How's that upgrade going Bitpay?

*crickets chirping*

This reeks of KYC/AML/IRS. The system upgrade could be fraud detection systems such as Early Warning, which deeply link into every existing bank already. This could be the "upgrade" portion they are talking about. But yeah...

Another poster said it succinctly:   "it was good while it lasted"

It is pretty cool that in about one hour from now the public can get involved in disrupting the music industry. The music execs will no longer have a grip on who the "winners" and "losers" are.

I can't wait for the new era to begin!

ICO date Jul 2nd (about 9 days)

Must be KYC/AML whitelisted first, though.

https://www.choon.co/tokensale/

^^ for more infoz on the token

now this looks promising because musicians are usually out there working hard for their art, but not everyone gets paid for it! It is great that they have a safe place to participate in the crypto-craze.

biblepay-cli setgenerate false 0

or inside the wallet debug console:

setgenerate false 0

That should stop all mining, but allow the wallet to run.

National Science Foundation has been linked to several taxpayer problems:

Shrimp on a Treadmill using taxpayer money
http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2014/11/shrimp_on_a_treadmill_worthwhi.html

In the above link, watch how the liberal media machine "circles the wagon" & attempts to justify it.

National Science Foundation and waste, fraud & abuse
https://www.protectingtaxpayers.org/blog/a/view/national-science-foundation-wastes-billions-of-dollars

Any organization that extols the virtue of science above all else surely isn't the best partner? Ideally, if the vision of BBP has changed, and is now to turn its mining efforts into a cure for cancer, surely linking into a secular grid is not the best way to accomplish this.

I agree and love the concept -- if it were above scrutiny. Understand the BOINC project is federally funded and operations have been transferred to Space/Science Lab @ UC Berkeley. National Science Foundation is the agency who (primarily) funds it.

Do your own research on the National Science Foundation & their mission. In 2011, a damaging report was released that accused the NSF of horrible mis-management of funds to the tune of $3 billion. There is so much alignment with anti-biblical efforts that it does not even pass the laugh test.

https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127340

Here is a study where the foundation proudly proclaims Americans are less religious than ever before. Make no mistake, this study is not revealing truth so that ministers can be informed. The whole POINT of the study is so that liberal ideology can hang their hat on the fact that "religion is dead".

Never say never!!

There is a God and He cares for the prosperity of His children. God has a plan for your finances, too.

For those of you who are using Gentoo

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC_on_Gentoo

I just added a bit of CPU power to the testnet. Hope it helps with the benchmarking.

I have tons of infrastructure I can throw at the problem. Not only that, but I don't mind devoting some CPU cycles to testing since I've been a systems reliability engineer most of my life, I understand the value of good testing.

Some background on me:

Being in tech for 20 years, I have mainly been self-employed running a business as a service provider. I started hosting websites on linux-based platform since 1998 and eventually owned & operated a Windows-based content management system as well providing hosting on those two platforms (and more!). These skills as a sysadmin should come in handy somewhere on the BiblePay project!! Please let me know where I can be of help.

Thank you. I do believe the first thing to be done is stick to the gameplan. In 11 days a marketing campaign is supposed to kick-off that will greatly increase everyone's awareness of the BiblePay system. A full slide-deck should be developed that outlines the short term & long term goals clearly.

See: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/deck-marketing-64930.html

Slide decks are full of infographics and data optimized for "at-a-glance" viewing. BiblePay needs a substantial marketing deck to remove the people who come into the thread and make comments like "cchub" did on February 2nd:


Their opinion is certainly valid, too?


Three things:

The Face - The accountability & pool site is akin to a green-screen wireframe graphic. It looks incredibly unprofessional and unrealistic. For some people, this is extremely off-putting. Not trying to be insulting, but I have had several very negative comments from people about the site, who are not otherwise negative. This image is a problem that for whatever reason the BiblePay team is not seeing--but it is there.

The Code - The code and pool code work on the client end, but the pool end of it is not functioning for anything outside of the standard BiblePay site. One pool for all? This is a bit of a slip because at the same time people like Slovaks will have the ability to link their CPUs, there are other people without that ability until the tools are released. I understand you don't want the black hats to access the inner workings of the code but good always triumphs in the end. I've read the book, we win. Let's move forward. Occasional hiccups occur and we can all live with that, but this seems more like a very important function that is missing. I'm new to BBP and was shocked to find it was not already functional.

The One Man Show - Rob should be actively finding his replacement for duplication/multiplication of his efforts. One person cannot fight the front lines in a forum thread with trash talkers, while building the next best thing in the lab. They are the ones who should be inspiring people to lead & rally to the cause but too often he is engaging people in fisticuffs, defending his work zealously. Not necessary. He has all of us to do that for him. Rob should be above all that.


I feel this needs to be a paid position. One that warrants getting together with your investors / masternode owners and even one more important benefactor: the lead dev. Everyone should discuss the hire plan immediately. They should be the first official employee of BiblePay. Also, the lead dev should be the one to be sacrificing the most (financially investing in) for the new developer since they benefit most immediately & directly. If Rob has to divest his own mined BBP to hire help, so be it. I hate to say it but that's what equity stake is. It is when owner's take a stake and don't passing off that cost to the new incoming people (Ponzi). Unless Rob has no coin to sell, then why isn't a council in charge and already hiring a developer at market rate absent Rob's "blessing"? Although the work is being turned down by other devs you may even have to pay a 10%-20% premium on top of market rate to get what you need. The show must go on....


If 5.7 million BBP is in this budget cycle then why are you giving 3.8 million BBP to charity (that is over 66%, not even close to 10%). 570,000 goes to Charity. Simple, end of story. Re-cast the expenses to match the actual income. This is done by not over-commiting finances that aren't there.

That is why every coin available should be wisely re-invested. No one should be making any profit at this stage except crypto daytraders speculating on movement. Since nothing can stop that kind of bottom-feeding, it exists whether we acknowledge it or not. Where I take issue is, I'm new to the forum and I've already been solicited to hire a developer. Are we developing blockchain as a faith-based currency or are we just paying bills now?


Yes I can offer quite a bit when it comes to linux systems administration and organizational/leadership development. I'm an accomplished businessperson myself and would love to contribute some work to the project.


That's why I joined Slack! Surprised its so quiet in there!

You asked for more ideas so here goes:

A) The accountability page needs help. The accountability site is supposed to be where people feel good. By simply posting the receipts online, it looks like an "expense" and not an opportunity.
It is impossible to feel good looking at the site unless you were an accountant happy to see your client keeping receipts. Simply having the data on the website is not the same thing as presenting a unified message saying "we are ACTIVELY helping".  yes, I understand there are other areas of the site which display the orphans and their letters but I am talking exterior optics, not inside baseball since you would have to be far deeper than a looker before you would ever see the docs pertaining to accountability. This should be SURFACE-LEVEL and not several layers deep.

B) Regarding the troublemakers and their exploitative mining, it is definitely an issue to contend with running a public blockchain but you have to accept the fact that even exploitative miners are tithing whether they realize it or not so they aren't the MOST URGENT ISSUE. Meeting the BiblePay directives & timetables should be.

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The wallet needs a Chinese language version for our bretheren & sisteren (?) in the communist nation. Big priority should be on the wallet update and cleaning it up for international use. All good ideas and needed execution. if it will help, I'll review candidates and inspect their work product, as well. It'll be a blast. Where do I sign up???

Before listing on something like GDAX - I would strongly advise the team at BiblePay to re-vamp the coin's image. Recently, users on this thread have come out of nowhere and said BiblePay looks like a scam. While presenting it to others in my sphere - I also received the same feedback. Those are two completely unrelated sources telling you the same thing... there is a serious issue of public trust here.

In 2016, the present roadmap would be sufficient for huuuge coin performance. Unfortunately it is 2018, and with everyone and their family creating a blockchain "product", being listed on exchanges should be about more than raising funds. It should be able presenting an idea that the public can noticeably "feel". The marketing efforts slated to kick off (according to BBP roadmap) starts on 02/15. I sure hope there is artwork & media coming down into the pipeline. If not, hire someone IMMEDIATELY and PAY THEM to do it (PLEASE no volunteer positions for critical blockchain tasks in 2018, the current C++ want ad reads like a missing child poster- it is sad)

I hope you see the sarcasm mixed with the "constructive" criticism here. While I would love for BBP to succeed, there is more than just being listed. In fact, being listed where the project is currently sitting is probably setting the project back. Instead, the funds should be used to hire critical staff to complete the tasks Rob is presently buried under. Nothing can be more important than getting more people -- even if you have to pay them.

I dont see any commits on your github. Was this ever finished?

I would love to work with you on this. Unlike some people, at least I will contribute & share my findings with the community. Could you reach out to me via Slack? I PM'd ya days ago and have been awaiting a response. Thanks!

Thank u kindly. I also ran some benchmarks against your proposed kjv.cxx fixes. Please see the findings they may help you.

When cloning your master I also got incompatible chaindata and had to start chaindata from scratch. Also when running, error log fills with "Misbehaving Peers"

Thanks!!

I was trying the block explorer within the Pool Menu, perhaps that link needs to be updated :-)

The blocks are being processed, just not by the main pool.

Unfortunately the block explorer has been down for a while. Unsure of why.

I compared your modified kjv.cxx vs. the standard and have these results to show:

System is Gentoo Linux 4.9.76-gentoo-r1 DUAL CPU SMP Sat Jan 20 18:27:21 PST 2018 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
32GB RAM


using modified build after merging kjv.cxx changes manually:


Using the standard source provides a slightly higher result working on the same block, 28714:


I am curious to know what the scenario would need to be in order to see the enhancements you propose. Also, I tried to send you a PM regarding a donation but I could not because I am noobie Send me PM so we can discuss? Thanks!