Topic: Curecoin status report - Website up - CureCoin.us (Read 3112 times)

This project is certainly interesting!

Are you planning to have curecoin.info as the main site with downloads, instructions, etc., then the .us site as the forum?

8/4/13

Website is up, please come sign up if you want to be a part of the curecoin team, or just to discuss.

http://curecoin.us/

I am stoked about this coin! Bring it on!

8/1/13
The source code for the official curecoin is ready for testing. I have some more logo ideas coming my soon from a supporter of curecoin. Last chance coming soon to submit a logo!!!!

Team is still on track to hit the 1200 Rank very soon. PPD is going back down a little, I just fired up 25000 ppd on my pc to give it a little boost back up.

Website to be launched ASAP.

I'd link people who are interested in folding/mining the currency to here, until the website is up. I'm sure the topics will be updated at that time. If they are not interested in folding/mining, might be best to wait for the official launch.

As far as spreading the world to the outside world / blogging about Curecoin, where should we point folks? Curecoin.info isn't up yet, obviously - is there a thread or a landing page we ought to link to? I'm obviously a little bit excited when it comes to the potential of this project.

Update, good news, I had mentioned the dev im working with was busy with his own project, but he did just contact me and is helping me fine tune the final client right now. (Exactly why i wanted to find an experienced dev, the coin model is looking very good)

Many many thanks to all his efforts.

Im still planning on releasing the short term beta of curecoin at this point, before the official is launched. I want to give stanford time to prepare for the big event. Ill give it another week and shoot an email and see what their report is.

I have room for some more team members. If anyone knows a lot of the folding client, I can use your help especially. There will be lots of users needing help to get the fullest from their folding clients. I wont be able to help them all. If i can get a small group of novice or expert folders to join me in helping provide support to new folders, it will make a big impact. So far username dudeami has been very helpful with getting new users up and going at the best speeds possible. Thanks dudeami ! Soon ill have a curecoin forum going again and we can start sharing our folding tips there.

If you have any ideas of how you can contribute, or just idea to spit out, plz post or pm me. The amount of support is growing quickly now, and its helping a lot.

If you have a blog, let everyone know about the current creation progress of curecoin, and point people to the current folding pool so we can build the team and hopefully make a dent in all the wu's at stanford.   

Side note : We should be hitting the milestone 1200 way quicker than expected. Everyone on this team, THANKS!!!!!!!!!

Sorry if i missed anything, in a hurry, got a meeting to make....

Haha wow, we're ranking up quickly.

HOLY CRAP!!! Even though I was only part way through my first cup of coffee when I posted that this morning, I thought my math looked off - but I obviously wasn't awake enough to register the fact.

I'm still relatively new to this forum, and I'm not sure this is the tread for it, but let me take a minute to say HELL YES, CURECOIN, HELL YES cygnusxi, AND HELL YES TO YOU GUYS THROWING SOME CPU/GPU TIME AT THIS.

Even if Curecoin as a crypto doesn't become something that's traded on the exchanges, or exchangeable for goods or services (and don't get me wrong, I totally want to see it to continue to move in that direction), what this project is doing is something bigger. The 61 of us (as the team page reports) are coming together to do something that could truly change the world.

I'm sure many of you have had friends or loved ones with alzheimer's or cancer or the like - and know how ravaging these diseases can be. Not just for the person experiencing them, but for those who want to be there to support them through their (at times inevitably losing) battle. If team 224497 - team CureCoin - is able to provide medical science enough information to even inch research a fraction of a percent along, we're doing something more important than the biggest GPU farms or highest hashing ASICs out there - we're doing something that could lead to a better future. And we should all be proud of being involved.

Hat's off to getting this project off the ground.
So after we've amassed enough computing power to finish all the work F@H has for us and cured every disease, what do you guys say to a SETIcoin?

rank now 2029 of 218612 se we are in the 0.928 % area  

Top 1% is a good milestone, but we need to be rank 1200! From the looks of it we'll get there very soon... Also, top 0.1% is a much better ranking I'm sure we'll make it soon enough.


Edit: Percentages were off by a factor of 10 :p So we are actually in the top 1% of folding teams atm.

Yup.

Still loving this.

Guys, check out the stats page:  http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=224497


Does this mean we're IN THE TOP TEN PERCENT OF FOLDING TEAMS?!

I find your idea very Creative and Logic!
Looking forward to hear about it.

Congratz for creativity good luck for making it happen 

Really excited to see this coin start to play out. One question which is probably a stupid one but would there be anyway to get feedback or data from the other end using the folding information? Not sure what type of data or statistics we would get but just a thought.

The beta launch will be a simple scrypt clone with a few simple mods to make it stand out. I plan to have POW + POS in the official. I havent yet compiled a pow + POS coin, but i have spent some time looking into the code and making basic changes so im getting familiar with the pow + pos, nothing ready to compile along the pow+pos lines though. I know someone  who should be able to able to help me through any trouble with that. Just sent them an email to see if they still want to participate.

I know i have the skill to release such coins, id just really prefer to have a good dev with me to make sure everything is A-OK.

There is a dev budget for the coders of the coin 10% of 10%, so 1% of coins allowed to pay devs for their contributions.

Anyone with good skills is invited to help, but im going to wait for reply from the current dev i hope to have helping me. Im pretty sure he is one of the more trustworthy devs. I did a lot of searching for good devs. I could have paid a fraction of a bitcoin and had a cheapie made. Really hoping this dev wants to be in the project. I know he is busy with his own venture right now ( wish him luck, it will be cool im sure ). 

I still need to go reread the posts about certian coins being attacked with a new type of attack that was stoping wallets from syncing. The cause is to good to make the official coin a cheap clone that can be attacked.

I even have a Reiki master sending good energy to the curecoin concept on a daily basis. This coin is to be all about good. Thats why im keeping an open line with stanford. any problems arise, program will be halted for launch. I refuse to leave any chance for stanford to be hurt by this. like i said though, their IT team should be able to handle this no problem.

I also requested curecoin to be included in the world wide meditation that happened yesterday. 

sorry more info there than just an answer to the question 

Proof of work?

Updated in OP
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Down to details, i want share these details so they can be discussed, argued, etc, until we hopefully reach a consensus. If need be we can add a poll or two to vote on whatever the community proposes.

Basic working of curecoin. 100 coins per block, 45 coins go straight to miners, 45 coins subsidy goes into a foundation folding wallet ( to be drained completely every 24 hours to all the folders ) and 10 coins goes into the Dev  wallet.

Here is my current thoughts, this is the 10 coins per block, split into smaller portions to be used as follows. If this is totally unacceptable ill scratch it. There is 20% of the budget left, because i know im forgetting something....

curecoin dev budget rough draft v1.1
10% advertising
10% forum promotions - including universisty forums.
10% For stanford university to improve folding network.
10% Dev future updates on coin source and folding integration system
30% nvidia hardware giveaways
10% website / hosting DDos protection for backbone nodes.
10% promoting services to accept / trade curecoins
10% ? need more ideas <<<<< more nvidia giveaways??  -- forgot to reduce this ten % when i increased Nvidia giveaway portion by 10 % - fixed 

Im thinking about shaving 2% off all the item to add to the Nvidia GPU giveaways. Even though ATI now folds well, Nvida users wont get their cards and use them for mining, just one more way to increase the folding project.

As you see its a rounded numbers rough draft. i think comparatively there are other coins with much larger dev budgets.

So far Ive funded this project with my own coins and the donations of others. Not one of those coins was used for anything but paying folders. I still have ~250 freicoins left from a donation months ago for a bounty to hit 1000000 points. this bounty goal was never reached ( will be soon ), but i held the coins even after my site was hacked an i lost contact with most of my folders.  Freicoin has been syncing fine forme last time i tried. if someone hits 1M they are yours. its not much, but its a promise to pay for effort.

I would have another site up and going already,  the last one had ~decent security upgrades, but i launched the site in a hurry, i have another properly secured forum that has stood tall for a year or so even through a barrage of attacks ( a gaming forum ). Its been months since ive made a post in my gaming forum. Not important compared to launching curecoin. Point is, ill get a site up... just give a little time so this time its secure, ill take my time on it. I might scratch the smf idea completely because it requires constant updates. Im only one man, im not sure if the devs i was talking to are still with me.... but its ok. Ive been making practice coins for months now. I plan on having a gui that isnt ass ugly too, I like doing gui design, i used to spend a bit of time customizing gui's on my own personal programs. The official is going to need to have a lot of work done.

The short term beta is going to be used as a scale to know what kind of difficulty retargets to use, and also get an idea of how fast coins will be produced, to create a proper coin cap that will not approach anytime soon. Im certainly not an economics buff, but i now know enough from watching other coins the basics of how it behaves due to these variables. Any economists feel free to give your 2 cents.

Since there is an immense amount of security required, im keeping in contact with Stanford. Their eyes are on us to make sure nothing goes wrong. Im not sure if he is allowed to directly endorse bitcoin as currency but he has given approval of the curecoin folding team. He informed me they are "preparing" for whats to come.  Their IT team should be able to handle security on their end.

Soon you will get a better idea of the work and learning i did to finally emerge with a solution to create curecoin.

Enough of my rambling, please send your input about the payout system and dev budget, feel free to poke holes in my idea.

I'm looking forward to this