Ethereum, Maidsafe, BitShares, Mastercoin, PeerTracks all raised over a half million dollars up to several million. 

I don't have a windows machine.  I am looking for someone to help maintain the windows release.

Yes.  We are testing now and paying miners now to motivate testing/hacking the system.  So far it has worked well and we have found several bugs.

If you are mining please upgrade to Alpha.6 soon because the test network is hard forking to fix an attack in the mining validation logic. 

I am working to find someone to help maintain the windows build.   

Proof of work is SHA512 there are no optimized miners for this yet.

If you have PTS then you will get some Sparks. 

There are only 12 connections to the test net.   Easy pickings right now.

If you downloaded the wallet already, download the latest.  I fixed a bug in difficulty adjustment.  Old blocks are fine.  There were only 2 connections at the time so I hard forked immediately.   

Sparkle is BitShares + Proof of Work consensus rather than DPOS.   

The Sparkle test network is live and because we want to test the mining system we have decided to honor the block producers in the real chain.  Thus you can mine (but not trade) Sparks today. 

Mining will never be easier and the announcement of the December 14th snapshot of PTS has already pushed the price up.   

https://github.com/sparkle5/Sparkle/releases

There is a Mac build but no windows build at this time.   We are actively looking for someone to maintain the windows build.  This will be a paid position once the block chain is live.   

https://github.com/sparkle5/Sparkle/releases/tag/alpha.1

Download the client...  to enable mining go to console and type"

"wallet_enable_mining account_to_mine_with true"

Once you have enough connections your computer will start mining.

As Bytemaster suggested I will honor all mined blocks from the test network in the real network genesis block.

I will do the snapshot on December 14th, the anniversary of the American Revolution:


This applies for BTS and PTS.   BitAssets will not be honored, shorts will gain 2x and this is intentional because I want to reward those most heavily invested in BTS.

This will be the LAST block produced on December 14th UTC.   I will not ask any exchanges to honor the snapshot and will ask everyone who wants to participate in it to remove it from the exchanges.  In fact I will go so far as to declare that the exchanges OWN the snapshot of funds deposited in them as an incentive for them to list Sparkle and to reward them for supporting the BitShares ecosystem.

Lets make life easy on the exchanges and NOT ask them to honor this snapshot, but DO ask them to list it after we launch.   

Anyone can mine, but there are only 101 workers.   The workers do not produce blocks.

This is why Sparkle exists.   Someone had to create it and let the market sort it out.   

Sparkle is the first "2.0" variation based upon Proof of Work.   Ripple, Nxt, BitShares, and potentially Ethereum are all Proof of Stake systems.  Sparkle will add some shine to proof of work chains.

Sparkle replaces the Delegated Proof of Stake of BitShares with good old fashioned proof of work.  The "delegates" retain the role of producing price feeds for BitAssets (market pegged, 3x collateralized, block chain enforced assets pegged to Gold, Silver, the Dollar and Bitcoin).

Currency Unit:  SPK (Spark)
Mining Algorithm: SHA512  (initial, may change subject to delegate vote.)
Initial Supply: 100M SPK  (Divided among AGS, PTS, and BTS holders)
Mining Reward:  50 SPK / block, linearlly decreasing to 0 over 100 years.
Workers Reward:  50 SPK / block, linearlly decreasing to 0 over 100 years.
Block Interval: 20 seconds
Maximum Spark Supply: 7,984,000,000 SPK after 100 years.
Precision:  5 decimal places

http://thetruesparkles.wix.com/sparkle
https://github.com/sparkle5/Sparkle

SubForum Available on BitSharesTalk
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?board=80.0


Sparkle is under testing right now and has a working implementation.   Mining will begin as soon as we can merge the next stable release of BitShares into the code base.  

Sparkle inherits all of the great innovations in BitShares including:
  TITAN          - transfer invisibly to any name.
  Self Funding - Elected workers can grow and promote Sparkle without having to do a crowd sale.
  BitAssets     - Market pegged assets.
  Escrow        - simple, easy to use escrow payments
  User Assets  - Users can issue their own currencies  

Sparkle will adapt and evolve to follow the feature set of BitShares including:
  Auctions
  KeyGraph
  Scripting (turing complete)
  Gateways

If you couldn't get on board with BitShares because of Proof of Stake, now is your chance to get what you always wanted.


I will do the snapshot on December 14th, the anniversary of the American Revolution:


This applies for BTS and PTS.   BitAssets will not be honored, shorts will gain 2x and this is intentional because I want to reward those most heavily invested in BTS.

This will be the LAST block produced on December 14th UTC.   I will not ask any exchanges to honor the snapshot and will ask everyone who wants to participate in it to remove it from the exchanges.  In fact I will go so far as to declare that the exchanges OWN the snapshot of funds deposited in them as an incentive for them to list Sparkle and to reward them for supporting the BitShares ecosystem.

Lets make life easy on the exchanges and NOT ask them to honor this snapshot, but DO ask them to list it after we launch.