Topic: [ANN][XBR] bitcoinR (bitcoinr.org) | Quantitatively-Flexible Reserve Currency - page 9. (Read 3099 times)

 https://github.com/fancywarlock/bitcoinR

Hi!

Wow.  You're right!  I uploaded the wrong version of the source code from 2018 with the wrong hashing algo and even to the wrong github repository address.  How embarrassing.  Sorry.

Thank you for pointing it out. Again, I really apologize.  What a boneheaded move.

I guess now is as good a time as any to reiterate that if anyone finds something that doesn't quite make sense or is functioning improperly, we are happy to compensate them with an XBR bounty so long as they provide their identity and contact information so we can do an AML/KYC check.

I'm happy to send you some XBR as a bounty for seeing this and bringing it to my attention SCAM-detector-X.

Please send your:

- Name
- Contact Information
- bitcoinR wallet address

The error has been corrected and you can now find the correct source code at https://github.com/fancywarlock/bitcoinR

Thanks again for taking the time to send a note, and to keep users here on BitcoinTalk safe!

NS

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Hi AmoreJaz,

Thanks for the note.  I'll respond to each of your points below:

1.  The github repository link (https://github.com/fancywarlock/XBR) has been replaced with https://github.com/fancywarlock/bitcoinR. I did make a mistake and published the wrong code to the wrong repository address.  I thanked the user via PM and publicly and will happily send a bounty his/her way (if they choose to disclose their identity for AML/KYC) for pointing out my error.  It was not a good first look on my part- apologies again to the board.

2.  I need to understand your comment about the team members' "portfolios" a bit better please.  I am not sure to what exactly you are referring, but I can assure you that they are all very much a part of the bitcoinR project, and all of whom have signed contracts that indicate that we can publicly associate them via our website and other media.  Please clarify what you are looking for here and I'll see if I can make it happen.

3.  In the early days, our project was not called bitcoinR; and very much to your point, I wrestled with the idea of calling it any name that derived from "Bitcoin"; however, even a cursory examination of our source code will indicate that we haven't changed a great deal from the original Bitcoin code.  Technically, Bitcoin Core and bitcoinR are quite similar with the exception of crypto-economic parameters such as Block Halving, Target Spacing, Target Timed Difficulty Adjustment, Block Halving, # of Transaction confirmations, etc.  If you are scientifically inclined, you'll know that you want to change as few variables as possible when conducting an experiment.  We even left the money supply the same at 21,000,000; but sped up the block time for two reasons: First to accelerate the timeline of the experiment and the Second, to give regular people a shot at mining XBR while they were quarantined due to COVID-19.  So, it really seemed LESS transparent to name our project / experiment something other than bitcoin"X" since the technology is admittedly derivative. 

As for the balance of the name, we added the "R" to ensure that we delineated our project and brand from the original, and to (hopefully) indicate our charge which is to operate a Bitcoin-fork in a manner that is consistent with the way a central bank / reserve bank would operate from a quantitative easing/tightening perspective.  I could go on, but respectfully, all of this is explained in the whitepaper.

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So, in summary: we are trying our very best to make something that will be adopted within the market, but we aren't shilling it or promising units of XBR will be worth anything at all.  We are making a level attempt to ensure that we follow all AML/KYC rules in the process.  We aren't going to get everything right in the beginning, and maybe we won't get them right at all; but we will be honest and transparent in the process, and hopefully we will have made something that rewards the active participation of others.

Lastly, please understand that not all innovations are of the technical variety, there are economic and procedural innovations as well.  The real social experiment of bitcoinR is technical de-centralization paired with an economic centralization that requires a trusted party to stabilize unit value.  This is a combination requiring human intervention because we are unaware of a coding algorithm to assimilate, process and assign real world value of items / effort.
 
So, in this way, the bitcoinR project is a very, very different experiment than was Satoshi's Bitcoin (even while it is technically derivative).  In the end, we are not sure that XBR will ever have any value at all and plainly state this on our official website, in the whitepaper and here in the ANN thread.  It's for this reason (and others) that we have chosen to release bitcoinR to the mining community instead of continuing our attempt to understand whether or not XBR would be classified as a security if it were sold. 

Thanks again for the questions.

NS

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Hey Kalyn,

You are absolutely right.  No one here on the team can believe the jump in hashpower and difficulty today.  The hashpower has gone from 198,389 Network (KH/s) to 24,365,170,193 Network (KH/s) in a matter of hours.  This is unexpected and unprecedented; certainly not what we were hoping for.  We wanted a gradual transition from CPU to GPU and from GPU to ASIC in order to ensure regular people had an opportunity to accumulate XBR.  Difficulty is now 159,779,998; the thought of which first delighted us, but then we realized that it is not likely possible to mine a block without a rig. 

Tomorrow I'll reach out to a few GPU miners that were having success last week to see when the last time they were able to mine a block.

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Hey Sherriffin-

Thanks.  We were looking for an Altcoin like this, we couldn't find one so we built bitcoinR as an experiment.

Governments can and do tax crypto.  The bitcoinR network is very transparent and theoretically its movements are easily tracked.  We will never sell XBR except through an AML/KYC licensed exchange and encourage our users to do the same.  Thus, a government should have the ability to easily discern who buys and sells XBR and can tax them appropriately if they choose to do so.

If users are concerned about this, they should not attempt to trade XBR (or BTC or XRP). 

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most of your team members don't include XBR project on their portfolio. can you ask them to include this project if they are indeed part of this project? also, why not create a new name for your coin? why use bitcoin in your name, just to attract users because it has bitcoin in it? most projects that are still attaching bitcoin on their name has no confidence that they will make it without it.

also please address below post :

This is not correct source , This is OLD source based on Bitcoin , Why you lie to people and publish bad code, Wallet on windows is new Bitcoin based source, Please upload correct source, or This is coin a SCAM

Well, yeah. But for now the hashpower is  5.5 billion (5,496,695,624.208 Network (KH/s) and the difficulty is more than 50 million...
So i think the solo mining with CPU already is out of question....

Its completely different idea from bitcoin or other alt coin.So if govt. regulate it then they can impose anything as they want.won't they take tax ?

Sorry, a fresh copy of the deployed source code is located here:

https://github.com/fancywarlock/bitcoinR

NS

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Sweet!  Thank you.  I was looking for a few additional ways to share this.  I like the structure of your site, check out our bounties page at https://bitcoinr.org/partners/xbr-bounty-hunters/.  For example, we'd happily award a bounty to those who are linguistically skilled enough to translate the ANN thread into the multiple different languages here on BT.

We are happy to pay both media / advertising bounties as well as bug bounties with the obvious caveat that anyone seeking a bounty payment must go through our AML/KYC check.

Thanks again!

NS



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where source code?)

Hey Olkah,

Sorry if I didn't make that clear, and further apologies because I might be repeating myself here but the root problem with making the mining pool software available at this point is that it we feel would unfairly concentrate XBR in the hands of very few mining operators.  The good news is that if you have a powerful CPU or a decent GPU, you can mine full blocks yourself.

As of right now, the aggregate hashpower is only 198,389.857 Network (KH/s) and the difficulty is <500.

If one were to unearth some "obsolete" BTC GPU or ASICs, that might work surprisingly well; however, we'd prefer that the ASICS weren't deployed for another 30-45 days or so.

NS

Pool ?

A Quick Hello:

My name is Nicholas.  I am conflicted about creating this thread, but there is a necessity to announce publicly in order for the bitcoinR network to grow.  My hesitation is borne specifically from the fact that bitcoinR must necessarily and unavoidably challenge the libertarian viewpoint that underlies Bitcoin and many popular altcoins, namely: that most functions must be decentralized.  This fundamentally trustless ethos had been one that I myself espoused for over a decade but is incomplete without a more formalized version of quantitative balance which may be most efficiently instituted by a centralized entity.

This in and of itself is not a new idea; central banks make attempts to stabilize currency at regular intervals; however, they do so without the discipline of a fixed money supply; thus, there is very rarely any deflationary activity and generally when a government prints money the value of existing money goes down.  Bitcoin has the opposite challenge, which is that there is no way to create an inflationary impact to stabilize the price of BTC, the increasing price of which has proven to be partially reliant upon a naturally-occuring deflation; this, combined with other factors can enable price manipulation by large holders.  bitcoinR was developed in an attempt at reaching an equilibrium via the structured simplicity of centralized open market operations.  This will require trust, an unpopular concept due to its historic abuse by certain monetary authorities.

We have all studied or are at least aware of this economic history.  Myself and my team members have been educated at Brown, Harvard, MIT and a fair number of other lesser known but still academically rigorous schools.  We have studied economics, law, cryptography and computer science.  bitcoinR is the result of these learnings, combined with what was accomplished by a small group of individuals over the past four decades that is now best known as Bitcoin; for the former we are grateful to our professors and academic advisors, for the latter we are very much indebted to David, Eric, Gavin, Hal, John, Nick, Paul, Phil, Tim & Wei.

We are hopeful to provide value in a structured, predictable and transparent manner while cooperating fully with regulators in the United States if and when we are asked to do so.  bitcoinR is not a privacy coin, in fact it is the exact opposite.  It is important to get away from the idea that major cryptocurrencies are run by a mysterious shadowy figure whether acting alone or as part of a cohort with an undisclosed profit motive.

As a matter of full disclosure, we do hope to make a return on our time and money investment; however we do not expect this to come quickly or easily, and we will not get there by selling bitcoinR units (XBR) directly to the public outside of an AML/KYC compliant exchange.  For now the public can only obtain units via mining or bounties; and in the latter case they must provide their full name, address and contact information for us to do an AML / KYC check prior to sending the earned bounty units.  More detail may be found in the bitcoinR whitepaper.

We understand that some will choose not to participate in the bitcoinR network as a result of their personal privacy ideal; however, we urge that this decision be predicated upon the idea that privacy even in the Bitcoin network can always be overridden.  Either way, we wish you the very best of luck with mining XBR and do hope that your participation will fuel the attention necessary for creation of intrinsic value, continued gradual growth and eventual institutional momentum.

Thanks,

NS

bitcoinR Overview:

bitcoinR is based largely upon Satoshi’s original design of the technically decentralized Bitcoin blockchain. We paired this improved technology with a centralized economic governance model designed specifically to allow central-bank-like quantitative easing and quantitative tightening within set tolerances. This quantitative flexibility should equate to a more stable money supply, one that is less likely to be manipulated by an unseen hand.

We have chosen to re-begin with a new Genesis block to ensure equal ability for all to accumulate the new virtual currency unit XBR. To have forked and airdropped would have largely defeated the purpose of addressing the high concentrations of BTC through quantitative adjustment.

XBR’s network is called "bitcoinR". In choosing this name, we give credit to Satoshi for their original design, with the newly appended "R" to signify the currency’s "Reserve"-like feature of quantitative flexibility.

Quick bitcoinR Facts:

Algorithm:  SHA-256
Block Halving: 52,500 blocks
Block Reward (initial): 100 XBR
Block Type: Proof of Work (PoW)
Coin Name: XBR
Coin Unit: Satoshi
Coinbase Maturity: 99+1 Default Confirmation Blocks
Initial Address Letter (Mainnet): X
Initial Address Letter (Testnet): B
Last Reward Block: 1,785,000
Network Name: bitcoinR
Node 1: 204.48.17.237 (New York)
Node 2: 167.172.122.211 (San Francisco)
Node 3: 167.99.88.236 (London)
Node 4: 167.172.42.86 (Amsterdam)
Node 5: 206.189.95.138 (Singapore)
Node 6: 167.71.41.67 (Frankfurt)
Node 7: 138.197.143.76 (Toronto)
Node 8: 139.59.63.124 (Bangalore)
P2P Port: 17482
RPC Port: 17481
Supply: 21,000,000 XBR
Supply (minable): 10,500,000
Target Spacing: 5 minutes
Target Timed Difficulty Adjustment: 15 minutes
Transaction Confirmations: 12 blocks


Miscellaneous:

bitcoinR Team
https://www.bitcoinR.org/

(scroll down mid-page)

Whitepaper
https://www.bitcoinR.org/whitepaper

Mining:
https://www.bitcoinR.org/mine

Exchanges:

bitcoinR will apply to AML/KYC exchanges only; we cannot control whether or not foreign or decentralized exchanges eventually trade XBR.

XBR CPU/GPU Mining Videos for Beginners:

Macintosh
Windows

Mining Pools:

To be released in late Q2'2020.  To facilitate gradual growth of hashpower, we first released for CPU mining only.  As of mid-may, it has become fairly difficult for standard CPUs to mine blocks; this occurred more quickly than we would have preferred.  If past is prologue, once we release the mining pool, chances become vanishingly small that even powerful GPUs will retain the ability to mine blocks.  It is for this reason that these announcements have been deliberately and totally staggered and will continue in this manner until bitcoinR can transition entirely to ASIC miners.  We are doing this so some level of equitable distribution can still be maintained.  To do otherwise would be dumb and unfair.  Early release of pools could create the exact challenge that we are attempting to solve.  Thanks for understanding.

Blockchain Explorer:
bitcoinR Block Explorer

AML Compliance and Auditing Firm:
BitAML

Contact Us:

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