Sounds like he wants to start a new thread on Bitcointalk. He has an aversion to coming and being intimate with us on Spreadcointalk haha

Quote from: pokeytex on December 10, 2016, 02:31:44 pm

Looks like we are in the clear on Bittrex!  No more threatening banner! 

Indeed, all is good for now.
It shouldn't be that hard to create 7 BTC volume spread over 14 days.
I will keep the updates regular, patrons will add to it, and the rest of the community will support us too!

It will work!

 

I'm gunning to be your first patron on Patreon. Gotta kick things off there for you 

From BCT rhinomonkey Today at 12:54:41 PM "Is syscoin in direct competition with SPR in terms of project goals"

I happen to follow SYS, their model is different than SPR but they did keep up with the BTC wallet versions.

In a nutshell: Their concept is innovative in a sense that they link the blockchain to an HTML shopping experience (online blockchain store) using multiple coins for payment (in the upcoming new wallet they announced sometime in Q1 2017). They include Aliasing, Messaging, Escrow, Certification and some more.

They're the coin that has Microsoft Azure acceptance although I haven't seen developments in that direction yet.

Oh cool, thank you for the clarification. My scope of knowledge on altcoins is generally small. I only keep up with 1-3 projects at a time. It gets to be too much to follow a bunch heavily.

I have heard about SYS. It sounds like maybe I should branch out - good thing about Spreadcoin is that eventually I won't even have to "branch out" because we will have a network that is intimate with a bunch of other coins. They will come to me

I suppose we wait till the end of the day to see if Bittrex slams the hammer down on us... they know how to keep people in suspense... 

No word from them. Just the ticket receipt confirmation.

Hm... could it be that they have a strict policy regarding the identity of a developer (for good reasons),
and that they automatically assume that I am a fraud, since it was orginally someone else (mr. spread) who they still have in their system as "the" spreadcoin dev?

meh, don't think that this is plausible. I also used a spreadcoin.info email-address to contact them.

Anyway, I'm pumped now. It's on!
This party will not be over today! 

Awesome to hear!

Also, in regards to thte whole dev thing. I think they were doing a verification process of coins / devs a while back. I don't know if they still have that. Might be something to look into. Building your relationship (if you are comfortable with that) with them might help them realize that the project is legitimate.

This is a bit about that: https://bittrex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203692234--Draft-What-is-a-Verified-Market-

Not sure if they are still doing this....

"There are hardly ever many sell walls up since miners usually just dump on the market, so even tiny amounts of BTC push the price way up. Fun to watch"

SPR community used to be about HODL and work on increase value.

Not sure who the dumpers are but I've been trying to help the price go up and provide some volume in these past 2 days but don't see much support.

Guess for every action there's someone who feels there needs to be an opposite reaction. Whomever countered my efforts on Bittrex: go spend the money and gloat about your "windfall". I'll try again later when it's a little more mature.

Guess we need some more convincing to explain the value to some "investors"

I will be helping out in a couple of weeks, unfortunately, that is quite possibly too late. I have a few other holdings worth a solid amount of BTC and am hoping to trade those and come back to SPR.

I have some very small amounts of SPR to sell but I really don't want to. This new Bittrex policy sort of forces trading or else. 

WOAH ILL BUY 10M

Georgem, I was perusing some forums on reddit and was specifically looking for ways that one could prove that one is running a full node. It looks like there aren't any unique identifiers that enable the network to recognize a fake node from a real node.

I know PoBN will likely be something you begin working on after all of the other loads of work you have. But do you have any initial thoughts on how you will be going about solving that problem? Will the implementation of the block explorer directly tie into this? Is this all information you are keeping in a secret bunker somewhere? 

For instance I know you said this in the road map:

"Proving that a full bitcoin node is exclusively installed and used by a single servicenode requires a
solution similar in complexity and about as groundbreaking as solving the double-spend problem in bitcoin.
Solving PoBN will likely allow the creation of a decentralized exchange and (should a valid big data methodology be found) a big data market."

I also know your time is precious (far better spent coding than talking to us laymen in the forums lol), so don't worry about a long winded response if you think the explanation will be better shared down the road. 

Quote from: rhinomonkey on September 20, 2016, 10:04:33 pm

In the future, when running service nodes, how are private keys protected? Are collateral amounts safe from attack? Or at least highly unlikely to be hacked into?

I'm unfamiliar with how DASH has their collateral amounts stored. I would think if the keys have to be stored on the VPS, they would likely be less safe. In that instance is there any sort of additional protection measures that can be taken? Are service providers or customers liable for hacks?

Private keys are only ever used to sign data (create signatures), or to create public keys.
Those signatures (in combination with public keys) are then used to authenticate stuff.

It should never be necessary to keep a privatekey on a server, that would be a horribly bad security design.

I'm not 100% familiar with DASH either, but I will take a closer look at it some time in the future as part of the altcoin taxonomy project.

I just did a really quick search and it looks like they are going to make it so you can store collateral in Trezor wallets... or at least it was in development a few months ago.

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/can-trezor-be-used-to-store-the-collateral-for-masternode.8402/