet (0.9.2.2-beta) is sync'ing but looks like it's hanging - saying 2 hrs behind - and stuck on block 43646.. 8 active conn..
hmmm what could be wrong?

That is correct, we have a low hashrate and a high difficulty, please check http://bitmark.co:3000/ for the latest blocks.

We are hopeful that miners will begin to mine more consistently, for everyone's benefit, including their own.
sr. member
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Merit: 250
"to endure to achieve"
October 01, 2014, 11:00:06 AM
not sure what's wrong - my wallet (0.9.2.2-beta) is sync'ing but looks like it's hanging - saying 2 hrs behind - and stuck on block 43646.. 8 active conn..
hmmm what could be wrong?
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
Bitmark Developer
October 01, 2014, 10:42:58 AM
The Bitmark aware miners problem is a social problem entirely under the control of Bitmark aware miners.

We encourage you to form a community and educate each other, agree that it is better to suffer a marginally too high difficulty once for an extra few hours and prevent a large difficulty drop than to withdraw all support and keep yourselves in the "feast and famine" cycle.

It is the BTM miners who determine the current and subsequent difficulty, by adding and withdrawing hashing power, it can only be resolved with education and communication. The users, developers, traders, investors, and general community cannot help you, all we can do is repeat the same information month after month. Mine consistently or suffer inconsistency.
sr. member
Activity: 350
Merit: 250
October 01, 2014, 08:48:40 AM
Androidicus. I admire your dedication to the coin through thick and thin but this "feast and famine" cycle is wearing a bit thin.  It's looking like the current round may last up to 10 days, followed by 6 hours of insanity, rinse and repeat.  Like you, I'm hoping that it will eventually equalise but we shall see.

The general theory around here is mine at all diffs and you will be rewarded.  Umm, sorry but that is not true.  If I was mining BTM at the current diff I would be getting around 20 BTM per day.  What I am doing is mining another coin, selling it and buying BTM. That is getting me up to 40 BTM per day plus helping support the price.  Judging by the nethash, I'm not the only one that has figured that out.


In a way, I'm doing myself and other bag holders a favour. By NOT mining the coin I'm making it scarcer and therefore more valuable.  What happened to the IPM scheme that was supposed to avoid this situation?

Yup good analysis.

It's swings and roundabouts really.  Mining BTM has the advantage of securing the net, faster confirms.  If you want to actively play the market you can arguably make an increased return during certain periods (what warren buffett calls cigar butt investing), but, imho, it's relatively small sums compared with the long-term project ambitions, as the free float is still small (under 5%) and about only 1% of people that could know about BTM do.  Similarly scarcity will act as a deflationary influence. 

But there's another aspect from the mine/trade paradigm and that's growing adoption from the web.  The poloniex rollout has been quite eye opening, there has been a hive of activity, and if this leads to more engagement and businesses to gain a significant competitive advantage, then this ought to become another driving force.  As a developer my hope is that adoption will lead, and the price follow.
full member
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Merit: 104
October 01, 2014, 08:25:26 AM
i agree with johndec2. the mining aspect of btm has become unbalanced. which is fine because you can pick and choose when to mine. the worst part is the confirmations taking many hours. that is not good for a crypto hoping to be adopted by the masses. right now it has to be the least transferable crypto.

I agree with this. I think the difficulty being slow to respond to the network hash rate as a policy to control supply / mining is fine, but it has to be balanced with the needs of users of the currency to get confirmations.

Perhaps a block reward formula that took into account the number of transactions in the block would serve all interests ? ie, reduce the block reward for blocks that have less than a certain threshold number of transactions, but do adjust the difficulty more often to respond to the network hash rate and thus produce the blocks at the desired target rate.
legendary
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Merit: 1002
amarha
October 01, 2014, 08:16:54 AM

Launch Saturday October 4th, maybe even from the night Friday:
 


Nice, looking forward to testing out your platform. Smiley
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