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2018-10-17 14:10:31
Eric
Is there any way to grab the circulating supply through the RPC?
2018-10-17 14:11:25
Eric
We're conceptualizing a system that automatically freezes deposits based on network variables. Supply going up substantially faster than expected is probably caused by some bug (such as bitcoin's duplicate input bug)
2018-10-17 14:11:44
Eric
Might also be a nice thing for the explorer to show
2018-10-17 14:56:22
Fireduck
not sure what sort of clown college you think this is, but ok
2018-10-17 14:56:29
Fireduck
so that would look like sum of utxo?
2018-10-17 15:04:53
Eric
Lol clown college sounds like a great horror movie theme
2018-10-17 15:05:00
Eric
Yea. Probably a running total of utxos
2018-10-17 15:06:59
Fireduck
clown college: you won't be laughing soon
2018-10-17 15:07:54
Fireduck
The trouble with tracking the utxo sum is that any code that did it incrementally per block would be perhaps subject to the same hypothetical bug so the safe thing to do is enumerate and sum the values of the entire db
2018-10-17 15:08:22
Fireduck
which wouldn't be too bad, but not something you want to do on the fly
2018-10-17 15:08:55
Fireduck
I could make a tool that does that on an existing database
2018-10-17 15:09:11
Fireduck
or actually,
2018-10-17 15:09:23
Fireduck
could do it via queries to an existing node
2018-10-17 15:09:38
Fireduck
since the get utxo code will already support that use case just fine
2018-10-17 15:21:07
Eric
We would ideally check it every block or every few minutes - so performance could be an issue as the blockchain grows. AFAIK the bugs we've dodged would have been caught by the incremental counter - VEO's integer underflow, bitcoin's dupe input. I suppose most ideal would be to have both and run the full sum occasionally
2018-10-17 15:30:22
Fireduck
actually, you can just run the richlist program and sum the outputs
2018-10-17 15:33:43
Fireduck
nevermind, this was written by an insane person
2018-10-17 15:33:52
Fireduck
it is actually reading each block for some insane reason
2018-10-17 15:36:36
GitHub
Should get sum of unspent, number of outputs, number of addresses, etc. Should also replace that damn fool richlist implementation.
2018-10-17 15:36:40
Fireduck
@Eric https://github.com/snowblossomcoin/snowblossom/issues/127 Should get sum of unspent, number of outputs, number of addresses, etc. Should also replace that damn fool richlist implementation.
2018-10-17 15:48:17
Eric
Cheers, thanks
2018-10-17 21:51:46
Clueless
@Eric if anyone's doing something like that, it should be very easy to spot.
2018-10-17 21:55:44
Fireduck
If someone is awake and paying attention
2018-10-17 21:55:56
Fireduck
sounds like they are trying to build something to catch it if those things aren't true
2018-10-17 21:56:15
Clueless
I was actually doing that myself last night.