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Re: I/O Digital - I/O Coin - Blockchain Ecosystem - DIONS - POS CIPHER - CHAMELEON
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thispanda
on 09/11/2017, 21:16:20 UTC
DIONS Linux Debian 64bit wallet is available now.

Debian 8 and above only https://github.com/iocoin/dions/releases 

Enjoy!

Support at: https://t.me/iodigitalsupport

Cheers! This installs iocoind in /usr/local/bin - but how do we interact with it?
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Re: I/O Digital - I/O Coin - Blockchain Ecosystem - DIONS - POS CIPHER - CHAMELEON
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on 02/11/2017, 19:17:17 UTC
Nice to see the new wallet released! Any chance of providing build instructions for Linux or release Debian/Ubuntu builds?
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Re: [ANN][ICO] Authorship - Making the Internet More Free and Accessible For Authors
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on 17/09/2017, 15:06:28 UTC
Do we need to submit a form to claim the bounties? I found http://authorship.com/withdraw/ mentioned somewhere, and a 45 day limit to withdraw - but that URL does not work...
You may want to review the thread and read the emails sent to you by Authorship

Cheers, but there is no info on this in the emails or their blog - and this thread is getting a bit messy. Last thing I see is that people who did not sign up more than 3 times from same IP should get paid, and payments are going out (https://etherscan.io/token/0x2dAEE1AA61D60A252DC80564499A69802853583A). Just wondering if I need to claim it, or just sit tight and wait.
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Re: [ANN][ICO] Authorship - Making the Internet More Free and Accessible For Authors
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on 17/09/2017, 14:55:03 UTC
Do we need to submit a form to claim the bounties? I found http://authorship.com/withdraw/ mentioned somewhere, and a 45 day limit to withdraw - but that URL does not work...
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Re: [ANN] MangoCoinz Official ANN Thread - Mine cryptocurrencies on you smart phone
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on 05/09/2015, 16:12:07 UTC
Hey guys,

How is the new update working for you?

Have you seen that we passed the 1 mill coin mark?  Grin


Congrats on 1M! For me it's still unreliable, and worked better some versions ago. Often when I start the miner it stops on it's own after a short time, even if phone is awake. Timer resets on some occasions to 2 hrs. App crashes on launch sometimes (submitted reports). Running 5.0.2
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Re: [ANN] MangoCoinz Official ANN Thread - Mine cryptocurrencies on you smart phone
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on 20/08/2015, 20:42:10 UTC
Hey everybody,

We've just uploaded the latest version of MangoCoinz which is v0.8.3 and it brings with it bug and crash fixes.
Also, now while mining, the notification LED blinks to indicate that everything is working as it should.

Please tell us if there are any bugs/crashes, and if the app now works and it previously didn't.

Best regards, Srele from MangoCoinz.

Great, thanks! Could I suggest that you specify what bugs you are fixing, so that people can actually test for that?


Unfortunately for me, this release works worse than the previous. On the previous release I was able to mine by forcing the phone to stay awake through another app. Now this only works for about 1 to 10 minutes. If I try to mine without forcing some other process to keep the phone awake, the mining stops the second screen is off or I switch apps. Also, the timer seems to reset in the notification, and its impossible to get rid of notification without force closing.This makes it impossible to use once again. This is on 5.0.2, on 4.4 the app still doesn't launch. I might test on 2.3 later (did not launch before). Bring back v 0.5 until you fix critical bugs and do proper testing before release? Might be an idea to code in failure tests so that the app crashes or hangs on unintended behaviour so that people can submit stack traces
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Re: [ANN] MangoCoinz Official ANN Thread - Mine cryptocurrencies on you smart phone
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on 10/08/2015, 10:45:04 UTC
Hey everybody,

Just a quick update.
We've acquired a phone that has the mentioned bugs that some of you have experienced and we're pleased to tell you that we've fixed them.
We're talking about some crash bugs and timer issues.

The app will be available to update in a few days. We still need to button things up a bit before we can release it onto Google Play.

Also, we're considering making a hybrid comeback of the old way of mining.
The way we're considering this to work is by allowing all 24 hours in the day for mining with a max amount of coins that can be mined, but with an active internet connection requirement.
This is basically the old way of mining (from the old orange app) but with a internet connection.
Please tell us your thought on this.

Best regards, Srele from MangoCoinz.

Good stuff, looking forward to the update.
I think bringing back time-unlimited mining is the way to go. Hope it can be as stable and battery efficient as the 0.5.x version was. Are you also considering bringing back the cumulative max amount (i.e. unused max amount from previous days (or X days) adds up)?
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Re: [ANN] MangoCoinz Official ANN Thread - Mine cryptocurrencies on you smart phone
by
thispanda
on 08/08/2015, 22:07:19 UTC
..........................................
Also please stop taking about MGC, it confuses newcomers and makes no sense. You honestly don't think that 1 Mangocoinz = 1000 Mangocoin is confusing? 1 bitcoins = 1000 bitcoin? If you want a denomination for the lower amounts, that is clearly not the answer. Listen to barabbas, he is talking sense.

Thank you for the analysis.

I was posting mainly to point out that the present reward value even at around 1-2 MCZ is as close to the previous value when 7 MCZ were made. The brief higher values  spanned from more than 10000 satos to less 300 satos but it is fair to say that by even making only 1.5 MCZ now, it still can be better than before. I have been following the prices over the past 5 months very closely.

It is essential for every Manogcoin user to understand that it is a matter of time when user number increases so much that MCZ rewarded would be decreased but the overall value would be about the same or even better in the future (due to about proportionally increased prices). Hopefully, nobody would post their complains about getting 0.01 MCZ,  0.0001 MCZ daily, even if it would be still valued at, say, total of around $2; someone might still complains about the small number of coins.

I have confidence in our dev's all along and they will fix all these problems. No matter what they are going to do, I shall be happy. http://images.clipartof.com/thumbnails/1299838-Cartoon-Yellow-Smiley-Face-Emoticon-Crossing-Fingers-For-Good-Luck.jpg
 Cheesy

True, one has to consider the value of MCZ, which has and will continue to fluctuate a lot. Is there a long term (complete, since trading started) daily price record anywhere?
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Re: [ANN] MangoCoinz Official ANN Thread - Mine cryptocurrencies on you smart phone
by
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on 07/08/2015, 14:15:43 UTC
It's really hard to read your posts DOGEbubble, with all that crazy formatting, non-relevant images and weird use of quotes. Anyway, here's an attempt to reply at what I got from it.

First off, I'm not saying we should necessary go back to the same difficulty of "mining" (lets say coin generation instead, as we are not mining really). Anyway, you say 7 MCZ is too high? Well the current is 6.4, not much of a difference really.
Also, the price was high at times, even higher than now, before the new system (2-hr limit) was launched, so your arguments make no sense.
Nevertheless, development is good and the ecosystem seems to be growing.

The point I want to make is about fairness of coin generation and the purpose that MCZ devs try to target, and how I think it is currently not optimal. You state yourself that you can see several accounts making the max limit (>0.05) per minute/sync event in the blockchain.
Now my question is who can that be? Unless there is a large difference between the sensitivity of the phones, there is NO WAY you can make that on regular exercise for a prolonged time (if at all). This is the amount you get by furiously shaking your device. And now who can do that for 2 hours? Probably no person would bother or even be able to do that. Yet, we see numerous of these sync events reaching the max limit.

Let's have a look at the "blockchain" (its more of a log really, there is no such thing as blocks).
I took a sample, by copy-pasting a few times every 3rd minutes from the website log, and looked at the sync events and the transactions being made. In total I caught 9283 sync events and 145 transactions. 61 one of those transactions were NOT fee payments or 0 amount transactions. 320 unique accounts performed syncs.

The majority of the syncs show a "surprising" tendency, with a large number of high sync amounts (see histogram link below). 45% of the accounts had consistent sync amounts (median) above 0.05, 67% above 0.04. 102 unique accounts had syncs above 0.05, and most of these accounts doing more than 40 syncs events of this amount. Sounds like someone exercising? No, these are most likely someone gaming the system, generating the VAST majority of the coins seen in the time window I looked at. 374 coins were generated during the period, 214 by accounts with >0.05 median sync amount, 300 by above 0.04.

Histogram of sync amount frequencies: http://i.imgur.com/x1DDsne.jpg

Now the interesting part is looking at which of the accounts that performed syncs in the time window, also performed transactions. This is very difficult to catch with a limited sample, since syncs and transactions are not likely to take place at the same time. You would rather expect that people generate coins for a while, perhaps even a few days or weeks, and then sends the a transaction.

Still, I could find some accounts that sent transactions while also performing syncs.
Interestingly, many transcations were pointed to the same receivers. For example these were at the end of the time window I looked at (within a short period of time and no other transcations in between, so they could, and likely did, continue to a larger extent):

senderreceiveramount
56D60A20B91776474FC6F6DE088CC80AA3BF860C274D6250884CFBA9B9B9DD753EAB842BCEC7B3E3FB2ED99665BA875DDF70EE824F9ED82A6DBAFD77A98360625.7
2C446A57D93FB059C26E90AFFC8757045D74A64049B537E136DE038B3A4498473EAB842BCEC7B3E3FB2ED99665BA875DDF70EE824F9ED82A6DBAFD77A98360626.3
787B020E91E9361187DE932810B159D4F2BF6AB2DF75DE43132634BA3831AA983EAB842BCEC7B3E3FB2ED99665BA875DDF70EE824F9ED82A6DBAFD77A98360626.3
CA2BCC2EDCD2FA80049B5B294D967FE10B0EAEE2DED2B0C8F8F82E41867356DE3EAB842BCEC7B3E3FB2ED99665BA875DDF70EE824F9ED82A6DBAFD77A98360626.2
F61368F42E9B265787EC7A9508AEF9FF18348B754F6D2E6B218AA8CD68DC167D3EAB842BCEC7B3E3FB2ED99665BA875DDF70EE824F9ED82A6DBAFD77A98360625.6

Look at the amounts, they are close to the max daily limit and from unique senders. Could it be a farm? There are other receiving addresses showing the same pattern.
Also, almost all the senders who are also syncers (potential "farm nodes") generate coins at a high frequency (>0.04).
This is however only the tip of the iceberg. I caught some syncers also sending coins. I suspect that this happens to a much larger degree than what can be seen just looking at a limited segment of the logs.

Devs: please release a full log of syncs and transactions as well as ability to look at individual address balances and transaction history (same functionality as traditional block explorers), so that people can see the real scale of this (they should know about these issues themselves I would hope).

Now, back to my point.
The only ones who can make large amounts and reaching limits of coin generation appear to be gaming the system by farming. This problem is hard to deal with, though there are options to make it more difficult. However, there is a clear unbalance when an honest user is barely able to make 1 MCZ performed the activities for a long period of time, that the project has intended for (i.e. sports of whatever activity).

This is also related to the timer, as with a 2 hour limit there is NO WAY for honest users to make what someone gaming the system can do within that time frame. Whatever purpose the 2 hour timer has, its working against the "real" users and does not affect potential farms.
It also degrades user experience to a large extent compared to a non-intrusive background process (i.e. old Android version), and does not work on Android (largest potential userbase). Frankly, a lot more people here dislike it than like it, DOGEbubble.
So the timer is part of the problem. It is also a problem that its seems very easy for many of the active accounts to reach the max limits, yet is is practically impossible doing so when exercising. So how do these accounts do that? Remember these are (probably) generating the vast majority of new coins, which they will dump or use to manipulate the market.

Please make it at least possible for regular users to generate coins at the same rate as (probable) farming users.

Also please stop taking about MGC, it confuses newcomers and makes no sense. You honestly don't think that 1 Mangocoinz = 1000 Mangocoin is confusing? 1 bitcoins = 1000 bitcoin? If you want a denomination for the lower amounts, that is clearly not the answer. Listen to barabbas, he is talking sense.
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Re: [ANN] MangoCoinz Official ANN Thread - Mine cryptocurrencies on you smart phone
by
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on 06/08/2015, 20:53:22 UTC

But I am not sure if my old iphone 4S (awaiting upgrade later this year) can take the 24-hour lazy mode. I have to fully charge it in order to start the next-daily 2-hour run; I would not  be able to imagine that I might have to keep it running for 24 hours. It blacks out easily. Not every one in this world has a new smartphone.

Returning to the good old days? I do not wish it come back just like the days (before iphone launch and subsequent Android upgrade) when Mangocoinz dropped from my much higher purchase price of 7,000 MCZ (7,000,000 MGC ?) to 200-300 MCZ although I still unhappily bought some of them at those prices.  Cheesy

If your 4S cannot do 2 hour of use then either the battery is busted, or the iPhone app needs improvement due to massive battery drain. Neither of those are valid reasons not to get rid of the timer (broken phone and poor code). The thing is that the old Android app could run 24/7 without barely impacting battery life.

Again, I see no good reason to keep the timer. If it was introduced to avoid people gaming the system, I hardly think that helps. Right now, with limited time, only very high intensity movement of the phone can result in max yield with the 2 hour timer. This is not possible when actually doing real sports! From my experience, running 1 hour makes around 1 mcz, mountainbiking 2 hours about 1.5 mcz. Putting your phone in the tumble dryer, helicoptering it in a sock etc makes more. If Mango really wants to target fitness and running, I think the timer should go and consider adding some sort of location tracking of distance/speed to leverage rewards to avoid gaming. Think about how Google fit and iOS equivalent runs in the background tracking activities. Mango can do the same (as the old app did). Also, getting rid of the timer and rewarding people who do long (and perhaps less intense) exercise might be an idea? In fact, my real favorite moments with Mango was going on 4-5 hour rides and getting larger rewards (possible due to cumulative cap and no time limit). Right now, the whole thing is more of a hassle and I will likely stop using it, and not to recommend it to someone else. Just a the opinion of a user, who has used the app for what it is targeting (exercise) since the beginning.
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Re: [ANN] MangoCoinz Official ANN Thread - Mine cryptocurrencies on you smart phone
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thispanda
on 27/07/2015, 09:07:26 UTC
I have tried the app on Android 2.3, 4.4 and 5.0. The latter version is the only case where it's not stuck on the loading screen (i.e. it actually launches). The timer is however broken, making it not functioning. I have really tried, more than I'd like to admit, and I've generated 0.7 MCZ over 17 days.

I agree you shouldn't get rich or see it as payment, but if you want people to use the app you'll need to provide an incentive. Doing a referral campaign now,with a non functional app is clearly not a good idea.

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Re: [ANN] MangoCoinz Official ANN Thread - Mine cryptocurrencies on you smart phone
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on 25/07/2015, 16:16:19 UTC
First of all, good work devs and I wish you all the best with your project. I have a few suggestions, based on my experience with MCZ since the very beginning. This is meant as constructive criticism Wink Some points are probably also suggested by other earlier in the thread.

1. Get rid of the timer. Why limit both time and coins per day? It makes it unnecessary complicated, and in addition the timer does not work. Why not leave the app to generate/"mine" coins as long as it is running, just like before?

2. Make it interesting to take part in the project again. In other words, make it easy and make it possible to earn something. Due to problems with the app and the timer this is currently not the case. I would suggest a similar function as you had before. Make it possible to accumulate coins that can be generated. This can be set to expire after say 7 days, so its only the "leftover" coins the last days that contribute to the cap. This will make going on a long run/bike ride of say 5-6 hours worth it. If it is not possible to generate actual value, it won't be used. I'm not gonna bother with MCZ if I workout 5 hours and made 40 USD cents equivalent in MCZ (which is currently not even possible), and I doubt a lot of people will.

3. Sort out and communicate how value will be generated in the future. There was a cap before I think of 16M something. User expect a similar monetary reward, say in USD or BTC, for the same work. How will this work if you get a lot of users? How can you promote positive price / market cap gain?

4. Get the app working BEFORE you do any more promotion or referral campaign. As is it is now, I doubt anyone would stick with it, unfortunately.

5. Make the algorithm that decides rate of generated coins depend on both phone movement and rough distance travelled (using location, from cell towers should be enough to keep battery use low).

6. Find a good strategy to avoid people gaming the system (tumble drying a farm of phones, emulators etc).

7. Don't associate yourself with other cryptos. It's clearly not the same and functions is a widely different manner, and you will receive a lot of criticism for it.
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Re: [IOC] [I/O Digital Currency] POS I/O - IONS - DIONS - HTML5 Wallet - Chameleon
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thispanda
on 21/07/2015, 07:49:17 UTC
Good update devs! One question, how do I perform a rescan with the html5 wallet (os x)?
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Re: [ANN] BitcoinDark (BTCD)--Teleport/Ramchains/SuperNET Core/Dividends/Gen 1.5
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on 17/06/2015, 20:42:02 UTC

Thank you very much  for pointing me to the tutorial!
i downloaded the wallet with Chrome. The problem is that the client does not load fully. The BTCD wallet icon shortly appears in the dock and then closes automatically. For that reason, there have not been created any system files.

Here is the crash report.

My guess is that the wallet is not compiled to work on os x 10.7. Many other coins' wallets have the same issue for 10.7
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Re: [ANN] MangoCoinz Official ANN Thread - Mine cryptocurrencies on you smart phone
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on 13/03/2015, 10:39:01 UTC
Unfortunately it looks like someone found an exploit. If you look at the limited block explorer, which I did twice in the last days, you'll see a lot of users syncing 7 coins (max limit). I also saw tons of users sending 138 or 139 coins to the same user a couple of days ago. Its probably this user who is now dumping the coins. I didn't take a note of the user names, but for the devs who has full access to the transactions it should be very easy to check this. Could perhaps the devs also provide us with a plot of how many coins have been "mined" over time? I wouldn't be too surprised if there is a sudden jump some where. My guess is someone is running VM's and faking accelerometer, or found an even more efficient exploit. If I'm right, and the devs don't act on this quickly, this is probably the end of MCZ

edit: "end of MCZ" was a bit dramatic Wink But I would make this less exploitable
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Re: Earn Free Opal During Social Ops Week!
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on 04/03/2015, 05:53:38 UTC
Thanks bassguitarman! I'm up for v2, as long as I have time for it. Holding these coins, Opal for sure has a bright future!
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Re: Earn Free Opal During Social Ops Week!
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on 25/02/2015, 08:57:56 UTC
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Re: ANN: [OPAL] | POS | FILE SHARING IN BETA | HTML5 WALLET + STORE IN DEVELOPMENT
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on 04/11/2014, 21:14:11 UTC
Really love this coin by the way! Cannot wait for the store!
Yup! Curious as to what the OPAL market will bring  Grin
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Re: [PND]Pandacoin | Cryptocurrency for the masses | Easy to use, buy, mine and understand |
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on 29/10/2014, 14:50:08 UTC

Major PandaBank Patch (v3.0.0) Preview

Pandacoin (PND) Development Team is proud to reveal our upcoming first major update to PandaBank which highlights our intention of once again redefining how cryptocurrencies should be – simple and easy to use. By focusing on providing an optimal user experience for those that are new to cryptocurrencies, we will be setting the benchmark on how all main ‘crypto-wallets’ should function in the future, in order to truly obtain a global mass appeal.

PandaBank will be the world’s first cryptocurrency main storage client with the ability to switch to a lightweight version of the client, ‘PandaBank Lite’. Pandacoin’s main storage mode will be called ‘PandaBank Hybrid’, integrated with ‘Instant Sync Technology’ (IST) and ‘Rapid Blockchain Download’ (RBD); allowing new Pandacoin users to immediately synchronize with the blockchain and see/utilize their Pandacoins right after installation of the client, and reducing the time to download the entire blockchain from 4 to 24 hours, down to 5 to 15 minutes.

Patch v3.0.0 is scheduled for full release within 7 days.

Cryptocurrency for the masses,

The Pandacoin Development Team

This is nifty, I love the idea!

Nifty? Tongue it's completely rewriting a big part of the code and improving it in every aspect Wink
but great improvements take time to develop but you know: we deliver  Smiley
If Bitcoin would implement this properly you could sync the full wallet in 2-3 hours (depending on your internet speed)

Oh my! This is amazing news!! Very impressive work devs
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Re: [PND]Pandacoin | Cryptocurrency for the masses | Easy to use, buy, mine and understand |
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on 26/10/2014, 16:37:13 UTC

What new things will bring the next release to the coin ?

Why don't you take a guess? Wink

Can't wait for the new release! Hope it's even more good stuff promoting widespread adoption. What I would love to see in the future are linked wallets, so that I can easily get PND from my main account to the my phone wallet account