Why does XC on divide to 6 decimals?
in util.h on github.
{
static const int64 COIN = 1000000;
static const int64 CENT = 10000;
}
COIN should be 100 million not 1 million. This means that XC are only divisible to 6 decimals and not to 8 decimals.
You can't do much colored coin related things with only 6 decimals, not enough units.
pretty stupid. that means there are 400 times less XC units then bitcoin units. If this coin is ever going to take off, it should be
built from success from the ground up.
Turns out that the devs just forked mintcoin code (obvious from /contrib in the github source) and they didn't even bother to notice.
Another example of dev incompetence.
in util.h on github.
{
static const int64 COIN = 1000000;
static const int64 CENT = 10000;
}
COIN should be 100 million not 1 million. This means that XC are only divisible to 6 decimals and not to 8 decimals.
You can't do much colored coin related things with only 6 decimals, not enough units.
pretty stupid. that means there are 400 times less XC units then bitcoin units. If this coin is ever going to take off, it should be
built from success from the ground up.
Turns out that the devs just forked mintcoin code (obvious from /contrib in the github source) and they didn't even bother to notice.
Another example of dev incompetence.
You guys just say this guy is trolling
But is his point true?
Any people can confirm?
I can answer this. XC like 99% of all coins out there, successful or not, uses code from other sources. In other words, the source is open. Or, open source. That means anyone can use it, with little in the way of limitation.
There is an excellent chance that the webpage you are reading right now, though it may contain original code, uses open JS libs such as node.js that are used by 88% of the sites on the internet. Only morons write new code when it is freely available in code libs. One big reason is code libs, such as the CPP STL, are optimized over the course of years by industry experts. They are fast and efficient, and save developers time and cost. In software, it's more important to be right than original.
The files in question on github were last updated seven days ago. The XC project is a work in progress, and some of the updates are experimental, alpha, and/or beta. Until the coloured coin or any other feature is in a stable release, it won't be considered "finished", and even then it will go into maintenance phase for a very long time. That is how software development works.
As for these repeated attacks on the dev team over stupid things like this, so what? It's the software industry writing reusable code. That's what it is supposed to be doing. Once XC is finished with their original code additions to XC, and the market share is secure, they will release the code to open source so that integrity42 can blame the next code reusers for reusing XC code that was permitted and encouraged to be reused.
