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Re: Slimcoin | First Proof of Burn currency | Decentralized Web
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johnwhitestar
on 06/01/2024, 09:38:19 UTC
⭐ Merited by nutildah (4)
is the project still alive?
on green market price dropped to 1 sat

I think it is. At least we are working hard since many months on the idea of community token which would provide us the governance system that is more advanced than masternodes.
There is also an idea on how to upgrade our code @d5000 is working on and in my opinion there is a good chance for us to overcome the situation we are in with this part.
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Re: Slimcoin | First Proof of Burn currency | Decentralized Web
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johnwhitestar
on 02/01/2024, 09:32:01 UTC
I answered you by PM. There seems to be a configuration issue at Reddit. In mid-January I will go on with development & testing, don't worry Smiley

Great!
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Re: Slimcoin | First Proof of Burn currency | Decentralized Web
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johnwhitestar
on 29/12/2023, 09:58:20 UTC
Hi @d5000,
I'm a bit worried about our token testing.
I've posted some consideration on reddit about 10 days ago, but got no answer.
I'd be going on testing as usual thinking you are just busy and that you'd reply later but I've got a strange issue with all my posts being marked as spam there, so I was forced to approve them manually.
Thus I'm not really sure you are getting my communications (both publicly and privately) and whether you haven't replied by chance and I'm not seeing your replies because of the same issue.
Please let me know, so I can go on testing.
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Re: [NEW XBY ANN] XTRABYTES - A NEW ERA BEGINS
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johnwhitestar
on 26/09/2021, 17:13:31 UTC
**Former XTRABYTES leadership statement as of 24 September 2021**

This announcement will update you on the most recent events. The text also includes
how the former XTRABYTES leadership plans to move forward.

After our last announcement, while weighing the reactions from both team and
community, we opted to present Zoltán with a final suggestion to save the project, the
team, and the community.

On the 17th of September, in the XTRABYTES workspace server, we shared a two option
document with Zoltán and the complete XTRABYTES team.

The two options were:

**Option 1**
A complete company rebrand, handing over the technology to the new company,
resulting in the shutdown of Xtrabytes.

• The new company would offer all the coin holders the option to swap their XBY/
XFUEL coins into the new coin/company. Zoltán would receive an hourly salary
(yet undetermined) to handle the development (was to be outlined in a Letter of
Intent).
• Zoltán would receive a royalty based on the success of the technology. (was to
be outlined in a Letter of Intent).
• The agreements outlined in the Letter of Intent would be written into a legal
contract after the seed round was completed.
• The company rebranding announcement would progress immediately after
reaching an agreement.
• As per Zoltán's request, his name would be removed from technology references
to him, including the Investor Deck, the website, and any promotional materials.
• Zoltán's XTRABYTES business and legal liability risks would become the
liabilities of the new company.
The Letter of Intent would include (but not limited to):
• An hourly pay rate in USDC or USDT.
• A Royalty Percentage.
• A Non Disclosure Agreement
• The technology/IP would be transferred to the new business.
• The technology/IP would be held by the foundation, not with individuals or
shareholders.
• The agreement that decision making would be made by the leadership - in
time this would transfer to a foundation structure
• An appropriate and trusted member of the former XTRABYTES leadership
would view the PoSign Code to enable them to conform to the team and
community it's been seen - this would not be a question of trust from the
leadership but rather, an essential step for the community.
• A more detailed list of expectations and responsibilities would be identified
in the final contract. ie, to educate new developers to understand the
technology.

**Option 2**
Zoltán choosing to continue with the XTRABYTES company.

• The former XTRABYTES leaders team would not be involved with the
XTRABYTES project.
• The responsibility for any further steps taken by the XTRABYTES project would
be the sole responsibility of Zoltán. Such as the responsibility of community
communications and new team development.
• The new company would no longer make a coin swap available to XBY and
XFUEL.
• The entire liability of XTRABYTES would remain with Zoltán. It would be Zoltán's
sole responsibility to move the project forward.

Zoltán was given a full week to make up his mind and let us know his decision (what option he would go by). Unfortunately, not any kind of answer was given to the former XTRABYTES leadership team.

As a result the former xtrabytes leadership will:
• Interpret Zoltán’s lack of communication as a sign that he prefers option 2 to
option 1. The four bullet points deriving from this decision and described above
will be effective immediately.
• Stop any further communication with Zoltán and interference with his
XTRABYTES project. We will go our separate ways.
• Remove themselves from the XTRABYTES workspace server.

The vision we have is clear. We know what we want and what is needed to reach our
goals.

A new company called AnuuTech™ is in the making.
Key XTRABYTES employees will be approached for immediate and future
cooperation within the new company.

Developers looking to work, contact: development@anuutech.com

- the former XTRABYTES leadership team




I wouldn't say that the Community can be in any way responsible for your relationship with Zoltán.

I think people has invested on the promises of this team.

If what we've invested is lost and the team will be benefiting from this project it's possible not all the Community members will be happy with it.

If you'll be able to arrange things in the way we all will be benefiting together with you it would make much more sense for everybody.

I personally do not have the pleasure to be acquainted with Zoltán to the point that I can't tell for sure whether he exists.

On the opposite the money I invested into XBY are quite real for me.

So please arrange your plans not only in the way for you to act correctly towards Zoltán, if you desire, but also to be correct towards the Community that for all these years has waited for you to begin delivering something meaningful.
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Re: [NEW XBY ANN] XTRABYTES - A NEW ERA BEGINS
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johnwhitestar
on 08/09/2021, 12:13:30 UTC
Ah well... is anyone really surprised?

So many newbies participating in this discussion....
Are you guys afraid to reveal your real nick?  Shocked

Personally I'd be more surprised if the project set up in that way would succeed, but the question remains:
Is there a valid idea behind or not?
If there is, something should be done to let the idea live.

By the way "rebranding" this project in order the old investors to have a tiny share and to let the new investor to take over all wouldn't be in old investors interests. So for the first time in the history of this coin I'm seeing something meaningful done. (Personal opinion of course).

The problem Borz now has is that others know the technology. If its any good, and i’ve been informed its a good idea. He’s fucked. As him & Dave sat on their asses for so long doing nothing they have no legal protections in place. The name Xtrabytes, CCRevolution, and Borzolom will become a vastly inferior meme to the Bitconnect one.

XBY is dead. Let’s celebrate that fact & laugh at the bullshit that Dave & Borz produced over the years. Like the time someone tried to mine XBY which halted the chain for nearly two days. Borz’s fix was “posign lite” which in reality was setting mining difficulty to zero.

Yes, I have to confess I was quite puzzled by many things how they were done here.
The fact the tech is known and can be used is good, especially if it's a revolutionary idea.
I sorry for Zoltan if it's so, for all the XBY investors and myself personally, though, since it means we've spent our money for nothing.

From what I’ve heard (and seen) Borz is one of the last people you should feel sorry for. Anger was directed at Dave (some of it rightfully) where most of the anger should have been directed at Borz.

Edit to say: Im sure one day proof will be leaked confirming i’m correct. If i was an investor i’d be looking at legal action.

Borz deserves zero sympathy - he has thrown everyone under the bus. Firstly, he let Dave and the rest of the team take all of the shit for 4 years. Some of it was justifiably thrown at them but they were mostly passing on information given from the founders. Some team members have worked their asses off for months on the plan to move forward and he vetoes it despite talking about decentralisation and decentralised management. It's a fucking joke.

However, his ideas are legit I believe, and so do every past and current team member I have spoken to who had access to the information. I hope it comes to fruition somehow but I very much doubt it.

I know a guy that has understood the idea by analyzing the early published opensource code.
He was offering to me time ago to implement the idea on another coin, but I told him it wouldn't be correct towards XBY team and he agreed.
That dev is quite an important one in the crypto universe, so I believe the idea is valide.
The question is how to develop it in context of XBY.
I think the main error here is that it's close-sourced.
The founders had enough of premine and even close-sourced the idea.
That's a double checkmate and mate they've done to themselves.
If the XBY team doesn't have any legal obligation maybe they can consider to go on developing the project as they like?
(Don't know whether what I'm saying makes any sense though).
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Re: [NEW XBY ANN] XTRABYTES - A NEW ERA BEGINS
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johnwhitestar
on 08/09/2021, 08:44:25 UTC
Ah well... is anyone really surprised?

So many newbies participating in this discussion....
Are you guys afraid to reveal your real nick?  Shocked

Personally I'd be more surprised if the project set up in that way would succeed, but the question remains:
Is there a valid idea behind or not?
If there is, something should be done to let the idea live.

By the way "rebranding" this project in order the old investors to have a tiny share and to let the new investor to take over all wouldn't be in old investors interests. So for the first time in the history of this coin I'm seeing something meaningful done. (Personal opinion of course).

The problem Borz now has is that others know the technology. If its any good, and i’ve been informed its a good idea. He’s fucked. As him & Dave sat on their asses for so long doing nothing they have no legal protections in place. The name Xtrabytes, CCRevolution, and Borzolom will become a vastly inferior meme to the Bitconnect one.

XBY is dead. Let’s celebrate that fact & laugh at the bullshit that Dave & Borz produced over the years. Like the time someone tried to mine XBY which halted the chain for nearly two days. Borz’s fix was “posign lite” which in reality was setting mining difficulty to zero.

Yes, I have to confess I was quite puzzled by many things how they were done here.
The fact the tech is known and can be used is good, especially if it's a revolutionary idea.
I regret for Zoltan if it's so, for all the XBY investors and myself personally, though, since it means we've spent our money for nothing.
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Re: [NEW XBY ANN] XTRABYTES - A NEW ERA BEGINS
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johnwhitestar
on 08/09/2021, 07:52:34 UTC
Ah well... is anyone really surprised?

So many newbies participating in this discussion....
Are you guys afraid to reveal your real nick?  Shocked

Personally I'd be more surprised if the project set up in that way would succeed, but the question remains:
Is there a valid idea behind or not?
If there is, something should be done to let the idea live.

By the way "rebranding" this project in order the old investors to have a tiny share and to let the new investor to take over all wouldn't be in old investors interests. So for the first time in the history of this coin I'm seeing something meaningful done.
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Re: [NEW XBY ANN] XTRABYTES - A NEW ERA BEGINS
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johnwhitestar
on 07/09/2021, 21:30:45 UTC
... the discord is active...
I'm not able to use the XBY Discord, it seems disabled and even when it was active there was the absurd verification request to participate (I don't like to give my phone number around, maybe it's wrong).
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Re: [NEW XBY ANN] XTRABYTES - A NEW ERA BEGINS
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johnwhitestar
on 07/09/2021, 13:26:04 UTC
If Zlotan is the responsible of the project, what is the way to keep in touch with him and to get updated about the development of his project?
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Re: Slimcoin | First Proof of Burn currency | Decentralized Web
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johnwhitestar
on 03/09/2021, 17:57:47 UTC
Guys there is a guy on Discord that is asking about CPU mining of Slimcoin.

Can anybody help me with the question he made?

The question is: how often is he supposed to receive rewards with the current difficulty if he just mines with CPU?
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Re: Slimcoin | First Proof of Burn currency | Decentralized Web
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johnwhitestar
on 19/05/2021, 06:04:36 UTC
I'm sure there was some big misunderstanding in those times and I hope we'll be able to clarify it at some point.

I know you've been an important community member here and also the PR so warm welcome back!
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Re: Slimcoin | First Proof of Burn currency | Decentralized Web
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johnwhitestar
on 18/05/2021, 20:22:33 UTC
Dunno, as I know he just didn't do it.
Maybe he refunded people, but I didn't see it.

I think there is some misunderstanding we'll need to clarify later on.
If there is some code the community has paid for it would be a good thing for us to have it available.

If the dev was too busy to work on it he'll probably would be available to refund, but as far as I know the community members involved weren't in direct touch with the dev.

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Re: Slimcoin | First Proof of Burn currency | Decentralized Web
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johnwhitestar
on 18/05/2021, 16:40:23 UTC
It looks like it's working ok.

300 kh/s with Ryzen 3900 Cheesy almost doubled performance of my old Ryzen 1700...

That's great!

I've heard SLM is one of the most profitable coins to mine currently.

By the way, weren't it you who was thinking to set up a pool? Or I've got it wrong?

I was trying to get pool with some guy, but I think he scammed some btc from community unfortunately, and didn't do anything (like it was working for a few days only, and was unstable).
Solo mining should easy enough for now.
There should've been some misunderstanding I hope, barrystyle is a serious dev as I know.

Maybe it may make sense trying to clarify?
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Re: Slimcoin | First Proof of Burn currency | Decentralized Web
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johnwhitestar
on 18/05/2021, 12:39:03 UTC
It looks like it's working ok.

300 kh/s with Ryzen 3900 Cheesy almost doubled performance of my old Ryzen 1700...

That's great!

I've heard SLM is on of the most profitable coins of the moment to mine.
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Re: Slimcoin | First Proof of Burn currency | Decentralized Web
by
johnwhitestar
on 18/05/2021, 10:36:04 UTC
⭐ Merited by nutildah (4)
Well as I was here from 2017, I know a lot of quirks of SLM from way back.
I will update Slimcoin AIO package for Windows. As I see my old package doesn't work anymore, probably due to new version of client.
Still those synchronization is pain in the ... Ah, if it would really get an update to anything newer than this 0.5 btc codebase, it could at least be somehow functioning without hiccups.

I think you'll need to compile v0.6 if not I should have a compiled version (I can send it to you if you need me to).

An upgrade is indeed needed, that's the key issue we have to solve.

I have 0.6 version from compiled by Graham.
Besides is there still problem with mining on 0.6 version? I had such problems when I tried it 2 years.

I don't really know. If you can try it to see whether mining works or not and report here if there is any issue we can try to find a solution.

We are also actively looking for the solution in order for us to have an upgrade.
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Re: Slimcoin | First Proof of Burn currency | Decentralized Web
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johnwhitestar
on 17/05/2021, 20:00:03 UTC
Well as I was here from 2017, I know a lot of quirks of SLM from way back.
I will update Slimcoin AIO package for Windows. As I see my old package doesn't work anymore, probably due to new version of client.
Still those synchronization is pain in the ... Ah, if it would really get an update to anything newer than this 0.5 btc codebase, it could at least be somehow functioning without hiccups.

I think you'll need to compile v0.6 if not I think I have one already compiled.
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Re: Slimcoin | First Proof of Burn currency | Decentralized Web
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johnwhitestar
on 17/05/2021, 18:51:18 UTC
Will look later into it, cuz I'm after work.

I'm trying to synchronize my wallet, even tho I had several upgrades and even NVMe drive now - it's still working like it used to work xD

If you need any help with it don't be shy :-)
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Re: Slimcoin | First Proof of Burn currency | Decentralized Web
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johnwhitestar
on 17/05/2021, 17:35:29 UTC
⭐ Merited by nutildah (2)
Sorry for such long time being away.
I was too much hard worked up with other projects and education (still I am... but finishing it off).
I see that you have salvaged site and placed on different domain.
Good, I forgot to do it completely.
I have changed data a bit on coinpaprika to have new data about domain and discord server: https://coinpaprika.com/coin/slm-slimcoin/ - it has all up-to-date now.

Great!

Would be useful to create a redirect from slimco.in to slimcoin.info.

I've created a list of sites where we'd need to update our info (https://github.com/slimcoin-project/slm-assets/blob/master/links%20list.txt)

Would you have time/wish to work on it?
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Re: Post your your experience of being moderated here
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johnwhitestar
on 14/05/2021, 17:30:49 UTC
The moderator has to do his work well distinguishing where is the spam and where is the natural human communication if he fails doing so he is just another meaningless bot, which is what we are supposed to be fighting with those rules.

You must also understand that no moderator is in your head. If behind your "Great" we must understand "Great, this two-weeks problem is finally solved, I was happy to help you", you're not helping the moderation much.
In a perfect world, the moderator could have taken 10 minutes of his time to go back over the conversation and try to understand the context of that "Great" a little better.

Let's do some simple maths. And I give you a little secret, on average since July 2016, there are 16 405 reports per month across all Bitcointalk.
The Altcoins section is probably the section where there are the most reports (but I don't have the exact numbers), let's say 15% of reports come from the Altcoins section (Discussions, Ann, etc...).
4 moderators can act on these sections : Welsh, Mprep, Hilariousandco and Mr Big. There are also patrollers (for newbies) and admins who can moderate, but let's ignore them to simplify the calculations.

16405 *15% = 2460 reports in the Altcoins section
2460 / 4 mods = 615 reports per mod (For the record, if I have 20-30 reports a month in the french section to handle, it's a big month for me)
615 * 10min = 6150 min
6150 min / 60 = 102 hours
102h / 24h = 4.25 days

So these 4 mods should spend more than 4 full days per month (sometimes more, sometimes less) just for the Altcoins section. Knowing that the GMs handle other sections, and there are surely reports that take much more time to analyse. And unless I'm mistaken, but being a moderator on Bitcointalk is not a full time job, and we have a job, a life too.

So yes, in your case, the naughty mod had a report on your "Great" and after a few seconds of consideration, he only saw Great = 0 value, so he deleted it. But why a mod should take his time to decipher a "Great", when you didn't take the time to recontextualize your post, to provide a little substance to your post ? Your time is more precious than the time of the mod ? 



Thank you for your explanation. Consider I'm losing my hours too here right now because of just one word. So maybe it somehow important to me.

Wouldn't it make sense to automate the moderation process a bit?

I think it's will take like less than 10 minutes of your time to create a query to see which are the users that post across the different threads short sentences of just one-two words and to focus the moderators attention just on them.
If there are people like me that usually stay on the same thread and yes, maybe I'm sinning with some short sentence, but maybe it can save you a lot of time letting me doing that if it's not that frequent?

If I produce usually let say 4000 characters posts and sometimes there are 1-2 words posts it's not a big deal after all, chances are I'm doing that in context of normal human communication.

Don't know whether it can make sense.
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Re: Post your your experience of being moderated here
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johnwhitestar
on 14/05/2021, 15:53:38 UTC
The rules have worked fine "for the people" for years.
Maybe you are right. However many thing has worked well for years and then was changed into something better.

If works perfectly fine without "end if" in python or in C-style single-statement form
I knew you'd tell it.


...it works perfectly fine without the fluffy-cuddly chatter on this forum. We don't need to start all threads with single-word "Hi" post, or end them with "thanks" or "best regards" posts.
I agree with your opinion and you can do as you wish, but your opinion is forced on me through absurd rules (or even worse, its interpretations), so I can't do as I wish, that's the issue.

I have to be afraid to communicate normally because someone has decided it's better another way around. That's not cool, IMO.