http://falconsys.net/shitbit/fountain.php dohohoho, take all the shit you want, the pool is flooded in it

edit: wait, no, most of that server balance is stored in someone's wallet. Well, hell, at least the system works! 

<3 yeah, but if it held stationary value and was sure not to end up crashing itself soon, it very well could've ended up taking over other absolute-shitcoins like Devcoin and Namecoin at the very least

Yeah, that's what I'm concerned about. I think the tech specs of the coin might be too tight, introducing these kinds of weird cycles that shouldn't be happening. It should only decrease the supply, never jump back to 500,000,000 for any reason... so I'm a bit concerned that we might end up crashing the whole thing pretty soon when the numbers get too large for even a 64-bit number to support (remember, we have to add 8 more 0's for the decimal places!). Could already be what's happening with the 3-million to 500-million loop-back. :/

But oh yeah, I think we've totally blown way past the 100-trillion mined mark already.

Uhm... I dunno what the hell just happened, but my mined "receive" address is jumping around and I started getting 500,000,000-per-block rewards (and with the Jally, they're rolling in about one every two seconds). I think I broke it.

edit: blocks, not coins. And that's *way* up from the 3,000,000-per-block I was getting moments prior.

Holy crap, I just realized. I think, in the partially-written exchange implementation, I just created the first online Shitcoin wallet. LOL. I was so focused on the complete exchange project I didn't even realize that DEPOSIT AND WITHDRAWAL MAKES IT A WALLET. lmfao. Very cool. ^_^

Also just realized we may have some competition in the hashing pool. Someone's knocked my Atom's hash rate flat on its ass. *turns on the Jally* 

lol, the exchange was thought of before the Fountain, but the Fountain was written as a way to learn the core principles of coding an interface to *coin via JSON (which I've never touched before). When Bitcoin started behaving differently than Shitcoin when returning balances, I knew something was up there

The exchange is linked from the Fountain (in the nav bar), both of which are at http://falconsys.net/shitbit The Fountain also has a "feed me" address, which would gladly accept donations of shit to the cause

lol, just a little FYI, no biggie. Can't believe how much work is already in this thing though... yeah, I even wrote up that file-token based authentication system and everything, because I knew people didn't want to create ANOTHER fucking username/password, especially for something as silly as this. So I made sign-up as easy as humanly possible, as secure as possible. File doesn't contain anything except a bunch of random noise, which is fingerprinted and its salted hash used as the token for the account. Which will also be verified when you try to make any withdrawals (instead of a PIN). Try breaking THAT shit. And who else has that.

Hah! Hell yeah, an installer and everything*. Works great, bug is gone!

*sends 35906237 to the exchange*

Great, looks now now I need to get psyched back up to work on this piece of shit.

* - just missing an entry other than "uninstall" in the start menu group, though.

gahaha... considering as though my 1.6GHz Atom damn near 51'd this coin and I practically crashed the whole network with my Jalapeno, this seems entirely possible.

I'll tap r3wt's shoulder then.

BTW, the pool now has like, 9 billion SHT in it... lol. Nobody feels like relaxing under the Shit-fountain? Well, can't say I blame 'ya... but the fountain is fully functional 

Yeah, I wish it were as easy to do as it is easy to say. I don't use mingw (Cygwin and mingw only glance at each other nicely.... other than that, they want to kill each other), and Qt5 for Windows can't compile the thing since the code it's based on wasn't Qt5 compatible. The patch is literally just a matter of changing like, two bytes, but I can't get the damn thing to compile for shit. All the links in the "how to compile with QT" readme are broken, then I stumble across this thread which killed any hope I had of making it work.

Worse, haven't heard from vlad2vlad (he's running this shit show, right? lol), so I'm still kinda stuck. If anyone else has access to a working toolchain that can actually compile this thing, there will be much <3 from the shit-lovers here.

FYI, I'm using the Qt version for the server daemon, full GUI and all, because it's a low-traffic, multi-purpose server that pretty much just runs any software I want to run 24/7. And I like being able to see transactions and status at a glance without having to reinvent the wheel with my own back-end UI. I'd much rather use that Qt version, but shitcoind would also do.

Hmm, major hold-up. The JSON "getbalance" function doesn't seem to work - at all. It just returns random numbers, per this bug: https://github.com/aLQ/bitbar/pull/1

Below, I test an account that my new "exchange" automatically set up, and it returns the same strange values that the web server is getting/displaying. There hasn't been any activity for either of these accounts except a few transfers to Test, several commands ago... but nothing since then except mining income every few seconds.


Same code/function used with the current Bitcoin client works fine, returning the correct result. Any ideas?

Restarting the client doesn't help 

First step: learn how to perform transactions and get information from the interface. Best way to do that... a fountain with the mined coins.

http://falconsys.net/shitbit/fountain.php

More coming, but it's working as of now between my two client. Yay!

Thought this was kinda funny. The network hash rate is so low right now, I hooked up my Jalapeno (9gh/s modded) to the network for about TEN SECONDS and got about 19 blocks solved before I could stop it (among about 50 rejects from hopping pools without restarting the miner, using the old block Stratum info).

I decided instead to have the server's CPU itself do the mining, which is an Atom-330 dual core 1.6GHz CPU without even as much as a CPU fan. Here are those results.


Haha... this is too much fun. :3

Rejections are likely due to the insanely high block-solve rate, which I imagine the network will adjust for momentarily. 

Hey, me first! Shoot, maybe we need to set up a BTC/Shitcoin exchange, even if just as a single-purpose website. It'd have to work in units of K/M/G-Shits of course, but I bet there'd at least be some utility to it I guess I need to start thinking about building an exchange website... lol.

I code in PHP for web work, and I can modify/compile C programs with a Cygwin toolchain (I hate MS SDKs, but I live and breathe Windows). Is there some way to automate transactions to/from Bitcoin and Shitcoin wallets? That's the JSON API, isn't it?

update: yep, I'm building it. *sends 13gb Bitcoin blockchain to server*... *sends 300mb Shitcoin blockchain to server*...

It'd be tough to convert... I mean... exchanges are denominated in units of one coin, so when we're playing with billions, that's like...

500,000,000,000 SHT = $1
$1 = 0.0011111111111111 BTC
0.0011111111111111 / 500,000,000,000 = 0.00000000000000222222222 BTC
- or -
1 SHT = $0.000000000002

I think we might have some exchange difficulties there in terms of decimals.

Maybe exchange for some other painfully low-priced coin, like Devcoins? *doodles on e-napkin in Notepad*
500,000,000,000 shitcoins for $1
$0.00059 per devcoin
1695 devcoins per dollar
0.00000000339 devcoins per shitcoin

Yeah... I don't even. Damn. Is anyone in this room Azn? My head hurts already, and I think I messed half that math up. (that's a compliment. can't be racist if it's a compliment, right? lol)

THIS. I mean, I love that everyone gives it an honest attempt, but nobody looks at the bigger picture (or they just hope everyone's too stupid to notice). Even Litecoin itself was a crapshoot - there's no room for anyone else. Major innovators play the big role here - like Litecoin going for a completely new, ASIC-resistant (-proof? maybe) algorithm that secures its role as the GPU mining coin while Bitcoin moves on to ASIC. Everyone else is just like a bunch of kids running around like "Well, I have one slightly better idea, too!". They have proofs and all - a genuinely better take on things, most of the time... but absolutely no market ground to get anywhere with. I honestly have no idea why there is even a demand for these coins, other than speculation that *they'll* be the big winner, so people snap them up like "well, what if this one goes for $1,000 like Bitcoin some day?" >.<

I was like... someone, please, PLEASE restore my faith in humanity. Then I found ShitCoin. And now, I honestly want some. There's value in ShitCoins - a funny way to get paid, as long as some exchange, somewhere, ties any arbitrary value to them. Hell, I'd buy 500 million billion Shitcoins for a dollar.

(Cryptsy? Come on, step up )

*rattles tip jar* BSPXMUkZbVKzWP6S8ckKHnXmczbMphppaU

Well, there are plenty of other shitcoins out there. Just look around the other threads in this very forum.

Oh my god, I love this. LOVE. this. Finally, an alt-coin that's not afraid of calling itself exactly what it is: another Bitcoin knockoff with absolutely no variation other than playing games with numbers. LOVE IT.

Honestly, browsing through wheretomine.com, I got frustrated looking at the list knowing it's only going to get longer, more complicated, and impossible to just sit here and mine Bitcoins with my Jalapeno and Litecoins with my GPU. Because SOMEWHERE, SOME IDIOT IS COOKING UP ANOTHER FUCKING ALTCOIN that we're ALL going to have to start mining if we want to stay ahead of the speculation game. BitBars, FreiCoins, StableCoins... after shifting through several of these iterations, I'm already getting tired of it.

It's damn nice that someone thought far enough into the scope of reality to just say it like it is and put out a parody (of sorts) like this. The GUI is brilliantly peppered with lols, the numbers game is amazing (100 trillion? lol'd hard), very well played. Now I just need to work on mining this shit for the lulz. :3

(here's the thought process that led to this remarkable "oh shit, someone already did it" discovery. just because, win.)

A treasure hunt! ^_^ Well played, in the values of the transactions. Since zeroes get knocked off the end, I padded the values with zeroes to get this. Definitely meant to be ASCII text, but I think because the transactions came through at the same time - as you found - the letters get scrambled.

It looks like the big block of deposits was a batch of all the "letters" being refunded. Below, they're broken down into three distinct segments, at different times. We can assume these are groups to be unscrambled on their own.


Which translates to:

Probably just mashing the keyboard or playing with a script

Well, I figure I'd better come in here and voice up. Been reading along ever since the first instance of the "checkpoint is too old" error, and the common resolve seems to be "redownload the [entire f%$#ing] blockchain from one peer". As a coin itself, I can't see this as a solution. For mine, it worked - finally resolved the error just by telling it who to connect to. But that's not the point. Let me go back a few hours and explain what led up to this error.

I wanted to give BitBar a try. The name and the concept were the big sell - a low-quantity currency meant to be a "bigger" Bitcoin. BitBars, Bitcoins, and Litecoins. Seems like a "coin" that could stand up to the test of time, unlike some others that are obviously get-rich-quick schemes for the devs. So, I checked out the website. Horribly disappointed. Front page is just "news", telling users to redownload the blockchain? Gotta be kidding me. Well... I press on. Downloads page said the "latest version is 0.4.1", pointing to a Google Drive download link that only has 0.4.2 and 0.4.3 (was dead the first time I tried it, though - blank page). 0.4.2 is the latest news post - what the hell is 0.4.3? Whatever, I grabbed 0.4.3 - newer is better, I guess.

Extracted it (no installer? Come on... more tedium for the end-user, this clearly isn't a project meant to be used for more than just miners), ran it. It started off showing a low number of blocks remaining to download, but then jumped after a few thousand had gone by... chugged away for a while... then eventually just hung for the next hour or so with several thousand blocks remaining (I think over 20,000). So, frustrated, I closed it and opened it up again.

Then I got the dreaded "checkpoint is too old, contact the devs" error. With a fresh download of the blockchain, with the latest client, starting from pure scratch.

Rule of thumb: your currency is doomed if your mainline client can't get online without editing a config file.

I got it working by adding "connect=84.200.4.218" to the config file and running "bitbar-qt.exe -rescan" - without the "rescan", it would still give the checkpoint error even after previous launches with "-rescan" connecting to a dead peer. The price of BTB is higher than any other currency besides Bitcoin right now, so it's definitely worth getting into - but will it last beyond the "OMG BITCOIN $1,000 EVERYTHING ELSE IS FAIR GAME" bubble? I dunno. I'm trying to give it the benefit of the doubt. But the technical errors and sketchy usability put a lot of doubt in my mind about the long-term stability of the project.

Could the blockchain-download bug be caused by a peer that's sending out that partial fork from earlier? Maybe the Bitbar client isn't making the proper differentiation between the good and bad peers, or failing to recover from being given a bad block? I don't know enough technical details, but it doesn't seem like *anyone* in this thread is giving the "checkpoint too old" error the attention it very clearly deserves... just "tape-over the check engine light, redownload block chain".

All this, and I still have no idea what the "Stake: 0.00" in my wallet is referring to. Like I said... usability problems.