SHA256 mining will attract industrial level miners. But do they really interest? Why don't they mine Bitcoin directly? If they are really interested, most coins will go to them (again). Do we need a fair distribution? 

SHA256 will drive away hobby (or individual) miners without ASIC machines.

I would not suggest both SHA256 and scrypt, as there are ASIC already. X11 is also close to ASIC available (I guess).

How about some mining alg that is more friendly to individual or hobby miners?

Quote from: ffwong on September 27, 2014, 07:18:25 am

It seems agsexplorer only show the total AGS of all related PTS addresses, instead of individual address.
It is a bit difficult to double check with the DNS allocation.

On the balance page, there's a link to toggle "merged/separate" view on the right hand side of the look up address.  By default, merged view is displayed, you can switch to separate view for your purpose.

Sample link:
http://www1.agsexplorer.com/balances/xxxxxx?view=seperate

Thanks. This is useful.

have you had a change in your pts position since the snapshot?

@xeroc, you are right, I did move my coin to a new wallet right before the snapshot. And I forgot to scan that new wallet addresses. Now, after including that listaddressgroupings from this new wallet. The sum is correct. I can confirm (at least my allocation) that the genesis block allocation contains AGS (both from BTC and PTS donations) and PTS (during snapshot time) allocation. Thanks. 

have you had a change in your pts position since the snapshot?

could you share the script?

Here is the python code. You may need to install the required modules.
Just put the output of "listaddressgroupings" as a file in the same folder, e.g. "pts-listaddressgroupings.json"
and pass the name of the file containing the genesis block as command line option to the program.

#
# dns-alloc.py  [genesis_json]
#
# This program intends to extract addresses from bitcoin-qt (or protoshares-qt) debug window command
# listaddressgrouppings. Then it looks up Bitshares DNS genesis block (allocation of DNS to AGS (PTS|BTC)
# and PTS. It lists the DNS allocation for each address and cumulate the sum.
# Save your listaddressgroupings to a file like "pts-listaddressgroupings.json". The program will
# scans all matched .json file. The genesis json is input as the command line option.
#
# ffwong
 


import sys
import json
from sys import exit
from pprint import pprint
import glob


def recur_addr(alist, btclist):
    for i in range(0,len(alist)):   
        if isinstance(alist, list):     
            recur_addr(alist, btclist)
        elif isinstance(alist, str) and len(alist)>30 and (alist[0]=='1' or alist[0]=='P'):
            #pprint (alist)
            btclist.append(alist)
   

###### main ######

scaleup = 1  # DNS scale up factor (if any)

wallets = glob.glob('*-listaddressgroupings.json')
filecnt = len(wallets)

genesis_json = open(sys.argv[1])  # change the filename is file changed
genesis_dict = json.load(genesis_json)
genesis      = genesis_dict['balances']  # list of list

for i in range (0, filecnt):
    jfilename = wallets

    # Load json text file and extract all addresses recursively
    json_data = open(jfilename)
    addrlist = json.load(json_data)

    btclist = []
    recur_addr(addrlist,btclist)
    json_data.close()

    addrcnt      = len(btclist)
    allocnt      = len(genesis)
    start        = 0
    dns_sum     = 0
    for i in range(0, addrcnt): # for each address, look up the genesis block
        allocation = 0       
        for j in range(0, allocnt):
            if genesis[j][0] == btclist:       
                allocation  = genesis[j][1]
                msg = '%40s: %16.8f DNS' % (genesis[j][0], allocation/100000000*scaleup)
                print (msg)
                break
        dns_sum += allocation   
    msg = ('Wallet %18s: [address count: %3d]   [amount: %16.8f DNS]' % \
          (jfilename.replace('-listaddressgroupings.json',''), len(btclist), dns_sum/100000000*scaleup))   
    pprint (msg)  # convert satoshi -> DNS

Just want to clarify. The genesis block allocation contains both the AGS and PTS allocations.
So if I see the allocation associated with a PTS address in the json file, it is the sum of the allocation for AGS (donated from that same PTS address) plus the allocation to the same PTS (holdiing during snapshot), am I right?

Or it only accounts for AGS allocation?

It seems agsexplorer only show the total AGS of all related PTS addresses, instead of individual address.
It is a bit difficult to double check with the DNS allocation.

I have registered as a delegate 10 hours ago, but remains inactive for a long time (don't know how to be active). Then I went to sleep (very late in my time zone). After wakeup, the connection lost (0 connection), and I can no longer find my account "ffwong-delegate-5" in the delegate list. I guess I was being kicked out and lost the status, right?  (FYI, my machine is always connected to the internet, it is not my network connection problem.)

In what condition, I can maintain the connection? I am running on the node on a virtualbox virtual machine, and I have port-forwarded the randomly selected port by bitshares_client to my host machine. But the connection still lost from time to time. Is there a list of nodes that I can add? Anything I should do to make it right?

BTW, I wanted to re-register as delegate, but I am stupid to list multiple accounts when I asked people for sending me fund. The fund is separated on two accounts (1 with 10 XTS, 1 with 1XTS). The registration command does not support funding from multiple accounts. Shall I use "wallet_transfer" to transfer fund one to another? I did that last night before I slept. It seems very weird. The balance seems not right. It would be great if someone can send me 1 or 2 XTS to

ffwong-delegate-5            XTS819hyNrhVFkjEDrqM5sJmaTCS9qbUuTeFJkh81wogQFQWbRxQm

Trying to upgrade from registered account to delegate. But the required fund is higher than my balance. Can anyone send me more for testing? Thanks.

"required":"10.495702 XTS","available":"9.989999 XTS"


ffwong-delegate-1  XTS7Zm1t5sHKS9Cm7XJDTNWgzQUi2V1WoFzJDeB4PzX9cLGENjGxj           NO                    0             
ffwong-delegate-2  XTS6yjjUj4t6XZWzaF41DJgghDrxVC31XoiWwgeDfzPTcAzLkjMtk           NO                    0             
ffwong-delegate-3  XTS84LNqrGb9zhMUUUkK5FSoZWYJCBSbaovEA7q7NbAohkzTByxPN           NO                    0             
ffwong-delegate-4  XTS6sL31fo2DSrbFzwKvMbkYQx63fwES1AcfVWdLXg9pqkRPxuXzG           NO                    0             
ffwong-delegate-5 XTS819hyNrhVFkjEDrqM5sJmaTCS9qbUuTeFJkh81wogQFQWbRxQm           2014-06-13T17:00:00   0