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You can actually check the Ledger roadmap by visiting their Trello board.

https://trello.com/b/5nQ1mdzt/ledger-roadmap

If you look at the comments for the "Decred support" card, you'll see that they've postponed the release for now. I'm not sure exactly why. They say because of technical issues. The Decred dev team has offered to help with the integration, but Ledger hasn't taken us up on the offer.

You should go by marketcap, not token value. A good place to see a coin's ranking by marketcap is https://coinmarketcap.com/ You'll see Decred is ranked #33 right now, which is pretty decent. You can even start doing your due diligence research on Decred's coinmarketcap page, checking out the website links / announcements links etc: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/decred/

If you look at the 'Community Roadmap' Trello board (https://trello.com/b/DvGCG9cN) you'll see that we are actively trying to get listed on HitBTC, Livecoin, Gatecoin, and Bit-Z.

The idea is to get listed on these smaller exchanges in order to build up our average daily volume. The next step will be to target larger exchanges like Bitfinex and Kraken. Once we're able to get listed on these larger exchanges, we'll have a much better chance at building inroads to the South Korean markets so that we can get listed on Bithumb.

All of this is already in the works. We're completely open to accepting more help from the community. If you think you can help speed this process up or would like to contribute, please join us in the 'marketing' slack channel.

You can use

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joegruff.decredaddressscanner (You can scan the ticket QR's)

or use

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.decred.dcrandroid.mainnet in watch only mode

My name is Paul and I'm co-founder at Guarda.co. Mobile light wallet that will support all top currencies. We have recently launched our first currency: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.guarda.ethereum We believe that Decred is among the leaders of the market and would like to implement it's wallet as well.

We would be grateful for any support from the developers community. Mostly we would appreciate the following: 1. Advice of a public blockchain explorer with API answering requests fast. 2. Some marketing support from official channels of Decred. Twitter reposts, add our wallet to web-site, etc. 3. As we are a small team running development on our own any donations or bounties would be great. In exchange we could open-source SPV libraries at github. 4. Help with the protocol documentation reading if our engineers experience troubles.

Please provide us with feedback

Marketing updates: https://trello.com/b/DvGCG9cN/decred-community-roadmap This board includes the marketing updates that we can share with the public. It will show the conferences that Decred team members will attend.

> How? A miner can submit a transaction basically anonymously, and then reorg the chain with their hashpower. Connecting that one transaction to their mining operation could be practically impossible.

I big difference to Bitcoin is that on Decred the PoW miners must publish their block to the PoS miners before mining on the next block. That is, their blocks must propagate through the network in order to get 3/5 PoS votes. On Bitcoin the pow miners can mine many subsequent blocks and then publish all of them suprising everyone.

One benefit of this is that less blocks are needed to consider a transaction final in Decred compared to Bitcoin.

Another benefit is that it prevents "selfish mining", see https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/what-is-bitcoin-selfish-mining/

Have you seen this: "I sold all my Dash. Here is why and my view on the state of Dash", from the Dash forums? It's a good criticism of Dash. There is a lot of valid points in it IMO, useful if you want to compare Decred and Dash.

In order to make a 51% attack on Decred you ALREADY have to spend more money than on Bitcoin at the moment. Hybrid PoW/PoS ensures this.

Read this: https://steemit.com/decred/@rouse/decred-is-more-resistant-to-attacks-than-bitcoin-info-from-decred-slackbot

You don't need to use the command line, you can do everything in Decredition

This guides might help you

https://steemit.com/decred/@rouse/lazy-mans-guide-staking-your-decred-dcr

https://www.reddit.com/r/decred/comments/6vljah/how_do_i_stake_decred_and_what_profits_can_you/dm1dm95/

How about our Decred SPV wallet, no need to trust and third party servers.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.decred.dcrandroid.mainnet

Coursera offered an online course in conjunction with Princeton University on the inner workings of Bitcoin. If you want to take a dive off the deep end this is the safest place to jump: https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech?action=enroll&sessionId=975050

Ok thank you for your input. I saw Decred support on be Ledgar Trello roadmap, but thought it was completed. I will just keep it on the wallet for now.

https://trello.com/b/5nQ1mdzt/ledger-roadmap

"Still under the radar" is the best I can think of.

I watch the project closely and everything is super healthy: development never stops, wallets improving, new developers join, network hashrate rising, more than 42% of coins are staking, mentions by minor websites and integration with minor exchanges and other economic agents.

Everything except the price is doing great. Specifically, DCR/BTC rate, as the USD rate is pretty stable.

If you look at all time history, we've seen this before: a long painful downtrend from Feb to Dec 2016 with low at $0.4 (39k satoshis). It was a natural result of almost no loud announcements during a development phase of the fundamental governance layer.

I blame the lack of presence on major news websites. Sometimes it even feels like they deliberately avoid Decred, like in this case where CoinDesk "accidently" overlooked the fantastic performance of Decred and only added it after few people pointed it out (well thanks for that). One guess is that these websites only cover what you pay them for. If that is true I feel sorry for them, because sooner or later they realize they failed to follow their mission to inform their readers of important developments in cryptocurrency space.

Next obstacle is the lack of broad recognition of the governance problem Decred aimed to solve, and the plain fact that it is actually already solved with the in-production voting system. The construction of the Proposal System will just add a workflow around and expose what already works.

Added with recent BTC/USD action, I'm not surprised at all with the DCR/BTC as DCR seems to prefer USD as its base currency.

In any case, the elephant is growing.

At a high level (and speaking about miners in general, not Materia1 specifically), the controller is just a small computer board that connects to the internet on one side and to the ASICs on the other. It receives requests for work (e.g., from a mining pool), and tells each ASIC what hashes to compute.

If a block is found (or not), the software on the controller reports the results back to the pool. It also usually runs a web server with an app that you can connect to in order to configure the miner.

You can see the controller board on Bitmain's Antminers (it's the ugly lump on the top front): https://www.cryptocompare.com/media/1382997/antminer-t9.png

Unless you plan to do solo mining, you usually only need to plug the miner into power and Ethernet. You also need some sort of computer/tablet/smart phone to connect to the miner and configure it from a web browser.

One thing in common between Decred and Kraken is that both are done by security nuts (in a good sense). They are perfect fit for each other.

Kraken has more security features than any other exchange I saw. I haven't used it extensively but two things I noticed immediately.

Their login page has all three fields login+password+2FA, compared to 2-step login+password -> 2FA on Poloniex, so Kraken does not reveal if you 'guesseed' the login+password but not 2FA. Hence this form is more difficult to brute force.

Another thing is that you can add your GPG key to your account and all emails from them will be encrypted to your private key, so no middlemen (including your email service!) will be able to read it.

Kraken has a GPG key which puts it lightyears ahead of the competition. It is ironic that many _crypto_currency exchanges do not! (please let me know if you know any)

Jesse Powell (CEO) is moderating several Reddit subs (including /r/Kraken).

Cheers /u/jespow !

Might be best to just go with imgur then create a simple hugo site to pool them.

If there were loads then use https://ifttt.com/ to pull hashtagged images in.

This approach can obviously be gamed.

Hey there, hopefully all is well! In general, this blog post is a good way to learn more about the project and how to contribute: https://blog.decred.org/2017/07/25/Decred-Recruiting/

We are tracking our development applicants via https://trello.com/b/Zf79osur/decred-recruitment

Message me on Slack or Discord (@Haon) if you want to know more!

>We need to sponsor useful projects and have our name there. Like OpenBSD, open hardware, privacytools.io, etc. Decred is all about doing useful work and sponsorship strategy should be no different. Decred logo among sponsors of a decent project is more valuable than Decred logo on a random crypto party (imo).

Is there a reason why this has not been done in past events?

Here is the pdf version saved straight from Ai. I have never used this site but just needed a free file hosting with no signup, so download at your own risk. And don't click on the fake download spam ad. http://www.filedropper.com/decredpaperwallet

If you are on windows, I made a video that goes through the process step by step for a Windows user that has never done this before (includes downloading and verifying gpg4win, but there is a timestamp to skip ahead.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/9798Ku39MjVi/

Thanks for answering! Good to see the seed never leaves the device and your open source plans. Mind a few more questions?

> Mnemonic seed is created randomly at the wallet start and saved encrypted on your device.

• Can I generate and enter the seed by myself?
• Can I export the seed?
• What random number generator is used?

> We are working with the Decred blockchain via https://mainnet.decred.org/

• Oh I guess you use Insight API on that domain, right? To put another way, the wallet does not use your server to talk to Decred network (good), but it does use a middleman, the Insight server, to serve wallet data (not ideal). Correct?
• Besides Insight API at decred.org, is there anything that is sent to your server? Like some usage statistics?

> PDF for hash is the only file format. It might be txt, or any other.

Yes, please provide hash sums in plaintext format. Requiring users to have a PDF viewer to open your PDF file is not the best idea from security and complexity perspective. Honestly, this is the first time in my life I see hashes in a PDF file.

> Our QH is based in Tallinn, Estonia.

Is it stated anywhere on your website? What is the official company name? Is there some registration number? For example, in Poloniex terms they have exact address, registration number and where the arbitration takes place in case of any dispute.

I personally have no problem with the idea of Discord being disconnected, so long as their are moderators willing to take up the task of keeping things orderly in terms of removing spam and typical moderation duties, which is actually a decent amount of work.

I'll refrain from commenting on the rest of the opinion-related information, but there is something here that is just completely incorrect that I'd be remiss if I didn't point out. Specifically, you claim:

> There's no reason why all roads have to lead to the Rome of the central c0 servers.

Matrix is not centralized. On the contrary, it is one of the few actual decentralized real-time chat platforms. Right on the home page for it you can see "Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication, and its Apache licensed reference implementations."

In other words, there is no "centralized c0 server". Anyone can run a home server. Anyone can create any channel they want and direct people to it, and people can join that channel from any home server. Further, since they are then the admin of that federated channel, they can choose to enforce whatever moderation policies on that channel they want to, including banning people like me who you don't want in the channel!

What's more, there is ongoing work on a peer-to-peer matrix client which doesn't use servers at all in favor of each individual participant acting as their own "server".

On the other hand Discord is very much a centralized server.

Easiest way is get Bitcoin from a local exchange that gives you the least trouble possible and then use ShapeShift to convert it to DCR instantly or use Bittrex if you need to buy a lot and don't mind opining up accounts and submitting ID.

NiceHash is not a classic cloud mining. It is a marketplace that connects people who have miners and hardware (sellers of hashing power) with people who don't have miners and hardware (buyers of hashing power). It's same as renting a rig, just more easier and flexible.

These are our latest payments to sellers: https://www.nicehash.com/?p=miners&payments

As for buyers - hashing power is bought by placing a price you are willing to pay for hashing power - then you compete with other buyers. You can direct hashing power to any pool you want (we don't own pools or share any profits with them). You can also cancel order at any time and the unspent money is returned to you. You can decrease and increase the price of your order at any given time. The same goes for hashing speed (limit).

We needed a less technical update notice to complement the DCP0004 and matheusd's report. Someone has stepped up and wrote it best way he imagined.

If you don't want that, do it better. Write a replacement 1.4 update notice and submit it right next to this one. If it's good it will be more popular.

The "makers of Scrotwm" (now Spectrwm) did not write this, they are busy scaling Politeia as we talk here. The developers of btcsuite are still here, they don't write these texts either.

In my view the intent of this post was to notify users to upgrade, because more technical infrastructure operators are already aware. The post serves its purpose despite being "not representative".

"As an example, I could dedicate time (unbilled) to including XMR on-chain research into my workflow."
=> love this idea, because it joins size of two communities that could send traffic [users] to one site. it's a new form of [unpaid] partnership

I'm working on the concept of "Learn & Win" where we would send mobile traffic (from Twitter, Reddit) to a site where users read 3 cards learning about Decred that will end with a "Question about Decred". If they got it right, they are able to win a price. We can have weekly prices with fixed amount - hence a predictable expense to run this.
=> This is an engagement experiment. If proven working, we can scale. If proven not-working, we can iterate to next idea.

High level wireframes here:
https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_krlleW0=/

To me what's most important is the following:

1) Understand, that we are going to try multiple experiments. We will set assumptions, expectations. We will evaluate outcome based on data, not subjective feelings.

2) Suggest, execute and evaluate experiments

3) Keep iterating until we find ways which can be scaled / used longer-term.

this article by nnnko56 does a good job of addressing your questions at length.

while VCs have conditioned people to ask about "use cases", ccs are better viewed as alternative societies. Decred is an attempt to create a new financial system from the ground up, where governance is integrated into that financial system, so it is possible to make decisions as a group that align with the interests of the asset holders.

I registered in Matrix without email address, for sure.

Note that static viewer is not perfect, but it's something. Hope it will improve.

Not arguing with inconvenience of structure-less chats vs structured Reddit, I was addressing the (unfair) argument that Matrix is more barrier-ed.

You can check if any of the clients suit your Tor needs / are configurable with Tor.

Thanks for hinting at r/friends, useful feature.

I'm running it on a Pi3 too, but my load average is about 0.2-0.3. I don't have a graphical interface though, just a raspbian jessie lite. It runs smoothly this way and isn't hot at all.

I have these installed, just in case: http://www.amazon.com/Aluminum-Piece-Raspberry-Heatsink-Kit/dp/B00E4O7EO8

Edit: I'm running dcrd and the dcrwallet too with stake mining enabled.

You can roughly track your rewards if you use the dcrstats stakepool, as they have an android app that tallies your reward total minus the pool fee, AND tracks your ticket(s) status: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ionicframework.myapp554035&hl=en