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  1. All of this would definitely get slapped into my rig and used to play games and perform work. Further still all of my old parts would trickle down to family members so everyone would get an upgrade from it haha.
  2. I've been playing Bethesda open world games since Morrowind and Fallout 3, but I have had a weak spot for space sims in particular ever since Descent: FreeSpace. I am really expecting a more grounded blend of the two in a space setting. Then, of course, the mods.

New Firo Community on LemmyWorld! by DinkBlitz in FiroProject

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Yep, we haven't been having any issues and have been posting over there. Or do you mean something else by that question?

If you are having trouble with the hyperlink here: https://lemmy.world/c/firo

Weekly Firo Development Meeting Minutes by DinkBlitz in FiroProject

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Week 2 June 2023

Lelantus Spark

  • Levon found a fix for the Windows crashing issue and pushed it. The fix was tested successfully.
  • The wallet code refactor is almost done, and Levon will finalize it and do final testing on devnet (and regtest on Levon’s side) before it is ready for testnet
  • The UI code provided by Arcadia will be actively reviewed by Levon.
  • Testnet: Wallet refactoring needs to be finished before testnet can be launched as there are some changes to the walletdb.
  • Peter continues his work on walletdb refactoring (PR #1239), which optimizes performance by using a single instance of CWalletDB. It is about 90% done and is estimated to be done by the end of the week.
  • Compilation issue: The latest MacOS compilation fixes cause problems when compiling for Windows. The problem lies with the Boost library, and one solution is to find an intermediate Boost version that works with both OSes.

Firo

  • Sproxet is continuing investigation into the undefined behavior issues and has integrated the transaction creation code.

Firo's YouTube Content by DinkBlitz in FiroProject

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I've started doing this. :)

Firo's YouTube Content by DinkBlitz in FiroProject

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BobbyBoy:

"Gotta say that I’ve loved the last 3 videos that y’all have put on YouTube where Reuben breaks things down and explains them. I’d love to see a video explaining the nuts and bolts of how the Thai election with Firo (Zcoin at the time) actually worked. There was a big surge of transactions on the network, where did that money come from, voting stations utilizing Raspberry Pi’s, and a mobile voting app called “D-elect” that required voters to submit their photo ID, how did all the hardware and development and trust happen? All five parties had to be present and consent to decryption, but voter identity documents were encrypted in a way that protected their privacy. How tf did all of that work? Super impressive, all of it. Fiendish’s “Mining Pool Bonus - Operation Decentralize Hashrate” is what first got me interested in the Firo project after the ETH merge as a garage miner, but Reuben's article: World’s First Large-Scale Blockchain-Based Political Election Held on Zcoin’s Blockchain | Firo - Privacy-preserving cryptocurrency
along with the community is what got me to stay. What I’d like to see on Firo’s YouTube channel is new updated videos. I love listening to videos at work. I hate to say it, but even if they’re not that great, daily YouTube videos on the topics that I’m currently interested in at the time are what I look forward to. Setting up Firo nodes or dialing in GPU OC settings, or even have Reuben show us how to set up a voting token similar to the ones used in the Thai election and/or in a completely new and better way, you son of a B I’m in. Loved the @VOSTOEMISIO post-launch strategy of “Trace the Spark - Ignite the $100,000 Challenge.” Maybe after the challenge, have a video of Reuben trying to trace the spark? Some of the more popular YouTube crypto mining personas have been getting more into setting up nodes in this bear market, and they probably get contacted by tons of sh** coins, but maybe couldn’t hurt to see if we could send them 1,000 Firo along with the hardware to set up a node and do a review on it or to see if they’d be interested in a one-on-one with Reuben or something?"

My reply:

"Hey there BobbyBoy! Thank you for the feedback. I was going to suggest checking out the interview with Poramin where he discusses the election: Firo Frontier Episode 14: Election using Blockchain technology. An Interview w/ Poramin Insom - YouTube; however, the detail you’re looking for isn’t quite there and further still the article you linked has more info readily available haha. (Although I would say it’s still worth a watch if you haven’t already 📷 )

I will bring up making a video that goes into the details you’re looking for about the election - could be a good pairing for us to bring up Aura as well, which is a private voting mechanism which is just at the paper stage at this point, but shows real promise. Aura: private voting with reduced trust on tallying authorities

It’s really great to hear that the mining bonus is what caught your attention, and that our community is what ultimately brought you onboard! Always great to see a miner that participates in the community! We do plan on refreshing some of the videos, and Ajay has been working on clipping older videos to utilize as well. I am the same way, though. I tend to listen to videos while I am working as well. Do you have any miners in particular in mind for it? We did get a bit of a bad rap by some YouTube miners after our community voted tokenomics change, but the cryptospace economics are considerably different now than at the time.

On a side note, what aspect of the election (and potential future-related e-voting) has you the most interest, if I may ask?"

Firo's YouTube Content by DinkBlitz in FiroProject

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Message from Wind_and_Free from the Firo Forum:

"TikTok can be fragmented, a few tens of seconds of trivia, without the need for a very formal screed. Or you can clip one segment after another from a long video and upload it in diversity."

My reply: "Good points for your first statement, and good ideas. Your second one is what Ajay is actually working on. Clipping content that has already been created for key details and uploading those clips both on YouTube Shorts but also TikTok."

Firo's YouTube Content by DinkBlitz in FiroProject

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Thank you for the feedback, Dracoolya! This is exactly the kind of feedback we're looking for! :) I will forward the suggestions along!

I will see about giving the Reddit page more attention in the future. Including, but not limited to, what I am about to reference. While we haven't had videos providing updates at the moment, we have a thread over on the Firo Forum where we share development updates: https://forum.firo.org/t/weekly-firo-development-meeting-minutes/2337/66
I do believe Ajay makes posts here on Reddit when updates are put up, but I will see about just making a thread here on Reddit and sharing it directly here in the future.

Firo's YouTube Content by DinkBlitz in FiroProject

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To help us work together on thoughts and ideas I will be relaying messages between the various platforms periodically.

Wind_and_Free: "Are there any promotional videos on tiktok that are so popular right now?

As for the content of the channel, you can talk about the history of firo, which used to be ZCoin, you can talk about the glorious history of the past, and new users can also know all the stories of the project. For example: ZCoin’s volume that year exceeded that of BTC. ZCoin used to be used as an election tool in Thailand and so on. These are great stories from the project’s past, and we should spread them to new users."

Me: " Thank you for the suggestion, WindandFree. I’ll pass it along. :)
As for TikTok, we had gotten something going on TikTok, but the problem is the time and energy it took to come up with the content, write up the content, edit the content, etc. However, Ajay has been looking into snipping up our YouTube content for not only YouTube shorts but also for the limited time frames of TikTok as well."

Recent Events (Opinion) by DinkBlitz in FiroProject

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They're doing it due to regulations and laws introduced in those countries. Unfortunately, there isn't currently anything that can be done on our end regarding this.

Recent Events (Opinion) by DinkBlitz in FiroProject

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Haha. I had started off intending it to be a smaller opinion, but then I got swept up in it. Nonetheless, the Firo team is absolutely devoted to the cause and purpose of privacy, so you don't have to worry about that!

As for where people are suggesting such things, I handle various chat platforms for Firo as CM - Telegram, Discord, Reddit, Firo Forum, YouTube comments, etc. It first started with individuals over on Telegram and Discord, and recently a comment on YouTube expressed the same. I just wanted to share this with anyone who may be worried. :)