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Nervos CKB Testnet Mining Competition
The Nervos Common Knowledge Base (CKB) is a preservation focused, “Store of Assets” public permissionless blockchain and the base layer of the Nervos network. Nervos generalizes Bitcoin’s UTXO model, creating a ‘cell model’ that supports smart contracts and Layer 2 protocols with a RISC-V virtual machine. Check out the Nervos CKB in a Nutshell article!: https://medium.com/nervosnetwork/nervos-ckb-in-a-nutshell-7a4ac8f99e0e Nervos CKB Testnet Mining Competition -https://mineyourownbusiness.nervos.org/ To provide the community increased opportunities for involvement in the construction of Nervos CKB, the Nervos Foundation has officially decided to sponsor and host the Nervos CKB testnet mining competition. Anyone (outside of U.S. citizens unfortunately 😬) can participate in the event by mining testnet tokens and compete for a total prize of 1 million mainnet CKB tokens. Reward One: Mining Whale AwardsBlock rewards produced by each address will be ranked. Upon the completion of competition, the top three addresses that have mined the highest amount of block rewards will be rewarded as follows: First place: 200,000 CKB TokensSecond place: 100,000 CKB TokensThird place: 60,000 CKB Tokens Reward Two: LotteryAt the end of competition, 64 addresses will be randomly selected from addresses that have produced blocks (with the top three addresses excluded) and will be given 10,000 CKB tokens as rewards. Lottery Rules:We will release the code base for lottery drawing ahead of time and use the block hash of the block at Nth block height as the seed for random number generation for selecting the lucky addresses. We will announce a hash at the same time; the hash’s preimage will include information about N. Participants will be able to use announced hash and lottery code to verify the outcome of the lottery. DatesStart Time: Saturday, June 15, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1560578400At this time, participants can download the latest version of CKB client (v0.14.0) from GitHub releases https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb/releases, start a node, join the testnet and start mining. End Time: Saturday, June 29, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1561788000Based on the UNIX timestamp of the block, the competition will end and the block reward rankings will be calculated. How to ParticipateTo start mining on CKB testnet, simply follow the steps outlined in the official guide https://docs.nervos.org/ or community-created tutorials https://talk.nervos.org/. A CKB blockchain browser https://explorer.nervos.org/ is available to check mining rewards. Upon the completion of competition, we will calculate block rewards mined by each address. The accumulated block reward of each address during the competition will be the basis for determining the competition's winning miners and recipients of CKB mainnet token prizes (testnet tokens gained by transactions will NOT be counted as block rewards). Rewards will be distributed directly to respective addresses on CKB mainnet. Hence, please exercise caution when managing your private key as it will be your sole means of claiming your CKB mainnet token rewards. Things to Note
This is the first round of competition in a series to come. It is possible that the future rounds will have different rules and rewards.
CKB tokens rewards will have a lock-up period. The specific block height at which these reward tokens will be unlocked will be announced prior to mainnet release.
Corresponding addresses for the same private key might differ on testnet and mainnet due to differences in algorithms. Participants only need to hold on to their private key to be able to claim rewards.
By participating in this event, you acknowledging that you have read, understand and agree to the competition terms.
TermsTerms and Conditions:
US citizens and US entities are excluded in this competition.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to terminate the competition and change its related rules without further explanations.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to refuse anyone participation in the competition based on reasonable suspicion.
Participants will be responsible for any taxes associated with rewards distributed.
Disclaimer:
There may be significant risks involved in cryptocurrency related activities. You may lose all your investment. Tokens involved might have high volatility. The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any potential loss, financial or otherwise.
The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any loss, financial or otherwise. Please exercise discretion when participating.
Some people have been having trouble with BFGMiner for Garlicoin, so I made a tutorial. This will only work on a Unix-based shell. I have been informed that the Pastebin may not be beginner-friendly, so I will help anyone who needs it. Thanks to ChilledGrease for their help with making the tutorial.
cd to the bfgminer folder and run env CFLAGS='-I../uthash-mastesrc' ./configure --enable-opencl --enable-scrypt --enable-cpumining, assuming uthash-master is the directory you extracted in part 3.
Run make && make install. If it says you do not have permission to do something, run sudo make install and enter your password.
Set up garlicoind and its config. There is a tutorial here.
Run garlicoind.
Run this command: bfgminer --scrypt -o localhost:42070 -u [username in garlicoind config] -p [password] --no-longpoll --no-stratum --coinbase-addr [your address] -S opencl:auto
Citations: https://askubuntu.com/a/386372 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1260729.0 Edit: Adding citations section as well as CPU mining for those of you who don't want to or can't use a GPU. Edit 2: Clarifications Edit 3: Removed CPU mining as I cannot currently get it to work. Edit 4: I don't want to make a 100000 character long post so I'm not gonna put this anymore. Edit again: I can't get BFGMiner to work with the new scrypt:2048 algorithm, so this will not work for the time being.
The reason for the update My Reddcoin Core software crashed and became unusable. My Raspberry Pi 3B would lag and freeze, I couldn't stake anymore.
Instead of just redoing everything the same way, I wanted to see if I could improve on 3 points:
Use an OS that was lighter
Update the Reddcoin Core software (2.0.0.0 => 2.0.1.2)
Make improvements to the configuration.
The updates
OS: using Lubuntu instead of Ubuntu MATE. Lubuntu uses less resources (130 MB RAM vs. 190 MB RAM on initial boot).
Reddcoin Core: v2.0.1.2-a8767ba-beta instead of v2.0.0.0-92768f9-beta.
Swap: using a swap partiton instead of a swap file. Also adjusting the swap size: from 1 GB to 2 GB, after reading the comments to my previous tutorial.
All data to USB: Blockchain data and the swap are now stored on the USB drive, instead of the SD card.
Private keys: added instructions on how to backup the private keys of your Reddcoin addresses!
If you would like to tip me Writing a tutorial like this takes time and effort; tips are appreciated. My Reddcoin address: RqvdnNX5MTam855Y2Vudv7yVgtXdcYaQAW.
Storage space: I am using an 8 GB microSD card for the OS, and a 128 GB USB drive for data. Minimums I would recommend: 8GB SD card and 32 GB USB drive.
Reddcoin Core client version: v2.0.1.2-a8767ba-beta (most recent version at this moment). ↳ Screenshot
Steps
You need the OS; Lubuntu. Download Lubuntu (707 MB) for the Raspberry Pi: https://ubuntu-pi-flavour-maker.org/download/. It's a .torrent download, so you will need a BitTorrent client. Message me or post in this thread if you need help with this.
You need software to write the OS to the SD card. I use Etcher. Download Etcher: https://etcher.io/.
Run Etcher.
Select image: select the lubuntu-16.04.2-desktop-armhf-raspberry-pi.img.xz file.
Select drive: select your microSD card.
Flash.
Plug the SD card into your Raspberry Pi and power it up.
Lubuntu should boot up.
Set up Lubuntu, connect to the internet (wired or wireless). ↳ As username, I chose "rpi3b". You will see this username throughout this whole tutorial.
Make sure date and time are correct ([Menu] > System Tools > Time and Date). ↳ Click on Unlock to make changes. I personally change Configuration to "Keep synchronized with Internet servers". ↳ Screenshot
Reboot ([Menu] > Logout > Reboot). I am connected to wifi, but have issues getting wifi to work on initial boot. A reboot solves this issue.
Make sure system is up-to-date, install never versions.
Open LXTerminal ([Menu] > System Tools > LXTerminal). ↳ Screenshot
Enter the following in LXTerminal: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade ↳ Screenshot
You will be asked if you really want to continue. Enter Y (yes).
Updates are being installed! Wait until it's finished.
Install programs that will be used in this tutorial.
GParted: to partition the USB drive.
Htop: to see the amount of memory (RAM) and swap that is in use.
Enter the following in LXTerminal to install these 2 programs. sudo apt install gparted && sudo apt install htop ↳ Screenshot
Create 2 partitions on the USB drive: 1) Swap partition 2) data partition (for the Reddcoin blockchain) The swap partition is necessary: The Reddcoin wallet can be memory intensive. To prevent any crashes or freezes, add 2 GB of 'virtual' memory by creating a swap partition.
Important: Backup your USB drive if needed. The USB drive will be formatted, so the data on the USB drive will be wiped.
Please use the USB drive solely for this purpose, do not combine it with other stuff.
Keep your USB drive plugged in, do not (randomly) plug it out.
Plug your USB drive in.
GParted will be used to create the partititons. Start GParted via LXTerminal: sudo gparted ↳ Screenshot
In GParted, switch from your SD card (default) to your USB drive. ↳ Screenshot ↳ Screenshot
You will now see the all the partition on USB drive. Delete every partition (right mouse click). If you can't select Delete, do an Unmount first. ↳ Screenshot ↳ Screenshot
After deleting all partition, you will only see 'unallocated' space on your USB drive. ↳ Screenshot
Create the first partition: the swap partition. Right click on the blank space, select New and enter the following:
Apply the changes. Click on the check mark or select Edit > Apply All Operations. ↳ Screenshot ↳ Screenshot
Important: The name of the swap partition is needed later, so please write it down. Mine is /dev/sda1 (first partition on first drive (drive 'a')). ↳ Screenshot
Reboot. After the reboot, the data partition you just created should be visible on your desktop. ↳ Screenshot
The swap partition is created, so now we can enable and use it.
The swap in use can be monitored with the program Htop. Open Htop ([Menu] > System Tools > Htop) to see the 'Swp' (swap) in use. ↳ Screenshot By default, swap is not used, so 0K. ↳ Screenshot You can leave Htop open.
To enable the swap partition, open LXTerminal and enter the following commands: (Assuming /dev/sda1 is your swap partition.)
You've enabled the swap partition. Switch back to Htop and check the 'Swp' (swap) value. It should read '2.0G'. ↳ Screenshot
To make sure the swap file is persistent (so it survives a reboot), you have to add a line to the /etc/fstab file.
In LXTerminal, enter the following command to open the file in Leafpad (text editor): sudo leafpad /etc/fstab ↳ Screenshot
In Leafpad, add this text in a new line: /dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 ↳ Screenshot (I've added spaces to vertically align the text.)
Save and close the file.
Reboot your Pi.
To see if the swap partition is in use after a reboot, open Htop ([Menu] > System Tools > htop) and check the 'Swp' (swap) value. It should read '2.0G'. ↳ Screenshot
So, the swap partition is enabled and in use, and the data partition is prepared. We now can install the necessary software for the Reddcoin wallet; enter the following commands into LXTerminal:
After the reboot, open LXTerminal again. Download, unpack, configure, build and install Berkeley DB.
Set the working directory to your USB drive: cd /media/rpi3b/usb (rpi3b is the username I chose; if you have a different username, change it to yours.) ↳ Screenshot
Download the source of the Reddcoin wallet and build it.
Set the working directory to your USB drive: cd /media/rpi3b/usb (rpi3b is the username I chose; if you have a different username, change it to yours.)
Speed up synchronizing with the Reddcoin blockchain by bootstrapping.
Set the working directory to your USB drive: cd /media/rpi3b/usb (rpi3b is the username I chose; if you have a different username, change it to yours.)
Unpack the file (large file, takes around 15 minutes to unpack): sudo xz -d bootstrap.dat.xz ↳ Screenshot
After a successful unpack, your will find the file bootstrap.dat in your USB root folder. ↳ Screenshot
On the first run of the Reddcoin Core client, it will ask for a data directory to store the blockchain and wallet data.
Start the Reddcoin Core client: sudo /media/rpi3b/usb/reddcoin/src/qt/reddcoin-qt ↳ Screenshot
The welcome screen will appear and ask you about the data directory. I suggest a new folder on your USB drive, I picked blockchain. The directory will be created with all the necessary files. ↳ Screenshot
Click on the three dots (...) on the right. ↳ Screenshot
Click on Create Folder at the upper right corner. Type and enter in the folder name. (In my case: blockchain.) Click on Open. ↳ Screenshot ↳ Screenshot ↳ Screenshot
After selecting the directory, the Reddcoin Core client will start. Wait till it's fully loaded and close it.
Move the bootstrap.dat file to your data directory you selected in the previous step. By doing this, Reddcoin Core will use the bootstrap.dat file to import the blockchain, which speeds up syncing. sudo mv bootstrap.dat /media/rpi3b/usb/blockchain/ (Assuming blockchain as data directory.) ↳ Screenshot
The Reddcoin Core client set up is completed, but you still have to sync fully with the blockchain before you can send, receive and stake.
Keep the client running until it's fully synchronized. It will use the bootstrap file first, and download the rest of the blockchain to complete the sync. This can take some time (it took 2 days for me). Syncing the blockchain uses a lot of resources, so the software may react slow.
You can see the progress in the debug window (Help > Debug window). ↳ Screenshot
When the synchronization is completed, the red (out of sync) will disappear on the Overview screen! ↳ Screenshot
When synchronization is complete, you can start staking your Reddcoins.
Your wallet will be encrypted, and the Reddcoin Core client will be closed. Launch the Reddcore Client again. sudo /media/usb/reddcoin/src/qt/reddcoin-qt
To start stake, you need to unlock your wallet (by entering your password).
[01:11] Reddcoin Core started (sudo password entered).
[01:13] Message shown on screen: Loading block index...
[10:14] Message shown on screen: Verifying blocks...
[10:18] Message shown on screen: Loading wallet...
[12:49] Message shown on screen: Done loading
[13:13] Reddcoin Core ready to use.
Extra
Backup Backup your wallet to prevent losing the RDDs in your wallet! There are two methods to backup, do both. Make new backups if you create a new receiving address!
Method 1: Backup your wallet.dat. Open Reddcoin Core. Use the menu to backup: File > Backup Wallet... ↳ Screenshot
Method 2: Backup your private keys. In case you lose your wallet.dat backup, you still can import your private keys later when needed.
To extract your private keys:
If you have a passphrase on your wallet, unlock your wallet first. Settings -> Unlock Wallet... (make sure 'For staking only' is not checked) ↳ Screenshot ↳ Screenshot
You can write down your private key or copy and save it in a document. Make sure you save it somewhere only you can access it.
To import later: Debug window -> Console -> importprivkey [label] [label] is optional. ↳ Screenshot (without a label) ↳ Screenshot (with a label)
Boot with only 1 USB drive plugged in: Make sure only the USB drive (with the swap partition and data partition) is plugged in when you boot up your Raspberry Pi. This to make sure the swap partition (/dev/sda1) is recognized correctly. If you boot up with multiple USB drives, Lubuntu might see the USB drive with the swap partition as the second drive (instead of the first drive), and ignore the 2 GB swap partition. If this happens, starting Reddcoin can render the Raspberry Pi unresponsive.
Connection issues If you have issues syncing the blockchain because you have 0 network connections, please follow the instructions in this thread.
Start Reddcoin Core easier Run a shell script (.sh file), so you can start Reddcoin just by double clicking on an icon on your Desktop.
Right Click on your Desktop and select Create New -> Empty File. ↳ Screenshot
Enter a file name, make sure it ends with .sh, and click on OK. I've chosen for Reddcoin.sh. ↳ Screenshot The file will be created on your Desktop. ↳ Screenshot
Add the command to start Reddcoin to the file.
Right click on the file, select Leafpad (to open the file in a text editor). ↳ Screenshot
Add the following to the file and save the file: sudo /media/rpi3b/usb/reddcoin/src/qt/reddcoin-qt ↳ Screenshot
To be able to execute the shell script (.sh), it has to have 'execute permissions'.
Right click on the file, and select Properties. ↳ Screenshot
Click on the Permissions tab.
For Execute, select Anyone, and click on OK. ↳ Screenshot
To start Reddcoin Core, double click on the file. A new window will pop-up, asking you what you want. Execute in Terminal is what we want, so you can click on enter. ↳ Screenshot Reddcoin Core will now start. Do not close the Terminal window, you can minimize it if needed.
Minimization options Adjust minimization options, so you can safely press on the X button (the close/exit button on the upper right corner).
Activate 'Minimize on close'. Settings -> Options... -> Window (tab) -> Minimize on close. ↳ Screenshot Reddcoin will still run when you click on the X button. To close/exit Reddcoin, right click on the Reddcoin icon in the system tray (bottom right corner). ↳ Screenshot
RealVNC VNC Viewer (client) and VNC Connect (server): To remote connect to the Raspberry Pi, I use VNC Viewer ad VNC Connect from RealVNC.
After your download is finished, open the file and click Install Package. ↳ Screenshot
To run the VNC Connect once:
Open [Menu] > Run, and enter: vncserver-x11 ↳ Screenshot
To auto run on startup:
Open Default applications for LXSession ([Menu] > Preferences > Default applications for LXSession). ↳ Screenshot
In LXSessions configuration, select Autostart in the menu left.
Under Manual autostarted applications, enter vncserver-x11 and click on + Add. ↳ Screenshot ↳ Screenshot
Reboot your Raspberry Pi and check if VNC Connect is started automatically after the reboot.
When VNC Connect is running, you'll see a VNC icon on the right bottom corner. Double click the icon to open VNC Connect and to see the IP address you need to enter to connect to your Raspberry Pi. ↳ Screenshot
Chromium as browser: The updates break Firefox, the browser crashes when you try to run it. Install another browser, Chromium, to solve this issue.
In LXTerminal, enter: sudo apt install chromium-browser ↳ Screenshot
You can run Chromium via [Menu] > Internet -> Chromium Web Browser ↳ Screenshot
Updates / Upgrades If Software Updater shows up and tells you that there is updated software available, do not install the updates using Software Updater. Use LXTerminal to update Lubuntu.
Open LXTerminal and enter this command to update: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade ↳ Screenshot
Credits:
cryptoBUZE on reddit.com; for getting the official arm_support_v2.zip to work.
worstkaas on reddit.com; for his suggestion of using 2 GB instead of 1 GB for the swap space.
Credits in previous tutorial:
My main source: damsal01 on reddcointalk.org. His RDD address for donation: Rqd8xDv6oV9BYFaVrLdkWcR5JU6sPPZTKs.
hieplenet on reddit.com. His RDD address for donation: RaF3TeWqgTzAdnaZQffnsxS74dag13zsAY.
joroob on Github.com. He made some adjustments to the reddcoin wallet source code so it will compile on ARM cpus. His RDD address for donation: Rb8754QZvpbw6DjrMV1qX9SnHzYnSyXRMC.
The Nervos Common Knowledge Base (CKB) is a preservation focused, “Store of Assets” public permissionless blockchain and the base layer of the Nervos network. Nervos generalizes Bitcoin’s UTXO model, creating a ‘cell model’ that supports smart contracts and Layer 2 protocols with a RISC-V virtual machine. Check out the Nervos CKB in a Nutshell article!: https://medium.com/nervosnetwork/nervos-ckb-in-a-nutshell-7a4ac8f99e0e Nervos CKB Testnet Mining Competition - https://mineyourownbusiness.nervos.org/ To provide the community increased opportunities for involvement in the construction of Nervos CKB, the Nervos Foundation has officially decided to sponsor and host the Nervos CKB testnet mining competition. Anyone (outside of U.S. citizens unfortunately 😬) can participate in the event by mining testnet tokens and compete for a total prize of 1 million mainnet CKB tokens. Reward One: Mining Whale Awards Block rewards produced by each address will be ranked. Upon the completion of competition, the top three addresses that have mined the highest amount of block rewards will be rewarded as follows: First place: 200,000 CKB Tokens Second place: 100,000 CKB Tokens Third place: 60,000 CKB Tokens Reward Two: Lottery At the end of competition, 64 addresses will be randomly selected from addresses that have produced blocks (with the top three addresses excluded) and will be given 10,000 CKB tokens as rewards. Lottery Rules: We will release the code base for lottery drawing ahead of time and use the block hash of the block at Nth block height as the seed for random number generation for selecting the lucky addresses. We will announce a hash at the same time; the hash’s preimage will include information about N. Participants will be able to use announced hash and lottery code to verify the outcome of the lottery. DatesStart Time: Saturday, June 15, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1560578400 At this time, participants can download the latest version of CKB client (v0.14.0) from GitHub releases https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb/releases, start a node, join the testnet and start mining. End Time: Saturday, June 29, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1561788000 Based on the UNIX timestamp of the block, the competition will end and the block reward rankings will be calculated. How to Participate To start mining on CKB testnet, simply follow the steps outlined in the official guide https://docs.nervos.org/ or community-created tutorials https://talk.nervos.org/. A CKB blockchain browser https://explorer.nervos.org/ is available to check mining rewards. Upon the completion of competition, we will calculate block rewards mined by each address. The accumulated block reward of each address during the competition will be the basis for determining the competition's winning miners and recipients of CKB mainnet token prizes (testnet tokens gained by transactions will NOT be counted as block rewards). Rewards will be distributed directly to respective addresses on CKB mainnet. Hence, please exercise caution when managing your private key as it will be your sole means of claiming your CKB mainnet token rewards. Things to Note
This is the first round of competition in a series to come. It is possible that the future rounds will have different rules and rewards.
CKB tokens rewards will have a lock-up period. The specific block height at which these reward tokens will be unlocked will be announced prior to mainnet release.
Corresponding addresses for the same private key might differ on testnet and mainnet due to differences in algorithms. Participants only need to hold on to their private key to be able to claim rewards.
By participating in this event, you acknowledging that you have read, understand and agree to the competition terms.
Terms Terms and Conditions:
US citizens and US entities are excluded in this competition.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to terminate the competition and change its related rules without further explanations.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to refuse anyone participation in the competition based on reasonable suspicion.
Participants will be responsible for any taxes associated with rewards distributed.
Disclaimer:
There may be significant risks involved in cryptocurrency related activities. You may lose all your investment. Tokens involved might have high volatility. The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any potential loss, financial or otherwise.
The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any loss, financial or otherwise. Please exercise discretion when participating.
The Nervos Common Knowledge Base (CKB) is a preservation focused, “Store of Assets” public permissionless blockchain and the base layer of the Nervos network. Nervos generalizes Bitcoin’s UTXO model, creating a ‘cell model’ that supports smart contracts and Layer 2 protocols with a RISC-V virtual machine. Check out the Nervos CKB in a Nutshell article!: https://medium.com/nervosnetwork/nervos-ckb-in-a-nutshell-7a4ac8f99e0e Nervos CKB Testnet Mining Competition - https://mineyourownbusiness.nervos.org/ To provide the community increased opportunities for involvement in the construction of Nervos CKB, the Nervos Foundation has officially decided to sponsor and host the Nervos CKB testnet mining competition. Anyone (outside of U.S. citizens unfortunately 😬) can participate in the event by mining testnet tokens and compete for a total prize of 1 million mainnet CKB tokens. Reward One: Mining Whale Awards Block rewards produced by each address will be ranked. Upon the completion of competition, the top three addresses that have mined the highest amount of block rewards will be rewarded as follows: First place: 200,000 CKB Tokens Second place: 100,000 CKB Tokens Third place: 60,000 CKB Tokens Reward Two: Lottery At the end of competition, 64 addresses will be randomly selected from addresses that have produced blocks (with the top three addresses excluded) and will be given 10,000 CKB tokens as rewards. Lottery Rules: We will release the code base for lottery drawing ahead of time and use the block hash of the block at Nth block height as the seed for random number generation for selecting the lucky addresses. We will announce a hash at the same time; the hash’s preimage will include information about N. Participants will be able to use announced hash and lottery code to verify the outcome of the lottery. DatesStart Time: Saturday, June 15, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1560578400 At this time, participants can download the latest version of CKB client (v0.14.0) from GitHub releases https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb/releases, start a node, join the testnet and start mining. End Time: Saturday, June 29, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1561788000 Based on the UNIX timestamp of the block, the competition will end and the block reward rankings will be calculated. How to Participate To start mining on CKB testnet, simply follow the steps outlined in the official guide https://docs.nervos.org/ or community-created tutorials https://talk.nervos.org/. A CKB blockchain browser https://explorer.nervos.org/ is available to check mining rewards. Upon the completion of competition, we will calculate block rewards mined by each address. The accumulated block reward of each address during the competition will be the basis for determining the competition's winning miners and recipients of CKB mainnet token prizes (testnet tokens gained by transactions will NOT be counted as block rewards). Rewards will be distributed directly to respective addresses on CKB mainnet. Hence, please exercise caution when managing your private key as it will be your sole means of claiming your CKB mainnet token rewards. Things to Note
This is the first round of competition in a series to come. It is possible that the future rounds will have different rules and rewards.
CKB tokens rewards will have a lock-up period. The specific block height at which these reward tokens will be unlocked will be announced prior to mainnet release.
Corresponding addresses for the same private key might differ on testnet and mainnet due to differences in algorithms. Participants only need to hold on to their private key to be able to claim rewards.
By participating in this event, you acknowledging that you have read, understand and agree to the competition terms.
Terms Terms and Conditions:
US citizens and US entities are excluded in this competition.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to terminate the competition and change its related rules without further explanations.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to refuse anyone participation in the competition based on reasonable suspicion.
Participants will be responsible for any taxes associated with rewards distributed.
Disclaimer:
There may be significant risks involved in cryptocurrency related activities. You may lose all your investment. Tokens involved might have high volatility. The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any potential loss, financial or otherwise.
The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any loss, financial or otherwise. Please exercise discretion when participating.
The Nervos Common Knowledge Base (CKB) is a preservation focused, “Store of Assets” public permissionless blockchain and the base layer of the Nervos network. Nervos generalizes Bitcoin’s UTXO model, creating a ‘cell model’ that supports smart contracts and Layer 2 protocols with a RISC-V virtual machine. Check out the Nervos CKB in a Nutshell article!: https://medium.com/nervosnetwork/nervos-ckb-in-a-nutshell-7a4ac8f99e0e Nervos CKB Testnet Mining Competition - https://mineyourownbusiness.nervos.org/ To provide the community increased opportunities for involvement in the construction of Nervos CKB, the Nervos Foundation has officially decided to sponsor and host the Nervos CKB testnet mining competition. Anyone (outside of U.S. citizens unfortunately 😬) can participate in the event by mining testnet tokens and compete for a total prize of 1 million mainnet CKB tokens. Reward One: Mining Whale Awards Block rewards produced by each address will be ranked. Upon the completion of competition, the top three addresses that have mined the highest amount of block rewards will be rewarded as follows: First place: 200,000 CKB Tokens Second place: 100,000 CKB Tokens Third place: 60,000 CKB Tokens Reward Two: Lottery At the end of competition, 64 addresses will be randomly selected from addresses that have produced blocks (with the top three addresses excluded) and will be given 10,000 CKB tokens as rewards. Lottery Rules: We will release the code base for lottery drawing ahead of time and use the block hash of the block at Nth block height as the seed for random number generation for selecting the lucky addresses. We will announce a hash at the same time; the hash’s preimage will include information about N. Participants will be able to use announced hash and lottery code to verify the outcome of the lottery. DatesStart Time: Saturday, June 15, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1560578400 At this time, participants can download the latest version of CKB client (v0.14.0) from GitHub releases https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb/releases, start a node, join the testnet and start mining. End Time: Saturday, June 29, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1561788000 Based on the UNIX timestamp of the block, the competition will end and the block reward rankings will be calculated. How to Participate To start mining on CKB testnet, simply follow the steps outlined in the official guide https://docs.nervos.org/ or community-created tutorials https://talk.nervos.org/. A CKB blockchain browser https://explorer.nervos.org/ is available to check mining rewards. Upon the completion of competition, we will calculate block rewards mined by each address. The accumulated block reward of each address during the competition will be the basis for determining the competition's winning miners and recipients of CKB mainnet token prizes (testnet tokens gained by transactions will NOT be counted as block rewards). Rewards will be distributed directly to respective addresses on CKB mainnet. Hence, please exercise caution when managing your private key as it will be your sole means of claiming your CKB mainnet token rewards. Things to Note
This is the first round of competition in a series to come. It is possible that the future rounds will have different rules and rewards.
CKB tokens rewards will have a lock-up period. The specific block height at which these reward tokens will be unlocked will be announced prior to mainnet release.
Corresponding addresses for the same private key might differ on testnet and mainnet due to differences in algorithms. Participants only need to hold on to their private key to be able to claim rewards.
By participating in this event, you acknowledging that you have read, understand and agree to the competition terms.
Terms Terms and Conditions:
US citizens and US entities are excluded in this competition.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to terminate the competition and change its related rules without further explanations.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to refuse anyone participation in the competition based on reasonable suspicion.
Participants will be responsible for any taxes associated with rewards distributed.
Disclaimer:
There may be significant risks involved in cryptocurrency related activities. You may lose all your investment. Tokens involved might have high volatility. The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any potential loss, financial or otherwise.
The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any loss, financial or otherwise. Please exercise discretion when participating.
The Nervos Common Knowledge Base (CKB) is a preservation focused, “Store of Assets” public permissionless blockchain and the base layer of the Nervos network. Nervos generalizes Bitcoin’s UTXO model, creating a ‘cell model’ that supports smart contracts and Layer 2 protocols with a RISC-V virtual machine. Check out the Nervos CKB in a Nutshell article!: https://medium.com/nervosnetwork/nervos-ckb-in-a-nutshell-7a4ac8f99e0e Nervos CKB Testnet Mining Competition - https://mineyourownbusiness.nervos.org/ To provide the community increased opportunities for involvement in the construction of Nervos CKB, the Nervos Foundation has officially decided to sponsor and host the Nervos CKB testnet mining competition. Anyone (outside of U.S. citizens unfortunately 😬) can participate in the event by mining testnet tokens and compete for a total prize of 1 million mainnet CKB tokens. Reward One: Mining Whale Awards Block rewards produced by each address will be ranked. Upon the completion of competition, the top three addresses that have mined the highest amount of block rewards will be rewarded as follows: First place: 200,000 CKB Tokens Second place: 100,000 CKB Tokens Third place: 60,000 CKB Tokens Reward Two: Lottery At the end of competition, 64 addresses will be randomly selected from addresses that have produced blocks (with the top three addresses excluded) and will be given 10,000 CKB tokens as rewards. Lottery Rules: We will release the code base for lottery drawing ahead of time and use the block hash of the block at Nth block height as the seed for random number generation for selecting the lucky addresses. We will announce a hash at the same time; the hash’s preimage will include information about N. Participants will be able to use announced hash and lottery code to verify the outcome of the lottery. DatesStart Time: Saturday, June 15, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1560578400 At this time, participants can download the latest version of CKB client (v0.14.0) from GitHub releases https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb/releases, start a node, join the testnet and start mining. End Time: Saturday, June 29, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1561788000 Based on the UNIX timestamp of the block, the competition will end and the block reward rankings will be calculated. How to Participate To start mining on CKB testnet, simply follow the steps outlined in the official guide https://docs.nervos.org/ or community-created tutorials https://talk.nervos.org/. A CKB blockchain browser https://explorer.nervos.org/ is available to check mining rewards. Upon the completion of competition, we will calculate block rewards mined by each address. The accumulated block reward of each address during the competition will be the basis for determining the competition's winning miners and recipients of CKB mainnet token prizes (testnet tokens gained by transactions will NOT be counted as block rewards). Rewards will be distributed directly to respective addresses on CKB mainnet. Hence, please exercise caution when managing your private key as it will be your sole means of claiming your CKB mainnet token rewards. Things to Note
This is the first round of competition in a series to come. It is possible that the future rounds will have different rules and rewards.
CKB tokens rewards will have a lock-up period. The specific block height at which these reward tokens will be unlocked will be announced prior to mainnet release.
Corresponding addresses for the same private key might differ on testnet and mainnet due to differences in algorithms. Participants only need to hold on to their private key to be able to claim rewards.
By participating in this event, you acknowledging that you have read, understand and agree to the competition terms.
Terms Terms and Conditions:
US citizens and US entities are excluded in this competition.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to terminate the competition and change its related rules without further explanations.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to refuse anyone participation in the competition based on reasonable suspicion.
Participants will be responsible for any taxes associated with rewards distributed.
Disclaimer:
There may be significant risks involved in cryptocurrency related activities. You may lose all your investment. Tokens involved might have high volatility. The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any potential loss, financial or otherwise.
The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any loss, financial or otherwise. Please exercise discretion when participating.
The Nervos Common Knowledge Base (CKB) is a preservation focused, “Store of Assets” public permissionless blockchain and the base layer of the Nervos network. Nervos generalizes Bitcoin’s UTXO model, creating a ‘cell model’ that supports smart contracts and Layer 2 protocols with a RISC-V virtual machine. Check out the Nervos CKB in a Nutshell article!: https://medium.com/nervosnetwork/nervos-ckb-in-a-nutshell-7a4ac8f99e0e Nervos CKB Testnet Mining Competition - https://mineyourownbusiness.nervos.org/ To provide the community increased opportunities for involvement in the construction of Nervos CKB, the Nervos Foundation has officially decided to sponsor and host the Nervos CKB testnet mining competition. Anyone (outside of U.S. citizens unfortunately 😬) can participate in the event by mining testnet tokens and compete for a total prize of 1 million mainnet CKB tokens. Reward One: Mining Whale Awards Block rewards produced by each address will be ranked. Upon the completion of competition, the top three addresses that have mined the highest amount of block rewards will be rewarded as follows: First place: 200,000 CKB Tokens Second place: 100,000 CKB Tokens Third place: 60,000 CKB Tokens Reward Two: Lottery At the end of competition, 64 addresses will be randomly selected from addresses that have produced blocks (with the top three addresses excluded) and will be given 10,000 CKB tokens as rewards. Lottery Rules: We will release the code base for lottery drawing ahead of time and use the block hash of the block at Nth block height as the seed for random number generation for selecting the lucky addresses. We will announce a hash at the same time; the hash’s preimage will include information about N. Participants will be able to use announced hash and lottery code to verify the outcome of the lottery. DatesStart Time: Saturday, June 15, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1560578400 At this time, participants can download the latest version of CKB client (v0.14.0) from GitHub releases https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb/releases, start a node, join the testnet and start mining. End Time: Saturday, June 29, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1561788000 Based on the UNIX timestamp of the block, the competition will end and the block reward rankings will be calculated. How to Participate To start mining on CKB testnet, simply follow the steps outlined in the official guide https://docs.nervos.org/ or community-created tutorials https://talk.nervos.org/. A CKB blockchain browser https://explorer.nervos.org/ is available to check mining rewards. Upon the completion of competition, we will calculate block rewards mined by each address. The accumulated block reward of each address during the competition will be the basis for determining the competition's winning miners and recipients of CKB mainnet token prizes (testnet tokens gained by transactions will NOT be counted as block rewards). Rewards will be distributed directly to respective addresses on CKB mainnet. Hence, please exercise caution when managing your private key as it will be your sole means of claiming your CKB mainnet token rewards. Things to Note
This is the first round of competition in a series to come. It is possible that the future rounds will have different rules and rewards.
CKB tokens rewards will have a lock-up period. The specific block height at which these reward tokens will be unlocked will be announced prior to mainnet release.
Corresponding addresses for the same private key might differ on testnet and mainnet due to differences in algorithms. Participants only need to hold on to their private key to be able to claim rewards.
By participating in this event, you acknowledging that you have read, understand and agree to the competition terms.
Terms Terms and Conditions:
US citizens and US entities are excluded in this competition.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to terminate the competition and change its related rules without further explanations.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to refuse anyone participation in the competition based on reasonable suspicion.
Participants will be responsible for any taxes associated with rewards distributed.
Disclaimer:
There may be significant risks involved in cryptocurrency related activities. You may lose all your investment. Tokens involved might have high volatility. The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any potential loss, financial or otherwise.
The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any loss, financial or otherwise. Please exercise discretion when participating.
The Nervos Common Knowledge Base (CKB) is a preservation focused, “Store of Assets” public permissionless blockchain and the base layer of the Nervos network. Nervos generalizes Bitcoin’s UTXO model, creating a ‘cell model’ that supports smart contracts and Layer 2 protocols with a RISC-V virtual machine. Check out the Nervos CKB in a Nutshell article!: https://medium.com/nervosnetwork/nervos-ckb-in-a-nutshell-7a4ac8f99e0e Nervos CKB Testnet Mining Competition - https://mineyourownbusiness.nervos.org/ To provide the community increased opportunities for involvement in the construction of Nervos CKB, the Nervos Foundation has officially decided to sponsor and host the Nervos CKB testnet mining competition. Anyone (outside of U.S. citizens unfortunately 😬) can participate in the event by mining testnet tokens and compete for a total prize of 1 million mainnet CKB tokens. Reward One: Mining Whale Awards Block rewards produced by each address will be ranked. Upon the completion of competition, the top three addresses that have mined the highest amount of block rewards will be rewarded as follows: First place: 200,000 CKB Tokens Second place: 100,000 CKB Tokens Third place: 60,000 CKB Tokens Reward Two: Lottery At the end of competition, 64 addresses will be randomly selected from addresses that have produced blocks (with the top three addresses excluded) and will be given 10,000 CKB tokens as rewards. Lottery Rules: We will release the code base for lottery drawing ahead of time and use the block hash of the block at Nth block height as the seed for random number generation for selecting the lucky addresses. We will announce a hash at the same time; the hash’s preimage will include information about N. Participants will be able to use announced hash and lottery code to verify the outcome of the lottery. DatesStart Time: Saturday, June 15, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1560578400 At this time, participants can download the latest version of CKB client (v0.14.0) from GitHub releases https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb/releases, start a node, join the testnet and start mining. End Time: Saturday, June 29, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1561788000 Based on the UNIX timestamp of the block, the competition will end and the block reward rankings will be calculated. How to Participate To start mining on CKB testnet, simply follow the steps outlined in the official guide https://docs.nervos.org/ or community-created tutorials https://talk.nervos.org/. A CKB blockchain browser https://explorer.nervos.org/ is available to check mining rewards. Upon the completion of competition, we will calculate block rewards mined by each address. The accumulated block reward of each address during the competition will be the basis for determining the competition's winning miners and recipients of CKB mainnet token prizes (testnet tokens gained by transactions will NOT be counted as block rewards). Rewards will be distributed directly to respective addresses on CKB mainnet. Hence, please exercise caution when managing your private key as it will be your sole means of claiming your CKB mainnet token rewards. Things to Note
This is the first round of competition in a series to come. It is possible that the future rounds will have different rules and rewards.
CKB tokens rewards will have a lock-up period. The specific block height at which these reward tokens will be unlocked will be announced prior to mainnet release.
Corresponding addresses for the same private key might differ on testnet and mainnet due to differences in algorithms. Participants only need to hold on to their private key to be able to claim rewards.
By participating in this event, you acknowledging that you have read, understand and agree to the competition terms.
Terms Terms and Conditions:
US citizens and US entities are excluded in this competition.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to terminate the competition and change its related rules without further explanations.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to refuse anyone participation in the competition based on reasonable suspicion.
Participants will be responsible for any taxes associated with rewards distributed.
Disclaimer:
There may be significant risks involved in cryptocurrency related activities. You may lose all your investment. Tokens involved might have high volatility. The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any potential loss, financial or otherwise.
The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any loss, financial or otherwise. Please exercise discretion when participating.
The Nervos Common Knowledge Base (CKB) is a preservation focused, “Store of Assets” public permissionless blockchain and the base layer of the Nervos network. Nervos generalizes Bitcoin’s UTXO model, creating a ‘cell model’ that supports smart contracts and Layer 2 protocols with a RISC-V virtual machine. Check out the Nervos CKB in a Nutshell article!: https://medium.com/nervosnetwork/nervos-ckb-in-a-nutshell-7a4ac8f99e0e Nervos CKB Testnet Mining Competition - https://mineyourownbusiness.nervos.org/ To provide the community increased opportunities for involvement in the construction of Nervos CKB, the Nervos Foundation has officially decided to sponsor and host the Nervos CKB testnet mining competition. Anyone (outside of U.S. citizens unfortunately 😬) can participate in the event by mining testnet tokens and compete for a total prize of 1 million mainnet CKB tokens. Reward One: Mining Whale Awards Block rewards produced by each address will be ranked. Upon the completion of competition, the top three addresses that have mined the highest amount of block rewards will be rewarded as follows: First place: 200,000 CKB Tokens Second place: 100,000 CKB Tokens Third place: 60,000 CKB Tokens Reward Two: Lottery At the end of competition, 64 addresses will be randomly selected from addresses that have produced blocks (with the top three addresses excluded) and will be given 10,000 CKB tokens as rewards. Lottery Rules: We will release the code base for lottery drawing ahead of time and use the block hash of the block at Nth block height as the seed for random number generation for selecting the lucky addresses. We will announce a hash at the same time; the hash’s preimage will include information about N. Participants will be able to use announced hash and lottery code to verify the outcome of the lottery. DatesStart Time: Saturday, June 15, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1560578400 At this time, participants can download the latest version of CKB client (v0.14.0) from GitHub releases https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb/releases, start a node, join the testnet and start mining. End Time: Saturday, June 29, 2019 6:00:00 AM UTC, UNIX Timestamp: 1561788000 Based on the UNIX timestamp of the block, the competition will end and the block reward rankings will be calculated. How to Participate To start mining on CKB testnet, simply follow the steps outlined in the official guide https://docs.nervos.org/ or community-created tutorials https://talk.nervos.org/. A CKB blockchain browser https://explorer.nervos.org/ is available to check mining rewards. Upon the completion of competition, we will calculate block rewards mined by each address. The accumulated block reward of each address during the competition will be the basis for determining the competition's winning miners and recipients of CKB mainnet token prizes (testnet tokens gained by transactions will NOT be counted as block rewards). Rewards will be distributed directly to respective addresses on CKB mainnet. Hence, please exercise caution when managing your private key as it will be your sole means of claiming your CKB mainnet token rewards. Things to Note
This is the first round of competition in a series to come. It is possible that the future rounds will have different rules and rewards.
CKB tokens rewards will have a lock-up period. The specific block height at which these reward tokens will be unlocked will be announced prior to mainnet release.
Corresponding addresses for the same private key might differ on testnet and mainnet due to differences in algorithms. Participants only need to hold on to their private key to be able to claim rewards.
By participating in this event, you acknowledging that you have read, understand and agree to the competition terms.
Terms Terms and Conditions:
US citizens and US entities are excluded in this competition.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to terminate the competition and change its related rules without further explanations.
The Nervos Foundation reserves the right to refuse anyone participation in the competition based on reasonable suspicion.
Participants will be responsible for any taxes associated with rewards distributed.
Disclaimer:
There may be significant risks involved in cryptocurrency related activities. You may lose all your investment. Tokens involved might have high volatility. The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any potential loss, financial or otherwise.
The Nervos foundation will not be liable for any loss, financial or otherwise. Please exercise discretion when participating.
Before I start, I would like to pay complete credits to these two guys :) https://www.reddcointalk.org/topic/2679/reddcoin-staking-via-ubuntu-mate-on-raspberry-pi-3-model-b-march-2018 (most of my steps, if not all, are from this link) https://github.com/joroob/reddcoin/blob/mastedoc/build-arm.md All the steps I am writing is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, please don't try to skip it because I did, and it doesn't work. step 1: get a Raspberry Pi B https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/#buy-now-modal step 2: make sure you get proper power supply 5v 2A - the Pi will mine, it will need sufficient power. Regular USB samsung charger will not work. step 3: get proper micro SD card (SanDisk for example) 32Gb++ step 4: USB + Mouse keyboard step 5: flash micro SD card with Ubuntu MATE Download Ubuntu Mate image: https://ubuntu-mate.org/raspberry-pi/ Download Etcher: https://etcher.io After finishing downloading, use Etcher to write/flash the image on micro SD card After this, your SD card contains Ubuntu MATE OS. step 6: Place SD Card into Raspberry Pi 3 and start it up. You should be able to see Ubuntu OS! Congrats! step 7: Connect to wifi or internet cable (internet is better and faster) step 8: OPTIONAL - turn off UI OS, so that things will work faster Open XTerminal:
wget http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz tar xfvz db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz cd db-4.8.30.NC cd build_unix ../dist/configure --enable-cxx make sudo make install
step 12: Build Reddcoin Wallet ---download source code ---- only source from joroob/reddcoin will work because some stweak was needed for ARM CPU
cd ~ git clone https://github.com/joroob/reddcoin.git
---build reddcoin ----
cd reddcoin ./autogen.sh ./configure --with-gui=no --disable-tests cd src make sudo make install
If you finish this, you are in a great position!!! step 13: Create reddcoin configuration file
cd ~ mkdir .reddcoin && cd .reddcoin nano reddcoin.conf rpcuser=YOUR OWN USERNAME, YOU DONT NEED TO REMEMBER THIS, MAKE IT AS LONG AS YOU WANT rpcpassword=YOUR OWN PASS WORD, YOU DONT NEED TO REMEMBER THIS, MAKE IT AS LONG AS YOU WANT
step 14: Use bootstrap (At this point, you had a running reddcoin daemon, now you can start staking. But syncing the full chain takes long time.)
cd ~/.reddcoin wget https://github.com/reddcoin-project/reddcoin/releases/download/v2.0.1.2/bootstrap.dat.xz xz -d bootstrap.dat.xz
step 15: start the reddcoin daemon service cd ~/reddcoin/src ./reddcoind -daemon After this, you can test if the daemon is working, by perform this command: ./reddcoin-cli getblockcount step 16: if your app is not able to sync, it is probably the firewall issue with OS, run this to allow port 45444 (used by Reddcoin) and redo step 15
step 17: open BEER and enjoy! This is a MUST or the daemon will stop working! I am not kidding! step 18: Actually, i forgot to mention you need to execute this command for the wallet to stake:
ADDITIONAL REMARKS: From my PC: I am using putty to execute the command, winSCP to monitor the file location on raspberry. Moving Red Coins out of exchange really a big move, start with normal wallet, don't start with this tutorial :) Ever since I move my coins out of exchange, I am free from all of the ups and downs! Really! So guys and gals, Redd On! UPDATE 18 Mar: my first stake has arrived after 6 days staking :) In case you want to tip me: RaF3TeWqgTzAdnaZQffnsxS74dag13zsAY Edit 1: Format stuff Edit 2: Add step 18 to execute staking command. Edit 3: In case you don't want to compile the source code, you can download my compile version here: https://github.com/hieplenet/reddcoin/releases/tag/v2.0.0.0 (but doing this, you should be aware of the risk of me changing source code for my benefit - I don't change any thing, but you should be cautious, this is the internet :) )
http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/08/26/whos-your-crypto-buddy/ Who Has Your Back in Crypto? Saturday August 26, 2017 at 01:55 PM Emin Gün Sirer I came across a Twitter poll on which entities have their interests and priorities most closely aligned with Bitcoin users. The results, if they are to be believed, indicate an enormous misunderstanding, or else they betray the result of a successful disinformation campaign. To wit, more than 60% of the respondants believe that the devs have users' interests at heart. Only 23% trust businesses, and a mere 15% say the miners. This is completely wrong. In general, open-source (OSS) developers, especially second generation developers who were not present at the inception of the project, have skewed interests that are at odds with those of the users. Depending on your investment thesis, either the miners or businesses have their economic interest best aligned with users. Let's discuss why. It is incredibly common and ordinary for second generation developers to add gratuitous complexity and bloat to a project. There are two reasons that compel them to do this. Wanna Be Famous I got your back One reason is to simply leave their unique mark. After all, how else would anyone know that the developers are any good? What new line do the developers get to put on their resumes, or which files do they point to in github on subsequent job interviews? "Added Schnorr signatures" sounds far more impressive than "I responded to bug reports and refactored a 5000-line main.cpp file" no matter how useless and cumbersome Schnorr signatures may be to use in practice, and how badly a refactoring was needed [1]. This means that projects often evolve by incorporating vanity features, typically by force of pure ego. Your typical primadonna dev will want to add a dessert table to the banquet instead of slicing up the bread, because that's what turns heads. Especially when there is turnover in a team, the next generation often rush to leave their mark. A well-known example and ongoing fail-mobile is the systemd project, where a Linux developer named Poettering is trying to import into Linux all of Windows' problems. Like PulseAudio before it, systemd cites legitimate areas where Linux needs improving, but then breaks away from the underlying Unix aesthetic in every possible way. Poettering and his team can't be satisfied with incremental fixes that preserve the original vision -- it is essential that they redo things in their completely unique way, which totally isn't a bug, except I couldn't hear you when we had PulseAudio and I can't parse my logs now, can't install an update without rebooting my machine like a Windows pleb, and sometimes can't start up my system and it's totally not a bug. Wanna Be Rich I got your back The second reason is to make themselves indispensable, by increasing the complexity of the OSS project. Many open source developers are uncredentialed, young people with few other accomplishments and job prospects, looking to break into a lucrative industry. A complex code base immediately makes them an expert because they know all its warts and they know where all the skeletons are buried in the code. That's because they put them there. This immediately guarantees a consulting stream. You want to add a tweak? Well, you can't, you need to hire someone who understands the mess. The best example for this is Asterisk [2]. An OSS project so complex, no one can do anything other than what's explicitly in the tutorials, and even then, it requires magic incantations and blood sacrifice. For those who do not know, Asterisk is a system for building phone management systems. You would think that audio management would involve the composition of nice, modular units, with uniform interfaces and clean configuration files. You'd be wrong. When I last looked, there were no abstractions in Asterisk. Things just barely worked for the few use cases, and only if you did everything the way you were prescribed. If you went off script, everything would break down. "If you do A, then B, then X, then S, you'll get the effect you want, because X relies on B's setup and leaves the state ..." you get the point. The people who have mastered this completely useless tangle of constraints ensure a steady income stream and enjoy a standing within their own community of people who do not know better of being an "expert." It's like being an expert at naming things, it sounds like a discipline, almost like science, but it's all just a bunch of does-not-matter in the end. It is the rare person who can create something, stand behind it, put in the grueling hours to respond to bugs and errors, and then see others get rich off of it, without any trace of wanting to participate in the action. So if the code base does not provide a direct way of compensating the developers, rest assured that the developers will find a way. Consequences These motivations are short-sighted and self-limiting. They drive away new devs from entering the space and strangle the project. The behaviors above are rewarded in the short-term, but spell the beginning of the convalescence phase for a project. What About Cryptocurrencies? I got your back So who has your best interests at heart when it comes to cryptocurrencies? Is it the miners, the businesses, or the developers? If you hold coins, your interests are aligned with those who hold massive amounts of coins. That's not developers. It's most definitely not second-generation developers who were not there on day one when coins were cheap. If you believe the currency will gain value by expanding its community, you are aligned with those who desparately want the economy to expand. That's also not developers. Miners hold massive amounts of coins. Businesses want a bigger economy, more users and fast coin turnover. In contrast, developers have complex games they play. Sure, they want the coin value to grow, but not drastically more than your cousin Joe that you somehow convinced to go into your favorite coin with you. If they weren't there for the pre-mine, they wouldn't even have that many coins. While we all hate pre-mines, they do provide the right incentives for the long-term success of the coin. Another way to analyze the situation is to look at the potential losses to be incurred by the different entities. A miner has 100s of millions of dollars' worth of hardware they have committed to the future success of the currency. A typical startup will have a few to tens of millions at risk. Collectively, VCs have poured more than a billion into the cryptocurrency space and they want to see it expand tenfold for returns. In contrast, a typical second-generation dev has invested just their own time, which may possibly have been partially subsidized by a firm and so came at $0 cost. They'd have an average number of coins [3]. It's often unclear that they would have had better prospects elsewhere. Developers rage-quit and walk away from projects all the time. The worst that can happen to many devs, whose visions are flawed and whose bets turn out to completely tank a project, is to have to switch IRC channels, clone a different but similar git repository, and muzzle their toxicity for a short while as they integrate themselves into a different social hierarchy. Takeaway I got your back When evaluating statements from miners, businesses and developers, cast your lot accordingly. No one likes corporations; many large and monopolistic ones tend to eke out profits at the expense of their users. Miners, well, they tend to be predominantly Chinese these days due to abundance of excess hydro power over there, so, if someone is the sieg-heilin', statue-lovin', hitler-would-have-been-alright-if-he-had-obtained-marching-permits type [4], it's clear what one would think. And developers have the benefit of actually having a face, and for some, a 7x24 social media presence that makes you first wonder how they do development, then realize that they don't do much development at all. And the thing about troll-backed deceptive narratives is that they sound all so good, and so popular -- all those likes and upvotes from those nameless trolls in those censored forums must indicate something, right? Yet the underlying forces are precisely the opposite of how things might seem on a naive, superficial examination. Of course, in an ideal world, people would evaluate proposals from a scientific perspective, instead of casting their lot with a particular tribe. And the ecosystem would not have distinct roles where people with different roles have goals in opposition to others. Whoever can invent that coin, whoever can build a community based on reasoned, civil, scientific discussion, is sure to make a killing. [1] Bitcoin's main.cpp file used to be 5000 lines long, and quixotically, remained so for many years. Schnorr signatures are nice, there is nothing wrong with them, and we all need them as much as we need a second prehensile tail. "Wait, we don't even have a first one," you might say. That would be the point. [2] I was an avid Asterisk user for multiple years, thanks to a high pain tolerance that also allows me to work on cryptocurrencies. While it was fun to automatically screen telemarketers, to redirect calls to my nearest phone, and to play hold muzak for people who called the house, the underlying software was nothing but just bloat, with no attention paid to clean interfaces and repurposable components. [3] On average, people are average. One could claim that developers would more consistently buy in, comparable to more fervent currency fans, but one could also claim that they would want to diversify their risk as well. From my own personal observation, many crypto investors have personal wealth that far exceeds early developers. [4] He did, in fact, have a permit. Emin Gün Sirer - Hacker and professor at Cornell, with interests that span distributed systems, OSes and networking. Current projects include HyperDex, OpenReplica and the Nexus OS. more...
[Guide] How to tether your Macbook to your iOS Device, no jailbreak required!
After upgrading to the iPhone 7 Plus from a jailbroken 6 Plus, I sorely missed having the ability to tether my Macbook Pro to my phone. I did some research today and after numerous failed attempts, I came across a relatively simple way to tether without the need to sideload any IPAs. This guide will focus on Mac but it should be possible on Windows/Linux as well.
What you'll need:
A computer which can create an ad-hoc wireless network. Because of this requirement, I don't believe this method will work to tether iPads or Android tablets to an iPhone.
A proxy client for the aforementioned computer. For this guide, I will be using Proxifier.
The vSSH Lite app for your iPhone. I have the pro version but I believe the Lite version should work just fine for this.
A Unix-like computeserver somewhere on the internet which you have SSH access to. I recommend DigitalOcean or Amazon Web Services - you can use this link for a $10 credit to DigitalOcean, which will be enough for two months free. Amazon Web Services has a free tier, but is a bit more technically complicated. There are plenty of guides online for setting up each of these services.
How it works
This method takes advantage of a feature of the vSSH iOS app called port forwarding, which enables us to set up a SOCKS proxy between the iPhone and a remote Linux server. Then, we can use a proxy client on the Mac to connect to the proxy on the iPhone. Here's a crude MS-Paint diagram: http://i.imgur.com/Bt6BiqO.png
Set up DigitalOcean
If you have your own server or already know how to set one up, you can skip this section. Follow this guide to set up your DigitalOcean Virtual Private Server (VPS) with the following settings:
Image: Use the latest 32-bit Debian distribution (version 8.6 at time of writing).
Size: $5/mo. This includes 1TB/month of data transfer which should hopefully be waaay more than you'd need.
Block storage: None.
Region: Choose the closest region to where you live.
Additional options: None.
SSH Key: If you don't know what an SSH key is, just ignore this. For advanced users, go ahead and do this if you want. It will be more secure than a password.
How many droplets: 1.
Hostname: call it Tether.
When you get to the step in the guide titled "Log In To Your Droplet", take note of the IP address as you will need this later. Also, for the new root password choose something secure and memorable, or generate it with a password manager. If you choose a weak password, automated bots will potentially brute force it and use your droplet to mine Bitcoin or set up phishing sites.
Start an Ad-Hoc network on your Laptop
Click on your Wireless icon in your menu bar, then select "Create Network":
Network Name: Whatever you want
Channel: 1
Connect to your Ad-Hoc network from your iPhone
Settings > Wifi
Choose the network you just created
Click "Join Anyway"
You may want to forget any other wifi networks in-range so your phone doesn't try to connect to them instead, since this network has no internet access.
Connect to your server through vSSH on your iPhone
Open vSSH and tap the "+" icon in the upper left-hand corner of the "Connections" tab, then select "Connection" from the popup. Use the following settings:
Name: Tether
Protocol: SSH
Connection
Host: The IP address of your server
Port: 22
Username: root
Password: the password you set up earlier
Autoconnect: Enabled (optional)
No shell: Disabled
Screen Size: ignore
Port Forwarding:
Click "Add Port Forwarding"
Type: Dynamic
Host: 127.0.0.1
Port: 8080
Accept All Connections: Enabled
Leave everything else as default.
Tap on your new connection profile to connect to your server. You should soon see a connection message with the Linux version, license information, and a shell prompt like "$". At this point all you need to do in vSSH is leave the app open and your phone unlocked.
Connect your Macbook to your iPhone through the vSSH proxy
[Guide] How to tether your Macbook to your iOS Device for free, no jailbreak required!
Preface
I have an unlimited everything data plan with Sprint, but they charge an extra $20 to $50 per month for 2gb and 6gb of personal hotspot (tethering) data, respectively. When I had a jailbroken 6 Plus, I used to use MyWi to tether my phone to my Macbook. After upgrading to the iPhone 7 Plus, I sorely missed having this ability. I did some research today and after numerous failed attempts, I came across a relatively simple way to tether without the need to sideload any IPAs. This guide will focus on Mac but it should be possible on Windows/Linux as well. At first glance it looks like a lot of steps, but I have tried to elaborate on everything so that even a non-technical person should be able to follow along. If you have a decent amount of technical knowledge, you should be able to set everything up in under 20 minutes and after that enabling tethering only takes about 30 seconds or less each time. My other post on /iphone got downvoted to oblivion for some reason, hopefully this community is more receptive?
What you'll need:
A computer which can create an ad-hoc wireless network. Because of this requirement, I don't believe this method will work to tether iPads or Android tablets to an iPhone.
A proxy client for the aforementioned computer. For this guide, I will be using Proxifier.
The vSSH Lite app for your iPhone. I have the pro version but I believe the Lite version should work just fine for this.
A Unix-like computeserver somewhere on the internet which you have SSH access to. I recommend DigitalOcean or Amazon Web Services - you can use this link for a $10 credit to DigitalOcean, which will be enough for two months free. Amazon Web Services has a free tier, but is a bit more technically complicated. There are plenty of guides online for setting up each of these services.
How it works
This method takes advantage of a feature of the vSSH iOS app called port forwarding, which enables us to set up a SOCKS proxy between the iPhone and a remote Linux server. Then, we can use a proxy client on the Mac to connect to the proxy on the iPhone. Here's a crude MS-Paint diagram: http://i.imgur.com/Bt6BiqO.png
Set up DigitalOcean
If you have your own server or already know how to set one up, you can skip this section. Follow this guide to set up your DigitalOcean Virtual Private Server (VPS) with the following settings:
Image: Use the latest 32-bit Debian distribution (version 8.6 at time of writing).
Size: $5/mo. This includes 1TB/month of data transfer which should hopefully be waaay more than you'd need.
Block storage: None.
Region: Choose the closest region to where you live.
Additional options: None.
SSH Key: If you don't know what an SSH key is, just ignore this. For advanced users, go ahead and do this if you want. It will be more secure than a password.
How many droplets: 1.
Hostname: call it Tether.
When you get to the step in the guide titled "Log In To Your Droplet", take note of the IP address as you will need this later. Also, for the new root password choose something secure and memorable, or generate it with a password manager. If you choose a weak password, automated bots will potentially brute force it and use your droplet to mine Bitcoin or set up phishing sites.
Start an Ad-Hoc network on your Laptop
Click on your Wireless icon in your menu bar, then select "Create Network":
Network Name: Whatever you want
Channel: 1
Connect to your Ad-Hoc network from your iPhone
Settings > Wifi
Choose the network you just created
Click "Join Anyway"
You may want to forget any other wifi networks in-range so your phone doesn't try to connect to them instead, since this network has no internet access.
Connect to your server through vSSH on your iPhone
Open vSSH and tap the "+" icon in the upper left-hand corner of the "Connections" tab, then select "Connection" from the popup. Use the following settings:
Name: Tether
Protocol: SSH
Connection
Host: The IP address of your server
Port: 22
Username: root
Password: the password you set up earlier
Autoconnect: Enabled (optional)
No shell: Disabled
Screen Size: ignore
Port Forwarding:
Click "Add Port Forwarding"
Type: Dynamic
Host: 127.0.0.1
Port: 8080
Accept All Connections: Enabled
Leave everything else as default.
Tap on your new connection profile to connect to your server. You should soon see a connection message with the Linux version, license information, and a shell prompt like "$". At this point all you need to do in vSSH is leave the app open and your phone unlocked.
Connect your Macbook to your iPhone through the vSSH proxy
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