I'm not dead. I've just made the cardinal mistake of trying to do too much at one time. I have a heavily modified copy I've been working on for a long time, and even though I know what's going on with it, it's basically a mess of trial and error mixed with some other pretty great stuff.

After some much deserved prodding I've decided to set that aside for the moment, take a fresh copy of the code, and port the best finished stuff I have in my WIP code over. At least then I'll have an update to offer up to everyone. I've been trying to go the 'drop the huge bomb out of nowhere' route, but alas, it's just taking too damn long.

I can't believe Barabbas is still posting here. Is he bored, or just lazy looking for an easy bone to pick? My not saying anything for such a long time is all the FUD this thread needs quite frankly - and I am sorry for that. I had planned to have something much sooner, and I don't like playing the hype game. I'm going to start posting more frequently anyway, even if I don't quite know what to say. I'm not going to entertain any bickering on my end though. If you've got something against SEED just sell and move on, thanks. Just don't come crying back when stuff gets moving.

The .conf file is optional. If you don't have one you're fine.

is there anything called seedcoin in your %appdata%/seedcoin folder?

I'm going to send you a pm.

Is your wallet unlocked?
Is your reservebalance set in settings > options > main tab?
Is staking=0 set in your seedcoin.conf file?

I'm down, but it will take some time as it's something I'd want to test heavily and it would require another hardfork (ugh I know.) so I'd want to have a long lead time before it became active. There's a few other fiddly bits to it but I'm sure I can figure it out.

Well we got two submissions, sort of. Beefie's was submitted before the contest began, but I included it since he suggested the logo contest in the first place.

CryptoHobo



beefie





I'm going to postpone the contest for now given how few submissions there were. I'm planning a new wallet beta release next week. It was meant to coincide with the end of the logo vote but I think it's best to hold off on the logo until we can generate a little more interest in the coin on the development side of things.

CryptoHobo and beefie, your logos will be entered into the contest when I decide it's a good time to run it, and if each of you would pm me your seedcoin address I'd like to offer you a reward of 2,000 SEED each to thank you for your participation;D

Everyone is welcome to continue creating logos for the contest. Any logos submitted between now and the new contest beginning will automatically be included. Also, keeping in line with forum rules, if everyone posting submissions here in the forum could, from now on, include a brief explanation of why they think their logo would make a good fit for SeedCoin and optionally what inspired them to create it.

Thank you everyone for your continued support;)

Well I didn't expect that. Not a single submission for this so far. Hmm. Well there's still 6 1/2 hours left if anyone's up for the challenge;)

Nah, wasn't really bar getting me down, though I must admit I wasn't looking forward to dealing with the mess that I expected trolls to have created by the time I was able to return.

FWIW I don't have troll minions. There's enough trolls already. Seriously, with guys like Barrabbas in the thread, why would I need them?

Anyway, I know I haven't been very active in the thread over this weekend like I said I was going to be, there honestly hasn't been much going on, so I've been working on some things behind the scenes so that everyone here actually has something to talk about. Any thoughts and ideas are welcome, as always. Feel free to post here in the thread or PM me.

In the meantime, someone mentioned a logo contest sometime back and I was wondering what the community could come up with, so lets have some fun with that.


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SeedCoin Logo Contest


10,000 SEED Contest Prize

I will pick my 5 favorite submissions next week at 11:59 PM on Sunday November 2nd. The community will then have a week to vote between those 5 submissions and the current logo. People can submit any number of logos, but I will only pick a maximum of one per entrant for the vote.

Whoever's logo wins the vote at the end of the voting deadline will have their logo adopted as the new SEED logo and they will receive the 10,000 SEED prize.

If the current coin logo receives the most votes, then the 10,000 SEED will be divided evenly among the creators of the 5 other designs that were selected to be voted on, regardless of how many votes they received.

This is awesome. I really like the idea you've got going here and I think it could help a lot:) I'm not entirely sure how I'd include it in the wallet itself, there's a couple of ways I could go about it but I'd have to think about it carefully before implementing it. For the moment, honestly a simple script is probably your best solution. There's only a few people who might actually want to do this (there's no need for people on the receiving end to have any sort of special wallet), so I don't know.

Maybe it could just be a next generation sort of faucet eh? Just a thought.

Hello. I am very sorry for my absence. I don't want to sit here and make excuses, but basically I had to spend a lot of time I hadn't planned on supporting this project through the growth period, and it put me in a very bad position both personally and professionally. I unfortunately needed to set my own affairs in order before I could continue with this project, and I am sorry for that.

As of now I have all weekend to dedicate to damage control and supporting the project, and I have planned a healthy work/life balance for myself so that I can continue to support the project through the week as well, though I must admit that I will be much less available during the week than I am on the weekends.

So with that said, over the next day I will be contacting supportive members of the community and answering PM's, doing damage control in the thread, and heavily considering opening a moderated thread that has clear post guidelines and is managed in such a way that concerns and criticisms are welcome and addressed in a clear manner, while trolls who have no interest in the coin beyond attacking it are gradually excluded.

Again, I'm sorry I have been away, I will be here for the weekend to answer questions and offer as much support as I can. I know I can't please everyone, and if you don't wish to give me the chance to earn your respect again then I do ask, for the sake of the community that remains, that you please move on.

Thank you everyone that is still here and most of all thank you everyone that has been so supportive and strong through this time of uncertainty. It wont be forgotten.

Bittrex has an automated security system that shuts down a market when a lot of coins get produced all at one time. It has to be checked out and manually brought up again. That's how the GHOST market got disabled when people were minting as many coins as they wanted.

Unfortunately the nature of SEED growing an exponential number of coins is a natural part of the coin. Unfortunately their security system isn't set to deal with the coinbase tripling in size every day like it is, so it triggers daily. Tomorrow should be less of an issue (it's likely to happen tomorrow as well) since nobody should be buying coins anyway as they wont grow.

They'll need to investigate again today, but once the greenlight comes again they'll reopen the market.

For those of you wondering approximately when growth will end:

This is a best guess estimate based on the average speed that blocks have been found over the last two days:
http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=136&iso=20141018T02&year=2014&month=10&day=18&hour=2&min=0&sec=0&msg=Growth%20End&csz=1

That time may vary, give or take an hour.



As for plans, I am still working on that roadmap. I will try to have it out by tomorrow. In the meantime I did post a lot of my personal thoughts and plans in this post:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=795954.msg9180471#msg9180471



Also, for anyone trying to comb the thread looking for an official word from me on anything please feel free to check my post history. I know what a mess it is to try and stay up to date on this thread, I just spent a considerable amount of time trying to do so, but as I am the only Dev at the moment and all of my attention of late has been focused on SeedCoin, if you're looking for any official information from the Dev (me) on SeedCoin, my post history is probably a good place to check and a far less daunting place to look.

As for pot seeds, I'm not against it but I'd say crypto has pot pretty well covered;) There's plenty of pot related coins out there, I don't think we need another one. I like the idea of seeds and growing food and plants. One of the original ideas I had was planting groves of trees.

I love the idea of
This sounds awesome popcorn. If your friend has any questions or concerns he is more than welcome to contact me. This sounds like an amazing opportunity for SEED, and it is exactly the sort of shop I'd like to see SEED associated with:)

Thank you for contacting them!

I have no interest in a self moderated thread. However, a thread that is not self moderated does not therefore become fully unmoderated.

The difference is that I am not the mod. But I did post the op, I am the sole Dev, and you have made it clear to me that you are out of control. Please stop posting here in this thread.

I just asked you to please stop insulting and attacking other members of the community, and you have chosen to instead insult me and tell me to go away. I am the dev of seedcoin, and the only one that there is.

It is clear that you have made your decision. I'm done, please stop posting in this thread NOW.

Barabbas, I've been patient and accepted many of the things you've said here as part of how you're choosing to play the game. There's a social element to it, so I have been prepared to tolerate a certain level of FUD through the growth period. But you have seriously crossed the line, and you are becoming unwelcome here.

You have a choice. Please stop insulting and attacking other members of the community, or leave. It is completely unacceptable, and I will not tolerate it any longer.

It's all in the hands of the community. And I said a couple people contacted me about whether holding for days before growth would work, which means 2. I felt really bad about it at the time, but it is spelled out clear as day in the specs and in the code, I just had never thought of it. I decided it was a clever tactic and told people that I would leave it up to them whether they wanted to bring it to the attention of the community. As it happens, someone did in fact end up pointing it out nearly a week ago, early enough for everyone to take advantage of it at some level. But even then, at the time it was clear by looking at the rich list that half of people were already using this holding tactic. 6 out of the top 10 at the time were NOT staking through the entire mining period.

I haven't provided any special help to the pink team. As a matter of fact, fayoling is the only member of the pink team that's doing so well, and after speaking with him about it later - there was apparently a lot of luck involved.

Of all the people in the top 10 positions, I know who only two of them are, and only one of them is a member of the pink team, and what he did he did in private on his own.

Fayoling is at the top because he saw potential here and he invested early in the ico, because he had a strategy early on that I hadn't thought of, and because he got lucky. There are other members of the team which have invested far more and find themselves barely in the top 50.

The design of the distribution of SeedCoin was created to favor intelligent, long term holders capable of developing a strategy to maximize their potential ownership of the coin, and not people that could just throw more money at it. The people who have significant portions of coins right now have them because they have a solid strategy, and have taken the time to stay up to date on developments through the ups and downs that we've unfortunately faced. They are the people that have most dedicated themselves to becoming the primary holders of SEED, and I know very few of the top holders, or even of the top 50.

To summarize, Fayoling and the Pinkcoin team had no significant advantage, and fayoling is the only member of the team doing nearly so well in seed. The next runner up from the Pink team that I know of barely has a 10th as many coins, and has invested much more than 1BTC.

they're the same.

This is a risky tactic, but it is a smart one if you can pull it off. I think it's a question of timing. I plan to try it myself. Getting today's stake in took longer than I thought it would.

Check the explorer, people with low numbers of coins are staking just fine most of the blocks are from people that are staking with a small number:

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/seed/

It's just a little slower. I actually did alter the code to make people with less seed start staking earlier than they should just so they'd have a chance and I clearly stated right from the beginning that it was going to be more difficult to stake with fewer seed.

I most certainly do not hold anywhere near all the coins I hold a small fraction right now.

Plus your coins build weight over the course of the day. The longer they're held, the more weight they put on the network to stake. A ton of new coins has far less weight than a small number of old coins, the new coins just gain weight faster.

That's like asking bitcoin to change so that people with 1ghash can compete with people that have 1000 ghash. The number of coins you have is your hashrate. The fewer you have, the longer it takes, that's just how the POS system works.

If it's not a lot of coins, the network weight is so high it will take a long time. As long as the green arrow comes on on schedule, that's important thing. How long it takes after that is anyones guess. Staking after the fourth day has always been difficult for everyone. There's just so much weight on the network, and so few blocks to be had in a single day. It's just impossible for everyone to stake. Even the larger holders struggle, and by the end, it's anyone's guess.

There are strategies to work around this, but none that come without significant risk.