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What is Photonic Bitcoin?
Photonic Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency working on blockchain development and use cases while using a futuristic algorithm (Heavyhash). Photonic Bitcoin can currently be mined using CPU's and GPU's. In the future it will be mined by low powered technology efficient optical computing developed by PoWx Foundation. Heavyhash accompanied by oPoW miners will allow miners to remove electricity costs from the equation, allowing regions with high costing electricity to continue to mine and be a part of the Proof-Of-Work network.

We believe that Bitcoin uses far too much energy to run it's chain, thus Photonic Bitcoin will continue to develop over time to allow low powered and low costing blockchain movement.
Photonic Bitcoin will follow majority of Bitcoin Core's new implementations and hope to work with our growing community to build bigger and better for cryptocurrency.

Our team is dedicated to work hard and efficiently to deliver all expectations and more, not only do we wish for that, we also wish to build a community that will enjoy working with Photonic Bitcoin's team. Whether this be developing the latest and greatest API's, implementing payment gateways for websites or even as little as being on one of our social platforms (No contribution is too small!)

What is Heavyhash? Any why is it different
PoWx's goal in designing oPoW was to mimic the Bitcoin PoW construction (HashCash), maintaining the cryptographic security while ensuring that the PoW crypto puzzle is optimized for PoWx's “Target Paradigm” (photonic co-processors). As the major cost of PoW is evaluating the hash function of choice, the naive solution would be to find an optically computable hash. However, a design choice was made early on to avoid all-optical hashes and Physical One Way Functions - due to issues of repeatability and their poorly understood security properties. Creating a new hash optimized for photonic processing was also not considered due to the complexity and risk of deploying an untested hash function.

This leads to the selection of a hybrid design that composes digital hashing with low precision matrix-vector multiplication (intended for photonic acceleration) to produce HeavyHash. HeavyHash is an iterated composition of an existing hash function, e.g. SHA256, and a weighting function such that the cost of evaluation of HeavyHash is dominated by the computing of the weighting function. If the weighting function is dominated by the evaluation of a real value matrix-vector multiplication of sufficient size, it can be implemented with very high efficiency by photonic co-processors. The ratio of the cost of computing the hashes versus that of the weighting function is tunable within a large range due to their different complexity orders of magnitude.
Photonic Bitcoin has no affiliation with PoWx.

oPoW Whitepaper
https://assets.pubpub.org/xi9h9rps/01581688887859.pdf

Available Pools:
https://pool.photonicbitcoin.com (Official Pool) 1% Fee - stratum+tcp://pool.photonicbitcoin.com:5136 -u <walletaddress> -p c=pBTC
https://sullypool.com
https://luckyfastblocks.com
https://coolminerz.hopto.org/

Official Website:
https://www.photonicbitcoin.com

Blockchain Explorer:
https://explorer.photonicbitcoin.com

Social:
https://facebook.com/photonicBitcoin
https://twitter.com/photonicbitcoin
https://discord.gg/xNZDkJwMqP

Exchanges:
https://www.exbitron.com/trading/pbtcusdt

Github:
https://github.com/photonicbitcoin

GUI Wallet's:
https://github.com/PhotonicBitcoin/pBTC-core/releases/

Android Wallet:
In-process

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Hi, I want to be ready for the mainnet launch but there is not possible to select coin on the pool website.

Even if your  goal is to be energy efficient as compared to bitcoin, we all know that people will still prefer bitcoin because of the established position in the market. So how are you going to attract crypto users to use your coin? Also, the common problem of new projects is the listing in exchanges. If you are only present in one or 2 exchanges, you will find out that adoption of your currency is very hard. So do you think you can list this coin in several exchanges?

That option will be available right at mainnet launch.

Will it be c=PBTC ?

stratum+tcp://pool.photonicbitcoin.com:5136 -u <walletaddress> -p c=pBTC

Unfortunately it's not working at all.

https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/1318934700_1638916117.png

All is well now, we had a few issues with the pool on launch.
Happy mining!

Can´t download wallet.-

You can download it directly from Github: https://github.com/PhotonicBitcoin/pBTC-core/releases/download/v1.0.0/pbtc-qt-win64.zip (https://github.com/PhotonicBitcoin/pBTC-core/releases/download/v1.0.0/pbtc-qt-win64.zip)

Please note that this is a possible malicious clone of a legitimate project.

See www.PoWx.org/oBTC (http://www.PoWx.org/oBTC) It reads:

***Please note oBTC is the ONLY blockchain we have ever published. Others using heavyhash are not affiliated with PoWx and are very possibly malicious. Any piece of software you get anywhere outside the PoWx GitHub may be malicious.***

oBTC bitcointalk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5368280.0

Pool launch! Join us at https://sullypool.com/

There can be many forks, but there can only be one Master. Good luck

Totaly agree it do not bring anything new just rude fork of optical bitcoin like for me scam or pump and dump project

Heavy instamine here.

Thank you for your post, all open-source code has been published on GitHub for everyone to see, we recommend all users to compile themselves and welcome it.
We understand your concerns but at this stage we will have to disagree.

It is still early days, we have a lot planned. What are we pumping and dumping? Developers do not have any coins, apart from those that we are currently mining once difficulty adjusted as we believe in our community and team.

Is it just me or this one being just a clone of Optical Bitcoin (oBTC)?
Same whitepaper, same algo, same total supply, close name (Photon - Optical), just modified block time. Nothing more, nothing less.

Are the devs merge mining this with OBTC?

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But 1000+ blocks were mined within few hours, that’s 50k+ pbtc.
That’s kind of premine.

[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]

Actually before official launch time. Very fast instamine.

The devs should relaunch it, at least give the miners and other investors some time to prepare.

Your launch and bitcoin announcement was very quick. We did not get any time or any kind of notification or announcement anywhere, this is Pure instamine.

Look closely, official launch time was delayed, it was for 10pm GMT+1.
During this time we told all miners to stay on the stratum while the pool was fixed, all the coins that were mined were through the official pool, you can look at these payments on the explorer too.

At launch 200+ miners were connected and waiting, please take the FUD elsewhere.

We announced it here before launch, also Bitcointalk is not the end all of announcing a coin, this also gave people enough time to get onto Discord or the pool and in this case it shows by the network hashrate and miners connected.

Announce two hours before launch, this is not at all fair.
At least a weeks time was needed.

The Discord grew nicely with the announcement at that time, no one is complaining apart from a few on here.
I wish you a good day.

If you want to come and mine and chat, feel free to join our Discord.

PhotonResearch posting in epic thread

I'm glad this is here, thanks for more awareness of photonics

Was the announcement on bitcointalk and the discord creation was the same time ?
You secretly announced on discord to your close aids.
That’s not fair.

happy mining  ;)

https://coolminerz.hopto.org/

Thank you for adding your pool, we've updated the front announcement for you :)

hello , im mining at https://pool.photonicbitcoin.com

but im receiving like 5% of what im mining , what is this ?

adress : bc1qudq7dy9azahx0u5dmcdsy9ev0z0d6ydwtpm50j

May be they are stealing. ;D

There is a Trojan horse, my obtc was stolen. . Be careful everyone

Are the devs merge mining the coin to get OBTC?

is that true?

Checking your profile you say every coin has a trojan, stop spreading lies.
You are more than welcome to compile the source code yourself.

No, it's not true. Looking at his profile he comments on every coin saying there is a trojan.

Here you have a nice little scan of our QT.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/92ab39824cb15db807030ecf2431271ead5f886de7e4b996ab072ca26b737097

Your mining has issues because you had one worker where your wallet was put in all capitals and this causes issues with mining and the backend, please fix your wallet in your miner.

Can you please provide to the rest of the thread at least one shred of proof for your post?

I really want to know.

I was asking a question. Did you not see the question mark?
You can reply with a no or the proof that can defend that you guys are not merge mining.

There is no merged mining.

Nor there will be from our side.

But possible, right?

Sure is. If a pool wants to do it, they can.

Depends on your definition of possible.
From a technical side, yes it is possible.
From Photonic Bitcoin`s side, not a chance that merged mining is going to be implemented in our code.

This is a new trick by some new coins.
Give the new coin which is worth nothing to the innocent miners and and keep the coins which is valuable to themselves.

Hope photographic coin is not doing this.

Because a lot of currency Trojan horses have been discovered before. This is very normal. In this forum, scammers will not say that there are Trojan horses in their projects. But often projects join Trojan horses to steal coins. Many people in this forum know about it.

The wallet is safe. You can compile it yourself too.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/92ab39824cb15db807030ecf2431271ead5f886de7e4b996ab072ca26b737097 (https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/92ab39824cb15db807030ecf2431271ead5f886de7e4b996ab072ca26b737097)

https://zpool.ca/images/zpool_logo_512.png (http://zpool.ca/)

Hi,
We've added Photonic (PBTC) to http://zpool.ca/algo/heavyhash. See below for connection details.

Fee only: 0.5% or less
BTC payouts are processed once a day for balances above 0.0015
Payouts for all other currencies are made automatically every 4 hours for balances above 0.05 and balances more than 0.0125 are included in one of the payouts each day.

- Sample configurations -
To mine heavyhash and get paid in PBTC:

Exchange to BTC:
Exchange to BTC but mine only PBTC:

All of our ports are NiceHash friendly, no need to specify any extra details

Need hashpower? zpools sister provides hash rental services: http://hashtap.ca/

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Support: https://discord.gg/n45n6Jj
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_zpool_

https://zergpool.com/yaamp/ui/css/zergpool_small.png 
You can mine PhotonicBitcoin at autoexchange mining pool Zergpool.com (https://Zergpool.com) at 0.5% fee. Please use following commands for different mining options
 
Option 1 Auto coin switch mining by profitability within algorithm with autoexchange to specified coin wallet(BTC in example below)
Option 2 Direct coin mining with payout to coin wallet
Option 3 Direct coin mining with autoexchange to specified coin wallet(BTC in example below)
Please note mc stands for mining coin symbol, c stand for payout coin symbol

SOLO and PARTY mining
Set m=solo, or m=party.YourPartyPassword to your password field to use this feature. No extra fees.

Autoexchange to BTC, LTC, DASH, DOGE, ETH, BCH or any other currency we mine
Happy mining,
 cheers pinpin

didn't see anything special.

Very Good Coin , Thanks for it !  8)

Your coin is not represented on this service https://miningpoolstats.stream/
What is the difference between your coin and similar opticalbitcoin ?

Here it is: https://miningpoolstats.stream/photonicbitcoin (https://miningpoolstats.stream/photonicbitcoin)

New SRBMiner out for AMD miners, faster 'heavyhash' algorithm.
https://github.com/doktor83/SRBMiner-Multi/releases/

Except private mining at launch. ;D

No private mining at launch, you are welcome to look at the explorer. We had over 300+ miners connected at the pool on launch.
Please keep these negative comments off our thread.

Nothing special, just a clone of obtc.
🤡

Take your energy back to oBTC then? Not quite understanding the negativity. We don't go onto oBTC and say "Just a clone of bitcoin"

Clone the clone.
🤡

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Dark Gravity Wave v3 has now been activated on the network, we are watching the difficulty and everything is within normal operation, up and down difficulty per block. We apologize for the "miner" inconvenience in the last 48 hours.

Massive thank you to the community and Pool Owner's for working with us, it's only up from here!

Please ensure you have the latest daemons and wallets from our GitHub to sync successfully with the network https://github.com/PhotonicBitcoin/pBTC-core/releases/

Translation into Russian - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5377739.0
I will follow the development and update the theme.
Hope the project will be successful.

If the PoW is really revolutionizing it's such a waste with that shitty name. Photonic? Really? And stealing Bitcoin's name is dumb too. That's only fine for projects like HarryPotterObamaSonix100inu or something like that.

You mad bro?

what is the difference with OBTC?

Nothing, just a 🤡

Seems like people are following Bitcoin Forum more closely then what is happening in other forum and taking Bitcoin forum as facts.


Then I wonder if this statement is true from DaKar 02.22.2022:

"oBTC didn't solve the problem, just did what pBTC did 2 months ago. The problem that a party with FPGA's gets 80% of all blocks remains and this will not be solved.
and don't forget, not oBTC is listed but woBTC is listed"


Did oBTC copy and use the code pBTC have made to get the difficulty issue fixed?

The part with FPGA is nice to know of when going in to this project and give the right perspective if you think of mining with GPU.

Photonic Bitcoin now available on:

MurkaPool.it

Website:
https://www.murkapool.it/

Stratum:
stratum+tcp://murkapool.it:5137

Miner Command Line:
-a heavyhash -o stratum+tcp://murkapool.it:5137 -u <walletaddress> -p c=PBTC

Fees:
0.2 % - Shared Mining
0.4 % - Solo Mining

Payout:
Min. 5 PBTC every 30 minutes

Peers list:
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