Topic: [ANN][MN][$LOKI] Loki - Private Transactions & Comms - page 3. (Read 80384 times)

Obviously I can't speak for Piratechain, but Loki does have private-by-default transactions. We use ring signatures, stealth addresses, and RingCT to serve private transactions. I am happy to explain any of these concepts if you need, or you can find them in our white paper. A lot of these features have been pulled from Monero, so if you are familiar with that project then a lot of these concepts will be familiar. A key difference is that our ring sizes are fixed (whereas in the past Monero's have been dynamic), which helps to prevent users from getting fingerprinted.

We have also recently enabled checkpointing. Checkpointing further secures the blockchain and helps to protect it from 51% attacks.

Very interesting project. Anyone know how this coin compares to Piratechain, in terms of privacy technology?

List of known Loki pools (LOKI) :

https://miningpoolstats.stream/loki

Live hashrate distribution, pool fees & minimum payment comparison.

Loki has its very first Tether pairing on Bihodl!

Now you can trade LOKI with USDT.

https://bihodl.com/#/exchange/loki_usdt

I am actually not entirely sure of the answer to this one, but if you join our mining group on Telegram, you will be able to get some help there.

my 3900x can't reach 12k h/s. Does it have to use 3600 ram? my 3900x @.38 g with 3200 ram gets only 11400 on a vii hero, another @4.0g with 2400 ram get the same but on a cheap gigabyte ab350. really strange.

The Loki Foundation has approved LIP-5.

The Loki team will work on transitioning to a full Proof of Stake consensus mechanism throughout 2020.

We're still gathering feedback on how to distribute the remaining mining reward.

Have your say: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-improvement-proposals/issues/10

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Hey Y’all,

Last week we released the Trusty Tyr 5.1.1 Binaries. All Service Nodes, mining pools and exchanges will need to update to these new binaries before block height 385824 (est. 7PM AEDT, 2019-10-23). Currently, approximately 78% of Service Nodes have upgraded, so if you are operating a Service Node, make sure you update in the next week so you stay on the correct chain.

In other news, the Loki Messenger team has sidelined multi device work for now since a key team member is on holidays. Instead, the Loki Messenger team are working on File attachments, profile pictures and @mentions, which should be delivered in a new release shortly. 

Loki Core

RPC updates for ed/x25519 keys https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/880
Simplified get_transfers and fix segfault https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/890
Ubuntu Xenial build fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/889
Travis CI/build fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/888 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/887
Fix versioning https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/886
Increase uptime proof credit to a maximum cap of 48 hours (from 24 hours) https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/882
Enforce new uptime proof versioning https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/881
Change operator fee prompt during setup https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/879
Turn staking requirement into integer math variant https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/877
Dont send an uptime proof until lokid hears from Storage Server https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/874
Upstream RandomX simplifications https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/873
Backports from Quourmnet branch https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/872

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Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord you can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am – 12pm Eastern (US) time.


What Went on Last Week with Lokinet:


We merged a significant batch of performance improvements for Lokinet, which should allow for better performance scaling, particularly on multi-core machines.

Work continues on implementing a Lokinet GUI, which will allow desktop users to easily control and view their Lokinet connection stats. This requires the underlying Lokinet daemon to be securely controlled by another process (the GUI), so we will need to do some rearchitecting of the Lokinet internals to allow for that. The plan here is for the interface to be used in both the GUI and also via a `lokinetctl` command-line tool that will allow command-line users (such as Linux greybeards and SNApp admins) to control some portions of Lokinet without having to edit config files.


PR Activity:

Huge PR for performance improvements including: multithreaded cryptography, public key pinning, multi-acknowledgement commands. This PR ended up being much larger than intended. It took a long time to review, so Jeff has promised to try to avoid such big PRs in the future. Note that this PR also introduces a protocol change that will make 0.6.x lokinet connections incompatible with 0.5.x lokinet connections  (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/850)
Another multithreaded performance improvement (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/861)
Work continues on developing a GUI interface for controlling Lokinet from the desktop (no PR yet).
Reorganized cmake to better split up cmake scripts into multiple appropriate directories, and rename lokinet-rcutil to lokinetctl (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/856)
Added ability to retrieve own address via lokinetctl (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/857)
Fixes to support building on Ubuntu 16.04 (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/863)
Export info on number of known nodes via rpc (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/862)
Make Windows installer include required utilities, and other Windows build fixes (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/864, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/859)
Improve code documentation (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/860)

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Loki Messenger for Desktop

Check against null message body when detecting metions https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/559
Add ability to join custom public chat servers  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/557
Prevent chat members public key from overflowing https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/558
Cherrypick start multi2 commits https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/556

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Loki Storage Server

Version 1.0.7 Released https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/releases/tag/v1.0.7

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Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

Loki Messenger for iOS:

Mentions version 1 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/56
Add ability to join custom public chat servers https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/57
Loki Messenger for Android:

Add ability to join custom public chat servers https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/35
Mentions version 1 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/33

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Thanks, 

Kee

No worries at all! Glad it's all working.

Synced now, thanks!

It's possible the remote node you are connected to is slow, so you can try changing it. Otherwise, if you are restoring from a seed, try to make sure that the block height you restore from is from just slightly before you generated the wallet.

For example, if you generated a wallet 3 weeks ago, set the restore block height to 357,000, which is roughly 4 weeks ago

How to sync ios wallet quicker? Is there a node to add? thanks

Interesting. I am using xmrig to mine Loki now with a 3900x amd chip. It seemed i can't make it run in full steam. It is running at 3.8G while when mining XMR it is 4G. And the speed is only 9000h.

Anyone has idea how to config it?

I expect an even higher rise of price for loki, as it will become a proof of stake coin.
More need of lokis for staking.

We are very active in development, constant updates in Loki Messenger, core, and Lokinet. Loki Messenger especially has gotten some really big updates lately, so I think this has generated a lot of confidence.

Service node numbers are going up and up too, we are sitting at 879 (which I think is an all time high) as of this post.

As far as I know, it was only ETH and ERC20 tokens that were stolen in the Cryptopia hack, not LOKI.

I can't speak for what is going to happen for people who had holdings on Cryptopia, this is the latest on what they had to say.

reasons for the massive moves in the past 2 weeks?

what about coins on cryptopia there were a lot of coins, are they still there?

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Hey Y’all,

Last week we released a new LIP discussing ‘Pulse’: a proposed proof of stake protocol for Loki. You can read that here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-improvement-proposals/blob/master/LIPS/LIP-5.md. We also continued to move towards the 5.0.0 release for Loki Core, which adds checkpointing and a number of other features. Keep your ear to the ground for the testnet announcement…some bounties will be available.

Loki Core

Quorum Net (Communication framework for Blink): https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/844
Don’t form invalid block_extended_infos: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/852
Add testnet checkpoints and enable checkpoints with .json file formatting: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/851
Switch to using validators for checkpoints: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/850
Fix bans taking ports into account: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/849
Update Service Node + Governance reward core test: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/848
Print height in checkpointing errors: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/853
Include tip of chain when recalculating difficulty: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/847
Use pre-penalty base reward for calculating non-miner block rewards: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/846
Increase robustness of uptime proof relaying: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/845
Report potential decommissions and recommissions for a node: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/843
Enforce checkpoint quorums min size and soft fork it for testnet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/842
Make empty quorum if height is checkpointable but insufficient nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/854

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Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord you can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am – 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What Went on Last Week with Lokinet:

We finally fixed an issue that had been plaguing Lokinet for several weeks! Connections to a remote Lokinet node would timeout for a few seconds every 10 minutes when a Lokinet client changed to a new path (particularly noticeable on long-running pings)…We’re putting out a minor point release (0.5.2) to address this. The Lokinet devs are also set to conduct their first ever weekly dev meeting using voice chat over Lokinet.

PR Activity:

Statically link release binaries by default: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/829
Major refactoring work to improve performance for 0.6: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/830 (the PR was closed but is still being worked out and will be back)
Handover drop fixes causing the timeouts mentioned above: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/834, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/836
Finish removal of libutp (most of it was already removed before the v0.5.0 release): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/833
Prepare 0.5.2 for release: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/837, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/838
Change how webhooks are invoked to make them spam the discord channel less: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/839
Ongoing work to batch packet acknowledgements to reduce bandwidth used by Lokinet traffic (particular for asymmetric speed connections)  (No PR yet)

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Loki Messenger for Desktop

Custom UI rendering of mentions: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/520
Add annotation endpoint and LokiFIleServerAPI: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/518
Sign public chat messages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/517
Only display signed messages in group chat: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/517
Add support for using and displaying messages with Markdown formatting: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/516
Add analytics collection for Loki Messenger for Desktop: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/512
Remove rejected authorisations from database: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/519
Add UI elements for searching and selecting members in a group chat: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/513
Show paired devices menu: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/509

Loki Storage Server

Fix inactive nodes not responding to reachability tests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/277

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Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

What Went on Last Week with Loki Messenger:

Multi-device is now mostly finished on desktop, and last week our primary focus was on integrating that work into our mobile platforms. We also looked into some ways to support attachments and share multi device mappings, which should be integrated over the next few weeks/months. 

Loki Messenger for iOS:

Begin code changes necessary for Multi device support: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/55, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/54, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/53, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/52
Allow rendering of GIF’s thorough Giphy: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/51
Loki Messenger for Android:

Add multi device database support: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/26
Add support for GIF rendering through Giphy: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/25

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Thanks, 

Kee

As exchanges fold, another pulls a straight flush.

https://www.binance.com/en/trade/XMR_BTC
https://www.binance.com/en/trade/ZEC_BTC
https://www.binance.com/en/trade/DASH_BTC

Looks like they won that hand!