Topic: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated - page 308. (Read 1059181 times)

1. Yes, that is me. 120 shares. Does it reduce anyone else's shares when I max out that round?

They still receive the same amount, correct? So what is the *purpose* in limiting the number of shares in a round? Last month I had zero shares. It's very, very difficult to produce that much material consistently. Someone was kind enough recently to point out one project that I had neglected to fine tune. And now I'm about 8000 words in and loving it. No hard feelings, just a better project when I finally finish it.

2. Does that mean that shares are going to be excess every round or are 180m still distributed monthly?

If so, will we be expanding then number of bounties for visibility and refinement of Devtome and DVC in general?

3. The addition of ratings, categorization and page views has made me relook some of my contributions. I've been forced to clean up even what I thought was my most well prepared material.

So what is the point of reducing it? Just so someone like myself or Raptorak can't max it out at the high end? I don't see the purpose.

Which is what markm asked in his post: Markm: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3782966. What's the purpose? He didn't say he approved of the change, just that he wasn't necessarily opposed, but his question is a good one: What's the point?

Glad it helped. It can be a little intimidating at first, but is pretty simple once you just sit down with it.

I'm curious, how have you/are you going to port all the articles/organization over?

Thank you so much for your reply.  It helped ease some of my fears.  I previously read some of the instructions on devtome and panicked when I saw the brackets/formatting and such. 

Got them. I also sent some to the address listed on the dvc countdown, and that seemed to go through fine. So did the faucet, for that matter, so I'm not sure how it correlates to the round ending, unless 'round' is being used differently in that context.

My only programming skills have sat on the shelf since high school. All you need is a basic literacy in web browsers, and to learn a little bit of wiki markup to make your articles look nice (which is pretty simple, and there are cheat sheets).

http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=wiki:syntax&s[]=syntax
http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=devtome_advanced_syntax&s[]=syntax

While the nitty gritty backstage parts of how devtome works are more immediately comprehensible to people with various programming skills, actually contributing as a writer in no way requires that level of understanding.

I think visual and art and photography face a couple of challenges before being integrated into Devtome: One devtome is still organizing and supporting itself, though apparently its been very consistent in payouts despite that. Also, someone needs to come up with a way to measure the reward for submitting that kind of material. With words it's pretty simple. 1000 words = 1 share, with slight fluctuating by pageviews and an admin review.

How hard would it be for a person to contribute as a writer with no programming skills?  Also, how long before other areas of the arts are supported, such as visual artists or photographers?

I have a database of prices if you need it.  It goes back for about only a couple of weeks though

Since last time, bter has replied that they woundn't add any coins recently, and btc38 just ignored my request.

Lots of great developments going on here!

I'm just finishing up the new Devcoin web site - it will be ready to launch today! I am really excited as I think it looks amazing and I've gotten great feedback so far. Can't wait to show everyone!

I got a reply from Stephen Rowlison from Diamond Circle regarding Devcoin ATM's:

Good to see that Devcoin is very much alive 

Heya, yep double checked it and it's correct, thanks.


Hey Emfox, yes I figured you must have, I agree they're both good estimates, I was just wasn't sure if I was working it out wrong .

Is this bounty still open?

http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin_bounty_now#devcoin_usd_chart

The dvc/usd chart.

I've coded up a webserver that gets the averages from a few different places, but I couldn't find a long term history of DVC.

The chart is here: http://dvcusdchart.blisteringdevelopers.com

It's filling up with data as I just reset it after testing, and it'll log and show data indefinitely. If people want more options etc, say what you like and I'll code it in. I'll make a few more tweaks to make it clearer what's what, but it's up and running now in any case.

EDIT: Obviously it looks a bit silly now but that's because data's just started collecting...it should fill out soon enough

Weisoq wrote me:


Since the admins want it to be lower, the max words counted has been changed to 50,000, effective in round 31. The code only has a limit for words counted, not total shares. Because the rating can go to 1.5, that means a max payout of 50 x 1.5 = 75 shares per writer. Also the weighting for ratings has been boosted to 60%, the categorization weighting has been increased to 10% and the popularity weighting has been reduced to 30%. The other reason the popularity rating has been reduced is because advertising is cheap and can otherwise boost the popularity so much that it overwhelms the actual quality. I want people to link to their articles and talk about them, because that lasts for a long time, but advertising is a short term popularity boost that skews the earnings. The highest normalized rating of the prolific writers is 1.07, so with a higher rating weighting, the current high earners will have a lower payout.

Emfox gets two shares for his post:


Giftculturewriting, I sent you 23 devcoins so you can see if Shakezula's version works completely, please post or message me when you receive them. You get one share for your post:


Giftculturewriting further wrote:


It has to download the receiver files the first time it runs. After that it should be able to grab them from disk quickly, I don't know why it would be slow then.

I ran it through Virustotal and only one thing flagged it as a trojan (Dr. Web). The anti-virus on my computer doesn't hate it either. Installer seems to run fine, accesses the same %appdata files as my previous installation. Seems to be making connections and has an accurate count on the blocks according to the devcountdown site. I'm going to do a faucet test, and will update this post when I get results (EDIT: which depending on if this faucet really does only pay out on the end of the round may be a very, very, very long time).

Edit: Also noticed the same bug that the label field for each address gets cut off so I can't see the text, just a very thin strip at the top, and maybe a few pixels of the characters.

Edit: Just ran the unintaller after backing up my wallet, then restarted my computer. It left all the %appdata files, which is good for not deleting your wallet.dat file. Might be something to mention in an uninstall dialogue in case people want to remove all traces from their computer so they at least know where to look. I've just reinstalled the client and everything looks normal.

On an unrelated note, I've noticed that the dvc client always takes a proportionally really long time to load, especially considering its size and (at least superficial) simplicity.

Very interesting! Yes, this is the devcoin-win32.7z from that same link simply packaged in to an installer. I know quite a few coins come up as false positives--could this be similar? Here's looking forward to a newer build!

Hello, I installed it, and my Anti-Virus (Eset Smart Security 4) said it an 'Unknown NewHeur_PE virus", and the devcoin.exe was removed. don't know what happened...

Edit: I use the one from http://dls.21stcenturymoneytalk.org/dls/devcoin/devcoin-win32.7z, also said it's the same virus. I suppose this is the official devcoin.exe ? so not the installer fault, there's something error with the original exe.

Hello, We are both correct.

Since the hashpower of the whole dvc network varies from time to time, one block is not accurately generated in 10 minutes, sometimes longer and sometimes shorter.
As you use 10 mins as one block time, And I using average time of the older blocks (e.g. 1000 blocks before today) as block time. these two method is both ok, and the result won't be too different, maybe in one or two days.