Loki has now rebranded to Oxen

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It’s finally here. Meet Session.

Session is the next chapter for Loki Messenger.

Read more:

https://loki.network/2019/12/13/rebranding-loki-messenger/

Follow Session on socials:

T: twitter.com/session_app
F: facebook.com/sessionmessenger

Are you still having this problem with the wallet?

Obviously I can't speak for Piratechain, but Loki does have private-by-default transactions. We use ring signatures, stealth addresses, and RingCT to serve private transactions. I am happy to explain any of these concepts if you need, or you can find them in our white paper. A lot of these features have been pulled from Monero, so if you are familiar with that project then a lot of these concepts will be familiar. A key difference is that our ring sizes are fixed (whereas in the past Monero's have been dynamic), which helps to prevent users from getting fingerprinted.

We have also recently enabled checkpointing. Checkpointing further secures the blockchain and helps to protect it from 51% attacks.

Loki has its very first Tether pairing on Bihodl!

Now you can trade LOKI with USDT.

https://bihodl.com/#/exchange/loki_usdt

I am actually not entirely sure of the answer to this one, but if you join our mining group on Telegram, you will be able to get some help there.

The Loki Foundation has approved LIP-5.

The Loki team will work on transitioning to a full Proof of Stake consensus mechanism throughout 2020.

We're still gathering feedback on how to distribute the remaining mining reward.

Have your say: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-improvement-proposals/issues/10

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Hey Y’all,

Last week we released the Trusty Tyr 5.1.1 Binaries. All Service Nodes, mining pools and exchanges will need to update to these new binaries before block height 385824 (est. 7PM AEDT, 2019-10-23). Currently, approximately 78% of Service Nodes have upgraded, so if you are operating a Service Node, make sure you update in the next week so you stay on the correct chain.

In other news, the Loki Messenger team has sidelined multi device work for now since a key team member is on holidays. Instead, the Loki Messenger team are working on File attachments, profile pictures and @mentions, which should be delivered in a new release shortly. 

Loki Core

RPC updates for ed/x25519 keys https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/880
Simplified get_transfers and fix segfault https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/890
Ubuntu Xenial build fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/889
Travis CI/build fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/888 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/887
Fix versioning https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/886
Increase uptime proof credit to a maximum cap of 48 hours (from 24 hours) https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/882
Enforce new uptime proof versioning https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/881
Change operator fee prompt during setup https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/879
Turn staking requirement into integer math variant https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/877
Dont send an uptime proof until lokid hears from Storage Server https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/874
Upstream RandomX simplifications https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/873
Backports from Quourmnet branch https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/872

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Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord you can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am – 12pm Eastern (US) time.


What Went on Last Week with Lokinet:


We merged a significant batch of performance improvements for Lokinet, which should allow for better performance scaling, particularly on multi-core machines.

Work continues on implementing a Lokinet GUI, which will allow desktop users to easily control and view their Lokinet connection stats. This requires the underlying Lokinet daemon to be securely controlled by another process (the GUI), so we will need to do some rearchitecting of the Lokinet internals to allow for that. The plan here is for the interface to be used in both the GUI and also via a `lokinetctl` command-line tool that will allow command-line users (such as Linux greybeards and SNApp admins) to control some portions of Lokinet without having to edit config files.


PR Activity:

Huge PR for performance improvements including: multithreaded cryptography, public key pinning, multi-acknowledgement commands. This PR ended up being much larger than intended. It took a long time to review, so Jeff has promised to try to avoid such big PRs in the future. Note that this PR also introduces a protocol change that will make 0.6.x lokinet connections incompatible with 0.5.x lokinet connections  (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/850)
Another multithreaded performance improvement (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/861)
Work continues on developing a GUI interface for controlling Lokinet from the desktop (no PR yet).
Reorganized cmake to better split up cmake scripts into multiple appropriate directories, and rename lokinet-rcutil to lokinetctl (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/856)
Added ability to retrieve own address via lokinetctl (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/857)
Fixes to support building on Ubuntu 16.04 (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/863)
Export info on number of known nodes via rpc (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/862)
Make Windows installer include required utilities, and other Windows build fixes (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/864, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/859)
Improve code documentation (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/860)

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Loki Messenger for Desktop

Check against null message body when detecting metions https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/559
Add ability to join custom public chat servers  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/557
Prevent chat members public key from overflowing https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/558
Cherrypick start multi2 commits https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/556

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Loki Storage Server

Version 1.0.7 Released https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/releases/tag/v1.0.7

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Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

Loki Messenger for iOS:

Mentions version 1 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/56
Add ability to join custom public chat servers https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/57
Loki Messenger for Android:

Add ability to join custom public chat servers https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/35
Mentions version 1 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/33

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Thanks, 

Kee

No worries at all! Glad it's all working.

It's possible the remote node you are connected to is slow, so you can try changing it. Otherwise, if you are restoring from a seed, try to make sure that the block height you restore from is from just slightly before you generated the wallet.

For example, if you generated a wallet 3 weeks ago, set the restore block height to 357,000, which is roughly 4 weeks ago

We are very active in development, constant updates in Loki Messenger, core, and Lokinet. Loki Messenger especially has gotten some really big updates lately, so I think this has generated a lot of confidence.

Service node numbers are going up and up too, we are sitting at 879 (which I think is an all time high) as of this post.

As far as I know, it was only ETH and ERC20 tokens that were stolen in the Cryptopia hack, not LOKI.

I can't speak for what is going to happen for people who had holdings on Cryptopia, this is the latest on what they had to say.

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Hey Y’all,

Last week we released a new LIP discussing ‘Pulse’: a proposed proof of stake protocol for Loki. You can read that here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-improvement-proposals/blob/master/LIPS/LIP-5.md. We also continued to move towards the 5.0.0 release for Loki Core, which adds checkpointing and a number of other features. Keep your ear to the ground for the testnet announcement…some bounties will be available.

Loki Core

Quorum Net (Communication framework for Blink): https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/844
Don’t form invalid block_extended_infos: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/852
Add testnet checkpoints and enable checkpoints with .json file formatting: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/851
Switch to using validators for checkpoints: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/850
Fix bans taking ports into account: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/849
Update Service Node + Governance reward core test: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/848
Print height in checkpointing errors: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/853
Include tip of chain when recalculating difficulty: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/847
Use pre-penalty base reward for calculating non-miner block rewards: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/846
Increase robustness of uptime proof relaying: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/845
Report potential decommissions and recommissions for a node: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/843
Enforce checkpoint quorums min size and soft fork it for testnet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/842
Make empty quorum if height is checkpointable but insufficient nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/854

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Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord you can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am – 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What Went on Last Week with Lokinet:

We finally fixed an issue that had been plaguing Lokinet for several weeks! Connections to a remote Lokinet node would timeout for a few seconds every 10 minutes when a Lokinet client changed to a new path (particularly noticeable on long-running pings)…We’re putting out a minor point release (0.5.2) to address this. The Lokinet devs are also set to conduct their first ever weekly dev meeting using voice chat over Lokinet.

PR Activity:

Statically link release binaries by default: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/829
Major refactoring work to improve performance for 0.6: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/830 (the PR was closed but is still being worked out and will be back)
Handover drop fixes causing the timeouts mentioned above: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/834, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/836
Finish removal of libutp (most of it was already removed before the v0.5.0 release): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/833
Prepare 0.5.2 for release: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/837, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/838
Change how webhooks are invoked to make them spam the discord channel less: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/839
Ongoing work to batch packet acknowledgements to reduce bandwidth used by Lokinet traffic (particular for asymmetric speed connections)  (No PR yet)

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Loki Messenger for Desktop

Custom UI rendering of mentions: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/520
Add annotation endpoint and LokiFIleServerAPI: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/518
Sign public chat messages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/517
Only display signed messages in group chat: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/517
Add support for using and displaying messages with Markdown formatting: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/516
Add analytics collection for Loki Messenger for Desktop: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/512
Remove rejected authorisations from database: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/519
Add UI elements for searching and selecting members in a group chat: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/513
Show paired devices menu: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/509

Loki Storage Server

Fix inactive nodes not responding to reachability tests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/277

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Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

What Went on Last Week with Loki Messenger:

Multi-device is now mostly finished on desktop, and last week our primary focus was on integrating that work into our mobile platforms. We also looked into some ways to support attachments and share multi device mappings, which should be integrated over the next few weeks/months. 

Loki Messenger for iOS:

Begin code changes necessary for Multi device support: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/55, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/54, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/53, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/52
Allow rendering of GIF’s thorough Giphy: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/51
Loki Messenger for Android:

Add multi device database support: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/26
Add support for GIF rendering through Giphy: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/25

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Thanks, 

Kee

As Kang already said, Loki is not listed on OKEX, so the impact should be minimal.

I do absolutely agree with you on this. Ideally, we would only be using Loki_Project. Unfortunately, at the moment this isn't possible. We are working on a solution, but for now I will be posting all of the updates in this thread. Hopefully we will be able to post from the original account in the future.

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Hey Y’all,

Last week we stepped up work on Loki Core, with the final set of changes being merged in ahead of the testnet fork, enabling protections against checkpointing edge cases. Loki Messenger got a new release too – there’ll be many more over the next few months. Finally, Lokinet shifted gears into investigating and implementing various performance optimisations, decreasing CPU and Bandwidth usage for clients and routers.

Loki Core

Merge upstream changes from Monero to bring us inline with the latest features: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/836
Fix GCC warnings: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/840
Check wallet is connected before entering exception functions: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/838
Rescan difficulty periodically, fix incorrect timestamps/difficulties in rescan: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/835
Don’t verify checkpoints until after hardfork 13: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/834
Add section for hardfork dates https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/833
Don’t process unsupported transactions in wallet2: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/832
Disallow duplicate state changes for IP addresses across blocks: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/831
Clean and refactor Core tests to make testing checkpointing easier: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/830
Check checkpoints along alt chain if missing from alt db: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/829
Store alternate checkpoints in the database to be applied on reorganisations: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/827

Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord you can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am – 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What Went on Last Week with Lokinet:

We officially released the public beta (v0.5.1, with a couple of last-minute fixes to the tagged-but-not-announced v0.5.0 release). Please test out this Lokinet release and let us know how things are working for you!

Focus is now shifting to various performance improvements and other enhancements for a 0.6.0 release sometime next month. We’ve opened a slew of github issues to track various issues we want to address either in the 0.6 release or beyond on the issue board: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/issues. We’re also internally working with marketing to improve the information available on Lokinet.org – so expect to see changes there in the near future.

PR Activity:

Disable RC expiration – this makes a Lokinet that hasn’t been used in a few days still usable with re-bootstrapping: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/814
Eliminated some superfluous log messages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/815
Prune DHT peers – this fixes a bug where a router that appears for a while and then goes offline wasn’t being properly forgotten by the network: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/819
Remove some ugly pre-built windows binaries from the repository (building them during compilation instead): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/818
Include libuv in the macOS package for systems that don’t have it: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/822

Loki Messenger for Desktop

Filter duplicate messages in the public chat: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/508
Shorten displayed public keys in replies: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/503
Pass server ID back to Server: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/502
[Multi-device] Search returns primary device conversation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/501
Fix unnecessary link preview fetches: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/500
[Multi-device] Auto friend request to sync contacts: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/499
Give moderators badges: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/498
[Multi-device] Ensure API objects are inited only once: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/497
[Multi-device] Ensure the latest contact signed prekey is used: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/495
Fix last hash all being NULL in database: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/494
Make sure we are always updating the last deleted id: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/493

Loki Storage Server

Fix crash when expire() was called: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/276

Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

What Went on Last Week with Loki Messenger:

Last week we released a platform wide update here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/releases/latest. This introduced a number of requested features, including link previews, specific-message replies, conversation searching, and moderator tags. Stay tuned for more updates coming soon!

Loki Messenger for iOS:

Add Moderator tags: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/50
Stop polling group chat upon deletion: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/49
Loki Messenger for Android:

Correctly show reply author: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/23
Fix infinite sends: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/24
Various bug fixes: Fix link preview messages not being deleted in group chats; Fix constant group update notifications being show; Disable notification triggers on group messages; Stop pollers once user has left group chat: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/22

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Thanks, 

Kee