Boolberry.com



We have a Cross-platform qt GUI(Windows/Linux/MacOS)

      


How To Help
Add to the Stratum Miner Bounty
Add to the GPU Miner Bounty


Specifications
Launch Date: 17 May 16:00 GMT
Algorithm:  Wild Keccak (Blockchain-Based PoW hash)
Block Generation:  2 minutes
Money Supply:  ~18,450,000
Premine:  0
Default P2P Port:  10101
Default RPC Port: 10102
Developer Bounty:  up to 1% (Controlled by miner's votes)


Boolberry Compared to Bitcoin
In comparison to Bitcoin forks, Boolberry is developed on newer CryptoNote technology, making it of more flexible architecture. The main benefit of CryptoNote technology is anonymity of the sender and recipient along with transaction unlinkability. This provides great protection to user's privacy which is highly important today.

Boolberry benefits:

• New cryptography based on ring signature and one-time transaction key, which ensures new level of privacy, anonymity and unlinkability
• Separate Wallet and daemon which is more secure and cloud technology compatible
• Flexible RPC-like network protocol with forward and backward capability provides ability to extend network interaction format quickly and painlessly
• New ASIC-resistant hash function

Boolberry Compared to Bytecoin/Monero
Benefits of Boolberry over Bytecoin and Monero:

• Blockchain-based PoW hash: unlike Bytecoin PoW hash, which works on 2MB scratchpad and takes avr 30-100 ms, new hash works on blockchain random data to provide operation speed. At the same time mining process is really memory-hard. It gives faster synchronization with network and immunity from DoS attacks.
• Transaction outs with guaranteed anonymity. An additional attribute for out is added: it can ONLY be used in the transaction with mixin level in ring signature not less than a given number. The feature is added to ensure the user's anonymity of transactions ring signature over time.
• Alerts (signed by developers) broadcast via p2p mechanism, which will inform participants of the network of critical updates or other important events
• Donation-based crowdfunding: the project don't have premine, instamine or other unfair launch. The project has open and transparent model of project financing: part of the emission (1%) is reserved for the development of the project, BUT the rate of emission of these coins will be controled by network participants (miners) using votes.
  As a tribute to technology, we have fixed royalty percentage of donation, charged to the founders of CryptoNote.
• Removed dust from block reward - nice little thing to reduce weight of the blockchain transactions outs index.
• Wallet addresses aliasing: any wallet can be linked with symbolic name via special type extra record in coinbase. Blockchain will control registered names uniqueness.
• More rational emission curve
• Transaction identification by prefix: this feature will let us to cut off ring signatures from blockchain that under checkpoint - save space by 30-70%(depends of mixin usage)

Contact Information
crypto_zoidberg - inspirer and developer
btc-mike - organisation and promotion


Technical Details

Block Emission

        

Wild Keccak PoW Algorithm
Wild Keccak is a Keccak hybrid which uses blockchain data as a scratchpad. After each Keccak round, pseudo-randomly addressed data [state vector used as addresses] data is taken from scratchpad and XORed with state. Calculating each block PoW usually hits about 1100 randomly addressed reading of blocks by 32 bytes.

Pre-launch hash function discussion: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=588421.0

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Downloads
Sources: https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/Boolberry
Windows & MacOS Binaries: http://boolberry.com/downloads.html


Tools
Network State: http://boolberry.com/state.html
Bug-track: https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/Boolberry/issues
How-To: http://boolberry.com/howto.html


Pools
ExtremePool
Mine-Hard
bbr.moneropool.net
bbr.farm
 

Exchanges
Poloniex
Bittrex


History
April 20: This announce
April 23: Transaction Outs
April 26: Alpha testing, first test network launched
April 27: Added Mac OSX support
April 30: Address aliases added.
May 1: Alerts added. Developer signed alerts can be broadcast via p2p mechanism
May 3: UPnP support added.
May 9: Wild Keccak PoW Hash finalized.
May 13: Beta testing. Test network started with Wild Keccak, State page launched: http://boolberry.com/state.html
May 17 16:00 GMT: NETWORK LAUNCHED
May 21: Allowable characters restricted in aliases to avoid spoofing, pfishing, etc. Other updates.
May 23: Updated state page.
May 25: Added Checkpoints. Block peers that violate rules. Other updates.
June 1: API updated to work with exchanges. Added to Bittrex and Poloniex exchanges.
June 5: Pool code released
June 16: GUI wallet beta release.


Future
Stratum - Need for pools and to remove GPU advantage.
GUI Wallet - Test and refine.
Database - The current implementation does not contain a database for blockchain. Now all the data is stored in memory, and is periodically ( every 12 hours) saved to the disk via the serialization mechanism, which is not very efficient. For the first year, this will not cause any problems, but they might appear later on. Therefore we plan to implement a database in the first quarter. If there are any volunteers with strong background in this field, willing to help, we will be happy to cooperate.


License
License of course is open and any forks that implement interesting ideas on the basis of our project are welcome!


Donations:
BTC: 1JjGoHdzP5HvtyEZ6MN9LXbh8uTDVgrPY9
BBR: @zoidberg