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I'm sorry, but you're not "just mining". You appear to be exhibiting very hostile mining habits. You throw your hash rate at a coin with a low difficulty until it retargets causing a massive difficulty increase. At which point you then leave that coin/blockchain and jump to another one. In the process bringing the network to a halt/slow crawl. After hours of others mining and trying to get the coin to recover with a lower difficulty which matches the network hash, you come back and repeat the process.

Despite what you say, I see no evidence of your supposed 110 mhs still on the network.

You are essentially attacking the coin by means of a high difficulty attack.

This is not something that happens accidentally, it is an intentional attack on this and various other coins that you mine with the same method.
Watching the blockchain and the rate which blocks are solved, you can clearly see the start of the difficulty attack by tanking the network, and the damage it inflicts when you leave.


Please prove me wrong on this assumption.

The network total hash is not 174Mhash.

It's much less than that. What happened, I'm assuming is we had people jump on while it was profitable until the difficulty went up then they abandoned mining. This was done to maximize their profits, or an attempt to attack the coin by getting the difficulty stuck. The current estimated network hash looks too far back to get an accurate representation. I don't think the it's meant to estimate within the 48 block retarget window.

If you look at the next estimated difficulty, it's much lower because we currently aren't solving blocks at a normal rate.

Thankfully the coin retarget is set low allowing for us to easily ride out the high difficulties. In fact as of writing this, right now we are on track to have the difficulty drop back down in just over 3 and half hours with current pool hash. When it does drop the coin will become instantly profitable to mine once again. We will likely see this trend of random difficulty jumps until the overall network is a little bit more stable and people devote time and hash to it.

That's strange, I'm not aware of a version 0.8.2. Perhaps you compiled an older .8.0.2?
The version I'm running which I can confirm is working is v0.8.1.0. A pre-compiled windows version can be downloaded from the google docs linked in the first post. Other platforms available in first post as well. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B49exKIsGBn5Zks1VWRZUzdzSU0/edit

The latest update as far as I know is 0.8.1.0 it will kick peers using an incorrect and previous version due to an old attack which left a visual sync error. If you're running an old blockchain, try deleting the blockchain and let it re-sync fully with only connecting to 0.8.1 peers.

Might be best to try a pre-compiled wallet until a dev can shed light onto a possible error with the github source.




Very nice, thanks for offering to start a gamecoin community outside of the bitcointalk alt forum. I'll definitely join once it's up and running and try to help out where ever.

Try this site.
http://bitcoinaverage.com/

It pulls data from various exchanges, including price, and volume. Then calculates weighted averages and gives you an overall price based on on several large exchanges.

Currently it's the most accurate way to get an overall market price.

210k for 3.9 BTC

I'm not looking for game devs to adopt the Gamecoin currency. Rather Gamecoin adopt games. I want to spend my Gamecoins on the roulette table, craps, slots, and other gambling style games based on risk and luck.
I don't see any game devs bringing an outside uncontrollable source into their game for an ingame currency. Entertainment holds a value all of it's own outside of how many GME = one bitcoin.

Gamecoins don't need to be on an exchange or be labeled with a current value denomination. If I can bet 1k Gamecoins on a flip of the coin I gladly would. But at the moment there is little offered in terms of play-ability with the coins. Of course I'd like to see them on an exchange and receive the recognition for the small devoted community behind them, but it's not top priority. Alt coins are in a strange place/state of mind right now. Because smaller alt coin exchanges exist that add new alt coins left and right. Alt coins in general seem to be getting away from idea of innovation and something new, instead have turned into a race to get onto exchanges.

Thanks for the sticky.
Updated and running latest wallet.

With the rekindled interest in GameCoin, have any additional game begun accepting it besides video blackjack? I'd like to see a bunch of various casino lottery style games myself.

Very nice update, and nice to see a new thread.
I've been watching this coin with the corner of my eye, sticking with updates and occasional mining if/when the hash dropped over the past couple months.

Shame there is the still existing visual sync issue. For anyone that has their client say "out of sync" and requires something like 350k more blocks to be downloaded. Just ignore it. It's a residing effect from the previously mentioned initial attack on the coin. The client is able to see the unofficial blocks but it will not download them due to checkpoints. Because of this you will end up with a visual discrepancy saying that your wallet is out of sync, all the while it is synced and fully functional.

Would it be that absurd to simply change the name of this coin?

Something along the lines of GameTokens? No idea why the entire community continued the "coin" craze when it comes to naming schemes.

We could do a small brainstorm get a few names, then hold a poll to vote on one of them.

I personally wasn't able to solo mine. Solved several blocks after the 25200 *think I was the one who solved that magical block* I only got multiple rejected blocks.
I've stopped solo mining for the time being to see what happens as Im getting nothing but rejects and that isn't going to help anyone.

I think most of my wallet connections were to people running the old client.
Would it be possible to add into the code that the client would NOT connect peer to peer with the incorrect version?

Looks like not enough people updated their client...
We have passed Fork block, my client is showing the new proper difficulty however the blockchain is still extending on the old fork according to the block explorer http://gme.p2pool.nl/chain/Gamecoins


Anyone who hasn't updated their client, coins mined after 25200 will likely disappear.

Nice to see the new client with proper retargets getting closer to the fork.
Also nice to see the added hash rate being put into this coin.

Just waiting for more uses of the coin besides the slot machine and single game of blackjack (still waiting on splits, doubles, insurance, and instant dealer win if they have blackjack)

An exchange would be nice, not so people will dump. Rather it could raise awareness that this coin that was once dead, has been revived and doing well for the time being with support.

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When it comes to making backups of your wallets and other personal data, remember 3 things. Redundancy, Security, and Encryption.

Why not keep primary focus on GameCoin, the name really fits and it can use the attention

I'd still like to see accounts made wallets attributed to them to reduce the chance of loosing coins. I ended up running into an error last night while playing, I had 21 with an ace and queen. The dealer has a queen showing. The site would crash every time I tried to play on and redirect back to the start page where it would tell me I have a game in progress.
After all that ended up loosing several hundred gamecoins when the wallet or my cookies were deleted expired. Not looking to get those coins back (consider small donation), just letting you know my reasons behind wanting an account I can keep coins attached to.

no card counting.. drats. lol

I'll throw a thousand coins at it and give it a try. Would prefer an account linked wallet personally though. I tend to clear all history, cookies, and cache when I'm done browsing.

Very nice, always love me some blackjack as long as it's not entirely rigged heh
Are we going to be able to create an account where we can keep GME in there long term to keep playing off and on? With the current hash rate and difficulty it could potentially take longer to add funds than my interest to play a quick hand.

I am still mining off and on, however I'm waiting on news of the new wallet with different retarget rate.