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Thank you cinnamon and everyone else for your vote or confidence.  I'll do my best to keep my mouth shut so IXC can have good representation.  I do still believe in iXCoin and I hope in the next 30-60 days everyone will see why.  I think once the mining is finished things will start to happen.

But warning to investors - diversify just in case.  IXC is a risky investment [just like Bitcoin et al] perhaps even more so, albeit, the reward potential on IXC may be much greater [if I prove correct].

Cheers!

Dear Tuff-Guy,

Please show me which coin you would have money with over the past few months.

Most alts are down over 90%.  IXC has held up amazingly given it's supposedly near death.

Wth the exception of a few pump coins and the recent jump in alts, IXC has been solid.

If you're not happy then please dump [ASAP] and buy ShitCoin.  lol.


Cheers!

I thougt that I coud make money with this coin my mistake.

Honestly , I think that since Vlad has had such devotion to iX , and i am not joking here, having him be the public 'face' of the coin is a great idea.

I actually suggested this to him in private a while ago and he said since he is not familiar with a lot of coding and all he could not do it.

I felt that just like any ceo or politician who runs something big he would be the perfect personality to represent IX on talkshows,  at conventions, you tube videos even television comercials.   Tech questions can always be dealt with by others later on.

No one is more devoted to iX than him. (that I know of)  

Just like Charlie Lee talks about Litecoin, Gavin talks about Bitcoin , Vlad should be the one 'out there' talking about iX coin.

I am not joking at all 100% serious.  




EDIT 1

was going to start a new thread with a survey but I am not sure what/ who else to put in there ?   

very correct -  BY ALL MEANS --- deadsea and EVERYONE please llisten to Frictionless here,

(first let me apologize Frictionless if i was a bit harsh on your suggestions previously but d0ge makes me want to puke what more can i say)

deadsea....

in any 'modern wallet'  a qt,

use the command

listaddressgroupings

it will show you 'all' the addresses that wallet has

each one has a key

never reveal priv keys , ever , ever,  EVER

A while back I know of at least 2 scammers who were posting on reedit , and i think in the forums here to 'check if your keys were stolen' just to steal peoples bitcoin.    Also if someone gets a picture of your paper wallet it is childs play to steal the key.   Remember that talk show where a guy wanted to show how easy it was to use bitcoin and sent it to his co host,  when she held it up , someone watching in less than 60 seconds used
importprivkey and the btc was gone. 


there is more information (not realted to paper wallets which are something I am just personally not a fan of since a lot of stuff can go wrong-- yes i realize they are a good way to store a lot of coins but you really have to know what you are doing if dealing with paper wallets)

There is some info in this short guide I once wrote for people to 'recover' a lost or corrupted qt wallet

https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/13377-quick-surefire-guide-how-to-rebuild-a-qt-wallet-if-you-lost-your-coins-step-by-step-instructions/

The act of adding a private key into a wallet does not make the private key useless.   You still need to transfer the coins from the original account to another account to make the private key useless.  

The wallet password only encrypts the contents of the wallet.  But if you expose your private keys, then anyone can have access to the coins associated with the private key.

An unencrypted wallet has all the private keys of that wallet exposed.

If you share your Private Key, then someone else could import the key and use the coins....

Glad to see you made it back on ahmed_bodi, that's what happens when all your trying to do is good for crypto community and bring the merged-mined altcoin market up to a whole new level.  My hat is off to you sir, so sorry to here about, first your irc avatar attacks, then now on BCT had you banned.  Maybe if we all complain to theymos, it could help you get that corrected.  What the hell.

Please everyone interested, join us on http://webchat.freenode.net/, the ##ixcoin channel, it's been a long week for me working on Ixcoin 0.9.2.1 source.  

First some quick updates:
My Github repository is here:
https://github.com/GroundRod/IXCoin

10hrs ago I committed all of the latest work to the GitHub repository & generated a pull request to our MrBodi.  As time allows, one could expect new builds from him, cinnamon_carter or myself.  It's been a great opportunity & huge learning experience for me to help out on this.  Thankyou for that.

Our 2014 IXCoin Core development team master source branch is here:
https://github.com/IXCoin-Dev/IXCoin



Cinnamon buns, you might be right for calling my ground meat.  This place can/has done that to many.  Seriously call me GR for short, or Daniel works to.  We really need your help, please when you've the time, look @ my solution to the new console command 'verifychain' set to checklevels 3 or 4.  It works, and returns TRUE, only because of the 8 exceptions I coded in.  Feel free to join us on irc or pm me here, if you want to get into the details.  Also feel free to comment on my pull request @githut:
https://github.com/IXCoin-Dev/IXCoin/pull/4

@deadsea33 - Great to hear on the paper wallet!

@FrictionlessCoin - Appreciate and understand your assistance in creating that 'todo' list for us, it's helpful to me, as it confirms what I'm increasingly aware of as needing to get done.  However, I'm 200% in agreement with  cinnamon_carter on Doge and using it as a starting point for Ixcoin.  Just one of many points:  Try installing Doge's bootstrap.dat file, took me until the next day before finally getting THAT downloaded, then another day before finally the client was running live with a blockchain.  Don't forget to delete the bootstrap.dat.backup file,  or it will leave a huge wasted hole on your harddisk.  Compare that to the IXCoin bootstrap.dat file size,  Generated this yesterday, it spans OVER 3 years, 17 weeks of coin production and transactions history, zipped with 7Zip:

Ixcoin_Bootstrap_2013-Sept-17.7z_________________________________________________151 MB (159,091,655 bytes)

This is big news right now in favor for the future use of IXCoin from within cryptocoin community.  A BIG advantage!

More as time allows,
GR

i dont care how active they are


junk is junk


since start how many times has btc forked ?

ix ?

litecoin ?

doge ?

if it's not worth your time , dont bother, go out and have a drink or something.

I don't personally know ahmed_bodi but his work looks pretty fucking good to me.

It compiles , with no errors, first lick after I had the correct tree unlike the work of some other people who have been involved in this project.

Thats all i am going to say----------


for testing ============================ using 9.x

1) suggest someone make merge p2pool with btc and ix

2) same with Eloipool

if they run on testnet would be a good sign since no one is going to hit blocks on their own

that is how i was going to test them when i have time but that may be delayed until the weekend or next weekend.

The reason why I am suggesting the DOGE coin fork is that the Merged Mining code has been tested and deployed.

There is no instance of a 0.9.2 SHA256 based merged mined client that has been extensively tested and deployed.

Although you make think DOGE as a joke,  DOGE in fact has one of the most active development teams out there.  

I can certainly make the changes myself, but I don't really think it is worth my while.

if you want to do this, go ahead , fork the d0ge repo and push your work to github

personally i would not want to work from anything other than bitcoin since iX is merged with bitcoin and that is not the only reason

litecoin / the others are based on bitcoin but why would i ever want to make extra changes to something when i can make fewer changes to something i.e. scrypt 1024 back to sha 256d

when someone says something is 'more likely robust' that may or may not be true

what facts (and if you don't mind be specific to the lines of code) show one as more 'robust' than the other ? (by robust i assume you mean better)

(also I am not writing /coding this project just testing as of now) 

but , suppose I was and was to follow your suggestion,  I would have to eliminate and rewrite all references to things like this all over the place

https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/blob/master/src/scrypt-sse2.cpp

https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/blob/master/src/scrypt.h

https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/blob/master/src/dogecoind-res.rc

I am not good enough to write bitcoin source on a blank sheet of paper from memory but i have a little experience.

Seriously dude , why would you go about it like that ?

My personal opinion on doge is that it is probably the worst alt coin ever ---- period ---- I don't care what they fixed , I don't care if it get's merge mined with gold and they fork it again to make the proof of work algorithm md5.  It was no accident, has big money behind it and has from the start.
The original source code was cloned from junk coin and if there was only one coin I could see get 51%'d --- I would select doge.

A picture of Vlad2Vlad

Curly from 3 stooges would be good, but I think someone would get sued.  Why all the action.  If you bump up the transaction fee to 1, there would be plenty of large owners and mm, to keep the mining going.  As for blocks with zero transactions, I still think the large owners would do them to keep their investment intact.

As for a meme, how about  eye X.  An oval shaped like an eye, and X for the pupil, and the words, "Hi I am socially distorted".  Surrounding the eye is a gold coin.

The IXC source is just BTC with the mm patches added. I removed all the DVC changes in there (which wernt relevent

(1) The way IXC calculates difficulty is different from Bitcoin and DOGECoin.  You can't just use any difficulty calculation since this would invalidate previously mined blocks.

(2) The mining reward calculation needs to be the same as what IXC current provides.   That is,  96 in the beginning, 48 right now and zero after a certain block.

(3) This refers to the DOGE coin port which has a scrypt based PoW rather than a SHA256 proof of work.

These appear to be pretty basic fixes.   Considering that the DOGE coin base has been on merge mine mode since Sept.11,  this is probably a better place to start than the DVC version which hasn't really been vetted.

One other alternative is to start of with what DogeCoin has done to create a merged mined coin.

It's based on the 0.9 bitcoin codebase and likely more robust than the version that Ahmed started with (i.e. An untested Devcoin port).

The key changes would be:

(1) Change the difficulty calculation.
(2) Change the reward calculation.
(3) Change the PoW back to SHA256

Anyway,  it looks like DOGE is now following my original strategy for IXC.

(1) Start with a merge mine coin.
(2) Transition to a low inflation rate mining rewards.
(3) Add Counterparty capability (see: DogeParty)

Note:  There is nothing to prevent DOGE from becoming a Bitcoin merged mine coin in the future. 

note to ground round would encourage you to fork ahmed's repo like i did any push your commits to your fork

when time allows i will look at them

not much time for me to do any testing last few days due to personal reasons but later this week i should have time to take a look at things again

@cinnamon_carter - Ran with your ixcoind.exe most of Saturday, it was finally talking ok to my Python 3 upgrade to the bitcoin linearize.py contributions.  Dam P2-P3 coding diffs & all, but its done and now works.  By Sunday I had it and everything I had build crashing because of blockchain errors while attempting to build the bootstrap.dat from highspeed getblockhash/getblock RPC requests, pair for each block on the Ixcoin chain, so as I could build the bootstrapping file from Python 3.

Finally last night started from scratch, initialize blank new everything files and downloaded the ixcoin blockchain w/9.2.1.  Here is what I'm now seeing from running the 'verifychain' at the different check levels, notice all are done starting from block zero:



What is happening here is Checklevels 3 & 4 are not passing, but 1 & 2 do???  This is as far as I've gotten and would like anyone able to comment on possible places to figure out why our Ixcoin blockchain is not passing checks from being freshly downloaded?

I'll be digging into it l8r, got to run and would appreciate a helping hand....

GR

P.S: Love the new command set, its better than anything else I've seen so far, even bitcoins.

ETA: If you look @ the curl example above under the 'help verifychain' output, it still says to talk using the bitcoin port #, think I got all those text references changed to the ixc port # to include in my next build.

@Vlad - Won't be able to help on the website, but will hold off finishing this port using the 0.8.6 icon & logo images, in the 0.9.2.1 client then.  Until you let me know specifically what final one you've selected, I've got to have it look good as a 16x16 pixel icon as well as ~256x256.png file for use there.  Message me or post here or the logo thread....

Guys, sorry, I've been really busy working at a new job and so I've had such little time to be on the internets.

Thomas has given me the login credentials for the IXC website and he changed his conditions to be more inclusive, so here is his statement:


"I've thought about it and you can change the layout and logo if you want, as long as it looks professional/simple/clean. I'd also like the FAQ to stay in some form, even as a subpage."


So there it is - now we need to take a quick vote on which logo you guys prefer.  I like the new logos we made, maybe the red and black one?  Please give your input as this will be ixCoin's main image for all new investors so this is a MAJOR decision.

Also, the layout - I'm not very artistic and I'm no web designer, what do you guys recommend?  I really like Luke's layout [of the iXcoin.eu site] and look and everything else about that site but I don't think we can make such drastic changes, and remain within the required specs, at this point.

So let's get some suggestions and feedback so we can get the dot org page updated as soon as possible.

If anyone can help with this let me know - I can do some of it but I'm so busy now, working long [hard labor] hours that it's gonna be a challenge [and not to mention I really suck at web design].  Lol


Thanks guys!