Topic: Slimcoin | First Proof of Burn currency | Decentralized Web - page 18. (Read 137085 times)

Not worth it. I had a choice between bringing the original branch up to the latest code or re-doing the additions using the latest code as a base. I chose the latter course and was wrong. Whilst it did work for me, watched addresses are indistinguishable from owned addresses in the GUI which is unfortunately unacceptable. So, I've had to recourse to the other option, bringing the (more complete) earlier branch up to date. In addition, the earlier branch included caching of watched address values, something that's going to be functionally vital.

Cheers

Graham

That's interesting, thanks for clarification! It's strange, because when I fired up another testnet node with the original (master) code after I closed the watchaddress version, it seems to have generated the blocks normally (i.e. there was not a point at the start where the new blocks "magically appeared", they went coming in relatively slowly.) But maybe I didn't observe "deep enough".

This weekend I'll have a bit of time so I can again fire up your watchaddress version and look at that possible bug, e.g. examing debug.log. I don't think I have the skill to solve it, but I can perhaps contribute to a better bug description.

There were no changes made to the mining code. Blocks are being generated but they're not being credited to the wallet, an issue obviously related to the added watchaddress code, possibly the address for the mining key is incorrectly being identified as a watch address.

Cheers

Graham

No, I had begun to test the feature, but after some days of running it I stumbled on the mining problem. I thought first it was my fault, and wanted to investigate further before complaining potentially about a bug that doesn't exist, but then I had the long discussion about PoD with johnwhitestar and didn't re-take testing for a while. When johnwhitestar asked for urgent changes I remembered it. I should have mentioned it at Discord, simpy forgot it, sorry.

Have you mentioned this before/elsewhere? Is my memory failing me?

Cheers

Graham

There are three relatively easy tasks which could be done now:

1) Test and fix bugs in the editions which add the "importaddress" feature. I have tried it, the command itself seems to work, but it seems to have problems generating blocks on testnet, so there is probably a bug related to mining.

It has not been integrated still in the main Slimcoin tree but it's at gjhiggins' repository:

https://github.com/gjhiggins/Slimcoin/tree/feature.watchonly

2) The hard cap edit is meant to make big PoS stakers less powerful, so they can't generate more than a certain quantity of blocks in a row (in the current iteration, 13 blocks). This would offer some protection against "51% staking attacks".

https://github.com/d5000/slimcoin

Graham had compiled it for Windows:

https://mega.nz/#!3QdwjCBY!3lW_2YjSMi4Ml6tRaOTANo7wd-5hmslwT_QjWrEmpwo

3) Slightly more tricky, but still something where the code is already there, would be to fix the "optimised PoS" branch developed by iguanodon1 and integrate it into the main codebase. The problem with this branch, which has to be fixed before integrating it into the code, is that it generates much more orphan blocks than the normal way, but it improves staking performance significantly.

https://github.com/slimcoin-project/Slimcoin/tree/optimized-pos

Then obviously, if a longer-term involvement is planned, a modernized codebase (port to Peercoin 0.8 as a base) would be the next option. This would, however, be a pretty big task.

There are some developers I'm speaking with right now about helping us with SLM development. What in your opinion would be the most urgent task to accomplish?

I'm beginning to work on our Wiki. So I've created the-wiki channel on Discord.

I think we'll need to discuss and to change some important concepts regarding SLM, so if you are interested in SLM's success or have something to share about it or other currencies, please, come to our Discord channel and participate in discussion.

Hello guys,

the domain slimco.in has expired and as consequence it went down.
While I'm waiting for the info about whether we can be able to renew it I've registered another domain www.slimcoin.info and restored the site from the github version we have.
I've noticed the site is not that updated as it should, so I've created the section "the-site" on discord to discuss the necessary changes.
If you are interested to discuss the topic please go there, in order to avoid repeating the discussion in different places. I'll be expressing ideas on what I think should be done. If nobody replies I'll consider the idea accepted, after a while.
Right now I'm waiting for everybody's feedback on the first idea I've expressed.

Not really, but they are quite responsive on their discord.

Do you have link for contact?

Yep, and it seems a good place to be listed in.
I asked them to let me know when is the next listing.
I think we need to begin listing SLM on exchanges as it's a kind of advertising as well.
Maybe BlockDex? What do you think?

Oh!!! I was checking but did not see. It was very easy to list!!!

We've been added, but I've discovered it only now 

I did the same as well

I've asked them to list us for voting as the procedure is not described there. Let's hope they'll answer in time for us to vote.

Can we put SLM on https://c-patex.com/voting-en.php for voting?

That's cool! Probably this weekend I will back to the discussion about the PoD token. The simple PoD token alpha has already been released in early March (see here and the Github repo linked in the article) but it's still running on Peercoin Testnet and is still difficult to use.

Yep, SLM x13 and n° 5 on Freiexchange right now  

Green day on Frei, especially great to see during these sad days