Quote from: nyse on August 28, 2014, 07:51:54 PM
Is it still profitable mining now?

well, technically it would be.. mining on something that's free.

but it's not worth the trouble.  you'd get maybe a few $ in a month.  like botnet only material nowadays

put 5.9.24.81:1776 at the top of   "default_peers":   in config.json

or best would be to edit node_config.json and set all the max connections to 1, then just connect to me

but they made that more complicated than it should be

I can't do anything, unsure if it's because of the incredible spam or what, but

--- there are now 87 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 88 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 89 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 90 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 91 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 90 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 89 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 88 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 89 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 90 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 91 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 90 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 89 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 88 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 87 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 88 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 89 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 90 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 89 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 88 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 89 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 88 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 87 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 86 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 85 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 84 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 85 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 84 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 83 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 84 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 83 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 82 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 83 active connections to the p2p network
(wallet closed) >>> wallet_create
wallet_name: Bog
new_passphrase: --- there are now 84 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 85 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 84 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 85 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 86 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 87 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 88 active connections to the p2p network
wallet_name: Bog
Command aborted
--- there are now 89 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 90 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 89 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 88 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 89 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 90 active connections to the p2p network
--- there are now 89 active connections to the p2p network

that's over like 1 second

Quote from: kokojie on August 28, 2014, 07:36:05 PM
Nope, I had zero problems redeeming my PTS for BTSX. Then again... I'm holding my PTS in my local wallet, like I'm suppose to.

Well, I was actually going to sell mine... but, I suppose the person that I was selling some to on beedui may have wanted to move them to local storage, except beedui closed withdrawals about 20 hours early.

8、 PTS兑换BTS实时通告

2014-02-28 19:39:02   protoshares   充值   74.40306378   确认完成    (locked 30 minutes later, about 20 hours before it needed to be)
2014-03-15 01:42:15   protoshares   取现   74.403063   成功

LOL, I'm actually inclined to believe that this is a zero sum game, and that this guy that runs beedui doesn't even know/have the keys anymore to convert any of that PTS he jacked

ed: actually, i probably shouldnt even comment, since i havent sifted through a hundred msgs to see if this is actually 'activated' yet.

ClubVPS worked fine.  The Hong Kong location has a great link (was getting solid 10MB/s international), but alas for a 200GB limit per month.  Israel location was interesting as well.

2 week trial vps you can sign up for @ http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/33029/2-week-trial-vps-please-help-us-improving-our-service#latest

haha

here, i'll bust it out again;

https://datasoft.ws/aff.php?aff=513

free24core

"10 left"

it claims this time it's 'unlimited bandwidth'

xeon l5639 which is pretty crap, but..

i guess they never tried to rip me off last time, the service was just junk

Quote from: xeroc on August 07, 2014, 09:36:04 AM
Is there incentive to run a bitcoin full node if your are not mining?

Yes, you are supporting the network (decentralization)
But you do not get paid .. right

but supporting the network means nothing if i have no quotum

There's no incentive to running a "seed node", unless said node is also being used as a delegate node, right?

oh, I am gonna shut my node down also, it maxed out at around 90 peers, running 82 right now.   is there some chart somewhere that shows propagation times, ala http://bitcoinstats.com/network/propagation/    ?  that was fun to mess with.

was experimenting with it in late march and it coincided with some 30% drop on transaction propagation times for the days I put 'em up.  started full time in mid-may.  bitcoin.sipa.org/seeds.txt is more like 2 1/2 to 3 months, not 30d, lol.

was running four, but now just 5.9.24.81 full-time

if this is anything like bitcoin, peers with crap upstream clog the whole system...   i could run bitcoind on my home connection (768kbps upstream) and when blockchain.info reported that i found a block ""first"", my upstream would be saturated for a good 3-5 minutes & essentially all from just the new block requests (used tcpkill on anyone trying to DL blockchain from me).  i have timeout set to 100ms now to avoid as many of the home users as possible, makes it much smoother

Quote from: fuznuts on August 04, 2014, 05:09:43 AM

Quote from: zvs on August 04, 2014, 03:25:42 AM
hmm, the 'delegate' system is essentially just politics, is it not?  i'm a bit confused as to their purpose.   is it supposed to ensure integrity of block chain or somesuch?    i don't really see how the voting system helps this, seeing as how just a few people have 50% or more of the voting power (if they actually used it)?

Can you show me proof of this?  I am genuinely interested..

Based off some old list that showed who held the most PTS.  There's probably some site out there that shows the top holders?  shrug..  I don't imagine it's changed *too* much

Voting is weighted based on # of coins, correct?  that would inevitably lead to a handful of people controlling the 'delegates', great deal if you like the good old boy system

Quote from: yinchanggong on August 02, 2014, 01:11:34 PM
wallet_approve_delegate microsoft.helloworld true

wallet_approve_delegate google.helloworld true

get beedui.com to give me the private key to my 100 PTS that they locked up and i'll vote for you

and before anyone says anything, i just moved them to beedui temporarily (there was a high bid).  i didnt know that they'd shut down withdrawals over 12 hours early

hmm, the 'delegate' system is essentially just politics, is it not?  i'm a bit confused as to their purpose.   is it supposed to ensure integrity of block chain or somesuch?    i don't really see how the voting system helps this, seeing as how just a few people have 50% or more of the voting power (if they actually used it)?

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It is not correct to call people greedy when they're really not even breaking even on their time/VPS cost.  When the money actually becomes significant to any meaningful degree, then market forces will kick in.  If delegates are providing no value then they will be removed.  Pushing for such a really low rate at this point is doing nothing but inviting centralization. 

Most budget VPS are rather godawful.  Most VPS in general are pretty crap as application servers (obv if you're paying like $80 a month for something on linode, that wouldn't be true).

I have i7-3930 with 64GB of RAM w/ Intel EXPI9301CT NIC, which is usually what I use for bitcoind or p2pool or anything like that... that or an i7-4770 or e3-1240v3 with 32GB of RAM.  This way you can keep everything on ramfs partition?

the bitcoind blocks can burst it up to 100MB/s w/ hundreds of clients requesting it simultaneously.   ive had this running for a while and dont think ive seen over 200kb/s

oh, and,

Peer 106.5.241.47:52856 disconnected us: You offered me a list of more sync blocks than could possibly exist

i get that every 10 or 15 minutes
 

linode expired, it's  badass too