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Proud to have been part of a DevCoin project.  Still HODL my DVC reward.

http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=smf_incoming_email_capability

- Nova

Steemit.com has perked my interest, as well, Sidhujag (@novacadian). It seemed the natural extension of the DevTome idea... merged with blockchain technology.

The one thing that is still a bit unnerving about Steemit, to me, is that it does not seem, truly, decentralized. Perhaps DevCoin could take that Open Source code on as a project and remove all trace of .com from the equation so as to provide software that will deliver the blockchain from a configurable Nodes/Witnesses/Miner server for the user. From my understanding at the moment, if steemit.com were to be attacked the Network's delivery would, virtually, go down. The blockchain would be preserved by the Witness Nodes, yet something like a DDOS attack or the lack of Net Neutrality in the US could become weaknesses for such centralized delivery systems using the blockchain ledger.

That sounds like a huge problem to be solved in the Blockchained Open Sourced Community.  

Know where one could be found?

- Nova

Steemit Source : https://github.com/steemit/condenser

I believe it's Unthinkingbit. You can DM him. It would sure be awesome to get listed on an exchange again

who is the devcoin developer?
if he just fills in form they will add. or better still email them, they got back right away to me when i discussed another coin but I don't know all the specs.
so if dev can identify himself and fill form or email them we can finally have an exchange
cheers

Hello
who knows where i can trade this coin???

You are correct, thats now fixed (on devcoin.darkgamex.ch).

@Unthinkingbit: please revert the changes of receiver_76/77 in those files (git), since that broke everything. Then you are also back in sync. Meanwhile i've switching away from your repo to markm's files.

I did not find where the DVC wallet for Windows took the receiver_77.csv file for download.
But my receiver_77.csv downloaded from sources known to me differs in size from the receiver_77.csv downloaded through the wallet under Windows

Uhmm I'm seeing the size of receiver_77.csv in all those three URLs the same as in http://devcoin.darkgamex.ch/ and https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity (6333), and the wallet doesn't let me synchronize above block 303999 yet. However, the size of receiver_76.csv is indeed different in those addresses.

Just a quick thought: if Devcoin is Still merge mined with Bitcoin, would it not provide excellent PoW security while having very low transaction fees and a liberal issue scheme, thus being perfectly suited as day-2-day currency?

- The Most Secure Low Fee Payment Currency, secured by the Bitcoin Network -

I found the reason why the wallet was not synchronized.

I outlined the problem here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.25874905, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.26546800, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.26606174, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.26608073, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.26642100

I took the receiver_76.csv and receiver_77.csv files from http://devcoin.darkgamex.ch/ - the synchronization was stopped on block 303999
Similarly, with receiver_76.csv and receiver_77.csv from https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity - there is no synchronization

Today I installed a wallet for Windows and it has downloaded receiver_76.csv and receiver_77.csv. Their size and content differed from the one I downloaded earlier.
I found that receiver_76.csv and receiver_77.csv allowing to synchronize above block 303999 can be downloaded here
http://devcoinpool.btc-music.com/receiver/
http://d.evco.in/receiver/
http://show-me-the-devcoin.info/devtome/
Thus, the contents of these files in different sources differ

In the left panel on the screenshot, the sizes of the receiver_76.csv and receiver_77.csv files with which the synchronization does not stop.
Those on the right are from http://devcoin.darkgamex.ch/ and https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity and they do not allow synchronizing the blockchain above block 303999
Because of this, my DVC wallets could not work for quite a long time. Who should I thank for this?

Hi people, I'm Qtera, aka Cpsilent aka Silentwriter.  I'm responsible in the last couple of months for contacting the Open Source Projects to which we donate (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Donation-accepting_organizations_and_projects#Open_source), and as Unthinkingbit says in here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.22703497 the strategy is to fund them even more than we already do.

From all forty of those projects only seventeen entered in the share list. The method of contact them varied among projects: most of the time I used the good-old-and-faithful e-mail just fine, but I also got responses using forums and github.  The other ways to contact projects like reddit, twitter or gitlabs weren't successful at all.

From that list, there are five discontinued projects and possibly another one:  ArkOS, the Bluetile WM project, The FreeHal, TOR Chat and The PirateLinux distro. But in case of PirateLinux and Tor Chat, they are kind of special cases. Although the Piratelinux is halted, the developer would like to continue in the future and he even gave me his bitcoin address.(https://github.com/piratelinux/Pirate-Linux/issues/3) In case of the TOR Chat, the former developer told me that the project isn't currently maintained but that the address in there was his and it's active, and he only wants to get donations "...if you want to generally say thanks to me in general, not for this specific project.". In case of these two specific projects they are getting a year of donations to see if they resume their work, if not, the donations will stop.

Another case of posible discontinuance is OpenElec. They have no working email to contact them, but their forums seem active, at least until June 2017. I even logged into their irc channel and a user told me the project was dead. As it didn't seem something official or couldn't find its death clearly posted anywhere else, I opened a forum thread asking about it (http://openelec.tv/forum/23-feedback/84579-bitcoin-address-for-donations) and there are no answers so far.

Unthinkingbit and I agreed in giving the one-year grace period only to those projects which cared to answer back. However, I'm still waiting for an answer in this case.


The second category is for projects that don't receive bitcoin donations anymore. At the moment it's only OpenGameArt.org:

Source:https://opengameart.org/content/donate-bitcoins


A third category are the projects managed by external foundations, like FSF or GNOME Foundation for instance. In this case, fits MediaGoblin, GIMP and Replicant. Those are active projects, but fiscalized by sponsor organizations. For this reason they are still funded by us.

The projects that use a service like BitPay and Coinbase are RaspBMC (now OSMC, the project changed their name), TOR, Piwik (https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues/12232#issuecomment-342360943), LibreOffice, Haiku OS, FreeBSD and Etherpad Foundation (https://groups.google.com/d/topic/etherpad-lite-dev/X4ostzJOlnc/discussion). In these cases they A) didn't want to switch, B) didn't provide an alternate bitcoin address or C) they simply didn't reply back. Their reasons are wide-ranging, but in most cases they stick to these services just for the simplicity and convenience.

Finally, the projects that use their own wallets and replied to my enquiry promptly are: Apache, DokuWiki, DosBox, Duplicati(https://forum.duplicati.com/t/bitcoin-donation-address-question/1106), Farmbot, Loomio, MegaGlest, OpenStreetMap, OsmAnd, TOR Servers, VideoLAN, and WikiSpeed.

So, counting the projects from category three, four and the two special cases, there will be founding for 17 projects from that original list. You can check the current complete share list for OS projects in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cpsilent/devcoinstuff/master/devcoinshare.html

Well, I think it's everything for now. Happy Holidays everybody!!!

I think Steemit is a good model to look at as far as the getting paid for writing concept goes. Participate in it (I know you already do, develcuy), study it, figure out a way to do it better, and then compete...

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Have tidied up stuff on devtome. Contacts for any future access problems are here. If interested in keeping it going understand hosting could still do with contributions. Wikipedia have reinstated my devcoin article if anyone wants to keep content updated.

Was good to find this project at a difficult personal time, for constructive interaction with some similar-minded ideals. Things haven't turned out as I probably naively hoped, and using up btc for dvc support a hindsight bad error. But live and learn, and trust some of that made a positive difference to others. Hope you all agree on a way forward with the right incentive structures - growing big government and big business means new approaches to support OS development and open licensing are needed ever more. Good luck.

Had a look at the code linked here: http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin#receiver_files

Block 304000 is when receiver switches to newer file. Assuming height 304000, step 4000 therefore refers to first address of new receiver file (receiver_76):

First address in receiver_76 is 15MZRa1cPUVChs6XpzyAfGox5nvPVpSvok

But first address in receiver_75 is 1KZKMYixw4PDtu5ZbKqrahRWeAgputuVoc

As those two addresses correspond to your errors, all I can think is that client hasn't properly closed/restarted in resync to pick up receiver_76?

That's just my uninformed guess. Anything more informed will need someone more familiar with the process.

It seems my old Linux wallet is up to date then regardless of Receiver files.

Is that why I have to periodically download receiver files manually in order to get the wallet to sync?  Because it's functional?

I've not had any trouble keeping my wallet up to date, and I probably know just enough about how to program a wallet to be dangerous. DVC definitely has a functional wallet going for it right now.

My old and dated windows version updates receivers to current.

I am at block 307374. The (old and dated?) wallet (Debian Linux) does not seem to update though.



The latest receiver file I can find is receiver_17.csv dated 5 November 2013 but I have transactions in my wallet dated 7 March 2016 and 27 May 2017