Quote from: cinnamon_carter on September 12, 2014, 12:22:44 AM

the font sucks but the ideas for different types of primes with unusual properties, i.e. with x number of consecutive zero's or any number
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the variations are endless, not really useful from a 'scientific' standpoint,

agreed... our primes all have lot's of consecutive 0's when written in base 2.... not an interesting feature though.

Quote from: cinnamon_carter on September 12, 2014, 12:22:44 AM

do you remember when the rsa used to post the bounties for primes ??

then they just stopped, i often wondered if they came up with a much more advanced way of factoring and deriving primes that they never bothered to share with anyone else, probably far fetched but they did pay those bounties and some were for big money ,

yes, many of us still have this question... did they lost interest, or did they find a secret algorithm? probably they just knew the records would be broken soon and decided to use the money for other things...

Quote from: cinnamon_carter on September 12, 2014, 12:22:44 AM

take your time and think it over, the superblock is a pretty neat idea, and i certainly favor anything that can take riecoin ahead of prime coin in the record books and personally i don't care about the value the coin unlike almost everyone else......

i remember reading a paper about 3 or 4 years ago about possible scientific applications of 'unusual' prime numbers but i honestly can't remember what the application was , if it was 'real ' or just a proposal and exactly what they were looking for, maybe i can find that paper !!

whatever you decide you have my support, especially now that i am comfortable building wallets on the btc 9.x codebase

thanks, and let me know if you find that paper!

Quote from: cinnamon_carter on September 12, 2014, 12:22:44 AM

if you fork the client and don't mind please suggest which versions of the tools you are using if different from the most recent bitcoin tools,

i remember the 8.x series of riecoin used qt 4.8.3

I use gitian to make the builds. I usually use the same as the latest available bitcoin release, since it's supposed to be well tested. Here are the latest deps: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.9.2.1/doc/release-process.md they still use qt 4 for compatibility reasons.