It doesn't really matter here (given this coin is dead anyways) but as an academical point of view if a hard fork is necessary it should be a future hard fork.

It doesn't matter what block 250 "should have been", block 250 on the current longest chain has a value of 0 coins.  If you change that you will cause a catastrophic re-org back in time to block 250.  This is an absolute worst case scenario.  Once again this is academic because this coin is dead anyways but a good learning lesson.

Once a mistake is made and the chain has moved beyond that the "fix" is to keep it the same.   As an example Satoshi had intended the genesis block to be spendable but a bug in the code prevents it from being spent.  The "fix" is to keep that block unspendable forever.  Trying to correct it to what "should have been" would cause a irrecoverable hard fork if/when someone tried to spend the genesis block.

The mistakes were:
a) block 250 is 0 coins
b) super blocks are not possible through the current block due to a bug.
c) no subsidy decline just drop to 0 in 7 years (we will ignore this one because it isn't pressing although it does ensure this coin is DOA).

The fix is:
a) keep block 250 as 0 coins.
b) keep no superblocks through some future block (estimate the time necessary to get super majority of nodes to upgrade)
c) implement superblock fix on blocks AFTER the block in "b"

This will keep the current longest chain valid and allow migration at some future block height to enable the superblocks.  Otherwise you introduce the abiltity to double spend.  Some users have already received coins in blocks 251+.  Those users have sold them on exchanges (in theory).  Changing the "correct" value for block 250 would cause all nodes running the corrected code to see the entire existing chain from block 250 onward as invalid.  The coins held by exchanges would disapear in the reorg.

Obviously any hard fork is bad and testing and proper deployment should be done to minimize the need for hard forks however if you must use a hard fork it should only be done in a forward fashion.  At block XXXX in the future old nodes and new nodes will fork not at block yyyy which is way in the past we just erase the majority of the existing change.

Is it really dead? I got some nuggets in a giveaway and it looks like a good coin, even if the VGB protocol is total fail. I like the difficulty adjustments. And the drama in the launch thread is priceless.

Sold 3000 NUG for 0.018 BTC!

WOOT WOOT!

lol

Is that good?

Does anyone know how its possible for a 3 day coin to be on an. Exchange in under 3 days?  I mean besides my heavy prayers and a miracle straight from God.  I've never seen it before, that's all?

Contracts by the way, The Dude.

Now imagine if the VGB was in full effect.  It would sprained the active miners by a factor of 10.

When I released NuCoin it went from release to exchange in 2 days... Soooo... Yeah.

That's amazing.  Did you have connections?  I don't even have a programmer to help me fix VGB FOR PAY.  I mean I'm down to zero on the connected chart.

But congrats.

Did you intentionally design your NuCoin to look like AV?  Just odd since its NuCoin.  But maybe you're trying to convey something.

What haven't I paid?  You think o have time to read every single post?

I told people to Send me their BTC addresses.  I've gotten NONE.

And the guy who said he fixed the VGB protocol didn't so that only leave the noodle guy for .1BTC.  And I need his address.

So I have paid everyone.

And this is a new coin.  From what I've seen with all coins, the whole community pitches in and in most cases the devs pitch in little to noting.  Miners needs the development so they all pitch in.  If you think I'm gonna start paying millions of coins that's crazy.  There a lot that needs to be done so just like all other coins the community, the miners will also have to pitch in.

So far I've put bounties on BItcoins and in NUGs, while also givin away over 500,000 nugs for free, while not a single miner has pitched in anything.  Isn't this how open source works.  That's what I was told by many people.  So don't expect $50 per hour unless you show me a PhD.

For a guy with over 10,000 posts I'm surprised you haven't read that anywhere.  Or do you also have a coin and would love to see this one go broke and dead?

With what.  To date 1704 blocks have been mined.  The first 250 were 0 coins so that is 71,246 coins owned by miners.   At current exchange rate that is worth ~$12.82.  That is everything owned by all miners collectively since this samcoin launched.  So if you rounded up every miner and convinced them to give up everything they mined for the last three days it would be worth $12 or maybe 9 minutes of a programmer's time.

Once again have fun with your delusions of grandeur.  



Most programmer's don't have a PhD, most code written by the largest and well funded corporations don't have programmer's with PhD on the payroll.  PhD is mostly theoretical work what matters in the real world is experience, the tens of thousands of hours of rolling up your sleeves and writing code.  I will be the first to admit it (and I am far from the only one) college didn't prepare me for real world projects in the slightest.   It was a piece of paper which got me my first job.  Every job after that was based on the work experience.  BTW I have no PhD so that disqualifies me but there wasn't a chance in hell I was offering my services.  I would point out I mapped out how a hardfork will need to happen to avoid a historical re-org back to block 250 and was the first person to notice the superblocks were non-functional (within hours of launch).   The money is irrelevant (as it is to most programmers) I spend countless hours coding boring tedious portions of projects.  I enjoy writing code I find interesting for free.  Shitcoins aren't what any experienced programmer would call "interesting".


I have launched no coin so stop with the conspiratorial diarrhea.  That is your rebuttal (and I use the word loosely) to any statement by anyone.  I would love to see this chain halt if only to shut you up.  The never ending delusions of grandeur, the false claims, the self praise, the accolades about your spiritual, physiological, and intellectual superiority.    It is .... sad and likely won't stop until you coin is dead.  At the way hashrate is dropping it shouldn't be long.