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gjhiggins

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Quote from: biplobmbhr on January 17, 2018, 09:07:36 AM

I am feeling very weird about this project! What benefits does the blockchain gives to it?

In general on bitcointalk, every thread devoted to a specific altcoin (aka “ANN”, an abbreviation of “Announcement”) carries at least some details of the coin and pertinent matters of interest to an assumed would-be new member of the coin's user community. In this instance ... https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/slimcoin-first-proof-of-burn-currency-decentralized-web-1141676 and ...

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Slimcoin is a energy-saving, fast-confirming and novel cryptocurrency. It is the first cryptocurrency using Proof of Burn for block generation and currency distribution - a distribution mechanism with interesting economic properties. Proof of Burn is combined with Proof of Work and Proof of Stake to increase security. Another highlight is the DCrypt algorithm, which is one of the most difficult algorithms to implement in an ASIC and suitable for CPU and GPU mining.

Slimcoin is a P2P project - we have no "official dev", nor it is managed by any centralized entity or organization. There was no premine at the start. You can contribute with coding, testing, providing goods & services or simply using it. Be welcome!

Were you a human, you would/should be aware of that. However, of late a substantial number of account-farming bots have been making ill-written posts masquerading as posts from humans with ESL (English as a Second Language, i.e. non-native speakers).

I regret to inform you that your post has failed the Turing test and so has received a stock textual answer.

Cheers

Graham

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I am feeling very weird about this project! What benefits does the blockchain gives to it?

gjhiggins

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Quote from: metare on January 10, 2018, 03:30:53 PM

I recently went through the whitepaper of Gulden, which I found very interesting because of two reasons.
Find it here
First I learned quite a lot about blockchain technology and second I wondered if some of the development for the PoW2 could be used for Slimcoin too.

I'm just playing with ideas but I assumed that maybe Gulden in case of a snapshot scenario would be a lot closer to what Slimcoin aims to.

That's a good find - better than most on blockchain tech but, as is characteristic of altcoin “white papers”, its loose writing and appeals to bogus “common knowledge” tends to undermine my confidence in the entire effort. e.g. this completely unnecessary and laughably false inference ... “PoS has a potential flaw that has been described as the ’nothing at stake’ problem, it is commonly misunderstood and therefore many think it is a myth.” It makes for uncomfortable reading in what purports to be a serious discourse on cryptocurrency.

Otherwise, it's an interesting approach, attempting to harmonise the otherwise competing interests of those who mine and those who stake in a way that also enhances network security and robustness.

Unfortunately, the intersection of Witness/PoW/PoB will significantly complicate any implementation and, as Slimcoin is a bespoke variant reference client for the Bitcoin protocol, will require a correspondingly significant amount of not just professional competence in C++ but also professional-grade software engineering skills.

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Graham

muf18

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Remove coinhouse they are probably dishonest, their wallet isn't working not responding for tickets.
Imo for now they are scammers, with my 1000SLM.

SHBlizzard

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looks like good tech.. will buy in soon Cheesy

gjhiggins

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Quote from: gjhiggins on January 15, 2018, 11:49:47 AM

It may just be coincidence and not down to ipfs, depends if docker is implicated - I don't believe I'm running any docker apps and I certainly haven't created any myself, so why it used nearly half a terabyte is beyond me atm.

Yes, it was just coincidence, I'd had a look at timemachine, a Linux backup app and had apparently inadvertently enabled it, along with its default config to back up on the HD. I've reinstalled ipfs.

w.r.t. my committed boost 1.66 compat fix: https://github.com/slimcoin-project/Slimcoin/commit/bb6c7a3ce5fb4e0b714fee72ce87b0ebd74aa136, it'll be worth keeping an eye on the solution for this Verge issue raised on the same problem: https://github.com/vergecurrency/VERGE/issues/418

I doubt whether anyone runs that code anyway, it implements SSL for RPC calls and was removed entirely in 0.12 Core along with the dependency on openssl.

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Graham

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I should've bided my time ... I'd followed the destructions to get ipfs running on my XPS, left it idle and have returned a few hours later to find my HD at 100% usage, apps and altcoin clients falling over everywhere, the logging system hysterically shrieking at the console and /var/lib/docker sat at 461Gb.

It may just be coincidence and not down to ipfs, depends if docker is implicated - I don't believe I'm running any docker apps and I certainly haven't created any myself, so why it used nearly half a terabyte is beyond me atm.

Caution is advised, as ever. I'll report back once I've scrubbed things clean.

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Graham

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Quote from: gjhiggins on January 15, 2018, 06:29:02 AM

A pointer to the bitcoin wiki entry for Proof-of-Burn was posted to HN recently (without comment) and I noticed that the link to the Slimcoin white paper that appears in the bitcoin wiki entry needs editing because currently it unfortunately references the now-unresolving address: http://www.slimcoin.club/whitepaper.pdf.

Done, thanks for advising.

IPFS is very interesting as an alternative to a standard bittorrent swarm; if they manage to make it easy to access it for non-technical users without non-standard software it can be a good complement to the "traditional" web2web method via WebTorrent. I read they have already a relatively easy-to-use browser extension, but I haven't tested it.

gjhiggins

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Further to using OP_RETURN data to carry immutable resolvable references to externally hosted content, I'm also exploring options available via IPFS ...

https://neocities.org/

https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2017/08/07/ipfs-dns-support.html

https://ipfs.io/docs/install/

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Graham

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If anyone's interested in making a non-technical contribution to the group ...

A pointer to the bitcoin wiki entry for Proof-of-Burn was posted to HN recently (without comment) and I noticed that the link to the Slimcoin white paper that appears in the bitcoin wiki entry needs editing because currently it unfortunately references the now-unresolving address: http://www.slimcoin.club/whitepaper.pdf.

I'd do it myself but that would be hogging all the fun.

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Graham

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Quote from: bobitza202 on January 14, 2018, 05:03:40 PM

Recent statement from Novaexchange:

"2018-01-14 14:23 - Nova will NOT close its doors!
Honoured customers and crypto currency enthusiasts! You have been told a while ago now that we were planning to close down Nova Exchange in the beginning of 2018. We made this tough decision because Nova Exchange was growing at a speed, and in a way, that us, the founders, could not keep up with and run the business in a meaningful and secure way. Not wanting to make promises we might not be able to keep, we didn’t tell anyone, not anyone, that we never stopped looking for a way to keep going and keep Nova Exchange in business. So! We are so happy to announce that we have found a partner, a new main shareholder, willing and more importantly, able to carry on running Nova Exchange. The new owners, we have made sure, have the resources and the experience (6+ years in the business) it takes to provide excellent service to you all. We started negotiations and talks early in November last year, and now we can tell you the good news: The show will go on! More information will follow. In the meantime, just go keep on trading crypto. Best Wishes to you all!"

Maybe this could mean good news for Slimcoin if trading would start again

Wish i had deposited some BTC before deposits got disabled, some will get lucky with those sell orders going as low as 80 sats, there's a nice 100k SLM sell order for about 0.2BTC, that's a good deal Cheesy

yes,there have a nice sell order,while i cant deposit BTC now.

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Recent statement from Novaexchange:

"2018-01-14 14:23 - Nova will NOT close its doors!
Honoured customers and crypto currency enthusiasts! You have been told a while ago now that we were planning to close down Nova Exchange in the beginning of 2018. We made this tough decision because Nova Exchange was growing at a speed, and in a way, that us, the founders, could not keep up with and run the business in a meaningful and secure way. Not wanting to make promises we might not be able to keep, we didn’t tell anyone, not anyone, that we never stopped looking for a way to keep going and keep Nova Exchange in business. So! We are so happy to announce that we have found a partner, a new main shareholder, willing and more importantly, able to carry on running Nova Exchange. The new owners, we have made sure, have the resources and the experience (6+ years in the business) it takes to provide excellent service to you all. We started negotiations and talks early in November last year, and now we can tell you the good news: The show will go on! More information will follow. In the meantime, just go keep on trading crypto. Best Wishes to you all!"

Maybe this could mean good news for Slimcoin if trading would start again

Wish i had deposited some BTC before deposits got disabled, some will get lucky with those sell orders going as low as 80 sats, there's a nice 100k SLM sell order for about 0.2BTC, that's a good deal Cheesy

gjhiggins

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Quote from: muf18 on January 13, 2018, 05:16:21 PM

dns shitcoinrapist? OMG, original dev definately was immature, and odd...

Not orig dev, was included in subsequent development: https://github.com/kryptoslab/slimcoin/commit/d9fad6ec8acef772f1d68c75159a0c74a3279814

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Graham

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Quote from: eddycurrent on January 12, 2018, 06:15:46 AM

On another topic, I have had another issue with running the code on Arch Linux. Boost was recently updated to version 1.66.0, and I have the following error when compiling:

[...]

This appears to be somewhat similar to this (same boost version): https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224131

I have had a bit of a look but cannot see any solutions. Has anyone else got any suggestions of where to look or what to do?

The code in bitcoinrpc.cpp uses some boost asio/ssl calls that were deprecated in boost 1.48 and which are going to kick in as compilation errors sooner or later unless the version is pinned or code added to enable a version compability switch.

Although there aren't any specific examples for me to use as a model, the boost documentation is clear enough to work with in terms of making explicit the new “idiom” and the code comment links to the relevant boost version documentation pages ...

https://github.com/slimcoin-project/Slimcoin/commit/bb6c7a3ce5fb4e0b714fee72ce87b0ebd74aa136

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Graham

muf18

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Sorry, I was a little stressed, because I have definately screw up.

There was creation of new code and then you could also, activate it on the same page. I didn't activate, and request (with not activated code), when through, so I thought it's all ok.

Now today I activated, and made second request. I don't know, if it's right, or not, because yobit gives me a vibes of shady exchange.

And now I have my 0.1BTC also on my account on yobit, even tho they should charge me for it. Strange...

dns shitcoinrapist? OMG, original dev definately was immature, and odd...

gjhiggins

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Quote from: muf18 on January 13, 2018, 07:01:00 AM

Btw. they have written me again 0.1BTC, even tho they should charge me.
I don't really understand this.

Neither do I, what you've written is opaque. Could you re-transmit?

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Btw. 2 - can someone merge addnodes, from this into master branch ?
https://justpaste.it/1bcq1

They said that nodes should be included in source code.

As expressed, that doesn't make sense to me. What would be the point of that particular piece of pantomime? Yobit can do this for themselves when they compile the client. Do you have a pointer to where these requirements are detailed? I appreciate the motivation behind the pasted list but without any kind of provenance, I don't see what relevance it can have in a cryptocurrency context - particularly when the Slimcoin client offers a getpeerinfo RPC command which provides the required information.

In case this basic point has slipped anyone's attention, absolutely anyone is free to edit the source code

... to include either an updated/expanded strDNSSeed binding or an expanded pnseed binding, or both

... and either just simply run it for themselves or public-spiritedly submit a PR to the slimcoin-project repos - or indeed set up their own repository to offer an alternative reference client.

All that would remain to be done is for someone to invent and implement a mechanism which will then impose this change on all Slimcoin users, including the half-dozen or so apparently very satisfied users of Slimcoin 0.3 who see no reason to change anything, thank you very much

Which is why it is an obvious piece of pantomime, all show and no substance.

While we're on the subject, Slimcoin was launched with just one strDNSSeed binding (dnsseed.slimcoinpool.com), augmented later with dnsseed.furiousnomad.com and dnsseed.shitcoinrapist.club¹, none of which were resolvable by Nov '16 so I removed them entirely.

I replaced them with a(n also unresolving) Namecoin placeholder: seed.slimcoin.bit, ready for when someone volunteers to commit to funding a stable DNSSeed seed node/domain address or set up and maintain a reliable Slimcoin dnsseeder.

Cheers

Graham

¹ A sad testament to the immaturity of the developer's judgement - if you're anything like me, you'll find yourself asking “Jeez, if he's screwed up such a no-brainer, what else has he screwed up that I haven't yet spotted?”

muf18

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I have probably messed up big.
In yobit there is new code section, and you must then activate it.
I don't understand why, but when you create it, you can't activate automatically.
So probably I just activate it, and sent request again.
Sorry, for this mistake, it was really stupid.

Btw. they have written me again 0.1BTC, even tho they should charge me.
I don't really understand this.

Btw. 2 - can someone merge addnodes, from this into master branch ?
https://justpaste.it/1bcq1

They said that nodes should be included in source code.

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Hello all,

New armel(V5) binarys are up. Sorry I can't get the aarch64(V8) binarys up this week like I said.

On another topic, I have had another issue with running the code on Arch Linux. Boost was recently updated to version 1.66.0, and I have the following error when compiling:

Code:

src/bitcoinrpc.cpp: In function ‘void ThreadRPCServer2(void*)’:
src/bitcoinrpc.cpp:4473:58: error: no matching function for call to ‘boost::asio::ssl::context::context(boost::asio::io_service&, boost::asio::ssl::context_base::method)’
     ssl::context context(io_service, ssl::context::sslv23);
                                                          ^
In file included from /usr/include/boost/asio/ssl/context.hpp:757:0,
                 from /usr/include/boost/asio/ssl.hpp:18,
                 from src/bitcoinrpc.cpp:28:
/usr/include/boost/asio/ssl/impl/context.ipp:326:1: note: candidate: boost::asio::ssl::context::context(boost::asio::ssl::context&&)
 context::context(context&& other)
 ^~~~~~~
/usr/include/boost/asio/ssl/impl/context.ipp:326:1: note:   candidate expects 1 argument, 2 provided
/usr/include/boost/asio/ssl/impl/context.ipp:63:1: note: candidate: boost::asio::ssl::context::context(boost::asio::ssl::context_base::method)
 context::context(context::method m)
 ^~~~~~~
/usr/include/boost/asio/ssl/impl/context.ipp:63:1: note:   candidate expects 1 argument, 2 provided
src/bitcoinrpc.cpp:4489:41: error: ‘class boost::asio::ssl::context’ has no member named ‘impl’
         SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list(context.impl(), strCiphers.c_str());
                                         ^~~~
src/bitcoinrpc.cpp: In function ‘json_spirit::Object CallRPC(const string&, const Array&)’:
src/bitcoinrpc.cpp:4643:58: error: no matching function for call to ‘boost::asio::ssl::context::context(boost::asio::io_service&, boost::asio::ssl::context_base::method)’
     ssl::context context(io_service, ssl::context::sslv23);
                                                          ^
In file included from /usr/include/boost/asio/ssl/context.hpp:757:0,
                 from /usr/include/boost/asio/ssl.hpp:18,
                 from src/bitcoinrpc.cpp:28:
/usr/include/boost/asio/ssl/impl/context.ipp:326:1: note: candidate: boost::asio::ssl::context::context(boost::asio::ssl::context&&)
 context::context(context&& other)
 ^~~~~~~
/usr/include/boost/asio/ssl/impl/context.ipp:326:1: note:   candidate expects 1 argument, 2 provided
/usr/include/boost/asio/ssl/impl/context.ipp:63:1: note: candidate: boost::asio::ssl::context::context(boost::asio::ssl::context_base::method)
 context::context(context::method m)
 ^~~~~~~
/usr/include/boost/asio/ssl/impl/context.ipp:63:1: note:   candidate expects 1 argument, 2 provided

This appears to be somewhat similar to this (same boost version): https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224131

I have had a bit of a look but cannot see any solutions. Has anyone else got any suggestions of where to look or what to do?

Regards

muf18

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Btw. Vote for us on Next.exchange

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Looking to buy alot of slim PM me fam

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