jtimon

> i like freicoin but I don't see movements. When starts the party? anothers coins with + 3000%.

Forget about the price. Freicoin is not about speculation.

I don't have a node now (shame on me, I wasn't able to compile the other day).
From what Rik8119 says, it seems that the longest chain is invalid, because the blocks have nVersion=2

> I can only run version x.8.3. 

There's your problem then, once bip66 was activated, all miners need to validate it and produce nVersion=3 blocks.
From what it's in the release notes you need 0.8.6.2, see https://github.com/freicoin/freicoin/commit/808ee0ecab1e075c0835e74cd85627d3e5b1dd1d
 

The last sentence of the paper: "We showed that by depending only on resources within the system, proof of stake cannot be used to form a distributed consensus, since it depends on the very history it is trying to form to enforce loss of value."

That doesn't mean that proof of stake cannot be useful for other things different from securing the chain (for example, republicoin).

About rebasing...it's not just about getting "neat features" from bitcoin upstream. It is also about getting important security and privacy improvements. For circulation, we have demurrage: the donation matching is only about initial distribution (instead of using all the seigniorage as subsidies to miners), and also about experimenting on ways to distribute the 5% perpetual seigniorage (that comes from the demurrage) in case that turns out to be too much subsidy for miners. I mean, if matched donations program can also help with development, adoption, etc. why not use it like we're doing? But the initial concern was not giving it all to miners as subsidies.

Hello Rik!
We desperately need help with testing.
Development and trouble-shooting things are usually discussed on IRC (server: freenode channel: #freicoin )
We don't really use it much, but there's also a mailing list for announcements that I think we could recycle into a dev mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/freicoin
We used to use http://freicoin.freeforums.org/technical-f17.htmlfor that, but we prefer to use the freicoin alliance forums now for several reasons.
I'm sorry that I cannot be very responsive on the alliance forums, but I now would like to focus on development only. I will probably be more responsive on IRC or the mailing list - specially if we change it from announcements [which can be done here] to development only), but I try to catch up here from time to time (I still always have too many unread stuff). 
 
Anyway, where to start?
We probably should have a developer/tester guide analogous to https://bitcoin.org/en/developmentin freico.in but something you can do is just clone the main branch, which contains  0.8.3-1 (the "officially deployed" version):
https://github.com/freicoin/freicoin/
Compile it. Test it (maybe synchronize on main and/or testnet, confirm some transactions on regtest and/or testnet?)
But we're really behind when it comes to rebasing on top of the main bitcoin codebase (and getting its improvements and new features).
So it would be much more useful if you compiled and tested 0.9, the next version, which has been coded for a long time, but hasn't been released yet due to lack of testing. Mark and I believe we have most of the work to rebase to 0.10 done as well, but it depends on the validity of 0.9.
Some things we're re-architected from 0.9 to 0.10 (more risk), but we believe this will simplify rebases for future versions (ie 0.11 and 0.12 for now).
I'm having problems compiling 0.9 right now myself, so if you have the time and the will to put together a document with instructions for "how to test the next rebased version of freicoin" from your experience, that would definitely be very useful.
You will get help on #freicoin or the mailing list for any problems you may encounter in the process of testing (either testing 0.8 or 0.9): you want to test and we love you for it.
 
I'm really excited with the assets feature/element that follows the basic design in freimarkets and will be part of elements/beta-0.12. Currently the branch is in https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/commits/alpha-0.10-multi-asset being reviewed and tested by other members of the team
as part of the elements beta development cycle (although external review and testing is welcomed too).
It is coded on top of alpha and therefore it's compatible with
confidential transactions, but it changes the transaction
serialization and therefore it's incompatible with alpha itself (it's
a hardfork).
You can only test it in regtest mode.
The wallet functionality has not been adapted to handle multiple
assets, but you can use the rawtransaction RPCs or alpha-tx.
You can also ask on the sidechains mailing list:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/sidechains-dev
Thanks for your interest!
If the community wants, we can eventually deploy these are more features from elements in a hardfork to freicoin (the community seemed to liked at least the features described in freimarkets), but we first have to rebase to 0.10 and then to 0.12!
Re Foundation:
Although I'm sad for not having the time I used to have to develop and promote freicoin, I am very glad that the community has grown and has taken over some things I used to spend a lot of time on, like moderating the old forums (thanks freicoin alliance!) or make the freicoin foundation still interesting (thanks freicoin allience and specially Arcurus!). Then again, I'm sad that we're behind on development there too, since https://github.com/maaku/coinmatch/commits/mastershould have been adapted/replaced to support 100% donation matching retroactively instead of the initial choice 10% long ago (at the same time I'm glad we're regretting having started with 10% instead of regretting a start on 100%, plus the price was and still is unpredictable: better safe than sorry). Anyway, I don't think anybody has complained about 10% or 100% donation matching being too much or about applying the change retroactively (not to discourage people to donate now), rather about the change from 10% to 100% not happening. So it's just a matter of someone adapting or replacing coinmatch. And of course continue working on reucruiting more non-profits and projects to receive the matched donations like the basic income experiments.

Bravo Arcurus!
The unit of the future is a global index rather than an actual currency. And Freicoin doesn't need to be a good unit of account to be a great medium of exchange and cheap currency in lending terms.
We've talked about similar concepts before under names like GRU (Global Reference Unit) or TRU (Trade Reference Unit, inspired in Bernard Lietaer's Terra or Trade Reference Currency).
I talked to Thomas Greco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Greco,_Jr. ) about this and he had the same idea long ago, and tried to convince Lietaer that an index rather than an actual "backed" currency it's what's needed.
An index can contain any number of commodities or even services in its basket because you don't have to store them to "back" a currency.
Given a basket formula and a set of markets APIs that the formula is based on, it is quite trivial to create a converter from TRU to any actual currency like FRC, BTC, USD, EUR, etc.
So the challenge is to actually chose the markets and their weighs in the TRU formula.
In FreiHours' case, there's only one "market" you have to look at. I assume you're thinking about using the federal reserve official inflation statistics. Many people claim they're quite manipulated (see http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-chartsfor example), but that would be something simple to start the experiment and it is still more stable than the USD itself by definition.
We could make a bounty for the converter once the the FreiHours index is more formally defined.

Bravo Arcurus!
The unit of the future is a global index rather than an actual currency. And Freicoin doesn't need to be a good unit of account to be a great medium of exchange and cheap currency in lending terms.
We've talked about similar concepts before under names like GRU (Global Reference Unit) or TRU (Trade Reference Unit, inspired in Bernard Lietaer's Terra or Trade Reference Currency).
I talked to Thomas Greco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Greco,_Jr. ) about this and he had the same idea long ago, and tried to convince Lietaer that an index rather than an actual "backed" currency it's what's needed.
An index can contain any number of commodities or even services in its basket because you don't have to store them to "back" a currency.
Given a basket formula and a set of markets APIs that the formula is based on, it is quite trivial to create a converter from TRU to any actual currency like FRC, BTC, USD, EUR, etc.
So the challenge is to actually chose the markets and their weighs in the TRU formula.
In FreiHours' case, there's only one "market" you have to look at. I assume you're thinking about using the federal reserve official inflation statistics. Many people claim they're quite manipulated (see http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-chartsfor example), but that would be something simple to start the experiment and it is still more stable than the USD itself by definition.
We could make a bounty for the converter once the the FreiHours index is more formally defined.

Bravo Arcurus!
The unit of the future is a global index rather than an actual currency. And Freicoin doesn't need to be a good unit of account to be a great medium of exchange and cheap currency in lending terms.
We've talked about similar concepts before under names like GRU (Global Reference Unit) or TRU (Trade Reference Unit, inspired in Bernard Lietaer's Terra or Trade Reference Currency).
I talked to Thomas Greco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Greco,_Jr. ) about this and he had the same idea long ago, and tried to convince Lietaer that an index rather than an actual "backed" currency it's what's needed.
An index can contain any number of commodities or even services in its basket because you don't have to store them to "back" a currency.
Given a basket formula and a set of markets APIs that the formula is based on, it is quite trivial to create a converter from TRU to any actual currency like FRC, BTC, USD, EUR, etc.
So the challenge is to actually chose the markets and their weighs in the TRU formula.
In FreiHours' case, there's only one "market" you have to look at. I assume you're thinking about using the federal reserve official inflation statistics. Many people claim they're quite manipulated (see http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-chartsfor example), but that would be something simple to start the experiment and it is still more stable than the USD itself by definition.
We could make a bounty for the converter once the the FreiHours index is more formally defined.

Just checking here before validating the freicoin alliance to receive donations as nonprofit. 
Is everything correct?
The Bitcoin address is just in case people donate bitcoins to you (by mistake): we would just forward them to the bitcoin address without matching.

 
Name: Freicoin Alliance Website: http://freicoinalliance.com Email: [email protected] Freicoin address: 1EcMiqBNfVi5SfSaCu8GAEwcnz1ArXyoaC Bitcoin address: 1MWR3nWHrqJyVnGUnAM6xtXxidtSvjcji8 Short description: Help the Freicoin Community to create a world full of charitable action and sustainable development - Help to to propagate Freicoin! Long Description: Freicoin Alliance is a Freicoin community driven project that seeks to create a world with the Freicoin fundamentals, a social structure, in which all of humanity is free and equal. We aim to drive and inspire people to contribute their talents, ideas and passion to projects benefiting the common good of their communities and the world as a whole. We hope to establish communities to share opinions, research and projects to achieve scientific and technological progress, to allow personal growth and establish local guidelines based on the needs of the people in a local and global context. We hope to see societies develop where culture, arts and knowledge of nature can flourish that allows all people to experience life to the fullest.

Thanks, I edited the email and validated the organization. I'm not sure about the description, but you can edit the description if you change your mind.

Just checking here before validating the freicoin alliance to receive donations as nonprofit. 
Is everything correct?
The Bitcoin address is just in case people donate bitcoins to you (by mistake): we would just forward them to the bitcoin address without matching.

 
Name: Freicoin Alliance Website: http://freicoinalliance.com Email: [email protected] Freicoin address: 1EcMiqBNfVi5SfSaCu8GAEwcnz1ArXyoaC Bitcoin address: 1MWR3nWHrqJyVnGUnAM6xtXxidtSvjcji8 Short description: Help the Freicoin Community to create a world full of charitable action and sustainable development - Help to to propagate Freicoin! Long Description: Freicoin Alliance is a Freicoin community driven project that seeks to create a world with the Freicoin fundamentals, a social structure, in which all of humanity is free and equal. We aim to drive and inspire people to contribute their talents, ideas and passion to projects benefiting the common good of their communities and the world as a whole. We hope to establish communities to share opinions, research and projects to achieve scientific and technological progress, to allow personal growth and establish local guidelines based on the needs of the people in a local and global context. We hope to see societies develop where culture, arts and knowledge of nature can flourish that allows all people to experience life to the fullest.

Just checking here before validating the freicoin alliance to receive donations as nonprofit. 
Is everything correct?
The Bitcoin address is just in case people donate bitcoins to you (by mistake): we would just forward them to the bitcoin address without matching.

 
Name: Freicoin Alliance Website: http://freicoinalliance.com Email: [email protected] Freicoin address: 1EcMiqBNfVi5SfSaCu8GAEwcnz1ArXyoaC Bitcoin address: 1MWR3nWHrqJyVnGUnAM6xtXxidtSvjcji8 Short description: Help the Freicoin Community to create a world full of charitable action and sustainable development - Help to to propagate Freicoin! Long Description: Freicoin Alliance is a Freicoin community driven project that seeks to create a world with the Freicoin fundamentals, a social structure, in which all of humanity is free and equal. We aim to drive and inspire people to contribute their talents, ideas and passion to projects benefiting the common good of their communities and the world as a whole. We hope to establish communities to share opinions, research and projects to achieve scientific and technological progress, to allow personal growth and establish local guidelines based on the needs of the people in a local and global context. We hope to see societies develop where culture, arts and knowledge of nature can flourish that allows all people to experience life to the fullest.