This and slush's pool is very close to what I imagine for towncoins. I just wish an angel miner wasn't required.
You guys are awesome. Also bounty or no bounty I'm converting community-exchange.org to python and plugging in bitcoin, ripple, metals, and fiat.
What are towncoins ?
Bitcoins that are hard to consolidate with blocks that are easy to produce, but not difficulty 1. An analogy would be a series of locks allowing ships to cross bodies of water at different surface levels.
CPU mining for disaster devastated towns. Only for the moment it will be share based. The algorithm though will bend over backwards to be effectively higher difficulty than mainline so that in the future the angel miners won't be needed.
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Use Ruby on Rails, I can't talk about Python/Django, but I know for a hard fact that Rails is to web frameworks what bitcoin is to fiat currency.
Bitcoin-Central.net is also written in Rails and is already open sourced.
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One language at a time. I plan to break the community-exchange.org network into deployable nodes. So best to go with something better than request nazi (PHP) but not so rare it's on a milk carton (Rails). I will eventually make the nodes work in Rails and PHP as well.