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Re: [ANN] Slimcoin : Proof of Burn NEW BLOCK GEN, Mineable by low power computer!
by
a123
on 20/10/2014, 14:26:07 UTC
What time GPU miners coming Huh Huh

Hmm I was quite hoping it is truly resistant to GPU mining, similar to how Cryptonite has almost very little advantage over CPUs (assumption based on http://cpucoinlist.com/). Anyone has any insights on how Dcrypt holds up? Being a CPU-only coin has a certain appeal, and it might not be too late to switch to another algo in time for the fork.

I believe I've managed to chase down the bug causing transactions to show up as "Mint by burn" when they actually weren't.

The code that did up the transaction list checked whether the transaction was in a PoB block, but forgot to check whether it was the coinbase transaction, with the result that all transactions in PoB blocks would show up as "Mint by burn". I'm not quite sure why the incorrect amount appeared in the list -- but try my patch and see if it fixes the GUI bug. (Or if you don't have a gui environment to test it on, I can do it if you compile an updated windows client. Haven't got a build environment of my own yet...)

(BTW, it looks like even the check for PoB block is kind of hacky -- the check for PoS blocks calls a wtx.IsCoinStake() function, but the check for PoB is implemented as a boolean flag passed in to the function by the caller... kind of ugly...)

Awesome! I'm testing it out right now, am spamming myself with 0.01 SLMs in hope of catching a PoB block. I'll PM you on regarding the Amazon EC2 build environment I compiled the Slim-Qt on Smiley