Rik8119

Hey Kieran welcome back bud.

I just borrow Freicoin from these fools for 0% interest that is my game.

Is this a suicide pack Rik. KRIA OR DIE!
 
 

Yeah  was just making sure that it's supported further so that i can add it with no problem  

Or happy they dumped this dog of coin now before it completely implodes.

LOL! J/K KRIA TO THE MOON!

Hi, sorry there is no working windows wallet atm. I have made a few changes to the client that needs a new wallet for me to compile but my windows is broken/ not able to boot. I will try again to get windows running and compile the new client..
Rik

Thank you both!
@fedde if you have the time the code is now at https://github.com/wincev/bitcoin-abe-slr
PS: I can pay you some SLR for hosting the explorer if you like.

Though there are no dates to fix the progress i like to announce what is planned/going on and a short explanation also to #Solidar:
TOPIC: Port Solidar to Version 14, this will be a hard one, because Merge mining and demurrage has to be ported.
TOPIC: I like to make deposits possible and i am thinking about an easy to use/ effective (automated with no further interaction) way to prevent multiple accounts.
TOPIC: With the porting to V14 there is an easy way to compile windows clients on ubuntu what makes it a whole lot easier for me to compile new wallets for every version.
TOPIC: Marketing, make a short describing video.
TOPIC: Get the dnsseeder running again.
TOPIC: Get an own Forum for Solidar.
TOPIC: Program SolidarPay plugin to accept split payments with the merchant bot.
DONE: There is no explorer atm and the most convenient way seems to me to use an electrum server to query addresses, because most alternatives don't work for Solidar.
DONE: I like to advance the facebook messenger on-line wallet to increase merchant compatibility.
DONE:  @fedde is working hard to implement it into freiexchange.com, thanks a lot for that. Other exchanges are not planned atm as it is very costly to get Solidar on, there is no demurrage implemented and exchanges like to cut support when something is not as expected (mostly profits).
Here a short description what the concept is about:
When you just wait with your account (just check balance monthly to get an income) at some point you get as income what the demurrage cost you, so there is a stable redistribution system in place. So, at a certain point there is nothing to win by hoarding. As the higher balanced addresses are stronger degraded than the smaller even the basic income can not save those, so that sooner or later all look the same (excluded the mining addresses).
But as capitalism (the concentration of wealth) is an ongoing mechanism there will always be richer peoples that loose money to demurrage, so the monthly income is thought for those that can not save any money. They have to spend it and they profit the most because they get an unconditional income.
Demurrage money is meant to be spend for quality food, clothing, technology and social improvements (e.g. donations to open source developments/free music). Those who tend to hoard will not profit but most important dont take away opportunities from other people!
Of course the association have to use some funds to finance development marketing and organizations if there are not enough donations, but we try to keep the profile as low as possible and every coin spend will be transparent, so everybody can participate in keeping the costs low.
Most likely fedde will include Solidar first but i keep it updated..
Rik

Additional info: the bot pays 10 SLR/month to every active user. To count as active a user must check ones balance once a month.

Because the Solidar bot is an important part of Solidar, for anybody wondering I wanna give a short outlook here what it is planned to be in the future.

1. The Solidar bot willbe a fully working web wallet sending, receiving and managing funds.
2. it is planned to integrate merchant functionallity -> add comments for transactions to verify payments.
3. integrate a interface for merchants to receive informations about incoming payments.
4. 10k messages are free after that facebook will contact with further instructions maybe then will be a good time to contact facebook about a basic income.
5. contact facebook to integrate solidar further- more public visibility and untegration with facebook related payments.
6. get mark zuckerberg to support solidar as he already advocated for a basic income.

For more transparency here a short overview what the supply of Solidar was and what it is now:
Initial distribution phase (Blocks 1- 25k): 20 000 000 Solidar mined. 19 800 000 association coins for UBI/Basicincome and 200 000 Coins for miners. Mining rewards reward till Block 86000 1% = ~0.73 coins / Block. Mining reward now: 0.1% = ~0.073 SLR. That means during the next ~10 years coins available through mining will decrease from 200 000 to 20 000 coins.
Coins that were distributed by basic income were only a few hundred by now, so negligible. All bounties were payed from my personal wallet. Main supply is coming from mining atm but of course i hope this will change, so we increased the monthly payout to 10 SLR/capita. But atm there are only a handful recipients.
Many greetings Rik

Atm its: @Skaro, @fedde, @Arcurus and @Bicknellski and me that are actively discussing/improving. There are some others that joining in from time to time but we are the core.
Latest Improvements are:
1. A blockexplorer showing the balance with the demurrage substracted -> freicoin.info.
2. A fast, good looking and easy to use exchange -> freiexchange.com.
3. Freicoin Wallet 0.9 tested and working -> https://github.com/eddef/freicoin.
4. The newest p2pool ported to freicoin -> http://alfa.sicanet.net:9638/static/ (Payout and Transaction count is not displaying correct but i will look into it when i have the mood;-).
5. Coinomi multiwallet including freicoin (beta version -should work but i am the only one that tested it atm) -> https://github.com/wincev/coinomi-android
I hope i haven't forgotten something!?
Rik

WOW 890k at 50 sat somebody will be really sorry during the next pump.. If there will be one.

@Arcurus POS is surely useful to keep the coins from the exchange what is artificial demand that is created. But Demurrage is to encourage the stakeholder to lend their money for zero interest, POS is doing the opposite.
I know that you want the currency to be some sort of governmental structure (perform lending and distribution -which is a honorable idea) but i don't see that it is doable. And with so many different ideas in the pipe i think it is better to build a bank that is doing the social lending and some charity that supports social organizations (both then are not part of the currency) just to keep the currency simple.
It was also hard for me to internalize that Freicoin is just Bitcoin with demurrage but thats what it is, I offered the community to further develop the coin but there was no consens, only more fresh ideas. So if one wants some redistribution mechanism (Yes, "The community" did develop some other distribution mechanism -UBI) one may want to think about switching to solidar and not being harsh with the devs ;-).
 
Btw @jtimon i still dont see why reducing the mining reward is a soft fork since coins from the high mining fee chain wont be valid on the low mining fee chain.

@Arcurus POS is surely useful to keep the coins from the exchange what is artificial demand that is created. But Demurrage is to encourage the stakeholder to lend their money for zero interest, POS is doing the opposite.
I know that you want the currency to be some sort of governmental structure (perform lending and distribution -which is a honorable idea) but i don't see that it is doable. And with so many different ideas in the pipe i think it is better to build a bank that is doing the social lending and some charity that supports social organizations (both then are not part of the currency) just to keep the currency simple.
It was also hard for me to internalize that Freicoin is just Bitcoin with demurrage but thats what it is, I offered the community to further develop the coin but there was no consens, only more fresh ideas. So if one wants some redistribution mechanism (Yes, "The community" did develop some other distribution mechanism -UBI) one may want to think about switching to solidar and not being harsh with the devs ;-).
 
Btw @jtimon i still dont see why reducing the mining reward is a soft fork since coins from the high mining fee chain wont be valid on the low mining fee chain.

Hi again, since my commet is off topic for the other threads it fits most in here. Thanks to @fedde 's exchange, the fresh ideas from @Skaro , @Adilado and @jtimon i am now again looking at freicoin with confidence. I am really exited to see the "freiexchange 2.0" in action and think that we will find a way to adopt Freicoin to the new situation to make up a worldwide freiconomy without debt and dangerous bubbles, because that was what we are here for since 2013.
I am now fully in FRC again and given up the positions in all other coins feeling good with it. I hope our ( @Bicknellski  , @Arcurus ) call  for do or die was the wake up call we needed.
Thanks Rik.
BTW i am fully standing behind a HF if we need it to bring new needed features to Freicoin.

For more transparency here a short overview what the supply of Solidar was and what it is now:
Initial distribution phase (Blocks 1- 25k): 20 000 000 Solidar mined. 19 800 000 association coins for UBI/Basicincome and 200 000 Coins for miners. Mining rewards reward till Block 86000 1% = ~0.73 coins / Block. Mining reward now: 0.1% = ~0.073 SLR. That means during the next ~10 years coins available through mining will decrease from 200 000 to 20 000 coins.
Coins that were distributed by basic income were only a few hundred by now, so negligible. All bounties were payed from my personal wallet. Main supply is coming from mining atm but of course i hope this will change, so we increased the monthly payout to 10 SLR/capita. But atm there are only a handful recipients.
Many greetings Rik

To begin changing the coin (after burning the foundation coins), we could implement a HF to decrease the mining reward all we need to do is change this code in main.cpp:
mpq GetPerpetualSubsidyAmount(int nHeight)
{
    return MPQ_MAX_MONEY * -Params().HostDemurrageRate();
}
//START change #1:----->
mpq GetPerpetualSubsidyAmountNew(int nHeight)
{
    return MPQ_MAX_MONEY/5 * -Params().HostDemurrageRate();
}
//END change #1     -----<
CBudget GetPerpetualSubsidyBudget(int nHeight)
{
    static CBudget emptyBudget = CBudget(0, std::vector<CBudgetEntry>());
    return emptyBudget;
}
CBudget GetTransactionFeeBudget(int nHeight)
{
    static CBudget emptyBudget = CBudget(0, std::vector<CBudgetEntry>());
    return emptyBudget;
}
mpq GetBlockValue(int nHeight, const mpq& nFees)
{
    //START change #2:----->
   if (nHeight > 200000) {
        return GetPerpetualSubsidyAmountNew(nHeight) + nFees;
   }
   //END change #2:     -----<

    return GetInitialDistributionAmount(nHeight) +
           GetPerpetualSubsidyAmount(nHeight) + nFees;
}

Hi again, since my commet is off topic for the other threads it fits most in here. Thanks to @fedde 's exchange, the fresh ideas from @Skaro , @Adilado and @jtimon i am now again looking at freicoin with confidence. I am really exited to see the "freiexchange 2.0" in action and think that we will find a way to adopt Freicoin to the new situation to make up a worldwide freiconomy without debt and dangerous bubbles, because that was what we are here for since 2013.
I am now fully in FRC again and given up the positions in all other coins feeling good with it. I hope our ( @Bicknellski  , @Arcurus ) call  for do or die was the wake up call we needed.
Thanks Rik.
BTW i am fully standing behind a HF if we need it to bring new needed features to Freicoin.

Hi again, since my commet is off topic for the other threads it fits most in here. Thanks to @fedde 's exchange, the fresh ideas from @Skaro , @Adilado and @jtimon i am now again looking at freicoin with confidence. I am really exited to see the "freiexchange 2.0" in action and think that we will find a way to adopt Freicoin to the new situation to make up a worldwide freiconomy without debt and dangerous bubbles, because that was what we are here for since 2013.
I am now fully in FRC again and given up the positions in all other coins feeling good with it. I hope our ( @Bicknellski  , @Arcurus ) call  for do or die was the wake up call we needed.
Thanks Rik.
BTW i am fully standing behind a HF if we need it to bring new needed features to Freicoin.

Hooray!

Hi again, since my commet is off topic for the other threads it fits most in here. Thanks to @fedde 's exchange, the fresh ideas from @Skaro , @Adilado and @jtimon i am now again looking at freicoin with confidence. I am really exited to see the "freiexchange 2.0" in action and think that we will find a way to adopt Freicoin to the new situation to make up a worldwide freiconomy without debt and dangerous bubbles, because that was what we are here for since 2013.
I am now fully in FRC again and given up the positions in all other coins feeling good with it. I hope our ( @Bicknellski  , @Arcurus ) call  for do or die was the wake up call we needed.
Thanks Rik.
BTW i am fully standing behind a HF if we need it to bring new needed features to Freicoin.

> So what is your vision for the coin moving forward Developers?

My priority regarding Freicoin is starting to do rebases much faster and continuously, getting all the new improvements, bugfixes and features.
As for new consensus changes features, apart from those included in more modern versions of bitcoin (cltv[bip65], csv[bip68/bip112], segwit[bip141]), it would be nice to get features from https://elementsproject.org/ which now also rebases periodically. Specially I would like to have confidential transactions https://elementsproject.org/elements/confidential-transactions/ and confidential assets: https://elementsproject.org/elements/asset-issuance/ This is similar to freimarkets' basic asset issuance but with much better privacy. But that requires a hardfork, so it strongly depends on support from the community. There's also some incentive problems with the utxo, but I think we can solve them.
In general, that's my basic plan for Freicoin development: rebase and get new features from elements and bitcoin.
I'm also working on a block explorer for bitcoin, elements and liquid that I would like to adapt to freicoin as well.
But of course other people can work on other things.

In any case, this is rather orthogonal to the foundation's funds. So please, let's try to stay on topic.
New developments, new webs and potential consensus changes are all fine to discuss, but I don't think they are directly related to the question at hand, which is admitting we have failed as a community (and as devs) with the foundation and non-mining distribution, put an end to it and move on to other things.
 

Definitely dont let the coin die, that would not be fair for anyone. We now have a nice exchange and some volume. Lets work from here. And burn the foundation coins to start with.
Then we have been discussing a new website and Fedde says he could help out with that.
That is a good start.

@Skaro interested! What exactly do you have in mind?

Until these points are met i will keep working on my Solidar project, which has a sustainable easy to use redistribution mechanism.
BTW does anyone know someone that is good at SEO? Solidar definitively needs more visibility in Google search results! Like "blockchain basic income" is ruled by grantcoin.