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What is TurtleCoin and why do I care? | Funky Penguin Skip links Skip to primary navigation Skip to content Skip to footer Menu HomeArchiveContactSearchCookbookResumeKitchen Funky Penguin Upgrading the world through the skilled using of technology What is TurtleCoin and why do I care? David Young 2 min read May 16, 2018 Categories opinion Some weeks ago I stumbled wideness TurtleCoin, while researching new cryptocurrencies to mine, on cryptunit.com. I rolled my vision at the stupidity of the cryptogeeks, and moved on to mine some RavenCoin, which r/gpumining had told me was the new hotness. As I returned to cryptounit over the next few days, I kept seeing TurtleCoin among the top 3-5 most profitable coins, and my marvel got the largest of me. I researched it, and found that it’s a “fun-first” cryptocurrency forked from ByteCoin, and so based on cryptonote, which ways it’s a afar cousin of Monero, reigning king of the privacy coins. In every unravelment however, the polity was highlighted as the distinguishing full-length of TurtleCoin. This was borne out in my experience, as I started lurking in the discord chat, and listened to episode #3 of Kevin Rose’s BlockZero podcast, featuring TurtleCoin. Just a few days ago, TurtleCoin won the ‘Best Community’ ribbon at the Crypto Influence summit, and it continues to build on its reputation for a user-friendly, welcoming community. Aside: In my gamer days in South Africa, I was part of a “gaming clan” tabbed CHKNHD (‘Chicken Head’, or “running virtually like headless chickens”), an irreverant tuft of gamers who (unlike most “clans”) were increasingly interested in having fun (and drinking stroh rum, a process they termed “devolution“) than succeeding at any sort of competitive gaming. TurtleCoin seems to embody that same spirit - focusing on towers a dev polity rather than hyping yet-another cryptocurrency. I soon discovered that there were no NZ (or AU) mining pools. So I mined elsewhere. But I’d been toying with the idea of running a mining pool for some time, and so this seemed like a good opportunity to (a) write a Geek’s Cookbook recipe re running a mining pool, and (b) learn increasingly well-nigh blockchain tech by getting involved on the “ground floor”. So, I started with a simple PR to correct a typo in the README for “turtle-pool”, a fork of forknote-pool. Wanting to test my pool in a “dev environment”, I started working on a Docker container to run a testnet swarm. I ended up creating the first (and only, AFAIK) NZ/AU docker-swarm-based TurtleCoin mining pool, trtl.heigh-ho.funkypenguin.co.nz. After a few weeks, I was hit by the instable daemon issue, and forced to wait 18 hours while my daemon resynced. I built in an spare daemon for redundancy, plus flipside standby daemon which syncs-and-shuts-down once a hour, in specimen both daemons get hit with simultaneous “doomsday blocks”. (The daemon stability is an zippy developer focus) So, now I’m a contributor, and a regular member of the discord chat. I’ve met some friendly geeks, and learned well-nigh blocks, nodes, daemons, wallets, testnets and pools. Want to get involved with TurtleCoin? Jump into the discord yack and mention me (@funkypenguin), and I’ll tip you some TRTL to play with ;) Want to mine some TRTLs, using your CPU (or GPU?) Come over to trtl.heigh-ho.funkypenguin.co.nz and mine with me! Some links for remoter digestion: Official blog, with at least weekly dev roundups Interview with unrecognized lead dev, “RockSteady” Kevin Rose’s interview with RockSteady Share Tweet LinkedIn Reddit Previous A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home Next KVM VMs on kernel-2.6.32-696.30.1.el6.x86_64 on AMD-based hypervisor goof to marching Copyright © 2018 Funky Penguin. Site logo penguin icon made by Freepik from Flaticon is licensed by Creative Commons BY 3.0. Made with the Jekyll So Simple theme.