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I might be persuaded to update the android wallet with an updated seed node list if there is still one working.  But the blockchain has been through so much neglect, spam and other forms of torture for the last 2.5 years that saving it will be a titanic effort.  Are there pools left to mine it and would they even upgrade to a fixed up core?

When judging people and events, I always refer to Heinlein's razor (reprised); "Never attribute to malice that which is mere incompetence.".

Is Mark as competent as we or he himself would like?  He clearly still has a lot to learn about cryptos and the people involved and how to run a good business in this space.  We all do!  Otherwise we'd be in the Panama Papers, right? 

Look, I don't like this guy Mark any more than you do, but I believe he has the clout to stop the self-delusions of what would make him happy (being "a great fucking success" in his own words, or a multimillionaire through porn-style ads for example) and focus on his real assets (having some competent friends and rewarding them for helping him succeed). That's my definition of competence as a business owner, anyways.

You can give a man a fish, teach a man to fish, or laugh at him for getting wet.
What about you guys, are you incompetent, or do you simply enjoy kicking a guy while he's down?

Was there even a single useful post in this thread?  Was a single satoshi lost or gained because of it?
Please do the right thing and close this sad, self-gratifying thread as soon as possible.

ObFirstRefURL!

https://www.cryptomic.com?refid=ML2Q2LCU



Cryptomic is not the biggest exchange around, but the sysadmin listens to the users, worth checking out.

No they were not.  They were delisted from the coins page because they were shares.  Nothing to do with ByronP anyways.  He didn't create Banxshares, isn't the owner of Banx, etc. etc.
Most people on Banx.io don't seem to want this coin swap to happen, and here you are calling the person who can help you prevent it a scammer because you can't get your names right.

You're weird.

You are misinformed.  ByronP doesn't own the Banx brand, he just runs a small but solid exchange under the Banx name.

As far as I know ByronP didn't even know about these changes to the coin till someone pointed him to this thread, and I don't see how he would really benefit from these changes.  He's simply offering to help with the changes so his customers don't get stuck with a bad hardfork.

I've never heard of ByronP ever scamming anyone, you should offer some proofs or facts before you call anyone an "obvious" and "known" scammer.

HOOoooold on!  Let's take a deep breath and review what's going on here:
1) the original dev created a new coin sold exclusively on Banx.io (Atomic-Trade at the time) and got money from users there.  Isn't that why it was called "Exclusive" coin in the first place?
2) There are NO issues with Banx.io affecting excl trading apart from low volume. Low volume likely due to the coin dev dumping his coins on other exchanges instead of working to develop business on Banx.
3) Now there's a new "plan" where not only it's moving to full PoS (so big holders - like kingscrown) get a extra boost on their value but the original investors (from Banx) don't even own anything anymore?

Were you even going to warn Banx/A-T users that you're taking it all away?

Fixing the coin is a good idea, but why set yourself up as a kingscrown-level scammer by changing the rules of the game?

Probably doesn't have a good peer, like I said.  Maybe the seednodes are down or don't get enough connections to do their jobs.

It can be difficult to find peers on such a small network.  Adding nodes 70.35.205.108 and 70.35.205.184 should help.  You may have to reset your block file and start over if you can't sync.

Hold on, I was fine with you questioning BANX and M. Lyford, he's a big boy and can defend himself.  But now you're calling ME a liar and a sockpuppet, just because you seem unable to order events in their proper time frame. So here's a simple, incontrovertible fact you can't argue with, the code for the original BANX wallet I got from the github:


You can see exactly how the mining happened, and why it was easy for miners to 51% the small network subtly and keep creating new shares for a while.  You can compare that with the code for the new PoS wallet if you want, but since you haven't bothered to investigate and just called me a liar, I don't expect you to bother trying to fit these facts in your version of reality.

According to you, I'd be a victim of a huge scam with BANX.  Makes me wonder why you'd attack me without checking any of the things I tried to help you with and lose some of your credibility in the process.

There was a premine to 6 million, and then a maintenance phase using PoW where the block reward was something like 1 BANX+fees, which is why the total # of coins rapidly went over 6M. The wallet was changed to reward 0 BANX+fees but it was too late to fix it (and breaks the chain when fees=0). So 3 "phases", 4 if you count the newer PoS coin. At least that's what I remember from reading the code back then.

The newer PoS coin mitigates this "overmining" with a tiny stake reward, usually by the exchange's wallet to maintain the network.
At the moment it's impossible to know the actual volume since the trades are off-chain on Banx.io afaik.

On the plus side BANXshares could have been just a database of shares on Banx.io, but it was implemented as a coin instead, which is much more transparent, but clearly not perfect.

I just synced the last 3 weeks without any problems.  Do you know the block # you're stuck on? (Is it 0 or 1?)   Are you sure you have Worldcoin peers in your nodes?  If you only reach bad alts they'll give you bad hashes.

BANXshares has a pretty bumpy history, I just want to clear up some of the confusion. [obDisclosure: I own BANXshares, but I don't believe anyone is the crypto-messiah. I don't have insider info. I'm also not a lawyer. ]

1. One source of confusion is the old BANX/Fork/New BANX issue.  The original BANX was a PoW coin that was released in 2 phases; as far as I can remember the mining reward was much smaller in v2, there was no incentive for miners to update so a group didn't.  Someone at Banx must have noticed the overmining and instead of a rollback, created a new chain and transferred value to it. I guess a couple of exchanges didn't want to switch (since they were stuck with the 'overmined' shares).  At least that's what some of the nastier messages on the official thread are about.

So I don't believe the fork itself was done maliciously, but might have been caused by the plans changing on the wallet dev after the release.  In any case, all the posts about mining and exchanges other than banx.io are relating to that older blockchain and mostly irrelevant to BANXShares and Banx.io at this point.

2. Banx purchased Atomic-Trade (renaming it Banx.io) and released the new BANXShares (a PoS coin) at about the same time.  I have no idea what the deal was between them (and they don't have to tell us if banxshares aren't actually shares of the company but shares of the profits, as is claimed) but I'm pretty sure Byron (Banx.io) is now just a cog in the Banx machine, and that the profits from trading on Banx.io are supposed to be only one part of the dividends from banxshares.  I imagine some other parts are profitable too, but right now dividends are paid once a month at a rate set by Mark.

So please ignore the old block explorer; the only BANX explorer I know of at the moment is http://block.banxcapital.com/chains ... Unfortunately it doesn't have a richlist but it's what I believe CMC is actually using (+ trade price on banx.io) to establish market cap or volume or whatever. So the numbers aren't 100% pulled out of Banx.io's hat.  And anyone could create a new explorer with the wallet from the git...

I have withdrawn and deposited BANXShares from banx.io and it works fine, so CMC is not to blame; it's not their fault there's no other exchange that lists a trade price. And BANX isn't the only coin that doesn't get listed a lot.

So anyway, just trying to put some facts straight, not trying to change opinions.

'I want to link my Bitcointalk name with BTCJam's. Verification code: 03ce803a-554f-4620-96be-1a8042ab9c6c'

Sorry, actually this doesn't work with other wallets. You have just been lucky.

As far as I can understand it, you accidentally or intentionally moved/changed your data folder while something was being written to it. Maybe your hard disk has a bad sector, or you used WorldcoinBC and it tried swapping your partial blockchain with its own complete file while still running.  You MUST NOT play around the data folder, the wallet.dat and such files manually, almost all the altcoin wallets use a data store that has dependencies between the files and becomes corrupted easily.  The only CORRECT way to tweak that stuff is to perform a backup, or export, directly from the wallet.

You could try the "-salvagewallet" command, which is present IN ALL WALLETS, just for this situation. It is not guaranteed to work.  Good luck.

You know, comparing anyone to Max Keiser is terrible PR.   For one thing, none of my coins have been abject failures.

Hopefully if BANX works people will use Mark Lyford as a comparison in the fugure.

Honestly, I don't think the less than 0.001% yearly inflation is the reason why BANXshares is moving to Bitshares. A colored coin/smart tokens system is simply a better match for what are really tokens, not coins.

I removed from mingw32, copied manually lite to msys, and configure worked (after a couple of tries, threading problem maybe). Thanks for the hint, it's compiling!

I tried copying the files from pkg-config dev/tool, compiled/installed pkg-config-lite, reran autogen.sh, started another msys, rebooted even, but still configure gives me this error (0.10.1rc3).  Is it possible there's an environment variable missing (like qtplatform_libs or something)?

Running pkg-config gives me the right version number so I'm assuming it's installed correctly.  Any suggestions? Thanks.

If you want to LEARN all about bitcoin, your money is better spent getting something like Andreas Antonopoulos' book. But if you want to help build up some credibility FOR (not IN) the "crypto industry", then CBP isn't a bad place to start.

"Professional certifications" certainly have a value for HR departments and consultants. 99% of certs are a scam, because the people who certify you are the same people who make/sell the products you're certified on.  Which could also be true in this case, except that the Bitcoin tools and docs are free. So why buy a certification?

The people offering this certification might be too early - but it has to start somewhere.  The CPB level is like a secretary's (sorry, executive assistant's!) proof of basic competence like ability to type X wpm, understand filing systems and have good phone manners.  If a business has to or plans to handle bitcoins in the future, then their HR dept. will be happy to find a candidate that at least knows not to put the private keys unencrypted on a removable thumb drive.

But it's "too early" because no business is asking for it yet. It's bootstrapping - people need to learn about Bitcoins to want them, and who better to spread the word than a CBP?  When HR personnel start seeing "CBP" on resumes, they'll get used to and start to demand it - even if they don't know what is it. (Intelligence isn't a requirement for HR work afaik )
The CBP certification is superficial because the technology is brand new.  You don't really need to hire someone to set up a wallet hierarchy for your departments and be a "key master"/wallet admin because the wallets aren't that complicated yet. But someday they will be and then CBP will certainly be "worth" something.
On the other hand, how many current "altcoin devs" would fail to achieve even basic CBP level?  I'd love to know!

I think it might end up like the "Scrum Master" cert. About 100$ CAD (when I did it), a couple hours of reading, easy exam, but being able to apply to "Scrum master"/Agile jobs is worth the cost, even if Scrum is a scam.  Laugh at the people spending money all you want, there will *always* be cert. programs when $ is involved.  This one is probably not worth it for anyone savvy enough to be on bitcointalk, but it only takes one big HR department to start demanding "something" for a certification program to pop up. All the better if it's run by a non-profit, right?

C4/CBP does have some failings, in my opinion. First off there is no publicly visible count of how many people have achieved CBP, or even applied.  That doesn't encourage businesses/HR to demand it or vet its worth. There's no official training material or "trial" test.  And as far as I know they don't offer to link to a live logo/visible certificate you could put on linkedin or whatever.

So personally I'm going to use my money to buy another 0.5 BTC But as a professional software dev, I am definitely looking forward to the CBX cert!

Go Worldcoin!

WDC attire de nouveaux investisseurs d'un peu partout en ce moment, c'est le bon moment pour s'impliquer!