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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed Since 2014
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sonoIO
on 31/07/2019, 13:13:44 UTC
.........
I copied Dedian-9 template to Standalone-VM, and installed BBR in it following instructions from BBR README.md for Unix server version(without GUI). The message also occurred first time i started a daemon, after it downloaded data4.mdb.pak.
I have that OS on two machines, same thing

I think it could be related with "-march" option in clang/gcc compiler. If it still makes sense, you can try explicitly configure it with passing ARCH variable, try to pass  "-D ARCH=native".
Let me know if it worked or not if you find time to try.

Mistery solved, neither time i gave it enough head room to unpak downloaded pak Smiley
So, that message is displayed when it runs out of disk space when bootstraping with mdb.pak mechanism, at least in a virtual machine
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed Since 2014
by
sonoIO
on 30/07/2019, 17:50:10 UTC
So how am I supposed to swap boolberry to zano? I downloaded the latest boolberry wallet and it ran for about 3 hours dowloading database or something till it completed and now it is stuck saying "connecting" for more than an hour and says connecting "connections 0", "height 0",  "software version --". Nothing is happening.

Hi wixie!
Try to remove p2pstate.bin file. Sorry about that issue, this is happening because in p2pstate.bin you have a lot of old nodes that are not online anymore. Actually was thinking about that long time,  created a ticket in github: https://github.com/hyle-team/zano/issues/71


Hey, I removed the p2pstate.bin file and the GUI wallet started downloading precompiled database and after completing that started synchronizing but it's really slow and at this rate it's going to take weeks to synchronize even if I left my computer running night and day.

Hi, I made a new build with new pre-downloaded blockchain, this should get online in 20-30 minutes after downloaded blockchain.

https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/boolberry/releases/tag/v0.3.0.96


Hi to all

From a latest daemon i get
Code:
$ ./boolbd
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.698023 Starting...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.699264 Boolberry v0.3.0.95(2256653)
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.699818 Module folder: ./boolbd
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.701058 Pre-download not needed(db size=6503600128)
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.701424 Initializing p2p server...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.702680 Binding on 0.0.0.0:10101
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.703490 Net service binded on 0.0.0.0:10101
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.703854 P2p server initialized OK on port: 10101
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.704110 Starting UPnP
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.704446 Initializing currency protocol...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.704697 Currency protocol initialized OK
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.704929 Initializing core rpc server...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.705139 Binding on 127.0.0.1:10102
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.705509 Core rpc server initialized OK on port: 10102
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.705610 Initializing core...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.705758 Loading blockchain...
Bus error

With regards to July 30th, it may be that not all BBR holders are aware that a deadline is already fixed, and so close Smiley


did you get this solved?... if not message one of the Mod's on Discord we can help faster over there Smiley

We have never seen anything like that before, what OS and hardware conf you have? You can contact me on discord to provide details or DM here.

It was Debian 9 in a virtual machine, switched to real machine and it works Smiley
I forgot how fast BBR refreshes wallet even on low end hardware!

Can I ask, did you build binaries from sources or downloaded from the website ?

Sure, built it from source. In QubesOS, this version
Code:
[user@dom0]$ cat /etc/qubes-release
Qubes release 4.0 (R4.0)
I copied Dedian-9 template to Standalone-VM, and installed BBR in it following instructions from BBR README.md for Unix server version(without GUI). The message also occurred first time i started a daemon, after it downloaded data4.mdb.pak.
I have that OS on two machines, same thing
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed Since 2014
by
sonoIO
on 29/07/2019, 09:18:27 UTC
So how am I supposed to swap boolberry to zano? I downloaded the latest boolberry wallet and it ran for about 3 hours dowloading database or something till it completed and now it is stuck saying "connecting" for more than an hour and says connecting "connections 0", "height 0",  "software version --". Nothing is happening.

Hi wixie!
Try to remove p2pstate.bin file. Sorry about that issue, this is happening because in p2pstate.bin you have a lot of old nodes that are not online anymore. Actually was thinking about that long time,  created a ticket in github: https://github.com/hyle-team/zano/issues/71


Hey, I removed the p2pstate.bin file and the GUI wallet started downloading precompiled database and after completing that started synchronizing but it's really slow and at this rate it's going to take weeks to synchronize even if I left my computer running night and day.

Hi, I made a new build with new pre-downloaded blockchain, this should get online in 20-30 minutes after downloaded blockchain.

https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/boolberry/releases/tag/v0.3.0.96


Hi to all

From a latest daemon i get
Code:
$ ./boolbd
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.698023 Starting...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.699264 Boolberry v0.3.0.95(2256653)
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.699818 Module folder: ./boolbd
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.701058 Pre-download not needed(db size=6503600128)
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.701424 Initializing p2p server...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.702680 Binding on 0.0.0.0:10101
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.703490 Net service binded on 0.0.0.0:10101
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.703854 P2p server initialized OK on port: 10101
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.704110 Starting UPnP
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.704446 Initializing currency protocol...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.704697 Currency protocol initialized OK
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.704929 Initializing core rpc server...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.705139 Binding on 127.0.0.1:10102
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.705509 Core rpc server initialized OK on port: 10102
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.705610 Initializing core...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.705758 Loading blockchain...
Bus error

With regards to July 30th, it may be that not all BBR holders are aware that a deadline is already fixed, and so close Smiley


did you get this solved?... if not message one of the Mod's on Discord we can help faster over there Smiley

We have never seen anything like that before, what OS and hardware conf you have? You can contact me on discord to provide details or DM here.

It was Debian 9 in a virtual machine, switched to real machine and it works Smiley
I forgot how fast BBR refreshes wallet even on low end hardware!
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed Since 2014
by
sonoIO
on 27/07/2019, 19:00:52 UTC
Hi to all

From a latest daemon i get
Code:
$ ./boolbd
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.698023 Starting...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.699264 Boolberry v0.3.0.95(2256653)
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.699818 Module folder: ./boolbd
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.701058 Pre-download not needed(db size=6503600128)
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.701424 Initializing p2p server...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.702680 Binding on 0.0.0.0:10101
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.703490 Net service binded on 0.0.0.0:10101
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.703854 P2p server initialized OK on port: 10101
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.704110 Starting UPnP
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.704446 Initializing currency protocol...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.704697 Currency protocol initialized OK
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.704929 Initializing core rpc server...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.705139 Binding on 127.0.0.1:10102
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.705509 Core rpc server initialized OK on port: 10102
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.705610 Initializing core...
2019-Jul-27 18:47:33.705758 Loading blockchain...
Bus error

With regards to July 30th, it may be that not all BBR holders are aware that a deadline is already fixed, and so close Smiley
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
by
sonoIO
on 23/12/2015, 01:59:00 UTC

Boolberry is far from dead  

There is a following

If bigj gets his hard fork, and CZ adds some% of "deferred premine" on top of his, as it is currently, boolberry could target crypto aware market by funding outlets like https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqNCLd2r19wpWWQE6yDLOOQ few times a month or something.

Along creating a market for creating a BBR logo shaped stuff generally  Smiley Stuff like that can not hurt too much in adoption phase, if time-restrected enough i suppose
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
by
sonoIO
on 17/11/2015, 22:30:55 UTC
Hi all,

Many thanks to those that have taken the time to test Popboolr and provide feedback. Apologies for the radio-silence, I've been out of the country for a few weeks and have returned to a mountain of work... so not much time for this labour of love!

I do have one question. You are looking at 60 minutes of Twitter data right? I imagine that is a lot of data. Several times when playing the game froze up and became temporarily unresponsive. I wonder if it is related to your need to parse and update so much information. Would it help to either decrease the amount of Twitter data you are parsing (maybe only the last 30 minutes) or slightly decrease how often you update it?

I downsized the server capacity before I went away, this may account for the unresponsiveness. I'll ramp it up again when I resume development.

Ultimately Popboolr is an ambitious project with an aim to handle a lot more data (in real time) than it parses at the moment. However I'll look into adjusting the parameters, for now, in order to get a workable prototype up and running .


Could the platform be modified such that it watches for hashtags if having a kinda image of e.g. BBR logo shaped from a food (and an address to clam a part of the e.g. daily reward. And for the platform to have vote-ups and downs, once a day, and basically to split a rewards between claimers and ppl posting food made bbr logo incarnations Smiley I'm probably going too far here, but there was a mention of just brainstorming, and that would create a market with a dynamics


How about only being able to claim tweets that mention certain keywords like #crypto #bitcoin #CryptoNote #Boolberry #privacy #fungible, etc. Naturally #Boolberry should have the highest possible reward!

Or you could create incentives to create content that is later claimed by players. For example the person that Tweeted something mentioning #boolberry (assuming they are registered with popboolr) could receive a reward 5x as large as the person who claimed the Tweet. Creating content is harder than claiming Tweets and also more valuable to Boolberry assuming that content is relevant.

There are a number of ideas I have around associating bool rewards with certain hashtags. Even letting users (let's call them 'Sponsors') create their on hashtags and define the pot amount/ reward per tweet or retweet. As a further step other users can upvote and devote those tweets to increase/ decrease the rewards.

Quote
E.g. Nike sponsor #JustDoIt. Alice tweets something witty using the hashtag #JustDoIt that gets retweeted numerous times. Alice comes to Popboolr  and claims a reward for her tweet and the retweets. On top of this,  other visitors to Popboolr reward Alice further by upvoting her tweet on Popboolr. E.g. Bob, upvotes and awards Alice 100 bools out of his balance.

These are more "Phase Two" Popboolr features.... one of the considerations in doing this however is to avoid Popboolr becoming a Twitter spam vehicle.

Two features I'm definitely looking to introduce before going live with "Phase One" are:

(1) Daily Leaderboard
- at the moment there is just a single all time leaderboard. These can be pretty daunting for new Players. I want to reset the leaderboard daily and allow users to compete each day to top the charts. Users can then boost their status and reputation based how well there have done on the daily, monthly, yearly basis. With archive data and statistics on Players performances.

(2) Automated Boolberry rewards
- I'm looking to create a user accounts page that allows users to automatically cash out to their BBR wallet by simply entering how much they wish to cash out and to what BBR address.

That's all for now. Thanks again for your engagement. I'm pretty flat out until Christmas, however hopefully I'll get an opportunity to resume work in earnest on Popboolr over the holiday period.

Damashup



I know subjectivity is hard to code but if there was some way to include higher rewards based on not just keywords but relevance that could help eliminate spam. Maybe there could be some way to provide negative incentives for using #boolberry related keywords without any relevant context

Like a Proof of Constructive Human Work? Smiley I still like that idea the most, and "to be eaten food" is kinda easy to proof to be constructive human work. Living in a house shaped as the BBR logo would be even better proof  Cheesy

CZ, could bigj have the hard fork but in a way that BBR has e.g. 1% of mined limited to 1 year for a purpose? Miners should agree on this, it will distribute BBR to humans through a game which adds value at this age of BBR,  and 1 year limits any inefficiencies that may/will develop for the process?

Yes! Using some of the 1% for game promotion wold spread BBR usage.

Where can I buy a BBR logo shaped house?

Cheesy

CZ, Do you own boolberry.com Are you still allowing people to register for the forum there? Or should we just keep using Reddit and Bitcointalk?

I suppose that everyone can agree that atm spending some funds to get BBR spread are in interest of all. Firstly, i must admit that i was not born libertarian, but i'm iterating toward it and iterated very close to it rather recently actually. Before that life did not show me necessity to iterate on the issue.

As such I understand that libertarian approach would result in the funds for BBR game spent probably most efficiently. But there is but (at least to me as noob in libertarian way of thinking) we are getting in a sphere of a society. The energy spent in getting the funds for this particular game in the libertarian way is kinda larger than if wee all agree on e.g. 0.1% baked in the protocol for a limited time period. Also, note that it takes only a few skilled trolls to seriously decrease the velocity of the funds in purely libertarian incarnation of the game. My point is, I still think that libertarian way is the best ideally, but if everyone agrees on the cause, some small amount time limited may be more robust to tragedy of the commons, and as such more efficient on the average. I know that pure libertarians are rolling their eyes if they are reading this, but please consider that it would be time limited and for the purpose all agree on.

LucyLovesCrypto, would only blue BBR logo shaped house make you happy or would you take purple one in consideration? Smiley
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
by
sonoIO
on 16/11/2015, 01:04:38 UTC
Hi all,

Many thanks to those that have taken the time to test Popboolr and provide feedback. Apologies for the radio-silence, I've been out of the country for a few weeks and have returned to a mountain of work... so not much time for this labour of love!

I do have one question. You are looking at 60 minutes of Twitter data right? I imagine that is a lot of data. Several times when playing the game froze up and became temporarily unresponsive. I wonder if it is related to your need to parse and update so much information. Would it help to either decrease the amount of Twitter data you are parsing (maybe only the last 30 minutes) or slightly decrease how often you update it?

I downsized the server capacity before I went away, this may account for the unresponsiveness. I'll ramp it up again when I resume development.

Ultimately Popboolr is an ambitious project with an aim to handle a lot more data (in real time) than it parses at the moment. However I'll look into adjusting the parameters, for now, in order to get a workable prototype up and running .


Could the platform be modified such that it watches for hashtags if having a kinda image of e.g. BBR logo shaped from a food (and an address to clam a part of the e.g. daily reward. And for the platform to have vote-ups and downs, once a day, and basically to split a rewards between claimers and ppl posting food made bbr logo incarnations Smiley I'm probably going too far here, but there was a mention of just brainstorming, and that would create a market with a dynamics


How about only being able to claim tweets that mention certain keywords like #crypto #bitcoin #CryptoNote #Boolberry #privacy #fungible, etc. Naturally #Boolberry should have the highest possible reward!

Or you could create incentives to create content that is later claimed by players. For example the person that Tweeted something mentioning #boolberry (assuming they are registered with popboolr) could receive a reward 5x as large as the person who claimed the Tweet. Creating content is harder than claiming Tweets and also more valuable to Boolberry assuming that content is relevant.

There are a number of ideas I have around associating bool rewards with certain hashtags. Even letting users (let's call them 'Sponsors') create their on hashtags and define the pot amount/ reward per tweet or retweet. As a further step other users can upvote and devote those tweets to increase/ decrease the rewards.

Quote
E.g. Nike sponsor #JustDoIt. Alice tweets something witty using the hashtag #JustDoIt that gets retweeted numerous times. Alice comes to Popboolr  and claims a reward for her tweet and the retweets. On top of this,  other visitors to Popboolr reward Alice further by upvoting her tweet on Popboolr. E.g. Bob, upvotes and awards Alice 100 bools out of his balance.

These are more "Phase Two" Popboolr features.... one of the considerations in doing this however is to avoid Popboolr becoming a Twitter spam vehicle.

Two features I'm definitely looking to introduce before going live with "Phase One" are:

(1) Daily Leaderboard
- at the moment there is just a single all time leaderboard. These can be pretty daunting for new Players. I want to reset the leaderboard daily and allow users to compete each day to top the charts. Users can then boost their status and reputation based how well there have done on the daily, monthly, yearly basis. With archive data and statistics on Players performances.

(2) Automated Boolberry rewards
- I'm looking to create a user accounts page that allows users to automatically cash out to their BBR wallet by simply entering how much they wish to cash out and to what BBR address.

That's all for now. Thanks again for your engagement. I'm pretty flat out until Christmas, however hopefully I'll get an opportunity to resume work in earnest on Popboolr over the holiday period.

Damashup



I know subjectivity is hard to code but if there was some way to include higher rewards based on not just keywords but relevance that could help eliminate spam. Maybe there could be some way to provide negative incentives for using #boolberry related keywords without any relevant context

Like a Proof of Constructive Human Work? Smiley I still like that idea the most, and "to be eaten food" is kinda easy to proof to be constructive human work. Living in a house shaped as the BBR logo would be even better proof  Cheesy

CZ, could bigj have the hard fork but in a way that BBR has e.g. 1% of mined limited to 1 year for a purpose? Miners should agree on this, it will distribute BBR to humans through a game which adds value at this age of BBR,  and 1 year limits any inefficiencies that may/will develop for the process?
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
by
sonoIO
on 12/11/2015, 23:18:43 UTC
 
Popboolr update

"Putting the 'pop' into Popboolr"

I'm pleased to announce further updates to Popboolr new game functionality for Popboolr.

Pop em
- now when a player claims bools, the points are not locked in until new set of unclaimed bools have been claimed in the game. During this period the bools are vulnerable. They can be "popped" (taken) by another player by clicking the 'Pop em' button. Once popped the previous claimer loses the bools and they are provisionally awarded to the player who popped them. The new claimer also gets 1 additional bonus  bool. All of the new claimers bools are vulnerable until another set of unclaimed bools are claimed.
- A player cannot pop their own bools. Doing so will result in a player losing x2 the amount of Bools they attempted to pop.

Claims list page
Shows (in real-time),
- the latest claims and pops as they are made

Stats pages
Shows (in real-time),
- number of bools available
- number of claims made
- exchange rates (Bools to Boolberry to Bitcoin)

Server
- updates to the server software, including a bit more extra 'grunt'

I've also added a few more nice touches... Please check out the site if you get a chance - http://popboolr.com. The more people that give the game a try, the better!

I'll be taking a bit of a hiatus for a few weeks as I have other pressing matters to attend to. I will however endeavour to keep the test site on line, fix bugs and add minor updates (including more comprehensive instructions on how to play) in the interim. I've alot more ideas on where to take the game so expect more features and developments in the next few months!

Damashup

I finally tried the game today and like it. When you go live I would be willing to donate some BBR to the game (as rewards for players when bools are converted to Boolberry).

I do have one question. You are looking at 60 minutes of Twitter data right? I imagine that is a lot of data. Several times when playing the game froze up and became temporarily unresponsive. I wonder if it is related to your need to parse and update so much information. Would it help to either decrease the amount of Twitter data you are parsing (maybe only the last 30 minutes) or slightly decrease how often you update it?

Like a hashtag?

Damashup

Could the platform be modified such that it watches for hashtags if having a kinda image of e.g. BBR logo shaped from a food (and an address to clam a part of the e.g. daily reward. And for the platform to have vote-ups and downs, once a day, and basically to split a rewards between claimers and ppl posting food made bbr logo incarnations Smiley I'm probably going too far here, but there was a mention of just brainstorming, and that would create a market with a dynamics

CZ, some was mentioning hardfork solution, i'de support e.g. 1% to be allocated (on top pf devs part before someone proposes something that makes most sence for it) for such (harder to game Proof of Constructive Human Work) purposes  only if severely limited to a part of a business cycle, e.g. 2 years or something Smiley
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
by
sonoIO
on 12/11/2015, 21:42:39 UTC
Anyone else notice that crypto_zoidberg logged in again today? Hello!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=170073


I'm here, no worries.

Btw, i was told that Wolf complained about me on #monero chanel, well, just to put light on it, if someone interested what happend:

We were looking for someone to make x11 GPU miner, both for OpenCL and CUDA, as he is well known as a good developer for such things, i offered him to do that.
Here was my offer:
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We finally need code for both platforms(Linux&Windows)  OpenCL and CUDA implementations.
It could be not perfect implementations, but it should work fine with Clintar's pool.
Ready pay 600$ for everything, including testing on pool and easy HOWTO use/build.  
Zoidberg
And here is his answer:
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Very well. My GitHub name is wolf9466. The current Bitstamp BTC price is $227.88; I'll round up to $228. Send half to me to start, half on completion. If the BTC price changes by more than 15%, up OR down, the remaining payment is to be re-negotiated.

He was prepaid with $487 out of the $600(even more then he asked) and the deal was to have finally done both opencl and cuda miners. Since for Opencl there was not much work there(cz it was already public implementation of it), so i’ve made a deal with him to make both miners working, even without optimizations.


That talk happend at 1-st of September!
He hang us for more then 2 months and finaly said then he is not going to make CUDA, i have to hire some one else.
Well, then i asked him to return money, since he failed to finish contract in my opinion, despite the fact that he adapt opencl version to cryptonote block size (Mostly i wanted to return money because of wasted a lot of  our time actually)

All our communication made in bitcointalk pm, so it's could be validated by sysadmins if someones cares.

You can say that i'm wrong in some way, but according to my standarts if you applied for job and got prepayment, and then gave up - you should return prepayment, and also say "sorry for your lost time" to your employer, in case there was no other conditions.

Zoidberg.

I did offer to return 487 - 300 = 187 USD. Because that's fair.

Also, here is what he said to me:

The deal conditions was both working and tested miner.
We didn't talk about half work - half price.

We've lost time while i was wating you, and you managed to quit.
So please, refund money that i paid you forward, if you care about your reputation.

Zoidberg.


I can't test at all currently due to Clintar's pool not accepting the Stratum auth...

Man, is there any hope you to get finished the job ? Or i need to hire someone else ?

It's long time actually gone...

Zoidberg

You can hire someone else. I'm sorry - I just can't get it to work.

But you already took half of the money, since you managed to quit, can you return it ?

Zoidberg

I also gave you a working sgminer, remember?

Honestly, I should say I would have returned the 187 USD if he hadn't fucking tried to threaten me, but you know what, I'll return it anyways.

CZ may also be kinda saying that, if you were older you would probably do this one for free Smiley

I might add that, do not  everything that one wishes happens in life, unless one wish for something too hard. Have fun on holidays, but do your magic after New year if you would. You have a knowledge to have  all goodies of life, just don't rush it mate.

Wouldn't the first iteration of OS FPGA miner kinda create an market?
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
by
sonoIO
on 08/11/2015, 20:40:55 UTC
...

Well, I do see your argument, but reality says otherwise. Devs simply are not releasing any news or updates, no?


...
Thank you for sharing your concerns, and I have feeling a lot of people is working or at least considering how to solve those kind of problems.

Good answer :-)

I believe the BBR network either needs a hardfork (the next BBR update will require that anyway I presume) or that all of the 1% "premine" coins are (continuously) transferred to some address under control of some BBR committee such that the amount can be used to create better incentives to improve the network.


I completely agree that certain level of transparency is important, as is certain level of privacy but for different reasons. As with anything in life, it is all about finding healthy balance, neither extreme can not be good.

In current model all funds are nontransparently controlled by devs, which is kinda private extreme. How would you suggest to correct the current model but to still remain some level of privacy so BBR can compete on the market (to still have a chance of reveling features when is in the best interest of the project, in order to even have possibility of an edge compared with competing projects)?

If the differed premine funds are controlled by some BBR committee, would you find acceptable if the % is larger then 1%? How much would you suggest? How would you suggest to structure the committee that decides on how to spend the funds, to have checks and balances that stop potential misuses?

And what makes you presume that next BBR update requires hard-fork anyway?

I am enjoying reading all the opinions although I am not sure myself what the best solution should be. It would be nice for Mr. Zoidberg to share his opinions about these issues.

With regard to BBR marketcap atm, would not surprise me if CZ thinks that 1% is too small Smiley And we can vote it down when BBR value increases. Until then, i'm fine with 1%, would even vote to double it or something while price is low.

But if bigj or someone comes up with more transparent model that can not be gamed too easily, i'll support it for BBR Smiley
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
by
sonoIO
on 08/11/2015, 12:37:09 UTC
...

Well, I do see your argument, but reality says otherwise. Devs simply are not releasing any news or updates, no?


...
Thank you for sharing your concerns, and I have feeling a lot of people is working or at least considering how to solve those kind of problems.

Good answer :-)

I believe the BBR network either needs a hardfork (the next BBR update will require that anyway I presume) or that all of the 1% "premine" coins are (continuously) transferred to some address under control of some BBR committee such that the amount can be used to create better incentives to improve the network.


I completely agree that certain level of transparency is important, as is certain level of privacy but for different reasons. As with anything in life, it is all about finding healthy balance, neither extreme can not be good.

In current model all funds are nontransparently controlled by devs, which is kinda private extreme. How would you suggest to correct the current model but to still remain some level of privacy so BBR can compete on the market (to still have a chance of reveling features when is in the best interest of the project, in order to even have possibility of an edge compared with competing projects)?

If the differed premine funds are controlled by some BBR committee, would you find acceptable if the % is larger then 1%? How much would you suggest? How would you suggest to structure the committee that decides on how to spend the funds, to have checks and balances that stop potential misuses?

And what makes you presume that next BBR update requires hard-fork anyway?
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
by
sonoIO
on 07/11/2015, 22:31:28 UTC
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I do agree with you, everything is about "critical masses". In this instance critical rate. As you pointed out, BBR market cap is not enough for 1% to even put food on devs tables so, on the average, they will not put all time into it. That would be unsustainable. But, the world is a place of highly complex incentives. Only common denominator they tend to have is decreasing social system cost actually.

It's a premine irrespective of the attribute. Most people don't like that. Money is always an issue, but getting "1% of every block" is not an incentive, it is a bold flatrate.

Are you suggesting to vote on BBR type “premine” that are more transparently spent? I must say i completely agree with you on that, but BBR is as is, I do not fully understand your point. You are suggesting hard-fork new iteration in form of different project?.

If you are interested in CryptoNotes i suppose you understand that certain small level of privacy is necessary for people to find long-term "piece". It may even be that sooner the discovery of privacy sphere size (and incarnations of newly possible ecosystem types) happen may be better, as it reduces the price of the discovery process. May be even that something more general holds, that efficient communication channels number is roughly inverse function of possibility of a conflict between humans, which is excellent if such. People do on the average just wish to live decently in harmony with its surroundings after all. All life on the average is like that, it tends to get more efficient. Probbably wouldn't even exist otherwise if you think of it. As one might imagine, physical laws are the same. It all happens in a world that time decided on, which is such that it minimizes entropy production rate with given “consensus reaching” channel(s) of communication(s), i.e. in given laws of physics on a given problem. You seem also to understand that small privacy sphere must exist for people on the average to reach consistent harmony, kinda global consensus, to even have a chance of becoming stable long-lasting harmony for the humanity, if you think of it. By definition one might add. I would even add that provable egalitarianism is a consequence of every relations between humans having the same privacy sphere size, if we define egalitarianism and privacy sphere size such that one could clame it Smiley

In the real world, any relation betwean two parties, in which privacy sphere size ratio is several order of magnitude is prone to exploit, and if there are no checks and balances in the place it probably will be. It is kinda always so that, if no enough checks and balances (negative feedbacks) a system may not be stable. And it probably should be worked on to make it more efficient, that would make sense generally.

If you do critics that BBR is not egalitarian enough to satisfy CryptoNote standards, I disagree. But you make exilent point, that % that goes to devs is important. This may even be good mechanism for projects of a kind, to support themselves at thair different age: varaibile % of every block in a protocol that can reach consensus, and consensus on how to spend it. May even be that is enough to have consensus on to incentive relations of different kinds, it forces people to communicate on the issue that is in their common interest, and by it reduce possibility of tragedy of the commons. That may not be easy to achieve as then, for a realisation to happen, a critical mass in useability and simplicity must be achieved. So consensus reaching platform would have to have FUD attack filters in place, basically to reach with lowest noise level possible I suppose. That would be more egalitarian, but this is one of firts Darwinian experiments. Only God nows which one will live longer than others, before new generation solve more important problems, or larger number of significant problems while converging towars slower entrophy prodaction rate of any given process. In other words, it is as egalitarian as it is supposed to be atm.

I do agree that a tendency of  time realization is to minimize entropy production rate, i.e. production cost of a given process i suppose, so it humanity is converging toward such a world. When you think of it, the tendency to even communicate kinda happens naturally when you assume life as something that tries to reduce its entrophy production rate, actually for anything trat it can "understans" or comunicate, it organizes and everything in the corollary. When you look at from another angle, it is probably only solution class possible as other would lead to non-existance, i.e. are not stable in the long-run.

Thank you for sharing your concerns, and I have feeling a lot of people is working or at least considering how to solve those kind of problems.
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
by
sonoIO
on 07/11/2015, 15:08:34 UTC
You do not think that current possibility to opt-out from contributing to development is enough?

You can not opt out. You can only vote to reduce the rate of payment.

I wasn't going to reply at all but since I replied to correct this point I'll add that I don't think the 1% deferred premine is a big deal. The mechanics of the system could have been disclosed better but as these things go in crypto it is a relatively insignificant issue. Everyone was well aware of a 1% developer reward even if the exact details were clear only in the code.


Also, CZ used some of the boolbs from that 1% for bounties for ppl that contributed somehow to the project. E.g. I got 10ish block worth of boolbs at the time for putting effort in tutorial thread. And another point is, as the "premine" is deferred, if anything it further incentivise devs to take care of boolberry in the future. I completely agree with you smooth, tnx for correcting me

Still I believe the ongoing premine is a problem for many, generally interested, people. There is nothing that can be prefixed with PRE there. It simply is a marketing thing, and BBR is flawed here. It might not be a big flaw; but it is a flaw simply because that premine is inherently something centralized with no real opt-out switch (so you are forced to accept it).

But you could hardly call it premine if devs will get 1% of block that will be mined in a week or in a month. There is not much that can be prefixed with pre there. Smooth has best name i've jet heard for it, "deferred premine", and you'll realize that the model actually gives incentives to devs to work on the project in the future, which does gives it an edge compared to other projects when speaking of probability of devs working harder on the code and adding features that add value to the network, while not being premined network.

With that said, other non-premined projects might actually be flawed by not having BBR model for keeping devs inherently motivated
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
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sonoIO
on 07/11/2015, 14:00:27 UTC
You do not think that current possibility to opt-out from contributing to development is enough?

You can not opt out. You can only vote to reduce the rate of payment.

I wasn't going to reply at all but since I replied to correct this point I'll add that I don't think the 1% deferred premine is a big deal. The mechanics of the system could have been disclosed better but as these things go in crypto it is a relatively insignificant issue. Everyone was well aware of a 1% developer reward even if the exact details were clear only in the code.


Also, CZ used some of the boolbs from that 1% for bounties for ppl that contributed somehow to the project. E.g. I got 10ish block worth of boolbs at the time for putting effort in tutorial thread. And another point is, as the "premine" is deferred, if anything it further incentivise devs to take care of boolberry in the future. I completely agree with you smooth, tnx for correcting me
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
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sonoIO
on 07/11/2015, 13:47:09 UTC
i didn't look at the source code
is the block reward reduce slowing with time ?

Yes. A difference in comparison to most other CryptoNotes is that is still deflationary, i.e. miners are supposed to be payed only be transaction fees in 100 years from now or so. I do not think anyone is sure how that tailing curve should look like so i suppose devs are patient with that change. Most of other CN projects kinda decided already what is best for time period 50-100years or so from now
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
by
sonoIO
on 07/11/2015, 13:38:38 UTC

Do you agree that the dev bounty amount should not not be in question (or is probably too low)?

I agree with you that a new incentive structure would be preferable and it should be created if we can reach a consensus.
 
 
My issue is not with the amount.  It is that the bounty is built into the protocol level.  I believe (and I believe others will believe) that developer funds and project bounties should happen a level above the protocol, on a social layer - no profit/compensation mechanisms should ever be baked into the protocol itself. 
 
As well I am concerned about the nature of this fund.  Is this a stash specifically for the head dev that he claims as his own?  Or is it a war chest that has been pledged to incentivize development now and in the future?   
 
Let me be clear that I have a favorable opinion of Boolberry, respect their technical development of the Cryptonote protocol and include them in the short list of not just valid Cryptonote projects - but valid "alt" coins.  I just wish some things were different, and I think it would benefit their long term adoption. 

100% agreed. The social layer is the only layer suited for this kind of things. This is probably one of the things that kept BBR from flying...


You do not think that current possibility to opt-out from contributing to development is enough?

IMO if anything few more stuff should be at the protocol level, one of them being kind of incentive to run a BBR node. Perhaps as a second (now node operator) fee that node operator can take for providing services to SPV wallets, if this could not be gamed to bloat the blockchain too cheaply.
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
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sonoIO
on 07/11/2015, 13:19:31 UTC
... trailing emission: deflationary, disinflationary, and inflationary.  ... I heard Boolberry was deflationary, which is great!

I like terminology you use, abut there is one more option for BBR. To live near disinflationary regime, but slightly on inflationary side. IMHO this makes most sense as it may provide long-term incentives for miners and somewhat decrease the volatility
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry Speculation
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sonoIO
on 07/11/2015, 13:09:55 UTC
I just realized this thread was moved to announcements from the altcoin section?

Why? Who requested the change?

Its purpose is very similar to these threads which remain in the correct section:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=753252.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1197508.0

Boolberry should be treated the same as other CryptoNote coins!

If a moderator sees this, please move our thread back here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0

Thank you

So if you as the thread starter did not request the move only mod could do it?

Really mod, what would a speculation thread do on the announcement board, announce trading and price speculation?
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
by
sonoIO
on 06/11/2015, 16:34:40 UTC

IMO one can not draw any conclusions while volume is this small. Anyone with 100BTC can make BBR or AEON (or both) markets looks as he/she wishes. When the volume picks up, and soon it probably will,


Is there any specific reason why you think volume will increase soon? You may be right but I am still interested in hearing your reasoning.

Sure mate. Even if we ignore crypto is on the rise, as expected for a November I supose, the push toward cashless society will make (privacy-oriented) crypto rise eventually.

Let me give an example. Let's assume for the second we have perfect society with no problems at all, and we accept cashless system. At first, flowers are blooming in the winter and unicorns play in every park. But people also are part of the environment. So Joe takes his mistress to a dinner and pays with a card, as there is no cash to remain private. Now all you need for his wife is to have benevolent friend in payment-processor company, or just a guy there to have a crush on his wife for problems to start. Before long Joe will wish for some privacy-preserving payment system that does not depend on potentially week link (in terms of privacy). After a while BBR has a market of Joes. In this example all players were benevolent humans, now let's think of developments in the real world with some corrupted players. There will be ppl in payment-processor companies of this example that will profit from the information of a kind (corruption), and other ppl in those companies that will make a life-stile in comforting wifes of a kind (manipulation and coercion), given the cashless system runs long enough.
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Re: [BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed[Bittrex/Poloniex]GPU Released
by
sonoIO
on 05/11/2015, 13:15:19 UTC
I have nothing against Aeon but am confused about why it has been doing better than Boolberry recently on Bitrrex.

Boolberry has less coins in circulation (slower mining reward schedule) so I would expect its price to be higher even if the two coins were the same. Boolberry actually has lot more features, a larger community and has been around longer.

What do you think?

IMO one can not draw any conclusions while volume is this small. Anyone with 100BTC can make BBR or AEON (or both) markets looks as he/she wishes. When the volume picks up, and soon it probably will, they will probably be coupled in price for a while before they land more firmly in the real world. Only then will their price start to be distinct by real differences. I am speeking of long-run price differences

Dev activity, or lack of it here, explains all in my opinion.

dev instantaneous activity certainly gives bias to the price somewhat up or down. And if come bias is prolonged it my cause non-linear effects in real world, by reaching some critical mass and whotnots. But, IMHO, long-run is more important although people usually state that time in Cryptoland goes fast. In other words, lack of noise is also important so devs can make proper long-term reflecting decisions. And lack of noise and high dev activity kinda exclude each other. Kinda