Amigacoin

[sonountaleban]

Hello,
I am an Amiga fan since '90s and it is the first time that I write here.  So, I started to look Bitcoin world in these months and I thought that  may be useful for Amiga community. Therefore I made a (Litecoin) clone  called Amigacoin to support our lovely platform. You can read more here:  www.amigacoin.org
Sorry for crappy graphic, but I am only a programmer.
There are executables and sources for Linux and Windows, very soon it  will be available for Mac OS X and I also hope for Amiga in the future,  but I think there are some difficult libraries to convert (Boost and  Berkeley DB).
If someone wants some Amigacoins, write me privately.

[sonountaleban]

Ehm, no, sorry, it's just the client (=wallet). Furthermore a miner for 68k will be too much slow, usually you need a powerful graphics card like Radeon HD or (if you don't have it) a very high spec. cpu (latest AMDs and Intel). Obviously you can use Pentium 4-like processors, but don't expect a lot of coins, especially when difficulty rises. Maybe I'll make an Amiga PPC version of wallet in the future.

[sonountaleban]

Yes and no. It has some big problems (MtGox bankruptcy for example), maybe it might collapse as you say or not. The situation is still quite uncertain and we'll know better in the next weeks/months. However its price is stable since first weeks of this year yet.

[sonountaleban]

Ehm, sorry, it cannot be done by 68k processors because they're too much slow, maybe for PowerPC, but one Amiga Developer (Guillaume Boesel) has tried to convert it to Ubuntu PPC (for Amiga X1000) and it doesn't work properly. I think it needs to rewrite many parts. :/
As I wrote somewhere it may be a way to support our community (for example "paying" developers/artists/translators/testers) and advertise Amiga platform outside its "niche marketplace".

If it was made 68K only and mining adjusted for Amiga I would give it a go otherwise no thanks :/

[sonountaleban]

You're right if you want to do speculation and profit, it really depends how is used by us.

Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme.

PS. I'm not a Bitcoin fan, but I only think it has very useful technologies for certain contexts.

[sonountaleban]

Yes, just one for now:

http://poolamigacoin.org:22113

Is there any active pool?

[sonountaleban]

Yes, I agree, but it works well only with Bitcoin currencies, not with Litecoin and derived (like Amigacoin), because they've different hashing algorithm.

If one wants to do coin mining on a 68K Amiga, the only practical way I can think of is to use one or more USB ASIC coin miners with a compatible USB Amiga card (Thylacine, Subway, Deneb). It's not 'cheating' to do this, as the coin mining software would be 68K code running on the machine, accessing the ASIC(s). It's the only practical way the Powerbook G4 I'm writing this on could mine coins, as a 1.67Ghz processor is also too slow for that sort of thing. This to my mind is the best path to take with 68K or PPC Amigas regarding virtual coin mining.

[sonountaleban]

Hello,
is there any artist who can remake all its assets? My images aren't good and professional.

Thanks.

[sonountaleban]

Hello at all,
After a lot of time I  have some news:
_ new wallets for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows platform;
_ added a trading site where you can exchange Amigacoins with others crypto-coins (https://www.cryptoaltex.com);
_ added a new pool site (http://aga.obfuscode.net);
_ here (http://cryptotrends.info/AGA/faucet) you can get some Amigacoin for free (or just ask me if you want furthermore free coins);
_ working on AROS version of cpuminer (http://perniolagi.altervista.org/AROS_cpuminer.png) and after I'll try to port the wallet on this OS.

[sonountaleban]

Hello,
Which pool are you using?

Hi,

I am playing around with your amicoins...
If I get a "yay!!!!" does it mean i created/mined a amigacoin?
When will I see it in my wallet?

[sonountaleban]

On poolamigacoin you can get more coins, but you should wait more time to see them on your wallet. To be honest I prefer obfuscode (it is more reliable) and there I can get coins anytime.

I tried yesterday poolamigacoin.
Now I am trying obfuscode

hmm.. i get quite more yays at poolamigacoin.
When while be amigaoins sended to a wallet?

I am new to this stuff.

[sonountaleban]

I am trying to solve a malfunction between bsdsocket, curl and multi-threading stuffs. It seems bsdsocket cannot retrieve ip address from dns when its functions are not called by main thread. :/

Ok, how far is your AROS port of the miner?

[sonountaleban]

About location of database, look here:

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1350/where-is-bitcoin-information-wallet-dat-stored-on-os-x

Instead for the backup, here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47010.0

What do i need to backup on os x? Any idea where the database is stored?

[sonountaleban]

Hehe, you need sell Amigacoins to buy Bitcoins, but at the moment its price is too much low. (1 AGA = 0.00000002 BTC) ;-)

Yes, there are hundreds of clones and that's main reason due to all sites accept only bitcoin/real money exchange - someone got also Litecoin.
This is an incomplete list of crypto-currencies:
http://coinmarketcap.com/all.html

Usually I use this below for exchanging bitcoin/british pounds and it works pretty good for me.
https://bitbargain.co.uk/

I think Amigacoin can be useful only inside us community, not to earn real money, for now.

Hi,
Where can I order a Pizza with my money? ; )
...
So far i found only exchange with Bitcoins.       

[sonountaleban]

Yep, right... for example, a developer can ask Amigacoins for its software, updates  and so on, and/or users can buy those services with Amigacoins (or real money, obviously it depends by developers). Most developers are like volunteers here and I think it can be a way to "boost" developing on Amiga, where there is a lack of real money.

Maybe it can make sense making a port, just we need to convert all assembly x86 parts into arm architecture... ;-)

I am really interested (not trying to make it bad here).
For example you could try to convince me to accept them as payment method.
Why should I and why could I? The problem would be for me:
Ok i get Amigacoins but what can I do with them.
Chicken egg problem ; )
Ordering Pizza would be nice.