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Hi fellas, this is my first ever post on privacy.
I recently wrote about the existence of an open source DLT-based decentralized marketplace with a mission to enable free and private trade of goods and services. The marketplace description was posted on another subreddit but I think it's worth posting the description here too. Tbh I cant think of anything that qualifies more as "The intersection of technology, privacy, and freedom in a digital world"
I hope my own description of the marketplace and its technology bellow will fuel your interest to read more about it. My even bigger hope is that some of you will decide to become first-hand beta testers as soon as the upcoming v3.0 of the marketplace hits the testnet (eta: a few weeks).
You can also use the existing version (currently 2.3.5) of the marketplace to buy or sell products on the publicly accessible single community market there (or just play with it).
The marketplace:
It is called the Particl Marketplace and its ground breaking V3.0 is set to be released after 3 years of hard development work. The V3.0 will be the first version aimed at a wider public (normies and not only tech geeks). It will allow anyone to create easily decentralized personal storefronts or community markets or simply buy/sell goods on existing markets. The user-created markets/storefronts on the marketplace can be public if the access key is publicly announced on the Particl network or absolutely invisible to anyone that doesn’t know the access key (held by the creator). This is an intentional privacy feature and simply put, if you dont have the market access key (essentially a decryption key) there is absolutely no way to see/detect that some market exists.
The marketplace is private by design and decentralized, with no middlemen or intermediaries whatsoever. The trades are protected by a two-way automated escrow via smart-contracts that de-incentivize and penalize dishonest behavior on both sides. In particular, the buy-flow forces the buyer to deposit 1x item value + payment and the seller 1x item value (+ sends item) into a common smart contract. If the buyer receives the product/service and its all good, then he unlocks the escrow so both can get their 1x item value deposits back and the seller receive his payment.
The marketplace takes no sales commissions from the storefronts/markets and charges only a tiny listing fee (<0.01$) to prevent product listings spamming. All the marketplace generated fees go to the staking nodes that provide the hardware infrastructure for the p2p network to operate. The network nodes can be public or you can run them as Tor hidden services.
The technology:
The Particl Marketplace is crypto-agnostic and currently supports payments in BTC, PART, ZCoin (XMR, DAI, NIX, USDC, USDT are next in the pipeline and many more to come). It uses as a settlement layer its native coin PART and own blockchain, which is an up-to-date Bitcoin codebase with added privacy features like CT, RingCT (up to 32 mixins), Stealth addresses, etc. These privacy features are used in combination to keep the financial data, like escrows and transactions, private and most importantly un-linkable to the actual market buys/sells.
For the users and markets related data exchange like posted listings, buy/sell flows, encrypted user communication, built-in cryptocurrency exchange, etc, the marketplace uses a DSN, currently its a custom Bitmessage variant called SMSG, which allows metadata stripped encrypted p2p data exchange (no sender, no receiver)
Last but not least the marketplace desktop app (Particl Desktop) has a built-in option for using the Tor network via proxy.
The important people:
The cypherpunks behind Particl Marketplace have been OGs freedom advocates and pioneers in the privacy DLT field. For example, they were the first ever to implement features like RingCT, Bulletproofs, PoS, cold staking, etc on a Bitcoin codebase. Their privacy features implementations have been audited successfully by several respectable academics and security R&D providers, like QuarksLab.
The team behind the project has been so far focused on building without any marketing/awareness efforts and thus have remained intentionally in the shadows. The latter is planned to change with the v3.0 release. One of the steps towards that will be the initiation of several long-planned awareness campaigns, like the Vendor Onboarding and Outreach Program, the Particl Academy (an easy to understand and learn about the technology portal) and many more.
Me:
I am a passionate freedom and privacy advocate that discovered the project 1.5 year ago and since then has become a member of their small but like-minded community ([email protected]/discord).
My personal belief is that the Particl Marketplace provides a game-changing/breaking usecase to the world. At the minimum, due to the open source nature of the project, it will be a proof of concept that is bound to shift the global eCommerce paradigm.

I have been doing a lot of research these past few weeks. It appears most scientific studies I have found are from 18-1900s. And sadly mostly focused on extracting morphine from the poppy.
I am a novice in biochemistry but do understand the very basics from extractions of DMT and Mescaline.
Poppy Seed and Poppy Pod methods are all over the place. Some suggest hot water, some cold. I have read the form of morphine is different than what you would find in an actual morphine pill so temperature, PH etc. is entirely different.
Here is my goal: I have some dried pods. I would like to make a tea. I want to extract ALL alkaloids and reduce it down to a putty/powder that can be capsuled.
For years what I have done is remove the seeds and save for later, grind up the pods to almost a powder. Then basically by making a tea, keeping the water at no higher than 90C for 1 hour then turn off the heat and let it rest over night.
Ill then use some cheese cloth and squeeze all the water out. I will do this 2-3 more times and the results are acceptable but I'd like to take a more scientific approach.
Again, everything I can find is mostly about only extracting the morphine. I want the morphine, codeine, thebaine, noscapine, and papaverine etc extracted and then reduced - as I subscribe to the belief that there is a synergistic effect to all of these alkoloids similar marijuana with terpenes and cannabinoids.
How do I even start to discover the popper temperatures to get these, or the best PH? Or is water even the best medium to use. My limited knowledge of other extracts in A/B extraction is there are things such as polarity and PH are important.
Here are a few of the best sources I have found so far:
A) https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bulletin_1957-01-01_2_page007.html B) https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Z61R-j4UBkUzsP1F5xRVhNlOAbcDMBW Ba) summary of above findings (https://www.reddit.com/PoppyTeaUniversity/comments/76yw26/quantification_of_morphine_codeine_and_thebaine/)
A) seems to be the most promising, where one can extract most of the alkoloids without multiple stages. But I don't fully understated the verbage.
This is my undestanding after reading it, feel free to correct me on any misconceptions.
Keep in mind (all these start with opium extraction to begin with. I am starting with dry pods ground to powder or high quality seeds. My next experiment will be 2lbs of decent quality dried pods.)

1) The dissolution of the opium is done in the usual manner. The opium is cut into slices and stirred with five times its weight of water. Heating to 45-50°C is applied to speed up disintegration.

So say I have 1000 grams of dried pop powder I should make a tea starting with 5000 grams of water. For how long though do you think? 

2) The filtration and washing of the completely disintegrated opium follows to some extent the known pattern of the counter-current method as described by Schwyzer (18) and Barbier (1), (2), but does not aim at obtaining a highly concentrated extract. The marc which remains after the separation of the aqueous extract by filtration is **washed five times with 1 to 2 parts of 2% acetic acid for one part of opium.

This is where I am totally lost. Is this saying to filter the water from the plant matter in my case, then wash the plant matter 5 times with 1 to 2 parts of a 2% acetic acid solution and save the liquid from that? What exactly is meant by 2% acetic acid solution? And once I make this acetic acid solution I should do 5 washes with up to twice the volume of the plant matter? Or do I have this totally backwards and I am actually washing the tea and not even touching the plant matter any more? 

This is already getting to be a long post. If anyone is willing to help me go through this in layman terms I'd be willing to even pay you for your time in bitcoin.
Really, I don't want to extract and convert to any salts or anything. I just want to know the correct temperature and PH to most effectively extract as many alkaloids as possible from ground up pods or good quality seeds From what I have been reading this may take a few washes of different characteristics?
Allow me to explain how I have usually done this when I am not just making tea and drinking it:

1) Usually I just let my ground up pods or seeds sit in ~90C water (as suggested by source B/Ba - but after reading source A that has me questioning if it should be more like 45-50°C!)
2) Then after that maintaining that temp for about an hour I turn the heat down and take the lid off and just let it slowly evaporate to about 50% of original aquas solution while the plant mater still remains.
3) I strain this and use a cheese cloth and press to get excess juice if I am using pods
4) I do this 3 times total, mix all 3 extractions into one container and then either air dry slowly with a fan or put in a large surface area pyrex dish in the oven at the lowest setting and cook until a slimey putty that can be capsuled.

Am I missing out or potentially destroying any goodie with this method?
If that is just as effective as the process described in source A) ill just stick with what I know. But at the same time if the source I found above 1) makes a worthwhile higher quality product with more alkaloids and 2) helps me learn more about chemistry In the process it would be worth it to me.
Lastly, would there be any benefit to use a high proof alcohol or perhaps naptha at room temp to extract instead of water. Then proceed with my usual process just described? How or what would you search to find out if alcohol extracts such alkaloids?
Thanks for your time!

Welcome to the /Bitcoin Sticky FAQ

You've probably been hearing a lot about Bitcoin recently and are wondering what's the big deal? Most of your questions should be answered by the resources below but if you have additional questions feel free to ask them in the comments.
It all started with the release of the release of Satoshi Nakamoto's whitepaper however that will probably go over the head of most readers so we recommend the following videos for a good starting point for understanding how bitcoin works and a little about its long term potential:

• Video 1: Introduction to Bitcoin - Andreas Antonopoulos
• Video 2: The Trust Machine
• Video 3: Bitcoin 101 - Balaji Srinivasan

Some other great resources include Lopp.net, the Princeton crypto series and James D'Angelo's Bitcoin 101 Blackboard series.
Some excellent writing on Bitcoin's value proposition and future can be found at the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute.
Some Bitcoin statistics can be found here and here. Developer resources can be found here. Peer-reviewed research papers can be found here.
Potential upcoming protocol improvements and scaling resources here and here.
The number of times Bitcoin was declared dead by the media can be found here (LOL!)

Key properties of Bitcoin

• Limited Supply - There will only ever be 21,000,000 bitcoins created and they are issued in a predictable fashion, you can view the inflation schedule here. Once they are all issued Bitcoin will be truly deflationary. The halving countdown can be found here.
• Open source - Bitcoin code is fully auditable. You can read the source code yourself here.
• Accountable - The public ledger is transparent, all transactions are seen by everyone.
• Decentralized - Bitcoin is globally distributed across thousands of nodes with no single point of failure and as such can't be shut down similar to how Bittorrent works. You can even run a node on a Raspberry Pi.
• Censorship resistant - No one can prevent you from interacting with the bitcoin network and no one can censor, alter or block transactions that they disagree with, see Operation Chokepoint.
• Push system - There are no chargebacks in bitcoin because only the person who owns the address where the bitcoins reside has the authority to move them.
• Low fee scaling - On chain transaction fees depend on network demand and how much priority you wish to assign to the transaction. Most wallets calculate on chain fees automatically but you can view current fees here and mempool activity here. On chain fees may rise occasionally due to network demand, however instant micropayments that do not require confirmations are happening via the Lightning Network, a second layer scaling solution currently rolling out on the Bitcoin mainnet.
• Borderless - No country can stop it from going in/out, even in areas currently unserved by traditional banking as the ledger is globally distributed.
• Trustless - Bitcoin solved the Byzantine's Generals Problem which means nobody needs to trust anybody for it to work.
• Pseudonymous - No need to expose personal information when purchasing with cash or transacting.
• Secure - Encrypted cryptographically and can’t be brute forced or confiscated with proper key management such as hardware wallets.
• Programmable - Individual units of bitcoin can be programmed to transfer based on certain criteria being met
• Nearly instant - From a few seconds to a few minutes depending on need for confirmations. Transactions are irreversible after one or more confirmations.
• Peer-to-peer - No intermediaries with a cut, no need for trusted third parties.
• Portable - Bitcoins are digital so they are easier to move than cash or gold. They can even be transported by simply memorizing a string of words for wallet recovery (while cool this method is generally not recommended due to potential for insecure key generation by inexperienced users. Hardware wallets are the preferred method for new users due to ease of use and additional security).
• Scalable - While the protocol is still being optimized for increased transaction capacity, blockchains do not scale very well, so most transaction volume is expected to occur on Layer 2 networks built on top of Bitcoin.
• Divisible - Each bitcoin can be divided down to 8 decimals, which means you don't have to worry about buying an entire bitcoin.
• Designed Money - Bitcoin was created to fit all the fundamental properties of money better than gold or fiat

Where can I buy bitcoins?

Bitcoin.org and BuyBitcoinWorldwide.com are helpful sites for beginners. You can buy or sell any amount of bitcoin (even just a few dollars worth) and there are several easy methods to purchase bitcoin with cash, credit card or bank transfer. Some of the more popular resources are below, also check out the bitcoinity exchange resources for a larger list of options for purchases.

• Cash app
• Gemini
• Swan
• Bitstamp
• BitFinex
• Xapo
• Kraken
• Cex
• LocalBitcoins
• LibertyX
• P2P exchange list (decentralized)

Here is a listing of local ATMs. If you would like your paycheck automatically converted to bitcoin use Bitwage.
Note: Bitcoins are valued at whatever market price people are willing to pay for them in balancing act of supply vs demand. Unlike traditional markets, bitcoin markets operate 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Preev is a useful site that that shows how much various denominations of bitcoin are worth in different currencies. Alternatively you can just Google "1 bitcoin in (your local currency)".

Securing your bitcoins

With bitcoin you can "Be your own bank" and personally secure your bitcoins OR you can use third party companies aka "Bitcoin banks" which will hold the bitcoins for you.

• If you prefer to "Be your own bank" and have direct control over your coins without having to use a trusted third party, then you will need to create your own wallet and keep it secure. If you want easy and secure storage without having to learn computer security best practices, then a hardware wallet such as the Trezor, Ledger or ColdCard is recommended. Alternatively there are many software wallet options to choose from here depending on your use case.
  
• If you prefer to let third party "Bitcoin banks" manage your coins, try Gemini but be aware you may not be in control of your private keys in which case you would have to ask permission to access your funds and be exposed to third party risk.
  

Note: For increased security, use Two Factor Authentication (2FA) everywhere it is offered, including email!
2FA requires a second confirmation code to access your account making it much harder for thieves to gain access. Google Authenticator and Authy are the two most popular 2FA services, download links are below. Make sure you create backups of your 2FA codes.

Google Auth	Authy	OTP Auth
Android	Android	N/A
iOS	iOS	iOS

Watch out for scams

As mentioned above, Bitcoin is decentralized, which by definition means there is no official website or Twitter handle or spokesperson or CEO. However, all money attracts thieves. This combination unfortunately results in scammers running official sounding names or pretending to be an authority on YouTube or social media. Many scammers throughout the years have claimed to be the inventor of Bitcoin. Websites like bitcoin(dot)com and the btc subreddit are active scams. Almost all altcoins (shitcoins) are marketed heavily with big promises but are really just designed to separate you from your bitcoin. So be careful: any resource, including all linked in this document, may in the future turn evil. Don't trust, verify. Also as they say in our community "Not your keys, not your coins".

Where can I spend bitcoins?

Check out spendabit or bitcoin directory for millions of merchant options. Also you can spend bitcoin anywhere visa is accepted with bitcoin debit cards such as the CashApp card. Some other useful site are listed below.

Store	Product
Gyft	Gift cards for hundreds of retailers including Amazon, Target, Walmart, Starbucks, Whole Foods, CVS, Lowes, Home Depot, iTunes, Best Buy, Sears, Kohls, eBay, GameStop, etc.
Spendabit, Overstock and The Bitcoin Directory	Retail shopping with millions of results
ShakePay	Generate one time use Visa cards in seconds
NewEgg and Dell	For all your electronics needs
Bitwa.la, Coinbills, Piixpay, Bitbill.eu, Bylls, Coins.ph, Bitrefill, LivingRoomofSatoshi, Coinsfer, and more	Bill payment
Menufy, Takeaway and Thuisbezorgd NL	Takeout delivered to your door
Expedia, Cheapair, Destinia, Abitsky, SkyTours, the Travel category on Gyft and 9flats	For when you need to get away
Cryptostorm, Mullvad, and PIA	VPN services
Namecheap, Porkbun	Domain name registration
Stampnik	Discounted USPS Priority, Express, First-Class mail postage

Coinmap and AirBitz are helpful to find local businesses accepting bitcoins. A good resource for UK residents is at wheretospendbitcoins.co.uk.
There are also lots of charities which accept bitcoin donations.

Merchant Resources

There are several benefits to accepting bitcoin as a payment option if you are a merchant;

• 1-3% savings over credit cards or PayPal.
• No chargebacks (final settlement in 10 minutes as opposed to 3+ months).
• Accept business from a global customer base.
• Increased privacy.
• Convert 100% of the sale to the currency of your choice for deposit to your account, or choose to keep a percentage of the sale in bitcoin if you wish to begin accumulating it.

If you are interested in accepting bitcoin as a payment method, there are several options available;

• BTCPay
• Square cash
• Stripe
• Coinify
• Wyre
• Blockonomics (direct to your wallet)

Can I mine bitcoin?

Mining bitcoins can be a fun learning experience, but be aware that you will most likely operate at a loss. Newcomers are often advised to stay away from mining unless they are only interested in it as a hobby similar to folding at home. If you want to learn more about mining you can read more here. Still have mining questions? The crew at /BitcoinMining would be happy to help you out.
If you want to contribute to the bitcoin network by hosting the blockchain and propagating transactions you can run a full node using this setup guide. If you would prefer to keep it simple there are several good options. You can view the global node distribution here.

Earning bitcoins

Just like any other form of money, you can also earn bitcoins by being paid to do a job.

Site	Description
WorkingForBitcoins, Bitwage, Cryptogrind, Coinality, Bitgigs, /Jobs4Bitcoins, BitforTip, Rein Project	Freelancing
Lolli	Earn bitcoin when you shop online!
OpenBazaar, Purse.io, Bitify, /Bitmarket, 21 Market	Marketplaces
/GirlsGoneBitcoin NSFW	Adult services
A-ads, Coinzilla.io	Advertising

You can also earn bitcoins by participating as a market maker on JoinMarket by allowing users to perform CoinJoin transactions with your bitcoins for a small fee (requires you to already have some bitcoins.

Bitcoin-Related Projects

The following is a short list of ongoing projects that might be worth taking a look at if you are interested in current development in the bitcoin space.

Project	Description
Lightning Network	Second layer scaling
Blockstream, Rootstock and Drivechain	Sidechains
Hivemind and Augur	Prediction markets
Tierion and Factom	Records & Titles on the blockchain
BitMarkets, DropZone, Beaver and Open Bazaar	Decentralized markets
JoinMarket and Wasabi Wallet	CoinJoin implementation
Coinffeine and Bisq	Decentralized bitcoin exchanges
Keybase	Identity & Reputation management
Abra	Global P2P money transmitter network
Bitcore	Open source Bitcoin javascript library

Bitcoin Units

One Bitcoin is quite large (hundreds of £/$/€) so people often deal in smaller units. The most common subunits are listed below:

Unit	Symbol	Value	Info
bitcoin	BTC	1 bitcoin	one bitcoin is equal to 100 million satoshis
millibitcoin	mBTC	1,000 per bitcoin	used as default unit in recent Electrum wallet releases
bit	bit	1,000,000 per bitcoin	colloquial "slang" term for microbitcoin (μBTC)
satoshi	sat	100,000,000 per bitcoin	smallest unit in bitcoin, named after the inventor

For example, assuming an arbitrary exchange rate of $10000 for one Bitcoin, a $10 meal would equal:

• 0.001 BTC
• 1 mBTC
• 1,000 bits
• 100k sats

For more information check out the Bitcoin units wiki.
Still have questions? Feel free to ask in the comments below or stick around for our weekly Mentor Monday thread. If you decide to post a question in /Bitcoin, please use the search bar to see if it has been answered before, and remember to follow the community rules outlined on the sidebar to receive a better response. The mods are busy helping manage our community so please do not message them unless you notice problems with the functionality of the subreddit.
Note: This is a community created FAQ. If you notice anything missing from the FAQ or that requires clarification you can edit it here and it will be included in the next revision pending approval.
Welcome to the Bitcoin community and the new decentralized economy!

So, how do we make money from our unused messages?We all, or at least a majority, have unlimited texting on our mobile plans. However, we no longer use our SMS that much, we communicate more through social networks.This means that the bandwidth is relatively busy today, while that of mobile telephony is more "free".This is one of the reasons why when you ask for a password or an OTP to access your accounts, it comes mostly by SMS, with this famous 2FA.
So let's get to what interests you now, how do you make money on it? It's relatively simple, with this app you connect your sim to the application and get the message out there faster through your messages. Let's imagine that the password request is made in the United States, it will go through different phones in different regions of the United States to reach you as quickly as possible. And so you get paid to get the information to arrive as quickly as possible.
Enough talk, how much can you earn? The minimum starts at 0.0001 € and the maximum at 0.01 € per message. (sorry not in dollars I'm European). There is no sim card limit or daily message limit, but you can set one.
How much have I made on my side? With 5 SIM cards, I made almost € 300 in 1 month. You can request a transfer by the bank, in bitcoin or by paypal. I can guarantee that I have received my payment in less than 2 days.
The app takes a commission on the money you take out. 10 € for a transfer to the bank or in bitcoin, 1.50 € by paypal.
You can join the app here: Referral Link Non-Referral Link
Here you can see the payments proofs : https://ibb.co/7zVCkSt https://ibb.co/j4jYnBR
Oh and a side-note, you can then install on your Sim Cards few apps like Money SMS, SMS Profit, McMoney etc... this will helps you a lot!

https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research/releases/tag/5.0.0.0
Finally! After over ten months of development and testing, "Fern" has arrived! This is a whopper. 240 pull requests merged. Essentially a complete rewrite that was started with the scraper (the "neural net" rewrite) in "Denise" has now been completed. Practically the ENTIRE Gridcoin specific codebase resting on top of the vanilla Bitcoin/Peercoin/Blackcoin vanilla PoS code has been rewritten. This removes the team requirement at last (see below), although there are many other important improvements besides that.
Fern was a monumental undertaking. We had to encode all of the old rules active for the v10 block protocol in new code and ensure that the new code was 100% compatible. This had to be done in such a way as to clear out all of the old spaghetti and ring-fence it with tightly controlled class implementations. We then wrote an entirely new, simplified ruleset for research rewards and reengineered contracts (which includes beacon management, polls, and voting) using properly classed code. The fundamentals of Gridcoin with this release are now on a very sound and maintainable footing, and the developers believe the codebase as updated here will serve as the fundamental basis for Gridcoin's future roadmap.
We have been testing this for MONTHS on testnet in various stages. The v10 (legacy) compatibility code has been running on testnet continuously as it was developed to ensure compatibility with existing nodes. During the last few months, we have done two private testnet forks and then the full public testnet testing for v11 code (the new protocol which is what Fern implements). The developers have also been running non-staking "sentinel" nodes on mainnet with this code to verify that the consensus rules are problem-free for the legacy compatibility code on the broader mainnet. We believe this amount of testing is going to result in a smooth rollout.
Given the amount of changes in Fern, I am presenting TWO changelogs below. One is high level, which summarizes the most significant changes in the protocol. The second changelog is the detailed one in the usual format, and gives you an inkling of the size of this release.

Highlights

Protocol

Note that the protocol changes will not become active until we cross the hard-fork transition height to v11, which has been set at 2053000. Given current average block spacing, this should happen around October 4, about one month from now.
Note that to get all of the beacons in the network on the new protocol, we are requiring ALL beacons to be validated. A two week (14 day) grace period is provided by the code, starting at the time of the transition height, for people currently holding a beacon to validate the beacon and prevent it from expiring. That means that EVERY CRUNCHER must advertise and validate their beacon AFTER the v11 transition (around Oct 4th) and BEFORE October 18th (or more precisely, 14 days from the actual date of the v11 transition). If you do not advertise and validate your beacon by this time, your beacon will expire and you will stop earning research rewards until you advertise and validate a new beacon. This process has been made much easier by a brand new beacon "wizard" that helps manage beacon advertisements and renewals. Once a beacon has been validated and is a v11 protocol beacon, the normal 180 day expiration rules apply. Note, however, that the 180 day expiration on research rewards has been removed with the Fern update. This means that while your beacon might expire after 180 days, your earned research rewards will be retained and can be claimed by advertising a beacon with the same CPID and going through the validation process again. In other words, you do not lose any earned research rewards if you do not stake a block within 180 days and keep your beacon up-to-date.
The transition height is also when the team requirement will be relaxed for the network.

GUI

Besides the beacon wizard, there are a number of improvements to the GUI, including new UI transaction types (and icons) for staking the superblock, sidestake sends, beacon advertisement, voting, poll creation, and transactions with a message. The main screen has been revamped with a better summary section, and better status icons. Several changes under the hood have improved GUI performance. And finally, the diagnostics have been revamped.

Blockchain

The wallet sync speed has been DRASTICALLY improved. A decent machine with a good network connection should be able to sync the entire mainnet blockchain in less than 4 hours. A fast machine with a really fast network connection and a good SSD can do it in about 2.5 hours. One of our goals was to reduce or eliminate the reliance on snapshots for mainnet, and I think we have accomplished that goal with the new sync speed. We have also streamlined the in-memory structures for the blockchain which shaves some memory use.
There are so many goodies here it is hard to summarize them all.
I would like to thank all of the contributors to this release, but especially thank @cyrossignol, whose incredible contributions formed the backbone of this release. I would also like to pay special thanks to @barton2526, @caraka, and @Quezacoatl1, who tirelessly helped during the testing and polishing phase on testnet with testing and repeated builds for all architectures.
The developers are proud to present this release to the community and we believe this represents the starting point for a true renaissance for Gridcoin!

Summary Changelog

Accrual

Changed

Most significantly, nodes calculate research rewards directly from the magnitudes in EACH superblock between stakes instead of using a two- or three- point average based on a CPID's current magnitude and the magnitude for the CPID when it last staked. For those long-timers in the community, this has been referred to as "Superblock Windows," and was first done in proof-of-concept form by @denravonska.

• Network magnitude unit pinned to a static value of 0.25
• Max research reward allowed per block raised to 16384 GRC (from 12750 GRC)
• New CPIDs begin accruing research rewards from the first superblock that contains the CPID instead of from the time of the beacon advertisement

Removed

• 500 GRC research reward limit for a CPID's first stake
• 6-month expiration for unclaimed rewards
• 10-block spacing requirement between research reward claims
• Rolling 5-day payment-per-day limit
• Legacy tolerances for floating-point error and time drift
• The need to include a valid copy of a CPID's magnitude in a claim
• 10-block emission adjustment interval for the magnitude unit

Beacons

Added

• One-time beacon activation requires that participants temporarily change their usernames to a verification code at one whitelisted BOINC project
• Verification codes of pending beacons expire after 3 days
• Self-service beacon removal

Changed

• Burn fee for beacon advertisement increased from 0.00001 GRC to 0.5 GRC
• Rain addresses derived from beacon keys instead of a default wallet address
• Beacon expiration determined as of the current block instead of the previous block

Removed

• The ability for developers to remove beacons
• The ability to sign research reward claims with non-current but unexpired beacons

Unaltered

As a reminder:

• Beacons expire after 6 months pass (180 days)
• Beacons can be renewed after 5 months pass (150 days)
• Renewed beacons must be signed with the same key as the original beacon

Superblocks

Added

• Magnitudes less than 1 include two fractional places
• Magnitudes greater than or equal to 1 but less than 10 include one fractional place

Changed

• A valid superblock must match a scraper convergence

Removed

• Superblock popularity election mechanics

Voting

Added

• Yes/no/abstain and single-choice response types (no user-facing support yet)

Changed

• To create a poll, a maximum of 250 UTXOs for a single address must add up to 100000 GRC. These are selected from the largest downwards.
• Burn fee for creating polls scaled by the number of UTXOs claimed
  • 50 GRC for a poll contract
  • 0.001 GRC per claimed UTXO
• Burn fee for casting votes scaled by the number of UTXOs claimed
  • 0.01 GRC for a vote contract
  • 0.01 GRC to claim magnitude
  • 0.01 GRC per claimed address
  • 0.001 GRC per claimed UTXO
• Maximum length of a poll title: 80 characters
• Maximum length of a poll question: 100 characters
• Maximum length of a poll discussion website URL: 100 characters
• Maximum number of poll choices: 20
• Maximum length of a poll choice label: 100 characters

Removed

• Magnitude, CPID count, and participant count poll weight types
• The ability for developers to remove polls and votes

Detailed Changelog

[5.0.0.0] 2020-09-03, mandatory, "Fern"

Added

• Backport newer uint256 types from Bitcoin #1570 (@cyrossignol)
• Implement project level rain for rainbymagnitude #1580 (@jamescowens)
• Upgrade utilities (Update checker and snapshot downloadeapplication) #1576 (@iFoggz)
• Provide fees collected in the block by the miner #1601 (@iFoggz)
• Add support for generating legacy superblocks from scraper stats #1603 (@cyrossignol)
• Port of the Bitcoin Logger to Gridcoin #1600 (@jamescowens)
• Implement zapwallettxes #1605 (@jamescowens)
• Implements a global event filter to suppress help question mark #1609 (@jamescowens)
• Add next target difficulty to RPC output #1615 (@cyrossignol)
• Add caching for block hashes to CBlock #1624 (@cyrossignol)
• Make toolbars and tray icon red for testnet #1637 (@jamescowens)
• Add an rpc call convergencereport #1643 (@jamescowens)
• Implement newline filter on config file read in #1645 (@jamescowens)
• Implement beacon status icon/button #1646 (@jamescowens)
• Add gridcointestnet.png #1649 (@caraka)
• Add precision to support magnitudes less than 1 #1651 (@cyrossignol)
• Replace research accrual calculations with superblock snapshots #1657 (@cyrossignol)
• Publish example gridcoinresearch.conf as a md document to the doc directory #1662 (@jamescowens)
• Add options checkbox to disable transaction notifications #1666 (@jamescowens)
• Add support for self-service beacon deletion #1695 (@cyrossignol)
• Add support for type-specific contract fee amounts #1698 (@cyrossignol)
• Add verifiedbeaconreport and pendingbeaconreport #1696 (@jamescowens)
• Add preliminary testing option for block v11 height on testnet #1706 (@cyrossignol)
• Add verified beacons manifest part to superblock validator #1711 (@cyrossignol)
• Implement beacon, vote, and superblock display categories/icons in UI transaction model #1717 (@jamescowens)
• neuralnet: Add integrity checking to researcher accrual snapshot registry #1727 (@jamescowens)
• Add workaround for scrypt assembly on macOS #1740 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Build onboarding/beacon wizard #1739 (@cyrossignol)
• doc: Add CONTRIBUTING.md from bitcoin #1723 (@div72)
• rpc: Implement inspectaccrualsnapshot and parseaccrualsnapshotfile #1744 (@jamescowens)
• scraper: Add disk based state backing for verified beacon list in scraper #1751 (@jamescowens)
• Add ability to recover beacon in block version 11+ #1768 (@cyrossignol)
• refactor: Add transaction context to contract handlers #1777 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Add context for when BOINC is attached to a pool #1775 (@cyrossignol)
• doc: Clarify what to do if PR in multiple categories (for CONTRIBUTING.md) #1798 (@RoboticMind)
• qt: Add option to choose not to start the wallet minimized #1804 (@jamescowens)
• superblock: Add check for OutOfSyncByAge to SuperblockValidator::Validate #1806 (@jamescowens)
• contract: Standardize contract validation and add block context #1808 (@cyrossignol)
• add seed.gridcoin.pl to default config #1812 (@wilkart)
• gui: Implement sidestake send display #1813 (@jamescowens)
• gui: Add pool/investor pages to researcher wizard #1819 (@cyrossignol)
• ci: Port lint scripts from Bitcoin #1823 (@div72)
• doc: Create basic readme in contrib #1826 (@RoboticMind)
• gui: Implement TransactionRecord::Message #1829 (@jamescowens)
• rpc: Add private_key_available to beaconstatus #1833 (@a123b)
• gui: Validate email address in researcher wizard #1840 (@a123b)
• rpc: Add "getrawwallettransaction" RPC function #1842 (@cyrossignol)
• consensus: Set block version 11 threshold height for mainnet #1862 (@cyrossignol)

Changed

• Upgrade LevelDB from v1.17 to v1.20 #1562 (@cyrossignol)
• Re-enable scrypt optimizations #1450 (@denravonska)
• Derive CScript from prevector type (optimization) #1554 (@cyrossignol)
• Disable quorum for grandfathered blocks to speed up sync #1568 (@cyrossignol)
• Refactor hashBoinc for binary claim contexts #1558 (@cyrossignol)
• integrated_scraper_2 branch tracking PR #1559 (@jamescowens)
• Upgrade depends - OpenSSL to 1.1.1d #1581 (@jamescowens)
• Ubuntu 19.10 fixes #1590 (@denravonska)
• Force a re-parse of legacy claims in generated blocks #1592 (@cyrossignol)
• Improve the "versionreport" RPC output #1595 (@cyrossignol)
• Overhaul the core tally and accrual system #1583 (@cyrossignol)
• Overhaul the superblock quorum system #1597 (@cyrossignol)
• Add more data to the "superblocks" RPC output #1599 (@cyrossignol)
• Update Windows Build doc #1606 (@barton2526)
• Change the order of calls in gridcoinresearchd.cpp to optimize rpc shunt path #1610 (@jamescowens)
• Change staking tooltip to display frequency #1611 (@jamescowens)
• Enhancements to ETTS #1442 (@jamescowens)
• Standardize money values as integers #1614 (@cyrossignol)
• Clean up and optimize legacy coin age code #1616 (@cyrossignol)
• Some scraper cleanups #1620 (@jamescowens)
• Reorganize accrual code and fix 6-month cutoff #1630 (@cyrossignol)
• Update Copyright years #1633 (@barton2526)
• Change team whitelist delimiter to <> for CPID detection #1634 (@cyrossignol)
• Change team whitelist separator to <> to accomodate more team names #1632 (@jamescowens)
• Change Curl download speed type to support older environments #1640 (@cyrossignol)
• Optimize logo SVGs used for tray icons #1638 (@cyrossignol)
• Tweak consolidateunspent rpc function #1644 (@jamescowens)
• ETTS and staking icon enhancements #1650 (@jamescowens)
• Implement new transaction fees for block version 11 #1652 (@jamescowens)
• Optimize in-memory storage of superblock data #1653 (@cyrossignol)
• Miscellaneous superblock API improvements and housekeeping #1654 (@cyrossignol)
• Update openssl to 1.1.1f compatibility #1660 (@jamescowens)
• Optimize bdb to avoid synchronous flush of database #1659 (@jamescowens)
• Add support for CPID input to "lifetime" RPC function #1668 (@cyrossignol)
• Overhaul the contract handling system #1669 (@cyrossignol)
• Make the autostart mainnet/testnet aware #1671 (@jamescowens)
• Remove slashes from User Agent in peers tab #1674 (@div72)
• Refactor contracts for polymorphic binary payloads #1676 (@cyrossignol)
• Overhaul the beacon system #1678 (@cyrossignol)
• Replace boost::optional with non-owning pointers #1680 (@cyrossignol)
• Optimize proof-of-stake validation #1681 (@cyrossignol)
• Updated Slack link #1683 (@NeuralMiner)
• Update build-unix.md #1686 (@Quezacoatl1)
• Replace deprecated QT methods #1693 (@Pythonix)
• Made protocol.h more similar to bitcoin #1688 (@Pythonix)
• Touch up some details for block version 11 #1697 (@cyrossignol)
• More tweaks for block version 11 #1700 (@cyrossignol)
• Finish the conversion to the BCLog class based logger #1699 (@jamescowens)
• Move claim version transitional code in miner for proper signature #1712 (@cyrossignol)
• doc: Update threads in coding.txt #1730 (@div72)
• qt: Include QPainterPath in trafficgraphwidget.cpp #1733 (@div72)
• doc: Update doc/build-unix.md #1731 (@div72)
• gui: Show peers tab on connections icon click #1734 (@div72)
• refactor: Change return type of IsMine to isminetype && move wallet files to wallet directory #1722 (@div72)
• build: Updates boost to 1.73.0 for depends #1673 (@jamescowens)
• doc: Update Unit Test Readme #1743 (@RoboticMind)
• wallet: Change Assert To Error Message In kernel.cpp #1748 (@RoboticMind)
• scraper: Shorten display representation of verification codes #1754 (@cyrossignol)
• log: Change ".B." to Clear Message #1758 (@RoboticMind)
• util: Fix braindamage in GetDefaultDataDir() #1737 (@jamescowens)
• scraper: Improve scraper processing of beacon verifications #1760 (@jamescowens)
• scraper: Add instrumentation to convergencereport #1763 (@jamescowens)
• rpc: Improve rpc stress test script #1767 (@tunisiano187)
• Generalize enum serialization #1770 (@cyrossignol)
• scraper: Improve handling of ETags in http class and tweak verified beacon logic #1776 (@jamescowens)
• scraper: Improve ProcessNetworkWideFromProjectStats and other tweaks #1778 (@jamescowens)
• researcher: Automate beacon advertisement for renewals only #1781 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Tweak behavior of beacon page in researcher wizard #1784 (@cyrossignol)
• Prepare for block version 11 hard-fork on testnet #1787 (@cyrossignol)
• scraper: Modify UpdateVerifiedBeaconsFromConsensus #1791 (@jamescowens)
• gui: Optimize OverviewPage::updateTransactions() #1794 (@jamescowens)
• ci: Adopt ci changes from Bitcoin #1795 (@div72)
• consensus: switch snapshot accrual calculation to integer arithmetic #1799 (@cyrossignol)
• voting: Overhaul the voting system #1809 (@cyrossignol)
• contract: Optimize contract replay after chain reorganization #1815 (@cyrossignol)
• contract: Reimplement transaction messages as contracts #1816 (@cyrossignol)
• staking: Sign claim contracts with coinstake transaction #1817 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Change research wizard text #1820 (@div72)
• net: Update protocol version and clean up net messaging #1824 (@cyrossignol)
• rpc, wallet: Corrections to GetAmounts #1825 (@jamescowens)
• gui: Tweak some minor researcher wizard details #1830 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Change GetEstimatedStakingFrequency text #1836 (@jamescowens)
• scraper: Scraper global statistics cache optimization #1837 (@jamescowens)
• doc: Update Vulnerability Response Process #1843 (@RoboticMind)
• scraper: Optimization of manifest and parts sharing between ConvergedScraperStatsCache, mapManifest, and mapParts #1851 (@jamescowens)
• consensus: Update Checkpoints #1855 (@barton2526)
• docs: Update docs to build off master #1856 (@barton2526)
• gui: Fix and improve GUI combo box styles #1858 (@cyrossignol)
• build: Tweak Gridcoin installer for Fern release #1863 (@jamescowens)

Removed

• Remove old research age checks (rebase #1365) #1572 (@cyrossignol)
• Remove PrimaryCPID check from diagnostics dialog #1586 (@cyrossignol)
• Remove missed label for PrimaryCPID from diagnostics #1588 (@cyrossignol)
• Remove legacy quorum messaging system (@neural network) #1589 (@cyrossignol)
• Remove old remnants of legacy smart contract experiments #1594 (@cyrossignol)
• Remove block nonce for version 11 #1622 (@cyrossignol)
• Delete obsolete contrib/Installer and Upgrader directories #1623 (@jamescowens)
• Remove redundant LoadAdminMessages() calls #1625 (@cyrossignol)
• Remove some legacy informational RPC commands #1658 (@cyrossignol)
• Remove informational magnitude field from binary claims #1661 (@cyrossignol)
• Remove fDebug3,4, and net and convert to BCLog::LogFlags #1663 (@jamescowens)
• Remove qt5.7.1 depends support build System #1665 (@iFoggz)
• Remove unused jQuery library #1679 (@cyrossignol)
• Remove unused NetworkTimer() function and global state #1701 (@cyrossignol)
• Refactor claim context objects into contracts #1704 (@cyrossignol)
• Clean old assets up #1718 (@div72)
• Remove legacy "rain" RPC (not by-project rain) #1742 (@cyrossignol)
• Temporarily disable voting system on testnet #1769 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Remove legacy GUI transaction description for contracts #1772 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Remove transaction fee setting #1780 (@cyrossignol)
• trivial: Cleanup unused legacy functions #1793 (@cyrossignol)
• mining, rpc: Remove kernel-diff-best and kernel-diff-sum #1796 (@jamescowens)
• refactor: Remove libs subdirectory #1802 (@div72)
• scraper: cleanup unused/unnecessary functions #1803 (@jamescowens)
• gui: Remove useless "Detach databases at shutdown" #1810 (@jamescowens)
• test: Remove testnet condition for standard transactions #1814 (@cyrossignol)
• consensus: Remove transitional testnet code #1854 (@cyrossignol)

Fixed

• Fix "Owed" amount in output of "magnitude" RPC method #1569 (@cyrossignol)
• Add support for paths with special characters on Windows #1571 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix lingering peers.dat temp files and clean up remaining paths #1582 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix incorrect beacon length warning in GUI transaction list #1585 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix default config file line endings on Windows #1587 (@cyrossignol)
• Reenable Travis builds for MacOS #1591 (@jamescowens)
• Correct peer detail info background color #1593 (@jamescowens)
• Fix exception in debug3 mode #1598 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix deadlock in "getmininginfo" RPC function #1596 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix accuracy of statistics in "network" RPC output #1602 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix heights for quorum vote weight calculations #1604 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix deadlock in log archiver when rename fails #1607 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix a spurious segmentation fault during client load on Windows with fast CPUs #1608 (@jamescowens)
• Fix lock order debugging and potential deadlocks #1612 (@jamescowens)
• Add dependencies #1613 (@Scalextrix)
• Fix std namespace pollution #1617 (@denravonska)
• Add missing condition for newbie accrual computer #1618 (@cyrossignol)
• Track first reward blocks in research accounts #1619 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix lingering beacon warning after advertisement #1627 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix accrual calculation for new, zero-magnitude CPIDs #1636 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix diagnostics, add ETTS test, fix tooltipcolor, add missing lock, and add email=investor check #1647 (@jamescowens)
• Fix help message of two RPC methods #1656 (@div72)
• Fix legacy accrual for newbie with non-zero past reward #1667 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix GUI autostart on Windows for paths with wide characters #1670 (@cyrossignol)
• Qualify boost bind placeholders with their full namespace #1672 (@Ponce)
• Fix suffix when copying txids #1677 (@div72)
• Unnecessary if-statement removed #1685 (@Pythonix)
• Fix consolidatemsunspent Help Message #1687 (@Pythonix)
• Fix gettransaction help message #1691 (@Pythonix)
• Fix GetNewMint To Look for Stakes #1692 (@RoboticMind)
• Suppress deprecated copy warnings for Qt with GCC 9+ #1702 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix exclusion error on stats processing and misplaced ENDLOCK logging entry #1710 (@jamescowens)
• Removed unnecessary comparison #1708 (@Pythonix)
• Fixed typo #1707 (@Pythonix)
• Fix out-of-bounds exception for peers tab version slashes #1713 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix transition for v1 superblocks when reorganizing #1714 (@cyrossignol)
• Touch up transition to version 2 transactions #1715 (@cyrossignol)
• Avoid mutating transactions in ConnectBlock() #1716 (@cyrossignol)
• Skip beacon advertisement when already pending #1726 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix Windows cross-compilation in newer environments #1728 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix out-of-bounds access in IsMineInner() #1736 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix a couple of block version 11 issues #1738 (@cyrossignol)
• Fix null pointer dereference in GUI researcher model #1741 (@cyrossignol)
• accrual: Reset research accounts when rebuilding accrual snapshots #1745 (@cyrossignol)
• scraper: Correct update for verified beacons #1747 (@jamescowens)
• accrual: Refactor tally initialization for snapshot rebuild #1749 (@cyrossignol)
• rpc: Fix "cpid" field in "beaconconvergence" RPC output #1750 (@cyrossignol)
• accrual: Fix snapshot accrual superblock state transitions #1752 (@cyrossignol)
• scraper: Correct stale verified beacon logic #1753 (@jamescowens)
• rpc: Correct possible divide by zero in getblockstats #1755 (@jamescowens)
• gui: Fix issues with researcher wizard flow #1756 (@cyrossignol)
• wallet: Stop Error When Starting From Zero #1759 (@RoboticMind)
• Don't count empty email as explicit investor #1761 (@cyrossignol)
• accrual: Fix snapshot accrual superblock state transitions #1764 (@cyrossignol)
• rpc: Cleanup Help Message and Fix Typo #1771 (@RoboticMind)
• scraper: Fix scraper etag header case sensitivity #1773 (@cyrossignol)
• consensus: Use explicit time to check if superblock needed #1774 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Fix scroll area dark theme styles #1785 (@cyrossignol)
• rpc, gui: Fix three divide by zero possibilities #1789 (@jamescowens)
• rpc: Fix balance pre-check in "rainbymagnitude" RPC #1792 (@cyrossignol)
• accrual: Fix outdated comment and correct grammar #1800 (@RoboticMind)
• gui: Fix stuck cursor on labels #1801 (@div72)
• beacon: Fix research wizard beacon renewal status #1805 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Fix translations for port numbers #1818 (@cyrossignol)
• util: Create parent directory #1821 (@div72)
• mining: Fix coinstake/claim signature order #1828 (@cyrossignol)
• voting: Remove double increment in loop #1831 (@cyrossignol)
• neuralnet, scraper: Fix compilation with gcc5 and older libcurl #1832 (@a123b)
• wallet: Fix smallest coin selection for contracts #1841 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Fix display of polls with no votes yet #1844 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: add indentation to diagnostic status bar labels #1849 (@jamescowens)
• voting, gui: Fix formatting and alignment of vote shares and percent #1850 (@jamescowens)
• wallet, rpc: Fix for self-transactions in listtransactions #1852 (@jamescowens)
• accrual: Clear any accrual snapshots when syncing from pre-v11 #1853 (@cyrossignol)
• accrual: Fix reset of accrual directory if starting sync below research age height #1857 (@jamescowens)
• gui: Fix researcher wizard layout on macOS with native theme #1860 (@cyrossignol)

Dear NANO community,
This is going to be a long post where I will discuss why NANO under performed and will keep under performing in this bull run unless some things change.
I'm going to start up with straight facts with the famous quote of Floyd Mayweather: "Men lie, women lie, numbers don't lie".
If you feel offended by some of this, facts don't care about your feelings.
Technical Analysis
In the time where BTC Dominance fell from peak of 74% to 56% and keeps falling, NANO has moved from its low of 0.0000640 sats to a price of 0.0000950 sats. That is about 50% gain if you bought on the absolute low, but looking at the monthly chart, we can see that NANO has basically been in the range of 0.0001400 sats to 0.0000750 sats ever since July of 2019 (for more than 2 years).
https://charts.cointrader.pro/snapshot/zaXzV
The all time high of NANO was 0.0028, so this price is currently 96% down in terms of BTC .
https://charts.cointrader.pro/snapshot/tTF4J
With this price NANO is falling out of top 100 cryptocurrency based on market cap.
​
My thoughts: Considering that entire altcoin market is moving and that it keeps reaching new highs, this is very concerning for NANO and one can only ask themselves why does NANO keep falling behind?
Why does on every Bitcoin pump price falls hardest and on every day when other altcoins go up 30%, NANO only goes up 10%.
Reasons why NANO is lagging on the market:

• Reason 1. - Lack of adoption where NANO can be utilized to its fullest

We all know that NANO has near instantaneous transactions and is fee-less which is why most of us fell in love with this cryptocurrency.
Problem is that it has little to no adoption. What does it matter if NANO is feeless, when you don't have an exchange that will make a NANO/USD conversion for 0%.
Who cares if STR, XRP and other fast coins have like 0.01$ fee if either way, exchange will take 1% or more fees from you.?
If XRP has better exchange, they can easily be more cost efficient than NANO because of this problem. Devs need to be much more proactive rather than sit and wait while entire market is eating you alive.
Proposed solution: Nano needs to invest more in marketing and in making a deal with exchange that will be liquid enough and provide little to no fees on NANO.
​

• Reason 2. - There is no reward for NANO holders

I am a NANO holder ever since 2018 and it's been a long ride with constant buying at the end of each month with average buy of 2$ when I look at it totally.
This is not that bad considering NANO's massive fall and what some other holders had to go through.
Let's remind ourselves again, NANO has 0% inflation. And yet NANO's price doesn't grow. Where as other cryptocurrencies have 5-10% inflation and they are over-performing NANO massively.
NANO holders get no rewards from holding NANO which is a big problem. People call this an advantage and I somewhat agree, but NANO holders need to be rewarded with something, because crypto space doesn't care about inflation.
Proposed solution: Introduce POS (Proof of Stake) with inflation of 5% where NANO holders will be able to stake their NANO and receive 5% more NANO each year. You can do this or make it 6% and after each 2 years, there is halving of inflation. Imagine how coins get hyped when their rewards per year get cut in half. NANO has 0% inflation and it doesn't get any hype. It's already scarce, but people fail to see it.
​

• Reason 3. - NANO is refusing to adapt with the current market

Current bull run has been ignited with DEFI and because people see that they can earn up to 3-5% daily income just for holding ERC20 token like BAT, BAL, LINK etc. There's even been introudect WBTC (Wrapped Bitcoin) and WETH (Wrapped Ethereum), which means that people can hold their cryptocurrency which they would hold even if there weren't any rewards and they get 3-5% daily income + the chance of the DEFI coin actually pumping by 1000+% which many of them have done in the past month.
Because of all of this people are massively buying ERC20 tokens just to get these gains daily.
What has NANO do to interact with this entire DEFI space? Absolutely nothing.
Did they try to introduce wNANO (wrapped NANO) like Ethereum and Bitcoin did? No.
They just kept working on some other bullshit even-though protocol is in of itself 99% perfect and working. They keep focusing their energy on technology when technology is already better than anything else on the crypto market. NANO is currently the best fast cryptocurrency and it is not even close.
Proposed solution: Devs need to start focusing energy on things that matter and which will help the price and not dump their stash and blindly look how everything else keeps growing.
​

• Reason 4. - No one is making money of NANO market

This is similar to reason number 2 but it has to be said separately. Just ask yourself, who benefits of BTC markets? Miners.
Who benefits of any other POS market? All of the holders.
And then with this money you can finance devs which will work on the currency and will by this raise the price and the whole cycle repeats itself.
So all of these things have in common that people are making money of doing something for the ecosystem. On one hand resources get paid, on the other people that are loyal to the project.
NANO has one of the best and largest communities in cryptocurrency and numbers confirm this, yet there is no special way for any of us to benefit of of this. Everything is open source and people make everything for free.
Proposed solution: Introduce mechanism so that community members can earn money of holding NANO.
​
Conclusion: Nano is an amazing currency, but there are many things that need to fall in place in order for it to stop falling behind the market.
It's sad that investing in what is called a "safest" altcoin Ethereum, would've made you much better gains than even buying NANO on the all time low would.
This post is meant to be constructive criticism and to in the end open peoples mind on current problem NANO has in the space.
Please share this post so more people and hopefully devs can see it and so that we all as a community can start working towards our goal of NANO becoming one of most utilized cryptocurrencies in the world.

I have been doing a lot of research these past few weeks. It appears most scientific studies I have found are from 18-1900s. And sadly mostly focused on extracting morphine from the poppy.
I am a novice in biochemistry but do understand the very basics from extractions of DMT and Mescaline.
Poppy Seed and Poppy Pod methods are all over the place. Some suggest hot water, some cold. I have read the form of morphine is different than what you would find in an actual morphine pill so temperature, PH etc is entirely different.
Here is my goal: I have some dried pods. I would like to make a tea. I want to extract ALL alkaloids and reduce it down to a putty/powder that can be capsuled.
For years what I have done is remove the seeds and save for later, grind up the pods to almost a powder. Then basicly by making a tea, keeping the water at no higher than 90C for 1 hour then turn off the heat and let it rest over night.
Ill then use some cheese cloth and squeeze all the water out. I will do this 2-3 more times and the results are acceptable but I'd like to take a more scientific approach.
Again, everything I can find is mostly about only extracting the morphine. I want the morphine, codeine, thebaine, noscapine, and papaverine extracted and then reduced.
How do I even start to discover the popper temperatures to get these, or the best PH? Or is water even the best medium to use. My limited knowledge of other extracts in A/B extraction is there are things such as polarity and PH are important. I've seen something called
Here are a few of the best sources I have found so far:
A) https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bulletin_1957-01-01_2_page007.html B) https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Z61R-j4UBkUzsP1F5xRVhNlOAbcDMBW Ba) summary of above findings (https://www.reddit.com/PoppyTeaUniversity/comments/76yw26/quantification_of_morphine_codeine_and_thebaine/)
A) seems to be the most promising, where one can extract most of the alkoloids without multiple stages. But I don't fully understated the verbage.
This is my undestanding after reading it, feel free to correct me on any misconceptions.
Keep in mind (all these start with opium extraction to begin with. I am starting with dry pods ground to powder or high quality seeds. My next experiment will be 2lbs of decent quality dried pods.)

1) The dissolution of the opium is done in the usual manner. The opium is cut into slices and stirred with five times its weight of water. Heating to 45-50°C is applied to speed up disintegration.

So say I have 1000 grams of dried pop powder I should make a tea starting with 5000 grams of water. For how long though do you think? 

2) The filtration and washing of the completely disintegrated opium follows to some extent the known pattern of the counter-current method as described by Schwyzer (18) and Barbier (1), (2), but does not aim at obtaining a highly concentrated extract. The marc which remains after the separation of the aqueous extract by filtration is **washed five times with 1 to 2 parts of 2% acetic acid for one part of opium.

This is where I am totally lost. Is this saying to filter the water from the plant matter in my case, then wash the plant matter 5 times with 1 to 2 parts of a 2% acetic acid solution and save the liquid from that? What exactly is meant by 2% acetic acid solution? And once I make this acetic acid solution I should do 5 washes with up to twice the volume of the plant matter? Or do I have this totally backwards and I am actually washing the tea and not even touching the plant matter any more? 

This is already getting to be a long post. If anyone is willing to help me go through this in layman terms I'd be willing to even pay you for your time in bitcoin.
Really, I don't want to extract and convert to any salts or anything. I just want to know the correct temperature and PH to most effectively extract as many alkaloids as possible from ground up pods or good quality seeds From what I have been reading this may take a few washes of different characteristics?
Allow me to explain how I have usually done this when I am not just making tea and drinking it:

1) Usually I just let my ground up pods or seeds sit in ~90C water (as suggested by source B/Ba - but after reading source A that has me questioning if it should be more like 45-50°C!)
2) Then after that maintaining that temp for about an hour I turn the heat down and take the lid off and just let it slowly evaporate to about 50% of original aquas solution while the plant mater still remains.
3) I strain this and use a cheese cloth and press to get excess juice if I am using pods
4) I do this 3 times total (Only the first time is done overnight), mix all 3 extractions into one container and then either air dry slowly with a fan or put in a large surface area pyrex dish in the oven at the lowest setting and cook until a slimey putty that can be capsuled.

Am I missing out or potentially destroying any goodie with this method?
If that is just as effective as the process described in source A) ill just stick with what I know. But at the same time if the source I found above 1) makes a worthwhile higher quality product with more alkaloids and 2) helps me learn more about chemistry In the process it would be worth it to me.
Lastly, would there be any benefit to use a high proof alcohol or perhaps naptha at room temp to extract instead of water. Then proceed with my usual process just described? How or what would you search to find out if alcohol extracts such alkaloids?
Thanks for your time!
PS: Just as I was about to click post I found a final source. It is using some ultrasonic extractor but I think this info may still be valuable?
"The results of the study suggests that 1.10 of pH, 42.36°C of extraction temperature, 59.94 min of extraction time, and 19.99 mL to 500 mg solvent/solid ratio should be employed as optimal operating conditions for the best EY"
So it appears the common wisdom of the poppy subreddit may in fact be incorrect that 93C at neutral PH is optimal and 2 sources studies state somewhere around 43C is best.
Even stranger is source C states a PH of 1! I also cannot understand what solvent they are using. Any thoughts?

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$SINT - Wednesday huge webinar. Mass support at $1.90-$2. Slight resistance at $2.50🔥🚀💎👀
$AIM - Still believe this is a $5 ticker in the future. Chart looks to be squeezing upward in a cup and handle fashion. MACD setup quite well.Godly support at $1.95. Decent support at $2.35/$2.54. Resistances $2.70-74/ $2.85/$3.02/$3.15. 💎👀
$BKYI - RUMOR MSFT Buyout August 19th! Had a single buyer with a 200k share bid at $0.75. Support seems to be $0.63/$0.68/$0.71. Seems to be rough resistance at the $0.77-$0.78 range . After that could run $0.80/$0.93/$1.06🔥🚀
$CHEK - UNGODLY oversold. 100% Shareholders at a loss! Revese split? Has until December. 52 week low. Expecting a HARD short squeeze here. Exploring US Partnership. 🔥👀
$IZEA - AUG 18th Webinar. Tiktok partnership RUMOR?!?! 80% Shareholders breakeven or at a loss! Insane Support at $1.02. Decent support $1.28/$1.35. Small resistance at $1.47 than $1.60/$1.92/$2.
$SXTC - Earning Aug 25th
$JFU - Bitcoin play. Ungodly Oversold. Sitting right on support $1.90. Could break up to $2.13/$2.38/$2.60. LOOKING FOR A HEAVY REVERSAL HERE🔥🚀
$MYT - Offering should close 8/19. $0.30. IMO $0.28-$0.33 is a good entry. This should be an easy 5-10% runner.
$CJJD - 5Year average $1.60. SMASHED EARNINGS. Warrants at $2.00. HEAVY support at $1.20-$1.29. Resistances to break are $1.39/$1.50. This should close up to $1.70-$1.80 in the upcoming weeks!💎🚀
$DLPN - EARNINGS Aug 17th AH. I have been playing this for months. $0.86-$0.91 buyin. Sell at $1-$1.08Only scary thing is they might split due to compliance💎🚀👀
$LPCN - FDA Approval Aug 28th
$HX - Honestly this is kind of a gamble but I'm keeping my eyes on it. 2h4hr Looking for a reversal. Watching this heavy for a pop off!
$SOLO - US MANUFACTURING Location PR by END OF YEAR. 4hr MACD is setup PERFECTLY. Has a nice gap up to $3-$3.10 to fill. Support is $2.33/ Resistances arnt until $3.10/$3.19/$3.42. 💎🔥👀
$ONTX - Made compliance not long ago. HUGE news in the next 35 days. SUPER oversold on the 4hr. This should MINIMAL gap up to $1. Supports were $1/$1.11/$1.15. Resistances were $1.20/$1.25 /$1.35 💎👀
$MARK - Looking to setup golden triangle on 4hr. MACD and RSI perfect! Super beat down on earnings?! Already looking to curl upward. I'd expect $1.60/$1.75/$1.90/$2.40.
$TRVN - $2.30 Offering. Imo $2.20-$2.40 GREAT PRICE. Aug 19th-Aug 20th virtual chat! Really good drug pipeline. Support around the $2.20 area. Once offering closes I expect this to gap up to $2.50-2.75 minimal. 💎🚀👀
$AYTU - HUGE INSTUITIONAL BUYS 8/14. Super oversold earning September 24th. Might take an early position here. Insane support $1.25-$1.28. Looking for this to run to $1.40-$1.49/$1.55/$1.65.
$DGLY - MASSIVELY oversold on earnings. Looking for a reversal around the $1.55/$1.85 area. 90% of shareholders break even or at a loss!!
$APEX - Golden triangle approaching on daily. Support $0.55/$0.65. Once $0.70 resistance is broken this should gap up to $0.77-$0.79/ $0.94/ $1.01/ $1.10🔥🚀👀
$IDEX - What can I say. Alfs back on twitter dropping bombs. GODLY support at $1.22-$1.25/ Decent support at $1.30. Resistances at $1.46/$1.52/$1.62
$GECC - Monthly dividend 1.60% Yield. Golden Triangle approaching. Huge gap to $7 to fill.💎👀
$PSEC - Monthly Dividend yield 1.17%. Golden Triangle approaching. Decent gap to $6.50 to fill.💎👀
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$TFFP - Entered worldwide commercial liscensing with Union Therapeutics. 99% Shareholders at a profit![scary] . Support is hella far away around $6/$9. This has very little resistances and could free run to $14+ 🔥🚀👀
$GOLD - Warran Buffet need I say more🔥🚀👀 $NRP - 4.18% Dividend upcoming 💎👀
$JMIA - Super beatdown. End of year this should be a $20-$30 ticker. 4hr MACD starting up again👀
$DSS - If this hits $6 I'm going super hella bullish in. Looking for a gap to $9/$10/$12/$14
$BABA - Upcoming earning. Trump talking about Chinese company bans LOL. If this gets beat down I'm going in HEAVY!👀
$SPAQ - Tons of pre-orders aka free revenue without advertising. This should take off like NKLA did eventually!GODLY support at $10.60.Decent support at the $12 area. Resistances sit at $12.50/$13/$14. This could run up QUICK! FISKER dropping the PR bombs on twitter like a MAD MAN!
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Awesome! I would like to thank everyone who participated!

Thank you, everyone!

It will take a bit of time to start setting everything up and I'll update everyone on btc on when and where the development would start. It'll take a few days to setup everything.
This is an amazing proof that voluntary donations work!
One additional thank you goes to Marc de Mesel, it was his idea to run this as a Flipstarter.
Marc has also donated additional 108 BCH (on top of 750 BCH collected) for promotion of this project via a private donation. Why private? Well, the funds collected (750 BCH) will be spent publicly, so I'll have to specify who got what and for what exactly, but promotion will be done with a help of PR company, which asked for their activities and prices not to be public. If I spent 100+ BCH of publicly collected money for "various promotional activities" that would really seem like I took the money and would reek of corruption, that's why I asked for this part to be donated privately.

Thank you to

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27%	developer.bitcoin.com	200.15 BCH	https://developer.bitcoin.com/
13%	NO DRIFT CORRECTION!!!	100.07 BCH	https://read.cash/@jtoomim/bch-upgrade-proposal-use-asert-as-the-new-daa-1d875696
8%	darkbluebrilliance	62.59 BCH	No to the IFP v4. No to the arrogant Amaury dictator as a single point of failure. Yes to honest cooperation.
7%	majamalu	55.31 BCH	If Satoshi was right, BMP is the long term solution.
7%	Grapefruit Trading	50.29 BCH	Sell BCH for $$$ with Grapefruit
7%	Pablo	50.01 BCH	nunca pierdas la esperanza, sigue construyendo
5%	molecular	37.85 BCH	fuckin' awesome!
4%	toorik	30.34 BCH	this pledge is not an invitation for debate.
4%	majamalu	29.97 BCH	developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers!!
4%	Sea urchin	27.82 BCH	blop blop
3%	zveda	20.46 BCH
2%	Henry Cashlitt	11.36 BCH	if (simpleDeveloperTools == awesome) { increaseDonation(); }
1%	Blockchain.Poker	10.05 BCH	Blockchain.Poker
1%	for anyone but Amaury	10.00 BCH	Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l'interrompre
1%	Georg Engelmann	8.82 BCH	https://memo.cash/profile/162e55WqRj61cEURfKUsZh63ZWRMVc48cH
1%	anon_not_anon	5.13 BCH	a crucial project at a crucial moment for bch
1%	Graysoda	5.01 BCH
0%	Shadow Of Harbringer	3.1337 BCH	This is leet
0%	emergent_reasons	2.12 BCH	Feeling inspired for a second pledge by readcash's passion, focus and understanding of what is needed. 2{+,*}2=4.
0%	gm	2.02 BCH	NO DRIFT CORRECTION!!!
0%	emergent_reasons	2.02 BCH	This is deeply needed and I trust readcash team to work with the ecosystem to make it happen.
0%	Anonymous	2.00 BCH
0%	zmach1n3	1.99 BCH	I love BCH and want to make it easy to work with
0%	shammah	1.52 BCH	this is way better than stamp
0%	FreeTrade (member.cash)	1.30 BCH	Libraries like this are really helpful in building Bitcoin Cash apps.
0%	imaginary_username	1.21 BCH
0%	Anonymous Duck	1.02 BCH
0%	chainxor	1.02 BCH	For a free and bright future!
0%	BCH fan	1.01 BCH	No IFP! >:(
0%	BCH fan	1.01 BCH	Sending what I can. Hope there's a bull run. :)
0%	stk	1.00 BCH	make Bitcoin Cash again
0%	satoshiscrazyuncle	1.00 BCH
0%	Anonymous	1.00 BCH
0%	seventh.sense	0.99 BCH
0%	Matt M	0.99 BCH
0%	seventh.sense	0.81 BCH
0%	Anonymous magpie	0.79 BCH	chirp chirp chirp
0%	seventh.sense	0.70 BCH
0%	Lopokoko	0.63 BCH	P2P Electronic Cash for the world!
0%	ChaosElephant	0.57 BCH	Protocol devs should be subservient to the common goal of Bitcoin Cash: finishing the roadmap together.
0%	ulfl	0.51 BCH
0%	JT Freeman	0.50 BCH	Keep up the good work!
0%	SOFIACBCH	0.48 BCH	Por un mejor BitcoinCash para TODOS
0%	havequick	0.45 BCH
0%	Lopokoko	0.44 BCH	Last Day!
0%	Anonymous	0.41 BCH
0%	Rawlsdeep	0.40 BCH
0%	voluntary funding!	0.32 BCH	let's do this!
0%	Anonymous	0.23 BCH
0%	jonathan#100	0.23 BCH	Lets get this flipped before time runs out, k?
0%	steeevemadden	0.20 BCH
0%	spice_trader#44148	0.20 BCH	helping the ecosystem build on bch easier-no brainer.
0%	doramas	0.20 BCH	Chapeau sir.
0%	Bitcoin Out Loud	0.16 BCH	Dev tools for worldwide, p2p electronic cash!
0%	Anonymous	0.10 BCH
0%	Anonymous	0.10 BCH

You are all amazing!

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• RDY Dr. Reddy's Laboratories announces the launch of Penicillamine Capsules USP, 250 mg in the U.S. Market

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• SCWX Secureworks to Report Second Quarter Fiscal 2021 Financial Results on Sept. 9, 2020
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• KXIN ($0.90) Kaixin Auto Holdings Announces Initiation of Legal Proceedings
• KNOP KNOT Offshore Partners LP Earnings Release—Interim Results for the Period Ended June 30, 2020
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• LIQT ($6.90) LiqTech International Announces the Appointment of Richard Meeusen to its Board of Directors
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Offering News

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