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Whitepaper:

https://www.eticaprotocol.org/viewwhitepaper

What is Etica?

Etica is the first cryptocurrency for Open Source medical research without intellectual property.
The whitepaper was published and sent to original Satoshi Nakomoto mailing list in October 2019 (https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2019-September/035372.html).
Etica blockchain started on april 17th 2022 and until now all social activity has taken place on reddit r/etica but we think we should definitely also have a bitcointalk thread for Etica.

Main features:
Etica has its own blockchain. It is a proof of work blockchain, Etica is a fork of Ethereum Classic but it started its own blockchain from block 0.

Only one smart contract:
Etica blockchain aims to have only one smart contract and to devote its whole blockchain to the precise use case of the smart contract which is Open Source medical research. So basically imagine a blockchain with the calculation capacity of ethereum but with only one smart contract dedicated to medical research and you have Etica.
Having only one smart contract enables Etica to be scalable from day one as the current capacity of ethereum technology is more than enough for Etica use case.

Neutral Protocol:
Etica is a neutral protocol like Bitcoin and Monero as once launched the network is completely decentralised and secured by proof of work. Currently Etica has same mining rules as the ones created for Ethereum but once we have enough technical expertise we would like to implement RandomX to secure the blockchain if that's technically possible.

2 cryptocurrencies:
There are two cryptocurrencies associated with Etica protocol.
The first one is Etica (ETI) it is the cryptocurrency of the protocol issued by the smart contract. The initial supply is 21 Million ETI and will be mined at a rate of 2.1 Million ETI per year for 10 years.
Once initial supply of 21 Million ETI has been reached there will be a fixed inflation rate. The final fixed inflation rate  (that should start in 2032) will be decided by community once there are enough people in Etica community to make that decision but a maximum limit of 2.61803% has been fixed. Indeed the maximum inflation rate that community could chose is 2.61803% so that early investors can have clear vision and most importantly ETI can retain its value over time.
The ETI inflation enables Etica blockchcain to financially reward open source medical research.


The second one is EGAZ, it is the equivalent of Ether on ethereum. It is used to secure the blockchain and pay for transaction fees on the Etica blockchain.


How it works?

Etica Protocol explained in 5 minutes video:
https://youtu.be/iswq70tmyzE

Webpage explaining how the protocol works:
https://www.eticaprotocol.org/eticadocs/howitworks.html

Mini website with dedicated sections explaining:
How to run a full node, how to mine ETI, how to interact with Etica through webapps, how to use Etica command line (Etica CLI)
https://www.eticaprotocol.org/eticadocs/index.html

Wallet

https://github.com/etica/etica-gui/releases

Blockchain explorer

https://www.eticascan.org

Mining Pools

ETI pools: http://eticapool.com/pools

EGAZ pools: https://miningpoolstats.stream/etica

Source code

https://github.com/etica

A web app connected to Etica

https://www.etica.io

Eticanomics

https://www.eticanomics.net

Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Etica

Discord

https://discord.gg/CrTKpETKXc

Telegram

https://t.me/eticaprotocol

Exchanges

Etica (ETI) : https://txbit.io/Trade/ETI/USDT

EGAZ: https://txbit.io/Trade/EGAZ/USDT


Whitepaper extract: (https://www.eticaprotocol.org/viewwhitepaper):

Etica: A type1 civilization neutral protocol for medical research

Abstract. . A purely neutral protocol for rewarding medical research would allow greater
efficiency and the sharing of early stage medical discoveries without intellectual property. Open
source research can make medical research more efficient and faster but its benefits are lost if
intellectual property is still required to incentivize research. I propose a solution to the
intellectual property dilemma by creating a neutral protocol that encourages   multiple parts to
take part in a decentralised medical research process without any intellectual property. The
protocol is based on a privacy voting system in which token holders can submit proposals. The
proposals are scientific articles oriented towards a specific disease. The protocol institutes   a
nash equilibrium for each disease to incentivize the publication of researches that could lead to
medical treatments. Proposers and voters are rewarded or penalised depending on the
outcome of the proposals’ votes. For each proposal the approval choice is considered as
the right choice if it gathered more votes than the protocol’s  threshold. This threshold is readjusted
by the protocol every 5 weeks depending on the ratio of approved and rejected proposals. If
the voters tend to approve too many proposals then the protocol’s threshold is raised, if on the
contrary the voters tend to reject too many proposals then it is decreased. Users have to vote
upon proposals based on their inherent properties, they can’t see other users’ votes thanks to a
two step voting system with privacy. The protocol impels off-chain communications between
token holders about proposals usefullness. Organisations based on a specific disease or group
of diseases are likely to emerge in order to provid token holders with relevant information and
analysis of proposals through forums and dedicated website explorers. Etica aims to become
the neutral protocol on top of which the next generation decentralised communities will
organise themselves and gain expertise to discover medical treatments without intellectual
property.

Feel free to engage conversation, ask any question you may have about Etica (there are no dumb questions), make positive or negative remarks

I have configured Cosmic Miner as required. Only gives this message in miner.
Error getting parameters from pool. Please check your network connection, pool/pool url and port.
Network error occured contacting the pool.
Network worker stopped.

I have connected Etica to metamask.

If there will be no intellectual property attached to your medical research, would it be prone for other people to copy your concept or idea? Are you okay with it? And who are the people that will conduct your medical research? Do they have the qualifications to handle the job?

Hi,
We had a brief interruption on mining pool server today due to surge of shares on mining pool. The interruption took place between 2pm and 5pm Paris time. Situation is resolved please try again.
Otherwise it must probably be a url issue. Make sure you use this url http://eticapool.com:8080 (if you have low hashrate) or http://eticapool.com:8081 (for higher hashrates).
Also in case someone using soliditysha3miner has similar issue I want mention that for soliditysha3Miner some miners have reported that they had to remove http part and use eticapool.com:8080 or eticapool.com:8081

Let me know if this doesn't solve your issue

People are free to copy Etica to the same degree they are free to copy Bitcoin or Monero. Though being the original project Etica should benefit from the same advantages that enabled Bitcoin or Monero to make forks irrelevant.

Etica creates a financial incentive to make open source research, anybody is free to make the research and submit proposals. In my opinion the first participants are not likely to be professional researchers but students or self taught individuals. But with time as the quality of proposals increase, more and more professional researchers will eventually join these other types of researchers. The quality of proposals should increase overtime because of the open competition the protocol creates. In fact each week the protocol issues a fixed amount of ETI, the more people will compete for these ETI the higher the quality of their proposals will have to be to be rewarded

Big happenings here are expected by the end of august. We are on track for a large shift in adoption of low tier crypto garbage. People are expected to be tempted to buy big on funky craps for the kicks of it. With a lot of craps listed on low volume exchanges this one is the latest u would invest in even if u a habitual garbage collector.

If you have constructive remarks about the protocol and how it works wheither it's positive or negative please feel free to share and I'll be glad to answer

I have Cosmic miner running although the reported hash rate by pool is much lower than hash rate reported by Cosmic Miner. On the other hand my AMD 6700 XT is using the Solidity Sha3 Miner and gets this error.

[INFO] Found solution, verifying...

[2022-08-25T18:33:33] OpenCL (AMD APP) ID: 0 [INFO] Solution verified, submitting nonce 0xf132e08a4fde3a0afbc8783d7cf5d4f518000000e9e119e6675e25237f8fe76f...

[2022-08-25T18:33:33] [INFO] Checking latest parameters from primary pool...

[2022-08-25T18:33:33] [INFO] Miner share [3] submitted to primary pool: failed (300ms)

Why are my shares failing to submit?

The hashrate displayed on mining pool is just to give a broad estimation and be able to compare your hashpower with other miners. But it is not used by mining pool to calculate the rewards. What matters is that your shares get accepted by mining pool. You can view your shares by going on page accounts, then click on your address and then you should see your shares and this is what is actually  used to calculate rewards. You should get your rewards within few minutes after each block found by pool

For soliditySha3 miner, can you show a screenshot with as many lines as possible so I can see if it happens several times in a row or just once? Also are you on port 8080 or 8081?

Forgot to mention you, please check my anwser above

So did you manage to start mining?
For soliditySha3 miner your issue on failed shares is likely due to wrong overrideMaxTarget value in the 0xbtcPool file.

Change overrideMaxTarget=27606985387162255149739023449108101809804435888681546220650096895197184 ^
to overrideMaxTarget=26959946667150639794667015087019630673637144422540572481103610249216 ^
Or leave overrideMaxTarget field blank

Let me know if you still have issues

By the way right now most Etica discussion and help is happening on discord https://discord.gg/KdEYRhSdVG and reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/etica

What is the Algorithm? I am still confused.

Etica is a fork of Ethereum Classic so the Blockchain is based on Ethereum technology. It's only a code fork and not chain fork since it started its own blockchain from block 0. Something special is that the blockchain has only one smart contract dedicated to open source medical research. There are two coins in Etica, ETI and EGAZ. ETI is the currency of the protocol with 21 million supply reached in 10 years then fixed inflation rate, EGAZ is the equivalent of ETHER on ethereum and is used to secure the blockchain and pay for transaction fees. Hope it's more clear let me know if you have more questions

contract=0xB6eD7644C69416d67B522e20bC294A9a9B405B31 ^

is it correct?

if i mine ETI, how to chect it in metamask? because the ticker is EGAZ.

Is there ASIC miner? Or only CPU/GPU?
Where can rent the hash?

Will there be an airdrop or faucet?

No Etica contract address is: 0x34c61EA91bAcdA647269d4e310A86b875c09946f
Etica is not on Ethereum Blockchain, I think the address you are refering wasa test contract deployed on ethereum mainnet but Etica has its own blockchain and the smart contract address is 0x34c61EA91bAcdA647269d4e310A86b875c09946f

To check on metamask you need to add the Etica (ETI) as a token, EGAZ is the euivalent of ether on ethereum.
Check the part "how to connect" of this guide and let me know if you have questions: https://www.eticaprotocol.org/eticadocs/howtouse.html

No airdrop. It can only be mined or earned thanks to research reward system. There might be faucet in future but none yet. If you want some ETI or EGAZ to test and play with it just share an etica address and I'll send you some. To connect to etica and get an etica address follow first part of this guide: https://www.eticaprotocol.org/eticadocs/howtouse.html

Is the algo asic resistance?

What is the actual point of forking an Ether network? What does it brings compared to simply creating ETI tokens on ETC or ETH network?

Etica is a neutral protocol, the same way bitcoin and monero are neutral protocols. It is much more than a simple smart contract. It needs to have its own blockchain for independance, if it was on Ethereum for instance then it would have been forced to move to proof of stake with all security implications.
Most importantly it offers scalability from day one as there is only one smart contract on the whole blockchain. The current transactions capacity of Ethereum are more than enough for Etica use case, so Etica can benefit from a proof of work Ethereum blockchain without scalability issues.
Over the years Etica will be able to completely adapt its blockchain to its needs, in the future maybe we can imagine to change the mining algorithm to something similar to RandomX for Asic resistance and also Quantum resistance

edited: "the same way bitcoin and ethereum are neutral protocols" -> "the same way bitcoin and monero are neutral protocols"

0xb2cd72Be86c8c53c4C4210C53bC6d29428D8aE85

how to start mining on hiveos or raveos?

For ETI mining:
I think soliditySha3 miner only works on windows, linux and hiveos. For mining on hiveos if you have amd it should be ok, but if you have nvidia try to use version 2.0.0 (https://github.com/lwYeo/SoliditySHA3Miner/releases/tag/2.2.0) as version 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 don't support nvidia.
Here is the eti mining guide: https://www.eticaprotocol.org/eticadocs/mining.html

For EGAZ mining:
I think it should work on both hiveos and raveos as it uses lolMiner.
Here is the egaz mining guide: https://www.eticaprotocol.org/eticadocs/mining.html#egazlolminer

Sent!
ETI transaction: https://www.eticascan.org/tx/0xcd6465dab94113f2032f2b136c2335e9857d042b415e1bc53085f1a5c5fe70de

EGAZ transaction: https://www.eticascan.org/tx/0x61500498e5782fb68885736df3c184cb172a20895e1a3493f21c914c8c7dd430

 :o EGAZ mining hashrate is much higher than yesterday.

Done:
ETI transaction: https://www.eticascan.org/tx/0xd6682744c0b4be1fb94f779ef63435bbc4780ad3684a0f7c8b377a53836ad5e3

EGAZ transaction: https://www.eticascan.org/tx/0x502e560089b64f1d8f0b8620441243bb929c9abe3808be3b146feb40c55c8b89

What is this?
Give way?

0x45E72304e39A5b18C8cC3DE7C21F637065FF76BF

0x45E72304e39A5b18C8cC3DE7C21F637065FF76BF

Yes, I proposed to someone and then people started to post their addresses. I'll continue to donate if few people post addresses but I can't do that for long ETI is scarce

Done:
ETI transaction: https://www.eticascan.org/tx/0xd205e50928a9db2e4de2edb2f380577151d59d90d5bfd9a9c3d5347c034c6295

EGAZ transaction: https://www.eticascan.org/tx/0x59463e079e2baa88dffd178772ec09e0a544d34165bc5e66d6d17d4e0833fd3b

0xee6DD5320659C0f7eC7BB7CFd78792dF933b719B

0xbe51aF540b8Eea3c439143B382FC0Ac43a25522d

Yeah, I'm not sure why you're giving this away for free.  It takes quite a while to mine 100 ETI...

Don't you think 100ETI is too much for free give way? I mined whole the night and only got 50 ETI.

I thought only one person would put their address, but indeed now I'll have to reduce the amount

Done:
ETI transaction: https://www.eticascan.org/tx/0x36030be8cc0a81adc7a14b402d728d669813c124f3d56c53ff0bb8f00f387125

EGAZ transaction: https://www.eticascan.org/tx/0x65ecf7901b3a50e2a2e850232cf7000a81172179b254bed8afa3a83fc2c31e31

Done:
ETI transaction: https://www.eticascan.org/tx/0x13e3abbe5757d53212f7db1ab44e8f483873adcc0d4cddd0f4856ab446f273f5

EGAZ transaction: https://www.eticascan.org/tx/0xf8cd2627727b728177db0ef90880c6644e21ef8c9aee8d90a8904a6d8d41ced5

0x40A086ecF90E9C07F03C5a4187B8C6CfF28b731B

0x48c4DC1438A3aCB7b7226Eb81e9229CA8016ecCB 

need help tuning your GPU . I don't see my miner's statistics on the site

Follow this guide for ETI mining: https://www.eticaprotocol.org/eticadocs/mining.html#eticalinuxminer
If your miner can't submit shares at http://eticapool.com:8081 switch to http://eticapool.com:8080 . If you still can't submit shares it means your miner hashpower is too low to submit shares to the pool because it can't find shares with the pool's minimum share difficulty.

For EGAZ mining, follow this guide: https://www.eticaprotocol.org/eticadocs/mining.html#egazlolminer

If you have discord, join discord https://discord.gg/KdEYRhSdVG. We'll help you if you can give more details about your issue

0xe65565945E40ebEEC047a678F332E6EB20778802

0xbB14Ae701342A2A0899f75f6C4acB5cceC0Ff4Af

I'm mining ETICA.

Accept addresses via private messages or, for example, using Google forms. On-forum altcoins giveaways is not allowed.

No problem, it was not planned. Someone asked if there will be an airdrop or faucet (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5411039.msg60932884#msg60932884). I replied that there will never be airdrop and there might be faucets one day. In the meantime I said I could send some ETI so that they can test it. But then others started to put their addresses. There is no giveaway, I'll ignore if people put new addresses

Interesting project, hope exchanges will join in soon!

One the advantages that I can get is reducing our blockchain size in general, if you did try to do sync ETH or ETC fullnode mode with your HDD, it's like forever.

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If you are already an established company, Exorde can be a quick and useful tool to quickly track your company’s reputation over the last 7 days, months, or more.

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Etica is not a company and there is no company behind it. It's a community driven project we are not interested in marketing.

Yes first Etica (ETI) listing is planned for Monday october the 3rd. Txbit exchange will open ETI/USDT trading

0x820c4140D7FDBbD5e40d70a507b46fa5BEdCe202

0x3B9D05aa8005a81e1e32B954b124703F5F60f03a

0x544318078Df30749236143a39B75196d564741e1

https://txbit.io/Trade/ETI/USDT

The first exchange ;D

exchange for EGAZ?

Im not sure what EGAZ is but Open AI project has voiced intent to hook up with you guys for the development of a new gen stable coin to back up asset value in their Trust fund. Things are spinning fast when u are in to decentralized finance. Money will be allocated for boosting this coin as their current means for monetization of their platform.

0x0Ba7CE050677EfA38afc166971049d2Bcf954993

The "coins" are mined separately. ETI is listed and tradeable, EGAZ isn't. It's only used to secure the blockchain and pay transaction fees.

As we will have energy costs and equipment depreciation, are we obliged to mine EGAZ too? Since it will not generate financial return, which is the goal of most miners.

as this is a community driven project, do you really think you can pursue your goals here successfully?

what i am curious here is that, will they really spend the funds when it comes for example in their etica's diseases, as they have their own addresses. i have the feeling that this won't last long.. most community driven project do not survive as the interest will slowly wane as time goes on.
there are so many institutions that are already doing their own research when it comes to diseases, and most of them are privately funded. here, if they will rely on donations or whatever crowdsourcing activities, i don't think they can hit their targets here. why not just collaborate with those institutions that are really focusing on medical research?

Yes EGAZ will be listed as well. Just before listing we are looking for a way to know the exact EGAZ supply. The block reward is 2 EGAZ but Ethereum technology has a system of uncle blocks that also have block rewards. For that reason there currently no way to know exact supply of EGAZ as there is no way to know supply of Ether and Ethereum classic. We are working on a script that would be able to calculate the exact EGAZ supply. Once this is known the community will collectively decide a tail emission EGAZ block reward that takes into account already issued supply and lower uncle rewards to almost 0 egaz per block. EGAZ will be listed as soon as all of these steps have been done

Sounds very good, they can contact us on Discord or the email from the website.
About EGAZ, it's the equivalent of ETHER on Ethereum. Since Etica has its own blockchain EGAZ is necessary to pay for transaction fees. Etica (ETI) is the currency of the protocol

Hi, there is no obligation or limitation about mining one is free to mine ETI, EGAZ or both. EGAZ should generate returns as well. Once the final tail emission rate has been fixed then EGAZ inflation will converge to 0. The higher the hashrate will get the more costs miners wil have and thus ask for higher EGAZ transaction fees. Right now it's still very begining and EGAZ transaction fees are not adjusted to actual miners cost yet

"there are so many institutions that are already doing their own research when it comes to diseases, and most of them are privately funded"
Being privately funded often implies the research is done for private interests like getting a patent to make the investment profitable. This prevents collaboration between teams who are doing the same experiments in their closed environments to protect intellectual property like it used to be for software industry few years ago. We've seen how open source has transformed software industry over past years, we hope open source research will open the doors for new type of research

"here, if they will rely on donations or whatever crowdsourcing activities, i don't think they can hit their targets here"
The system is not financed by donations, charity or crowdsourcing. The neutral protocol has a fixed inflation that finances the research

"why not just collaborate with those institutions that are really focusing on medical research"
We are not against institutions, maybe one day they will make research on Etica

0xa ...GOT it

Please do not send Etica addresses anymore. We don't send anything back

I believe that not only NGO health associations, as mentioned in the whitepaper, can benefit from the project, but universities are also major research centers and will be able to use the ETI to raise funds through voting on their proposals.

That's a great point! Absolutely, we would truly appreciate to get universities involved as soon as possible. Any university interested in the project can get in touch on our Discord. It's competely open and there is no organisation behind so it will be up to them but we'll do our best to help

https://i.imgur.com/g89V3bL.png


https://www.publish0x.com/crypto-bits/etica-protocol-connecting-medicinal-knowledge-and-possibilit-xrgxdoj


Sometimes we need the right incentives to change a situation and possibly the world...

Great initiative, I saw that you produce a lot of content related to cryptocurrencies, as a community project without a company involved it is important that more actions like this occur.

Thanks for the recognition. I've been doing this for a long time and I believe that each one has an original content and a different view of the crypto world. Overall it's possible for people to know crypto in a different way that goes beyond the conventional whitepaper ideas.

Hi,

Eticapool.com has closed port 8080 today at 15:00 UTC.

If you are mining on port 8081 there is nothing to do on your side.

If you were mining on port 8080 make sure to switch to port 8081.

From now 100% of rewards will go to port 8081 ( http://eticapool.com:8081 )

(for reminder this port closing was announced a week ago and is the result of demands on discord and the result of a poll on discord)

etica！gogogo！

New listing:
EGAZ will be listed on txbit on Wednesday 23rd november.
BTC pairs will be added as well as USDT.
From wednesday 23rd txbit will have ETI/BTC ETI/USDT EGAZ/BTC and EGAZ/USDT

Etica Protocol and Decentralised science explained in 5 minutes:

https://youtu.be/iswq70tmyzE

The first Etica wallet GUI will be released soon:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Etica/comments/10fjjlx/etica_wallet_gui_is_coming/

Hi,

In this video I make an in depth presentation of the Etica Wallet GUI and it's current stage of development. I also explain how it will be possible to deploy Etica smart contracts on a testnet to try Etica and get more familiar with Etica voting system:

https://youtu.be/78eBl4OOxFQ

Hi,

I’m proud to announce we have a way to make the Etica smart contract upgradable through hardforks like EIPs.
A major step for Etica, since the immutalbility of the smart contract was the main challenge for the one smart contract model (Etica aims to have only one main Smart contract).

This is a short explanation without getting too much into technical details of how Etica blockchain will make its core smart contract upgradable.

I. Ethereum blockchain. Are smart contracts truly not upgradable?

Etica being a fork of Ethereum, over the past few days I’ve been diving into Ethereum source code and it appears the immutability of smart contracts is more a social design than a technical design. Meaning there is no technical system to make smart contracts code immutable.
In facy every smart contract has a clear separation between its data and its code. On ethereum, accounts are defined by 4 fields:
Nonce, Balance, Storage and Code.
Smart contract accounts store their code (ByteCode) in the Code field while externally owned accounts (user accounts) have the Code field set to empty.

Let’s focus on Smart contracts accounts:

The Storage is the data of the smart contract. The storage contains all the variables that can change value (Arrays, Maps, Uints…), it’s like a dedicated database of the smart contract.

The Code field contains the ByteCode. The Bytecode is a constant and it also contains all the Constants of the smart contract. The ByteCode is the code that is executed when a user sends a transaction to the smart contract address. When we interact with a smart contract we simply send inputs to the ByteCode of a smart contract that will run its ByteCode and update its storage data based on its previous state.

This clear separtion between Storage and Code is what will make it possible for Etica to implement a system to Upgrade the Etica smart contract.

II. Etica smart contract upgrades process

The updates of Etica smart contract should be extremely rare. Nonetheless it is important we can update the smart contract when necessary at least for security.

Etica smart contract upgrades will work almost exaclty like EIPs. Once community agrees on a change there will be a block height chosen to acitvate the new smart contract changes.

Upgrade Process, example:

Etica mainnet smart contract address is and will remain: 0x34c61EA91bAcdA647269d4e310A86b875c09946f

Let’s call current version of Etica smart contract V1 and let’s see how Etica could upgrade to a V2 while keeping its address (0x34c…946f) and its storage.

a) Deploy new ByteCode
First we deploy the new smart contract Code V2 (ByteCode) on the Etica mainnet. Now there is a new smart contract (at a random address, for instance: 0x39c…729e) that has the new ByteCode on its Code field. But remember the ByteCode is a constant and after compilation, there is clear separation between what is constant (ByteCode) and the Data (Storage). So the new smart contract will have its own Storage clearly separated from its ByteCode.

b) Update Etica ByteCode
Now, it is possible for the Network to agree to take the ByteCode of new smart contract (0x39c…729) and to put it in the Etica Smart contract’s Code field. After this, Etica smart contract will keep same address and same storage but the ByteCode that will run when will call 0x34c…946f address will correspond to the new bytecode.

c) Config file on every node
On the blockchain source code there will be a config file that every node will use to keep track of such Etica Smart contract upgrades.

Example:
EticaV2Block: 3 000 000
EticaV2ReferenceAddress: 0x39c…729

For instance in this example every node will know that at block 3 000 000 they have to update Etica smart contract with Bytecode stored at address 0x39c…729.

d) That’s it. Now Etica smart contract code would be upgraded while preserving its address and storage.

Potential Limits?
Let me know if you see potential limits with this system, so far it appears to be a great system to upgrade the smart contract and everything works as expected after tests

The good news is now it will be possible to update the Etica Smart Contract providing the community votes for an upadte or if a security issue is found.

Article on how it works:
https://medium.com/@kevinwad.oss/etica-how-etica-smart-contract-upgrades-will-work-9b1e61035966

I'm glad to announce that Etica GUI v1 is now ready for pre release.

We are actively testing and optimising last details with members of the community.

The wallet is currently being tested on windows and linux computers but we are waiting for a first person to test the wallet on a mac. If you have a mac at disposal for testing the Etica GUI feel free to reach out to me on reddit, discord or telegram.

Here is the wallet: https://github.com/etica/etica-gui

To run the wallet open a command line and run:

    git clone https://github.com/etica/etica-gui.git

    cd etica-gui

    npm install

    npm start

Feel free to test the wallet and share your feedbacks.

I'll shot a demo video of the wallet as soon as I can.


For linux users, if you encounter this error : "Error initialising Geth"

you need to run this command and then make a new wallet with a new directory:

chmod +x yourpathtoeticaguihere/etica-gui/bin/linux/geth

and then once you have tested the wallet cancel the permission:

chmod -x yourpathtoeticaguihere/etica-gui/bin/linux/geth

It's due to the fact the executable needs permission to create a directory for the wallet, but it will be ok if the user creates the directory instead of the executable. I'll update the wallet so that it doesn't need this permission anymore

Once all tests are done we will confirm the first release of the wallet.

In one month Etica blockchain will be one year old, let's keep going

Hi,

I'm glad to announce the release of Etica GUI Wallet v1.0.0, the first version of our graphical user interface (GUI) wallet. It's a huge step for Etica as from now we won't depend on Metamask to secure both ETI and EGAZ:

GitHub Release: https://github.com/etica/etica-gui/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Supported OS: Linux & Windows (no tests on Mac yet)

Stay tuned for upcoming tutorials and videos about how to use all wallet features.

Installation should be pretty fast and easy (details in the link above), here are the commands:

git clone https://github.com/etica/etica-gui.git
cd etica-gui/
npm install
npm start

Please feel free to reach out to me on Discord, Reddit, or Telegram if you have any questions or feedback

reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Etica
discord: https://discord.gg/CrTKpETKXc
telegram: https://t.me/eticaprotocol

A new ETI mining pool is now available!

http://eti.etica-stats.org/

@ def [Mine2.Live] from discord has launched a new ETI mining pool. The pool is running with Eticapool open source software and works exactly like eticapool.com.

Make sure to try this new pool in order to increase ETI mining pools decentralisation.

For reminder def [Mine2.Live] is also running other Etica ecosystem platforms:

Etica blockchain explorer:

http://explorer.etica-stats.org/

EGAZ faucet:

http://faucet.etica-stats.org/

EGAZ mining pool:

http://egaz.etica-stats.org

Network stats (doesn't include all nodes, only those that entered specific code to be detected by this site):

http://stats.etica-stats.org/


https://www.reddit.com/r/Etica/comments/16aj8g4/a_new_eti_mining_pool_is_now_available_def/

is there a pool of at least one worker on the coin or are they all lying/buggy ???