I have a question on Elastic PL.  Will SHA256 and other public encryption functions in the src/nxt/crypto folder be available as ElasticPL Built-In functions?  Else, we have to rebuild these functions from scratch with the EPL native operators - ugh.

BTW, the link to the GitHub for "More Elastic PL" on elastic.pw is broken and needs to be updated.

Anyone know if C-Cex plans to add Bitcoin Cash and credit users who had BTC in their wallet at that time?  Or did C-Cex just spend it themselves?   {cryptopia did credit users - good of them.}

Al's Pizza accepts bitcoin now on website and in restaurant.  The waiter said that they had several online orders in BTC, but never anyone in seating.  At first, I thought Cool.  Then, I thought, why would anyone pay with bitcoin with the larger transfer cost.  $2 to pay a bill?   Bitcoin needs to bridge in Dogecoin for Point-of-Sale centers.  That is the entire purpose of Dogecoin, to reduce transaction cost.

Wish there was a web interface like STEEM - it is so easy to use.  I do not wish to download an exe that is advertised at "This software is in beta. It may crash, work unreliably, or inadvertently put a curse on your family for generations (a common programming error)".

So, it is a miner in a browser?   not the browser in the blockchain like FAI?

I'm a little confused by how to use this coin.  A few questions - sorry for how many there are.

1) Do I get more credits if someone votes for a card that I created and voted for?
2) Do I get more credits if someone votes against a card that I created and voted against?
3) What happens if I create a card and vote for it, then people vote against it?  Will my vote count ever decrease in this situation?
4) Why did the voting period say 24 days this weekend - it is lower now?

5) If I am a coward and choose not to create cards, how can I increase my votes?  I continue to vote and did a survey for a few more credits.  How might my profile increase?

One last point, how do you plan to build "community".  At one level, I see that a community develops around people that vote in common.  But, how do we interact and converse, etc?  Is PR.NETWORK a starting point for other community tools like facebook?

Thanks for any response.  Good luck with the project!

Tried out the service with coin 1337 and have receive a POS stake transaction. 

Some feedback...
- Initially, the transfer of STEPS coins to my "wallet" is confusing.  I created a RECEIVE address, but that is apparently not my "wallet".  The "wallet" is under the account menu and I had to send from RECEIVE address to wallet address.  Very confusing when trying to setup\buy a POS wallet.
- I mistyped my password too many times and it froze account for a while.  This is great.  Please send email when this occurs too.

Questions:
- For how long will my POS account (that I bought for 250 STEPS) be active?  ..Pretty cheap hosting if for a long time..
- What would stop STEPS devs from running away with my POS coins?   I would guess this is like trusting coins in an exchange.

Can you explain how this could ever work?  Who and what will be a "trusted gateway" and how will the network behave if a gateway goes down (think GOX).  Is NXTL-to-USD fractional reserve at that point (last one out loses) or do NXTL-USD become worth less than real USD when you redeem at a gateway (everyone loses)? 

Exactly, maybe up to 20% of bitcoins (probably far less - I hope) are on a "trusted" exchange\online wallet.  We trust them only up to what we are willing to lose.  Otherwise, these coins are on USB drives, printed wallets, whatever.  I only use a trusted exchange when I have to - conversions, purchases, etc.  Else, cold storage is the way to go.

Basically, Ripple is based on Trust; and Trust is the greatest liability of all.

Account has to be a day old (I think) and have coins for mining.  But, the mining reward = ALL FEES in the block mined.  Not much fees right now as more blocks have no transactions in them at this state of the game.  This will be a few weeks out before the new functionality comes out.

Did you bother search for that account # in this thread?  It is not a user's account.  It is the unclaimed accounts from the IPO.  If those users don't come forward by Jan 3rd(?), it rolls over to the XNT faucet.

I got it working...I had mis-understood how it works.  

Step 4 :  This step is executing for the java client.  Leave this running!

      How To in Windows....I put stuff in C:\NXT folder...Then...
      Start -> RUN -> CMD.exe  
      > cd \Nxt
      > java -cp Nxt.zip Nxt

      Place these two lines in a text file and rename NXT.CMD and all you need to do is click on it.

Step 5 : Paste "http://localhost:7875" in your browser of choice.  {Step 4 must be running!}

Seems to be working fine.  Thanks

As feedback....Am getting the following error....Does this require a webserver on our PC?  I'm missing a  requirement.

- Installed Java JDK 7.0 (Standard install)
- Downloaded NXT from http://88.198.210.245/Nxt.zip

java -cp Nxt.zip Nxt  > outfile.txt

[2013-11-23 14:43:49.229] Nxt 0.1.5 started.
[2013-11-23 14:43:49.394] Genesis block id = -2662702412830904299
[2013-11-23 14:44:29.437] java.io.IOException: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
[2013-11-23 14:44:49.437] java.io.IOException: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
[2013-11-23 14:45:04.437] java.io.IOException: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine


P.S. The old version (that does not compile) is still out there...https://mega.co.nz/#!3pImwbbA!DeQTSC6Yhb5lxRsPYLOh7DF121A5DtZOTDFTUWTQqj8

The ripple currency XRP is only bootstrapping in that it is used to execute transactions in Ripple network.  Each ripple XRP unit can execute 10000 transactions.  So, you will only ever need one or two for your whole life.  Ripple currency XRP were never meant to have any real value beyond spam revention.

Interesting......I see that you can pre-order up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 unit at a price is $51,650,883,406,386,744,524,800.   Pity that I don't have that much   

Sorry for off topic question, but what is meant by 'clean bitcoins'?  Is this related to coins that can be traced back to a miner source (IP), or it is related to coins involved in some prior theft?  {I searched and could not find a answer.}   Thanks in advance.

I encountered the same problem (on v8.0.2) and figured out the cause.  When downloading for the first time, my antivirus (Trend Micro) was interfering with the download.  I stopped Trend (Task Manager -> uiSEAgnt.exe) and then I could download the whole blockchain without an error.  {This is easily reproducable.}   Once you get the whole blockchain, you can run Bitcoin-QT with antivirus just fine.  It has to do with the fast IO during the initial download.

At first, I was getting the "FAILED TO READ BLOCK" error randomly even 1000 blocks or so.  Start it up, and a few thousand more blocks come down - then get error again.

In the log file C:\Users\Gateway\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\debug.log

...
received block 000000009342a7b5d434088a48d94dc05ca2b8543f11d8042c4fa2a32f3cfad5
Unable to open file c:\bitcoin\datadir\blocks\blk00000.dat
ERROR: CBlock::ReadFromDisk() : OpenBlockFile failed
*** Failed to read block
connection timeout
ERROR: AcceptBlock() : AddToBlockIndex failed
ERROR: ProcessBlock() : AcceptBlock FAILED
received block 00000000b4faa2facc1e5f54978b5c4cc770457d0ce921ac7c8a45d766e0858a
addcon thread interrupt
dumpaddr thread stop
SetBestChain: new best=000000009342a7b5d434088a48d94dc05ca2b8543f11d8042c4fa2a32f3cfad5  height=366  log2_work=40.519658  tx=374  date=2009-01-13 19:56:49 progress=0.000008
msghand thread interrupt
net thread interrupt
connection timeout
opencon thread interrupt
Flush(false)


I started up an old version 6 Bitcoin client.  It too got the error; which is odd since I've used it on the same computer last year.  Then, I stopped the Antivirus and it downloaded the whole blockchain fine with version 8.0.2.

Again, once you get the full download, I have not seen the problem with the Antivirus running.  The IO is much slower with the higher blocks.

Hope this helps others...

The "fork" issue that occurred to Bitcoin is in the Litecoin code, but it only affects people who are mining.  The users are fine (as I understand that issue).  Blocks mined with a certain setting are dis-regarded by the bulk of clients as they do not have that setting.  Any fork (if someone went out of their way to do it), would be short-lived and not effect transactions being processed on the main fork.  It appears there are plans to patch in future lease.  Read on other thread at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.msg1726129#msg1726129

In case you missed it, your pizza site got mention on page 1 of "Money and Investing" section of the Wall Street Journal today.  Article is on "Web Money Gets Lsaundering Rules", but your site got a call out.  Nice!