@jjjordan

I agree that such important decisions should be made in agreement with whole community, and the best way to do it is by some form of voting (at least for original SPR holders). Also if cloning DASH was problematic in some aspects, is PIVX the only other viable option?

as i now the community decided to change it, from Dash clone become PIVX
and you can read the full story about this here
https://www.heliumlabs.org/blog/mar-20th-ledgercodeteam
regards

Thanks for posting, @KarmaShart. However, we are neither faithful nor patient at this point, we (or better: our coins) are simply held hostage by you. And it's not so much the delay that is frustrating, it's the complete lack of any substantial updates.

- what tasks are you working on
- how many devs are actually working
- is there any members to the Helium Alliance except the team
- does aligning with a DASH fork in April mean we'll see a release in May at the earliest

Answers to this would hurt none of your NDA's or endanger the project in any way. Simply withdrawing from BCT because people get angry is the surest way to make the situation worse - I'd rather not unload on you in Slack, so I realistically cannot join there.

I am a developer in agile projects and you are violating the rules of agile development in the worst way possible - going radio silent, not checking in with customer's needs, hiding WiP, not showing PoC's and prototypes.

tl;dr version: If you couldn't take the time to read through my ramblings you'd never manage to deal with all the conflicting software issues with a pool.. so just don't.

I did a little home pool. and omg.. EVERY piece of software out there to run pools has some kind of issue, unless you have EXACTLY the hardware/os combo that the guy who wrote it does. (okay I'm exaggerating... but not as much as you'd think)
Anyway apparently we had an electrical issue.. all the bitmain's are fine, but the comp that had the pool on it.. fan fired on video card (wouldn't think it would be that big a deal since it mostly doesn't get used unless the grandkids are using my laptop and I can't just ssh in. hahaha) after replacing that I'm hung at initializing usb - still working on what is causing that.. thought it was the card reader, but nope.  - so since I'm taking a break from the hardware issues... lemme break some stuff down on the "creating your own pool" thing.
#1 if you are just going to do it for your own use or only tell a couple of friends.. cool. - start spreading that out there and now you gotta go whole hog on security etc.. since every dinky asshole out there goes "target aquired"
#2 Software   - you "can" run a pool on windows. only a couple of pools allow for that though. My favorite was coiniumserv - no one is working on it anymore though and it has alot of little annoying problems.. but hey if you really like digging through tons of code to see what the problems are.... hehe.. it has some pretty neat features, will run on nix or windows etc.. IF you are using a coin it is good with.. bam it will work out well.. half the time the only way to tell is to put it up and run it and see.  it will work or it won't ... next nomp..   so.. umm yeah in theory it will run on windows.. never got it to work..  on nix..(oh I should clarify - I was using ubuntu 14 then 16 through all the *nix side stuff)  it gave me more fits than it was worth. - next I went to unomp.. and lo after some twitching got it to work.. and pretty well too. but it didn't do all I wanted it to do... and as I was looking into some others.. poof.. comp died. I was going to try yiimp or yaamp next..  though recent pools based on those and the glitches they have had I'm a little concerned. but coiniumserv worked for a few coins.. and unomp worked okay for basic "I wanna make a pool so I can solo mine X"  -
#3 hardware  if you have less than 8gb ram .. stick with 1 maaaaybe 2 coins   with 8gb you can do a few more, but when you see it start filling up the swap file constantly time to put a little more in.  other than ram I have yet to see an issue other than I cobbled together the "server" from crap left in my garage ... so if you have an hold piece of trash laying around so long as you can get some memory into it .. or if you only want to do one specific coin - you "can" be good to go.
#4 everything else..    okay so you go to say github get your pool software.. got yourself a little ubuntu machine (or whatever) now the fun begins.. most of this stuff is written to use SPECIFIC versions of things that are getting harder and harder to find. half the time the OS is too up to date to effectively compile the sucker. Pretty much no matter which you pick or try.. you are going to have issues compiling - and you will feel that the computer hates you.. and it will be one thing after another...
So anyway I'd do coiniumserv first and try.. 'cause when it works it's nice.  - there is a "better" version of it on one of the forks.. vagabond?something I think ...  better as in more likely to work with newer coins. there is a pretty detailed step by step of configuring it all.. oh that's the other thing.. every and I mean EVERY one out there has something in it where the coder felt something was a "given" and assumes you already knew that or your distro just comes with "whatever" and it's not and it doesn't.  then if that fails try unomp - if you know that the coin you want to mine has had significant changes in the last couple of years or is a newer coin or is hybrid pow/pos then skip to unomp.
oh and when it comes time to compile coin wallets.. oh what fun..  half of them out there would compile fine on ubuntu12 - but then the pool software will be like.. wait what?!?!  I was tempted to pick out a pile of wallets compile them all on 12 (if I can find it) and then upgrade it to 14 and put on pool software and see what happened. hehe.  okay again this is some exaggeration.. some wallets will be fine, some will give you fits.. some will have a binary already built for your distro of whatever.
#5 a proxy... I'm working on it. but I have like 50 pokers in various fires.. so ummmm yeah.  I had something working long ago using a combo of stralheims??? can't remember the name proxy and bfgminer (where both were on the comp with the wallet) but I can't remember how I did it (it was a long time ago) sadly bfgminer while it can "be" a proxy it HATES cgminer based things.. and I mean hates.. I am surprised when you try to connect one that it doesn't pop up a message saying "cgminer detected - screw that guy" -

anyway... there is my 2 cents on that.

...I'm telling you I didn't know about the ...

How do I get on Slack without registering an email? How do I read Slack without registering? Once I connect to your instance, you can get my IP - so I should now be on VPNs to get a quick update, too? Sheesh. Yes, contributing to a github definitely contributes to deobfuscation, I assume you've never doxxed people eh? Crumbs add up. Furthermore it's their choice - you're not giving investors/community members a choice, you're forcing them into your walled garden when it's completely not required. You could be doing bare minimum of community outreach to public channels but you choose not to.

Holing up in a private club that can't be viewed publicly, having a "community manager" that never communicates publicly, pretending you don't know what insider trading is, and now mocking your supporters when they don't want to march to your exact drum... gee what's there to be so excited about? You're starting to remind me of a certain other g- user, sir, if you catch my drift.

The level of smugness and dismissal from the HLM team prior to and then after the snapshot is a night and day difference. Can't imagine why.   If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

If you're such a crack dev team why don't you have a bot that can take pinned items and post them to bitcointalk with something like WebDriver, it's not that hard. Or hell, use pastebin/twitter APIs if you really want to avoid BTCtalk? Why do you outright refuse public sharing of news? I could do a working build of such a bot for you in an hour or two if you'd like. But again, actually developing real tools or being transparent and open to the community is clearly not a priority in HLM. Where have we seen this before, hmm? So happy I only converted 10% of my SPR to HLM and profited on the pump instead, as it's looking more and more like that's what the point of this was.

Can anyone tell me why HLM will be better than any other coins?

Thanks for the answer and I understand that but does anyone have an answer to my question?
Can I leave my coins on bittrex and get my helium?
I would rather not sync my wallet, it would be easier to leave coins on exchange.
Thanks!

In my opinion, if you lose the opportunity to claim your HLM stake because you are not aware of the current development it's your fault. If the intention of the developers is to maximize decentralization I would make it compulsory to have to claim. The worst thing for a decentralised coin with masternodes is a few bagholders with tons of coins.

not sure it will work. except SpreadCoin was a fork of stratis. of which i'm sure its not. however how is it possible that the coins got sent to a none existing address?

so how it work with who mined in solo where the wallet generate many address, i need to consolidate in one address for the snapshot? because i can't sign so many address

Great question.


The August 1st snapshot date is simply to collect the information for the coin redemption, which will happen soon after the Helium network launches in early September. Once we launch, the circulating supply as per the Speadcoin August 1st snapshot will be fast mined (perhaps in the genesis block) and then we can look at starting the redemption process.


I will be providing updates on this all at the next AMA I will be holding in the Helium slack. Details to follow.

Thanks.

There's a lot of misconceptions and backwards logic in that slack.

You don't design a coin with ASICs in mind, you try to make a stable coin and if it grows large enough that it can support the R&D cost of ASICs someone will invest into them. Coins usually try to move away from ASICs (which is mostly why there are 40+ mineable hashing algorithms) but this coin is running towards ASICs. Coming from Spreadcoin that's all for decentralization and moving to ASICs which are not well centralized it's weird to say the least.

There will be a Spreadcoin swap but HLM will "maintain as close a build to DASH as possible until we dec-couple from their releases".

So it's safe to say that it will start with X11 which means due to multipools and the general nature of ASIC owners, most miners won't even know they were mining HLM as they get paid out in BTC.

And due to the speed of ASICs and the limitation of a single algo difficulty retarget the network will very likely have super fast and super low periods - unless a huge amount of ASICs will mine it 0-24h.

The more I read about HLM the more I think the coin takes 2 steps back for every step taken forward.

ok ...

if this project is as it states ... then a few farms will NOT be the thing that is looked at in any real capacity - as it means centralizing the mining power to only a few ...

helium is a well thought out project - it is NOT in the market 'just' for sheer profits ... it is for the complete and utter decentralization of systems - so that SERVICES are the core of its gameplan ... services that require full decentralization ...

this will happen to a large extent with a few big asic farms ... but this will happen on an enormous scale - if the layman and medium sized farms are put into play ... as more servicenodes / masternodes - whatever they are going to be called now ) propagate across the world ... mining is for network and coins - nodes are for services and coin ... together - they are helium ...

centralization of mining will be a backward step for the project ...

#crysx

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... i personally agree with jjjordan withthe whole concept of pushing gpu mining to its limits ... asic is easy - and big - but not as readily accessible as gpu mining is ...

#crysx

can we have more informations about the algo that HLM will use? a guy said x11 but i don't like that asic will ruin this, isn't better to do something new for gpu only to help better distribution? and what will be the block reward? not posted in the first post