Topic: Devcoin - page 61. (Read 412952 times)

Maximilian Wilhelm:
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=wiki:user:maximilian_wilhelm

has written more than a thousand words:
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=the_coming_crypto_currency_revolution

and so got the second, one generation share signing bonus for writing:
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=earn_devcoins_by_writing#signing_bonus

There are now eight, one share bonuses remaining. The writer will also get earnings per word:
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=earn_devcoins_by_writing#earnings_per_word

Vircurex back online!

Ondrata:
http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=wiki:user:ondratra

has written more than a thousand words:
http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=cryptography

and so got the first, one generation share signing bonus for writing:
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=earn_devcoins_by_writing#signing_bonus

There are now nine, one share bonuses remaining. The writer will also get earnings per word:
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=earn_devcoins_by_writing#earnings_per_word

Some of my devcoin payments (for seeding nodes) were recently converted to BTC and sold nearly at the highest price so I have no problem with the  funding of these instances for about 3 years

Half of these instances are small ones, half - micro, but even micro instances was perfectly stable for a long time with average CPU usage at few % and memory usage newer reached 90% with 20+ connections.

Micro instances are free for one year and later can be converted to bigger ones (or earlier if any micro ones appear to be not enough).

I assume that it will be more reasonable to have several average servers, that one or two more powerfull.

P.S. Just checked - micro (smallest one, can get a lot more for free) instance with 39 active connections to node using only 64% of available memory - it is appears that even micro instance can handle seeding node with ease. In any case they have perfect networking (downloading complete devcoin chain takes about 2-3 minutes) and pretty stable - that is the main point.

thank you!! how are you funding this service?

The following seeding nodes are set up:

1) node01.dvcnode.com - US East (Northern Virginia) - 54.235.112.178
2) node02.dvcnode.com - EU (Ireland) - 176.34.178.245
3) node03.dvcnode.com - Asia Pacific (Singapore) - 54.251.243.142
4) node04.dvcnode.com - US West (Oregon) - 54.214.34.123
5) node05.dvcnode.com - Asia Pacific (Sydney) - 54.252.166.125
6) node06.dvcnode.com - US West (Northern California) - 54.241.178.41
7) node07.dvcnode.com - Asia Pacific (Tokyo) - 54.249.112.25
8) node08.dvcnode.com - EU (Ireland) - 54.228.190.31

(dns record - Amazon EC2 area - associated IP address)

These nodes are dedicated to be devcoin nodes only, no web services at all. All ports except SSH and devcoin ones are blocked.

The devtome earnings will be calculated at block 89,150, instead of the expected 89,000.

The earnings used to be calculated two weeks before the receiver files start getting loaded by the clients to ensure that even if one of the three file administrators did not upload their file quickly, there would be enough time for them to eventually come back from vacation or whatever. Since we now have five administrators we can afford to have one go on vacation, and have one site down, and we'd still have 3/5 files working. So the earnings can be calculated a bit later.

Calculating the earnings later means that the shares will be diluted a bit, in the round that the switch is taking place. So to even out the dilution between rounds, the earnings calculation for round 23 will be at 89,150, and the calculation for round 24 will be at 93,300. The other reason the calculation is being delayed this round is to give the remaining people who have a devda address a bit more time to get a computer address. To that end, the receiver files will not be made until round 89,300, to give people another day to send me a new address.

Since the block number is currently 88,934:
http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin_block_explorer

that means the earnings will be calculated on Sunday May 12, and the receiver files will be made on Monday May 13.

Vircurex is suffering an issue:

Is Vircurex not loading for anyone else?
https://vircurex.com/

Hello,
i just made my first article on great project devtome http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=cryptography .

I would like to ask how often is word counting script run? (i am curious if i will be counted for this round as there is block 88899 generated at the time of writing this )

Also I found very chaotic that there is now topic title on article pages - is it bug or feature? I mean when I come to some devtome article I can't see huge title "My article name" at the top as it is on wikipedia, etc.

Thanks, although that's not really what I meant.

twobits: guess so, actually they told me wednesday they wouldn't be adding it. Should have truted your wallet with more as it goes, thanks for working on that btw.

Yes, i was informed by kumala the chains  BTC/LTC/TRC are affected.

BTC Trace:
https://blockchain.info/address/1PWQJu9AskoXEBYMod1KqPE6TTG4VYNz1P

Guess you mean aside from the obvious one.

thanks for the info. do btc-e have any more coins left to add? (that's half-joking)

Thanks for the info, from:

Whatever the problem, follow Kumala's advice and don't deposit any coins with Vircurex or Cryptostocks until he says it's safe.

Good to know!

Seems like vircurex is been hacked!

Has anyone rented their signature? If so, please post how much you rented it for and for how long.

I suggest a payment of two shares to Emfox if within a month he makes a faucet which pays people for devtome in their signature. If it also checks a random time in the future to pay them again if it's still in their signature, he would get another two shares, for a total of four. If he does not do this within a month, the payment would be converted to a bounty open to everyone.

Also, if the four shares are sent, then the faucet maintenance would be increased from 2/5 of a share to 3/5 of a share, and the amount to donation would be increased from 2/5 of a share to 4 shares.

Any objections, or should something be changed?

The p2pool program pays out 100% of the bitcoins, and enables us to also merged mine NMC, DVC, GRP, IXC, I0C, CLC and XGG using the same hashes. So we are paying the miners currently only one of the eight types of coins we are mining.

This software the bounty is about will let us sell some or all of those other coins for devcoins, and send out the resulting devcoins to the miners.

Nothing forces us to sell 100% of the other coins, in fact some of them most people do not consider saleable at all, though we have added attempted estimates of what their values might be if we could find buyers to

http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/latestrates.inc

We could for example take our fee in the form of all the GRP, I0C, CLC and XGG, selling only the NMC and IXC for devcoins, sending the miners just the devcoins mined plus the devcoins we get for the NMC and IXC, since those are the only ones actually on the kind of exchanges people are used to and the only ones for which the "comparative mining profits" sites show an estimated added profit you get if you merged mine them.

Basically the tool is about dividing up among miners however many devcoins the admins decide to give the miners.

There is no way the tool can really be expected to know how much all the coins other than bitcoin are worth, nor need it even try to figure out how many of each type of coin we actually managed to mine.

Although, I suppose it could be handy if it did actually remember how many of each coin were present last time around, look how many are around this time around, and estimate using those latestrates how many devcoins all the altcoins might add up to if one could actually sell them for the prices on the latestrates tables.

Thing is, market-making scripts that use the latestrates values use them with volume markups, so at retail size sales those prices would be 3% higher or lower (higher when selling, lower when offering to buy), in middle sized lots 2% markup, and only in the largest lot-sizes would they use only a 1% markup.

So there is no way the admins will get exactly the latestrates; they would get less if selling to existing offers, or more if placing offers themselves, assuming anyone took their offers, that is. and that they used the normal market-maker type of scripts to place the offers.

So really so far all we can expect to do is periodically have a pile of devcoins from selling altcoins, and throw them into a routine that will divvy them up among miners.

NOTE: Actually another mode many pools might find useful is a mode that simply sends out bitcoins to miners as a fixed percent of the bitcoins that p2pool already sent them.

Basically find out how much bitcoin each miner got sent by p2pool since last time you ran, and send them whatever percent more. That way instead of making miners deal with devcoins at all some merged mining pools can simply state a fixed percentage above 100% of all the bitcoins that they will pay miners. That might appeal best to miners who only care about bitcoins, providing a way to incentivise them to come and help us secure devcoin and other merged mined chains.

-MarkM-