Topic: Limit mining a new alt-coin to a specific country. (Read 2512 times)

If someone set up a pool in Venezuela then all your efforts will be in vain.

It is may be possible if country have specific law to new crypto currency - then yes, it can be possible - otherwise - mining can be all over the world.

I'm very interested in results of the thread after about one year. Has vencoin been launched? I can't see on vencoin.org?

The most inspiring words in the whole thread.

I'll spend a couple of days researching alt-coins to pick the most suitable and...

LAUNCH!


 

I'll agree with that.   A straight PoW-based alt will get clobbered by a 51% attack if it starts getting used in commerce (and thus growing to have sufficient value to make it worth performing the attack) prior to having sufficient hashing capacity to reduce any economic benefit to performing the attack.

Dude, this is a good idea...
Pick the right Alt Coin with PoW/PoS.. like PPC or YAC...
Fork it, make it Spanish... and launch, baby, launch.

Just plan on lauching 2 coins...
A 1st test coin (3 months)... and your 2nd great coin (6 months).

Bitcoin is an Elitist California coin whereby Hipsters patronize the Third World...
Russia, China gonna have LOTS of regional coins... why not Venezuala?

When the Muslim Brotherhood launches a coin... the infidel Bitcoin will be left in the dust.

If you take a dollar bill out of your pocket people will kill you to have it at any price (from 40 to 45 bolivares right now, far from the official 6.5) and still people don't come to venezuela with briefcases full of dollars, not because there aren't dollars, but because they wouldn't know what to do with bolivares.

If people don't do that easily with dollars, much less with bitcoins.

See a pattern here?

Bolivares are worthless for outside sellers in quantities large enough to start a parallel economy. Sure, a designer can charge in bitcoins and he will solely save his capital. But that is just a drop in the bucket. Still no parallel economy.

VEN-coins would be different (or so we hope) because sellers would be local (miners) and would spend their money in day to day consumption, in great quantities.

If I had plans to make purchases with bolivares, and I could get them at a 20% discount simply by making a trade, exchanging my Bitcoins locally for bolivares, then yes I would sell my BTCs.  This is presuming, of course, that I could buy or earn more bitcoins to replenish my Bitcoin position ... without having to pay such a premium.

So not every person needs to be able to convert bolivares to bitcoins.  There are some who have cash outside of Venezula but spend domestically -- so they would be wise then to buy bitcoins with those funds and trade those coins locally for bolivares.   Or take the example of the graphic designer who essentially has a service that can be exported.  The designer can ask the employer to pay using Bitcoin and offer a 10% discount even, and still come out ahead (in terms of the number of bolivares earned) if those coins can then be sold to a buyer who will pay a 20% premium.

I don't believe it's the answer for one simple reason.

There are not enough bitcoins offered at any premium in Venezuela, and even if there were, the dollar still would be a better option in the black market. So bitcoins are like antiques traded in secret for a high premium by geeks only. A healthy market can never fluorish under these conditions.

Personally, I would never buy a bitcoin unless I had to diversify my portfolio, in which case I'd buy dollars first for their liquidity, then gold, then silver, then bitcoins, then litecoins. All of them are hard to get, if not impossible. That's why I believe VEN-coins can take the number one spot.

Now let me ask you, would you sell your BTCs for bolivares? I can guess the answer.

Please excuse my stubbornness.

Ripple isn't the issuer.  The issuer is the neighbor that you trust to really be holding the 500 silver dimes that she claims to be holding (which the 25 DYM digital vouchers you bought from her are backed by).  You know this is true because you stop over unannounced and ask her to show them to you and she can (or she can't and now you know who not to trust).

So yes ... Ripple is a decentralized method to get an asset-backed digital currency up and running.   If this region-specific currency gets traction and you want something with less central control, you can then run your own validators (possible now that Ripple is open source), or you go with Open Transactions then.

We understand your situation, just that Bitcoin IS the best answer.

Somehow you believe that this VenzuelanCoin will be cheapter to acquire and then use than Bitcoin.   You'll probably need to get hit over the head a few times before you figure out that it hurts. but VenzuelanCoin, if it is mined using proof-of-work will cost the exact same to mine as Bitcoin and Litecoin, etc.   i.e., mining capacity will rise until there is little or no profit from mining.

More importantly, you are dismissing the vulnerability to a 51% attack.

Bitcoins do cross the border into Venezuela when there are buyers paying a premium.   If that bitcoin buyer is paying VEF, then some smart cookie will do arbitrage by selling BTCs for VEFs at a premium and then using those VEFs to pay for goods and services locally in Venezuela, essentially getting those at a discount.   Trust me, ... if you are willing to pay $12K worth of bolivar (VEFs) in exchange for about $10K of BTCs, then someone with access to BTCs will certainly emerge to sell to you.  This is because that person can then turn around and maybe buy a vehicle worth $12K with your $12K worth of VEFs.

Sure, that lets the person with access to BTCs buy a $12K vehicle with just $10K worth of BTCs, but that's the cost for getting liquidity into your market.     Merchants then would be advised to give a 20% discount for paying with Bitcoin so that the bitcoins get traded locally then.

I doubt 20% is even needed, ... maybe 10% is sufficient -- especially over time.  Trust the market.  It works.  I do understand it sucks for you to have to pay $12K worth of bolivar to get $10K of BTC.  But if those $12K worth of bolivar are being devalued, they'll only be worth $10K in a few months anyways so you might as well make the bid offer now so that down the road you have the BTCs and not the VEFs.

Nobody said it would be easy, but there is an urgent need for a solution to our currency problems.


It used to be a hundred years ago, now it tastes like sawdust, if you can even find it since it is regulated and practically has disappeared from the shelves.

We'll try to avoid that. No pre-mining. We'll try to have at least a hundred miners enrolled before we start.

All tips we get to make a better coin are highly appreciated.


Yep, the first step to see an idea materialized is to take action.

Well porcupine, just realize that this will no come without a few cons.
1.The coin should take atleast a year of mining to ensure the distribution of the coin throughout the local economy is spread.
2.You run the risk of non locals finding out about the coin and mining it
3.You have to prepare to sell things for the coin on the meantime so when it hits the exchanges people will be interested in it.
4.There is no assurance that your coin will be popular or worth your while as opposed to more established alts like bbqcoin.
You'd be reinventing the wheel pretty much...
Btw is venezuelan coffee as good as colombian?
I'd like some of that.

All you ever do is pump your obscure coins.

To the OP...
Just make a decision, build and launch a coin.

Expect your 1st coin to be a failure and a learning experience...
Focus on your 2nd, 3rd, 4th coin being a home run.

That's the main premise. Bolivars only so people from other countries will have no interest in mining it. What would an indian or a russian guy do with a VEN coin?

There will be a trillion coins so it will be valued really cheap, like a penny per coin or less so it would be stupid to speculate with it knowing there are so many coins that can be mined.


We rather create a more localized, 'patriotic' coin (stupid I know, but it helps in marketing), I doubt people will adopt AlphaCoin, BBQCoin, CosmoCoin or whatever, so we better stick to BOLs or VENs.

Maybe you could simply mine one or both of the really low difficulty merged mined coins, quietly building up a large stash of them so that you will be in position with lots of them when they go onto pools and exchanges? Unfortunately it is already too late to jump on I0Coin and GRouPcoin as they already did go onto pools and, at least in I0Coin's case, exchanges. It is too bad you didnt' pick up those while they were easy. But CoiLedCoin and GeistGeld are still easy to get. The nice thing about the merged mined coins is you can expect them to have decent difficulty very rapidly, look at I0Coin and GRouPcoin now for example, just getting onto bitparking's mmpool jacked their difficulties way up. So if you pick up CoiLedCoin and GeistGeld now before that happens to them too you could end up with a large stash of well secured (high difficulty) coins very rapidly once they do get picked up. In fact you might prefer they not get picked up for some time, so you can have more time to build your national warchest before it happens.

-MarkM-

IP Restriction would be moot, since a miner could simply buy a VPN with a valid IP.

The one thing I could think of for your Venezuela based crypto-currency would be requiring a MinerID to submit a valid block. The only coin I have seen with this implemented is Rucoin, which requires that you purchase one from a network at a price based on how many MinerIDs had been issued in the previous N blocks (didn't see the math on it but that's what it seemed to be tied to). The fee paid for the creation of a new MinerID would go to the miner which published the block which created it, so it worked a lot like a regular transaction, with the exception of granting the rights to publish blocks.

Using something like this, you could at least limit the distribution of miners and attempt to keep them in centralized Venezuela for longer than if you simply released it there.

I have not seen much support for Rucoin or heard about it at all lately, probably because they guarded the source like coca cola guards their recipe.

Another option is to create a coin which has the stated intent of being traded for Bolivar, or to adopt an existing crypto-currency with this intent.

Not much right now, but once the cat is out of the bag it'll go viral for sure.


Please share your ideas. I can tell you all I know about our economy, ways to penetrate the market, pools, exchanges, interested miners, wannabepreneurs, etc.

One thing is for sure, if we crack this puzzle there will be a flood of people willing to save their hard earned money, another devaluation is expected real soon.

Only idea I would have is make a specialized miner for it that is restrict to work by region and/or code the coin to work only in a specific region. ie. ip restriction, region lock, etc. Just an idea... I'm not a programmer, so I couldn't help with coding it...I specialize in IT networking and computer repairs....