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Nefario has provided me with a complete list.  This whole GLBSE mess is nearly behind us.

Fantastic news!  Grin

How close are we to being able to distribute donations on nonnakip's site?
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Nefario has provided me with a complete list.  This whole GLBSE mess is behind us.
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quotes from #bitcoin-dev on freenode IRC ( UTC-0500 / Eastern / NY time )

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[17:46:08] what's the idea behind the "keypool" line of the bitcoin.conf file anyway? the comments say something about: "...so wallet backups will be valid for both prior transactions and several dozen future transactions..."
[17:46:27] I suspect... is it related to the "change" addreses or something?
[17:49:10] kuzetsa: not just change, though that too.
[17:49:29] e.g. you make a backup. then 10 seconds later you get a new address from bitcoin so someone can pay you.
[17:49:38] It would be nice if that didn't invalidate your backup.
[17:49:44] And it doesn't— because of the keypool.
[17:51:16] right
[17:51:24] * Matt_von_Mises ([email protected]) Quit (Quit: Leaving.)
[17:52:34] It just precomputes the next N addresses that it will use, so they end up in the backup and if you repeat backups at least every N addresses that you consume your backups will be good.
[17:53:02] yeah
[17:55:49] mind if I quote you on that?
[17:56:15] I mean, it sounds factual / common sense, but I like your explaination better than I would've worded it.
[17:56:39] fine with me

^Basically, assuming a default configuration, you have something like 100 "hidden" addresses sitting in your wallet.

These public / private keypairs aren't just used for change, but are also the pre-generated ones which will be used for the next time you were to click [+new address] on the receive coins tab (assuming bitcoin qt, the gui version of the satoshi client... I realize in your case it's bitcoind, but either way it uses the same conf file format and settings and same basic code for all bitcoin transactions and such)
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It's explained here: Change (bitcoin wiki)

... I suspected it might've been a change address. Thanks for confirming.

Thank you for this information. bitcoind does not list the address as a receiveaddress. But I can dump the private key. I do not like that the address is hidden in bitcoind. I will search how to manage hidden private keys with bitcoind.

Not sure if this is related to change addresses, but it's a WEIRD section of an older bitcoin.conf file referring to public / private keypairs
(a default one / from long before I modified everything to my needs. Been several versions back since I had a fresh install)

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 # Pre-generate this many public/private key pairs, so wallet backups will be valid for
 # both prior transactions and several dozen future transactions.
 #keypool=100

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It's explained here: Change (bitcoin wiki)

... I suspected it might've been a change address. Thanks for confirming.

Thank you for this information. bitcoind does not list the address as a receiveaddress. But I can dump the private key. I do not like that the address is hidden in bitcoind. I will search how to manage hidden private keys with bitcoind.
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With the exception of a single address, all of the sent BTC went out in multiples of exactly 0.00131686 BTC per seat. The amount sent to the one address which wasn't an exact multiple received 100x 0.00131686 BTC "seats" plus another 0.00014334 BTC (for a total of 0.13182934 BTC)

Kinda wonder why this one was a special case: 1NZjSBtHN78HX9329t3epfyyu6NgUqQap3

This is something I do not yet understand about Bitcoin. The 0.13182934 BTC did not come from me and was not taken from my account. Also that address was not in my recipient list.

I believe Bitcoin does some rearrangement when creating the block. I notice this with other transactions. Maybe somebody here can explain or give a link where these details are explained.

You probably just forgot to specify which address to return the change to (didn't send the whole amount) For example: if you have exactly 25 bitcoin in an address you control, and then spend 2 bitcoin: Transaction is created which sends 2 bitcoin, as well as the leftover 23 bitcoin to a random "change" address which you control (it's in your wallet)

It's explained here: Change (bitcoin wiki)

... I suspected it might've been a change address. Thanks for confirming.
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With the exception of a single address, all of the sent BTC went out in multiples of exactly 0.00131686 BTC per seat. The amount sent to the one address which wasn't an exact multiple received 100x 0.00131686 BTC "seats" plus another 0.00014334 BTC (for a total of 0.13182934 BTC)

Kinda wonder why this one was a special case: 1NZjSBtHN78HX9329t3epfyyu6NgUqQap3

This is something I do not yet understand about Bitcoin. The 0.13182934 BTC did not come from me and was not taken from my account. Also that address was not in my recipient list.

I believe Bitcoin does some rearrangement when creating the block. I notice this with other transactions. Maybe somebody here can explain or give a link where these details are explained.
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I think we'll be moving away from weekly donation distributions soon in favor of real time distributions.

Personally, I would prefer a daily or weekly distribution to a real time one. Many small transactions don't do the blockchain any good and I don't see any benefits for the club members to doing it real time. Perhaps we can start a poll for this?

Quoted for emphasis / Agreed!!!





Question; is this dividend a fair representation of the coming weekly dividends? Or was there much time lost reconfiguring different pools and the new version of CGMiner?

I think we'll be moving away from weekly donation distributions soon in favor of real time distributions. That being said, NASTY MINING is currently mining around 1BTC per day with the FPGA setup. It will be a much different story when ASICs arrive.
DISCLAIMER: I didn't actually do any maths on this.

Wouldn't that eat much more transactions fees?

Simply put, yes... Sending such small amounts is difficult, and spending them is even harder:

Transaction fees (bitcoin wiki)

FWIW, all pools have been experiencing higher stales and orphaned blocks due to the excessive transaction volume lately resulting from SatoshiDice abusing the blockchain (there are much cleaner ways to do the same thing). After our second set of 3 orphans in a row, I'm a bit on the annoyed end. For now, I am blocking transactions to 1dice* addresses and limiting our blocks to 32 transactions until we've caught up on the extra credit or at least have a viable alternative solution. I really hate to do this, as Eligius has traditionally been one of the most accepting mining pools, so any suggestions on other possibilities would be most welcome.

While SatoshiDice does force its users/victims to pay a transaction fee, those fees despite their high volume still don't add up to anywhere near the 300+ BTC we've lost by mining their transactions - so it's not like we can just "make up for" the orphans by throwing transaction fees into the pot.

Note that this is really a global Bitcoin scalability problem, but wasn't an immediate issue because up until recently the transaction volume growth was accompanied by an equivalent influx of more people using Bitcoin. SatoshiDice's abuse breaks that balance, so the developer and mining communities need to find a solution faster than previously anticipated.



... and a public IRC realtime chat discussion on the subject of transactions / mining / fees / filtering / etc.

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29.10.12 14:05:20 Smoovious: the whole point of mining is processing transactions... so if you're not doing that? you don't get rewarded for it
29.10.12 14:05:53 kfrog: I would mine all day long just for transaction fees
29.10.12 14:05:59 kfrog: Smiley
29.10.12 14:06:15 laSeek: Do some pools create new blocks without transactions - or do they skim off the transaction value for themselves and pay miners only for the raw block?
29.10.12 14:06:23 kfrog: whats up guys
29.10.12 14:06:31 laSeek: Wotcha kf
29.10.12 14:06:40 Smoovious: yeah... the reward is supposed to just be a subsidy... it isn't supposed to be the whole point of it
29.10.12 14:06:55 laSeek: aye
29.10.12 14:07:26 Smoovious: laSeek: some pools don't include transactions... individuals too... others, filter out transactions (like satoshi dice ones), for whatever reason
29.10.12 14:08:00 laSeek: Although I was thinking of transactions the other day - in theory you could push transactions to an alt block off minted blocks
29.10.12 14:08:01 Smoovious: I'm cool with picking and choosing transactions based on the fee and stuff... as long as they are including transactions to begin with
29.10.12 14:08:28 Smoovious: but to just go 'fuck transactions' and not process them at all? that's messed up
29.10.12 14:08:44 kfrog: +1
29.10.12 14:08:51 laSeek: Which would mean you could have a transaction block with only the value of transactions
29.10.12 14:09:35 Smoovious: I had this argument with luke-jr and a couple other guys about satoshi dice's transactions... far as I'm concerned, if they are including the proper fee, how are they an 'attack'? just process the transactions
29.10.12 14:09:49 laSeek: if you rate the diff of the alt chain based on the mined main block (something like 1/4) - you could have transaction processing nodes
29.10.12 14:10:43 laSeek: Some of the devs are worried about block size I think - their worry is about the script attached to blocks for the trans
29.10.12 14:10:45 Smoovious: if you're mining, you're a transaction processing node... far as I'm concerned
29.10.12 14:10:57 efx: agreed
29.10.12 14:11:56 Smoovious: well, they can either do something to accomodate the amount of transactions now, or later... but if the network grows like they keep saying they want it to? I don't know they expect that to happen without lots of transactions increasing the block size
29.10.12 14:12:00 laSeek: aye Smoov - you are currently. The problem I have is that the transaction conf time currently is based off the block creation time
29.10.12 14:12:46 Smoovious: satoshi dice is doing them a favor with a real-world scenario, early enough to work on something usable, at a time where it is still early enough
29.10.12 14:12:53 laSeek: aye - there's been some talk about how to manage transactions - although most of the current focus is based around some kind of pruning to manage the startup time of the daemon
29.10.12 14:12:59 laSeek: aye
29.10.12 14:13:18 Smoovious: if ya put it off to deal with until later, ya could end up handling it badly and rushed, and drive people away
29.10.12 14:13:51 laSeek: Luke isn't the person for this type of discussion - Gavin is probably a better sounding board
29.10.12 14:14:21 Smoovious: well, I forget who else was involved in the discussion... (less of a discussion, more of a fight, really)
29.10.12 14:14:48 laSeek: heh - devs aren't always easy to have a blue sky discussion with
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I think we'll be moving away from weekly donation distributions soon in favor of real time distributions.

Personally, I would prefer a daily or weekly distribution to a real time one. Many small transactions don't do the blockchain any good and I don't see any benefits for the club members to doing it real time. Perhaps we can start a poll for this?
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Question; is this dividend a fair representation of the coming weekly dividends? Or was there much time lost reconfiguring different pools and the new version of CGMiner?

I think we'll be moving away from weekly donation distributions soon in favor of real time distributions. That being said, NASTY MINING is currently mining around 1BTC per day with the FPGA setup. It will be a much different story when ASICs arrive.
DISCLAIMER: I didn't actually do any maths on this.

Wouldn't that eat much more transactions fees?

nonnakip has gone through a great deal of effort behind the scenes to minimize these fees.
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Question; is this dividend a fair representation of the coming weekly dividends? Or was there much time lost reconfiguring different pools and the new version of CGMiner?

I think we'll be moving away from weekly donation distributions soon in favor of real time distributions. That being said, NASTY MINING is currently mining around 1BTC per day with the FPGA setup. It will be a much different story when ASICs arrive.
DISCLAIMER: I didn't actually do any maths on this.

Wouldn't that eat much more transactions fees?
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The donation page is not yet automatic. I updated it to show the last distribution. I know that it must be better and it will be. I wanted the important details up as fast as possible. I am sure others will be verifying the math.

Speaking of math:

With the exception of a single address, all of the sent BTC went out in multiples of exactly 0.00131686 BTC per seat. The amount sent to the one address which wasn't an exact multiple received 100x 0.00131686 BTC "seats" plus another 0.00014334 BTC (for a total of 0.13182934 BTC)

Kinda wonder why this one was a special case: 1NZjSBtHN78HX9329t3epfyyu6NgUqQap3
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Question; is this dividend a fair representation of the coming weekly dividends? Or was there much time lost reconfiguring different pools and the new version of CGMiner?

I think we'll be moving away from weekly donation distributions soon in favor of real time distributions. That being said, NASTY MINING is currently mining around 1BTC per day with the FPGA setup. It will be a much different story when ASICs arrive.
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The donation page is not yet automatic. I updated it to show the last distribution. I know that it must be better and it will be. I wanted the important details up as fast as possible. I am sure others will be verifying the math.
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Also just received an incoming transaction from the same transaction ID: http://blockchain.info/tx/ed5840c188b8aa691fd6288aee480403f2e4138531360619b7ccb0cf34985e36

Thanks !

Question; is this dividend a fair representation of the coming weekly dividends? Or was there much time lost reconfiguring different pools and the new version of CGMiner?
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Nice. I just calculated out the per-share amount in today's payment and it came out 0.00131686 / 0.00140476 = aprox 6.2% "missing bitcoins" sweet Smiley

Transaction: ed5840c188b8aa691fd6288aee480403f2e4138531360619b7ccb0cf34985e36

***disclaimer, that's my own & based on 12 shares:

My payment of 0.01580232 (12 shares worth) divided by 12 came to aprox 0.00131686 per share.



... err, I meant "seat" ... lol whatever. Thanks nonnakip & OgNasty.
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Yep, give the guy a break. I didn't see a lot of other issuers go to the lengths that OgNasty has to make things right.
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I know things are getting a little tense here, but can we give OgNasty and nonnakip a little slack while things get put in place?  
...

Agreed. Also, just think, Nasty's situation is fantastic compared to Gigamining's.
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I know things are getting a little tense here, but can we give OgNasty and nonnakip a little slack while things get put in place?  

I think there's a lot that has been on their plates with getting things established, and like everything there's some room for improvement.  Like it or not though, they were put in this position by GLBSE, they were tasked with putting together an interim solution to address the needs of existing shareholders in a quick amount of time, and I think they are doing as well as they can all things considered.

There's been a change in vernacular specifically on the "fans" site for reasons which I think should be apparent to most share holders or "seat owners".  This hasn't been spelled out on here, and I think for somewhat obvious reasons, so I don't mind this.

As for some of transparency in operational decisions being made recently, OgNasty made the decision to put dividends toward another SC when he didn't have a list, and also posted his intention of doing so on here with nearly no feedback indicating share holders being upset with this decision.  We know that this is the official message board to check for updates, not voicing your concern at that time and given the uncertainties OgNasty faced I think he was well within his rights to make that call.  For the mining transparencies, I firmly believe that OgNasty has been acting in our best accord by the sheer fact that he actively has been keeping us updated post GLBSE and worked with nonnakip to get something up and going.  He could have walked away with funds and delivered nothing with minimal punitive damage - but he didn't, and I think as a shareholder himself, it's in his best interest to ensure other shareholders are confident in operations if he considers this to be a longer term investment, which I have no reason to suspect he doesn't.  

At the moment I don't have any questions about the operations and how things are directly relating to the funds we see in donations as they aren't currently impacting seat owners, but once we have some SC's operating of course this will need to be further outlined.  In the interim though, I'm going to give them some slack to get things organized and address some of the outstanding questions.  There's only so much they can do in a short period of time, and especially in Nonnakip's case while he is a seatholder as well, he's not getting direct donations of any kind and I'm sure he put in a good bit of time into developing the site we have now, which isn't perfect, but considering we had nothing a few weeks ago and faced the possibility of no list ever coming from GLBSE I think it does at least show us the number of seats we have and give us a vehicle for buying/selling, along with seeing incoming donations (which we didn't have on GLBSE).  

(disclaimer: I don't personally know OgNasty or Nonnakip, I haven't been asked to post this - I'm just thinking we're being a little over-critical and should back off just a little while some concerns are being addressed.)
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Adding mining pools has 2 delaying effects on donations.  1) Mined coins take time to be confirmed before they are distributed by the pool. 


Could you provide your investors with the details on NASTY mining operation? For example how much have you mined since GLBSE shutdown, how much have you spent on additional mining hardware and etc.

I do not notice any effect of unconfirmed coins to mining payout, because I do not know about any failure of your mining operation (you did not start mining first coins this week, you continued to mine all the time since GLBSE shutdown, so last week unconfirmed coins, adds to next week payout, hence weekly payout should not be effected by unconfirmed rewards, payout depends on mining capacity, bitcoin network difficulty and pool luck if any.

Have you included "set up mining operation in preparation for the arrival of ASIC hardware" in your profit calculations or are you just using the "I put money in, I want money out NOW" formula?

Would you care to explain how to include "set up mining operation in preparation for the arrival of ASIC hardware"?

OgNasty, how 'bout a quick write-up here responding to each of these questions. More information is always desirable, and there's no reason you can't take 10 or 15 minutes and answer each of these in turn, provide specifics etc.

Thanks in advance.
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