i think he means that as the price was rising many large sell offers disappeared, but he's got quite a colorful way of saying it

It looks like the transaction never got mined/confirmed in the mainchain, so those 50,000 FLO should still be in the wallet that had them before that transaction. You can confirm this by checking both the TXID and the recipient address in a block explorer, or a few if you want to be really sure.

https://florinsight.alexandria.io/tx/924be492c2837384fd0d2eee4af0ebe506f4c5a6962c5307dfaee41b7620474e
https://explorer.alexandria.io/tx/?txid=924be492c2837384fd0d2eee4af0ebe506f4c5a6962c5307dfaee41b7620474e
https://florincoin.info/tx/924be492c2837384fd0d2eee4af0ebe506f4c5a6962c5307dfaee41b7620474e

https://florinsight.alexandria.io/address/F9gCji1FEyaq8rEv8F9N5dfT2ApzF8pfo9
https://explorer.alexandria.io/address/?address=F9gCji1FEyaq8rEv8F9N5dfT2ApzF8pfo9
https://florincoin.info/address/F9gCji1FEyaq8rEv8F9N5dfT2ApzF8pfo9

Is this the wallet you'd sent that TX last year from? If it ever worked (on this computer) then you must have that folder somewhere, it's where your private keys and the blocks are stored. Note that I'm not saying the Library folder in the root level of your hard drive, but the one in your User folder, which MacOSX now hides by default. To get directly to it, pull down the Go menu and select Go to Folder... and then paste this in: ~/Library/Application Support/Florincoin

find your florincoin.conf file (if you're on a mac it should be at ~/Library/Application Support/Florincoin/florincoin.conf, idk where it is on windows, hopefully someone else can fill that detail in if you are)
change
rpcallowip=192.168.0.*
to
rpcallowip=192.168.0.0/16
save and close the file, and then try to open you wallet again

Peeps

Check out the sneak peak of v0.8.0 of Alexandria (due out late May)

Test it out yourself by joining our slack and hitting me up there (i'm @devonjames)

Enjoy, and I'd be happy to answer any questions you have:

https://alexandria.io/browser/002004

Currently Alexandria is the most visible project using Florincoin.

To check it out: https://alexandria.io/browser
To chat with us about it: http://dloaslack.bitspill.net/

to join, you'll need to go here for an invite: http://dloaslack.bitspill.net/

That's exactly the plan. Primary goal is to use filecoin for that function, but of course it doesn't yet exist, so our backup plan is Storj, Sia and/or maid.

Hi, thanks for your questions, they reveal a deep understanding of what a coin needs for longevity and market value - I'm anxious to share a wiki soon about how Alexandria addresses this issue, hopefully by the end of the week. In the meanwhile, I'll summarize our approach as such:

publishing content requires spending a fee. the fee is calculated differently depending on if its a piece of commercial content or a piece of free content. if its free, the fee is based entirely on the size of the data being added to the blockchain, as @metacoin said previously. if its commercial, the fee is calculated as a function of the price being asked for it.

the fees go to miners, yes. and most miners sell their coins at their earliest opportunity, also agreed, tho we think they'll be have differently in our system, but ill get to that in a sec. first - lets consider that the fees also have to come from somewhere, and we know full-well that independent publishers (artists of any kind) are not about to become cryptocurrency traders in order to purchase an altcoin, after becoming first familiar with Bitcoin and signing up for a hosted wallet and uploading their drivers license, all just to publish their song or video. to address this - well, the first step in addressing this was integrating Coinbase's Buy Widget (https://developers.coinbase.com/docs/buy-widget) to give them a super easy way to buy $1-$5 of BTC with a debit card without even making a coinbase account, but we did all that on the application layer.

the primary thing we did to address this at the protocol layer, while also giving miners more incentive to mine Flo (since we ultimately want a competitive and rising mining market in order to trust the consistency and resiliency of the consensus system those publishers are relying on), is that we define within our protocol a system that lets publishers automatically exchange their BTC into the amount of FLO they need to publish their piece of content, from the miners directly, at a reasonable margin on top of their estimated costs. this is a first come first served system, using the timestamped data in the blockchain itself to determine which coins are up next for trading, which results in miners having an actual incentive to hodl their coins - but not just to hold while watching a crypto market for the price to hit a target, to hold until the market of publishers gets to you in line, and if you wait until then, they'll pay you a reasonable 10-20% margin on top of what you spent to mine them.

and then, of course, since a few minutes after the publisher trades BTC for those FLO, they are then spent as the tx-fee for their publish message, the miners have not just an incentive to hold the coins they have mined, but to keep on mining cuz they might just win not just the standard block reward, but a bonus every once in a while as well - and if they hold them until their turn to be autotraded, they'll again make a margin on them.

Result is a generally stable but also upward impact on hashing power as long as there is an overall increase in publishing activity - as more miners discover that they can set it and forget it and get reliable returns from pointing their sCrypt miners at a pool compatible with our protocol, the number of open offers from those miners will increase, in other words the time between when they mined a block and when they sold that block will get longer - but as overall publishing activity goes up, that number of offers will go down proportionately.

Coincidentally (well, partially by design) this should have a generally stable but also generally upward impact on token price as well. Some miners will be anxious to sell immediately and thus they will apply pressure to the crypto markets to drive the price higher - whenever hype about the project leads to traders newly discovering it and getting excited about it, the price will surge accordingly, which would cause some of the miners who were holding until a publisher traded for their coins to instead go trade them on the open market, reducing the available supply for publishers, and shortening the time between when miners win blocks and when they sell them.

Hopefully that gives you a decent understanding of our approach - please let me know if that leaves you with more questions than it answers

autoswitching multipools do that every couple of days, whenever the relative value of the token puts it into their cross hairs.

we're working on finishing up a daemon that auto-rents hardware and plugs into our tradebot tool to give the tokens an offramp. once its up and running we should see significantly fewer of the large difficulty changes that cause many hour long delays in finding blocks.

PM me your email address and ill send you an invite manually

our joinbot is at http://dloaslack.bitspill.net/

Wow, Flo has been on a tear lately, it's nice to share updates with a bullish crowd

Note: I'm not gonna cover everything we've been working on, if you want to learn more, your best bet is probably to come join our slack here: http://dloaslack.bitspill.net/

1) More media types
We're still ironing out the kinks in regards to how some media types work in the "browser" application, but the "publisher" application now supports the following additional media types:
Movie
Book
Podcast
Thing
HTML

So, if you have media of any of those types you've been waiting to publish, the library is now ready for you Publish here: https://alexandria.io/publisher/

2) Coinbase buy widget (US dollars via debit/credit cards!)
We are the #4? #5? project to be granted access to Coinbase's buy widget, which allows American bank card holders to make instant purchase of Bitcoin with their debit or credit card even if they don't have a coinbase account. Transactions must be for a minimum of $1, and non-account holders are limited to $5 per day and $50 in their lifetime - after that point they are asked to create an account with Coinbase to make further purchases.
This function is integrated in a few limited areas at the moment:
a) in Tradebot, which you can use as a publisher if you wish to purchase a small amount of Florincoin tokens to use for publishing - if you create a new wallet using https://alexandria.io/publisher/ and then start the process of registering a publisher address without any tokens in your wallet, it will complain that you need "At least one Flo in your wallet" and then automatically load Tradebot. You can then either send BTC to the address provided to receive some Flo, or you can click the nice big blue "Buy Bitcoin with Coinbase" button, which will let you purchase between $1-$5 of BTC which it will automatically send to tradebot, and a few moments (or minutes) later, you'll receive Flo.
b) in Paywall, which is built into our "browser" application, which means when you come across an artifact with a purchase price between $1-$5, you'll have the option of using the buy widget. One good example can be seen when looking at Imogen Heap's "Tiny Human": https://alexandria.io/browser/#/6e0bca1d8d4d24b41e24780e327e31631d864f2dc16081b7b17a7f929b9bdbf2
If you click the "$0.015 To Play" button, you are presented with the a paywall that provides a QR code and address to pay via Bitcoin, but when you click the "$1 to Buy" button, you also get the option to use the Coinbase buy widget.
c) Note: We will be attaching the Coinbase widget to a hosted BTC wallet as well, in order to support direct payments from a logged-into wallet instead or relying entirely on QR codes and users' mobile wallets. First we need to select one to integrate into the "browser" application (by that i mean https://alexandria.io/browser, just to be clear), so if you have particularly strong feelings about an open source bitcoin web wallet you think we should be considering, let us know (requirements: zero-knowledge, relevant foss license).

3) Updated URLs n stuff:
We've been doing some housekeeping and organizing, and some old links may have broken, so for clarity's sake, here's where stuff can be found:
https://api.alexandria.io/pool/  = Just a super basic pool at the moment, but will be a part of a specific security mechanism in the future
https://florinsight.alexandria.io/  = Insight-based explorer
https://explorer.alexandria.io/  = Florincoin-specific explorer designed for browsing tx-comments
https://flovault.alexandria.io/  = zero-knowledge hosted wallet for Florincoin
https://api.alexandria.io/docs/  = API documentation for most of our project's public endpoints (more coming soon)

4) Shared effort
"Why reinvent the wheel if your innovation is the rubber in the tire?"
Since a number of other projects have started working on the 'media distribution using blockchain technology' concept, we've been focusing a lot over the past year on how to ensure that all of this effort is as collaborative and complimentary as it can be, rather than being unnecessarily competitive as a default. Since our true competitor is simply the concept of centralized control of media distribution, and some deep pocketed entities have strong interests in preventing that paradigm from being disrupted, we do, of course, need to be somewhat strategic about how we publicly discuss and announce things like this, so we are keeping these details rather close to the chest. I mention it here, however, so that if any of you are working on a similar project, or if you are focused on delivering just one piece of the overall service involved in a decentralized media distribution eco system, you are invited to join the larger collaborative effort by getting directly in touch with myself either here via DM or in our slack channel via DM (my username in our slack channel is @devonjames).

Thank you all for your interest and support in this project - while on its surface Alexandria is about enabling artists to get paid more fairly for their work, for me personally it is also a tool that i hope will soon help us, as a species, to be better informed about the world around us, and maybe even help to prevent the next war. Fingers crossed, after all i hope we can all agree that its a worthwile goal, even if it does seem out of reach right now.

We'd love to help troubleshoot what is preventing your publish attempts to work. There are no file size limits, but its possible that servers could be timing out. Please join our slack so we can help figure it out: http://dloaslack.bitspill.net/

sorry for that, we forget to keep the ANN peeps up to date as often as we should - your best bet to keep up with stuff is to join our slack: http://dloaslack.bitspill.net/

Florincoin fork coming later today!

Hi everyone, Devon, the founder of the decentralized library of alexandria here, with info about a coming hard fork for Florincoin.

As we've been working hardcore on alexandria, we noticed florincoin could use a bit of a core upgrade. When we set out to upgrade its codebase to LTC's v0.10.x, we discovered that following our minor release of florincoin in Dec, some full nodes and pools compiled with a new version of openssl were producing signatures that were not backwards compatible with libsecp256k1 (a necessary upgrade compartmentalizing the daemon from the cli as well as providing a more efficient signature algorithm), necessitating a hard fork to correct this issue going forward.

We have the upgraded wallet code ready to go and have tested it on multiple OS's. There is a possible double spend risk in the hours leading up to the hard fork, so we have asked the Poloniex and Bittrex exchanges to suspend deposits and withdrawals in the next few minutes. The fork is planned to occur around 12:20pm PST today (March 25, 2016).

Our UNOMP pool at http://pool.alexandria.media is running the new codebase, so if you want to mine continuously thru the fork, please point your hashes that way. We will be renting hashes for that pool shortly before the fork to ensure that the latest codebase is submitting the majority of POW by the time we hit the target block.

Also, Mac users, rejoice - for the first time in a long while we have working builds of Florincoind for OS X, yay CLI

VERY IMPORTANT: Because of the sequence of events planned for the fork, it is very important that you do NOT attempt to spend any FLO using the v10 codebase before the hard fork. Any transactions sent from a v10 client before approx 12:20PM PST today will very likely NOT be valid after the fork. This is a very small window of danger, but it's a real one, so be aware.

Here are the wallet download links (updated, now with decryption keys!):
Mac OS X
florincoin-0.10.4.0-osx64.tar.gz: https://mega.nz/#!e5xEWTjT!ckrzDAuOXxkldSt7qccAUDpwocAmFOhh5w-Yt2mBOd0
florincoin-0.10.4.0-osx-unsigned.tar.gz: https://mega.nz/#!fsh1wQJK!sUu-D6DwjGlYhSqs6km1RuObkWfWa0ZoBaNY_vARJug
florincoin-0.10.4.0-osx-unsigned.dmg: https://mega.nz/#!DxwkCLRZ!LvZoFoEIBJdc8G9vj3TomSNISJr5-r-sjIZSV7wJa60
Windows
florincoin-0.10.4.0-win32.zip: https://mega.nz/#!X9QzDLpC!e9iUc4HXKOumP2iPr9yqFbnW3-gVT9vmdsuawMsATFo
florincoin-0.10.4.0-win32-setup.exe: https://mega.nz/#!e4JnlZyR!hndRuQ4QgvLW0cFUJ4ftb2oJKYPjWEkCMe2LXV3YUK8
florincoin-0.10.4.0-win64.zip: https://mega.nz/#!C0BikaYR!M4pLg7STWxKj-0GBizUn38iuvQWJTajPc97EI3Vf5UY
florincoin-0.10.4.0-win64-setup.exe: https://mega.nz/#!TsZmiDKJ!apEGej3eeSlv9q3vs0aFX3uxTXaKm9UWFpyRnOALEJY
Linux
florincoin-0.10.4.0-linux32.tar.gz: https://mega.nz/#!3gY3CAzR!641YQ59J_QMrxuAjnmT7Oy-BxwKS1ceGsrl9koh9Ea0
florincoin-0.10.4.0-linux64.tar.gz: https://mega.nz/#!70IRVDTS!t227lb1C1yRdlv5qV-M9_KHuqXeE-36JLySXfoY78CI

or of course you can also go ahead and compile straight from source here:
https://github.com/dloa/florincoin

Note: to facilitate header-first syncing with other v.10.x clients, you can add these two nodes to your florincoin.conf file. Keep in mind that the order that nodes appear in the list defines the order that your client will connect with them, so putting these two at the top of your list will tell your wallet to connect with them first, greatly increasing sync speed.
addnode=188.166.6.99
addnode=176.9.59.110

Cheers and happy Ishtar weekend everyone

we do, and we'll get it up and running for those who still use it, but its API hasnt been turned on for quite a while, so @Esoterism forked an insight explorer for us with API access at http://florinsight.dloa.io/ - its down at the moment cuz its still being worked on, but feel free to bookmark it for yourself we'll make an announcement when its running smoothly

The way I would put it is that FLO is used to store and secure the library index itself, and the meta token supplies the equity and voting mechanism to guide future development (of the nice GUI front end and the back end).

I'll check out UIA - please dm me your email address so I can invite you to our Slack team, i'd very much like to chat with you about this if you're interested.

Filecoin is not up and running yet - all of the files published in alexandria *are* pinned by our web servers, yes, but not *just* by our webservers - a number of alpha testers and other IPFS users have pinned them as well, so if our servers went offline, the files would still be available. But we are still planning to use Filecoin to create the permissionless incentive structure necessary for a user to treat the network similarly to a CDN, in which they submit a file and some money and can actually count on guaranteed uptime for the file in exchange.

Hi Banano - you are correct that we'll be launching another token that controls the distribution of Alexandria's equity/development. Most likely this will be a meta-token, like an NXT or XCP asset, but the decision has not been finalized yet.