BlogHide Resteemsjl777 (62)in iguana • 8 years agoANN Komodo ICO - Zero Knowledge Privacy Secured by Bitcoinjl777 (62)in steemit • 8 years agowhitepaper - i dont usually write themI usually just write code, but occasionally I need to describe the code so that people can understand the tech a bit better. Today was such an occasion. Soon it will be announced what it is for. I…jl777 (62)in iguana • 8 years agoiguana status - 1 hour BTC sync, from scratchAfter a bug was reported about the bitcoin sync stalling, I found a couple of system issues and fixed them. I also made a couple of shell scripts that loop on iguana, so even if it crashes, it just…jl777 (62)in iguana • 8 years agoiguana status - debugging for GUI, block explorer and a bit of basilisk network topologyFound and fixed a few bugs that was destabilizing the GUI. basically the GUI should reflect the state of the iguanacore, but it was able to get out of sync, so commands to a locked wallet were being…jl777 (62)in politics • 8 years agoPolitics of bitcoinLike it or not bitcoin is mired in a non-technical morass. I used to feel totally powerless to do anything about it, until I was invited to participate in the BTCfork project. It is one thing to…jl777 (62)in iguana • 8 years agoiguana status - multicoin supportiguana is a full bitcoin node. one of the things that makes it special is that I have abstracted out all the differences between the various bitcoin compatibles. Well, at least I tried to (please…jl777 (62)in iguana • 8 years ago1000 STEEM bounty - need C code to create, sign and submit a multisig transaction locally for iguana atomic swapIn iguana, atomic cross chain swaps are supported, but a coin has to support at a minimum a 2of2 multisig to an arbitrarily specified pair of secp256 pubkeys. the above shows how to sign a…jl777 (62)in iguana • 8 years agoiguana status - 20x reduction in RAM required for BTC node! now 4GB RAM systems should be enoughAs you know a full bitcoin node requires a monster machine as the blockchain is almost 75GB. I was battling against startup time to get to realtime sync for bitcoin and on the non-SSD server it was…jl777 (62)in iguana • 8 years agoiguana status - another day, another 3 coins added UNO, MZC, ZEC and bug fixes, starting on basilisk debuggingToday got a pull request with 3 more coins UNO, MZC and ZEC. UNO took 8 minutes to sync due to only having 1 valid peer and it also crashed as it seems to have changed to merged mining along the…jl777 (62)in steemit • 8 years agoLiquidity rewards - will they ever come back? Is it coincidence that since they were suspended price is in freefall?I have a fair amount of STEEM gathering dust in my taker market maker account... It would be nice to get some indication whether the liquidity awards will be coming back anytime soon. To my mind…jl777 (62)in iguana • 8 years agoiguana status - bug fixingI finished revamping the realtime processing and connected the back end to the historical bundles, the front end to the bitcoin rpc. amazingly it just started working! A few bugs, not surprising…jl777 (62)in iguana • 8 years agoiguana status: realtime mode in debugging, 3 new coins supported (actually only 2 coins, third has some issues)I have coded most of what is needed to support the realtime mode as described previously. Now just need to call the new RT functions, which is a bit of a mess as there was no formal interface…jl777 (62)in steemit • 8 years agothe first million is always the hardest - good advice is to grab it, which a lot of the whales are doing and this helps STEEM long termThere is a lot of whale power down inventory that is hitting the markets and this creates a downward pressure on the price. Considering the rapid growth in userbase and the many internet celebrities…jl777 (62)in blockchain • 8 years agogoogle announces discontinuation of chrome apps, unless it is on chrome OS - community response needed!It seems google isnt making enough profits and they need to boost it by not spending money supporting any OS that is not their own. While it might be a strategic move on the part of google, this is…jl777 (62)in bitcoin • 8 years agobitcoin spinoff fork - how to make a clean fork without any replay attack and no blockchain visible changesYou probably know about the ETC fork of ETH. I dont want to talk about the why or the politics of it, just the technical aspect of the replay attack. If a spinoff of a coin is created, it inherits…jl777 (62)in iguana • 8 years agoRT block handling proposal - iguanacoreAs I wait for the slow sync to finish, I think I came up with a clean solution for the RT block handling. The problem as discussed before is transitioning from using one set of data files to…jl777 (62)in iguana • 8 years agoBitcoin blockchain got so big, I ran out of disk space... Crazy reptilian solutionI have a much larger partition that can hold all the files and more, so I started a cp -R That copies recursively all the files using the built in operating system (debian VPS) So far, nothing…jl777 (62)in scam • 8 years agoSwiscoin "rep" threatens me with lawsuit - because I said that they stole a SuperNET graphic and are using it on their site!The above is the warning I gave about swiscoin. In the comments you will see how a swiscoin advocate is attempting to silence me with threats of lawsuits. I think I will need a legal defense…jl777 (62)in steemit • 8 years ago300 BTC open market purchase of STEEM, spikes price to .00324A few days ago I made a post saying the week long decline was ended and we would likely go into a trading range with a ceiling of .004 that would be hard to get past. After the initial gains, when…jl777 (62)in iguana • 8 years agoiguana status - debugging by rewritingSometimes the code just has too many special cases, strange behavior and outright bugs and even if all the identified issues are solved, you end up with something that is barely working properly and…
