here's a new post from Zclassic CE that might be of some interest

https://medium.com/@zclassicce/we-love-zclassic-2c2ba56c1273

Thanks, all good again 

I'm guessing you know the mining pools down at the minute?

says the person who's advertising a gambling website - I'd rather see your site de-listed from the internet to be perfectly honest

there's a bit halfway down the page in this article that might help

https://medium.com/@zclassicce/zcl-your-wallet-options-after-31st-march-a774431840c9

basically this is a new electrum server that's available and is maintained by the community

I think Zclassic has been dropped by the original dev team, who moved onto BTCP. ZCL has been transferred over to the community - there's a post here about it

https://medium.com/@zclassicce/whats-happening-to-zclassic-e9976fe8372f

they appear to be fairly receptive to communication on discord https://discordapp.com/invite/NRdczWC

the most recent zcl info seems to be on this discord here

https://discordapp.com/invite/NRdczWC

seems to be active development going on with a new wallet

seems to have been picked up - https://medium.com/@iain21lawrie/whats-happening-to-zclassic-e9976fe8372f

ah ha, now we're talking - this is looking really good - conga rats - hopefully this will drum up a fair bit of interest...

Hi Max

Yes, the whole concept would be of funding and steering a project through a publicised project's roadmap and, in effect, allowing people to buy into the timescale of development by committing funding to various aspects of the project. But yes, there would never be any financial losses as work would progress in the direction determined by voting. I wouldn't expect voting to be the main source of funding for a project, but I'm sure VoteCoin could be used in some way to raise initial capital also. Dependant on the project, there may also be a reward in some form based on the level of a person's contribution

Hi Max

You're doing an excellent job of keeping interested peeps (like me) informed of the progress of this project as well as your obvious enthusiasm for VoteCoin, so very well done there.

I'll keep this brief and sketch out the main (but by no means the only) use of VoteCoin that I see - apologies if this turns out to be longer than anticipated...

As the coin actually represents a financial commitment when voting, then I don't think there should ever be a possibility of simply losing your money if you don't 'win the vote'. Rather, voting on some project priorities strikes me as a much better plan. As an example, voting on which wallet for a crypto coin should be developed with a GUI first (windows, linux, MacOS). This way, all three options will eventually materialise and the development time can either be divided as a simple 1st, 2nd, 3rd or a percentage of dev time weighted directly on the votes cast to the relevant windows/linux/MacOS wallets.

More generally, I'm thinking something along the lines of crowdfunding, but also including steering project direction through a voting mechanism. Effectively, funding and steering a project through it's development phase (and beyond).

So how would this work in practice? Well setting up a MySQL (or other) db to store options/results/project details/wallet addresses etc. which would be accessed from the clients wallet would be the way I'd tackle something like this, but I'm sure you'll have plenty of your own ideas.

I can probably elaborate on this a bit, but just thought I'd run this past you as a possibility before going into any great detail...

Yes, I copy wallet.dat to a usb stick and store it somewhere away from the computer - wallet.dat stores the keys to access your info on the blockchain so it doesn't have to be an up-to-date copy if you need to recover your coins, but you can hide it away in a safe and top secret place and not worry about what happens if it all goes bits up on the PC. You can also get one of those encrypted USB stick things and put it on that if you want to password protect the beast...

Of course you could always use some of the 29BTC that you collected from the ICO rather than try and drive away miners from the pool - but hey, what would I know - I'm only a miner...

yes, I see VoteCoin is now available in 0.8.5-rc, albeit with the wrong icon... but it is indeed available

no problem - what I have will be workable. If I've got time I'll have a wee look at BarterDEX tonight - I see some mention of VOT in the code...

hmmm - I can't see how I would get historic data from that at the moment (and I doubt it would ever be at the 1 min resolution) - is it possible? Currently I'm using the tradesatosh api to get the current rates and simply save this to a mySQL db. This gives me the scope to setup the data in any format I want using a SQL query, so for example those candle chart things would have 30 min intervals with a time, high, low, open and close value in each row of the dataset

Actually, that was much easier than I expected - a few minor hiccups but this is now all working - the output is a fairly simple btc price and time for VOT...

[{"btc":"0.00000320","timestamp":"2018-01-22 21:09:46"},{"btc":"0.00000320","timestamp":"2018-01-22 21:10:17"}]

but the web host is having some issues with PHP so until that's fixed it's not going to be a stable thing

Hi

Before I end up re-inventing the wheel, does anyone know if there's already in existence anywhere that serves up the historic price of VoteCoin/BTC in JSON format - ideally 1 minute intervals maybe going back up to 24 hours?

ta

Iain