Topic: BTCD is no more - page 225. (Read 1328507 times)

What happened with Monero? It just tanked.

Edit: found it. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/delete-789978

BBR affected too?

The initial code reviews are coming in: https://nxtforum.org/index.php?topic=4940.msg104968#msg104968

No critical bugs found, but still need more people to analyze the code.

Made some progress with the probabilistic routing. had to pass through two new data items through all the API calls, up and down the whole scale. So a lot of changes in the files, but really just a few things.

then the confusion over the peer<->peer connections vs ip<->ip connection, sent me down the wrong path a bit, but it is becoming clearer how to differentiate the logical app level "connection" vs the low level ip<->ip connection

I also decided to pass through the ip/port info from the p2p network into my code. I need to make sure that even using this info that nothing critical is leaked as an attacker could make this change to extract info. Better if I am seeing the data and making sure it is scrubbed!

I need to think through things a bit more to make sure the routing will converge. I think I might have a pretty good fallback, but am worried about leaking the IP info to a compromised privacy server. A solution to the privacy server not even knowing the IP will be a big breakthrough. My fallback is to only have the loopback privacy server know your IP and then make sure your privacy cant be deduced.

Since I am waiting on some changes from BTCDdev, I will have time to push forward on this part. I am not worried about the routing between all the public privacyServers, so even with the probabilistic routing still being improved I can switch to debugging Teleport next week.

The TOKEN sales looks like it will end in 2 days, so that whole time eater will also become much less and I can get back to 75%+ on coding soon. Thank you for you patience.

James

P.S. also today I got caught up in the whole BCX XMR thing which was quite distracting as I was in the loop of all the PMs

via cryptocard, yes

coinomat is playing a role in teleport, right?

i assume you are using the latest version
you could try the experimental version if you are brave

already did that, days ago :-)
still not working, i do have 8 connections to the network...

The dev repo has BC PoS v2 implemented

the price is cheap. buy some.
I will sell at 0.2btc.

I bought few more at 0.0123 Love the cheap coins.

There is no reason to sell atm

783K? Never seen that high Network Weight and it is increasing.

{
"Enabled" : true,
"Staking" : true,
"Errors" : "",
"Current Block Size" : 1000,
"Current Block Tx" : 0,
"Pooled Tx" : 0,
"Difficulty" : 0.00804450,
"Search Interval" : 1,
"Weight" : 1182,
"Net Stake Weight" : 783902,
"Expected Time" : 39791
}

I´m sorry, I know this doesn´t belong here, but I was just happy to see the critical discussion of America and how it´s being viewed in the world, and I just wanted to give an outside view, since I´m german, and I can tell you me and all my friends haaaate the American government  , maybe even more than the german one (it´s mostly the same people making the decisions, anyway), although this has clearly nothing to do with any one person coming from or living in America!

I´m not the average german guy though, which is why I´m in a crypto forum, obviously.

Ever heard of TTIP? God, I hate these american corporate motherfuckers 
Wait, who signs the contract?? God, I hate these german corporate motherfuckers!!!
Other countries treat their citizens even worse???  Oh no! How I hate these corporate motherfuckers!!!

Back to topic: What a luck we have to have crypto, constantly trying to take away the power from these evil bastards.

And now I´m on the NSA List as well. I surely was before, though...

Thanks you, James, for trying to find a way to get us small people out of this mess!

Azeh,

https://www.allcoin.com/trade/BTCD_BTC

Thanks for reminding me about the link.  I thought you had meant the direct info in the post. 

I'll remove this link as it contains out-dated info. 

Nxt has a similar PoS algorithm to the updated Blackcoin one (http://www.nxtcommunity.org/nxt-whitepaper), and BTCD has talked about implementing that version of PoS. I don't think they are working on that at the moment, but longterm, I believe BTCD are planning on moving away from the coin age version.

I'm not sure that the proof of activity/transaction idea has been shown to work very well, plus I'm not sure it's a big problem. In this regard, PoS coins are similar to bitcoin, why spend when you believe it'll go up. Even if there's an incentive to hoard, you can't take your coins to the grave, people will want to spend them.

I understand that PoS has advantages over PoW.  But it also has some disadvantages.  I just finished reading through both the BC PoS V2 and Reddcoin PoSV white papers. They both outline the various problems/issues with PoS and they both have implemented things to try and deal with some of those issues. I also ran across this paper http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~idddo/CoA.pdf which discusses a Chain of Activity protocol to resolve some PoS flaws and it was spun off from PoA that I found here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/2014-06-20-proof-of-activity-extending-bitcoins-proof-of-work-via-pos-659275.

As I said in my post, I'm asking if BTCD has done anything along those lines.  I would have to assume it hasn't given the responses.

PoS coins have the same problem with blockchain bloat as PoW coins. Because they are newer, their blockchains are much smaller than BTC's so it's not a current issue. Undoubtedly, blockchain pruning will arrive if it becomes too severe.

When people talk about blockchain bloat, they are often talking about cryptonote coins, which bloat the blockchain to a much higher degree than standard blockchains. Teleport anonymity won't have the blockchain bloat problems of cryptonote coins.

Ok. Would you care to explain why that is then?  I guess the closest to Bitcoin in terms of being around the longest would be Peercoin but I haven't got that one and downloaded to blockchain in order to compare it.

These aren't problems. The majority of coin holders controlling the network is the ideal situation, since these are the ones who are most incentivised to maintain the coin's value and worth. It means a 51% attack is extremely difficult since an attacker has to buy a majority of coins, and as he starts buying the price goes out, making it many times more expensive than a PoW attack.

There is no conflict between staking and spending. Not all coins need to be staked for the network to be secure, and there will never need to be a situation where a huge percentage of coins are actively being traded at a single instance in time. When the coins aren't actively moving they can be staked.

Basically PoS has many advantages over PoW, so those who prefer PoW coins will often have to make up reasons why their system is better.

well... there ya go... people who have a different opinion must be "with the terrorists" .... and you didn't at all address the matters at hand, the hollowing out of the 4th amendment at home, and the imposition of american will abroad.