Urgent announcement:

Do NOT use an address generated from the exchange (vircurex.com) for receiving DVC bounties. The exchange currently cannot identify and process coins received (directly) from bounties. I am working on a fix but this may take some time.

The receipt of coins that you send from a devcoind is not affected by this.

Regards
Kumala

luck is luck my friend

Difficulty is only 79 right now, DVC luck changes with every block instead of every two weeks like Bitcoin so it can fluctuate rapidly

check out the block explorer

http://explorer.devcoin.org

I could point all my miners to the pool and single handedly make the difficulty go way up in one day

the difficulty was up around 200-250 pretty steady
but then when we had this issue with the pool a lot of people stopped mining so it dropped quickly

thats why you see such a variance

I am currently looking into the details. The difference between the coins that you send to the exchange and the coins that you get via bounty is, that the bounty coins show up as "generate" instead of "receive". Unfortunately the devcoind does not fill the account number when it generates a block for a known address, it leaves the account field blank

There are currently two options to solve this:
1. Devcoind sets the account property for the transaction that is generated to the account that is linked to the address in the wallet
2. extend the details of the listtransactions output to include the address

In the meanwhile I will be manually checking on this, I am double checking the devcoind CSV files and compare them against all the current generated DVC addresses in the exchange to look for overlaps.

How much of DVC (from whole 50 000) per block is for miners? Isn't it 5000 DVC? I'm asking because i just found on pool.devcoin.org on stats page following data:

Block #    Confirmations    Time found            Duration    Round Shares    Total Amount of your reward
20734    2                     12/06 9:49 pm    1.17 Min    32                    5675.84134615 DVC
20734    3                     12/06 9:47 pm    2.75 Min    32                    5675.84134615 DVC

checking this out now to make sure thank you for pointing it out

A couple more questions-- 

Devcoin-qt says it's connected to 3 peers, but the "synchronizing" has stayed at 0% now for quite some time and hasn't moved at all.  What might be happening?

Can I set gen=1 in the conf file to start generating?  Not sure how that works, but I tried creating a devcoin.conf file and it didn't seem to change anything.

Thanks!

There is no mining in the -qt, it is just for being a pretty client for GUI-users.


The devcoind is necessary for mining. Boost or Qt threads just would not handle mining, we had to disable mining for that reason.

The devcoind actually has the old wxwidgets stuff in it too, but we don't bother with that GUI so I do not even know if it compiles or works, it is just what came in the old bitcoin we hacked with minimum necessary hacks to make devcoind.

By minimum I mean even the names aren't changed, you make -f makefile.platform bitcoind then strip it and rename it as devcoind, and its default config file and maybe even data directory also still say bitcoin I think. I use shell scripts to invoke all the coin-daemons so my shell-script passes the directory and config file names to the commandline.

Even running devcoin-qt I still passed everything on the commandline so never actually tried just setting stuff in the config file.

Config probably works though its just the there is no generate in the -qt one.

I don't know why it isn't synchronising though. I used to find first time I run it it dies of no directory yet makes the directory then second time I run it it works. I don't know though whether the percent downloaded estimator even works, maybe it just stays at 0% until it gets to 100%, no idea really. I always already had blockchain from using the daemon when I ran the -qt and never ran it much at all.

Does the debug.log give any clues? I wonder if somewhere among the changes to the difficulty changes and so on it might have ended up leaving initial downloads thinking dofficulty is wrong or something maybe it is piling all the blocks into the orphans pile or outright rejecting them or something.

-MarkM-

Yup.  For your informative post you'll get 2/5 of a share in round 6:
https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/blob/master/bounty_6.csv

If you want more devcoins, write new stuff or port stuff you've already written to devtome:
http://www.devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Earn_Devcoins_By_Writing

Sometimes when I load devcoin, for whatever reason, I don't download any new blocks.  Usually when I try again later it works.

By the way, after I posted I realized that an informative installation post gets double the post bounty, so you get 2/5 of a share.  I've updated bounty_6 accordingly:
https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/blob/master/bounty_6.csv

So 13 hours later, I'm at 715,000 Devcoins.  This means I'm earning on average about half a million devcoins a day and could possibly be up to 3 or 4 million by the weekend.

Just one additional check to make sure I'm not getting too many coins.  I don't plan on selling right now given there are only outstanding orders for 11 million DVC for only 3.5ish BTC on vircurex.  Seems best to hold speculatively at the moment to see what the "devs" do for the new chain.