Topic: ByteCoin Poll (PLZ Sticky) - page 3. (Read 28790 times)

please when you do this patch dont change anything other than making it merged mined. i hope this doesnt sound like a threat but my pledge of 1000 bte was for a patch that only adds merged mining, any other changes would exclude you from my contribution.  

*edit* if you are just talking about manually setting it for one period and then having it return back to the normal difficulty calculation algorithm than thats fine.

BTE/Bytecoin looking safe i'm looking for .OOO2 here!;-)weeeeeeee

no one, i did the coding myself since i began to learn how to do it. My main problem was im not used to C++ cause im a vb.net programmer. I was also the main coder behind cloudcoin before i left (too high premine and no communication)

So who paid doublec the 50 BTC to do the coding?

50BTC to help me code it.

It's ok for me.

Voted for good.

Didn't doublec want 50 BTC to get on board when you tried this same thing in July?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2802349

6+ blocks a day is what anyone would call on its deathbed

Not so. Since 6-01-13 BTE has averaged 6+ blocks a day; that's over 500 blocks. I don't call that dead. Slow, but definitely not dead.

Miners don't want what you are proposing. Look at how the poll results on this thread have changed since they became aware of what you and others plan to do. Leave it alone.

What i fail to see is how? the blockchain has been on its deathbed and both dreamwatcher, digigami and me pointed out. Only since i began to put these plans into action have people took any interest in the coin. You do have to realise that with the advent of ASIC's, its a peice of cake to perform an attack  on the coin to keep it down in the dumps. And tbqh i dont know if i'd even bother making an attempt again at fixing it if someone is to attack it in the future if i dont make the merged mining patches. One thing which has been misunderstood i also am dead against changing the difficulty algo. What i was saying was at the hard fork set the difficulty to be a static amount and continue on with the previous diff algo.

I believe it's essential to the future of Bytecoin that no steps are taken by anyone to modify the blockchain in any way. Forking, merge-mining or re-targeting are not acceptable options.

meta.p02 correctly cautioned that doing so and opening up the new fork on Bitparking would constitute an attack on current miners.

Please leave the BTE blockchain alone.

Everybody feel free to use the CCE Bytecoin server as an addnode to help with syncing.

addnode=84.200.4.218

nice work! well then thats 2 Dedicated OP's. ill run a normal pool and a p2pool soon, perhaps tonight

bte.cryptocoinexplorer.com should be accurate as it is actively maintained as one of the CCE explorers.

If I get to the point where CCE3 is ready for deployment by the time Bytecoin is ready for re-release, I will make it one of the first coins converted over to CCE3. This could be part of the re-release announcement and  publicity.

I also ran one of the last Bytecoin pools for a short while, but shut it down when zero miners used it for some time. I would be willing to put a Bytecoin pool back up at re-release.

Indeed that was my p2pool which was the last known Bytecoin pool out there. I did take it offline to replace one I was providing for Ahmed for this pool projects. I felt it would not be too terribly missed as I was down to 1 other user other then myself mining on it. I am now running my equipment running solo on BTE. I have been a majority of the network hash rate for quite some time now.

I supported the idea of a merged mining patch so that this chain would see long standing support from miners all over. I fear that if in the last while had I stopped mining it altogether it just may die.. After reading so many comments in this thread I am mostly undecided about it now. It seems this thread has sparked some more hash power across the network, 15+ blocks in the last 24 hours is something I have not seen in a long time.. Where where all you guys before this thread? I could have used your help along the way too ya know..

My biggest fear, should we decide to ditch the fork/merged mine idea (and to be sure everyone is on the same page here, including merged mining into Bytecoin REQUIRES that the chain be forked) is that if we continue to struggle along until finally we reach re targeting and have a new difficulty that better represents actual network difficulty, what's to stop someone or a few individuals with vast amounts of hash power from running us through that next low diff period and then abandoning us once again 2 re targets from now? Please make sure you consider this very possible situation.

We are currently fighting to keep BTE alive because someone choose to attack it, and that could happen again. While I agree forking the chain either in favour of MM or a different difficulty targeting algorithm does in some ways take away from the initial idea and also what drew me into BTE, it does also help protect the chain and any of our investments into the time in securing this network so far. 

I'd like to open more discussion on these topics, either here if Ahmed does not mind or we can start another thread on it. Most of the points here so far are very clear they don't want changes, but I haven't seen much for explanation of why they so desperately wish to leave it as is. I ask you now to weigh the risks, consider, and once again please speak your mind.

it was running about a week ago. and i agree. So far the server's have been as stable as a rock when left alone

When was the last time that it was running?

Do you not think that by starting youn the pool first that the variables change to include faster block confirmations natrually, without hard fork?

No mandatory fee is a noble idea, sure...but I'm sure if you had a very well built and protected pool people would want to contribute to see it thrive.

When the p2pool was running which had +80% of the hashpower we had block announces around 5-6 times a day max. Also about the pools i just have, the 0 fee promotion is going to apply to bytecoin but for life