I think the most difficult thing about new exchange listing is that there has to be something in it for the exchange. It is possible through regular communication, and work, that there would be listings - however, in this day and age exchanges want to now give exposure to companies which run projects, which is a far far cry from the ethos of the era which this project originated.

Sorry to hear . Happy to catch up with you.

  excited to see a reboot

Improper shutdown USUALLY is the case that causes it 99% of the time. If you got a power out, held the shutdown button, closed you laptop lid (more common), that will all cause database corruption.

No it isn't necessary.

Hey all,

Been a while since I have done this. These last year has been a bit weird, regarding the price, regarding the community with rat4 launching Blacknet, Janko working on new things. It left many wondering "So, what is Blackcoin going to do now? Is this... It?".

It's not it. There still is a community actively building Blackcoin, with a new team under the name of "More", not to be confused with "Lore", Janko's protocol implementation.

For the past few months I have been helping guide lateminer address bugs and issues that were in Lore, including adding some other updates that he or I thought were appropriate. Everything was carefully considered, checked and then tested.

So finally! Blackcoin More is here! Get it now at http://blackcoinmore.org  or http://Blackcoin.org .  This is a very positive milestone for the Blackcoin community fully committing to continue what was left behind. It will be replacing Blackcoin Lore.

We thank the community for helping test this release.

Hey rat4, can I suggest not to use the Jelurida license as it isn't OSD compliant? This will make Blacknet -not- open source.

It breaks rules 1 and 10

1. Free Redistribution
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

10. License Must Be Technology-Neutral
No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface.

See definition of open source here: https://opensource.org/osd/

Airdrop of 10% or whatever the number was, to original source is a royalty to holders, thus making it not technology-neutral as it references a singular original code.

Well, no exchanges need to be informed in advance for a snapshot and wanted to know if there will be a rescheduling for another snapshot as they need to halt wallets for a period as they too need to snapshot. That's standard. You were not communicating with me so we couldn't work together on that. The problem is, people will go to them and ask for their Blacknet coins. They would need to know when exactly the snapshot had been done. They do have a process for that.

Side note, I have been following Blacknet development, I agree with much of rat4's independent research and improvements over the regular Bitcoin-like code. They are a step in the right direction and a great improvement.

With the burning, I think, it was a good compromise the more I had thought about it. It still does serve a generally positive purpose.

I do think that the Jelurida license is maybe a bit controversial however I get why you went into that direction. I don't know if it had caused a positive impact of NXT or not. Only their own project has been a fork of NXT, and no others, I don't think. If someone forks a project, I see it as a compliment? (But I would be pissed as I'd prefer them to help haha!) Personally, I'd prefer an anti-ICO clause, where the work can not be sold for profit in an initial coin offering. If you are interested, I could ask a lawyer friend of mine if they would be up for writing one?

No, someone is just moving a bunch of small txs of BLK right now for some odd reason. The rewards from that has gone up. There a few metrics which measure if a project is undervalued and blockchain use is one of them. I imagine that they are artificially inflated that value to draw investment.

Janko and I speak all the time, Lateminer is still doing updates, I'm trying to get work developments out of the way so that I can complete the major overhaul of original Blackcoin code. It just needs one last thing done to it.

Hey all,

Its been a while and I have been neglecting the community here on reddit. A lot of things are new, I'll try to keep it as brief as possible.



"My client is saying something about an 'IBO' wtf is this shit? Is Blackcoin DOOMED?!"

Well, fear you not. Blackcoin is still going forward, but as Blackcoin Lore. The IBO message is relating to rat4's new project of which he is working towards. I wish him all the best on that. The #1 question that I get though, "Should I burn my BLK?" I will give a suggestion that I hope others will find fair.

Blacknet is experimental, not yet released, not yet proven, so if you are willing to risk some of your BLK to be a part of something new, then go do so. Should you expect that it gets released? To a degree, yes. Rat4 always has done well. For me personally, I hadn't burnt my BLK as I am skeptical on the distribution and community upon release. However, I do not want to deter anyone from not participating if they can afford the risks associated with new technology.



"What in the fak is going on with development? Is Blackcoin DOOMED!?"

Janko departed to work on some exclusive blockchain projects of which he had told me about. I'm excited for him and again, wish him all the best. He handed me the title of Lore to continue. Now at the time, I hadn't expected rat4 to also call it off. Lateminer and myself have taken up development under "Lore".



"What does that mean for the original wallet? Is Blackcoin DOOMED!?"

No, not at all. So this maybe a little confusing but bear with me. Rat4's client will continue as Blackcoin Lore. This is the same as how Bitcoin Core treated Bitcoin upon Satoshi's departure. There will be two identities of Blackcoin. The protocol, and the software. The protocol always and will always belong to you, the community. That will always be shaped in the way that holders of BLK will believe is best for BLK. However Lore will be under direction of us to maintain consistency.



To further confuse things, and I'm sorry, Lore previously meant Blackcoin stuff on later Bitcoin. This hasn't been a direction that I had agreed with. Sure the core is stable to that of Bitcoin, but you also share the vulnerabilities. I really do believe that the direction is going forward with rat4's old client and having BLK adapt to it's own challenges. Therefore, Lore is becoming Blackcoin "More" and rat4's client is becoming "Blackcoin Lore". Both of which will be developed by the same team. Consider More as a temporary bridge while Lore goes forward as I understand that there are some serious updates that BLK needs that More provides right now.



"I keep up to date and have known about this for the past month or so! What is really going on?"

Well, I and others need to eat and build ourselves before we can work on projects such as BLK, especially taking over development which is massive. Lateminer has been working every evening on fixing up More while I had to take a break on updating rat4's client to be more 'modern' and with it. The project shift couldn't of come at a worse time for myself as I have been trying to launch a product for my business and couldn't delegate more time than I'd like to. But, delegating time I am.

So updates on this:- Lateminer is pushing a new Blackcoin More release this week.- The new Blackcoin Lore wallet, continuation of the old wallet, has a massive new build and RPC API overhaul.- The RPC API isn't complete yet, I just need to finish it off, then we should expect a new release of BLK Lore.

Things are still happening. But thats just development, you can't focus on development and not anything else.



"Is Blackcoin going to be delisted from X? Is Blackcoin DOOMED!?"

No, likely not. We have strong ties to the best leaders in the industry of which we are currently on.

Bittrex - The most advanced exchange in legal for the US

CoinEgg - Chinese community exchange

ShapeShift - Instant conversion to Blackcoin

cryptoID - Long time friends of Blackcoin for the block explorer with a few BLK specific features

Coinomi - The multi wallet kings from Spain

CoinGecko - Bobby and crew from Malaysia, the best coin market cap tracker. We are planning on doing some giveaways with them shortly.



"Why no Binance?"

Well though I do see that Binance is vastly popular, we have to consider legalities of platforms. Binance doesn't have a jurisdiction of which they are lawful to. We don't know where their servers are at. Their employees are mostly private. Those raise red flags to me. That doesn't mean that I am against it. I wouldn't mind putting in a request however, I'm not ready to stick to a strict weekly update that they require until my company's project is launched and new Lore and More is out. At that point, we will update them weekly as well as provide them all information that they require on a regular basis of which we do for every other service of which we are on.



"But the ranking of BLK! WTF!?"

Yeah, I get that. Honestly, I'm not surprised. BLK really nose dived after China called it quits on crypto. 80% of our volume was there and we had the strongest ties with that community. It was devastating and heart breaking to see it collapse almost overnight. The QQ group and Wechat group is still around, still have some die hards. I'm not surprised it had happened.



"We have not heard from you where had you been!?"

Well, I had wanted to walk away from BLK a few times. Usually if there is a team taking care of the project, I feel as if I can focus more on my company. Yet, hadn't left. Mostly everyone else left, I'm still here. I have been keeping the twitter and other things going and as well as established the Proof of Stake Alliance with other projects such as PIVX, Peercoin, Komodo, Navcoin, BitBay, Particle, Phore etc. and we all keep regularly in touch almost every day.



"So what does the Proof of Stake Alliance do?"

Well, all the devs can pool resources together to make the core technology even more sound. While we believe that 3.0 is safe and doesn't have any serious flaws, we do want to improve on it. We are working on a sort of PoS 3.1 which will be basically a total overhaul of the structure of PoS instead of actually changing the security of it.



"PoS 3.1??! Sounds exciting!"

Yes, we originally were running with the name of PoS 4.0 but, since it isn't a security upgrade, but still massive, we decided not to call it that unless there actually is a reason to update the security to ensure that the coin is protected.



"I have a question!"

Leave it below.



I really don't want to let anyone down, or left feeling insecure with their choice on Blackcoin. Its been a rough few months, but we will all pull through.



- Gritt N. Auld

Nobody is forcing you, others and myself are continuing the Blackcoin project. Don't ever feel like anyone is forcing you to do anything. You bring up legitimate concerns. If you don't feel comfortable, you can keep staking your Blackcoin because we are still around to keep it moving.

So, proof of stake itself is a dapp, much like how the blockchain is the dapp store. Yeah, I can agree with that. The blockchain doesn't need PoS or PoW, it could exist if everyone was honest. Adding that layer of Proof of Stake is a dapp layered to secure and incentivise the network.

It is interesting to me because I'm kind of visioning this to be essentially a chain that can transfer unrestricted information at a cost of the coin which gets paid in a data tx transfer fee. Then a PoS dapp as a means of embedded incentive and security.

My only concern is, that ETH can hardly run CryptoKitties at its peak. That was only 1 popular dApp. The severe bottleneck that I really do believe that you should address.

I could backtrack a little and add stuff. I have been trying to get through a bunch of life stuff right now though, but its ok, you don't need to donate if I get it out before someone else. I was so close to getting it sorted but then the RPC API, can't remember the name of the one that we are using now, wouldn't compile. I got the wallet and everything else fixed up to that point, including a new build system.

Hey rat4, the IBO alert you pushed out crashed every node into safemode (So exchanges, cryptoid). Much love to you and I know that you had a chuckle, but you ruined my last hour =(.

Sounds good to me!

Janko told me it has been fixed for a while, I still am unsure what it is, but Lore will be moving into a continuation of rat4's codebase. More is the 0.13 - 0.16 BTC release. More will only be temporary and should only be considered experimental. Generally, the latest rat4 release should be considered safer for now.

Interesting I hadn't looked fully into PoS 3.0 clearly.

Will you then be leaning towards security deposits like XTZ / ETH?

Hmm, then thats a different matter, I'm not doubting you. I hadn't realised that was your conclusion., The inputs that PoS requires doesn't exist on an account based model. So unless you are getting provably randomised inputs from somewhere, then it is possible to do Peercoin-like PoS on account based systems. This isn't an area that I have dived into because I don't believe in an account based model. I am very curious to see what you do with it. Also am curious of your conclusion that PoS is like a dapp when I tend to think of it as a method of security.

Brother, I have yet to see your research. How can I argue with it?