Topic: BiblePay (BBP) | 10% Charity | POW/POS | CPU Only | Masternode | No Premine - page 3. (Read 2358 times)

Here is a working link:
https://docs.dash.org/en/0.13.0/masternodes/dip3-upgrade.html

Are these the steps to upgrade masternode to deterministic?
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.51695886
https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/clyxyc/upgrading_masternodes_sanctuaries_to/
https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=391.msg5968#msg5968

BiblePay
1.4.5.2-Leisure Upgrade

- Fix exec paycameroon feature to use current bbp price
- Fix exec price to show current bbp price

** This is the windows release.  MIP will update when linux is ready **

1) can we have lower difficulty? Even 3 diff is kind of high for some computers. Could you offer difficulty of 1 or lower perhaps?

2) Wrote some new articles:

I downloaded the Biblepay wallet but it doesn’t sync, why?
https://whitewalr.us/2019/biblepay-wallet-sync-issue.html

How do I mine on the BiblePay NOMP pool?
https://whitewalr.us/2019/biblepay-nomp-pool-mining.html

3) I get disconnected from pool sometimes. I just communicated with it so I am not sure why this is happening.

stratum_recv_line failed
Stratum connection interrupted

I tried temporarily from different networks (usa, europe, asia, etc). it seems to happen regardless of where my miner traffic originates from.. i wonder if pool can handle all the workers?

is anyone else seeing the disconnect?

4) i let some miners run overnight and I think invalid shares is high again. out of 1050 submitted / only 1010 accepted. So, something like 96.1% accept rate. saturday day worked very good. but saturday night maybe more people joined pool, i don't know.

1)  Its now : sendgscc instead of 'exec sendgscc', so you can type for example:  sendgscc pog 100, that would send a donation of 100 bbp to the foundation.
2)  If you leave the miner running on one thread with the wallet unlocked, it will send one sendgscc out every 12 hrs.
3)  You can try to type : exec join pog,  and it will throw an error if you already joined.

External CPU Miner
1.0.0.9-Leisure Upgrade

- Ensure time is encoded properly for both stratum & non-stratum modes

** Ok everyone, the 1008 version is really not a working release.  I believe this version actually addresses the problem; please try now. **

BiblePay - External CPU Miner
1.0.0.8-Leisure Upgrade

- Prevent submitting duplicate shares
- Handle time encoding correctly

** Ok guys, it appears the lions share of the problem with the pool was the time encoding and submission of duplicate shares.  Please upgrade the external miner, and try again with Nomp, lets see if the valid share percentages rise now. **

*** ABN (Anti-bot-net changes) - ABN is no longer required ***



All, we have been discussing potential future growth changes for BBP: https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=461.msg6381#msg6381
and following the suggestions from the DSS model, showing that we need a positive UPD (+1 or more new user per day), and also with the complexity of requiring people to unlock wallets and support ABNs in the pool(s) is probably not worth the benefit, since we are going to be moving to a new environment soon with stronger anti-bot-net possibilities (rewards for cancer mining/aids, limiting rewards to PODC, etc).

In light of this, I have disabled ABN (the sanctuary vote is largely pointing to this).  This is primarily being done now - so the devs can finish the NOMP pool now with simplicity in mind for the new users.

So, starting now, you no longer need an ABN to mine BBP.  The NOMP pool has been updated to pay equally. 

You may now move to the easy setup, and you no longer need to send single threaded abn's to pool.biblepay.org to mine.

The easy start guide has been modified for NOMP.

Pool.biblepay.org is being modified now to make payouts equal across the board.

(I am analyzing nomp's share rejects today, and will make a post ASAP about that).

BiblePay - Core Wallet
1.4.5.1-Leisure Upgrade

- Prevent wallet from crashing when using getblock to query a block with
missing element

** Release Ready **

For Nomp, it only takes the BBP address currently.  For example here is my command line for windows:

bbpminer-x86.exe -ostratum+tcp://nomp.biblepay.org:3008 --user=BEsraanMpV3tzQ4dhJV1y9EkdEvf8MonF8

BiblePay - External Miner
1.0.0.7-Leisure Upgrade

- Fix windows crash
- Fix issue where miner discards fresh work
- Deal with block size dynamically, to avoid memory problems.


https://github.com/biblepay/cpuminer/tree/master/binaries


** The updated server side NOMP code has just been released, so please, start testing over again and let's look at the ABN shares vs. worker shares as we solve them and verify these are incrementing correctly now.

Please upgrade to the new miner before NOMP mining as the prior version(s) had a work discard bug.

** BiblePay - New NOMP Pool - Opening in BETA mode for testing **



I am proud to announce our new NOMP pool is now opening in Beta mode.

You must use the BBP external miner to mine against our NOMP pool (as nomp requires stratum).

Note, that ABN's are going to be supported, however today all the shares temporarily pay the same amount (as ABN is not configured on the server side yet).

The goal today is to ensure the shares are being accepted in prod, the miners do not crash in stratum mode, the miners continually receive new work, and that we can actually solve blocks in prod.  Also, we need to ensure payouts work correctly from the NOMP side.

Regarding payouts:  NOMP pays every 15 minutes, but does require each solved block to be fully matured; here is an example of how your payout would work:
Miner A solves block 100,000.  NOMP records this miners shares and BBP address in the database (even if you stop mining, NOMP will remember your work).
At block 100,120, NOMP will see the block has matured.  Within 30 minutes, it will distribute all of the payouts (for every share that participated in that block).
So from a high level, you will be paid about 12 hours later for shares you solved.

WEB SITE URL:

http://nomp.biblepay.org

I have added some preliminary instructions on how to mine against NOMP on the home page.  Please see the wiki.

Basic configuration from our external miner:

https://wiki.biblepay.org/Nomp_mining
(See the Easy setup section)


As soon as ABN is configured on the server, I will post and explain how you can see your ABN status and ABN payout information, etc.

BiblePay - External CPU Miner
1.0.0.6-Mandatory upgrade for Miners

- Prevent crash during big blocks

Binaries:

https://github.com/biblepay/cpuminer/tree/master/binaries

Biblepay CPU Miner
1.0.0.2-Leisure Upgrade

- Fix memory corruption error causing a crash
- Handle no work received

I cant say 100% the problem is resolved (as the valgrind trace was very vague), but this is the new version Im testing with tonight:
https://github.com/biblepay/cpuminer/tree/master/binaries

Feel free to upgrade and join me.

*** External POBH (Heat/POW) miner being released now for testing in Prod or TestNet ***

Remember you will need to upgrade biblepay to 1.4.5.0+ first before you can use this miner (that release will be out shortly).  And, this release will only work in solo mining mode (so please comment out the pool entries).  And, you will need a self-funded abn, and the wallet unlocked for mining (so the internal core can create ABNs when needed).

1)  Repo for the new bbp-miner.exe:
https://github.com/biblepay/cpuminer

2) To build it yourself:
https://github.com/biblepay/cpuminer/blob/master/BuildingBBPMiner.txt

3) Binaries for Windows and for Linux (x86_64):
https://github.com/biblepay/cpuminer/tree/master/binaries

Windows Link:
https[Suspicious link removed]

Linux link:
https://github.com/biblepay/cpuminer/blob/master/binaries/bbpminer_linux

For more distros we will need to ask MIP to help us.

USAGE INSTRUCTIONS (SOLO MINING):

./bbpminer -o127.0.0.1:rpc_port_number -uYour_RPC_Username -pYour_RPC_Password --no-longpoll

BiblePay Configuration file (biblepay.conf):
server=1
rpcport=14000 (or your own number)
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcuser=your_rpc_username
rpcpassword=your_rpc_password


Please post if you have any trouble and we can all try to help.

BiblePay
1.4.5.0-Leisure Upgrade

- Add getblockforstratum rpc call to help support external cpu miner
(bbpminer.exe)
- Add exec pobh call for dev use (this allows us to test bible hashes
manually)
-  Fix instantsend GUI confirmation for signed/accepted IXs
- Add icon for decentralized network
- Increase IX timeout for locks and sigs
- Decrease memory consumption for votes and decrease network utilization
(Remove duplicate votes)


** This is the windows release; MIP will post when the rest of the binaries are ready **

** Now windows users, we can test mining with windows bbp-miner.exe against this windows build **

*** HOW To:  Cameroon One additional Payment option directly from the core wallet ***


We already have about 12 children being sponsored in POOM.

Now you can pay in BBP using a dedicated command!

From the rpc type:

exec paycameroon childid USD_AMOUNT test
(Note: To find your childid, type listchildren).

Specify the amount in USD, for example:
exec paycameroon 123aaa 40 test

The console will show you the amount in BBP (at the midpoint of our current market rate) that will be sent to Cameroon.
If you authorize it, re-execute the command with "authorize" at the end:
exec paycameroon 123aaa 40 authorize

Cameroon will be able to run a report that shows the TXID and the ChildID and amount - this way it will be easy for them to match up the childid-payments for BBP.

If anyone wants to set up a Sanc in MainNet (Prod) on a non-standard port, it's OK to do so now, since we pushed this feature in the new mandatory and the vote has won.

To do this:
On the Sanctuary, pick a nonstandard port # (IE like 10000).
Set "port=10000" (or your chosen #) in the biblepay.conf.
On the controller, change the ":40000" in the masternode.conf file to the correct port # chosen above.
Everything else should work as previously described.