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mmmmmm
October 08, 2014, 03:10:56 PM
#23
BURST is pretty easy to review if you know java and trust NXT.

Yea I'm not currently looking to review coins not based off of BitCoin. Maybe eventually, but not right now
sr. member
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October 08, 2014, 03:07:40 PM
#22
BURST is pretty easy to review if you know java and trust NXT.
sr. member
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mmmmmm
October 08, 2014, 10:42:55 AM
#21

I've been wanting to get to that one.. So I probably will get to it in a few days. A modest tip of some sort would get it pushed to the front of my queue though.

ARCH has heritage from https://github.com/novacoin-project/novacoin/releases/tag/v0.4.4.6-nvc-update4 - no novacoin commits / fixes after this date are in the source. It may be a fork of a coin which forked this version of NovaCoin.

Thanks, that helps a ton. About half the work in reviewing a coin is finding a sane base coin to compare it against
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Bitmark Developer
October 08, 2014, 10:29:27 AM
#20

I've been wanting to get to that one.. So I probably will get to it in a few days. A modest tip of some sort would get it pushed to the front of my queue though.

ARCH has heritage from https://github.com/novacoin-project/novacoin/releases/tag/v0.4.4.6-nvc-update4 - no novacoin commits / fixes after this date are in the source. It may be a fork of a coin which forked this version of NovaCoin.
sr. member
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mmmmmm
October 07, 2014, 08:03:41 PM
#19
Cool. What you really should do is drop the git release repository against say the LTC or BTC source and analyse the differences.

You should also keep a copy of the launch source and update it against releases if you want to really look into it. By that I mean look at gits that are wiped clean or moved from the initial launch. Dig and you will find   Grin

This could be very valuable intel in operation shitcoin cleanup and clean out.

Bump

I keep archives if every coin I review. I see no need in publishing them though unless they come into question. It would take extra time for each coin to create a github repo for it and publish and upload and all
sr. member
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mmmmmm
October 07, 2014, 08:00:08 PM
#18

I've been wanting to get to that one.. So I probably will get to it in a few days. A modest tip of some sort would get it pushed to the front of my queue though.
legendary
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October 07, 2014, 07:59:16 PM
#17
Cool. What you really should do is drop the git release repository against say the LTC or BTC source and analyse the differences.

You should also keep a copy of the launch source and update it against releases if you want to really look into it. By that I mean look at gits that are wiped clean or moved from the initial launch. Dig and you will find   Grin

This could be very valuable intel in operation shitcoin cleanup and clean out.

Bump
sr. member
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mmmmmm
October 07, 2014, 07:44:00 PM
#15
Lots o' coins added, even a few fresh ones

https://github.com/earlz/coinreviews
sr. member
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Bitmark Developer
September 22, 2014, 10:03:18 PM
#14
Earl,

Fantastic service, thank you so much. I just found your report and immediately fixed the minor bug from Bitcoin you noted.

I've submitted an issue on your repo with link to code to reflect this.

Thanks again,

Mark
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I'm really quite sane!
September 22, 2014, 09:27:12 PM
#13
Very nice analyses. I was wondering why someone would provide such a great service until I saw on your site that you're a shibe.
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@Bit_John
September 22, 2014, 09:08:48 PM
#12
Cool. What you really should do is drop the git release repository against say the LTC or BTC source and analyse the differences.

You should also keep a copy of the launch source and update it against releases if you want to really look into it. By that I mean look at gits that are wiped clean or moved from the initial launch. Dig and you will find   Grin

It's not possible to effectively compare most coins directly to Bitcoin. Most coins are forked from peercoin, or novacoin, or novacoin with some modifications, or changes backported, or a weird version in between releases. So, I match them up against coins that have been out a relatively long time and never had any serious problems.

I'd rather not go into detail about everything I exactly look at and compare against, because I do not want it to be easier for scam developers to know where to hide things. And I have local copies of every coin's git repository that I review. If a git repository is ever wiped clean, deleted, etc, I can easily upload my own local copy. But, doing it for every coin would just be too much of a pain with my slow upload speed.

Also, if anyone has a known source of USBCoin or Ninjacoin (before exploits were patched), I'd love to get a copy of it

They know its a pain that's why they do it.

Obviously you would just use the base LTC, BTC, Novacoin, Darkcoin etc.

Good work.

Make the comparison to BTC or LTC a % difference and list them all haha
sr. member
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mmmmmm
September 22, 2014, 07:49:50 PM
#11
Added a lot of reviews, but I'm too lazy to try to list them all. Check them out and see if your favorite coin is listed!
sr. member
Activity: 439
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mmmmmm
August 25, 2014, 09:48:56 PM
#10
I've added some more coin reviews:

axron
rootcoin
greenbacks
fibre
petro
clustercoin

legendary
Activity: 2268
Merit: 1092
August 21, 2014, 11:38:53 PM
#9
* MINOR: Uses floating point in critical code

I'm curious about why this is considered minor. Could there be the potential for a fork, say between a Windows and Mac executable built with different compilers, that don't come up with exactly the same value for the next retarget/reward etc? Or is it more likely that floating point between these mainstream platforms will be fine, and this is only likely to affect oddball systems?
full member
Activity: 181
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August 21, 2014, 09:17:58 PM
#8
I've updated the github repository with some new reviews:

usecoin

xuro

It would be great if you will create a list of all the coins that you've been reviewed in the OP.
sr. member
Activity: 439
Merit: 250
mmmmmm
August 21, 2014, 08:16:09 PM
#7
I've updated the github repository with some new reviews:

usecoin

xuro
legendary
Activity: 2268
Merit: 1092
August 20, 2014, 12:05:38 PM
#6
This is great. Thanks for sharing these reviews.
legendary
Activity: 1008
Merit: 1022
August 20, 2014, 11:58:50 AM
#5
Cool. What you really should do is drop the git release repository against say the LTC or BTC source and analyse the differences.

You should also keep a copy of the launch source and update it against releases if you want to really look into it. By that I mean look at gits that are wiped clean or moved from the initial launch. Dig and you will find   Grin

It's not possible to effectively compare most coins directly to Bitcoin. Most coins are forked from peercoin, or novacoin, or novacoin with some modifications, or changes backported, or a weird version in between releases. So, I match them up against coins that have been out a relatively long time and never had any serious problems.

I'd rather not go into detail about everything I exactly look at and compare against, because I do not want it to be easier for scam developers to know where to hide things. And I have local copies of every coin's git repository that I review. If a git repository is ever wiped clean, deleted, etc, I can easily upload my own local copy. But, doing it for every coin would just be too much of a pain with my slow upload speed.

Also, if anyone has a known source of USBCoin or Ninjacoin (before exploits were patched), I'd love to get a copy of it

They know its a pain that's why they do it.

Obviously you would just use the base LTC, BTC, Novacoin, Darkcoin etc.

Good work.
sr. member
Activity: 439
Merit: 250
mmmmmm
August 20, 2014, 11:55:52 AM
#4
Cool. What you really should do is drop the git release repository against say the LTC or BTC source and analyse the differences.

You should also keep a copy of the launch source and update it against releases if you want to really look into it. By that I mean look at gits that are wiped clean or moved from the initial launch. Dig and you will find   Grin

It's not possible to effectively compare most coins directly to Bitcoin. Most coins are forked from peercoin, or novacoin, or novacoin with some modifications, or changes backported, or a weird version in between releases. So, I match them up against coins that have been out a relatively long time and never had any serious problems.

I'd rather not go into detail about everything I exactly look at and compare against, because I do not want it to be easier for scam developers to know where to hide things. And I have local copies of every coin's git repository that I review. If a git repository is ever wiped clean, deleted, etc, I can easily upload my own local copy. But, doing it for every coin would just be too much of a pain with my slow upload speed.

Also, if anyone has a known source of USBCoin or Ninjacoin (before exploits were patched), I'd love to get a copy of it
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