in case you missed it

http://8btc.com/thread-35388-1-1.html

This could be a whole franchise!

I think it is by book number, maybe it didn't specify

Also something about a provably fair seed

but either way I think this will be pretty simple

That would be ironic

Maybe I'll put in multiple orders to increase my chances of getting the bar, damn how are you guys doing the group buy going to handle that!

Looks like the book owners are put into a raffle for that Casascius gold bar after the halving, so that's close right?

In for 1

right.

it is foreseeable that alternate cryptos will be a liquid and viable form of acceptance with the proliferation of any cryptocurrency (such as bitcoin)

decentralized exchanges will allow for the point of sale exchange into any crypto

my first thought was the organizations that benefit from protein folding

begin transacting in curecoin

get grants paid in curecoin


this indirectly moves a lot of capital into the curecoin network

thanks

That counter argument has not been demonstrated in any cryptocurrency yet, even in low float cryptos that have very few full units, the infinite divisibility is a feature

fair points but the proper incentive will improve the hash rates for protein folding.

I am here to entertain a cognitive discussion on how to improve incentive, not an abstract "free market, altruism" cop out

they would have to, but why would they

as with all coins, miners are dumping the coin on exchanges, and now we have new protein folders dumping coins

it is not uncommon to see a coin's price fall out of sync with base costs

so I get the concept behind curecoin, but what supports the price ?


some coins have price support by requiring coins to be held for ongoing perks, essentially removing coins from circulation. other coins have other forms of utility


here we have some kind of merge mining protein folding, a somewhat interesting distribution method for coins between cpu/gpu and sha256 asics, but nothing that makes it seem stable

so now altruism has been further thinned out between protein folding AND supporting the currency (so that others can cash out). When I was reading the OP I was looking for that "AHA!" moment to see how the protein folders contribute to the curecoin price, just like how the curecoin financial incentive contributes to more hash rate for the protein folding... to create a feedback loop. But this doesn't exist.

just off the top of my head, maybe to contribute to protein folding cpu/gpu holders need to own X amount of curecoin. In turn they'll get the folding points or whatever as well as more curecoin. Obviously this idea isn't refined, and flawed because cpu/gpu holders are the least likely to be able to have value to exchange for the coin, compared to the expensive ASIC owners.. but the concept is that the extra perk of the coin requires removing some of the coin from circulation, improving scarcity and price and WORTH.

clever

just not clear on why people would hold curecoin

for the previously purely altruistic protein folders, there is only incentive to sell

buying curecoin doesn't support protein folding or scientific research except in a stretch of the imagination that a higher priced curecoin helps donations (more selling)


please explain why this won't be worth 2 satoshis in a month

THE DIFFICULTY INCREASE PROJECTS NEGLECT REALITY


they are projecting average 8% difficulty increases over time. when really 25% increases will be the norm as the ASICs roll out

caveat emptor.  their chart forecasting 8% increases in difficulty is MAYBE based on previous data for scrypt coins, this is because of lack of innovation in GPU mining efficiency. But look at bitcoin's difficulty chart for the past year, average 25% which I think is fair for scrypt asic too as all companies are aiming to roll out scrypt hardware at similar intervals

will zerocoin accumulators be opt-in OR will everyone already be an accumulator?


drkcoin is doing a masternode concept only available to 1000+ drkcoins, those people will act as the mixers, and they get paid similar to miners

Can we just start calling it ANC  like "ankh" (an egyptian glyph)

amateur hour

Make something to streamline political donations

anybody that believes in anything will find utility in this, since popular opinion can turn against you in coming years, or a government may become vilified in the future, a bigger risk if you do any international backing

A long long long list of private citizens and companies that became part of a witch hunt after one of those events happened

@gostrol  again we appreciate your initiative though so let us know if you are interested in doing more designs with our input

omg premine stigma oh noes.  darkcoin is implementing anonymity technologies with somewhat active development, and people will find utility in that until something with more utility comes out

would just like to mention that I disagree with this logo direction

I'm still thinking something simple like along the lines of an edge directed node (ripple logo) , or myriad coin's logo

something that appears simple and friendly, instead of a fringe movement

zerocoin's logo is decent too btw

-what exactly does I2P do for anonymity (most people naively think that transactions can't be tracked....)

you can look at what nodes are on the network. you can correlate time and frequency that you see certain IP addresses

IP addresses can be masked, thats all