MineCoin

Hello fellow Lua'ers
I am looking for people that are interested in helping on making a crypto currency in Lua. If you'd like to help send me a friend request on discord
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Saldor010, on 06 November 2017 - 02:11 PM said:

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The only issue with krist is it isn't a 'proper' cryptocurrency. 3d6 has the ability to refund any transactions and create krist out of thin air if he wanted to. A proper coin like bitcoin is unable to be created, and there is a finite amount in existence.

Considering the size of the CC community, the amount of nodes we're gonna have might not be enough to provide good decentralization,
which might still allow the most powerful miners to modify the blockchain (list of transactions, balances, refunds).
Krist is already well established, I don't think we need to go to such length of complexity for something this small.
I'd rather trust 3d6 with the immutability of the transactions, rather than an random, unknown powerful miner.

It might not be a 'proper' cryptocurrency, but I'd say it's good enough.
Krist is supposed to be convenient to use and be able to be interfaced from within CC, you use one URL for everything Krist related.
For an actual blockchain like Bitcoin, there's no easy way to interface with it from within CC.

Also computercraft nodes would not be able to communicate with eachother without a http middleman, meaning it wouldn't be decentralized. You could have a local cryptocurrency just within servers but then the currency becomes close to worthless.

Gorzoid, on 19 November 2017 - 11:43 PM said:

Also computercraft nodes would not be able to communicate with eachother without a http middleman, meaning it wouldn't be decentralized. You could have a local cryptocurrency just within servers but then the currency becomes close to worthless.

While this is true, the currency itself would be decentralized, you would just need an HTTP middleman for the traffic, not as an actual node hosting the blockchain.