Topic: [VXC] V.Cash (Was: [VNL] Vanillacoin), a quiet word of warning. - page 5. (Read 14244 times)

Hmm, this Vanilla coin is getting more and more interesting by the day.  I obviously hold gmaxwell's position in crypto history as high.  I also hold John's 20 years of P2P and crypto history as high.  It seems to me these two are in a little beef, but I would guess they know each other or have worked on a project together long ago.  In either case you've got two brilliant people debating bitcoin and vanillacoin with each other. That's all I need to know.  Kind of reminds me of the war between Bill Gates and Steven Jobs. You can guess who is who, lol.

I also hold John's 20 years of P2P and crypto history as high.

I'm afraid you failed to actually understand the discussion.  First, there has been no Bitcoin hard fork; the article you're linking to is simply flat out wrong.

Secondly, John Connor didn't warn about anything there-- in fact, he copied the code he was complaining about into his own codebase, after reformatting and with incorrect attribution in violation of the very minimal software license, and then lied about the functionality being in his forware all along. (See also: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10122209).

I find it remarkable that people will continue to use software written by someone who has been caught outright lying about the content of the binaries they distribute.  It reduces my faith in the potential for the success of cryptocurrency at all. What greater warning sign could you ask for?

Everyone should read this article (especially the under the hood part):

http://cointelegraph.com/news/114794/miners-lost-over-50000-from-the-bitcoin-hardfork-last-weekend

John Connor warned the BTC devs about this issue:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5634#issuecomment-69481908

Who are the idiots?

It should be noted that he posted that in January. 
 
I am looking over both whitepapers now. 
 
https://github.com/john-connor/papers/blob/708f488c8c17e08a12bc4bdb4fc5ac1e2aaf6e24/zerotime.pdf 
http://vanillacoin.net/papers/vanillacoin.pdf   
 
The papers talk about how whenever a transaction is sent, that node will check a hiearchy of nodes (including a masternode?) to see if the majority of them have accepted it; if they have, then it will accept it too with no questions.  I have some serious mathematical issues with how this will work in real life. 
 
In any case, this currency is getting pretty big and if there's something behind this, then great: I will be a massive supporter.  But if something's fucky, it's time to find out.

More nodes staking does help secure the nPoS channel yes, so thank you for helping

As to Trust Key expiration if you don't stake for 1 day your key will expire requiring you to get another genesis transaction and create a new trust key starting at 0.5% interest. Most likely going to increase the expiration time to 1 week or month, depending on what you guys would like so if you have suggestions to how long you would like the expiration time to be, let me know

Vanilla has had a lot of attention, but under false pretense such as: The Angel Investor was actually John Conner.
There are also some false claims such as their staking being more energy efficient, when it is an exact line for line clone of Peercoin, just rewritten in C++ 11.

Another thing for you VNL holders, don't trust Zero Time. I found some flaws in it that would allow successful double spends at zero confirmations without 51% of network power, I'm writing a report for a friend about it and other positives / negatives with its claims / actual results.

But on another note, I'd like to extend my appreciation to everyone for helping make Nexus what it is, don't forget: By the People, for the People. To me, Nexus isn't just about profit, it's about freeing ourselves from a system designed to keep us enslaved, the more everyone works together, the more chances we have at this Freedom.

Cooperation, not Competition
We Are Nexus

Now that's one dark history

Now that's one dark history

Dude. Its called "Vanillacoin." If that wasn't a tip off that its not meant to be a serious coin, I don't know what is. I just feel like a straight idiot sinking my money into coins with stupid names, but that's just me.

Yeah because I totally just "pumped" it. You can't even read English, can you...

 
 
Oh for fuck sake.  I had my mind made up that Vanilla Coin was a scam pump until Nutildah started trolling it.  Now I don't know again.

Dude. Its called "Vanillacoin." If that wasn't a tip off that its not meant to be a serious coin, I don't know what is. I just feel like a straight idiot sinking my money into coins with stupid names, but that's just me.

This. 
 
This is what I was looking for. 
 
Thank you.

It should be noted that he posted that in January. 
 
I am looking over both whitepapers now. 
 
https://github.com/john-connor/papers/blob/708f488c8c17e08a12bc4bdb4fc5ac1e2aaf6e24/zerotime.pdf 
http://vanillacoin.net/papers/vanillacoin.pdf   
 
The papers talk about how whenever a transaction is sent, that node will check a hiearchy of nodes (including a masternode?) to see if the majority of them have accepted it; if they have, then it will accept it too with no questions.  I have some serious mathematical issues with how this will work in real life. 
 
In any case, this currency is getting pretty big and if there's something behind this, then great: I will be a massive supporter.  But if something's fucky, it's time to find out.