Quote from: Rigorous on July 30, 2019, 01:18:11 PM

Quote from: Sozialtourist on July 30, 2019, 11:08:36 AM

Quote from: Rigorous on July 29, 2019, 02:07:21 PM

They are more active on Telegram and GitHub.

A few days ago they launched the Dusk testnet. I tried to build a node, but ran into some problems. I reported those problems on Telegram which led them to discover some bugs which they fixed overnight and in the weekend. Most issues are already closed:

https://github.com/dusk-network/dusk-blockchain/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+

So did you manage to set up a testnet node in the end? It would be interesting to know if any major problems appeared during the testnet phase that could potentially postpone the release of their mainnet.

Yes I did. Although I did not manage to build the blindbid module necessary to participate in consensus myself yet, a binary release is included in the Dusk core. I could build the node after the team fixed the imports.

In fact, you do not have to build the node yourself. You can download a pre-built node.

I stopped running the node because currently it uses quite a lot of bandwidth. Several gigabytes a day. If you have unlimited data, that is no concern of course. It is a drop in a bucket compared to streaming 4K video.

Bandwith wouldn't be the problem for me but I don't have have any technical background at all, so I would probably need an ELI5 guide to set up a node. And after reading your Github conversation with one of the devs, I am pretty sure I wouldn't be any help at all Grin

I just hope that the testnet doesn't reveal any major problems and that we will have their mainnet soon.