I love faucets !!
That was (originally) one of the things that I found really 'weird and at the same time cool' about bitcoin when I first discovered it !!
It all seemed like a game....... a math or science game.... involving cryptography ..... more than a video game , a computer 'challenge'.......
What a difference several years have made.
As for recent iX items here are a few of my thoughts .....
a) Volume appears to be picking up and the trade rate vs. btc also as people see the advantages of an old school coin that has been around and has a high difficulty, (i.e. security) especially when btc has been on sale lately harder for anything to keep an even trade price or gain traction.....
b) I agree with the posts above and suggest you build your own wallet from the 9.x github source or use one of the builds released for iX 9.x codebase. I have never yet seen any one running it on the network when I check the peers and hardly anyone is even running the 8.x codebase. Amazing almost everyone is on 4.x codebase. The advantages to running the 9.x over 4.x are multiple. You can lock your wallet, countless bugs have been patched , with level db indexing is much faster and more reliable and I can go on and on..... The 8.x clients work ok but 9.x has everything bitcoin has in 9.x including coin control (go to options , wallet , expert features..... ) also spend unconfirmed change..... 9.x compared to all prior clients for a regular person is solid on every test I tried. I could not break it or get it to crash ect......
When Ahmed + G.R post they have all their changes to github i will do a test build on win and encourage other qualified members here to do the same so we can make sure it is tight. So far all the updates they have done look very good to me.
c) Personally I am curious why some of the exchanges like bittrex (naming one at random) are not adding iX given the avg. daily volume on other exchanges.
d) I think everyone should give Vlad some credit for his early insight and all the hours of work he has put into iX. Yes he owns a few coins but he has really put his whole heart and soul into doing the right things for iX and some people may not see that since he does (like me) speak his mind and is not afraid to stand up for what he believes in. If you are involved with iX at any level and are going to acknowledge at least one person who can and has certainly helped iX and will continue to do so you should recognize Vlad. He wants what is best for iX. I hope anyone looking at future plans for iX can recognize this and at least return his calls, e mails ect.....
Vlad and I had a private communication recently and I think I kind of made a few comments that he took as disrespect. I hope you are not upset with me Vlad. If you are I am sorry. I recognize all the work and effort you have invested and only want to see things go well. There are very few coin projects other than those I am acting as a developer that I will even associate with or say I support them even in spirit for many reasons. My services are not for sale to anyone. I only devote time or effort to things I believe are
1) based on good honest technology and code that does not change at the whim for some parties benefit
2) things 'good' for the world of cryptocurrency as a whole and in spirit of the original white paper of S.N.
3) Things that may eventually help solve other issues in the world and have real world uses.
If you are concerned about recent news of regulation like many of us are to the bitcoin world it is time to start looking to alternatives. Not to 'dump' btc but to not put all your eggs in one basket. When you look make wise careful choices. Select alternatives with superior or proven technology, secure blockchains, developers who really understand what they are doing and improve their code when possible and finally distribution systems accessable to all for a 'reasonable' amount of time (minimum a few years without crazy reductions). These ideas are common sense to me but I know not all agree.
e) I still wonder who the 'satoshi' of iX is. There are (I never counted exactly) but an estimated 1 million to 2 million iX coins that were mined and 'never redeemed at output' which means someone mined them to sit on them a long time and has not moved them EVER !! For an example go to the block crawler above and look at block 5000 of iX in particular the output of the transaction
http://darkgamex.ch:2751/tx/78e5c7345edf95b91768a5d890367ce2cd5869cba8469c73160eefb6a383bc6b#o0This is one of countless examples found by myself and much more work was done by Vlad to estimate how many coins are sitting out there in storage by someone waiting for ......who knows what. If iX was a pump and dump those coins would have moved by now or would be moving now. The coin age of those old pre-merge mined coins is pretty tight. We may never find out who owns those coins and I respect privacy but when you consider those coins are 'not in circulation' plus a lot of people probably lost some iX over the years like btc the supply available now is even more limited......
Many predicted the demise of iX more often than the demise of bitcoin yet it still runs..... The world of cryptocurrency has no guarantees but some things certainly do stand out when you think long term. They are not always the coins in the press or the coins 'most profitable to mine' .....
Finally if anyone can compile a test build of iX (not necessarly a release candidate) that runs in java based on one of the open sourced bitcoin sources it would probably be a good service to the community. I cannot guarantee you any payment but since this would enable easy development of mobile wallets and other things the iX community can be very generous (and has been to me in the past) when you 'contribute' something of value and ask for donations.
