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*Updates:

The AiBlocks network was being attacked by a flood attack that caused issues connecting and synchronizing.

Basically, the attacker was submitting huge mined blocks (100MB+) with header info that tricked the network into thinking the blocks were only 500KB (The maximum acceptable block size), and therefore accepted these huge blocks, and tried to add them to the blockchain. Initially, this stopped anyone from connecting do to it creating an invalid chain. We then modified the protocol in version 0.121b to deny such block for being added to the chain, temporarily stopping the attacker.

Then the attacker slightly changed up his method so the headers of his new huge blocks would still be accepted as valid, but our fail-safe stopped them from being added to the chain. This caused a huge slowdown in synchronizing and basically blocked every new user from synchronizing.

We have finally now in version 0.124a, created new fail-safes that block any type of block manipulation (or so we believe) and the network is running back at perfect efficiency.

If we encounter any problems like this in the future, we will continue to work hard stabilizing the network to prevent these possible future problems. We thank you all for you patience, and hope you enjoy a now-working AiBlocks Wallet.

Version 0.124a fixes:
#Added more fail-safes to block any type of block header manipulation, stopping the flood attack that prevented users from synchronizing
#Fixed a few other connectivity issues.

If you have any issues, please post there here in the Github "Issues" page or contact us at our website.

Thank you for your continued interest.

Get the newest version on our Github page: https://github.com/aiblocks/aiblocks/releases




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To spread AIBX to as many users as possible, we have decided to run an AirDrop Quiz. Simply answer the five question quiz to receive the AirDrop reward of 5,000 AIBX. This offer ends when the AIBX AirDrop reserve is empty or on August 1st; Which ever comes first.

*All data is collected anonymously and never shared

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AiBlocks is new and has yet to develop into the huge AI network that we believe it to be in the future. Among the features already described, AiBlocks has some other features that allow for more specific and advanced application development.

*ASIC resistant, CPU based mining algorithm
Most ASIC resistant algorithms are achieved by requiring a lot of memory, which when implemented on an ASIC, translates to needing lots of physical area on the chip. AiBlocks uses a PoW algorithm that uses little memory, and has zero GPU advantage. This is achieved by using a smart blocks algorithm. Each block mined requires a different type of PoW work (An Ethash Hybrid) to be completed by the CPU, mixing it up unpredictably and effectively stopping ASICs and GPU mining. The block time target is 10 seconds with a reward system similar to Ethereum's.

*Complete privacy when moving funds
With the optional use of Zero-knowledge Proof transactions (for sending/receiving transactions only), you can move tokens around with complete privacy. Originally implemented in Zcash, zk-SNARKs technology can be used when sending/receiving AiBlocks (AIBX) as well as sending/receiving any token on the AiBlocks Network (if correctly implemented - see the examples/tutorials in the Developer Center).

*Instant Transactions
Transactions can be programmed to work like NANO, allowing for instant transactions of AIBX or AiBlocks tokens. If AiBlocks wallet is set to Instant Transaction mode (or a token is created with Instant Transactions enabled), the AiBlocks wallet will pre-cache the anti-spam Proof of Work for the next transaction once a transaction is sent, making transactions instantaneous.

*Fair start - No ICO or premine
AiBlocks started without any ICO or pre-mine or croud source, which says a lot about the network's strength and longevity. There is an airdrop period so that AIBX tokens are distributed to a wide variety of users, however all of the tokens given away are fairly mined using paid cloud mining resources.

*Upcoming: Complete Compatibility
In the near future, AiBlocks will be used on any system, including macOS, Linux, Windows, iOS, and Android. Create ĐApps on your mobile device and use them with your work's PC network - or vise verse. Complete compatibility is something we hope to achieve by the beginning of 2019.

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Name: AiBlocks
Ticker: AIBX
Algorithm: Ethash Rotating Hybrid
Premine/ICO: NO
Max Supply: 210,000,000
Block Target Time: 10 Seconds
Initial PoW Reward: 500 AIBX + Gas

*First 1100 blocks have 0.005 AIBX reward to prevent instamine.

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As our network grows, we expect the collective intelligence of our AI to grow smarter and more advanced. Of course as it's in its early stages of growth, we can mostly except it to only solve simple problems, like "A, B, C, or D", or "How much, when, or who" decisions.

For one example - we have an example program you can download in the Developer Center of a Quiz in which the AI application judges text answers and rewards the different participants a different amount of tokens depending on quality/validity of the answers. It does this by taking the text answers and splitting them apart into machine-understandable statements. It then judges the quality/validity of these statements against huge amounts of data that the AiBlocks network is plugged into.

As the AiBlocks network grows, the amount of accessible data will increase, as well as the quality of the data, and the practical application of the data.

Some other examples of merits we have already achieved with AiBlocks include Self-moderating forums, intuitive web security programs, data management, and many other simple to moderately simple tasks that currently take so many companies many soon-to-be unnecessary work hours.

As AiBlocks network becomes more advanced, so will the capabilities of the type of problems it will be able to solve.

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Nice site! I recommend getting an SSL certificate and forcing HTTPS. Now-a-days any website that isn't HTTPS just looks a bit less professional.
Cheers mate!

Failed to set data for 'AiBlocksUpdate'

Oh, please uncheck "Run Daemon with Startup"

where could i get these limited airdrop?

Still the same mistake

The Ethash Rotating Hybrid algorithm is dependent on the eth platform, right?
I know Ethash but never heard of the name Rotating Hybrid.
But there is one point I think it would have is ASIC Resistance, more friendly to CPU and GPU, right?

Hi, I've downloaded the wallet from your website, it start, it ask me to generate the account, etc but then he is unable to synchronize, it is stuck at block 16 for more then 2 hours....

yeah, im stuck at the same blockaswell :/

Yes, the ASIC Resistance is like many other ASIC Resistant algorithms, but the way the Algorithm is makes GPU mining give little to no advantage. We call it Ethash Rotating Hybrid because it's an Ethash Hybrid and the algorithm rotates in a way that makes It almost completely biased to CPU mining. GPU mining may be able to get a small increase in hashrate if someone can create a really well designed mining program. Otherwise, Non-ASIC CPU mining is the way to go.

We have had similar reports of users being unable to synchronize and we're not quite sure what is causing it. We believe it to be the seed nodes that connect you to the rest of the network. As the program uses embedded default configuration info and a .conf file is optional, you can try creating the respective .conf file, put it into the data directory you chose, and add the default seed nodes to the file.

The default seed nodes are as follows:

I will try to make a tutorial for this soon, but for now if you still can't get it working, your best bet is to wait until the next release, which should be in the next day or so.

What should be the conf file named and where should it be saved? Can i just add the seed nodes as a text there, no commands?  Greetings

You set the file with the -config-file parameter. eg:

Or you should be able to just put "aiblocks.conf" into the working directory, but I'm not 100% sure that that has been enabled yet.

And you add the following line to your .conf file:

Same issue, stuck on 16 blocks.

Tried deleting the block data and restarted.
Added nodes in config file and added in correct folder.
Added nodes in config file and pointed aiblocks.exe to the file.

Nothing worked.

sadly the same :( This project looks so good, want to start mining it :D

Well then it seems that there's a problem on our end with our seed nodes.

We will try to get this handled as soon as possible, thanks for your patience everyone.

Still stuck on block 16.

Added the conf file with the seed nodes in it but nothing yet.

Yes..same here..hopefully it gets fixed soon..

I'm also having trouble synchronizing now myself. As soon as our main developer wakes up, I'm sure he'll be able to fix this rather shortly. I personally don't have the skill to make any changes without risking screwing things up.

Watch the thread, I will post here when everything's all good and well.

Is the chain really already at block 11635 or is that a visual bug because its not syncing? Because i thought there is no premine etc

I believe that's the correct amount of blocks right before the seed nodes stopped functioning properly (since that number is not changing anymore). The block time is 10 Seconds/Block, so that would be just over 32 hours since mainnet launch.

About the mining of this coins, does it possible to mine the coins using CPU?
And where is the pool to mine this coin?

 I will wait until your developer wakes up, or you take off all the cream, because Nitsche does not work ... except like you! could honestly write how much you need to PREMINE, and make a normal start, with the developer's presence, so that he can answer the questions how to launch a purse ...


 I need a full instruction on the launch, I step through !! and on the purse and on the miner, so that there were no questions ...
 and make a group in Discord

Hi guys, any progress on resolving the sync problem? Is the blockchain going to be restarted since nobody could mine yet?

Similar, sync stops at 16 and it didn't work adding conf file. In addition, this is some issue for wallet. I have to generate new wallet everytime i open it, there is no place to open an old wallet.

This is interesting, do you have any more details in regards to what sort of things are capable with an AI powered dapp vs a regular dapp?

I see that the network is frozen so i'll keep an eye on it until it's up and running again, but i am curious about what you've got going on with this project.  Like the cpu mining as well.

hope to hear from you, thanks.

As our network grows, we expect the collective intelligence of our AI to grow smarter and more advanced. Of course as it's in its early stages of growth, we can mostly except it to only solve simple problems, like "A, B, C, or D", or "How much, when, or who" decisions.

For one example - we have an example program of a Quiz in which the AI application judges text answers and rewards the different participants a different amount of tokens depending on quality/validity of the answers. It does this by taking the text answers and splitting them apart into machine-understandable statements. It then judges the quality/validity of these statements against huge amounts of data that the AiBlocks network is plugged into.

As the AiBlocks network grows, the amount of accessible data will increase, as well as the quality of the data, and the practical application of the data.

Some other examples of merits we have already achieved with AiBlocks include Self-moderating forums, intuitive web security programs, data management, and many other simple to moderately simple tasks that currently take so many companies many soon-to-be unnecessary work hours.

As AiBlocks network becomes more advanced, so will the capabilities of the type of problems it will be able to solve.

*I've added this reply into the main post*

Any news on the synchronisation? :)

Oh yes, we are working on our nodes at the moment. I am told that the problem is also with the wallet client. As soon as we have both working, we will post an update.

Also, don't worry about us "mining while no one else can", as mining isn't working either - the network has been stuck on block 11635 for about 24 hours now.

Sounds good :) Any estimated date when it will work again?

Do we have pools & link to miner ?

Today hopefully. I'm told about 6-8 hours approx. until our nodes are up and running. We will also be releasing AiBlock v0.122, and an upgrade is required to correctly synchronize. The option to load your previous wallet before synchronization is complete is also being added in v0.122.

Currently the only way to mine is though our built-in CPU miner, which only has the "solo-mine" option at the moment. We will have mining pools released in the near future.

Any update?

And do you got any established social channels? (Telegram/discord etc)?

same problem,but I will keep watching this project,seems really nice

when it is conceptualized from 2015, I think this project is mature and does not need to be taken into account, what are the obstacles in the development of your project

Our lead developer asked to to post this:

As he said, I will update you all here as soon as the new wallet is available.
Cheers!

We are in the process of creating social channels. In the next couple days, we expect to post them both here and on the main website.

same problem stuck on 16 block, hope the new wallet will come out soon.

As stated the network pause should be over.
Any updates regarding the new wallet version to fix the halted synchronization?

like the idea of this  project,  and  have  bought on some exchanges, hope this  project can  make a real   change for the world.

Hi, it his working? Have resolved the problems you encountered? Is the new wallet out? I know it sound very annoying but if you state a date an actually an hour you should respect it if you want to grow interest aand community.
If for some reason you see that you can not respect what you said, simply make a new statement... not very difficult and community would be happier and for sure understand that not always (quite never) it goes as planned. But some more communications are a must if you want to make your project interest more people.
Very annoying to setup your alarm in the middle of the night to wake up in time and discover that.....simply nothing.....

Sorry, just a bad morning

Bad news folks.

This software is installing a trojan horse to steal bitcoin from you.


Watch out.  On my machine, it hijacked the Adobe update process, and added an update command to the startup folder.

SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The development of artificial intelligence, sounds cool! In the market there is a small competition in this direction.

Are you sure that its a virus?

Check out what you are talking about before you post accusations like this... It creates a registry key named "AiBlocksUpdate" that checks for updates when the computer starts. And it only creates this registry key if you tell it to when you first run the program (By clicking "Check for updates" then clicking "Next").

In other news, the network is finally back up as of July 23 05:00 UTC, and the newest version (AiBlocks v0.122) has been released.

Get the newest version from our github page: https://github.com/aiblocks/AiBlocks/releases

Please post any errors or issues in the Issues section of the Github page. Thanks,
Cheers!

Not much?) Are you kidding? the best specialists of the planet are working on the solution of the problem of creating artificial intelligence. And this thread is ridiculous. There is no team, there is no theory and idea, there is only ambition and you can word - ICO. I don't even see any pictures of the team. This is not bitcoin, there is no need for anonymity)))

I never said that we are creating the only or even one of the only artificial intelligence systems. We are creating a network that will hopefully one day grow into something really big and exciting. Of course we are not "the best specialists of the planet", but please have some respect to not trash our project for no reason...

works well the new version wallet. it is syncing now.

As this project has no ICO, then what i need to know is the date of this coins to get listed in an exchange an ready to be trade.
Will it also open some kind of airdrop?

Currently AiBlocks is not listed on any exchanges, but we hope for that to change by late 2018, early 2019 latest.

There is an AirDrop Quiz, currently active at https://aiblocks.io/airdrop
Answer the five question quiz and shortly after you will receive 5,000 AIBX to the provided AiBlocks receiving address.

Trying to get the new wallet synced. Got a fast connection so shouldn't be a issue there but the blocks created are almost running away from my syncing progress.
Any fast sync flags that i can enable?

Yes, I have the same problem atm I think. Until around block 11k it went really fast, but now its really slow. Not sure if its faster than the new generation of blocks, but I'll wait a bit and see if it finishes ;)

can not finish sync :( speed too low

Me to, blocks hare created faster than the speed of synchronization, tried on different pc on different place, same "problem"........

Seems like ill catch up within the next 2 hours.
Just take a lot of time, the size ain't that bad.

It is not about trashing your project for no reason. You just give a little bit the impression that artificial intelligence could be developed as a hobby. That won't work as the largest companies on the world are already on this.

Wallet synced up nicely, looking forward to this project.

There could have been a little more information at the website, but i believe it will come in the future.

And i loved that the airdrop included questions for being a participant, hopefully this helps with filtering out bots and people that try to send multiple times...

When Bitcoin was new, people referred to it as a hobby and said how the biggest companies in the world are already handling finance... Look at it now.

I've started synchronizing around block 12000, now we are over block 22000 and I'm still unable to catch up with the blockchain, I'm missing 700 blocks and it's not improving since yesterday, the chain grow faster than the speed my wallet is updating, what can I do?

Same here.

Was 700 blocks away yesterday before i went to bed. Now 7 hours later i'm 21563/22301.

Imagine a week or two from now. People wont be able to catch up with the chain.

Developers, i think this is something you will need to fix.

Is this some kind of joke?
It seems people will never finish synchronizing.And I couldnt find where are those blocks located,
\AppData\Roaming\AiBlocks\blocks nothing here.

i think so, anyone can finish sync ???

I'm always 800 blocks behind. Don't seem to be able to catch up since the blocks increase in such a rapid pace.

I think i'll just give up now, this is clearly not viable.
Users trying to sync a week or two from now will be stuck forever and only those who synced a few days back are able to mine.

This is a really good project. I enjoyed this project. Thanks and good luck to the developers.

Update:

22993/23822 blocks.

Seriously.

What is this crap?

I am very interested in anonymity and never share Ailocks information. In addition, the private, fair, and instant transactions make the project noticeable. What is the measure to achieve the full compatibility of the project achieved in early 2019?

Has anyone finished syncing?

Oh my fxxxing god,why are you doing this?
Do you have nothing to do?
And people who are still running this "wallet",please turn off your network connection,
you will see a miracle!

Amazing, it keeps "syncing" and adding blocks even without a internet connection. Jesus christ, don't download this shit.

That's because of two reasons, 1. It's still processing blocks it already downloaded, and 2. When synchronizing for the first time, it shows the "amount of blocks left to sync" as an estimate calculated from 10 second blocks (which is why the "amount left" goes up one block every 10 seconds) This is a bug in the program we need to fix: If you disconnect your internet after blocks were previously downloaded, it doesn't throw up an error when you disconnect your internet and continue to try to synchronize.



As for the reason it isn't able to catch up for most of you, I'm told that the network is under some type of flood attack and no one will be able to synchronize until we find a way to block the attack. We thought we patched this in the previous version, but whoever is flooding the network found another way to do it.

Your funds are not at risk, but we highly recommend not broadcasting any transactions (sending any funds/tokens) until we fix this as the transactions will most likely get stuck unconfirmed and flood the mempool even further.

We're working on this full-time now and will post an update when we have more news. Thanks everyone for your patience.

Founds at risk? It's more than 36 hours that I'm try to synchronize and steady late of 700 block since 24h, how could we mine? stop the chain if is flooded, mean that something is really wrong. I really thought good about this project but now it really seem just a joke but I don't want to be negative....just..... don't know. Still keep an eye on this for the next 24h, will see

maybe DEV want premine more :)

Not possible while the network is being flooded. Just like transactions not being able to confirm, any mined blocks won't be able to confirm either.

i am try and get

"error: Connection to network interupted "

using window 10 x64

Simply this project is still very raw and unfinished. Artificial intelligence fails)) ;D I hope this problem will be resolved by the end of the month.

It seems I cannot build from the github source code. Could you update it so I can compile? Thanks.

Same error here, "error: Connection to network interupted " ....... it seem that your doing it on purpose to test us ;)

I meet an issue, the sync takes quite a long time. it has lasted for some days but still not finish.

Try to compile from the github source now, it's been updated.


As for the users having errors connecting, make sure that you're using version 0.124 which includes the mandatory security update. Otherwise, it won't be able to connect.

Cheers.

Thanks for the update.

Unfortunately cannot download sources from github. It is looking for "go-aiblocks" repo.

 $ go get -v github.com/aiblocks/aiblocks/...
github.com/aiblocks/go-aiblocks (download)
# cd .; git clone https://github.com/aiblocks/go-aiblocks $HOME/gopath/src/github.com/aiblocks/go-aiblocks

Using the newest version (AiBlocks-v0.124a-Win32_64bit) and getting this error: "Error: Connection to network interrupted...."

Are you using the Windows binary release or compiling from source? What version does it say at the top when you open AiBlocks? I justed opened the newest Windows binary release and it appears to be opening v0.122 even though our Dev labeled it as v0.124. I don't know if this is an error caused somehow from running it on Linux with Wine after having built the newest version from source. Or if our dev accidentally uploaded the Windows binaries from v0.122 in the v0.124 Windows release

Thanks for the response.  It definitely sounds interesting, do you have a technical paper which depicts exactly how all of this will play out?  Also how can you verify the reliability of the AI and the decisions it makes, is there the possibility of manual intervention, and/or reversal?

I downloaded the windows 64 bit zip. It says v0.122 on the top ;)

Ih man so many projects with almost similar names ) I thoght this thread releted to project AirBlock )  witch I wanted to take part in ICO.

Ah great. That explains a lot.. Thanks for the info, I've notified our lead dev and we'll get the correct binaries rolled out. We're almost finished on v0.125 also, some new things being added.

The binaries are still old. Please update them soon, I'd really like to participate in the airdrop before it ends...

That's not true. There have been some people who worked a lot on Bitcoin and became experts for blockchain tech because they saw the potential from the very start. AI isn't as new anymore. The term has been out there for very long and it's not some mystic thing that nobody pays attention to from the corporate sector like was the case for Bitcoin in its very early days. Building AI systems requires a lot of knowledge and resources in my opinion. Do you have sufficient amounts of both available to build a competitive AI system?

You start your comment with "That's not true", as to discredit my point then go on to further prove it.
Nothing about this project suggests that artificial intelligence is "new anymore" or that AiBlocks is a "first" of anything.

The fact is that AI IS in it's early stages of development and can go any-which-way.

Yes, huge companies are putting "a lot of knowledge and resources" into the research and development of artificial intelligence. As are the all of the big banks putting "a lot of knowledge and resources" into combating digital cryptocurrencies.

Does this mean we should all say "f*** starting a cryptocurrency, let's leave the finance industry to Well Fargo since they have a lot of knowledge and resources"? Mine as well leave artificial intelligence to the big guys too, nothing we can do there...

This project is not "a better idea than Samsung", or "competing AI with Google" - it is, however, unique and has infinite potential.

is there any new update??? the wallet still does not work

I can't finish sync

emmmm......where is dev? do you have a discord or telegram?

dead?
any progress? :-\

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