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Main => Stakeholder Proposals => Topic started by: amencon on September 01, 2014, 11:06:16 pm
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Hello, my name is Alec Menconi.
I've been following Bitcoin for 2-3 years now and found out about Bitshares sometime around March. I'm very excited about the possibilities Bitshares offers and that of DACs in general. My other interests currently are following Storj and attempting to develop games for VR (I own both development kits for the Oculus Rift). I live in the US in Arizona and have been there for 5+ years so far.
My day job consists mostly of ASP.NET C# MVC development and I've been working in the computer industry for close to a decade now.
Stack Overflow profile (not terribly active there unfortunately): http://stackoverflow.com/users/1763996/alec-menconi
LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alec-menconi/47/685/a42
I wanted to thank everyone that voted for my delegate yesterday putting it in the top 101. Unfortunately I was not expecting to get voted in so fast and I was experimenting with things with my client up and down so I missed a chunk of initial blocks, however after realizing I could produce blocks I've made sure the client stays online and active.
My delegate is up to date and is auto posting price feeds. I currently have the pay rate set to 20%. My philosophy here is that for now it is best to return the majority of fees back to the stake holders until the community matures and some consensuses emerge about how users would like their fees to be utilized. If in the future it looks like a high burn rate is not desirable for whatever reason in relation to other options, I will create a new delegate to match the will of the stakeholders and ask that all votes be transferred to the new delegate. I do not ever plan to have more than 1 active delegate at a time.
I'd like to help grow this community however I can so please reach out to me if you have a project in the works and are looking for some volunteers. Also while I appreciate the importance of privacy I am willing to provide proof of who I am if anyone cares to ask for it. Thank you for the support so far and I hope to continue producing blocks and staying involved with the community long into the future.
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+5% ... nice guy above!
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+5% sounds great!
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Thanks xeroc and delulo, much appreciated.
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I've been researching and playing with the octuis rift SDK for a week now. I've also have my hands in the gaming industry. I'm more than willing to team up with you on some basis to grow a VR game. Are you open to teaming up and collaborating on such projects?
I've also been in the Bitcoin industry since 2012. Hope to hearing your thoughts about collaboration.
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I've been researching and playing with the octuis rift SDK for a week now. I've also have my hands in the gaming industry. I'm more than willing to team up with you on some basis to grow a VR game. Are you open to teaming up and collaborating on such projects?
I've also been in the Bitcoin industry since 2012. Hope to hearing your thoughts about collaboration.
Hi AJ. I'd love to team up on a collaborative project.
Unfortunately I think I broke my Rift in attempting to upgrade to the latest 2.12 firmware. Initially got an error during firmware update (uninstalled previous runtime and installed latest before this). It took me a lot of fiddling until powering off the Rift and back on again let me successfully upgrade the firmware, however now I get the "No device attached" error.
Though to be fair I'm early enough in the development process that having the Rift down will likely not slow me down much.
I have Unity Pro activated from my DK1. I have some C# skills from using it for work for web development. I'd be totally cool if you had a project in mind and wanted to take lead from a creative standpoint.
I think it's in my profile but feel free to hit me up at menconiusa@yahoo.com anytime to discuss what you'd like to collaborate on building.
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Sorry guys, missed some blocks due to the "100-year flood" in my area (http://samuel-warde.com/2014/09/phoenix-state-of-emergency/).
Usually power and internet availability is very good. If problems continue I'll look to see about maybe putting in a longer battery backup or taking it off-site.
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Sorry guys, missed some blocks due to the "100-year flood" in my area (http://samuel-warde.com/2014/09/phoenix-state-of-emergency/).
Usually power and internet availability is very good. If problems continue I'll look to see about maybe putting in a longer battery backup or taking it off-site.
oh shit .. hope there are not too many injuries ..
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Sorry guys, missed some blocks due to the "100-year flood" in my area (http://samuel-warde.com/2014/09/phoenix-state-of-emergency/).
Usually power and internet availability is very good. If problems continue I'll look to see about maybe putting in a longer battery backup or taking it off-site.
oh shit .. hope there are not too many injuries ..
Surprisingly few actually, reports of some deaths and injuries due to submerged vehicles being carried away but I think it could have been a lot worse.
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Hello, my name is Alec Menconi.
I've been following Bitcoin for 2-3 years now and found out about Bitshares sometime around March. I'm very excited about the possibilities Bitshares offers and that of DACs in general. My other interests currently are following Storj and attempting to develop games for VR (I own both development kits for the Oculus Rift). I live in the US in Arizona and have been there for 5+ years so far.
My day job consists mostly of ASP.NET C# MVC development and I've been working in the computer industry for close to a decade now.
Stack Overflow profile (not terribly active there unfortunately): http://stackoverflow.com/users/1763996/alec-menconi
LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alec-menconi/47/685/a42
I wanted to thank everyone that voted for my delegate yesterday putting it in the top 101. Unfortunately I was not expecting to get voted in so fast and I was experimenting with things with my client up and down so I missed a chunk of initial blocks, however after realizing I could produce blocks I've made sure the client stays online and active.
My delegate is up to date and is auto posting price feeds. I currently have the pay rate set to 20%. My philosophy here is that for now it is best to return the majority of fees back to the stake holders until the community matures and some consensuses emerge about how users would like their fees to be utilized. If in the future it looks like a high burn rate is not desirable for whatever reason in relation to other options, I will create a new delegate to match the will of the stakeholders and ask that all votes be transferred to the new delegate. I do not ever plan to have more than 1 active delegate at a time.
I'd like to help grow this community however I can so please reach out to me if you have a project in the works and are looking for some volunteers. Also while I appreciate the importance of privacy I am willing to provide proof of who I am if anyone cares to ask for it. Thank you for the support so far and I hope to continue producing blocks and staying involved with the community long into the future.
nice summary +5% (+my votes ;))
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Hello, my name is Alec Menconi.
I've been following Bitcoin for 2-3 years now and found out about Bitshares sometime around March. I'm very excited about the possibilities Bitshares offers and that of DACs in general. My other interests currently are following Storj and attempting to develop games for VR (I own both development kits for the Oculus Rift). I live in the US in Arizona and have been there for 5+ years so far.
My day job consists mostly of ASP.NET C# MVC development and I've been working in the computer industry for close to a decade now.
Stack Overflow profile (not terribly active there unfortunately): http://stackoverflow.com/users/1763996/alec-menconi
LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alec-menconi/47/685/a42
I wanted to thank everyone that voted for my delegate yesterday putting it in the top 101. Unfortunately I was not expecting to get voted in so fast and I was experimenting with things with my client up and down so I missed a chunk of initial blocks, however after realizing I could produce blocks I've made sure the client stays online and active.
My delegate is up to date and is auto posting price feeds. I currently have the pay rate set to 20%. My philosophy here is that for now it is best to return the majority of fees back to the stake holders until the community matures and some consensuses emerge about how users would like their fees to be utilized. If in the future it looks like a high burn rate is not desirable for whatever reason in relation to other options, I will create a new delegate to match the will of the stakeholders and ask that all votes be transferred to the new delegate. I do not ever plan to have more than 1 active delegate at a time.
I'd like to help grow this community however I can so please reach out to me if you have a project in the works and are looking for some volunteers. Also while I appreciate the importance of privacy I am willing to provide proof of who I am if anyone cares to ask for it. Thank you for the support so far and I hope to continue producing blocks and staying involved with the community long into the future.
nice summary +5% (+my votes ;))
Thanks for the support liondani.
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Hi bro,
Please check your delegates
it is producing blocks 17 seconds earlier than the schedule.
484055 September 14, 2014 at 10:10:50 PM GMT+8 0 alecmenconi -17s 166
This will cause the delegates prior to your blocks missed block.
Once again:
484107 September 14, 2014 at 10:19:40 PM GMT+8 0 alecmenconi -17s 166
Missed Block September 14, 2014 at 10:19:30 PM GMT+8 init88
484203 September 14, 2014 at 10:35:50 PM GMT+8 0 alecmenconi -17s 166
Missed Block September 14, 2014 at 10:35:40 PM GMT+8 bts.coin
484355 September 14, 2014 at 11:01:20 PM GMT+8 0 alecmenconi -16s 166
Missed Block September 14, 2014 at 11:01:10 PM GMT+8 delegate2.svk31
484649 September 14, 2014 at 11:50:50 PM GMT+8 0 alecmenconi -16s 166
Missed Block September 14, 2014 at 11:50:40 PM GMT+8 eur.bts500
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again..
484203 September 14, 2014 at 10:35:50 PM GMT+8 0 alecmenconi -17s 166
Missed Block September 14, 2014 at 10:35:40 PM GMT+8 bts.coin
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have you NTP installed?
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/NTP.html
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Hey guys,
Thanks for the heads up on this and sorry if I've caused anyone missed blocks.
I'm fairly certain I had NTP installed before but I've re-installed it now. I've also updated the client to latest version and rebooted the server. I'm hoping this will solve the problem but let me know if anyone sees my delegate creating more problems.
Thanks.
Edit: My last produced block had a latency of 0 rather than -17 so I'm hopeful this is fixed at least for now: http://www.bitsharesblocks.com/blocks/block?id=485312
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amencon: Hey Amencon, can we get you onto www.bitcoinbeyondx.net website, is the delegates hangout where you can say what your policies are.
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amencon: Hey Amencon, can we get you onto www.bitcoinbeyondx.net website, is the delegates hangout where you can say what your policies are.
Tried the site but I think the link is broken or not up yet?
I'd be happy to talk about my policies and I'd be even more interested in a forum where I could get feedback from the users of the system to communicate to me what they would like my policies to be.
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try that one:
http://beyondbitcoinx.net/
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try that one:
http://beyondbitcoinx.net/
My bad
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amencon: Hey Amencon, can we get you onto www.bitcoinbeyondx.net website, is the delegates hangout where you can say what your policies are.
Tried the site but I think the link is broken or not up yet?
I'd be happy to talk about my policies and I'd be even more interested in a forum where I could get feedback from the users of the system to communicate to me what they would like my policies to be.
Jabba has it offline due to some spam attacks it was getting as soon as he brought it up (someone was interested already i guess :P). He has to get better captcha stuff up and running and people will be able to register.
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Hmm tried http://beyondbitcoinx.net/ this morning and it worked but didn't have time to register, now it just loads a blank gray page when I try it now. I'll test it again after work.
Edit: I've now registered an account, however I've run into 2 issues. It wasn't immediately obvious how I could add my delegate also after about 15 minutes it showed me logged out and now the username and password that was emailed to me (and was saved in my browser) doesn't work. Not sure why they'd be locked or revoked 15 minutes after successful registration.
Edit2: It looks like when trying to use the forgot password feature that it doesn't recognize any account matching my email or username. Guess I'll try registering again but something you might want to look into.
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When I upgraded my client last night I spaced on running the wallet_publish_version command, looks like due to that I was voted out by I3.
Hopefully they'll reinstate me but if not just wanted to say thanks for the support so far.
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When I upgraded my client last night I spaced on running the wallet_publish_version command, looks like due to that I was voted out by I3.
Hopefully they'll reinstate me but if not just wanted to say thanks for the support so far.
it happen with me in past also , I know first hand how frustrating it is when outvoted , but don't loose your faith ...
It is not unusual delegates voted in again with the first opportunity ;)
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When I upgraded my client last night I spaced on running the wallet_publish_version command, looks like due to that I was voted out by I3.
Hopefully they'll reinstate me but if not just wanted to say thanks for the support so far.
it happen with me in past also , I know first hand how frustrating it is when outvoted , but don't loose your faith ...
It is not unusual delegates voted in again with the first opportunity ;)
Thanks liondani, I'll keep my standby ready. Definitely enjoyed the opportunity to be involved for the time I did so I'm not too frustrated.
I look forward with interest to how the role of delegate evolves with the new changes coming, whether I'm voted in at the time or not.
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I've yet to be voted back as a delegate and I'd like to know what I could do to help garner more votes. So if you aren't voting for me let me know what you'd like to see from me before you do.
I should have some more free time and can build a .NET web app if there is some service or product people want to see. I'd be happy to build something of not too large a scope on top of all the other delegate stuff for the standard 3% rate.
Please give me your suggestions!
Thanks.
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Would you like to set up a Delegate Hangout sometime?