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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Suggestions to prevent scammers launch new shitcoins
by
Lucky Cris
on 15/08/2014, 02:34:59 UTC
We need more miners of this coin. It is a good coin: no premine, fair launch, still solo-minable by wallet.
Would be nice if some pool (or the Dev) would be able to adapt some miner code in order for it to be minable with pools. It is X11 with an adaption in the timestamp code: 64 bit instead of 32 bit. Any poolowner around that has the skills to work on this?

Not possible. The hex values needed to identify the network is missing from the source code: SCAM COIN

^ obvious shit/scam coin called Spreadcoin or something... I couldn't resist, lol. It took me less than 2 minutes to navigate over to github and peek into the code.
My coin is not a scam. This method for detecting scams is flawed:
1. You search for these values in main.cpp. For different cryptocurrencies they may be in different files, for example for SpreadCoin they are in protocol.cpp, for Bitcoin they are in chainparams.cpp.
2. This values are not only for pools, they are necessary for ordinary nodes. If wallet source code is released then they are available to everyone.

For everyone else who is interested there is discussion about this (with me and Lucky Cris) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=715435.100

Ah, following me, I see. chainparams.cpp isn't used by any new coin nowadays. But it seems that one dev placed the network's hex value code in some obscure file, that that even the people who provide instructions on how to start p2pools don't know about. I wouldn't doubt that the coins where they're missing from main.cpp and found in protocol.cpp are all just clones of that one coin.

I'll say it here as well - I still don't have confidence in your coin. Actually, I have none. Your ANN has nothing special... nothing that would make me think that spreadcoin will maintain a permanent position in this scene; hell the only people who seem to be mining it are newbies like yourself.