Topic: [PRE-ANN] [VIA] - page 51. (Read 71948 times)
presale coins distribution - proportional bid system is not an ideal model. The person who bids high takes most of the coins and peanuts for the rest. You should have made first come first serve model. Not fair.
What about an esrow?
If there was no premine how are you doing a presale?
How does this compare to Syscoin?
Nice to see a new scrypt coin.
No Premine? Insta-in! 
When will I be able to mine this?
So the plan is this. First 7 days are surely for the presale bidding, but it will close at a random number of days after that to stop last minute buying.
Coins will be distributed over the next 48 hours while we setup the genesis block, checkpoints, start the network going. During this period there are 2000 blocks with 0 reward. During this period of zero rewards we will release the reference client. That will give enough time for everyone to get setup, configure their pools and get started fairly.
MacOS Vialectrum has LSArchitecturePriority set to prefer i386 in Info.plist, but python binary set to /usr/bin/python which is 64-bit in any recent MacOS. So it does not start. The workaround is to uncheck 32-bit mode in application's 'Get info'.
Thanks for that: Can you open a ticket or PR in https://github.com/vialectrum/vialectrum please?
Will be buying 
MacOS Vialectrum has LSArchitecturePriority set to prefer i386 in Info.plist, but python binary set to /usr/bin/python which is 64-bit in any recent MacOS. So it does not start. The workaround is to uncheck 32-bit mode in application's 'Get info'.
When will I be able to mine this?
Is there a way to tell how much BTC has been sent overall by everyone?
Yes, it's all tracked here http://presale.viacoin.org/list.html
BTC are not being burned, just the deposit addresses are being associated mathematically with the BTC deposit address.
It is explained on the presale terms page: http://presale.viacoin.org/terms
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DETERMINISTIC DEPOSIT ADDRESS
Deposit addresses are calculated by creating a 2-of-3 multisig bitcoin address. P1+P2 belong to us and P3 is the public key from a private key from derived from sha256d(viacoin_address)
This formula allows the entire presale process to be transparent and avoid the need for registration since all bitcoin payments are linked to the final viacoin deposit address.
The public keys used will be published after the close of the presale.
Deposit addresses are calculated by creating a 2-of-3 multisig bitcoin address. P1+P2 belong to us and P3 is the public key from a private key from derived from sha256d(viacoin_address)
This formula allows the entire presale process to be transparent and avoid the need for registration since all bitcoin payments are linked to the final viacoin deposit address.
The public keys used will be published after the close of the presale.
Is there a way to tell how much BTC has been sent overall by everyone?
Yes, it's all tracked here http://presale.viacoin.org/list.html
Is there a way to tell how much BTC has been sent overall by everyone?
Yes, it's all tracked here http://presale.viacoin.org/list.html
Is there a way to tell how much BTC has been sent overall by everyone?
I am interested. I just don't know how much to risk. I guess I will decide by the weekend.
I really believe that the next generation of altcoins is going to be ones that innovate on the blockchain. Viacoin is the start of something big. Definitely investing in this.
How can you guarantee fast blocks if miners decide not to mine this coin anymore?
As a scrypt coin we could always take advantage of merged mining in the future. That is why we chose scrypt
because there is a lot of hash power available.
Our blockchain can be sped up a lot more as we are working on headers first block propagation.
How can you guarantee fast blocks if miners decide not to mine this coin anymore?
How long will the ICO be running for?
Starting from today for 7 days, and then will randomly close. This is to prevent last minute bidding. It's now open, see OP for the details.
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