while we are waiting for the dev to come back, why dont we try to do something that's fun with this coin like zynga poker, i want to play poker with dtc as a bet with another dtc holder hahaha. maybe cryptrol can make one. ^_^

Could we not use krypte.net as the first (experimental) node of the Distributed Hash Table?  This would be a simple start to the private chains that oocook5u referred to.

Just bashing an idea around here.

Exciting news to come for Datacoin!

I'm actually using Datacoin right now to prototype my decentralized storage engine. I'm going to be creating some sort of fork of Datacoin for that. What do you think would be the best way to integrate the existing Datacoin community.

I guess the latest data on the most recent blocks where some of your tests 

When you say fork, do you mean a fork that will use the same blockchain or a different blockchain ?
Are you going to use online services for storage ? I saw several transactions with data like the following lately :


[{"filehash": "8b4bf712241860b10c4b5307ccb73f5680c3c04ae1f06a5212508ce93f0a4efb", "filename": "8b4bf71_Bitcoin_Series_24__The_Mega-Master_Blockchain_List_Ledra_Capital.pdf", "version": "0.2", "filesize": 515251, "datetime": "1394679316", "uploads": [{"url": "http://rghost.net/53020838", "host_name": "rghost"}, {"url": "http://multiupload.nl/WDCAL8C9AM", "host_name": "multiupload"}, {"url": "http://gfile.ru/a4fjp", "host_name": "gfile_ru"}]}]


What about magnet links or other P2P references ? This would make the data more resilient.

This is starting to get interesting.
Good luck!

Ha ha. I forgot you can't hide from the blockchain. Yes, that is some metadata from my decentralized storage engine web nodes.
Yes, that information can be added as well, and will be in the future.

Is anyone willing to sell me a large amount of Datacoin at market?

I think 'prime' proof-of-work is interesting, but that it will ultimately result in an economic failure for data storage.

I'd like to propose a gradual (but requiring a hard-fork) upgrade to 'proof of data' which would just be to find sha 256 hash of the required difficulty *over the entire blockchain*. This basically means your hash rate is proportional to how fast you can read the blockchain off disk (or you keep it in memory)

It might have to be implemented as something that uses a pseudo-random number generator so that each block only requires a deterministic, but psuedorandom sequence of blocks, (a subset of the blockchain) so that you cover the entire blockchain over a a few hundred blocks

Thoughts anyone? Good idea? Bad idea? Something to do first in a new coin?

No, I would implement the proof of resource algorithms that are coming out this year. There are way more efficient ways to do this.
I have a concept for proof of storage, but I haven't had time to write a whitepaper for it.

We should have some kind of hardfork. I hope that it will be implemented as the next stage of Datacoin evolution.