The front end is back up. Stats have been reset, I had to end the weekend shift early and has now been paid. Here are the details which I'll re-import all the previous shifts after tomorrows shift has finished.

I would do it now, but I want the system to regenerate the shift tables so it's created properly, then I can simply add the old data back in.

Scrypt = 98.13671367 BTCD
SHA256 = 89.13513034 BTCD
X11 = 14.00782201

I'm not surprised at all, but I do find it very comforting that a developer is willing to put his own money on the line for a project.  I'm quite confident you will deliver too, but knowing you have a significant vested interest certainly increases my confidence to invest.  It should do for others too.  
 

Thanks for the support!

We are all in the same boat and I am an investor that also happens to be a coder too. The BTCD team is still very small, much smaller than it will be, so that means there are many spots open for many people to be part of this, from the ground floor. If everybody did what they can to help, then nothing can stop BTCD from top 10.

Actually I have slightly higher goals, but I am not 100% sure of achieving them so I dont make it public

As far as NXTventure goes, it has some rough spots, but I am doing what I can to fix it. Once the crypto economy gets rolling, there will be plenty of companies wanting to sell assets. I think what I did for HRNXTpool is a good example that NXTventure being involved really maximizes the results for everybody. So, while I am not satisfied with NXTventure performance these first months, long term, I still envision a regular stream of offerings and the dividends from them. I think with the position NXTventure is in, it will get the pick of the top assets to offer.  So again HODL is the recommendation

James

when it first came out on ripple, it was backed by 30% so it just seemed like a fractional reserve thing. I havent researched it and maybe this is different now. I just didnt understand why people would buy an asset that was only 30% backed by gold, when they could just buy gold.

My impression is from last winter, so certainly a lot could have changed. I just not into passive assets so much

Had to spend hours fiddling with one of the MGW servers that required support tickers, restarting things, restarting things again, etc. So, hard to concentrate on coding.

But, I did make some progress. The scrubbing of the public key worked very well, so now only onetime throwaway keypair
And this worked using 127.0.0.1 as the privacyServer!
It is very confusing with the same computer being both the sender, receiver AND privacyServer, but all the encrypting, decrypting worked and it got to where it complained about lack of telepods to teleport.

That's because I totally changed the file format and need to just generate some new ones. With so much new code, it takes me a while to switch gears to debugging mode, which is totally different than coding mode, at least for me.

I also got it so that the "pubaddr" field in the .conf file is used to autogenerate a NXT acct and also all local commands that need to be tokenized. This really helps as I used to have to pass in the accountsecret through layers and layers of code and now it is just provided when needed.

I also verified the multisig deconstruction/reconstruction is working and that yesterday's cipher sequence JSON is being parsed properly. So, no actual teleport yet, but progress in various areas.

James

P.S. I am also figuring out how to make it painful for other coins to just fork Teleport. Let's just say that some unexpected things could very well happen and I wont be responsible for any lost funds. If other coins want Teleport, they should just work with BTCD, the fee is very low and reasonable.

It seems that AES totally winning the poll, so I think it is safe to default to that method.
You can always change it to any of the others and even do one after another after another.

So, now I want to do a new poll. Not sure if you know about BCNext and how he injected some flaws into the NXT code. People that just forked it would end up with a dead coin within a day. Since I am being very open to share Teleport tech with other coins for a small fee, I dont think it is so bad to do what BCNext did.

I came up with a way make it so that if anybody just blindly forks it, well, I wont be held responsible where their telepods end up. Now if they took the time to understand the 40,000 lines of code I wrote, then they could probably work around it, but I could get pretty clever in making the flaw virtually impossible to detect. They would have to be as good a coder as me to detect it. I call this the "teleport disruptor"

I would like a poll on whether to inject the teleport disruptor or not. Of course the BTCD Teleport will work fine, it would just be any other coin that attempts to take the BTCD's rightful spot as supreme teleporter of other coins, well you've seen the results of transporter accidents? Not a pretty thing. The scary thing for any that would attempt to do this is that it would appear to work fine for a while, so it probably wont happen during testing, but after they go live. Maybe it is even remotely triggered

They could just write something from scratch using the DarkPaper as reference.
Or they could just let BTCD teleport their coin for 1/1024'th fee

What do you think?

James

P.S. I wouldnt feel right in actually pushing the destruct button, so if we do this, I need some ruthless guy who wouldnt have a problem triggering the teleport disruptor on another coin.

Yes James, implement the 'anti cloning' feature. It will safeguard the investment of people. Also, in due time you could decide to help other coins 'for free' or open source Teleport completely, but for now in these early development stages the copyright to this new technology will help the btcd platform to really stand above the rest.

I will be very helpful to coins that join the BTCD super network. With proper structuring of incentives, it is quite possible that a coin can get enough credits so that it covers their teleporting fees. After all, if a coin's network is bringing in lots of InstantDEX commissions, then the money is flowing into BTCD stakers, so we can give them credits against teleport fees.

Other possibilities too, but I want it to be clear that working with BTCD is much better option for other coins. They get to jump start things and it might even effectively be free, or they could even just make more revenue sharing than they are charged. This is what I expect to happen with NXT, so NXT nodes will probably end up with some sort of bonus.

I havent spent much time on the business model, but I am confident I can create a nice revenue stream for other coins and thus for BTCD stakers too. After all, BTCD will have quite an advanced monetization system in place and just allowing other coins to share in that is worth much more than their trying to clone Teleporting.

James

New poll up!

Please vote