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General Discussion / Re: bter hacked and lost 50m nxt
« on: August 15, 2014, 06:10:10 pm »
Is this a joke?
If the major exchanges change to an upgrade chain,the old chain will be worthless.
So,the people don't really have a choice to stick to the old chain.

Do you really think in an actual conflict where large swathes of the community split that new exchanges wouldn't be opened?  I don't understand why the assumption of massive market failure in the face of huge community demand.

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General Discussion / Re: bter hacked and lost 50m nxt
« on: August 15, 2014, 05:46:06 pm »
The developer will do the rollback with the blessing of majority of the forgers, it's basically a coordinated hard fork that is happening all the time in alt coins (and Bitcoin had one too).


Thinking about this longer I get more concerned. Let's say someone donates $5M worth of X to Israel/Hamas (just picking a random conflict that most would be familiar with which also has strong opinions in both camps). Someone creates a thread on the Xtalk forum slamming the injustice about giving so much money to such horrible people. The community generally agrees, namely the forgers, and they decide to roll back that transaction and give the money to the other side instead.


How many people are needed to effectively perpetrate a 51% attack on their own blockchain? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of an autonomous currency if a relatively small group of people (let's call them the coin's government) can make policy decisions based on political affiliation?


Maybe there's no way around this because someone(s) need to maintain the code so it'll never be completely hands off.

The majority of the community can continue mining (forging, having stake, whatever) on the old chain if they don't agree with the hard fork, no one is going to force them to upgrade.

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General Discussion / Re: An opportunity to design the perfect economy.
« on: August 15, 2014, 04:24:06 am »
I think you are on to a much bigger issue than problems with the money system, namely the coming (and continuing, and accelerating) irrelevancy of humans to production.

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Made a few comments on sections 1.0 and 2.0.

Got to run for now, but I'll take a look at the rest later.

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General Discussion / Some interesting reading
« on: June 19, 2014, 04:22:17 am »
Not a DAC idea yet, but perhaps something to think about.

The part of most interest for those here is probably below 'Scooped by Plato'.

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Yes, indeed.

Northeastern United States.

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Stakeholder Proposals / Re: Candidate Billboards
« on: June 02, 2014, 06:59:41 pm »
Interesting.

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DAC PLAY / Re: PokerChips: Hosting Fair RNG Sessions
« on: April 04, 2014, 11:52:15 pm »
GUYS OMG GUESS WHO IS JOINING INVICTUS
http://www.dc.uba.ar/inv/tesis/licenciatura/2010/lerner

The fact that news like this does not move the PTS price at all tells me that the investors in this space have no clue what they are doing.

Er, I mean, this is incredibly great news.

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DAC PLAY / Re: PokerChips: Hosting Fair RNG Sessions
« on: March 20, 2014, 10:19:21 pm »
I suspect the statistics of colluding players (more folds, probably) and that of non-colluding players would look different enough that a statistical model could be trained to recognize likely cases and lower a chain-based trust metric accordingly.  We'd have to tie it to Keyhotee IDs above a certain trust ranking themselves to prevent sybils. (Assuming that the cost of getting a keyhotee ID with a given trust metric can scale higher than the expected returns from colluding.)

Hosts could then choose what level of trust they'll allow; so false-positive colluders have a place to prove they aren't colluding at the cost of losing money to likely actual colluders.

I don't have a large corpus of poker games to confirm this suspicion, of course.  There is a way we could get such a thing though...

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General Discussion / Re: Noir Investment Group : NoirShares
« on: March 16, 2014, 07:27:28 pm »
NoirEx, NoirStore -- these are companies?

What are the blockchain based ventures?

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Here is a thread that has identified a means for miners to mine BTS:

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=3587.msg45111#msg45111

The reality is that people can mine anything and trade it for PTS.   Miners should always mine what is most profitable so they can maximize their ROI.

That said it seems like we could benefit everyone by converting PTS to TaPOS and then allowing those who want to invest by mining to mine one of the other coins out there... NoirShares, DOGE, etc and then buy PTS on BTER.   In fact, making such a move would increase the value of PTS in the long term by 30%.   

What would everyone think about such an idea?

Great idea.  If PTS mining still isn't moving by the time it could be converted to TaPOS, this is definitely the route we should take.

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BitShares AGS / Re: Repost: Announcing AGS & BitShares Allocation
« on: March 13, 2014, 02:26:38 pm »
I didn't recived AGS for my PTS donations.


http://www1.agsexplorer.com/balances/PuBGB7BWoqRfvkzoyyMCwkg9LPL9QywDex

the dates 2014-03-10 and 2014-03-11 are missing.

Transaction form 3/11/2014 6:04:55 PM:  https://coinplorer.com/PTS/Transactions/cadcd6e77ac953fccb42378dcda7a8fbc366693b0af2c0d8d330a21d090f727e

Transaction form 3/12/2014 6:40:45 PM: https://coinplorer.com/PTS/Transactions/9ab33f1a8542080c5abd0425433cb7e89eb18e2a233366677f3f9d2998dd9469


What can i do?

You didn't send all your PTS from the same address.

For example, here is your 3/11 donation.

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I will offer a nice tip for someone to enhance this utility to support all of the various wallet formats (apis are already done and in the code).

It should include Armory, Multibit, Eletcturm, and Blockchain.info dumps.

See this pull request.  I made some of the changes.  Though, what are blockchain.info dumps?  What function should those call?

Also, Armory support doesn't work since the armory wallet implementation is currently commented out.

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BitShares PTS / Re: What am I doing wrong with my mining string?
« on: February 20, 2014, 05:07:54 am »
been mining a couple months, never seen this before. I know it takes a while to get a payout, what I'm saying is my hashrate does not change from 0 after 1/2 hour.
Here is my batch file

timeout /t 30
setx DISPLAY=:0
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer --scrypt -I 13 --thread-concurrency 8192 -g 2 -w 256 -o stratum+tcp://ptspool.1gh.com:13333 -u PjK2JDUjFD5Eu6DBGvt8MJ7nWJc3zVRtvi -p x

Cgminer starts up fine and all gpus start hashing as normal, but in the activity window it just says:

started cgminer 3.7.2
probing for an alive pool
Pool 0 difficulty changed to 0.00000
Network diff set to 17.2M

That's all it does, no gpus are given work. I've tried all the other stratum ports same thing.

I don't know how ptspool.1gh.com does things, but Protoshares (/BitShares PTS) is not a scrypt algorithm coin.  It uses the momentum algortihm.  Last I checked cgminer did not implement this and a custom GPU miner (many examples here) was needed.

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BitShares PTS / Re: So I just bought a ProtoShare (PTS) ... now what?
« on: February 20, 2014, 04:50:39 am »
Hold your shares in your local wallet.   When a new DAC comes out download it and import your PTS wallet to get your shares in that DAC.

Ok thank you! Is there a guide that shows how I download a DAC when it comes out?

This will likely differ for each DAC.

The first DAC coming out is BitShares XT and it'll be out in early March, from the sound of things.

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