Quote from: d5000 on January 21, 2015, 04:39:23 PM

Hi Mr E!

Quote from: Mr E on January 19, 2015, 11:31:30 AM

Quote from: d5000 on January 11, 2015, 05:10:07 PM

I think the priority for a new dev - or "slimcoin" or "a123" if they come back - would be to follow closely the development of Peercoin 0.5, which will be based on a newer codebase (the BTC 0.6 base of actual SLM is pretty old, there are a lot of useful commands missing) and merge the new peercoin code with SLM.

I've been thinking about this while trying to get the build working, and I wholeheartedly agree -- it would be ideal if we can rebase our code off either the latest bitcoin, or peercoin if they're reasonably up-to-date with bitcoin-core. Perhaps I can look at how much work that will be, once I get the current version building...

Peercoin seems to be switching to the BTC 0.8.6 codebase with the 0.5 release (see https://github.com/ppcoin/ppcoin/tree/develop and the pull requests). PPC 0.5 has important features regarding PoS (cold-locked minting, duplicate stake detection), but they will be irrelevant if SLM decides to take down PoS.

Perhaps it will be best if we decide first if we want to keep PoS (I don't want to take much part of this decision as I'm not a programmer) or not, because in the case we drop it perhaps it is better to rebase SLM on the latest Bitcoin.

@all: I have compiled a123's latest version on Linux and the brain wallet code added as last commit probably contains a bug, I cannot get it to compile (can anyone confirm?). The version inmediately prior to it from October 28 (0fc7bc779d82999c99cff44c970871da29c2df38) works fine.

We should try to re-instate / re-activate PoS imho. Slimcoin should try to remain a Tri-Block Gen. coin.

Slimcoin as the developer clearly put a lot of thought into the economic viability of Slimcoin, PoS is an important part of that model imho.

This coin has so much innovation its hard to understand why it isn't much more popular. I would like to start contributing and testing builds when I have time perhaps.