Topic: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated - page 379. (Read 1058927 times)

If the original was produced by you (i.e. you own the copyright), you can post it in it's entirety onto devtome and list it as an "original" work in your profile.

Collated work is more collations based on "fair use" quotations - l would say no more than 5% from the original source, otherwise you get into the realms of plagiarisation, and always put the quoted bits in quotes, and add a reference link to source.

Wiser I think devcoin is either the third oldest altcoin or the fourth. Namecoin was launched in April 2011, and Devcoin was launched in August 2011.

I think there may have been some other coins in-between that didn't make it.


I found this thread on groupcoin

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/grp-groupcoin-67991

In that thread markm wrote the following:


but am not sure when it became stand-alone and stopped being a test for devcoin.

Lot of Thanks for Your quick answer, question B it's clear (I/We are going to gimp out all brands).

There is still question A: Do referred work taint the original work (when present in small percent, i.e. 5-15%)?
(some master and phd papers I've wrote were criticized when there were not enough references because of the novelty of domain and lack of existing literature... Here might be the reverse: the presence of some other work - small percent - could taint the original work and "degrade" it to collation?)

Thanks again for patience

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If they are your own pictures, place them in articles that you list in your profile as original.

Note that everything you put onto devtome comes is placed there under a creative commons licence - which means a third party can then legally take the material/pictures and place them on their own site.

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I don't think Fin was part of the pump and dump - he was as much a sucker as you. The pumper/dumpers live on twitter, and you can also see them chatting on the following site:

http://trollboxarchive.com/

Have a read of it and get an insight into their world, and then you'll realize that all this angst about writers causing teh crash or fin causing teh crash are wa off the mark.

The community is not in control of the price, the speculators are, and they're out to make money from us, they don't really care about the project.

Yeah.  I bought them at 140 when I saw Fin's "Time to Buy" thread.

It was only at 200 satoshis for April and May - and that was entirely due to a pump and dump by Fontas - see the following thread where he admits he manipulated it to rise by 600%:

https://forum.litecoin.net/index.php?topic=4698.0

Pump and dump prices do not reflect the real market (that's why the Nasdaq, Dow Jones and FTSE ban them). They're a con. They manipulate prices to con ordinary people into thinking that the price is rising and they'd better buy in, and the conman then unloads to the unsuspecting noobs. Then they remove their pretendy buy walls, and it all collapses back to the "normal" price, except now you've got some people who have bought at the top and they are hurting.

Let's not have community members attack each other for something that was caused by an outsider just looking to make some quick cash...

Why isn't Devcoin subject to more pump and dumps any more? Primarily because other coins have been launched that are easier for the speculators to manipulate, plus the action has moved away from vircurex to cryptsy and Btc-e - and cryptsy doesn't let you trade dvc for btc, and btc-e ignores devcoin entirely.

Hi, Question(s) about writing, copyright, collated work (on devtome, of course):
A. - If I write something with my own pictures (more then a dozen) and I'd like to include some other pictures (a couple, let's say from some University), with proper credits, is it considered original or collated?
(for exemplification, You might read http://toyservice.ro/stories/2011/led-dynamo-flashlight-tuning-and-repairs-july-2011/, rectifier pictures)
B. - Current copyright laws(*) might prosecute You for something like Pe?si(R) or Co?aCo?a(R) in the background of Your pictures. How do devtome interprets those new restrictions: should I gimp away any brand name/logo (blur/pixelize/...)? I work mostly with well known brands, and they appear in my pictures...

I mention I have read [almost] all I could find at search here and on devtome.

Thanks in advance for Your effort,

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(*) I have a few years under belt navigating through copyright laws in my country

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Is it really true that DeVCoin is the second-oldest cryptocoin, right after BiTCoin?

It really came before NaMeCoin, before, oops, GRouPcoin?

Hahaha we (Unthinkingbit and I) made GRouPcoin initially as just a chain to try out ways of implementing DeVCoin, then once we figured out how we could do DeVCoin GRouPcoin shed all those test/prototype features and the gamers who had been getting into it for use in games continued using it. So okay lets not count GRouPcoin, since we can lump it in as basically "part of DeVCoin", and it didn't really "go public", much at least, really, until after DeVCoin was launched. It just kind of continued along on its merry way as a coin used in certain games - such as the Galactic Milieu - for quite a while before much of anyone other than the gamers using it really noticed the darn thing had not died.

(Some gamers, coming from games like Dungeons and Dragons, Chivalry and Sorcery, Land of the Rising Sun and so on and so on, still to this day think that ultimately GRouPcoin ought, by market forces, end up as in effect a 1000-devcoin coin, because it generates one thousandth as many coins per block as DeVCoin and, being as how both are merged mined, ought hopefully to end up having the same difficulty as DeVCoin too. Thus, one thousand times as many hashes per coin to mint, thus, one thousand times as expensive. They aren't at all adapted to having different coins have different exchange rates, they are used to the number of silverpieces per gold piece, the number of copper piece, etc hard-coded into the game as constants! )

So I don't mind GRouPcoin being considered to come after DeVCoin, afterall it was only in order to implement DeVCoin, and as part of implementing DeVCoin, that it came into existence at all. DeVCoin already existed as our goal in our heads when we came up with the idea of making GRouPcoin as a testbed to try out some implementation ideas.

But I have a vague recollection that people who made chronological lists from time to time of which coin got created when used to list something else after BiTCoin before DeVCoin, didn't they? Or did they? If they did, were they wrong?

-MarkM-

this is really good wiser Im proud of you! Mandatory reading for new writers.. this should be read
by the people who hate on devcoin. It has had
a black eye amongst some of the older crypto members speaking with ppl on forums but reading this should open their eyes. Ppl can link this page to anyone who wants motivation to get into devcoin aswell as how devcoin works kind of and how to earn and put it all in the
big picture. I will use it as a tool. Thanks!

So all this discussion on the thread today prompted me to write this essay called Fat Cats and Mercenaries expressing my thoughts about the Devtome project and our attitude towards it.  The more I ponder it, the more amazing it becomes in my eyes, and the more convinced I get that it not only is sustainable, but needs to be largely left as it is, though tweaks to improve it are certainly good.

Despite my own advice, I did not copy/paste anything.  I composed the essay from scratch, though worked off some of my earlier posted ideas.  This one is a Devtome exclusive.  No republishing my blog post this time.  Enjoy

Yea I see what your saying better to use limit orders.

I dont see the auto buying isnworking maybe not enough ad revenue yet?
 
Btw where is the ad revenue going right now? Is it auto paying out to an account?

Yep, I was just messaged yesterday!  I am going to start my first admin duties tomorrow!

I never thought it was you.  We have no way of knowing.  But it's a point worth making that if you had sold off 60 million DVCs or any amount for that matter for the purpose of starting a viable business that ultimately improves the value of Devcoin, then I would say it was a good move.  In that case getting angry about the inevitable drop in DVC price that would have resulted would be taking a very shortsighted view.

Until there actually is a viable DVC economy, where goods and services can be obtained for DVC, it's going to take selling off DVC in order to build the components of such an economy.  So... in that sense when it comes to the price of DVC on the exchange, things have to get worse before they can get better.

Damn it smeagol you're not supposed to be laughing at how little the currency you're in charge of is worth.
Temporarily close down the devtome and fix it before devcoin goes kaput.

lol.  Each amazon gift card is about 200k dvc (for $10).  200k * 6 = 1.2 mil
I haven't even earned 60 mil..  

Thanks again, Unthinkingbit!

In the interest of something else to do with DVC and because I love the idea of combining books with writing ala DVC (thanks FinShaggy for the idea) I present a simple web-shop with Textbooks and Non-Fiction books for sale in DVC via CoinPayments.net:

https://andarazoroflove.org/shop/

Only a dozen or so up now, will be a few dozen more listed in the next couple days as I get busy doing. I work for a land-grant university so these kinds of knowledge books accumulate quite a bit. I'm also toying with the idea of PC components for DVC, but we'll see what happens.