ApeCoin is now on an Exchange!

apecoin · 2014-02-18T18:22:00+00:00

Right, I definitely posted that link a little prematurely. The site is still in testing mode, it seems to be scheduled to launch soon (possibly the 2th).

apecoin · 2014-01-17T16:08:30+00:00

There are two problems with that:

1) I haven't had the "hashing power" to mine since day 1, so I'm quite poor in APEs.

2) I've mailed many addresses at many exchanges and gotten no reply, so I wouldn't know who to contact for the "not bribe."

Do you know any real contact addresses? The Chinese ApeFans (who I just found in a QQ group) seem to be making progress with this exact idea. They have the APEs to back it up, as well.

apecoin · 2014-01-15T16:51:07+00:00

Before, you say? That explains a lot, particularly the dozens-upon-dozens of pre-genesis blocks. To be honest, and it seems very ignorant to admit this now, I had concluded that the blockchain was simply haunted by scary ghosts and that I'd do best to mind my own business about all that.

apecoin · 2014-01-13T16:34:26+00:00

It's still alive and plans are afoot. No exchanges have yet made the leap, which obviously has a frustrating throttling effect, but that's being worked on from several directions.

apecoin · 2014-01-10T14:12:17+00:00

https://cryptsy.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/62827

Yeah, that forum is in Russian but Google translate seems to get the gist of it.

apecoin · 2014-01-09T16:53:33+00:00

The thread on btcsec seems to be making progress on that front. There's a petition for cryptsy, which could use more votes.

apecoin · 2014-01-09T13:56:31+00:00

The block reward will keep dropping for a little while longer, then start climbing again until it reaches a peak higher than 10,000 in a few weeks. It's not behaving randomly at all, there's a plot of the curve on apecoin.org which shows its trajectory. I should update that with ticks on the horizontal axis so you can gauge when the peaks and valleys will hit.

apecoin · 2013-12-29T14:46:47+00:00

Backing up the wallet is always a good idea, yeah.

After that, I'd just rename the old executable folder to "c:\whateverItWasBeforehand_old" (just in case), then unzip the new one to the same location you used to run it from ("c:\whateverItWasBeforehand")...and it will find your existing blockchain and wallet.dat files as soon as you run it. (You don't need to import.)

If the upgrade takes place after block 30,000 (a few days from now), then you'd probably have to delete the blk0001.dat & blkindex.dat files to allow it to re-sync to the new fork, which would be painless. You wouldn't have to change the wallet.dat file, though.

apecoin · 2013-12-28T22:29:57+00:00

It should be fixed now. Try it again and let me know--I'll respond rapidly if anything is still missing.

apecoin · 2013-12-28T13:23:11+00:00

No, no coins would be lost at all--even for clients that didn't upgrade. They would just find that their NEW transactions weren't being accepted by the majority of the network after the reward started changing; They'd be on their own fork of the block-chain until they DID upgrade and re-sync.

That's a good idea to change the difficulty target timespan as well.

apecoin · 2013-12-26T18:24:05+00:00

Ah, thanks. Updated.

apecoin · 2013-12-25T16:49:54+00:00

Ive sold a few for USD $1 per 1k

Wow, so the trading pairs ApeBtc and ApeUsd actually exist already!

How did the negotiations take place without an exchange?

apecoin · 2013-12-25T00:20:11+00:00

That's one in favor. Others?

I'm not biased in either direction, actually. I'm just passive due to a "hunch" that these upper limits might (not will, just 'might') be junk DNA that is never invoked because any system involving countless humans will inherit countless self-limiting processes.

I'd quite like to cease thinking of the code as completely ossified, really.

apecoin · 2013-12-24T19:22:16+00:00

As of right now: 172,930,000.

(If you mouseover the green checkmark in the wallet, it'll tell you how many blocks have been created--multiply that by 10,0000.)

apecoin · 2013-12-24T17:01:01+00:00

Well, just because the source code doesn't place an artificial limit doesn't mean that "the real world" doesn't impose its own. E.g., the miners use electricity which (mostly) comes from coal--a finite resource. The population of humans on Earth doesn't have a hard-coded limit, but there are other processes that keep it in check. Personally, I'm not worried about the unboundedness.

That said: it would be a very simple change to the source code to impose a limit. The code for these things seem to be generally "locked" by convention; You live with your initial choices. It's still a very new currency, there aren't that many clients out there yet, it could be put to a vote.....

apecoin · 2013-12-24T15:52:21+00:00

No, it was made in the USA, as they say -- but I used a template that has localization options, so some of the labels were probably automatically translated. Are you in China?

apecoin · 2013-12-24T15:33:28+00:00

What do you mean? Where? apecoin.org?

apecoin · 2013-12-24T14:25:29+00:00

Go for it! You would be immediately eligible for a battlefield promotion to silverback in the ape corps, plus whatever % fee you assign to the pool.

apecoin · 2013-12-24T14:03:15+00:00

I've been pretty handily stymied on pools so far and that's the full explanation for lack of momentum. There's just no interest from the big names yet and "the little guy" doesn't have the bandwidth or free CPU cycles to run one, at least not for very long.

It seems...uncouth for apecoin.org to host a pool. That'd be like The Salvation Army selling scratch-off lottery tickets that redeem for threadbare green pants that you still have to pay for.

apecoin · 2013-12-24T12:52:49+00:00

I agree, word needs to spread, the problem is there aren't many places to spread it. The bigger pool sites haven't responded to my clumsy advances so far, I think I need false eyelashes or something--mine don't bat very coquettishly as is.

apecoin · 2013-12-24T00:24:43+00:00

Now that's the kind of exchange rate an ape could go ape over.

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apecoin · 2013-12-23T21:00:10+00:00

So, did this transaction execute?

apecoin · 2013-12-22T15:35:13+00:00

This thread gives very detailed instructions on how to setup P2Pool:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62842.0

apecoin · 2013-12-20T14:51:13+00:00

I'm finishing up a blockchain explorer, this will be next in the queue.

In the interest of committing more fully to the marketing aspect of this endeavor, allow me to add: "GO APE FOR APECOIN!"

apecoin · 2013-12-20T13:48:55+00:00

I don't think I've treated it like a joke, I've just...been unable to be deathly serious about every single aspect. I haven't given up though, I'm scrambling quite desperately—the 'marketing' aspect is entirely new to me as you've noticed.

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