Topic: [ANN] [POW] [MSR] Masari - simple, scalable, and secure cryptocurrency - page 7. (Read 85412 times)

Happy Fork day

Looks like castXMR will be ready for the fork thanks to Gandalph3000. Give it a go if you haven't already tried it for mining!

Hello, fellow miners!


Features:
- email notifications of workers down
- stats and hashrate chart per worker
- PPLNS reward scheme for rounds shorter than hour, PROP scheme for longer rounds, PPLNS window is 60 minutes
- income history of last 24h, of each day of last 7 days, unmatured incomes
- payment id, integrated address, subaddress supported
- adjustable payment threshold
- every port supports secure SSL/TLS connection as well as insecure one
- static diff supported, see static diff calculator
- multiple daemons, to prevent downtime in case of daemon stuck
- height checks, to prevent mining on forked chain
- sample configs for cn-fast -> cn-half supported mining apps
- ports: 5003 (cpu), 5005 (gpu), 5007 (rig)

PPLNS fee: 0.9%

Location: Europe/Asia

Please be aware that pool already uses new ports 5003, 5005, 5007.
Other ports will be closed at time of fork (height 363000).
xmrig 2.9.4+ supports autoswitch from V7 to V8 with --variant msr, so it can be used right now and will work after the fork.

Welcome & Lucky Mining!

The core team developed Masari mobile wallet is now available to download on the Google Play store at:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.masari.wallet

If you enjoy the app please leave reviews and a rating.

SRBMiner now supports CN-Fast2

Thread:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/srbminer-cryptonight-amd-gpu-miner-v193-native-algo-switching-3167363

Make sure you are ready and have everything set up before the fork

Hi everyone,

We're preparing for a v0.3.0.0 protocol upgrade (code name Dandy Dromedary) coming in ~14 days, set for block #363,000 which will introduce SECOR (uncle mining), CNFastv2 PoW variant, and multi-output Bulletproofs (https://github.com/masari-project/masari/releases/tag/v0.3.0.0 ) .
Linux binaries are available now, and others will be available soon (including GUI wallets).
If you use the web wallet at masariwallet.com , you don't need to do anything as it will already be updated.
If you're a miner, you will need to be prepared for the new PoW variant which we'll provide guidelines for soon.
If you're a pool operator, you will need to update your daemon and there will soon be instructions on how to prepare for the new PoW and adjust payouts for uncle rewards.

Stay tuned for more information!

Best regards,
Thaer

Good news, secor is imminent. When will the block height for the fork be set?

Masari update #8 is now live.

https://medium.com/@officialmasari/masari-update-8-89744c9e9c1b

CN variant 8 can be a good choice, it's hitting hard on FPGA efficiency. a tweaked CN heavy can help, just like bittube algo.

Hi everyone,


We've recently seen a surge of hashrate that is speculated to have come from FPGAs: Recent services have come up such as those offered by OVH (https://labs.ovh.com/fpga-accelerators-on-public-cloud
 ), Intel support guide (https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/ug/ug-qs-ias-opencl-a10-v1-0.pdf), as well as peripheral work on libre software projects for ASICs and FPGAs (https://github.com/altASIC/Open-CryptoNight-ASIC ).

Due to this, We're considering a medium-term solution that will retain decentralization, where we are considering Boolberry's Wild Keccak (WK) PoW (https://boolberry.com/files/Block_Chain_Based_Proof_of_Work.pdf
 ). This design we have found is similar in many ways to ideas in our prior PoW design discussions, and is potentially something we can expand development on if integrated. Currently, only Boolberry and Purk (a fork of BBR) are under this PoW which gives it higher financial risk that permits us more time to research and develop a more permanent PoW.

There is a reasonable ecosystem already present that could aid in quicker deployment of such a change to address PoW centralization concerns (as opposed to purely from scratch). We have found existing CPU and OpenCL miners that we can derive from (https://github.com/mbkuperman/cpuminer-multi-opencl, https://github.com/purkproject/cpuminer-multi, https://github.com/mbkuperman/boolberry-opencl )

Some of the discussion and criticism found on WK includes shared cryptographic concerns (https://www.docdroid.net/GYEk2YB/eval-mtp-argon2d-final.pdf#page=21 ) with potential optimization exploits identified by @gnock about some of the operations in the PoW, comparisons between CryptoNote (CN) and WK (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bbr-boolberry-hash-on-blockchain-discussion-588421 ), and the lack of peer review much like CN (https://github.com/turtlecoin/meta/issues/74#issuecomment-373961063 ).

Discussions on alternative medium-term PoW solutions included ones with highly available ASICs (i.e. SHA, Scrypt), PoWs that don't seem much affected by ASICs (Ethash), consideration of all CryptoNote variants as non-viable short-term solutions due to FPGA programmability (we would end up back to square 1), as well as recent relevant research that would be of value (https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo/blob/master/doc/cuckoo.pdf, https://www.docdroid.net/GYEk2YB/eval-mtp-argon2d-final.pdf)

If we were to go through with this, we would likely modify some components of WK, including but not limited to changes in PoW operations, an increase of the iteration count to increase difficulty, and a starting chain scratchpad size that is higher than known FPGAs memory limits: we would call this Fat Keccak, or FatKek for short (https://i.redd.it/0mk07wzuahny.jpg ).

This is a summary initial report that was collaborated by members of the Core team as well as other community members such as @josef, @kacamak, and @dubz.


Further feedback is much appreciated and encouraged!


Best regards,
Thaer

That makes sense. It's going to be interesting to see how many tokens will eventually be qualified as a security and where the line will be drawn between projects.

We now have two marketing proposals live on our community based funding system. If you would like to help support Masari's growth check out the proposals at:

https://funding.getmasari.org

If you want to submit a funding request for an exchange listing you can do it at funding.getmasari.org.  Donations are in Masari only. 

Masair is now a part of the Blockfolio Signals beta program. https://twitter.com/masaricurrency/status/1068284735963619329

Regulation is going after ICOs and unlicensed securities. Exchanges want a legal opinion that the coin is not a security, and the declarations also provide a layer of financial protection for coin teams. The Masari core team doesn't necessarily want to incorporate around the coin so we're not held personally liable for market losses. The security declaration helps in both of those regards and we have one now.

Even for the most casual observer it's pretty easy to see that Masari isn't a security. This is just a formal proclomation of that.

What do you mean by they have a security declaration? They declare themselves a security or they have a certificate from a valid public authority confirming that they can operate the way they intend to?

Masari now has a security declaration, a requirement for some of the larger exchanges.

Development is still happening too. This shows promise.

A brave statement as there are technologies that try to achieve decentralization without a blockchain as we know it. Some interesting concepts out there. You should do some research.

We will believe that the future of cryptocurrency on blockchain technology will surpass all coins that are not related to blockchain.

Masari (MSR) Mining Pool by modpool.org


Pool Url: https://masari.modpool.org/

Features:

•   PaymentID payments for exchanges, you can directly mine to an exchange that supports this feature
•   PaymentID, integrated address, subaddress supported
•   “Slush” payment system ( For details, please check “Payments” Menu)
•   Stats and hashrate chart per worker
•   Profit Calculator
•   Pending Balance, Total Paid, Round contribution, Current Payout Estimate
•   Payment Histoy – Daily  
•   Top 10 miners list
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