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legendary
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July 02, 2013, 04:17:46 AM
#37
ixCoin is one of the top alt coins in my opinion
Are you serious?
Could you tell me what features it has? (except you having 40k coins of it)

You're thinking like a computer guy.

Think like a consumer.  A dumb consumer.  A dumb consumer in a huge herd looking to make millions overnight just like your neighbor John, cause if he did it I know I can too.  Think like that idiot cause there's over 100 million hamburger eating, diet choke drinking sheep just like that and they have no idea what bitcoin is but they're soon gonna find out and in a big way.

For example, Bitcoin has the least features compared to the newer coins, and the reason is simple, it was the first, a prototype - while all the rest built on Bitcoin's weaknesses.

So let me ask:  why is bitcoin $100 while PPcoin is worth pennies when Bitcoin drains the energy of a nuclear powerplant while PPcoin is as green as you can get?

The reason is people don't care about features.  This isn't a convertible car versus one with AC.  People aren't looking for utility, this is digital and that much they know - it's not real, so they look for what they can understand and right now 98% of the alt coin market participants are the best and most computer literate guys.

So what happens in 6-12 months when bitcoin really takes off and the average joe wants in on the riches of bitcoin and he's willing to speculate and risk by investing say $3,000?

You think Joe is gonna buy bitcoin at $200 or he's gonna look for the closest thing to what he sees as an expensive coin - something just like that valuable bitcoin?  You think the average person is going to do massive research to find the one with power breaks and ABS?

No, cause they all understand it's not real so most won't even think about features.  What most will look for is a clone - a coin just like bitcoin, or close to it, cause if it's just like bitcoin then it has to go up cause look, bitcoin went up.

And let me tell you, it's gonna be hard to find a coin which resembles bitcoin that is better and has been around longer than ixCoin.  Cause that's another thing people look at, how long has this coin been around.  Cause most will worry a new coin may be a scam so as far as I'm concerned - looking at it from the point of view of marketing, mass media, and herd mentality - ixCoin is up there in the top 5 coin one should risk some money accumulating.

Cause the hype is coming - count on it.  Bitcoin was started by the state and the banks and they want it to succeed badly so get ready for some mad hype and we're gonna go from a 1% participation rate now to some crazy 50%+ market participants and for about a year there will not be enough coins to go around and these lemmings will buy anything which they see as the next bitcoin and ixCoin has a lot of that DNA.  

Decion is another one of those that has the potential to really take off for reasons other than what a computer guy would ever think about. I've accumulating devcoin at a much higher clip than any other coin.

And man, I think a CatholicCoin would take off like crazy but nobody seems to get it, but I can't program and i have little cash to hire anyone, so I'm stuck waiting on that one.

Buy and hold as many coins as you can cause the mad media hype is coming.  

Good luck.
legendary
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May Bitcoin be touched by his Noodly Appendage
July 02, 2013, 03:50:09 AM
#36
ixCoin is one of the top alt coins in my opinion
Are you serious?
Could you tell me what features it has? (except you having 40k coins of it)
legendary
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July 01, 2013, 09:24:23 PM
#35
Man, I'm so glad to see the founder is back at the wheel of this coin.

ixCoin impressed me when it got abandoned yet it was still alive and well so I bought over 40,000 coins about 6 weeks ago.

That's not much but it would take me 2 years to mine that many coins.

ixCoin is one of the top alt coins in my opinion and when people realize that and get tired of bitcoin they will start looking for alternatives. 
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Thomas Nasakioto
June 23, 2013, 04:54:59 PM
#34
I've updated http://www.ixcoin.org but including the defunct FAQ from the wiki and modifying/pruning some of the links. I'm hoping to update it as we get Ixcoin back on track.

I'm trying to update the blockchain on the one of my Ixcoin clients and it seems to accept a 100+ new block then it stops. I get this error:

Code:
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
6/23/2013 20:11:00 received: block (215 bytes)
received block 00000000007d8592b9b6
SetBestChain: new best=00000000007d8592b9b6  height=32909  work=2831870114916795
78
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
6/23/2013 20:11:00 received: block (472 bytes)
received block 0000000000c45a47e5a7
SetBestChain: new best=0000000000c45a47e5a7  height=32910  work=2831878210820850
37
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
6/23/2013 20:11:00 received: inv (37 bytes)
  got inventory: block 7e8f31b9ea7e2fc9f983  new
askfor block 7e8f31b9ea7e2fc9f983   0
6/23/2013 20:11:00 received: addr (781 bytes)
sending getdata: block 7e8f31b9ea7e2fc9f983
6/23/2013 20:11:00 sending: getdata (37 bytes)
6/23/2013 20:11:00 received: addr (871 bytes)
6/23/2013 20:11:00 received: addr (751 bytes)
6/23/2013 20:11:00 received: addr (931 bytes)
6/23/2013 20:11:01 sending: addr (31 bytes)
6/23/2013 20:11:01 received: block (946 bytes)
received block 7e8f31b9ea7e2fc9f983
ERROR: CheckProofOfWork() : hash doesn't match nBits
ERROR: CheckBlock() : proof of work failed
ERROR: ProcessBlock() : CheckBlock FAILED
6/23/2013 20:11:01 received: addr (631 bytes)
AddAddress(188.115.157.82:8337)
6/23/2013 20:11:02 sending: addr (31 bytes)
6/23/2013 20:11:02 received: addr (451 bytes)
6/23/2013 20:11:18 received: addr (721 bytes)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'DbException'
  what():  DbEnv::close: Invalid argument

If I restart it, it updates another 100+ blocks, then I get the same error. Any idea?
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Thomas Nasakioto
June 23, 2013, 04:47:50 PM
#33
50.116.37.18 is a long running node I run.

Thanks. I've added it to the main Ixcoin.org page.
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June 22, 2013, 09:47:17 PM
#32
Howabout switch up Ixcoin to Scrypt?

What? Oh dear..
legendary
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June 22, 2013, 09:02:36 PM
#31
I'm looking for Ixcoin nodes to add on the Ixcoin website. Someone mentioned 198.154.60.183. Anybody got more?
50.116.37.18 is a long running node I run.
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Thomas Nasakioto
June 22, 2013, 12:55:17 PM
#30
I'm looking for Ixcoin nodes to add on the Ixcoin website. Someone mentioned 198.154.60.183. Anybody got more?
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Thomas Nasakioto
June 22, 2013, 12:51:58 PM
#29


Looks great guys. Good to have a couple of Ixcoin block explorers online. Shall we split the bounty between you two? Are you ok with that?

I like the merged mining.  I'll add 10,000 IXC to the bounty for the Ixcoin client upgrade.

Ok thanks. Let's see if someone is interested in pursuing dev on the updated client.


By the way, there also a bunch of nice Ixcoin stats up at http://cryptometer.org

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June 19, 2013, 07:38:03 AM
#28
Also trades on  Cryptsy.com


https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/38
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June 16, 2013, 06:32:20 PM
#26
Howabout switch up Ixcoin to Scrypt?

No. Terrible idea.

I agree.  We need to keep some SHA-256's.  Too much scrypt is just as bad as too much SHA-256.  Besides you can't merge mine with scrypt... yet.
legendary
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June 16, 2013, 05:37:09 PM
#25
Howabout switch up Ixcoin to Scrypt?

No. Terrible idea.
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June 16, 2013, 05:14:24 PM
#24
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June 16, 2013, 12:24:30 PM
#23

The source in the git is more than 18 months old... ok, I'll check it out and try to set the block explorer up.

Yes, I believe that's the latest.


So it's up, visit it at http://block.al.tcoin.info/chain/Ixcoin.
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June 15, 2013, 03:17:16 AM
#22

Thus I have created a github repo at https://github.com/knotwork/Mergecoin

"Mergecoin" is to be that common base. It is a fork of recent bitcoin, the merged mining patches were applied but of course a lot of chunks of them failed to apply because bitcoin has changed so much, especially it now does not use BDB database.

-MarkM-


Sounds like a good plan.  Did you use Bitcoin 0.8.2 as the baseline?
legendary
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June 15, 2013, 03:01:44 AM
#21
I guess you haven't been following the merged mining news.

All merged mined coins all need the same thing as a base from which they can then each make the minor modifications that make each of them different.

They all need a copy of boitcoin with the merged mining patches applied. ONLY the merged mining patches applied.

That is, not start toward making it a different coin yet than bitcoin; just bitcoin plus the ability to be a secondary chain in a merge.

Once that common base exists, then each merged mined coin can fork it and put in the minor mods that differentiate them, such as their magic handshake bytes, IRC channel, default ports, icon, name of coin and three letter symbol for coin, merged chain identifier and so on.

All the merged mined coins are all waiting for this common base. Once it is ready it will be almost trivial per coin to update all the merged mined coins.

Thus I have created a github repo at https://github.com/knotwork/Mergecoin

"Mergecoin" is to be that common base. It is a fork of recent bitcoin, the merged mining patches were applied but of course a lot of chunks of them failed to apply because bitcoin has changed so much, especially it now does not use BDB database.

So, there are still rejected chunks, the .rej files.

I made a CHANGES file or somesuch detailing which rejected pieces I have managed to manually apply so far.

If anyone can manage to manually apply any of the rest that would be great, submit a pull request when you get it right.

Once all the patches are applied it should, if it actually works, be ready for one of the merged mined coins to try actually using it to make a new updated version of itself and see if it really works. If it does all the other merged mined coins can easily also be updated.

So basically merged miners everywhere are waiting on this "Mergecoin", I just haven't been able to get back to it for some days now. The easy part was easy, the rejected chunks left to apply now could be harder as applying them correctly is likely to require an understanding of the old BDB database and the new type of database.

Hopefully someone out there will not find this hard at all and whip up some good pulls for us. But if not oh well the longer it takes to update the merged mined coins the less new miners are likely to flood into them so the more coins for those who are already merged mining. Smiley

-MarkM-
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June 15, 2013, 02:59:46 AM
#20

The source in the git is more than 18 months old... ok, I'll check it out and try to set the block explorer up.

Yes, I believe that's the latest.
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June 15, 2013, 01:22:20 AM
#19
How about a block explorer?

We use to have one or two, but they seem defunct now. Anyone interested? There's a 20K IXC bounty.

I'm willing to do that, please point me an official newest client to download, better with source code.



Latest client and source should be at http://ixcoin.org/

The source in the git is more than 18 months old... ok, I'll check it out and try to set the block explorer up.
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June 14, 2013, 11:44:11 PM
#18
How about a block explorer?

We use to have one or two, but they seem defunct now. Anyone interested? There's a 20K IXC bounty.

I'm willing to do that, please point me an official newest client to download, better with source code.



Latest client and source should be at http://ixcoin.org/
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