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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 26/02/2017, 22:41:14 UTC
Looks like Hunterbunter is the admin
https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/commit/28381870be88512ad6ed14493d625d581b455fd5
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+Rating Earnings: 5 Shares
 +Hunterbunter,1LHVxAkzcN8BzSdrT7J2W3CCpiz5Rgj72E,5-Leader(+5 for being the leader)

Problem, the leader didn't even log in the last 4 months https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=24440 (Last Active:   07:44:34 le 28/10/2016)

Also, on devcoin.org (http://devcoin.org/devcoin-wallet.html) says that the official forum of Devcoin is http://coinzen.org/, that redirects to http://devcointalk.org/, which is a forum full of spam

I think a big cleaning must be done... And I'm not talking about the spammed forum


By all means, if you have the time and inclination to restore devcoin then do it. When I took over from Unthinkingbit, capital was fleeing devcoin through devtome, which wasn’t even close to paying itself off. With a sinking price I didn’t act quickly enough (nor really had the power) to stem it before the bottom fell out and exchanges starting dying or delisting dvc. Without exchange support, there was no price support, and without price support the shares were worthless as an incentive, so no one wanted to do anything to help fix it. There was basically a hyperinflation of devcoin going on due to capital flight - devtome was a money sink that never paid itself off. I think in two years it amassed something like 0.5btc in advertising revenue.

Since then, I’ve tried a handful of restart attempts but it’s obvious that I’m not cut out for the job. If you or anyone else would like to take over that’s fine with me. Unthinkingbit is in charge of accounting, everyone else is apparently in charge of whatever he left them in charge of when he resigned as leader. He’s the only one we have to inform. Who’d like to do it? Just say so.

Devcoin is a great cause and if people have the interest in redefining it, I would never stand in the way. Whoever takes over should focus on getting exchange support again. To get that you need to get someone to update the code to the latest bitcoin branch. Either kill, or clean up devtome so advertisers that actually pay will touch it.

The only thing I really manage is the 'ongoing list' and I've purged that as much as I can. It can probably be purged further, but without exchange support the whole thing is a bit moot.

I put this together when I took over to track who's supposed to be doing what: http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin_human_resources

Hunterbunter
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Re: ֎֎֎ WashingtonCoin - WASH ֎֎֎ X11 ֎֎֎ PoW/PoS ֎֎֎ super blocks ֎֎֎
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Hunterbunter
on 26/10/2016, 16:26:25 UTC
wash is on coinexchange now, nice...
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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 28/08/2016, 22:48:26 UTC
Would be great if Devtome could be brought up again and/or made more resilient.

It needs someone that is willing to keep it maintained and work on monetizing it, really. The point behind it was to create an advertising powerhouse, which would purchase DVC off the market and help add buying pressure. So far, whoever is running it has failed to follow that vision.

I'm "Investor Administrator" for that reason! But never got access to improve the platform. I feel myself kind of ignored! Devtome would have huge success and I'm up to work on improving it but I need to have enough privileges for it. Currently I can only use the wiki like any other user, so it is near to impossible for me to achieve any significant improvement.


You're already an admin...

develcuy: admin, writers, users

Use this link: http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=start&do=admin

Yes, but that is only within the application, I need access to the hosting in order to change stuff deeper as we need.

I'm talking to jasinlee at the moment about rehosting devtome on one of my servers. I might just give it it's own fresh server, in which case I can give you su access there.

Do you have any particular software requirements? Regarding hardware, I'll see what I can accommodate.

The most important thing is that we ditch our current advertiser and get the site acceptable to the higher paying ones (eg adwords). I recall we couldn't do this in the past because of our non-censoring policy, but I think we've proven that devtome can't survive without censoring. As a benchmark, devtome has been earning 0.001 btc per month from coinurl :/.

Is anyone able to figure out and suggest a plan of action on what we need to do to convert devtome to be adwords approved?

Is anyone an advertising fiend that knows how to best place ads? At the moment devtome only has one at the top, and I'm sure that could be made better.

HB
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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 28/08/2016, 02:05:06 UTC
Flam, what do you think it would take to make devtome Google/adwords friendly? The current advertising is worthless, and we're just crippling ourselves.

dvccountdown - it was playing up, so I spent a bit of time fixing it / optimizing it. I may have introduced more bugs but I've sped it up significantly.

Regarding devtome, I can host it on one of my servers. The HR page still says jasinlee is in charge of it, so I'll send him a message to see about migrating it. Does anyone know if someone else has control of it?

HB
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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 22/06/2016, 01:17:09 UTC

But in any case, downloading the entire block chain seems to solve a lot of problems, so good to try when the wallet is acting up.

Do you have a link to where one can grab the blockchain?

Thanks,

- Nova

You should be able to just delete everything inside the blocks folder, and it'll redownload it from the network: C:\users\\AppData\Roaming\Devcoin\blocks
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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 19/05/2016, 02:56:25 UTC
The Alcurex market seems to have dried up, and SafeCex is basically offline (or at least a lot of its wallets are offline) for the foreseeable future. Vircurex is no longer taking deposits. Are there any other exchanges that carry Devcoin?

I've been using BTER since vircurex died to pay for dvccountdown hosting. First convert dvc to cny, then cny to btc, fairly painless, but a bit harder to know if you're getting a good deal.

It's got a good UI, not sure how stable they are. Don't keep anything on the exchange if you don't trust it.

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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 05/05/2016, 03:08:25 UTC
How up to date are these IP addresses? http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin_seeds

The following suitable seeds are known at this time:

198.154.60.183
174.34.170.240
There are also some nodes people have posted, that would be suitable for use with the -addnode option either by the command line or configuration file if you are having trouble getting connections. Known at the time of this writing are:

dvc.rpwt.org:52333
devcoin.rpwt.org:52333
dvc.rpwt.org:52333
devcoin.rpwt.org:52333
devcoin.rpwt.org:52333
dvc.us.public.txn.co.in
dvc.eu.public.txn.co.in
dvc.public.txn.co.in ( picks one of the above )
dcnode.bitparking.com

I checked them when I was making that list about 12 months ago, and I don't think anyone's checked them since, so about that. Are there some that you think need to be removed?
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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 18/04/2016, 14:34:20 UTC
Hello,

On round 57, as I banned an account for 50 shares of plagiarism and even if it was too late to be updated on dvccountdown the correct numbers (received amount) must be now 132.4 shares instead of 182.4 or 1359517 DVC per share instead of 986842.

Regards,

Flam.

PS: @develCuy Ok thanks.

Are you saying this correction made it into the receiver files but is not shown on DVC Countdown?

Thanks for taking care of that Smiley

DVC Countdown will always show the best estimate. This is how it works:

DVC Countdown runs the marketing and account.py files daily, and makes a best guess until the end of round. The real end of round happens when Unthinkingbit runs the official version and updates the charity github (https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/tree/master). When I see that it's been updated, I'll remove my guesstimate files and pull the official csvs. This usually happens when the countdown for the "Current Submission Round" has hit zero and I need to start the next round's files. Until that git pull happens, it could be showing incorrect data for the "Round in Progress".

It's a bit difficult to get the timing right, since UTB doesn't have a strict schedule on when the git is updated.

So, if you see something wrong with a round that has supposedly closed, contact UTB with the issue, and if he hasn't already run the files, he'll be able to fix it before it goes to press.

HB
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Re: [DVC] Let's rescue devtome.com!
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Hunterbunter
on 14/01/2016, 22:00:21 UTC
So if the site gets moved to devtome.org rather than devtome.com then the generation files would have to be edited as a quick search on unthinkingbits GitHub has it scraping devtome user/article data from the .org domain.
Also is devtome going to stay or go in the long term?

Devtome will probably stay in the long term. It's like a vine that ended up strangling the tree it grew on, but now the tree can't live without it. It needs to bring a ROI, so we have to convert it to adsense-compatible, and use that money to buy back coins. This is the only sustainable way I can see devcoins getting back on its feet.

Weisoq has been working with Jasinlee to overcome the technical issues the last few weeks. There was an issue upgrading the hosting service and it is being fixed, but it'll be resolved when it's resolved. We can use this time to figure out how to best clean it up.

If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them. One option that comes to mind:

We make a script that trawls every single devtome page and notifies the url of pages that fail whatever google wants to censor. Admins then ask the person to modify or delete the page. Anyone know if google has such a list of banned words/topics?

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Re: [DVC] What happened to Devcoin leadership!
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Hunterbunter
on 17/12/2015, 15:46:22 UTC
Devcoin used to have a big marketcap in the 2013/14 rally. It has sunk lower and lower in marketcap, and since it lost its place on coinmarketcap's first page I hadn't noticed it. Unless the devcoin leaders can give people new reasons to buy devcoins I don't think it will regain its old glory.

Yet the Devcoin Foundation still has (or should have) capital enough to invest and recover, with a good plan we can recover! Don't loose faith that fast.

What's this Devcoin Foundation you speak of?
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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 17/12/2015, 15:44:11 UTC
Pardon my technical ignorance, but why would Devcoin need to be forked just to have it working the way it used to work? I mean, at one time (and for a long time) it was working just fine from the technical perspective. What changed and why has it been nonfunctional for so long?

Hey Wiser, the big problem we have is that essential services are being run by people who just have no interest in keeping them ticking, and don't respond when you try to get them to do their job.

I suspect a falling price has a lot to do with that, along with lackluster leadership. I take responsibility for my part, but there's nothing I can do about the price. Devtome was great, but it was a black hole. It never even close to paid for itself, and the price whittled away, making it even harder to get people to make an effort. Even moving the site into other's hands has proven futile, and now it's in no mans land. I'm still trying to get this working again, and the last communication I received was that there was progress. My share proposal was too little too late, as the damage to the coin was already done. The unlimited shares devtome could earn meant developers ran for the hills.

To add to that, both of the only exchanges that deal with dvc have both recently stopped working. Cryptsy hasn't sent out btc for a month according to the forums, and Vircurex hasn't been processing deposits for a while apparently.

I'm more than happy to step aside and let someone else take charge if they believe they can turn this ship around. The only reason I could think of to fork devcoins would be to decentralize everything. Absolutely nothing that relies on one person alone to do their job.

I believe the key to that problem lies in DACs - Distributed Autonomous Corporations, and the only thing holding that back, as far as I can see, are that domain registrars don't allow domain purchases via API *and* bitcoins yet.

HB

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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 04/09/2015, 01:33:02 UTC
Since the coinzen forum is going to be switching soon, I will use this thread to post bounty proposals:

I'd like to propose a bounty for 240 shares, for sidhujag to update the devcoin client (https://github.com/sidhujag/devcoin-wallet) and devcoin android wallet (https://github.com/sidhujag/devcoin-android) from its current version, 8.5.1, to the newest bitcoin core, 0.11.0.

Notable changes per release:
0.9.0: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.9.0 - windows 64 bit installer, autotools build system, bitcoin-cli changes
0.10.0: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.10.0 - Faster synchronization, Transaction fee changes, RPC access control changes, REST interface, improved signing security, watch-only wallet support, and more
0.11.0: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.11.0 - Block file pruning, memory usage optimization, improved fee estimation, improved privacy

If there are no objections, this will go into effect in about a week.

Since there were no objection, this bounty is now in effect.
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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 04/09/2015, 01:30:49 UTC

Yes, saw that Nova, but I guess my question was more along the lines of how that could have happened because hijacking a domain is not easy these days, and registrars usually give ample warning to pay the small renewal fee before allowing a registered domain to be resold.

Anyway...

Why not just use a sub domain of devcoin.org like forum.devcoin.org?

TT

Hi Tsquared, there has been a bit of a breakdown of communication. I'm not entirely sure who originally had the coinzen.org domain, the people who were supposed to have it didn't. Tenthirtyone was the forum administrator, but said he wanted to hand it over to someone else a few months ago, and we've been looking for another solution. The domain name issue came into being recently, and I'm not sure if they're related. Tenthirtyone could probably clear that up for us.

In any case, I like your suggestion too. It's simple and clean enough for our purposes. I *think* Jasinlee has devcoin.org, so we can probably get him to add the sub. Fuzzybear, I believe shattienator had already got the forum replacement ready with a backup of the old one - Nova, do you know the status of this?
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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 19/08/2015, 07:52:01 UTC
Recommend you don't post domain name suggestions publicly for obvious reasons. Maybe ask for folks to check availability then pm suggestions for available domains.

This is a good point, just send domain name ideas in a pm to me. I didn't think it was a big deal since there are a ton of new gtlds coming out, it doesn't have to be .com or .org any more, but it might be easier to select the best of the bunch and put get the admin list to decide it.

Regarding spam, would it take too much time to just verify new accounts manually? How many legitimate new accounts can you get daily? Just send a form letter email to all new accounts a couple times a day, personal responses with a legitimate reason for wanting to post get enabled, the others get discarded. The job might even be entertaining, and a nice way to meet new members of your community.

TT

I'm not sure about this, Shattienator might know more about how possible/easy this is, although I do know spam accounts were a huge problem on coinzen.
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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 18/08/2015, 14:13:53 UTC
Maybe not .com, but .org? Org sounds much better for open source idea.

P.S. There are lot of "Creative Developers" sites, FB groups etc.

I agree org is better, but there's usually no harm in getting both and having .com forward to .org.

Could you link some examples of those groups?
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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 15/08/2015, 03:26:47 UTC
Since the coinzen forum is going to be switching soon, I will use this thread to post bounty proposals:

I'd like to propose a bounty for 240 shares, for sidhujag to update the devcoin client (https://github.com/sidhujag/devcoin-wallet) and devcoin android wallet (https://github.com/sidhujag/devcoin-android) from its current version, 8.5.1, to the newest bitcoin core, 0.11.0.

Notable changes per release:
0.9.0: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.9.0 - windows 64 bit installer, autotools build system, bitcoin-cli changes
0.10.0: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.10.0 - Faster synchronization, Transaction fee changes, RPC access control changes, REST interface, improved signing security, watch-only wallet support, and more
0.11.0: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.11.0 - Block file pruning, memory usage optimization, improved fee estimation, improved privacy

If there are no objections, this will go into effect in about a week.
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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 14/08/2015, 06:44:20 UTC
Hi All,

So it seems that someone has purchased the coinzen.org domain from under us, and is currently squatting with the intention to put it up for auction.

Considering the lackluster return on investment the forum generated, I suggest we open a discussion towards rebranding coinzen. Shattienator has one a platform (ie hosting) almost ready to go, so all we need to do is figure out a new name, and what kind of people it should attract.

To start off discussion, a conversation I had with devcoiners some time ago (weisoq + others) went along the lines of changing focus from altcoins, which no one seemed to care about, to open source in general. In line with this, and to stay true to our mission, I think it would be good to start attracting people from the general open source community, including creative commons (sound and image/video), and introduce crypto-currencies to them with devcoins. In other words, make it an open source and creative commons focused forum first, and a devcoin forum as an integral part of that.

I don't really know how practical the creative commons ones would be, but I've not found something that marries these together, so there might be worth considering. If anyone knows about any, please point them out.

Also, if you can think of any good names, throw them out there and we can see what sticks (and what we can get the domain name for). New gTLDs are taking off at the moment, so we're not restricted to .com any more for global appeal. Let your thoughts be known!

HB
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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 12/08/2015, 23:02:38 UTC
Hi All, I think we've had enough time to await objections regarding the duty pay change, so I'm going to implement this now, for round 50:

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My proposal for admin pay is that each admin task in the HR table can have up to four duties, each worth 1 share per round. Each duty is specific and must be unique from the others, but related to the title. As an example, the duties I listed for the HR admin above can be considered four separate jobs, so novacadian would receive 4 shares for that duty under the new payment scheme.

If this is generally acceptable to everyone, we will implement it this round, and will last at least until the division implementation, where we revisit it and either continue or fall back to the original model. If you have anything to say about it, now's the time.

The ongoing_50.csv will match the HR page at http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin_human_resources, and the number of shares awarded to each admin role will be based on the number of unique duties. The changes should be reflected on dvccountdown within a day or two, and a few people will see a minor pay rise. If anyone notices any discrepancies please let me or novacadian know.

Thanks,
HB
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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 06/08/2015, 04:06:02 UTC
Tenthirtyone has given his notice on running the coinzen forum, so will be removed from the administrator role and pay. Ashleysly is going to take his place from round 50.

Shattinator and Nova are working on moving the coinzen hosting to another site. I will post updates when that happens.

Hunterbunter.
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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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Hunterbunter
on 01/08/2015, 11:13:11 UTC
Cpsilent has been appointed the new share admin, which had remained open since the cleanup.