Krzysztof Jurewicz17 reasons to be interested in Ercoin (which I develop) — in comparison to other cryptocurrencies: https://ercoin.tech/reasons.html . Meanwhile, the initial distribution ends on 2019-12-07 23:59:59 UTC.
I’ve written a proof of concept of a serverless #ebook store with delivery by email and orders placed by making #Ercoin payments. Despite of not using any payment-specific libraries, it took just 42 lines of Ruby code.
https://jurewicz.org.pl/en/blog/2019/11/26/a-serverless-ebook-store/
Ercoin 1.0.0 beta 1 has been released. This version brings the announcement of Initial Burn Offering which will be used to obtain initial distribution. We are also pleased to announce bug bounty programme (with rewards up to $1,000).
Links:
• release: https://ercoin.tech/news/ercoin-1.0.0-beta.1.html
• IBO: https://ercoin.tech/news/ibo.html
• bug bounty: https://ercoin.tech/news/bug-bounty-1.0.0-beta.1.html
• story: https://jurewicz.org.pl/en/blog/2019/10/08/ercoin-story/
• whitepaper: https://ercoin.tech/whitepaper.html
Considering creation of a separate account for #Ercoin promotion & discussion. Any other #cryptocurrencies present on Fediverse?
Starting today, http://ercoin.tech is generated using #Zodiac instead of #Hakyll. It therefore depends on #Make and #AWK instead of gigabytes of Haskell binaries. A minimalistic static site generator for a minimalistic site (1 HTML file, 1 CSS file).
Why using #Haskell / #Hakyll to compile a simple static website (1 HTML file, 1 CSS file) hosted on #GitLab Pages may be a bad idea:
• When using Stack, the ~/.stack directory is about 3.5 GB.
• The build fails when running on CI, (apparently due to an old Stack version): https://gitlab.com/Ercoin/ercoin.tech/-/jobs/72181366 .
• When fixed, the build times out after one hour of running: https://gitlab.com/Ercoin/ercoin.tech/-/jobs/72264358 .
• If cabal sandbox is used instead of Stack, another error occurs: https://github.com/bos/aeson/issues/641
I’ve received an email with a suggestion that #Ercoin should use #proof_of_work to obtain “intrinsic value”.
The problem with such thinking is that the labour theory of value (offen associated with #marxism) has been refuted. The work in general has no value in itself. The fact that work has been performed may provide “psychological value” for some, but there’s no real utility associated with it. More on this topic: https://mises.org/wire/labor-theory-value-refuted-nobody-cares-how-hard-you-work
It is now much easier to run an #Ercoin node for testing purposes, as:
• It doesn’t need #IPFS anymore. IPFS is an interesting technology, but it still seems to have issues with consuming too much resources: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/1482 , which makes running it on a non-dedicated hardware problematic.
• #Docker Compose can be used to start both ABCI server (written in Erlang) and ABCI client (Tendermint): https://gitlab.com/Ercoin/ercoin/blob/b8a31c2fda5b05050b661a288e6b91a331adcb33/README.md#docker-integration
The #GUI wallet for #Ercoin now supports persistence, transaction creation (for two transaction types) and communication with Tendermint, being basically functional.
Working with #ClojureScript + #React is much pleasure, in particular because it allows programmer to not worry about synchronizing UI changes with state changes. I’m not aware of an analogous, well-document toolkit for desktop.
Repo: https://gitlab.com/KrzysiekJ/ercoin-wallet
Compiled: https://krzysiekj.gitlab.io/ercoin-wallet/
I’ve started writing a simple GUI wallet for #Ercoin, in #ClojureScript (#Reagent), with local storage as a database.
Sources are currently available at https://gitlab.com/KrzysiekJ/ercoin-wallet . Every commit is automatically deployed to https://krzysiekj.gitlab.io/ercoin-wallet/ . For now, there’s only account (keypair) management, without persistence and connectivity.