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Re: Besides Doge, who are the 3 top Alt coins?
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whyenot
on 09/04/2014, 02:38:50 UTC
As usual everyone just lists whatever coins they have a personal financial interest in. It doesn't even matter what the original question was.
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Re: Peercoin v0.4 released
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whyenot
on 09/04/2014, 02:33:29 UTC
Is anyone working on releasing a Mac version of the wallet app? I've got the daemon working, but don't want to deal with building a distributable version of the wallet. OTOH If someone starts a bounty I'd willing to contribute.
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Re: CoinMarketCap.com - Market Cap Rankings of All Cryptocurrencies!
by
whyenot
on 06/04/2014, 22:25:18 UTC
Ok, I just added multiple views including the ability to filter the premined coins.  Does it look ok?

It's really nice. Thank you.

(sent you some DOGE, maybe they will be worth something someday : )
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Re: MERGED MINING SCYPT POOL
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whyenot
on 01/04/2014, 03:32:22 UTC
These pools are all scams, merge mining isn't currently possible with anything other than a few SHA256 coins.

 UnitedScryptCoin and coins based on it such as HunterCoin are merge-mineable. If you believe it's a scam, then please explain your reasoning.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=353688.0



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Re: Auroracoin: last block was 3+ hours ago
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whyenot
on 25/03/2014, 01:23:25 UTC
auroracoin.org also appears to be down. right before the "airdrop" ...
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Re: Peercoin tips for commits, developers check this out >35,000 PPC across projects
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whyenot
on 24/03/2014, 01:16:53 UTC
Between this and Peershares (currently hiring), there's a lot of money out there for working on Peercoin-related projects.  peer4commit is a great way to jump in and get your feet wet.
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Re: CoinMarketCap.com - Market Cap Rankings of All Cryptocurrencies!
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whyenot
on 23/03/2014, 22:33:35 UTC
Hi Gliss, I had a question about how you calculate prices. It looks like when there are several markets, you are calculating the average. I was wondering if it mike be better to use the median. That way if there is an extreme, like for example PPC at Vircurex going through the roof right now because people are using it to get around frozen BTC xfers, the prices on Coinmarketcap would more accurately reflect the center of the population. For example the price for PPC at Vircurex is about $4 right now. The price reported on coinmarketcap.com is $3.03. If you look at every exchange except Vircurex, the correct price is somewhere between $2.60-2.68. Using the median for price would "fix" this problem.

edit: looks like you are actually using a weighted mean. maybe use a weighted median instead?
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Re: CoinMarketCap.com - Market Cap Rankings of All Cryptocurrencies!
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whyenot
on 22/03/2014, 22:11:37 UTC
I added a disclaimer for significantly premined coins

Thanks for doing this Gliss and in general for your site that I visit check nearly every day Smiley  I hope it's enough. Maybe you could do something like put the market cap of just the coins that do circulate in parenthesis next to the current numbers.
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Re: PoS Coin without mandatory checkpointing?
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whyenot
on 22/03/2014, 21:32:33 UTC
It's easy to check. Open the debug window in the wallet app and type 'getcheckpoint'.
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Re: PoS Coin without mandatory checkpointing?
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whyenot
on 22/03/2014, 18:56:21 UTC
Yes, NXT.

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Re: WTF happened to Aurora today?!?
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whyenot
on 18/03/2014, 03:26:09 UTC
even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height
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Re: Can we stop acting like a damn Casino???
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whyenot
on 17/03/2014, 00:46:55 UTC
...but Microguy said it was a sure thing  Shocked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIWO48SJNHw
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Re: delete
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whyenot
on 17/03/2014, 00:35:51 UTC
I'm not sure why you are posting this now. The difficulty is so screwed up that at the current rate at which blocks are being solved Auroracoin isn't going to reach 5400 for at least another 10 days.
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | cPoW | PC mining | Fast Distribution | Stability -
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whyenot
on 12/03/2014, 05:34:02 UTC
Updated Windows wallet available - 0.8.3r18

huge change in the orphan rate since the new wallet app was released.

http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/orphaned-qrk.html

fork?
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WTF Quark
by
whyenot
on 12/03/2014, 05:22:44 UTC
Why did the orphan rate suddenly jump so high?

http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/orphaned-qrk.html

Do you think it could it be related to the fact that one pool is responsible for ~95% of the global hash rate? Wink
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Re: Calling all Litecoin insiders...
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whyenot
on 12/03/2014, 03:42:08 UTC
Imminent opening of LTC market at Huobi.
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Re: Sunny King: Peercoin v0.4 Release Schedule
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whyenot
on 12/03/2014, 00:45:51 UTC
I really appreciate Sunny's careful and conservative approach to the new version. I just wish he had also included cold-locking. I guess we'll have to wait unitl 0.5. I'll try to be patient Cheesy
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Re: CoinMarketCap.com - Market Cap Rankings of All Cryptocurrencies!
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whyenot
on 04/03/2014, 18:16:50 UTC
The calculation is fine. People buying premined currency already calculated this risk into the price of the coin. Thus the calculation is good.

Considering your close association with Auroracoin I can understand why you may feel this way.

The fact remain that 99% of the coins comprising Auroracoin's current "market cap" are in the premine and do not circulate. Should Bitcoins that have not yet been mined be included in BTC's market cap?  Wink Cryptocurrencies aren't companies and coins held in an uncirculating premine are not issued shares. It might be worth making some adjustments in how market cap is calculated.

coinmarketcap.com loses much of its utility if market cap can be gamed by coins with a large uncirculating premine. Auroracoin is just the first coin of this type. Considering it's success, a wave of clones will come next.
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Re: CoinMarketCap.com - Market Cap Rankings of All Cryptocurrencies!
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whyenot
on 04/03/2014, 02:20:49 UTC
It might be worth re-evaluating how you calculate market cap when a coin has a large uncirculating premine.
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Re: What is the current vibe on XPM?
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whyenot
on 01/03/2014, 05:17:36 UTC
It's sleeping Smiley

Sunny King is busy working on the next release of Peercoin right now.