This is interesting - but how can a browser serve incoming connection requests?
WebRTC is a web protocol designed for peer to peer connections.
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#112This is a neat. However, there is nothing explaining fundamental operation I can find except the source code itself, and it seems to me that it suffers from pretty serious scale limitations. I.e its ability to deliver on the value proposition in its current form is low. Also, your proof of work is Sha256 which means that the moment this thing goes live and there is any value attached it won't work. You have to switch…
I agree that our technical documentation is not strong and well presented yet. Have you read this? https://medium.com/nimiq-network/introducing-the-browser-bas...
> Partner with VISA payment services to create a VISA-to-Nimiq exchange (centralized in the first place).
By Q4 2017? This sounds outrageous, if not impossible. This also seems to contradict your comment that "'demystify blockchain technology'" is a perfect description for our intention!" Your intention seems to be to build a mainstream, browser-based cryptocurrency. Good luck.
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Oh dear, 216 hash/sec on OSX Safari on a year old Macbook Pro.
Safari Technology Preview (r31) on MBP gets me 8kH/s (Chrome on the same machine gets 12kH/s)
Huh. I fired up a Chrome instance alongside and got 8kH/s; Safari still chugging away at 2-300H/s.
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#116So far looks sweet, I have a small bit of advice.
I'd double down on the simplicity aspect - for a lot of people cryptocurrency is a weird thing to get into and hard to understand. You guys have taken something as ultra-complex as mining and blockchain and stuck it in the browser, no small task. Make your focus a cryptocurrency for everyone - include demos of how cryptocurrency itself works.
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#117Just ask here if you need some test coins. I already mined a first block.
I've got some extra coins, I'm willing to trade pencils.
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#118I like how it starts you up instantly and how simple mining, helping the network and transactions seem to be. Really well done. I found a quick block too and sending/receiving transactions and getting the confirmations seems nice and fast. As a user it makes me pretty happy.
However, turning your coins 'permanent' somehow doesn't seem nearly as intuitive. I have no real idea how these coins are now tied to me. I found my block on chrome, and launching the site in incognito mode / firefox doesn't show the funds in my wallet. This would make me worry about deleting my browser history/cookies/etc and I'd have no idea how to access these coins on another computer. How do I go about making these coins tied to me beyond some form of browser storage, and why isn't that process explained somewhere? Right now it feels like a mild breeze might erase my wallet and the coins in it. Is this something that'll be dealt with in the future?
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#119This is good until the ASICS come in force and make mining in the browser useless.
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#120So far looks sweet, I have a small bit of advice. I'd double down on the simplicity aspect - for a lot of people cryptocurrency is a weird thing to get into and hard to understand. You guys have taken something as ultra-complex as mining and blockchain and stuck it in the browser, no small task. Make your focus a cryptocurrency for everyone - include demos of how cryptocurrency itself works.
That is our mission exactly. We are starting with the community that actually has a more in-depth understanding for peer review.