Is it time to show Sasha the respect he deserves?

Risto is going to continue with the Crypto Kingdom name on his new game. If interested, please join the levels.fi forum:

https://forum.levels.fi/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=299

https://forum.levels.fi/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=296

I disagree with this because there are many flawed assumptions in it

1. Collusion :  This doesn’t make sense.  notarizations are public and in the worst case can only refuse to notarize.  This is all publically visible so it would be easy to see who isn’t working well with the others. 

2. bad for decentralization:  25% of the coin can be mined by anyone, so anyone can participate.  Cheaper to get ASICs for the 1.2% coin generation than to buy your way to a spot.

3. Not required to compete in mining and invest in hardware: definitely not true,  there is competition among notary nodes ( mempool hunting ) and competition with the FFA miners,  and running a top 30 node without a good server costs money.  And this isn’t including the costs of keeping up with jl777s updates,  which is a job in itself and will only get harder in the future .

4. Small clique of insiders:  Even now there is over 100 people working as notaries/ with notaries or trying to become notaries.  It’s open to anyone to join,  how is this a) small and b)  insiders.  Every election so far people without the ability to vote themselves in have been elected.

Notary nodes have one job and that’s to notarize.  Who does it is pretty irrelevant, and the nodes on the network they are notarizing to will reject fake notarizations and the misbehaving Notary outs themselves as a bad actor.

With KMDs notary system I would argue it is MORE decentralized than 99% of coins which only have a few pools mining everything. 

Am I greedy if I take a bribe to vote for a noobie?

Far too early to be thinking like this, priority is electing skilled sys admins and developers to finish the tech and grow adoption of DLT, jl777 added 5% reward for KMD investors so everyone is taken care of, no need to worry about notary profits getting too big, KMD barely above $1 lol

Don't misunderstand me - I like the NN selection system jl777 and co. have designed, but we should never forget that the NN rewards come from a restriction on who can become a NN, and the easy mining rewards are by design anti-competitive compared to regular miners, and that's a good design IMO. BUT, this isn't like electing politicians where vote buying is obviously corrupt, this is more like selecting which large telco gets the right to roll out 5G networks, or which mining company can extract minerals from public land. The community wants reliable operators who do a good job, and the businesses want certainty so they can invest capital, time & skill.

Uncertainty is costly, and any business relying on their NN revenue streams to fund operational costs and growth in the ecosystem will not risk relying on an election every year where they have to campaign for votes, that is too uncertain, 'last year we could budget for NN rewards, but oh no, we lost the last election so for the next 12 months our revenue stream is gone' - this is a recipe for disaster, and not how successful businesses operate.

In the future when KMD MK is much larger than it is today NN candidates will look for ways to guarantee their spots over multiple years, and that will include things like competition with other NN candidates using incentives like revenue sharing, other token offerings, and discounts on various services and products offered by the NN business itself, as well as private deals with large holders.

I also hope in the future we see genuine community run nodes for small KMD holders to pool their VOTE.

This is not an outcome we should fear IMO, on the contrary, NN revenue streams will allow komodo based companies to prosper and grow without resorting to the traditional revenue sources of so many existing internet business (selling customer data and advertising), and charging exorbitant fees.

We should prepare for NN candidates to be businesses though, and expect that they will  try to secure NN 'licenses' in the future in ways that involve offering incentives to voters, and eventually I think the majority of the community will not be freaked out by revenue sharing, especially if we have genuine community pools.

In the end the community of komodo is best represented by the owners of KMD!

Good luck to ALL the 2019 NN candidates!

When Chris was asked to comment on Blitzcash becoming (one of the first) sidechain(s) on the Stratisplatform this was his answer:

"When I said the first sidechain I meant the first externally deployed and maintained sidechain! Which has still not been created, we are available to assist and support the blitz team in deploying one but we cannot force then unfortunately"

Seems like the initiative lies with the Blitz community?

The only way you'll be able to obtain a 'minting account', and therefore a portion of the block reward once qortal project chain begins, is to:


1. prove you have supported the previous chain, by verification that you have run a node, and staked during the last few months when not many people were, due to the fact that there was no staking reward. This alone will prove that you supported the project, wanting to see it survive, regardless of the fact that you were not receiving monetary reward for doing so, and is sufficient to obtain a minting account on qortal project chain.

2. prove you have contributed in other ways to the project's success, via explaining and showing what you have done to the community. At which point, we will put a vote up for the community to choose whether your efforts were 'sufficient' to obtain a minting account, and at which 'weight' or 'level' the account shall be started.

Indeed 2018's been a harsh year overall, and CK and its derivatives have also been more or less under hibernation. I think it's quite natural given the circumstances. But here's hoping for a solid 2019, happy holidays to all!

Cheers. I haven't given up on my engine despite my GitHub commit's having been focused on my research work focused projects and other (gaming) hobby projects. There's a game jam on Jan 25-27, which I might be able to use as a playground for having this as the back-end, will see

Does anyone want to sell some coins?

Thank you. Have connection now.

Would be way better if you pull them out of the exchange. The blitz QT wallet is working fine, go on it.

I expect Chris will do what he previously said and Blitz will become the first sidechain of Stratis, the Bittrex listing has nothing to do with that, and I did not see the conversation in telegram and if Chris was involved.

Ofcourse.
If you have 1BTC in Bitcoin Legacy, you'll have 1BTC in Bitcoin fork.
If you have 1BTC in CK Legacy, you should have 1BTC in CK fork.

Besides, his assets are nowhere near the value of the actual debt.
It's almost worthless, it won't cover over 10% of the actual money owed.

Which game would repay those debts? Crypto Kingdom certainly would not.
It's Zechariach and other Rpietilas charachters ingame.

We are not dealing with the B1 and E1 depos. If someone has issues with Risto, get in touch with him. There is Malla Manor / Bitcoin castle and tens of millions (at current values if he kept what he had) in that Poloniex account he flashed to us in 2017.

Let us try to actually do something with the game and leave this depo stuff behind us.

The main motivation for reviving CK is -- honestly -- it is insane that something like this with such a history/lineage and so much money moving around it is dead now.

Updates Regarding Crypto Kingdom

Only looking at major accounts, here is what we are thinking:



Accounts in yellow will be taken over in full by the game. These are either Risto-related accounts or were already game accounts.

Accounts in green are corporations that we believe Risto controlled. In-game currency held by these accounts will be distributed to current shareholders. Then they will just act as holding companies unless a game-specific purpose is created for them later. We are thinking, for example, of NewCorp functioning similar to "Phoenix Trust" as it holds a lot of land/property.

Accounts in orange we are unsure on. If there are any claims to these, let us know. "FuriBliz" in particular looks very suspect.

In any event, this will give the game room to grow without changing relative ownership percentages of in-game currency and items for any other users.