Topic: [ANN] [XSL] Solo - A secure, private, censorship resistant cryptocurrency - page 9. (Read 4912 times)

Solo (XSL) is a scalability and privacy focused cryptocurrency which concentrates on being ASIC, GPU and NiceHash resistant while scaling better on low to mid range CPUs than most CN PoW variants.  The proof-of-work function guarantees egalitarian voting, so that none of the participants can utilize special purpose devices to obtain an excessive voting advantage.

* PoW algorithm: CN-IO
* Protocols: RingCT, CryptoNote, LWMA, Full Bulletproofs, SECOR
* Max supply: ~18.4 Billion before tail emission
* Block reward: Adaptive (see below)
* Block time: 20 seconds
* Difficulty: Re-targets at every block
* Genesis block:  11/2/2018, 8:00:54 AM UTC
* Premine: 70368.744177663 (see below)
* Version: v1.1.0.5 'Carbonite'


Block Reward
Adaptive Reward based on historical data - emission formula slightly decreases block reward each block as a function of all coinbase transaction amounts previously generated. Reward for blocks 1-88,000 based on a speed factor per minute of 22, resulting in a reward ranging from 549.755797504 to 548.315910839. Reward for blocks 88,001 and greater based on a speed factor per minute of 25, resulting in a reward starting at 4,386.527155990 at block 88,001. See the latest block coinbase transaction amount for the current block reward.  Solo's emission schedule is slower than bitcoin and does not include disruptive halving events.

Funding
All current infrastructure costs have been paid out of personal funds, with no ICO and no crowd funding.

Premine and Early Contributions
Solo is a continuation of a side project started by NERVA developer angrywasp and included a pre-mine of ~70,368, representing 0.00038% of the total supply. At block 66001 a hard fork was activated, after this time the founder no longer participated in development. At the time of the fork ~36,318,207 coins had been minted representing ~0.196% of the total supply.


Research
Ring Confidential Transactions (transactions use RCT by default in Solo): https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0005.pdf
CryptoNote v2: https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf
Bulletproofs : https://ostif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/OSTIF-QuarksLab-Monero-Bulletproofs-Final2.pdf
WHM DAA: https://getmasari.org/research-papers/wwhm.pdf
SECOR: https://github.com/masari-project/research-corner/blob/master/secor/secor.pdf

Discussion
Discord: https://discord.minesolo.com/
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/soloproject

Block Explorer
https://explorer.minesolo.com/

Source
https://gitlab.com/solo-project/solo/

Binaries
Windows: https://files.minesolo.com/solo-latest-win64.zip
Linux: https://files.minesolo.com/solo-latest-linux64.zip
MacOS: https://files.minesolo.com/solo-latest-macos64.zip

Blockchain snapshot
https://files.minesolo.com/snapshot.zip
https://files.minesolo.com/snapshot.7z

Mining
--mining-threads=0 will attempt to autodetect the correct # of threads to mine with, this is a good baseline but you can also try setting +1 CPU thread per CPU thread, and even try higher to see if hashrate increases.  If you GPU mine another coin you may need to leave an additional thread to be sure to not bottleneck your GPUs.

Example .bat for Windows:
solod.exe --start-mining {address} --mining-threads 0

Example .sh for Linux:
./solod --start-mining {address} --mining-threads 0