Feathercoin is the Technology coin: Make Neoscrypt a library and share it
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ITT: Immabout to go all Thomas Paine on your asses :)
I mentioned I would be working on a thing. It’s time we made FTC what we intended it to be. This forum was the leader in participation. Let’s capture that again.
Neoscrypt was a brilliant idea. It should be shared. I think Neoscrypt should be released as a library, something coins can plug into. More importantly, it’s something pools can plug into.
One of the problems we have is a latent web vs brick and mortar collision, because some refuse to adapt. How long does it take to add a pool for a coin? Or to make a new coin? That difficulty leaves room for scammers.
Brick and mortar myths don’t work online. This is why investors, hardware makers, ghetto capitalists, and miner moguls get it wrong. There’s hundreds of years of brainwashing to unpack. But the web offers better solutions.
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neoscrypt is opensource, anybody is free to use it
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neoscrypt is opensource, anybody is free to use it
Is it a library though?
I’ll be the librarian of feathercoin.
I’ll tell people about the lines of code where a thing is.
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Very interesting. What are you thinking?
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I’m too slow. You’ve just answered my question. You want to make modular coin technology? Like crypto coin Lego?
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Well we made the c neoscrypt code into a java library. But it was already a stand alone c class with relevant functions needed to support neoscrypt in multiple guises. And also scrypt for backwards compatibility. Then wellenreiter managed to plug the java library into feathercoinj which is a java implementation of all the main Feathercoin features. (Excluding new core stuff)
Its all on mine, ghostlanders and wellenreiters github if you need links.
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Excellent. Cryptocoin Lego. Yes.
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Can we actually release it as a library? Like apt-get install libneoscrypt?
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Oh right that’s a good question. That’s a little beyond my skill set however :(
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Can we actually release it as a library? Like apt-get install libneoscrypt?
in principle it is possible.
never compiled code into a library, but that’s jsut a question of reading and learning, but no magic.
To create installation packages for Linux distributions is no problem for me.
But making it a library implies, that the feathercoin client code is modified again in order to use the library.
Would look strange, if we provide a library, but don’t use it in our own code.
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Make the library.
Get exchanges and pools to use.
Modify coin code to use library.
Establish vulnerability discussion place.
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Another way to do this would be to create a docker image for p2pool / Feathercoind so that its really really easy for anyone to run them.
I’ve got experience of docker so I could make a docker file if someone could give me step by step install instructions for say Ubuntu 14.04 -
Docker is a bit of an overkill for a single program though.
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Docker is intended for single applications or processes. It means all software md dependencies are contained within a docker image. All you need do is install docker which already has a Linux repo and pull the Feathercoind / p2pool image from the docker hub. Its only got a slight memory and overhead compared to running software directly but its much simpler.
Docker has a massive following and seems to be changing the way the software industry is thinking about software. Long gone are the monolithic apps of the past. Docker allows us to realise micro services with no context merging or overlap even on one host.
Sorry but I’m really loving docker right now.
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It just sounds too much like a hack the client / server people came up with to delay the full on peer to peer conversion that’s coming.
Also libraries are a basic concept of software development. We don’t need the crutch. Anyway we still need different images per OS.
I’ll check out docker, just the same.
Also got a mac to test on.
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With docker you don’t need different libraries for different platforms your docker container runs on Linux / Mac and potentially windows (shudder) at some point.
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Your right tho the tech is at a different level. Its architecture rather than library but it could make the tech more accessible.
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It can be made into a library easily. It doesn’t depend on any third party components. I’ve nearly finished to rewrite it in the 32-bit and 64-bit x86 assembly. Completely.
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Cool :) Could you put it in a form other coins can use as well?
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