Agreed, I was trying to be lighthearted and silly, which can be tough through online forums. 

We're all good now.

But seriously, you have a billion DVC?  I know you've gotten a bunch of bounties, but wow, that's a lot of coins.

Agreed, but I haven't seen a "cablepair" username on the devcoin pool, so unless cablepair is mining solo, which may be likely, I assumed he was only getting bounties.

I'd be surprised if 80% of the coins are owned by him while I respect the fact that it's possible.

This would be a surprising fact, and may deter people from adopting a coin where one person has so many.  That's the big "hub bub" about some of the coins such as tenebrix with a 7,000,000 premine.

I need some help to get dvc started

I have downloaded the devcoind folder, what should i do next ?

Cablepair is now a devcoin administrator:
http://devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Devcoin#Administration

His main duty is to determine if someone wrote enough stuff to earn devcoins by writing:
http://devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Earn_Devcoins_By_Writing

and if they asked for generation shares, he would add them to a devtome bounty list which would be added to the main bounty list. If they asked for bitcoins, he would have the option of sending them bitcoins and putting himself on the devtome bounty list for that transaction, or he could ask me to send the bitcoins, in which case I would go on the bounty list.

Also, when there is a fifth administrator, he will maintain a copy of the receiver files, like:
https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/raw/master/receiver_6.csv

For all this work he will get an extra generation share for as long as he wants to be an administrator.


Anyone who has been on the bitcoinshare or devcoinshare list for a month and works well with others can ask to be an adminstrator at any time, and leave at any time. To get on one of the lists you can do some open source development, and/or you can write, or port over stuff you have written, at least a thousand words a month for devtome.

If you downloaded the source code of devcoind then the thing to do is compile it, which will require all the dependencies such as boost and cur

If you want to compile the GUI version you will also need wxWidgets.

The details depend a lot on what kind of operating system you happen to be using.

Meanwhile, I am uploading to the sourceforge site a version of groupcoin that has the merged mining patches applied, since we are very close to the block at which merged mining will become active. It should probably happen some hours before it becomes active for devcoin by the look of it.

It is kind of amusing with all the altcoins that have been flying by how devcoin and groupcoin kept being overlooked, but maybe now with merged mining they will both be able to gain some difficulty and maybe some interest.

Groupcoin, like Devcoin, is included among the coin types supported by the alpha test Open Transactions server (which itself is currently waiting for some more robustness fixes that should be coming along shortly.)

-MarkM-

One purpose of groupcoin is still to test things that are going into devcoin. Groupcoin's merged mining should start very soon now, so hopefully if there are any problems we will see them there before devcoin reaches its kick-in block-number. Both are based on same code and use same merged mining patches so if it works fine for groupcoin it should hopefully also work fine for devcoin.

Other than that groupcoin has been a nice little low difficulty background thing a few people occassionally mine from time to time just to keep it moving, partly as a fallback in case they never do manage to solve the problem of securing all their various chians such as Britcoin, Canadian Digital Notes, Martian Botcoin and so on they have been waiting for for so long.

Oh one specific feature I do recall about Groupcoin is it is an inflation-coin; it keeps giving 50 coins per block forever if I recall correctly.

Once upon a time there had been various folks arguing in favour of such continuous creation of coins, so Groupcoin might eventually help tell whether they were right that that is a desirable feature.

-MarkM-

What chain Id are you using for groupcoin?

Given that luke-jr seems to be on a crusade to destroy merge minable alternate chains (he recently attacked the coiledcoin chain), what plans does devcoin have to prevent this when it switches on?

Sure, but finding 300 Ghash of power to compete with his pool might be difficult. Do his users support him? I doubt they care.

I'm not sure what you're getting at. All I'm doing is giving advance warning that when merge mining activates you'll have a hostile pool with large hash rate destroying your chain. I'm not arguing about whether such a thing is moral or legal or anything. I'm just saying, you might want to be prepared. Like find 300 Ghash somewhere.