Block 710000, 52k blocks ago, was minted at 01.09.2014 23:18:57 -- it makes 17 days, so it's pretty normal. You should expect to mint anytime between 20-40 days.

It is available for Ubuntu in PPA repositories

great news!

Comparing old and new repos, I can verify that they're identical.

Old repo's history: https://github.com/mintcoinproject/mintcoin/network
New repo's history: https://github.com/MintcoinCommunity/mintcoin/network

Anyone wanting to verify can also check the latest commit IDs on both repos -- those are generated based on contents of all files in that version and nothing else.

Android wallet depends on me, and it will roll out eventually. I'm certainly not planning to throw away months of hard work.

But I agree it's best to keep it separate from coin's own time schedules, because even if it's mentioned or not, it's release date won't change.

I don't think we have one available currently. It would be best to sync from the Mintcoin network (This is a more secure approach anyway than to trust a link).

I have it in my todo list to create one.

I don't need to login to github mintcoin user account, just creating a new project there and adding my personal github account as a project collaborator would allow me to commit to the project repository and do whatever project's owner is able to do (as long as I have collaborator access for my account).

And I won't need to access any other accounts like social networks, etc.

ok then,

I suggest

1. we just create a brand new github user, only owned by the fund, holding noone's personal data. Owning by the fund will make sure we won't have to deal with any repo changes as developers or people change.

2. Create a brand new mintcoin project in it.

3. Give write permissions to developers who will manage it (I can volunteer for the transition if required)

4. Merge all historic data from head of github:mintcoinproject/mintcoin into that brand new repo

5. And the community can verify the historic data is exactly the same between the 2 repos, so there is no FUD for a hardfork or spyware or anything else.

6. Abandon github:mintcoinproject/mintcoin repo


A fork on github looks like this one: https://github.com/keremhd/mintcoin-seeder
It is not listed as a standalone project, but just a development fork. It's not returned in search results, etc.

A brand new project on github (populated from original history) looks like this one: https://github.com/keremhd/mintcoinj
Although it's a new project, if you check its history (click on Network), commits older than the project's creation date can be verified.

Why change git URL, any chances we can transfer mintcointeam's github account like other social addresses? (github username is mintcoinproject)

If not, we should just create a mint community user on github, preferably owned by the fund. We can create a new project (not forked from original project, as "forking" on github has its issues regarding visibility, it's only for temporary feature development), and copy all development history from original branch so nothing is lost (it's easier than how it sounds).

I think a community github user can give write access to individual developer accounts, so only owning the community account (for the fund) would be fine for future, actual developers can come and go with their personal accounts.

Hi all,

Cryptomummy contacted me giving the news of development team change. I can't follow forums lately, been busy with some important changes in my life.

The android wallet project is still on and work is in progress. There is not much left, though I don't have spare time lately, this will probably continue for some time.

I left this thread at around page 808, and I don't have the time to read and understand what's going on right now (I only did a brief skimming), but I believe that Cryptomummy will be able to manage the community & development team well based on earlier conversations. I'll also continue to contribute to the MINT project (C/C++ wallet part) as much as I can, as I've been doing since the initial release of MINT.

If the premine is completely dumped and certainly gone, I believe it's a good thing for MINT, as its uncertainty has always been a risk, at least now it's gone, and the price is still stable. I believe it is a very good thing that community takes over the project from non-communicating devs. That's how good projects live; with community's backing. I think MINT will have value and growth as long as there is a community behind it; doing development, marketing, and other things that makes a project alive.

Satildi.

Development hasn't stopped, I'm just not pushing my changes. And I'm busy with some real life stuff lately, otherwise it's 99% complete and ready to be released.

Don't judge android wallet's value by it's mint bounty. I'm not doing the MINT part for its bounty, it's not a freelance job for me -- I believe this is a community work, and I hope the community will take over its development when it's released. There are no POS bitcoinj forks in existence (and I doubt that anyone can manage to release something), and this is the first bitcoinj fork for POS coins, and it works (the POS library). For last few months, I haven't touched mintcoinj part and only been fiddling with getting the android UI to work besides my real life responsibilities.

I will be well compensated by other POS coins once it's done, I see other coins as freelance projects, not mint. I hope the community does not see this as a freelance too, because I'm not doing this for it's bounty, I'm not working as for a paid project to do mint's wallet, I'm doing it just because of being part of this community and that I am able to do it.

Satildi.

Satildi.

Hello everyone,
Mintcoin 1.10 is available for Ubuntu now!

Sorry for the late update, I was very busy for the last few days.


To install it:

Mintcoin 1.10 is available only for Precise (12.04), Saucy (13.10) and Trusty (14.04). Launchpad doesn't allow me to upload packages for Quantal (12.10) anymore, that version is not officially supported anymore by Ubuntu.

I tracked its announcement, maybe you can contact over there: http://www.mintcointalk.com/index.php/topic,369.0.html

Yes, that's an option for me, or for any other talented person who wishes to give to the cryptocurrency world. One can just go and contribute to some other altcoin instead of MINT (Just like MINT giving bounty to some other developer instead of me -- the exact opposite). But if we're talking about future of MINTCoin here, not someone's future or future of any altcoin, then it goes only one way.

I agree with these 2 posts. (I will still post updates for android wallet)

Anonymous creator of bitcoin never stated that he will use the premine for the sake of bitcoin. People didn't contribute to bitcoin just because "there is a developer behind it, and the developer promised to use some premine when required for the coin". Bitcoin did not have alternatives, nor was born in a competitive ecosystem.

Anyway, I'm bored of the premine talk. If at some future MINT project does not arrive at where it belongs because of such simple things' insolvency scaring talented people out, I won't regret value of my MINT stash going down, but I'll regret the amount of time I put in MINT. It is worth way more than my stash, android bounties, or anything. I believe other people who are asking accountability have similar concerns.


Regarding android wallet: A bounty is a bounty, if anyone else is able to deliver a correctly working POS wallet before me, then I'm totally fine with them getting the bounty. If you want accountability, hire someone. This line goes to anyone who's confusing volunteer work with paid work. (If anyone wants to argue bounty is payment: the bounty was around 1.5-2 BTC when it was proposed (now around 0.5 BTC I suppose), and I estimate I put around 15 BTC of my time to the wallet so far, and I'm putting in more). Also I believe that I already proved android wallet's status so far: It's running in the wild (as alpha), you can see transactions in blockchain explorer that are created from an android phone (and screenshots), as well as correct calculation of proof-of-stake internals for later implementation of staking (See my posts since April).

Release of a wallet, addition of cool features to main client, announcing founding of an NGO will not make MINT's value rise in the long run, those kinds of news are only beneficial to daytraders. It's the continuous maintenance and activity which is important. That is done by a happy community.

What does QT5 bring in advantage?

I'm not sure on that. I just traced wallet launch time today, and its bottleneck seems to be loading blocks from file to memory on startup (not even the extra calculations it does for POS after loading the blockchain). But I don't know if we're using the latest blockchain file format from bitcoin, or just an older shitty one. Maybe file format might be changed to whatever's the norm now, or maybe it's just that we have too many blocks to sustain it.

We had discussed this with the devs previously. Although defining combine threshold would have its benefits, there are some security concerns with it -- the network has to be big enough (otherwise there is a risk that everyone generates all their possible stakes, and network cannot find any more stakable TXs (until up to 20 days pass), resulting in inability to confirm transactions). The other point (it's current state) is that not everyone might be able to generate stake (because there is a fixed number of blocks per year, and every staking TX needs its own block with the current state).

I don't believe size of the network grew sufficiently in the last 1-2 months to support combining transactions, but some statistics might be created on the blockchain to see what the possibilities are.

Any examples on newer protocol, what do you mean? This might have implications such as backwards compability or mintcoinj.