Topic: Ixcoin TODO - page 92. (Read 631736 times)

I have been saying since the very beginning that buying coins for their [copy and paste] features was a chasing after the wind and that a great name would prove to be much more valuable.

That said, iX is not a bad name, a lot can be done with i, X or iX made to look like an X.

However, given IXC is perceived as a dead or dying coin it may be easier to rebrand so I have mixed feelings about this.

I would be ok with a new name as long as:


A) It's a better, more marketable name than iX.

And

B) Thomas and CEX.io are ok with this important change and also agree with the new name.


This is still Thomas Nasakioto's coin and CEX.io is still our partner whom we need like air.

That said, if anyone feels like they have a better name then let's hear it.

It could be a simple change like going from iX to iCoin or XCoin.  That way we rebrand while at the same time retain some of our original identity.  That might be a good way to go.

What say you?

I already sent Jeffrey a message.

With the holidays I'm not sure when I'll get a response though.

Thank you, Ahmed.

Correct.  Thomas gave me strict guidelines so anything which wasn't specifically allowed I have to verify before I correct it.  Probably an overkill but I won't change anything, not even typos until I get the OK from him. 

His trust means a lot to me so I wanna respect his wishes.

I have done some updates to it already which took me quite some time but it's not my personal site so I cannot do as I please with it.

I am talking to a skilled coder now to help me improve the .org website and to also help me build and release iXcoinFoundation.org.

Does anyone know what happened to ixco.in?  It's been down for over a week?  Have they quit the site or just doing upgrades?

https://ixco.in/

Yes i would say so. atleast with a little bit of hashing power

The link to give him is: https://github.com/IXCoin-Dev/IXCoin/tree/iXcoin

the code is done. GR compiled some binaries. its just merged-mining that needs testing. the best people to test this is ghash.io or another merged mining pool. You cant expect me to be able to do this when i dont have the code to do this.

As you guys can see by deadsea's chart - he has also quit the iXCoin board.

So at this point the remaining members are Cinnamon and I.

If I find a good coder I will also try to get some other things done to help improve iXCoin's image.  Given there is no bounty for most of these things I will either pay out of pocket or do a fund raiser [or both].

At that point I will work to find some additional members for the board who will be able to add value.

Ahmed, you're a good guy and I can tell you work hard but if you guys don't know when or if this will be done I'm gonna try to find someone to do it.

Thomas Nasakioto wanted this done more than 6 months ago which means this was an important update, and if our partners are gonna launch iXpay and other products early next year, we really need the pools/wallets to be updated to the latest code.

So I'll look for someone who can get this done ASAP and maybe the bounty can be split somehow or you guys can work out an understanding between coders - something equitable for everyone.

Thanks again, to you and groundrod for all your hard work.


Cheers!

Yep it is:

https://github.com/IXCoin-Dev/IXCoin/tree/iXcoin

Make sure you use the iXcoin branch

Ahmed is it published on github ?

im currently busy working on my pool's code atm. so it may get done soon it may not i cant guarantee anything.

another adjustment needed to that chart. the code is already  up to date with the latest bitcoin base(It has been for about a month or 2). all that is needed is for groundrod to finish his work on compiling of the QT and then it can be released (although merged mining hasnt been tested i believe the unit tests have).

Aahhh, finally, my name up in lights.  haha.

It looks good, deadsea.  Thank you.

Nice chart, Deadeea33.

I would add 3 things to make it a more accurate timeline of important events which shaped or totally changed the direction of iXCoin:  

-  May 2013, Vlad2Vlad hijacks the unknown and abandoned iXCoin alt-coin [and BCT thread] and tirelessly promotes iXcoin [as the next Bitcoin] all over the internets, thus, bringing in numerous investors and building an actual community for iXCoin.

-  ~February 2014, Vlad2Vlad, after harassing a lot of very important people, brings [the Powerhouse of Crypto] CEX.io to the iXCoin board of directors.

And finally, if you're gonna mention Frictionless' code update, which was mostly a cut and paste, you really should add something for Ahmed and Groundrod who have done a lot of actual code work on the 9.3 update.

I really hope they finish it so they can get their much deserved 50k IXC bounty.  They earned it!

Cheers!

the 8.x version of iX is not recommended, i would suggest anyoner looking to use a client go with the one on ixcoin.org which points to 9.2 iX coin source and windows qt done by Ahmed and Groundrod, tested also by me although no binary from me appears there (if you want my build search back in the threads here for it or I can up it to github) 

I'm glad to hear from you, Deadsea33.

I hope when things improve [should they ever] you will become active again with iXCoin.

I agree with everything you're saying - even the renaming.  Although on that front, I'm very skeptical and would go with the opinions of Thomas and CEX.io, given such a big move can back-fire which could ruin what's left of iXCoin.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year's!


P.S. - Sadly, that lambo will have to wait until 2015...[or perhaps a lot longer].  lol

You'll be missed, fratello.


Cheers!

Looks to me to be a miner at Ghash.IO that's too lazy to even bother with managing his IXC.

Isn't it not the same address with a total of 500,000 coins?  Why do you think it is 4 million coins?

just be careful on vircurex

At one time they were probably my favorite exchange, I used to love when you could pair the different coins with one another.


After the trouble 'Tom' had minus a little btc well what can I say I lost a lot of respect there.....


Still I noticed activity on a few things on vircurex is pickiing up.  Ix is holding up some volume probably equal to cryptsy more or less

I also noticed that in the past few weeks someone is really pumping i0 coin since it was trading a month ago for about one eighth of ix price and is now around one half of ix prices.....


i0 coin is weird in that i 'heard' not experienced it first hand for many years a lot of ppl could not get it to work or get connections but it continued to be mined on old p2pool nodes.   Legend has it that there is more 'lost' i0 coin than any other. 


Ironic as it is with it's shorter block times i0 coin running level db (which the last version I have is running on btc 8.x code base) actually scale up to almost 5x that of iX coin and 5x of bitcoin in terms of speed of payment and how fat and round you want to bloat a blockchain. Of course your trade off is lower difficulty and shorter block times are a little risky (Based on my research which I know not everyone agrees with)


Anyway the old word was lots of i0 as it was mined was just immediatly dumped at vircurex in the old days since it was considered the worst of the merged coins at the time.  I think that iX is holding well in an environment where a few alt coins a day take a powder (mostly from their own doing) and even bitcoin is on sale for the time being.  I bet the owners or major traders on Vircurex hold a ton of i0 coin , probably millions, no where to really trace any unless someone can point me to a working abe block crawler (yes I can build my own but I am not that curios about it. )


I always said I would be concerned about bitcoin if the dificulty were to drop several times in a row and many fewer were mining.

I think it pretty funny that it drops just less than one percent the last two adjustment periods.  It feels almost as if someone has their hand on the throttle and is lowering/raising it when they want. 

Also since in America and some other countries, owning, mining or using bitcoin in business is now something you MAY havre to figure in to your taxes if the fiscal year ends at the end of the calendar year I would expect the price of bitcoin to really tank hard since all the people who don't want to pay taxes on what they could owe will instead show a capital loss and be able to deduct it from other areas of the business return they file.  After the first of the year bitcoin may face less pressure to rise in cost from this factor alone.


Getting back on point with the to do lis:

1) Is anyone currently running an ix node ?  If so can you please post it and what version you are using.

2) Does anyone agree wtih me it is a little wild to keep 4 million iX coins in just 8 addresses ??  (if a key is compromised and this can happen in many many ways by splitting them up in batches of 1000 coins or so you greatly reduce your risk whether you are just storing the coins or whatever.
Honestly I think it is a little crazy to keep that many coins in a few addresses.  Still even if you say "bull Cinnamon the coins are safe", would it be cexio holding those coins ?  I think it likely.  It is 20% of all the iX in the world.  I wonder what will happen next. (hopefully most of you know how to read a block crawler , check out the links to those huge amounts of coin each held by one address) 

3) iX coin test net - Vlad and I discussed this , since no one has any thoughts on it and most probably believe it to be unnecessary I may just run it myself.  I think if iX is going to try to make a run at world class status everything that is 'known' to work with bitcoin  , for example storing notes and photos in the block chain can easily be done with iX.  Other things the testnet would be good for is , we hope the multisignature functions of the new
update will work as expected but even when the bitcoin developers tested them there were more than a few unpredictable things that came up.

4)

Lol. Sorry mate, but just a single buy at CEX.io on 14-12-2014 is higher than the last MONTH vircurex activity.

Heavy ixcoin trading on vircurex the last couple of weeks.  It's been the most active exchange for ixcoin lately.