Re: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine
... we will continue from https://gapcoin.club at present still.
Not sure what bounties we might be able to muster up currently, although were are seeking a new developer.
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Not sure what bounties we might be able to muster up currently, although were are seeking a new developer.
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Anybody have ideas for bounties?
One thing a bunch of coins have been doing is putting exchanges in the wallets.
If somebody could make a wallet that had Gapcoin, primecoin, riecoin, gridcoin and maybe a few others, in the same wallet, and allowed some kind of exchange amongst those coins between peers, within the wallets, I'd help bounty that.
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Just as a general rule, with any coin, you can go to the explorer or exchange and get nodes that are up to the minute.
For example https://chainz.cryptoid.info/gap/ has a network tab that shows the current nodes
and https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/CoinInfo/?coin=GAP shows the current connections for their wallet
All coins have node lists or coins might have nodes built in but an explorer or exchange has real time info
Thanks to whoever extended the block explorer hosting! I was going to renew it (again) and was delighted that someone else had already contributed in this regard.
Considering the future possibility for new bounties ...
TBH I'm personally not really in support of built-in wallet exchanges or other kinds of wallet additions, certainly not in the main branch anyway.
A wallet is a wallet IMHO and any connectivity to 3rd party apps / services etc., is mostly rather hideous in reality! However, a separate branch with built-in exchange functionality is certainly a possibility, if the community supports it. I'm not a developer for Gapcoin.
I think that our basic essential community requirements (moving forward) included;
1. A new known dev. who can bring the code base more up-to-date and compile a windows wallet with the latest SSL + we could also use a Mac wallet ofc.
@PeterTheGrape - I'm wondering if @gjhiggins - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=254673 - would have the time and/or inclination to work on Gapcoin. It seems that many folks from this thread have also had a long-term mutual interest in Slimcoin - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1141676.0 , myself included, (with @gjhiggins now being the main Slimcoin projects take-over dev.) In fact, I'll drop him a PM after this post! I see no reason why my existing Gapcoin servers would be able to be extended to host a Slimcoin daemon as well.
2. A working pool or two and perhaps a new faucet.
With these aspects in place I'd be OK with starting a new thread and commencing with promotional activity for the new world record attempt.
I'll soon add a second stage to the existing cloud mining guide to suggest limiting the default Gapcoin daemon miner to only utilize around 65% CPU - as Digital Ocean, Linode and Vultr don't seem to flag instances that are running Gapcoin with such a CPU restriction in place. It's not mining anyway, it's math and science.
To stand a real shot at a world record prime gap we only need to focus / increase the network hashing power for a relatively limited duration.