Topic: [ANN][COMB] Haircomb - Quantum proof, anonymity and more - page 18. (Read 7225 times)

Yes, claim satoshis are provably burned. When someone is confirming payment and pays to those 21 addresses those coins sent there are also provably burned.

Yes tx data (outputs) is where the commitments are anchored in the host blockchain. Haircomb can be deployed atop any blockchain or consensus system that reaches consensus about a set of values.

Yeah haircomb users are running btc full nodes and they are indistinguishable from actual btc users. Contrast this with e.g. monero  where there is a separate network that can be monitored and / or traced.

Speed up a lot! less then 10hours to go, and gets faster.

Where does the satoshi go when attempting to claim? is this satoshi going to forever be locked/lost? (interesting if this decreasing circulating btc)
Is this coin stored in tx data on the first layer? so its not a side chain or 2nd layer, its a coin that lives on first layer btc chain in the tx data.
By running this edited qt client, is this also essentially running a full node for btc?

Looking forward to faucets to help distribute this.

Hi I see..
Unfortunately this is how Bitcoin works (I'm not responsible for that) and only way to bypass the 250GB download is to get the files from another Bitcoin user.
The files you need is index folder chainstate folder and blk.dat rev.dat. Don't copy everything and especially don't copy other person's wallet.dat as yours. (They will see keys inside that wallet and when you deposit there they will steal your BTC).

Another option is to get commits.db from another user you trust. That file has like 30MB but fake file could mean you would see haircombs in your wallet that aren't actually real.

Hope that helps.

Hi! looking forward to this interesting project, I am on step 6, is there any way i can speed up this process? possibly download the blockchain on torrent and be able to sync faster? currently says estimated time left 6weeks.
Would love to get started faster.
Thank You

Syncing guide - windows.

• Are you expecting a haircomb payment and want to receive it to your own wallet?
• Do you want to pay with your haircombs?
• Do you want to create commits.db file yourself, so that you don't need to trust others to give you the correct file?
• Do you want to monitor people claiming combs in real time?

Then you need synced haircomb core wallet. Learn how to do this using this guide.


Prerequisites. You should have more than 250GB free disk space. Should have reliable electricity supply, with no planned power loss.

1. Download combfullui.exe from github and place it to it's own folder
2. Download btc.zip (the modified bitcoin qt 0.18.1) and unzip it.

1472af7188352b3cb95770834b260c6c44631ec528351b9d2aae49ffb17ab683  btc.zip
https://www.mediafire.com/file/3lv9o890w2g4c68/btc.zip/file



2. Run combfullui.exe, a window should appear. This window should not be closed. Leave it running.



3. Go to btc/bin folder, you should see the modified bitcoin qt. It should have orange circle icon.



4. Run bitcoin-qt.exe, select your data dir (place it to the disk with 250GB free space).
5. When bitcoin main window synchronizes the headers and starts downloading blocks, restart it. You should see the intro window:



6. You can let it sync for several days. When you get to block 486600 or more you can check https://127.0.0.1:2121 in browser, you should see on that it is now syncing the haircomb core with the required data.



7. If you are expert who copied over index chainstate and blocks from existing bitcoin installation, you will see the following Rescanning screen on startup:



It appears like there is no progress but there is. Simply wait patiently until Rescanning... is over and your core wallet appears.

8. Finally you get to the stage where only a few blocks remain. Wait until it's finished.



9. If you refresh your haircomb core browser observe that the blocks being synced are identical in the last stage.



10. Finally it's synced. You should see the total number of blocks synced in haircomb core is same as on Bitcoin network.
You can also verify with other synced haircomb users that the fingerprint in their haircomb core is the same as yours.




general usage - shutdown

1. close bitcoin core, wait until the close window disappears.
2. go to 127.0.0.1:2121 and press safe shutdown. The wallet should close.

general usage - startup

1. start combfullui.exe
2. go to 127.0.0.1:2121, verify it is running
3. start bitcoin-qt.exe

general usage - commits.db database backup

1. shutdown bitcoin core, then safe shutdown combfullui.exe
2. copy commits.db to a backup location while the wallets are shutdown.

Airdrop requires too many people with same type of addresses. Haircomb is completely new idea, there is no other coin that
uses this yet, so there is nobody we could airdrop to.

I could be wrong but haircomb is a lot like Bitcoin 10 years ago. New crypto, no airdrop, no ico or anything just a handful of early adopters claiming coins not because they know for sure that it will be worth millions someday but simply because it looks promising or fun or exciting (or whatever, everyone has their own reasons).

Therefore I think that we should fly under the radar in the beginning. We shall fill our bags with cheap comb just like Satoshi did with Bitcoin.

Faucet reminds me Raiblocks. If we have good captcha we can definitely donate some of our COMB to a well designed faucet.
But when faucet goes live, there should already be well tested android mobile wallet. People in less wealthy countries are mostly going to claim from their phones and so they need a good mobile wallet to cashout to.

There is no rush to get on exchange in my opinion. But if someone lists haircomb on an exchange I will be more than happy.

Is there any airdrop?or claim faucet?

New release has been pushed that contains fix for crash after doing a transaction.

3e5dd53eca56ac8835f400fd35314e4ae840161c0faa40f434f537f4bf601d1a  combfullui
dfe880d883c9d472dd78cc6e44744bf12eb3c0033399a20e51dba0e3cf7ae512  combfullui.exe

Update - coin burn successful

To verify that the coin is done correctly, do the following:

1. Sync your wallet to block 602614 or more.
2. Import the following text file (coin history) to your wallet:


3. View visible utxo set of your node at http://127.0.0.1:2121/utxo/
4. Verify that this is at the end:


This means coin is burned as promised and therefore there is no observable supply increase made by that hard fork.

Here is my commits.db if someone needs to skip syncing.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/17c7kvggck07c6p/commits.db/file

546 sats is the minimum. Anyone can claim, even from exchanges/online wallets. Your wallet/exchange/faucet must support small payouts (all money sent is burned) and it must support segwit (to allow paying to bc1 long addresses).

Set a nice fee because I've noticed that some miners sort payments by fees. You have to be on top to win.

For people who don't have BTC, segwit faucet would be ideal for this purpose.

How small can the required amount of bitcoin be? Is one sat enough?

I'm glad to hear that.

We have several new things. We have rewards viewer site where anyone can see who claimed COMB recently.

There is also a paper wallet generator.

Stay tuned for more!!

thanks now it worked

Use the modified Bitcoin Core to sync the wallet. It takes about 2 hours with already downloaded bitcoin blockchain.

Alternatively get commits.db from another person (when their and your wallet is shutdown) and paste it to the same folder where there is combfullui.exe

Next start combfullui.exe and you are synced.

how to sync wallet? the wallet is always at 0 blocks

Yes. There is an equation bug in the wallet. I think the coin can still be fixed. Sure, it is a hard fork, but if we set the equation as defined in the whitepaper we end up with total theoretical max supply of 12423823.39976706 COMB.

Next thing that we will do is we burn 0.21835287 tokens by sending them to the 000000000000000000 address, so that the claim about max supply of 12423823.18141419 COMB remains true as well. (Even though the supply increased by the hard fork.)


Pushed updated wallets to github.

3a5d649eb2d69d380dcb96c6db5f71462f1f1adad333948ea60e547a1e7f3b10  combfullui
44616a37fd63dd69290b295741b67de60200abe751708b0eb27e5507d33f0fd1  combfullui.exe

What a great project. Natasha, you are very smart to create anonymous and quantum proof coin.

I've been claiming free COMB.  I've received 0.00000001 less COMB than expected according to the equation on the whitepaper.

Another thing I've noticed, the max supply on the whitepaper doesn't match the equation when you sum all blocks rewards.

It should be 12423823.39976706 COMB.

The edge cases also appear to be 0.00000001 less COMB than expected.

I will be helping everyone to the best of my knowledge. Dreaming about the future when COMB is worth 0.50$ each. 

Currently the main thing you need to claim is combfullui, or combfullui.exe for windows. Your wallet does not need to be synced to claim.

Start it combfullui you haven't already. Visit http://127.0.0.1:2121 Click wallet on the main page. Generate a few keys. From the main page, save your wallet to a file. Go to wallet again, copy your mine address (the long address, starts with bc1)

Open bitcoin or your Bitcoin wallet. Your wallet must support segwit. Tip 0.00000546 BTC to your mine address.

Congrats you now have a chance to get free 1.6 COMB.

right on
it seems those who know what they are doing with this are gonna stay silent on helping us others tho
so distribution will prob end up centralized : /

oh well, thats crypto, good luck on your project man

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Released windows wallet.

https://github.com/natasha-otomoski/haircomb