Hi I.G.S-security,

You can find the details for the developers (keccak512 & nomisugi) on the first page of this thread - they list their BitMessage addresses which is their preferred method of contact.

If you'd like to have a chat about Heavycoin feel free to message me here or contact me on mumbly@mail.com, I can field general questions and in some cases help make sure the devs look out for your messages as we check in with each other about current topics/concerns weekly.

Cheers,
M

asdf55 - you called me out like a Gentleman, and I'll respond in kind.

I've just dropped 8,000HVC in to MultiFaucet.tk to keep the reward at 0.1HVC per drop.

My challenge to the community - if you folks can eat up 5,000HVC through the faucet in seven days from the time of this post I'll drop an additional 30,000HVC so that the reward will increase to 1HVC per drop while the balance stays above 10,000HVC

If you guys get through the 5,000HVC in the next 48 hours from the time of this post - I'll personally match the Heavyfund contribution and drop a total of 60,000HVC for the next drop.

It's been a while since we've had some fun on this board - sharing with Twitter and Facebook now.

Cheers,
M

Yeah, it's hard not to have a certain feeling of schadenfreude about their v2 launch.

I can't believe even two days before they dropped us I pointed a further two people in their direction *incoherent mean things about them*

I wish them the best in their future endeavors, and by endeavors I mean uncontrollable house fires

Cheers,
M

Hey folks,

Hope everyone is well.

@Jonesd - nothing specific to report right now mate, I know version 1.4 is being worked on, but not sure how close it is.

Some news I thought I'd share - the White Puma guys who are behind the app for sending coins on Facebook have just released a product for accepting altcoins (including HVC) anywhere online. I'm still playing with it so no review yet, but these guys are doing good work so I'm happy to be in their camp: http://www.whitepuma.net/cryptowiz-widget/

Cheers,
M

Hey guys,

Just wanted to take a moment to thank xocel for his continued work to get this service back online - it's much appreciated.

For those of us with a programming/networking background, I'm sure we have had those moments where sometimes the machine is just simply haunted - well done getting it all figured out man and not just killing it with fire (also an acceptable answer )

Cheers,
M

Hey guys,

I've asked Keccak to take a look at your messages and let us know what's happening.

I've always found asdf55 to be careful with his numbers, but it's not out of the question that there's something we haven't taken in to account/mis-calculated about the current block reward.

Keep in mind that we don't have a confirmed problem yet, but by all means we should look in to what's happening.

I'll be keeping an eye on this with you guys and let you know if I hear from Keccak outside of here.

About the next update, I don't have an official word, but I know the guys have been working on the 1.4 release, I'd expect that they're waiting for the end of limit phase to add a checkpoint to the code, just like at the end of the mint phase.

Feel free to post any calculations of this - I'm going to double check the numbers and see if anything stands out to me. It might also be worth taking a look at the code on github to see if it gives us any ideas.

Cheers,
M

Hey asdf55,

Nice find man - I'll say hello to these guys and see if they're up for it.

Cheers,
M

Hey chungenhung,

I've contacted zhpool and asked them to follow up on this with us or me directly - I'll let you know if I hear anything.

I've pointed out that we list them on the heavyco.in site, if they have gone quiet on their members it's not appropriate for us to list them there.

Hopefully they will get in touch and we can figure out what's happening.

Cheers,
M

Hey chungenhung,

I've seen you talking about zhpool - what's your experience? Have they gone silent on miners and not paying out shares?


A quick update for everyone - Heavychain.info has gotten in touch and let me know they're having some technical problems which they are working on. No immediate timeline, but they are working on getting the block explorer back up and have offered to share the explorer code if anyone else wants to add their own block explorer to the ecosystem.

Cheers,
M

Hey guys,

Thought I'd share this - a new interview with our very own Keccak512 & Nomisugi:

http://bitcoinist.net/interview-with-heavycoin-developer/

Cheers,
M

Yeah I noticed that yesterday also.

Not sure what the deal is, I've pointed it out to Keccak.

Cheers,
M

Hey man, I'm not sure what to tell you here. Let me make sure I'm not mis-representing myself - I'm not running Heavycoin so the devs don't report to me, Keccak and Nomisugi very much designed and develop HVC.

Keccak let's me know if there's anything big happening technically and will usually give me a heads up if there's a new version getting tested for release so I can share here.

I've shot a message to Keccak asking if there's any general info about next release etc I can share with you fine people, we'll see what comes back.

For your question about silence from the devs, for what ever it's worth, the last message I got from the devs was five days ago, the message was "How are you doing mate?" - we're very exciting people


I hope I'm right in saying that this is pointed toward the voting aspect of Heavycoin? If I'm correct I know you're not alone in thinking it's a poor idea and that's cool, I know other people feel the complete opposite.

From my own point of view, I bounce backwards and forwards about it - maybe it would have been safer to focus on the HVC algorithms and leave the voting aspect alone, maybe this is some crazy brilliant move - I have no idea, but I'm paying attention.



Hey man!

Great questions - I'm of course biased so any suggestion from me that it's not manipulation is not worth a lot.

Maybe we've lost mining power so the hash is easier? It seems like even if mining a coin can make even a small profit there are miners willing to fill the void - I'm thoroughly un-educated in this area though, so any of this is just wild speculation.

Any miners who would like to share their insight?

Cheers,
M

Hey Vlad2Vlad,

It is still being actively developed, I'll ask the devs to let us know how we're looking for the next release.

We're still in limit phase, so max coin supply is still being decided by votes.

Cheers,
M

Hey guys,

I'm as annoyed about this as I'm sure most of you guys are.

They've been dropping a lot of coins recently, most likely this is tied to their acquisition by moolah.io.

Moolah are making a play for institutional investors so I'm sure this is mintpal clearing out all of the smaller coins that don't have a world of hype around them (*cough* doge *cough*).

It sucks because I've been pointing anyone who is interested in Heavycoin to Mintpal - great interface, great reputation, I can only say they have been a really great exchange, and that is most likely why they were bought out.

Trying to find a positive, this does leave space open for the next private professional exchange to enter the space Mintpal is exiting, if that happens we'll be all over them to let HVC in.

Let me know any exchanges you guys think we should be targeting and let's try to turn this in to motivation for larger exchange acceptance.

So far BTer is on the list - any others, shout out, maybe it's time that we try to organise and push for more exchanges.

Cheers,
M

Thanks man.

To be a total weirdo and be completely honest - I'm trying to learn how to accept a compliment right now - so, thanks. I hoped to be more instrumental in you getting your coins back, but as long as you have them back we have the result we wanted

So random topics of discussion for everyone:

- Has anyone played around with block explorer software before? I'm trying to figure this out

- I've been looking in to the Weimar Republic and notgeld notes, it's interesting to look at these in regard to alt coins. To my mind, there seems to be a parallel in some regards.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
M

Hey Dallski - great news and well done man. I know what it's like to have some coins locked up somewhere and not being sure you'll see them again, not a good feeling. Glad this worked out for you.

@asdf55 - I think you're right with the bouncing - I know block times vary but didn't put the two together. I'm going to point your messages out to the coin devs and see if they have any thoughts to share.

Cheers,
M

Hey asdf55,

Thanks for the info, you are right, something is happening.

I've been watching the "when" number on my wallet tonight and it is bouncing up and down as far as I can see, not sure of the exact behaviour yet, but something is definitely happening. If anyone has any ideas where this is happening in the code, or just logically what may be going on I'm sure we'd all like to hear ideas.

RE: we need block explorers - I couldn't agree more.

I'm going to continue to look in to beefing up hvcstats.com to be a full block explorer, but if anyone has any ideas or information on how to get this done quickly, or interested in setting up their own block explorer, please do post here or PM me.

Cheers,
M

Hey asdf55,

Apologies, I think I missed the meaning of your earlier posts.

Just to let you know, I'm not one of the coin devs but if we identify a legit issue with the wallet I can make sure they take a look at it.

http://hvcstats.com = basically a hosted version of the HVC wallet to expose the API, so if the problem exists with the wallet it'll show up there also.

Could you try explaining the problem and how you have found the potential fault? Just pure maths from the block time, or is there a third party reference we should be looking at?

I took a quick look at these two calls:
http://hvcstats.com/getnextrewardwhensec
http://hvcstats.com/getnextrewardwhenstr

The seconds that the first call returns seem to agree with the second call, so I don't believe that there is a problem converting the seconds to a human readable format.

But also (and I haven't check this in detail) when I looked at http://hvcstats.com/getnextrewardwhensec twice over five minutes it *seemed* like it gained 1000 seconds - not verified, just something I think I noticed.

Does anyone else have an opinion, or otherwise think they can see an issue? If we can identify that there is a problem and how exactly to see it I know it will save the devs a bunch of time debugging the code.

Cheers,
M


EDIT: try this:
- open http://hvcstats.com/getnextrewardwhensec
- wait five minutes, then refresh - it seems like it does add 1000 seconds - is there an explanation or is there a fault here?

Hey folks,

I don't want to leave this just hanging out there - Dallski has contacted me and we're going to approach 51BTC together, I'll let Dallski get back to us all to confirm how this worked out.

Cheers,
M

Hey man,

I believe I have those covered on http://www.hvcstats.com already - feel free to reference them:

Getdifficulty:
http://hvcstats.com/getdifficulty

blockcount:
http://hvcstats.com/getblockcount

Block reward:
http://hvcstats.com/getreward

I'm looking in to making it a full blown block explorer, but bare with me.



@Dallski - that's wierd - would you like to PM me your message to their support? I'm talking to the guys via BitMessage and would be happy to help you figure this out if I can.

Cheers,
M