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Title: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on July 01, 2018, 12:01:31 PM

Please download the latest release: Blur v0.1.9.9.6 'Radiance' on our GitHub releases page. (https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases/tag/v0.1.9.9.6)

Blur was recently featured on the  MineYourBiz podcast with Seth Estrada! (https://mineyour.biz/blur-network/)
Tune in to hear our lead developer Biz, chat about crypto, privacy, BLUR, DPoW and much more!

Please see the following pages for the releases:

Command-Line Interface:
https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases
Blur Network CLI Tools Snap Package:
https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-black.svg (https://snapcraft.io/blur)
Or install with: snap install blur

Graphical Wallet:
https://github.com/blur-network/blur-network-gui/releases
Blur Network Graphical Wallet Snap Package:
https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-black.svg (https://snapcraft.io/blur-wallet)
Or install with: snap install blur-wallet




Current Development Efforts

Currently, we are working on bringing Komodo's Delayed Proof of Work into compatibility with Monero-derived codebases.  You can follow the progress made so far at the following repository: https://github.com/blur-network/dpow-blur, and at the following project board: https://github.com/orgs/blur-network/projects/1 (However, the project board has not been updated in a while).  Our goal is to get our codebase into a state where we are completely interoperable with KMD's (and by extension BTC/ZEC's) ecosystem.  This means that capabilities such as cross-chain clusters and direct interaction between chains will be possible in a similar manner to the inter-chain interactions that are currently seen in KMD's ecosystem.
  
The Blur Network is expanding to a multi-chain model! You can read about where things are headed here. (https://whalereports.com/blur-network-fractal-multichain/)



Social Media

https://image.ibb.co/iLHAvU/github.png (https://github.com/blur-network/blur)https://image.ibb.co/ecVVvU/twitter.png (https://twitter.com/blur_network)https://image.ibb.co/kvWbn9/reddit.png (https://new.reddit.com/r/blur_network)https://image.ibb.co/kiL29p/Bitcointalk.png (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4577361.0)https://image.ibb.co/eG2X9p/discord.png (https://discord.gg/dMWaqVW)https://image.ibb.co/eii0vU/telegram.png (https://t.me/theblurnetwork)



Markets

https://infinex.cc/img/logo.svg (https://infinex.cc/spot/BLUR_USDT)



Command-Line Interface Tools/Wallets:

https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-black.svg (https://snapcraft.io/blur)

https://image.ibb.co/j6FxaU/linux.png (https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases/download/v0.1.9.9.6/blur-v0.1.9.9.6-linux-x86_64.tar.gz)https://image.ibb.co/bXTYFU/mac.png (https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases/download/v0.1.9.9.6/blur-v0.1.9.9.6-mac-x86_64.zip)https://image.ibb.co/jbwTFU/win.png (https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases/download/v0.1.9.9.6/blur-v0.1.9.9.6-win-x86_64.zip)https://image.ibb.co/mEun9p/cold.png (https://blur.cash/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/offline-wallet.html)



Graphical User Interface Wallets:
https://image.ibb.co/hZRiDe/GUI_Mac.png (https://github.com/blur-network/blur-network-gui/releases/download/v0.1.9.8.1/blur-network-gui-v0.1.9.8.1-mac-x86_64.zip)https://image.ibb.co/kk01Ye/GUI_Linux.png (https://github.com/blur-network/blur-network-gui/releases/download/v0.1.9.8.1/blur-network-gui-v0.1.9.8.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz)https://image.ibb.co/cRnxqV/windows.png (https://github.com/blur-network/blur-network-gui/releases/download/v0.1.9.8.1/blur-network-gui-v0.1.9.8.1-win-x86_64.zip)



Quick Links:
Website: Blur Network - The Private Cryptocurrency (https://blur.cash)
Block Explorer: Blur Network Block Explorer (http://explorer.blur.cash)
Real-Time Emission Monitor: Blur Network Supply (http://explorer.blur.cash/supply)
CoinMarketCap Page:Blur on CoinMarketCap (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/blur)
Daemon Documentation:Blurd-RPC Docs (https://blur.cash/documentation/blurd-rpc.html)
Wallet Documentation:Blur-Wallet-RPC Docs (https://blur.cash/documentation/blurd-rpc.html)
Source Code: Github Source (https://github.com/blur-network/blur)
Official Subreddit:Blur Network on Reddit (https://reddit.com/r/blur_network)
Twitter:Follow The Blur Network (https://twitter.com/blur_network)
Discord:Official Discord Server (https://discord.gg/dMWaqVW)
(Discord is the Preferred Contact Method for Blur Network)
Telegram:Official Telegram Chat (https://t.me/theblurnetwork)
Roadmap:Blur Network Roadmap (https://blur.cash/wp-content/uploads/Roadmap.html)




Coin Metrics:
Total Supply: 9,223,300 BLUR ( + Tail Emission of 2.0 BLUR/block )
Circulating Supply (Real-time):http://explorer.blur.cash/supply
Pre-Mine: 360,000 = 3.9% of Supply hardcoded as block reward for first mined block
Algorithm: Custom Cryptonight-Dynamic ( CPU-advantage )
Block Time: Target = 60 seconds
Block Reward: Decreasing from roughly 4.5 BLUR per block currently
Decimal Places: Twelve ( 12 )
Emission Profile: Blur Network Emission Spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12PcagebZLTjgf-aTmpKZX5Ck-p3QHOa834CKVyKy1m4/edit#gid=0)


Seed Nodes:
Node 1: 51.79.66.123:52541
Node 2: 51.79.66.36:52541
Node 3: 51.79.64.184:52541
Node 4: 66.70.189.131:52541
Ports: P2P= 52541 | RPC = 52542





Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: mySmile on July 01, 2018, 12:03:28 PM
Russian translation reserved


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 01, 2018, 12:10:51 PM
Please note that this specific post is now VERY outdated, as we have moved to our own novel algorithm, and gone through a few upgrades within CN-Dynamic (our algorithm)


CNAv1 is known to be vulnerable to pool-creation with some simple mods. That being the case, does Blur intend to fight against pools or to embrace them and keep the GPU resistance?


Pool resistance was not the objective with the algorithm changes... more so, a welcomed byproduct of them.  Pooled hashing is something that will become a part of the project further down the line, with a limit on poolsize based on % of net hash.  This achieves the goal of decentralization without exposing miners to the unbalanced "luck" of solving for the correct block hash ... Although, luck and randomness are *technically* more fair.

As someone who is not intimately familiar with how the cn-Adaptive algo works, would you be able to give a simplified explanation of how the algo manages to be GPU and pool resistant?

Definitely.  It's really not all that complex, to be honest. Explaining it can be, though.   NERVA's implementation currently adds a few more layers for randomness.  We'll be adding some of that on our own in the next network update which should be this week sometime.  Essentially, the algorithm runs a base number of iterations in the cryptonote algorithm... then dynamically adds an additional number of iterations (which differs each block) to that base number.  That dynamic portion is based on the previous block's height.  The way it is written, the iterations in a block cycles up and then back down to make a pattern of difficulty that looks like a sawtooth.  

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/0*QzO4ri8pb-saN4rW

if you notice hashrate gradually increasing, before dropping sharply, and then repeating the cycle... this is why.

There are two files that hold the algorithm's nuts and bolts, as they are present in BLUR's algorithm currently. These two files that we are going to look at, are located at the following locations in the source code:

Code:
blur/src/crypto/slow-hash.c
and
Code:
blur/src/cryptonote_basic/cryptonote_format_utils.cpp

The slow-hash.c file has a few pieces of information that are important and differentiate CN-Adaptive from other variants of cryptonight.  The first of which is on line 46:
Code:
#define MEMORY         (1 << 20) // 1MB scratchpad

As annotated, this parameter defines the scratchpad size for the algorithm's rounds of iterations. A 1MB scratchpad is also seen in Cryptonight-Light.  This size allows for less iterations in a round, and fits within the cache of lower end CPUs, enabling older hardware to still mine somewhat effectively.  

Now within the cryptonight algorithm, there is an added parameter in CN-Adaptive, for iterations.  This parameter defined as iters, and you can find the implementation on Line 570 of the same slow-hash.c file:

Code:
void cn_slow_hash(const void *data, size_t length, char *hash, int variant, int prehashed, size_t iters)

As well as lines 645-662:

Code:
    if(useAes)
    {
        for(i = 0; i < iters; i++)
        {
            pre_aes();
            _c = _mm_aesenc_si128(_c, _a);
            post_aes();
        }
    }
    else
    {
        for(i = 0; i < iters; i++)
        {
            pre_aes();
            aesb_single_round((uint8_t *) &_c, (uint8_t *) &_c, (uint8_t *) &_a);
            post_aes();
        }
    }

This variable "iters" calls out to a function in the second file I mentioned, to determine its value in the block being mined.   So head over to blur/src/cryptonote_basic/cryptonote_format_utils.cpp if you're following along.  

Within that file, on lines 891-901, you'll find the calculations for the number of iterations.  Before elaborating on the code, I would like to note that in its current state this code could be optimized with a GPU.  However, you  would still need a CPU present in some form, to direct the GPUs hashpower.  BLUR's goal is being too resource intensive for GPU/ASIC miners to pursue.  In its current state, and at the current value of BLUR... this has sufficed.  However, we are hardforking to a new implementation shortly, for the purpose of maintaining that as the project grows.

With that said, on lines 891-901 of cryptonote_format_utils.cpp we have:

Code:
  //---------------------------------------------------------------
  bool get_block_longhash(const block& b, crypto::hash& res, uint64_t height)
  {
    blobdata bd = get_block_hashing_blob(b);
    int cn_variant = b.major_version >= 5 ? 1 : 0;
int cn_iters = b.major_version >= 6 ? ( b.major_version >= 7 ? 0x40000 : 0x20000 ) : 0x80000;
    cn_iters += ((height + 1) % 1024);
    crypto::cn_slow_hash(bd.data(), bd.size(), res, cn_variant, cn_iters);
    return true;
  }
  //---------------------------------------------------------------

The lines here that we are primarily looking at, are the ones that declare and calculate the variable "cn_iters". Starting with the first mention (where we calculate the base number of iterations):

Code:
int cn_iters = b.major_version >= 6 ? ( b.major_version >= 7 ? 0x40000 : 0x20000 ) : 0x80000;

The code above breaks down into two parts...

Code:
 b.major_version >= 6 ? (x) : (0x80000)
and
Code:
 b.major_version >= 7 ? (0x40000) : (0x20000)

The "x" variable in the first part, is simply swapped out for the entire "second part" in the actual code.  For the purposes of explaining, its easier to break it apart this way.  The "?" symbol in C++ is what's known as a ternary operator. It essentially serves as an "if" statement directed by the ">=" operators that come before it, in this instance.

So it means to say "If the block version number (hardfork version) is greater-than-or-equal-to 6, define the iterations as the value on the left-hand side of the colon.  If it is not, define as 0x80000 or the value following the colon.  

The number 0x80000 is in hexidecimal, and translates to the human-readable number (in decimal format) 524288, for our base # of iterations.  Assuming we are above block version 5... we then move to the next conditional statement
Code:
 b.major_version >= 7 ? (0x40000) : (0x20000)
.  

We use the same logic here, to say if we are on block version 7 or higher, we use 0x40000 or 262144 for the base amount of iterations.  If we are not (i.e. less than 7 but greater than 5), we use 0x20000 or 131072 for the base number.  Now, ONTO THE DYNAMIC PART.  That's much simpler:

So far we have iterations (for current hardfork) = 262144 + (dynamic portion). The dynamic part is found on line #897, directly after the calculation for the base number:

Code:
cn_iters =+ ((height +1) % 1024)

This means to say: "Add to the base number of iterations, the calculated value for the function (current block height) Modulo (1024).  A modulo just means divide the height by 1024, and look at your remainder.  That remainder is actually then the solution to the equation.  So, (1025) % 1024 would equal 1. Just the same, (2047) % 1024 would equal 1023, because 2047 = 1024 + 1023...




Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 01, 2018, 12:29:36 PM
[reserved]


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 01, 2018, 12:35:39 PM
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Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 01, 2018, 12:47:49 PM
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Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Caztiel on July 01, 2018, 12:49:22 PM
Need Pool + Link to Miner


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 01, 2018, 01:17:00 PM
reserved


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: tradingdisaster on July 01, 2018, 01:27:31 PM
Hm, what's the novel thing here? We already got a lot of CPU-only coins lately, snowblossom, Deft...

Any real-world usecase you are targeting that would make the coin interesting to non-miners to buy and hold?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 01, 2018, 01:31:31 PM
Hm, what's the novel thing here? We already got a lot of CPU-only coins lately, snowblossom, Deft...

Any real-world usecase you are targeting that would make the coin interesting to non-miners to buy and hold?

This is a cpu-only variant of the cryptonight algorithm.  RingCT signatures on a cpu-only coin are only implemented by NERVA, aside from this project.  Cryptonote coins lack that aspect of design, otherwise.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 01, 2018, 01:44:10 PM
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Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 01, 2018, 01:57:27 PM
RESERVED


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 01, 2018, 02:37:54 PM
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Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: brjameng on July 01, 2018, 02:41:59 PM
It's good to know that this coin is mine able using CPU.
But one question, will it disturb the usage performance on the computer while the mining process is working?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 01, 2018, 05:29:04 PM
resoived


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: AlanMilano on July 01, 2018, 05:35:13 PM
Good! I quite like the coin that can resist GPU and ASIC. Because that can bring a fair amount of justice to the user (if there is no ICO).
Low supply is also a strong point of BLUR, only exploited through CPU with low supply will guarantee value for BLUR.
I will be involved in exploiting with 3 CPUs on different computers.
Wish you success-BLUR!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Cryptobel-NL on July 01, 2018, 07:30:21 PM
Here you go for the Dutch translation:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4579588

My address:
bL49dzHNctMGLbtMYmqSPBFPHhbMhY9Rg6YMTDt9acwxDbRqxRDw8VnG7j6NG75B4F1KT9bpqbSJt1e uFRqQzYLU1fvK6QuLd


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 01, 2018, 11:42:14 PM
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Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: tippytoes on July 01, 2018, 11:54:28 PM
Good! I quite like the coin that can resist GPU and ASIC. Because that can bring a fair amount of justice to the user (if there is no ICO).
Low supply is also a strong point of BLUR, only exploited through CPU with low supply will guarantee value for BLUR.
I will be involved in exploiting with 3 CPUs on different computers.
Wish you success-BLUR!

Hoping that the team will not be discouraged in developing this coin til it's already stable. Most of the projects are abandoned after quite some time. If the team is ready for the crypto battle, then, this might be of something as the supply is quite low.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: sth0901 on July 02, 2018, 12:27:24 AM
reserved


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: liucoin on July 02, 2018, 12:52:02 AM
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Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: AmoreJaz on July 02, 2018, 01:04:48 AM
Hm, what's the novel thing here? We already got a lot of CPU-only coins lately, snowblossom, Deft...

Any real-world usecase you are targeting that would make the coin interesting to non-miners to buy and hold?

This is a cpu-only variant of the cryptonight algorithm.  RingCT signatures on a cpu-only coin are only implemented by NERVA, aside from this project.  Cryptonote coins lack that aspect of design, otherwise.

so in short no real world use case at the moment. just another variant of altcoin. without actual usage most of the time, an altcoin will just fall in the trading.
and without strong community backing that coin, this is too easy to die.
unless the dev team has other plans as ive seen so many reserved posts here?!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 02, 2018, 01:11:48 AM
Hm, what's the novel thing here? We already got a lot of CPU-only coins lately, snowblossom, Deft...

Any real-world usecase you are targeting that would make the coin interesting to non-miners to buy and hold?

This is a cpu-only variant of the cryptonight algorithm.  RingCT signatures on a cpu-only coin are only implemented by NERVA, aside from this project.  Cryptonote coins lack that aspect of design, otherwise.

so in short no real world use case at the moment. just another variant of altcoin. without actual usage most of the time, an altcoin will just fall in the trading.
and without strong community backing that coin, this is too easy to die.
unless the dev team has other plans as ive seen so many reserved posts here?!

Well, what's XMR's use-case?  Monero's design has failed in terms of decentralization.  So has bitcoin's.  Solving a previously unsolved problem is hardly the way superior technology comes to dominate a market.  Rather, a superior solution comes along to disrupt a previous solution, and makes it inferior (usually based on design or expansion of capabilities in solving future problems). 

That devil's advocacy aside... Yes, there are bigger plans and your reserved post observation is an astute one.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Maxfieldr on July 02, 2018, 01:49:04 AM
Hm, what's the novel thing here? We already got a lot of CPU-only coins lately, snowblossom, Deft...

Any real-world usecase you are targeting that would make the coin interesting to non-miners to buy and hold?

Deft is not CPU only, neither is snow blossom


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 02, 2018, 02:26:00 AM
Hm, what's the novel thing here? We already got a lot of CPU-only coins lately, snowblossom, Deft...

Any real-world usecase you are targeting that would make the coin interesting to non-miners to buy and hold?

Deft is not CPU only, neither is snow blossom


Thanks for clarifying.  I'm failing to see similarities between Blur and either of those.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: djuragan on July 02, 2018, 03:03:48 AM
I wish to tried mining on my CPU, is it possible to mine the coin using an AMD A8 CPU?
Since that's is all I've got for now.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: davewealth88 on July 02, 2018, 03:07:47 AM
reserve


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: doge_shit666 on July 02, 2018, 03:10:29 AM
This is a special coin that emphasizes security through encryption keys and signatures. Especially can be exploited by the CPU. The project also outlines how to implement these interesting features in a specific way. I was fascinated by these special things about the BLUR coin.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: mahof on July 02, 2018, 12:57:25 PM
cpu only my favourite coins when will be mining open? my xeons need something new....


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: jjhitel on July 02, 2018, 02:59:47 PM
Good project


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: cyberspacemonkey on July 03, 2018, 02:35:17 AM
Nothing new about this coin not even the algo, but at least it's for CPU mining only we'll see how it turns out.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Nujerzeydevil91 on July 03, 2018, 03:21:45 AM
hey what are u guys averaging with h's or kh's ??? 


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Grumo on July 03, 2018, 04:09:46 AM
nice. im mining. i want to fill a bag of these with my servers
hey what are u guys averaging with h's or kh's ??? 

2000 is the average hashrate each cpu


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 03, 2018, 07:26:43 AM
hey what are u guys averaging with h's or kh's ???  

With a ryzen, I've heard in excess of 2 kH/s.  With a typical Intel processor, you'll see less than 1 kH/s typically.


cpu only my favourite coins when will be mining open? my xeons need something new....

Mining is open.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 03, 2018, 08:16:51 AM
Oh, and for transparency and ease of reference -- here is a spreadsheet with daily emission from premine to 100% supply.  Of course, emission will continue at the fixed rate of 2.0 BLUR/block after total supply is reached, just as Monero will. 

Blur Network Emission Spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12PcagebZLTjgf-aTmpKZX5Ck-p3QHOa834CKVyKy1m4/edit#gid=0)

I'll add this link to the first post as well.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: brjameng on July 03, 2018, 08:42:15 AM
I've always wanted to try mining some coins using CPU.
Will it be worth it if I mine a coins just using a CPU laptop, and could it affect the durability of the CPU?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 03, 2018, 08:54:16 AM
I've always wanted to try mining some coins using CPU.
Will it be worth it if I mine a coins just using a CPU laptop, and could it affect the durability of the CPU?


You should mine something given a few hours.  Should not affect durability more than normal computationally intensive work would... just don't overclock your processor or anything like that.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 03, 2018, 12:29:31 PM
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Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 03, 2018, 04:09:19 PM
BTC


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: NIKOLAY_TETUS on July 03, 2018, 05:02:14 PM
Need pool


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 03, 2018, 05:11:22 PM
please start pool and miner


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Lesley121 on July 03, 2018, 07:11:46 PM

interesting, I will try to mine it


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Callanta787 on July 03, 2018, 07:16:56 PM
And pool? Have to mine this


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Nightz on July 03, 2018, 07:27:25 PM
Hm, what's the novel thing here? We already got a lot of CPU-only coins lately, snowblossom, Deft...

Any real-world usecase you are targeting that would make the coin interesting to non-miners to buy and hold?

This is a cpu-only variant of the cryptonight algorithm.  RingCT signatures on a cpu-only coin are only implemented by NERVA, aside from this project.  Cryptonote coins lack that aspect of design, otherwise.

so in short no real world use case at the moment. just another variant of altcoin. without actual usage most of the time, an altcoin will just fall in the trading.
and without strong community backing that coin, this is too easy to die.
unless the dev team has other plans as ive seen so many reserved posts here?!

Well, what's XMR's use-case?  Monero's design has failed in terms of decentralization.  So has bitcoin's.  Solving a previously unsolved problem is hardly the way superior technology comes to dominate a market.  Rather, a superior solution comes along to disrupt a previous solution, and makes it inferior (usually based on design or expansion of capabilities in solving future problems). 

That devil's advocacy aside... Yes, there are bigger plans and your reserved post observation is an astute one.

You consider Monero a failed design? The market has spoken so far and entrusts networks like Bitcoin and Monero with hundreds of billions of dollars. Even if it's CPU only, what if the tech giant fire up their warehouses full of hardware and mine with that? Fully preventing centralization from happening is probably impossible to do.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: siegep on July 03, 2018, 07:35:39 PM
Which exchanges planned ?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blur-network on July 03, 2018, 08:48:35 PM
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Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 03, 2018, 08:54:01 PM
Hm, what's the novel thing here? We already got a lot of CPU-only coins lately, snowblossom, Deft...

Any real-world usecase you are targeting that would make the coin interesting to non-miners to buy and hold?

This is a cpu-only variant of the cryptonight algorithm.  RingCT signatures on a cpu-only coin are only implemented by NERVA, aside from this project.  Cryptonote coins lack that aspect of design, otherwise.

so in short no real world use case at the moment. just another variant of altcoin. without actual usage most of the time, an altcoin will just fall in the trading.
and without strong community backing that coin, this is too easy to die.
unless the dev team has other plans as ive seen so many reserved posts here?!

Well, what's XMR's use-case?  Monero's design has failed in terms of decentralization.  So has bitcoin's.  Solving a previously unsolved problem is hardly the way superior technology comes to dominate a market.  Rather, a superior solution comes along to disrupt a previous solution, and makes it inferior (usually based on design or expansion of capabilities in solving future problems).  

That devil's advocacy aside... Yes, there are bigger plans and your reserved post observation is an astute one.

You consider Monero a failed design? The market has spoken so far and entrusts networks like Bitcoin and Monero with hundreds of billions of dollars. Even if it's CPU only, what if the tech giant fire up their warehouses full of hardware and mine with that? Fully preventing centralization from happening is probably impossible to do.




I didn't say they were "failed designs".  In my opinion, they failed to reach their goal of a scaled and truly decentralized network.  All one has to do is look at what's happened with pooling to see that.  I mean, look at the distribution over the past few days from MineXMR.com  (https://www.minexmr.com/pools.html).  Does that look like a decentralized network to you?

Moreover, a community rallying behind something does not mean that it is fulfilling its initial design goal... much less, hundreds of billions of dollars hasn't anything to do with decentralized architecture.  Usually, that kind of valuation is an indication of the opposite (cartels and market power). I'd even bet that they're correlated on a near 1.0 R-squared relationship.  To quote Vitalik Buterin... "proof of work necessarily operates on a logic of massive power incentivized into existence by massive rewards".  Centralization is the only way that this can occur.  I agree with you that fully preventing centralization is probably impossible.  But that doesn't mean that we should repeat the mistakes that have been revealed to be clear and burdensome design flaws (...that constantly need adjusted to keep attack area manageable).


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 03, 2018, 10:17:44 PM
Which exchanges planned ?

Put in a PR to bisq earlier today.  A few other centralized exchanges have been applied to as well.  More in the works.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 04, 2018, 03:08:21 AM
Hello dev!

I see that you are well versed in crypto-currencies.

How did you do the cryptonot cpu-only?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Alecsandro on July 04, 2018, 07:34:48 AM
Someone can post some cpu's hashrate ? Or it's like the same hashrate as CN v7 ? Like my Celeron G3930 = 50 h/s monero/v7


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 04, 2018, 07:42:54 AM
Someone can post some cpu's hashrate ? Or it's like the same hashrate as CN v7 ? Like my Celeron G3930 = 50 h/s monero/v7

It's much more like cryptonight-light than v7.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 04, 2018, 07:46:52 AM
10 core 2x Xeon E5645 - 105 h/s
AMD FX6300 -- ~800 H/s
Ryzen 1600X 3200mem - 2730 h/s
Ryzen 1700 - 3000 H/S


Need pool!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: konohlo on July 04, 2018, 07:58:25 AM
interesting coins with the number of coins offered quite large. but maybe if using the CPU will disrupt the performance of the computer or decrease CPU endurance during the mining process. is there any team-provided solution for this?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 04, 2018, 09:00:44 AM
interesting coins with the number of coins offered quite large. but maybe if using the CPU will disrupt the performance of the computer or decrease CPU endurance during the mining process. is there any team-provided solution for this?

What a stupid question
You load the processor - the overall performance of the computer drops, as part of the resources goes to mining.
Mining does not cause degradation of the processor and does not reduce its resource.

Dev, there the pool is not expected?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 04, 2018, 11:23:54 AM
So. I'm tired.
I need a pool.
Dev, where is the white paper?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 04, 2018, 12:32:47 PM
I do not have several wallets through NAT
not synchronized at the same time more than 2 purses


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Zandorek on July 04, 2018, 06:31:30 PM
So. I'm tired.
I need a pool.
Dev, where is the white paper?

I could not find it either, but maybe you can reconstruct some parts of the whitepaper from the source code:
https://github.com/blur-network/blur
:)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 04, 2018, 07:40:18 PM
Quote
-// Copyright (c) 2017-2018, The Masari Project
+// Copyright (c) 2017-2018, The Blur Network

What is the Masari Project?
Is the pool from him suitable for Bloor?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 04, 2018, 08:32:49 PM
So. I'm tired.
I need a pool.
Dev, where is the white paper?

I could not find it either, but maybe you can reconstruct some parts of the whitepaper from the source code:
https://github.com/blur-network/blur
:)


A whitepaper will be published in the coming weeks.   I'll post a roadmap on the website prior to that, to give everyone an idea of where things are headed from an administrative standpoint.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: israelps on July 04, 2018, 11:03:58 PM
reserved spanish translation, confirm please


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 05, 2018, 03:40:38 AM
Quote
-// Copyright (c) 2017-2018, The Masari Project
+// Copyright (c) 2017-2018, The Blur Network

What is the Masari Project?
Is the pool from him suitable for Bloor?

Stratified pooling won’t work, as the code for that protocol is currently written.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Annieluvyou on July 05, 2018, 04:34:35 AM
Mining a coins wit CPU can be the best choice for everyone who doesn't has a GPU mining rig that cost so much.
This way we could just utilize our regular PC to mine the coins, without the need to to purchase a high cost mining rig.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 05, 2018, 06:14:52 AM
Mining a coins wit CPU can be the best choice for everyone who doesn't has a GPU mining rig that cost so much.
This way we could just utilize our regular PC to mine the coins, without the need to to purchase a high cost mining rig.
Also I think that mining should be on cpu, but better on raspberry pi and Omega


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 05, 2018, 06:15:16 AM
Mining a coins wit CPU can be the best choice for everyone who doesn't has a GPU mining rig that cost so much.
This way we could just utilize our regular PC to mine the coins, without the need to to purchase a high cost mining rig.

That's the idea.  I've always liked CPU coins better for that reason. Sure, most servers are CPUs, and can put out a nice amount of hashpower... But GPUs created a totally dominant tier of miners, lowering accessibility to potentially monetized downtime for many home PC owners.  I'd like to see a more even playing field for miners... As NERVA put it: Individuals mining on individual computers.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 05, 2018, 06:18:18 AM
reserved spanish translation, confirm please

Anyone who wishes to provide a translation should feel free to do so.  Although I should say here that I can only speak for this official thread's accuracy.  If you choose to read a translation, please make sure that it has not been changed too much when compared to this official post.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: magentarendro11 on July 05, 2018, 06:22:47 AM
this is very cool, using payment using Monero Project, it is totally untraceable and I am sure it is very safe


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 05, 2018, 06:29:08 AM
Mining a coins wit CPU can be the best choice for everyone who doesn't has a GPU mining rig that cost so much.
This way we could just utilize our regular PC to mine the coins, without the need to to purchase a high cost mining rig.

That's the idea.  I've always liked CPU coins better for that reason. Sure, most servers are CPUs, and can put out a nice amount of hashpower... But GPUs created a totally dominant tier of miners, lowering accessibility to potentially monetized downtime for many home PC owners.  I'd like to see a more even playing field for miners... As NERVA put it: Individuals mining on individual computers.

How do you protect your coin from the GPU and ASIC?
Due to what it is impossible to extract your coin for the GPU?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: djuragan on July 05, 2018, 06:48:41 AM
Looking from the total supply of this coins, I think the price of the coins will be high.
Perhaps joining this project or supporting it through bounty campaign would be a good decision.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Yeuph on July 05, 2018, 07:36:00 AM
What's the difference between this coin and the one it's forked from (Nerva)?  Someone correct me but the only thing I can see so far is that this coin has a premine whereas Nerva didn't.

If you have 2 coins that are essentially exactly the same - because Blur's code is Nerva copypasta - why not pick the original coin without a premine instead of the copycat *with* a premine?

If there is actually anything new here and it's not just a really shitty coder copying someone else's work and selling it to stupid people so he can dump his premine I'll dedicate a few Ryzens to mining it.

So, what's the difference?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 05, 2018, 07:40:08 AM
What's the difference between this coin and the one it's forked from (Nerva)?  Someone correct me but the only thing I can see so far is that this coin has a premine whereas Nerva didn't.

If you have 2 coins that are essentially exactly the same - because Blur's code is Nerva copypasta - why not pick the original coin without a premine instead of the copycat *with* a premine?

If there is actually anything new here and it's not just a really shitty coder copying someone else's work and selling it to stupid people so he can dump his premine I'll dedicate a few Ryzens to mining it.

So, what's the difference?
++++++++++++++++++


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 05, 2018, 08:21:34 AM
What's the difference between this coin and the one it's forked from (Nerva)?  Someone correct me but the only thing I can see so far is that this coin has a premine whereas Nerva didn't.

If you have 2 coins that are essentially exactly the same - because Blur's code is Nerva copypasta - why not pick the original coin without a premine instead of the copycat *with* a premine?

If there is actually anything new here and it's not just a really shitty coder copying someone else's work and selling it to stupid people so he can dump his premine I'll dedicate a few Ryzens to mining it.

So, what's the difference?

Biggest differences are emission speed is (20) - that's an exponent - and total supply is cut in half vs Monero's 18.4M (9.2233M).... those variables are present in the equation (Block Reward)=((9223300000000000000)-(Available Supply)*10^12)*2^-20*10^-12).

The values in Nervas code are 18 (a good bit faster) and 18.4M, respectively. You're mistaken about the pre-mine as well -- that is present in both projects.



Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: dzonikg28 on July 05, 2018, 08:34:32 AM
So. I'm tired.
I need a pool.
Dev, where is the white paper?

I could not find it either, but maybe you can reconstruct some parts of the whitepaper from the source code:
https://github.com/blur-network/blur
:)


A whitepaper will be published in the coming weeks.   I'll post a roadmap on the website prior to that, to give everyone an idea of where things are headed from an administrative standpoint.

I don't understand your sequence of actions. If you reach out here to people and you want them to follow you, you better have your white paper ready.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 05, 2018, 09:01:55 AM
Why still no one can lift the pool?

Hey, elitepool.
How's it going?
http://blur.elitepool.net/


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: luffy.2 on July 05, 2018, 09:30:17 AM
I think that this project is relatively doing a great job so far as they are growing faster as they are implementing methods that are actually going to work.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Nicholasa on July 05, 2018, 01:53:34 PM
When noticed about the content box i admire to its potential as it is the most popular mobilr audio platforms across the globe, it is gaining more attention from participants now.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 05, 2018, 06:20:44 PM
I got 4 blocks in a row ?!
11 12 13 14
And the speed of the network fell from 600 kh/s to 39 kh/s? then 32 kh/s

https://pp.userapi.com/c834303/v834303445/17f867/U47_hFvrdso.jpg

net speed: 32 kh/s

https://pp.userapi.com/c834303/v834303445/17f899/IsmJyoPWevg.jpg


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 05, 2018, 07:45:11 PM
I got 4 blocks in a row ?!
11 12 13 14
And the speed of the network fell from 600 kh/s to 39 kh/s? then 32 kh/s

https://pp.userapi.com/c834303/v834303445/17f867/U47_hFvrdso.jpg

net speed: 32 kh/s

https://pp.userapi.com/c834303/v834303445/17f899/IsmJyoPWevg.jpg


Not sure what happened there.  It's not entirely improbable that you would mine 3 or 4 blocks in a row.  What I believe would be a somewhat likely explanation: you found a block that was not the best solution (this happens frequently with alternate chains on any blockchain), but was still valid. It follows that there would be a succession of blocks thereafter that were correct solutions but not optimal ones.  When that occurs, the other miners can be mining on a separate chain from you, until the nodes reach a consensus as to the best proof submitted for work completed (blocks solved). The longer chain prevails, and multiple chains can exist simultaneously before one chain shows itself to be longer, and the network agrees.

This is the exact reason that I increased the # of blocks before a mined reward can be spent.  If it were lower than 25... there would be issues.  I've been contemplating raising it even further as a buffer. Hope that all helps.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 05, 2018, 07:50:08 PM
I got 4 blocks in a row ?!
11 12 13 14
And the speed of the network fell from 600 kh/s to 39 kh/s? then 32 kh/s

https://pp.userapi.com/c834303/v834303445/17f867/U47_hFvrdso.jpg

net speed: 32 kh/s

https://pp.userapi.com/c834303/v834303445/17f899/IsmJyoPWevg.jpg


Not sure what happened there.  It's not entirely improbable that you would mine 3 or 4 blocks in a row.  What I believe would be a somewhat likely explanation: you found a block that was not the best solution (this happens frequently with alternate chains on any blockchain), but was still valid. It follows that there would be a succession of blocks thereafter that were correct solutions but not optimal ones.  When that occurs, the other miners can be mining on a separate chain from you, until the nodes reach a consensus as to the best proof submitted for work completed (blocks solved). The longer chain prevails, and multiple chains can exist simultaneously before one chain shows itself to be longer, and the network agrees.

This is the exact reason that I increased the # of blocks before a mined reward can be spent.  If it were lower than 25... there would be issues.  I've been contemplating raising it even further as a buffer. Hope that all helps.

Yes. You seem right.
Restarted my wallet - I have much less coins.
Apparently the synchronization is lost. :[

But there was a speed of the network 32 kh/s - then there was someone in my chain of blockchain? =)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: NIKOLAY_TETUS on July 05, 2018, 08:06:56 PM
I got 4 blocks in a row ?!
11 12 13 14
And the speed of the network fell from 600 kh/s to 39 kh/s? then 32 kh/s

https://pp.userapi.com/c834303/v834303445/17f867/U47_hFvrdso.jpg

net speed: 32 kh/s

https://pp.userapi.com/c834303/v834303445/17f899/IsmJyoPWevg.jpg


Not sure what happened there.  It's not entirely improbable that you would mine 3 or 4 blocks in a row.  What I believe would be a somewhat likely explanation: you found a block that was not the best solution (this happens frequently with alternate chains on any blockchain), but was still valid. It follows that there would be a succession of blocks thereafter that were correct solutions but not optimal ones.  When that occurs, the other miners can be mining on a separate chain from you, until the nodes reach a consensus as to the best proof submitted for work completed (blocks solved). The longer chain prevails, and multiple chains can exist simultaneously before one chain shows itself to be longer, and the network agrees.

This is the exact reason that I increased the # of blocks before a mined reward can be spent.  If it were lower than 25... there would be issues.  I've been contemplating raising it even further as a buffer. Hope that all helps.
When will the stratum be?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 06, 2018, 07:44:29 AM
any news?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 06, 2018, 11:34:09 AM
Site is down?!?!/  :-[


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Nightz on July 06, 2018, 06:58:17 PM
Hm, what's the novel thing here? We already got a lot of CPU-only coins lately, snowblossom, Deft...

Any real-world usecase you are targeting that would make the coin interesting to non-miners to buy and hold?

This is a cpu-only variant of the cryptonight algorithm.  RingCT signatures on a cpu-only coin are only implemented by NERVA, aside from this project.  Cryptonote coins lack that aspect of design, otherwise.

so in short no real world use case at the moment. just another variant of altcoin. without actual usage most of the time, an altcoin will just fall in the trading.
and without strong community backing that coin, this is too easy to die.
unless the dev team has other plans as ive seen so many reserved posts here?!

Well, what's XMR's use-case?  Monero's design has failed in terms of decentralization.  So has bitcoin's.  Solving a previously unsolved problem is hardly the way superior technology comes to dominate a market.  Rather, a superior solution comes along to disrupt a previous solution, and makes it inferior (usually based on design or expansion of capabilities in solving future problems).  

That devil's advocacy aside... Yes, there are bigger plans and your reserved post observation is an astute one.

You consider Monero a failed design? The market has spoken so far and entrusts networks like Bitcoin and Monero with hundreds of billions of dollars. Even if it's CPU only, what if the tech giant fire up their warehouses full of hardware and mine with that? Fully preventing centralization from happening is probably impossible to do.




I didn't say they were "failed designs".  In my opinion, they failed to reach their goal of a scaled and truly decentralized network.  All one has to do is look at what's happened with pooling to see that.  I mean, look at the distribution over the past few days from MineXMR.com  (https://www.minexmr.com/pools.html).  Does that look like a decentralized network to you?

Moreover, a community rallying behind something does not mean that it is fulfilling its initial design goal... much less, hundreds of billions of dollars hasn't anything to do with decentralized architecture.  Usually, that kind of valuation is an indication of the opposite (cartels and market power). I'd even bet that they're correlated on a near 1.0 R-squared relationship.  To quote Vitalik Buterin... "proof of work necessarily operates on a logic of massive power incentivized into existence by massive rewards".  Centralization is the only way that this can occur.  I agree with you that fully preventing centralization is probably impossible.  But that doesn't mean that we should repeat the mistakes that have been revealed to be clear and burdensome design flaws (...that constantly need adjusted to keep attack area manageable).


In this technological environment I wouldn't be surprised if after just a few years a seemingly nicely decentralized architecture could converge to centralization due to new technology. If a network becomes worth more over time the incentive to come with something up to take control of it also grows. Interesting game theory here! :)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Yeuph on July 06, 2018, 07:14:59 PM
What's the difference between this coin and the one it's forked from (Nerva)?  Someone correct me but the only thing I can see so far is that this coin has a premine whereas Nerva didn't.

If you have 2 coins that are essentially exactly the same - because Blur's code is Nerva copypasta - why not pick the original coin without a premine instead of the copycat *with* a premine?

If there is actually anything new here and it's not just a really shitty coder copying someone else's work and selling it to stupid people so he can dump his premine I'll dedicate a few Ryzens to mining it.

So, what's the difference?

Biggest differences are emission speed is (20) - that's an exponent - and total supply is cut in half vs Monero's 18.4M (9.2233M).... those variables are present in the equation (Block Reward)=((9223300000000000000)-(Available Supply)*10^12)*2^-20*10^-12).

The values in Nervas code are 18 (a good bit faster) and 18.4M, respectively. You're mistaken about the pre-mine as well -- that is present in both projects.



OK, cool.  So you're right about the premine.  It was months ago that I read the Nerva announcement and I jumbled that information with another coin, so apologies.

You didn't delete my somewhat negative comment so kudos to you.  That was half of my test to see if you were legit (in my eyes).

So currently at least you feel the major - and perhaps only difference - between Nerva and Blur is the block rewards as neither your project nor Nerva have mentioned other focuses yet (which is fine, getting a truly CPU-bound algorithm down is enough to put someone into top 50 CMC after a few years).  I'll add a little hashpower to your network, though I am still *more* interested in Nerva but I am open to having you change my mind.

I would like to bring up that I am a part of the Guardian team and we just released our beta escrow platform.  It is the first piece of software we released in our ecosystem.  Over the next 12 months we're going to be releasing a rather astounding suite of programs designed to prevent fraud in cryptocurrency.  Safe P2P transactions is one of several dozen areas we are targeting.  I don't want to get into *too* much more detail until our whitepaper comes out in a few days but that's the general gist of things.

Anyway currently listing on our platform is cheap as it's a beta release (thoroughly bug tested, it's safe) and we are trying to build our userbase and awareness of our product.  Trading using our platform is also cheaper than using exchanges as we only charge the blockchain transaction fee after initial listing.  One of our beginning goals with the escrow platform is to provide coins with limited exchange access a way to safely trade/sell their coins.  Listing cost is 1000 GDNC which comes out to about 150 USD.  As our full suite of software starts coming out and the scope of Guardian is recognized we are hoping to be the tide that lifts some other smaller but *extremely* valuable projects.  I am currently working to list Nerva and I believe having Blur on the platform would be beneficial too.

If you're interested in discussing it further let me know, send me a PM.  If you like you can look at our escrow platform:

https://escrow.guardiancoin.online/



Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 07, 2018, 07:33:02 PM
What's the difference between this coin and the one it's forked from (Nerva)?  Someone correct me but the only thing I can see so far is that this coin has a premine whereas Nerva didn't.

If you have 2 coins that are essentially exactly the same - because Blur's code is Nerva copypasta - why not pick the original coin without a premine instead of the copycat *with* a premine?

If there is actually anything new here and it's not just a really shitty coder copying someone else's work and selling it to stupid people so he can dump his premine I'll dedicate a few Ryzens to mining it.

So, what's the difference?

Biggest differences are emission speed is (20) - that's an exponent - and total supply is cut in half vs Monero's 18.4M (9.2233M).... those variables are present in the equation (Block Reward)=((9223300000000000000)-(Available Supply)*10^12)*2^-20*10^-12).

The values in Nervas code are 18 (a good bit faster) and 18.4M, respectively. You're mistaken about the pre-mine as well -- that is present in both projects.



OK, cool.  So you're right about the premine.  It was months ago that I read the Nerva announcement and I jumbled that information with another coin, so apologies.

You didn't delete my somewhat negative comment so kudos to you.  That was half of my test to see if you were legit (in my eyes).

So currently at least you feel the major - and perhaps only difference - between Nerva and Blur is the block rewards as neither your project nor Nerva have mentioned other focuses yet (which is fine, getting a truly CPU-bound algorithm down is enough to put someone into top 50 CMC after a few years).  I'll add a little hashpower to your network, though I am still *more* interested in Nerva but I am open to having you change my mind.

I would like to bring up that I am a part of the Guardian team and we just released our beta escrow platform.  It is the first piece of software we released in our ecosystem.  Over the next 12 months we're going to be releasing a rather astounding suite of programs designed to prevent fraud in cryptocurrency.  Safe P2P transactions is one of several dozen areas we are targeting.  I don't want to get into *too* much more detail until our whitepaper comes out in a few days but that's the general gist of things.

Anyway currently listing on our platform is cheap as it's a beta release (thoroughly bug tested, it's safe) and we are trying to build our userbase and awareness of our product.  Trading using our platform is also cheaper than using exchanges as we only charge the blockchain transaction fee after initial listing.  One of our beginning goals with the escrow platform is to provide coins with limited exchange access a way to safely trade/sell their coins.  Listing cost is 1000 GDNC which comes out to about 150 USD.  As our full suite of software starts coming out and the scope of Guardian is recognized we are hoping to be the tide that lifts some other smaller but *extremely* valuable projects.  I am currently working to list Nerva and I believe having Blur on the platform would be beneficial too.

If you're interested in discussing it further let me know, send me a PM.  If you like you can look at our escrow platform:

https://escrow.guardiancoin.online/




No worries at all — I won’t ever bash or shy away from questions that have their root in critical reasoning and/or fundamental analysis. In my opinion, criticisms and competition are the main driving forces  that make a project or idea better. If it hasn’t been challenged, an idea has no basis to stand upon. On that point, small things like total supply and emission can make or break a project. Being perfectly honest, I didn’t see a way to go about changing metrics like that without forking into a new coin. My goal here is to be as transparent as humanly possible while obscuring the areas that necessitate such a “blur”. Transparency and privacy in the selective areas that benefit our userbase and network the most. A longer term goal is increasing ease of use (particularly with mining) for those who aren’t quite so tech savvy. Needless to say, that’s a bit far from where we’re at currently.  

I’ll follow up via Discord, since I just saw your message.

Haven’t heard of Guardian before so I’ll have sift through what information I can when I get a bit of free time. Always great to meet others who enjoy building things.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 08, 2018, 12:40:57 AM
Roadmap:
Quote
July 2018
Exchange Listing(s)
Brave claim
Given that the coin still can not normally be recovered.

At what stage will the working version of the stratum be available?
I can not make a coin without a pool.
My servers issue 100-200 hashes, while the ryzen in people under 2000

No one except you and your premine had time to get the coins, and you were already going to the stock exchange to go out!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: cyberspacemonkey on July 08, 2018, 07:25:20 AM
This coin is not even a month old and there are already problems and accusations being thrown around, not a good start I must say although the main dev seems responsive and active.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 08, 2018, 10:31:26 AM
Roadmap:
Quote
July 2018
Exchange Listing(s)
Brave claim
Given that the coin still can not normally be recovered.

At what stage will the working version of the stratum be available?
I can not make a coin without a pool.
My servers issue 100-200 hashes, while the ryzen in people under 2000

No one except you and your premine had time to get the coins, and you were already going to the stock exchange to go out!

I'm not sure what you're taking issue with, here.  Given a long enough time mining, you'll have actually a greater chance of mining coins.  With pools you would need to contribute a share greater than the pool difficulty.  That's very unlikely if you're hashing 200 vs a pool of 2000s.  Luck is fair.  Diluting hashes to give fractions of coins while a pool operator takes commission, is not. 

The lesser of the two evils here results in A.) You receiving more coins.  B.) No single operator being able to launch a 51% attack and you potentially suffer a loss in an outright theft of coins.



Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: NIKOLAY_TETUS on July 08, 2018, 11:27:25 AM
Roadmap:
Quote
July 2018
Exchange Listing(s)
Brave claim
Given that the coin still can not normally be recovered.

At what stage will the working version of the stratum be available?
I can not make a coin without a pool.
My servers issue 100-200 hashes, while the ryzen in people under 2000

No one except you and your premine had time to get the coins, and you were already going to the stock exchange to go out!

I'm not sure what you're taking issue with, here.  Given a long enough time mining, you'll have actually a greater chance of mining coins.  With pools you would need to contribute a share greater than the pool difficulty.  That's very unlikely if you're hashing 200 vs a pool of 2000s.  Luck is fair.  Diluting hashes to give fractions of coins while a pool operator takes commission, is not. 

The lesser of the two evils here results in A.) You receiving more coins.  B.) No single operator being able to launch a 51% attack and you potentially suffer a loss in an outright theft of coins.


Im mine about 24 hours with 1kh/s and did not guess a any block, why? And algorithm was not good because coin was mine only hi-end equipment.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 08, 2018, 06:21:20 PM
Roadmap:
Quote
July 2018
Exchange Listing(s)
Brave claim
Given that the coin still can not normally be recovered.

At what stage will the working version of the stratum be available?
I can not make a coin without a pool.
My servers issue 100-200 hashes, while the ryzen in people under 2000

No one except you and your premine had time to get the coins, and you were already going to the stock exchange to go out!

I'm not sure what you're taking issue with, here.  Given a long enough time mining, you'll have actually a greater chance of mining coins.  With pools you would need to contribute a share greater than the pool difficulty.  That's very unlikely if you're hashing 200 vs a pool of 2000s.  Luck is fair.  Diluting hashes to give fractions of coins while a pool operator takes commission, is not. 

The lesser of the two evils here results in A.) You receiving more coins.  B.) No single operator being able to launch a 51% attack and you potentially suffer a loss in an outright theft of coins.


Im mine about 24 hours with 1kh/s and did not guess a any block, why? And algorithm was not good because coin was mine only hi-end equipment.


You can calculate how long it will take you to mine a block by looking at the nethash, difficulty, and your own hashrate.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 09, 2018, 09:08:39 AM

New binaries have been released for Blur v0.1.6 'Amorphous Glare'


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 09, 2018, 09:45:32 AM

New binaries have been released for Blur v0.1.6 'Amorphous Glare'

What's new? Do I need to update?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Callanta787 on July 10, 2018, 03:42:36 AM
Don't know whether to start mining or not,problems at lunch


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Somz1 on July 10, 2018, 03:52:16 AM
The asic, GPU resistance feature looks great but how much does a person mine on an old system?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 10, 2018, 04:36:16 AM
The asic, GPU resistance feature looks great but how much does a person mine on an old system?

I failed to get a single block on AMD FX6300, although h/s is not bad

I do not want to make a pool - I'm talking about some kind of decentralization, although the network capacity is unrealistically high - it's unclear what it supports. either himself on the GPU and ASIC

I do not exclude the possibility that the developer produces coins (supports the network) on the GPU
Too much power of the network, given that the coin was just launched.

============================================

nethash: ~350 kH/s
Prior to this, netnash was 550-600 kH/s
1 ryzen 1700 get - 3 kH/s
I do not think that the developer has 150 hi-end ryzen machines.
Most likely there is somewhere there is a GPU miner





Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Gabriellla on July 10, 2018, 10:06:09 AM
long-term project with a promising concept. has a goal to provide convenience and maximum results for the use of platforms. but it takes more effort and promotion to make this project successful and get lots of investors. I hope the development team can get it right.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 10, 2018, 08:13:24 PM
The asic, GPU resistance feature looks great but how much does a person mine on an old system?

I failed to get a single block on AMD FX6300, although h/s is not bad

I do not want to make a pool - I'm talking about some kind of decentralization, although the network capacity is unrealistically high - it's unclear what it supports. either himself on the GPU and ASIC

I do not exclude the possibility that the developer produces coins (supports the network) on the GPU
Too much power of the network, given that the coin was just launched.

============================================

nethash: ~350 kH/s
Prior to this, netnash was 550-600 kH/s
1 ryzen 1700 get - 3 kH/s
I do not think that the developer has 150 hi-end ryzen machines.
Most likely there is somewhere there is a GPU miner







You're incorrect, there.  I don't mine the currency myself, at all, apart from testing purposes.  I simply run the seed nodes with no mining in the background even.  There is a donate option, should you decide to put any of your HR toward my development fund... However, the donate option is disabled by default...

The reason you are finding less blocks can be due to "luck" which is a component of randomness, or the fact that in any blockchain, the easiest to mine blocks are mined first.  As the network progresses, blocks become increasingly difficult to solve, on average.  With a similar hashrate on an i7-7700HQ, I have seen similar results on occasion.  It really does vary a bit.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Nightz on July 10, 2018, 08:38:03 PM
The asic, GPU resistance feature looks great but how much does a person mine on an old system?

I failed to get a single block on AMD FX6300, although h/s is not bad

I do not want to make a pool - I'm talking about some kind of decentralization, although the network capacity is unrealistically high - it's unclear what it supports. either himself on the GPU and ASIC

I do not exclude the possibility that the developer produces coins (supports the network) on the GPU
Too much power of the network, given that the coin was just launched.

============================================

nethash: ~350 kH/s
Prior to this, netnash was 550-600 kH/s
1 ryzen 1700 get - 3 kH/s
I do not think that the developer has 150 hi-end ryzen machines.
Most likely there is somewhere there is a GPU miner







You're incorrect, there.  I don't mine the currency myself, at all, apart from testing purposes.  I simply run the seed nodes with no mining in the background even.  There is a donate option, should you decide to put any of your HR toward my development fund... However, the donate option is disabled by default...

The reason you are finding less blocks can be due to "luck" which is a component of randomness, or the fact that in any blockchain, the easiest to mine blocks are mined first.  As the network progresses, blocks become increasingly difficult to solve, on average.  With a similar hashrate on an i7-7700HQ, I have seen similar results on occasion.  It really does vary a bit.

It can be unlock, but as with most other coins that get launched by an unknown person the launch has been well prepared in advance and hardware has been set up to get an advantage. That is how it usually works and we all know it.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 10, 2018, 10:21:53 PM
The asic, GPU resistance feature looks great but how much does a person mine on an old system?

I failed to get a single block on AMD FX6300, although h/s is not bad

I do not want to make a pool - I'm talking about some kind of decentralization, although the network capacity is unrealistically high - it's unclear what it supports. either himself on the GPU and ASIC

I do not exclude the possibility that the developer produces coins (supports the network) on the GPU
Too much power of the network, given that the coin was just launched.

============================================

nethash: ~350 kH/s
Prior to this, netnash was 550-600 kH/s
1 ryzen 1700 get - 3 kH/s
I do not think that the developer has 150 hi-end ryzen machines.
Most likely there is somewhere there is a GPU miner







You're incorrect, there.  I don't mine the currency myself, at all, apart from testing purposes.  I simply run the seed nodes with no mining in the background even.  There is a donate option, should you decide to put any of your HR toward my development fund... However, the donate option is disabled by default...

The reason you are finding less blocks can be due to "luck" which is a component of randomness, or the fact that in any blockchain, the easiest to mine blocks are mined first.  As the network progresses, blocks become increasingly difficult to solve, on average.  With a similar hashrate on an i7-7700HQ, I have seen similar results on occasion.  It really does vary a bit.

It can be unlock, but as with most other coins that get launched by an unknown person the launch has been well prepared in advance and hardware has been set up to get an advantage. That is how it usually works and we all know it.

If you join my Discord server (or Telegram), I'm very transparent about being the sole individual behind this project.  I think that your opinion there is a gross generalization, as well as an inaccurate one.  If you believe that decentralized platforms are rigged to that extent, I'm not sure why you participate in supporting any network that would have practices such as those.  I wouldn't.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 11, 2018, 07:34:21 AM
What's new in the new version of the wallet?
Why is it only for Linux?
What does the mark on the 20000 checkpoint give?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Nightz on July 11, 2018, 01:40:08 PM
The asic, GPU resistance feature looks great but how much does a person mine on an old system?

I failed to get a single block on AMD FX6300, although h/s is not bad

I do not want to make a pool - I'm talking about some kind of decentralization, although the network capacity is unrealistically high - it's unclear what it supports. either himself on the GPU and ASIC

I do not exclude the possibility that the developer produces coins (supports the network) on the GPU
Too much power of the network, given that the coin was just launched.

============================================

nethash: ~350 kH/s
Prior to this, netnash was 550-600 kH/s
1 ryzen 1700 get - 3 kH/s
I do not think that the developer has 150 hi-end ryzen machines.
Most likely there is somewhere there is a GPU miner







You're incorrect, there.  I don't mine the currency myself, at all, apart from testing purposes.  I simply run the seed nodes with no mining in the background even.  There is a donate option, should you decide to put any of your HR toward my development fund... However, the donate option is disabled by default...

The reason you are finding less blocks can be due to "luck" which is a component of randomness, or the fact that in any blockchain, the easiest to mine blocks are mined first.  As the network progresses, blocks become increasingly difficult to solve, on average.  With a similar hashrate on an i7-7700HQ, I have seen similar results on occasion.  It really does vary a bit.

It can be unlock, but as with most other coins that get launched by an unknown person the launch has been well prepared in advance and hardware has been set up to get an advantage. That is how it usually works and we all know it.

If you join my Discord server (or Telegram), I'm very transparent about being the sole individual behind this project.  I think that your opinion there is a gross generalization, as well as an inaccurate one.  If you believe that decentralized platforms are rigged to that extent, I'm not sure why you participate in supporting any network that would have practices such as those.  I wouldn't.

Isn't it right to say that 99% of "decentralized" platforms are rigged due to some premine, instamine or shady initial distribution?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 11, 2018, 06:08:35 PM
The asic, GPU resistance feature looks great but how much does a person mine on an old system?

I failed to get a single block on AMD FX6300, although h/s is not bad

I do not want to make a pool - I'm talking about some kind of decentralization, although the network capacity is unrealistically high - it's unclear what it supports. either himself on the GPU and ASIC

I do not exclude the possibility that the developer produces coins (supports the network) on the GPU
Too much power of the network, given that the coin was just launched.

============================================

nethash: ~350 kH/s
Prior to this, netnash was 550-600 kH/s
1 ryzen 1700 get - 3 kH/s
I do not think that the developer has 150 hi-end ryzen machines.
Most likely there is somewhere there is a GPU miner







You're incorrect, there.  I don't mine the currency myself, at all, apart from testing purposes.  I simply run the seed nodes with no mining in the background even.  There is a donate option, should you decide to put any of your HR toward my development fund... However, the donate option is disabled by default...

The reason you are finding less blocks can be due to "luck" which is a component of randomness, or the fact that in any blockchain, the easiest to mine blocks are mined first.  As the network progresses, blocks become increasingly difficult to solve, on average.  With a similar hashrate on an i7-7700HQ, I have seen similar results on occasion.  It really does vary a bit.

It can be unlock, but as with most other coins that get launched by an unknown person the launch has been well prepared in advance and hardware has been set up to get an advantage. That is how it usually works and we all know it.

If you join my Discord server (or Telegram), I'm very transparent about being the sole individual behind this project.  I think that your opinion there is a gross generalization, as well as an inaccurate one.  If you believe that decentralized platforms are rigged to that extent, I'm not sure why you participate in supporting any network that would have practices such as those.  I wouldn't.

Isn't it right to say that 99% of "decentralized" platforms are rigged due to some premine, instamine or shady initial distribution?


What you referred to in your first post was a hidden design vulnerability hardcoded into a project.... that’s quite a different thing than a transparent and verifiable pre-mine, altogether. The wall of disinformation and deceit is the point of my contention with your first notion.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: cyberspacemonkey on July 12, 2018, 03:40:05 AM
Have there been any benchmarks on the kind of performance we should expect on CPUs like for an AMD Ryzen for example?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 12, 2018, 03:56:09 AM
Have there been any benchmarks on the kind of performance we should expect on CPUs like for an AMD Ryzen for example?

2.5 - 4 kH/s
Depending on the AGESA, memory speed and cores.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: cyberspacemonkey on July 12, 2018, 07:38:39 AM
Have there been any benchmarks on the kind of performance we should expect on CPUs like for an AMD Ryzen for example?

2.5 - 4 kH/s
Depending on the AGESA, memory speed and cores.



Thanks, I'm going to have to give it a try I have about 5 machines with a Ryzen sitting idle just using them for GPU mining but it's time to put the CPUs to work also.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: kostepanych2 on July 12, 2018, 01:17:31 PM
Can't start daemon in Linux. Get an error:
Code:
/blur-v0.1.6-linux-x86_64$ ./blurd
./blurd: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by ./blurd)
How to fix that?

And Windows daemon not sync:
Code:
2018-07-12 12:57:05.342 [P2P8]  INFO    net.p2p src/p2p/net_node.inl:918
[0.0.0.0:0 OUT] [priority]Connect failed to 178.128.186.101:14894
2018-07-12 12:57:12.578 [P2P8]  INFO    net.p2p src/p2p/net_node.inl:918
[0.0.0.0:0 OUT] [priority]Connect failed to 178.128.191.245:14894


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 12, 2018, 01:53:59 PM
Can't start daemon in Linux. Get an error:
Code:
/blur-v0.1.6-linux-x86_64$ ./blurd
./blurd: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by ./blurd)
How to fix that?

Well this error is because you’re missing the GLIBC_2.25 version of the libc6-dev package. I’ve seen that error before with those who have tried to run the binaries on Ubuntu 16.04, as it does not support that version of the package. To get around it, I would recommend downloading 17.10 or speaking with one of the other community members who have compiled a version for 16.04... I believe someone posted a link in the Telegram. Because it’s something that has been asked a few times, I’ll incorporate those changes for the next release.

And Windows daemon not sync:
Code:
2018-07-12 12:57:05.342 [P2P8]  INFO    net.p2p src/p2p/net_node.inl:918
[0.0.0.0:0 OUT] [priority]Connect failed to 178.128.186.101:14894
2018-07-12 12:57:12.578 [P2P8]  INFO    net.p2p src/p2p/net_node.inl:918
[0.0.0.0:0 OUT] [priority]Connect failed to 178.128.191.245:14894

For this error, I’m not sure what is wrong with your daemon. Being honest, it’s more likely your firewall not allowing through connections in private networks. That checkbox needs checked when you get the pop-up from the Firewall on Windows. If that’s not the issue, please join our Discord or Telegram and I can troubleshoot with you.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Paulc2011 on July 12, 2018, 04:40:55 PM
how long to sync deamon. all i see is ?[0m

sync_info
Height: 1, target: 1 (100%)
Downloading at 0 kB/s
0 peers
0 spans, 0 MB

 and this

try to mine it said deamon too busy
 
states this on wallet
[wallet bL3epw]: status
Refreshed 1/1, synced, daemon RPC v1.19
[wallet bL3epw]: start_mining 8
Error: mining has NOT been started: daemon is busy. Please try again later.
[wallet bL3epw]:

and this on deamon

status
Height: 1/1 (100.0%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 0 H/s, v1, up to date, 0(out)+0(in) connections, uptime 0d 0h 9m 0s


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: crytotronik on July 12, 2018, 11:29:35 PM
Quote
Height: 1/1 (100.0%) on mainnet

Dont know whats wrong, but 1/1 blocks cant be correct. My deamon:

Height: 31941/31941 (100.0%) on mainnet, mining at 1.77 kH/s, net hash 285.42 kH/s, v6, up to date, 2(out)+19(in) connections, uptime 4d 2h 35m 44s



Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 13, 2018, 04:56:26 AM
I'm constantly desynchronized.
My wallet falls behind the current block and production ceases.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 13, 2018, 06:05:52 AM
how long to sync deamon. all i see is ?[0m

sync_info
Height: 1, target: 1 (100%)
Downloading at 0 kB/s
0 peers
0 spans, 0 MB

 and this

try to mine it said deamon too busy
 
states this on wallet
[wallet bL3epw]: status
Refreshed 1/1, synced, daemon RPC v1.19
[wallet bL3epw]: start_mining 8
Error: mining has NOT been started: daemon is busy. Please try again later.
[wallet bL3epw]:

and this on deamon

status
Height: 1/1 (100.0%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 0 H/s, v1, up to date, 0(out)+0(in) connections, uptime 0d 0h 9m 0s

This error simply means that your wallet isn't synced.  If you are failing to sync, please manually add the `--seed-node` command to the CLI when you `./blurd`.

That should fetch the peerlists for synchronization.


I'm constantly desynchronized.
My wallet falls behind the current block and production ceases.

This issue can be fixed by the exact same procedure. 


Title: Re: [ANN] The Blur Network (BLUR) - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: chengyz on July 13, 2018, 09:01:55 AM
how long to sync deamon. all i see is ?[0m

sync_info
Height: 1, target: 1 (100%)
Downloading at 0 kB/s
0 peers
0 spans, 0 MB

 and this

try to mine it said deamon too busy
 
states this on wallet
[wallet bL3epw]: status
Refreshed 1/1, synced, daemon RPC v1.19
[wallet bL3epw]: start_mining 8
Error: mining has NOT been started: daemon is busy. Please try again later.
[wallet bL3epw]:

and this on deamon .
only linux? not windows? my windows

status
Height: 1/1 (100.0%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 0 H/s, v1, up to date, 0(out)+0(in) connections, uptime 0d 0h 9m 0s

This error simply means that your wallet isn't synced.  If you are failing to sync, please manually add the `--seed-node` command to the CLI when you `./blurd`.

That should fetch the peerlists for synchronization.


I'm constantly desynchronized.
My wallet falls behind the current block and production ceases.

This issue can be fixed by the exact same procedure. 




my deamon  is height 1,and i do it :blurd.exe --add-exclusive-node 178.128.191.245:14894 --add-exclusive-node 178.128.178.247:14894 --add-exclusive-node 178.128.180.136:14894 --add-exclusive-node 159.65.100.25:14894

but the deamon :status
Height: 1/1 (100.0%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 0 H/s, v1, up to date, 0(out)+0(in) connections, uptime 0d 0h 3m 28s


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: crytotronik on July 13, 2018, 03:56:42 PM
Nethash is dropping massive. Whats going on? Well...good for me to find more blocks, but I'm afraid to be the "last miner standing" soon.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 13, 2018, 04:08:43 PM
Nethash is dropping massive. Whats going on? Well...good for me to find more blocks, but I'm afraid to be the "last miner standing" soon.
Arrrrr
Capture the network!
yo ho ho!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: crytotronik on July 13, 2018, 05:07:37 PM
Nethash is dropping massive. Whats going on? Well...good for me to find more blocks, but I'm afraid to be the "last miner standing" soon.
Arrrrr
Capture the network!
yo ho ho!

Edit:

After I restarted the daemon+wallet, all is backk to normal. And all blocks I found were not accepted.

Nkay... this was to good to be real.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 13, 2018, 07:12:03 PM
Nethash is dropping massive. Whats going on? Well...good for me to find more blocks, but I'm afraid to be the "last miner standing" soon.
Arrrrr
Capture the network!
yo ho ho!

Edit:

After I restarted the daemon+wallet, all is backk to normal. And all blocks I found were not accepted.

Nkay... this was to good to be real.

I had the same thing.
Because of the out-of-sync, you created a separate branch of the block.
But since your power was less than the power of the network, the blockade rejected your branch.
Use the new version of the wallet - there are more nodes and less probability of out of sync


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: mixelalex on July 13, 2018, 07:15:48 PM
Greetings! Could you tell me when should I wait the wallet update for Windows and IOS?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 14, 2018, 09:18:23 AM
You created too complicated and not perfect coin. She has too many minuses and all the same ones that were in the NERVA.
Looking at the power of the network now it is powerful to say boldly that the coin is dead.

If it is not so, then persuade me.
But all the above arguments of the developer could not convince me that this is 100% clone NERVACOIN


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Spooknow on July 14, 2018, 09:39:14 AM
Greetings! Could you tell me when should I wait the wallet update for Windows and IOS?

I do not really understand why it is needed at this stage of development. The team needs to concentrate entirely on the other.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 15, 2018, 02:06:18 AM
You created too complicated and not perfect coin. She has too many minuses and all the same ones that were in the NERVA.
Looking at the power of the network now it is powerful to say boldly that the coin is dead.

If it is not so, then persuade me.
But all the above arguments of the developer could not convince me that this is 100% clone NERVACOIN

There are quite a few differences from NERVA. Those will grow over time. Very simple solution for you: take your hashpower and time elsewhere.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 15, 2018, 02:24:26 AM
Greetings! Could you tell me when should I wait the wallet update for Windows and IOS?


An update for the Windows wallet being compiled as I write this. Update for Linux will also  be released this evening. iOS is not an area I’m concerned with currently. However, if you check the Roadmap on the website, you will see that a Progressive Web App wallet is in the works for the next quarter of 2018. That app will resemble the presentation of the Elastos Web Wallet (https://wallet.elastos.org) and will be cross-platform.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 15, 2018, 05:00:36 AM
The new executables have been released for Both Windows and Linux. Please go to the releases page on Github (http://"https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases") to update to the new v0.1.6.1 wallet.  


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 15, 2018, 10:55:27 AM
Please post here if anyone experiences issues or feel free to send a message via our Discord server and I will be happy to troubleshoot until your client is running!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: liangpodol on July 15, 2018, 11:35:49 AM
Did you know bitcoin was not originally able to be mined on GPUs? Software adapted GPUs for that purpose. Then FPGAs, ASICs, and eventually cloud mining became possible. Blurnetwork is GPU/ASIC-resistant & pool-incompatible.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: thang long on July 15, 2018, 04:17:32 PM
Nice thing you have here. I stand behind your idea so far.

I am a mining newbie, but on windows this was easy to set up (still dont know how to create a daemon through my terminal in linux).
Even mined some coins already, luck I guess.

Say; how do I send coins from that wallet? Or dont I and should i just wait for a gui wallet and set that up with the seed/ pvt keyb from my mining wallet?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 15, 2018, 09:42:04 PM
Nice thing you have here. I stand behind your idea so far.

I am a mining newbie, but on windows this was easy to set up (still dont know how to create a daemon through my terminal in linux).
Even mined some coins already, luck I guess.

Say; how do I send coins from that wallet? Or dont I and should i just wait for a gui wallet and set that up with the seed/ pvt keyb from my mining wallet?



You can send coins with the 'transfer' command... you can type "help" into the wallet and it outputs the following list of commands, syntax, etc..

Code:
Commands: 
  account
    account new <label text with white spaces allowed>
    account switch <index>
    account label <index> <label text with white spaces allowed>
    account tag <tag_name> <account_index_1> [<account_index_2> ...]
    account untag <account_index_1> [<account_index_2> ...]
    account tag_description <tag_name> <description>
  address [ new <label text with white spaces allowed> | all | <index_min> [<index_max>] | label <index> <label text with white spaces allowed>]
  address_book [(add ((<address> [pid <id>])|<integrated address>) [<description possibly with whitespaces>])|(delete <index>)]
  balance [detail]
  bc_height
  blackball <output public key> | <filename> [add]
  blackballed <output public key>
  check_reserve_proof <address> <signature_file> [<message>]
  check_spend_proof <txid> <signature_file> [<message>]
  check_tx_key <txid> <txkey> <address>
  check_tx_proof <txid> <address> <signature_file> [<message>]
  donate [index=<N1>[,<N2>,...]] [<priority>] <amount> [<payment_id>]
  encrypted_seed
  export_key_images <file>
  export_multisig_info <filename>
  export_outputs <file>
  export_raw_multisig_tx <filename>
  fee
  finalize_multisig <string> [<string>...]
  get_description
  get_reserve_proof (all|<amount>) [<message>]
  get_spend_proof <txid> [<message>]
  get_tx_key <txid>
  get_tx_note <txid>
  get_tx_proof <txid> <address> [<message>]
  help [<command>]
  import_key_images <file>
  import_multisig_info <filename> [<filename>...]
  import_outputs <file>
  incoming_transfers [available|unavailable] [verbose] [index=<N1>[,<N2>[,...]]]
  integrated_address [<payment_id> | <address>]
  locked_transfer [index=<N1>[,<N2>,...]] [<priority>] <addr> <amount> <lockblocks> [<payment_id>]
  make_multisig <threshold> <string1> [<string>...]
  password
  payment_id
  payments <PID_1> [<PID_2> ... <PID_N>]
  prepare_multisig
  print_ring <key_image> | <txid>
  refresh
  rescan_bc
  rescan_spent
  save
  save_bc
  save_known_rings
  save_watch_only
  seed
  set <option> [<value>]
  set_daemon <host>[:<port>]
  set_description [free text note]
  set_log <level>|{+,-,}<categories>
  set_ring <key_image> absolute|relative <index> [<index>...]
  set_tx_note <txid> [free text note]
  show_transfer <txid>
  show_transfers [in|out|pending|failed|pool] [index=<N1>[,<N2>,...]] [<min_height> [<max_height>]]
  sign <file>
  sign_multisig <filename>
  sign_transfer <file>
  spendkey
  start_mining [<number_of_threads>] [bg_mining] [ignore_battery]
  status
  stop_mining
  submit_multisig <filename>
  submit_transfer
  sweep_all [index=<N1>[,<N2>,...]] [<priority>] <address> [<payment_id>]
  sweep_below <amount_threshold> [index=<N1>[,<N2>,...]] [<priority>] <address> [<payment_id>]
  sweep_single [<priority>] <key_image> <address> [<payment_id>]
  transfer [index=<N1>[,<N2>,...]] [<priority>] <address> <amount> [<payment_id>]
  unblackball <output public key>
  unspent_outputs [index=<N1>[,<N2>,...]] [<min_amount> [<max_amount>]]
  verify <filename> <address> <signature>
  viewkey
  wallet_info


Specifically, this is the command you want:

Code:
 transfer [index=<N1>[,<N2>,...]] [<priority>] <address> <amount> [<payment_id>]


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: rilee0418 on July 16, 2018, 02:56:35 AM
Dear Sir,

Why some of my coin is disappear since I update the daemon?
Pls help and get back my coin.

Original:
2018-07-13 08:13:54.554   3228   INFO    msgwriter   src/common/scoped_message_writer.h:102   Tag: (No tag assigned)
2018-07-13 08:13:54.554   3228   INFO    msgwriter   src/common/scoped_message_writer.h:102   Balance: 77868.327366882386, unlocked balance: 77671.516899750382

after Update:
2018-07-16 02:07:56.397   2952   INFO    msgwriter   src/common/scoped_message_writer.h:102   Tag: (No tag assigned)
2018-07-16 02:07:56.397   2952   INFO    msgwriter   src/common/scoped_message_writer.h:102   Balance: 139.963178255690, unlocked balance: 139.963178255690



Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 16, 2018, 04:20:56 AM
Dear Sir,

Why some of my coin is disappear since I update the daemon?
Pls help and get back my coin.

Original:
2018-07-13 08:13:54.554   3228   INFO    msgwriter   src/common/scoped_message_writer.h:102   Tag: (No tag assigned)
2018-07-13 08:13:54.554   3228   INFO    msgwriter   src/common/scoped_message_writer.h:102   Balance: 77868.327366882386, unlocked balance: 77671.516899750382

after Update:
2018-07-16 02:07:56.397   2952   INFO    msgwriter   src/common/scoped_message_writer.h:102   Tag: (No tag assigned)
2018-07-16 02:07:56.397   2952   INFO    msgwriter   src/common/scoped_message_writer.h:102   Balance: 139.963178255690, unlocked balance: 139.963178255690



80,000 BLUR is roughly 1/4 of the amount of blocks that have been emitted so far.  That's simply impossible. Sorry but you were mining on your own chain for quite some time.  As I've said before to others, please be attentive with your miners.  If you are mining every block and your miner doesnt have 100% of the network's hashpower, something is amiss in your configuration. You didn't "lose" coins.  You retained the amount that you mined.

Edit: I see by your posts that you have been trying this "I am owed money" strategy with Stellite, as well.  Move along.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 16, 2018, 05:04:48 AM
If you have not updated to the new v0.1.6.1 binaries please do so at https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: rilee0418 on July 16, 2018, 06:31:14 AM
In fact, he just disappeared. Last week, there were tens of thousands of coins.
You are cheating....Everyone Please be careful about this trap.

Detailed log record as below:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgGdWYAe_HXsg4scL3e-rrVNZ1_4Qg



[/quote]

80,000 BLUR is roughly 1/4 of the amount of blocks that have been emitted so far.  That's simply impossible. Sorry but you were mining on your own chain for quite some time.  As I've said before to others, please be attentive with your miners.  If you are mining every block and your miner doesnt have 100% of the network's hashpower, something is amiss in your configuration. You didn't "lose" coins.  You retained the amount that you mined.

Edit: I see by your posts that you have been trying this "I am owed money" strategy with Stellite, as well.  Move along.
[/quote]


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DogeInSheepsClothing on July 16, 2018, 02:05:26 PM
In fact, he just disappeared. Last week, there were tens of thousands of coins.
You are cheating....Everyone Please be careful about this trap.

Detailed log record as below:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgGdWYAe_HXsg4scL3e-rrVNZ1_4Qg





Your inability to understand what it means to be mining your own side-chain doesn't make this project a scam.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on July 16, 2018, 06:18:25 PM
In fact, he just disappeared. Last week, there were tens of thousands of coins.
You are cheating....Everyone Please be careful about this trap.

Detailed log record as below:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgGdWYAe_HXsg4scL3e-rrVNZ1_4Qg




80,000 BLUR is roughly 1/4 of the amount of blocks that have been emitted so far.  That's simply impossible. Sorry but you were mining on your own chain for quite some time.  As I've said before to others, please be attentive with your miners.  If you are mining every block and your miner doesnt have 100% of the network's hashpower, something is amiss in your configuration. You didn't "lose" coins.  You retained the amount that you mined.

Edit: I see by your posts that you have been trying this "I am owed money" strategy with Stellite, as well.  Move along.
[/quote]
[/quote]

It's blockchain ;)
Find you coin in explorer


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: mrp1994 on July 16, 2018, 06:21:55 PM
Hello. What is the vision of BLUR? And what is your uniqueness compared with others?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 16, 2018, 08:09:36 PM
In fact, he just disappeared. Last week, there were tens of thousands of coins.
You are cheating....Everyone Please be careful about this trap.

Detailed log record as below:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgGdWYAe_HXsg4scL3e-rrVNZ1_4Qg





Your inability to understand what it means to be mining your own side-chain doesn't make this project a scam.

Thank you, Doge  ;)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 17, 2018, 08:12:59 PM
Hello. What is the vision of BLUR? And what is your uniqueness compared with others?


Hi! The goal currently is to make mining (production of coins) accessible to PC owners once again.  Almost immediately, networks are overtaken by rigs, ASICs, and specialized software for pooling... Things that weren't yet invented, let alone planned for, with many earlier network models.  The Blur Network is hoping to solve that problem with attention to the fine details in metrics and mechanisms behind a solid project.  We believe this is of utmost importance -- if a chain cannot stay decentralized... privacy fails.  Worse still, the security of the network fails.  

We have some very cool announcements in store, for later implementations... But I'm going to hold my tongue on those for now.  Ensuring a solid network with lots of supporters running full nodes is our scope for right now.  If we can't build that, none of the rest will matter.

To get an idea of our plan, you can find our Official Roadmap here (https://blur.cash/wp-content/uploads/Roadmap.html).


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 17, 2018, 10:05:55 PM
Please check out our website to see The Blur Network's new logo and re-vamped website at https://blur.cash!!   ;D


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: thang long on July 18, 2018, 04:39:16 AM
Looking good!

Also interested to see what info you have.
Is there a way to buy this coin already? I have a gut feeling a few days already this could go big.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: bob891014 on July 18, 2018, 04:40:03 AM
Is net hash very low right now?? I mined a bunch of coin last night whats wrong?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: cyberspacemonkey on July 18, 2018, 05:19:30 AM
Is net hash very low right now?? I mined a bunch of coin last night whats wrong?


I've had that happen to me and it could be that either you got really lucky or you're mining on a forked chain, how many did you mine?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 18, 2018, 06:33:23 PM
Is net hash very low right now?? I mined a bunch of coin last night whats wrong?


I've had that happen to me and it could be that either you got really lucky or you're mining on a forked chain, how many did you mine?


This would be correct.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: apvito on July 18, 2018, 06:47:52 PM

when can you buy and sell?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: aizzaku on July 18, 2018, 07:06:46 PM
Okay for some reason i cannot sync. I added the nodes, tried the blockchain export also executed it using powershell as admin.
But apparently it just start a new chain or what.. height 1.
Code:
Height: 1/1 (100.0%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 0 H/s, v1, up to date, 0(out)+0(in) connections,

anyone got this and managed a work around?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 18, 2018, 08:39:19 PM
Okay for some reason i cannot sync. I added the nodes, tried the blockchain export also executed it using powershell as admin.
But apparently it just start a new chain or what.. height 1.
Code:
Height: 1/1 (100.0%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 0 H/s, v1, up to date, 0(out)+0(in) connections,

anyone got this and managed a work around?

That's your firewall.  Only time I've seen that issue is when I had forgotten to allow port 14894 through on one of my nodes. 


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 19, 2018, 01:06:35 AM

when can you buy and sell?

We've got some exchange listings coming up very soon.  Keep your eyes on this thread/our website for updates.  Our Discord server is usually the first place for announcements as well.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: cyberspacemonkey on July 19, 2018, 04:13:58 AM
Okay for some reason i cannot sync. I added the nodes, tried the blockchain export also executed it using powershell as admin.
But apparently it just start a new chain or what.. height 1.
Code:
Height: 1/1 (100.0%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 0 H/s, v1, up to date, 0(out)+0(in) connections,

anyone got this and managed a work around?

That's your firewall.  Only time I've seen that issue is when I had forgotten to allow port 14894 through on one of my nodes. 


If the problem persists after adding rule to the firewall it could also be the router that's blocking it but I doubt it.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: bob891014 on July 19, 2018, 05:09:00 AM
Is net hash very low right now?? I mined a bunch of coin last night whats wrong?


I've had that happen to me and it could be that either you got really lucky or you're mining on a forked chain, how many did you mine?


This would be correct.


yep turns out the daemon some how desynced


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: pinball_wizard on July 19, 2018, 06:07:04 AM
Some good specs for this coin as low supply and promised CPU only mining. Let's see....times are hard for cryptonote competition...


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Abrahamtt on July 19, 2018, 06:17:03 AM
Privacy cannot be truly exist without decentralization. How do you understand this sentence? Is there a master to explain it?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Love1989 on July 19, 2018, 06:47:16 AM
a good and useful project for miners to simplify the mining process. but CPU-only is susceptible to computer performance disruption during processing. hopefully the team has prepared a solution for it so miners need not worry. good job.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 19, 2018, 11:09:50 AM
ANN updated with Roadmap graphic


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DogeInSheepsClothing on July 19, 2018, 07:15:10 PM
a good and useful project for miners to simplify the mining process. but CPU-only is susceptible to computer performance disruption during processing. hopefully the team has prepared a solution for it so miners need not worry. good job.

Not sure how this could ever be solved. Mining requires processing resources to perform, there's no way to "fix" this other than to throttle the miner's CPU usage, which this algo already does.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 19, 2018, 08:50:42 PM
a good and useful project for miners to simplify the mining process. but CPU-only is susceptible to computer performance disruption during processing. hopefully the team has prepared a solution for it so miners need not worry. good job.

Not sure how this could ever be solved. Mining requires processing resources to perform, there's no way to "fix" this other than to throttle the miner's CPU usage, which this algo already does.

Yeah, no way around that.  What we're talking here is a trade-off in marginal utility based on resource allocation... There's surely an equilibrium in that dynamic that satisfies both mining revenue and interactive use of CPU power. (Provided you have a decent processor)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 20, 2018, 07:11:32 AM
Seeing a lot of OTC trades going on within the network! Cool stuff.  Network functioning without a hitch to speak of, so far.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: thang long on July 20, 2018, 04:12:47 PM
Seeing a lot of OTC trades going on within the network! Cool stuff.  Network functioning without a hitch to speak of, so far.
Yes smooth as can be!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DogeInSheepsClothing on July 20, 2018, 06:32:45 PM
Seeing a lot of OTC trades going on within the network! Cool stuff.  Network functioning without a hitch to speak of, so far.

Just wanted to second this - have completed multiple OTC deals with various individuals. Transactions have been very quick and without any hiccups.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 21, 2018, 12:02:54 AM
Seeing a lot of OTC trades going on within the network! Cool stuff.  Network functioning without a hitch to speak of, so far.
Yes smooth as can be!

Seeing a lot of OTC trades going on within the network! Cool stuff.  Network functioning without a hitch to speak of, so far.

Just wanted to second this - have completed multiple OTC deals with various individuals. Transactions have been very quick and without any hiccups.


💪👍💪👍


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 21, 2018, 10:09:36 PM
Just a quick update: whitepaper v1.0  will be posted in a few days and will be aimed at a non-technical user-base. Much more of a lightpaper than heavy on tech. The heavily technical paper will be v2.0.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 26, 2018, 02:34:20 AM
Following upstream changes, be on the lookout for some decent code additions including an increase of default mixin size to 8. Prep for a v7 hardfork to follow tentatively after observing results of NERVA fork


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: okane818 on July 26, 2018, 05:48:22 AM
I like this concept, only CPU, very nice, but I think someday will be mineable with GPU. Interesting project. I did setup my 8 threads 8 cores cpu. Good luck to us. Recommended for everyone who like to mine with CPU.


Best regards


Okane Satoshi


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: okane818 on July 26, 2018, 10:08:13 AM
We can mine without a pool, just sync the blurd, then run cli, you can command: start_mining (walletaddress) (#thread)
example:

start_mining bL39m2uQi8fTVpukYbHeKEQVKTfae2hvyLrkq8gxzMqeh8mHWoJkG8xQUVTpt6XUhf66zQKkLv2HGEe 9DEG2qvX232WioZewe 4

Good luck,

Best Regards,

Okane Satoshi


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: okane818 on July 27, 2018, 02:27:34 AM
Hello guys any pool created for BLUR? It is good to have a pool, I can't wait to have a BLUR. Better mining at pool with other miners to see the status of miners. I do mining for BLUR I got 1k/hs +. Good hashrate. More communities to come with this.


Best regards,

Okane Satoshi


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: bitnod on July 27, 2018, 11:25:25 AM

when can you buy and sell?

great question !.

tradeogre ? Altex ? ...
july ?

this project is interesting ..

thx for info


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 28, 2018, 04:11:47 PM
BLUR has been approved for listing on Bisq!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Beginner85 on July 28, 2018, 04:45:56 PM
We can mine without a pool, just sync the blurd, then run cli, you can command: start_mining (walletaddress) (#thread)
example:

start_mining bL39m2uQi8fTVpukYbHeKEQVKTfae2hvyLrkq8gxzMqeh8mHWoJkG8xQUVTpt6XUhf66zQKkLv2HGEe 9DEG2qvX232WioZewe 4

Good luck,

Best Regards,

Okane Satoshi

[wallet bL4Wmc]: start_mining bL4Wmch3q5R1KuoA2VjEaML3uTCZsZBZ4WNzMvGSJaSbTeEQpz7kb6HXc4uGTmqGrP1pdjVkE21Lsdr QeQtgrzEc2yxdgC2xn 4
Error: invalid argument: must be either 0/1, true/false, y/n, yes/no

Why ?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: thang long on July 28, 2018, 05:53:57 PM
BLUR has been approved for listing on Bisq!
Nice! Any date?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: sylmine on July 29, 2018, 01:04:54 PM
We can mine without a pool, just sync the blurd, then run cli, you can command: start_mining (walletaddress) (#thread)
example:

start_mining bL39m2uQi8fTVpukYbHeKEQVKTfae2hvyLrkq8gxzMqeh8mHWoJkG8xQUVTpt6XUhf66zQKkLv2HGEe 9DEG2qvX232WioZewe 4

Good luck,

Best Regards,

Okane Satoshi

[wallet bL4Wmc]: start_mining bL4Wmch3q5R1KuoA2VjEaML3uTCZsZBZ4WNzMvGSJaSbTeEQpz7kb6HXc4uGTmqGrP1pdjVkE21Lsdr QeQtgrzEc2yxdgC2xn 4
Error: invalid argument: must be either 0/1, true/false, y/n, yes/no

Why ?
Hi,
i think that when you are in the blur-wallet-cli console, you don't put your wallet adress since it's already in your wallet.
if you start mining in blurd, you would add your adress.
At least it is what I do and it seems working.
Hope it help,


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 31, 2018, 12:08:38 AM
We can mine without a pool, just sync the blurd, then run cli, you can command: start_mining (walletaddress) (#thread)
example:

start_mining bL39m2uQi8fTVpukYbHeKEQVKTfae2hvyLrkq8gxzMqeh8mHWoJkG8xQUVTpt6XUhf66zQKkLv2HGEe 9DEG2qvX232WioZewe 4

Good luck,

Best Regards,

Okane Satoshi

[wallet bL4Wmc]: start_mining bL4Wmch3q5R1KuoA2VjEaML3uTCZsZBZ4WNzMvGSJaSbTeEQpz7kb6HXc4uGTmqGrP1pdjVkE21Lsdr QeQtgrzEc2yxdgC2xn 4
Error: invalid argument: must be either 0/1, true/false, y/n, yes/no

Why ?
Hi,
i think that when you are in the blur-wallet-cli console, you don't put your wallet adress since it's already in your wallet.
if you start mining in blurd, you would add your adress.
At least it is what I do and it seems working.
Hope it help,


This is correct. No need to pass the address from wallet to daemon. Wallet will do that for you. Only need to pass that argument when you are commanding the daemon to mine to a specific wallet.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Namixi on August 01, 2018, 02:25:42 AM
your project is great and your bounty program is interesting. hopefully, there will be many bounty hunters and investors interested to support your project.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on August 03, 2018, 11:38:36 AM
coin is dead?
no news


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: sockpuppet1911 on August 03, 2018, 01:49:05 PM
your project is great and your bounty program is interesting. hopefully, there will be many bounty hunters and investors interested to support your project.


What are you babbling about? There is no bounty program. Did you even read up on the project?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on August 04, 2018, 07:39:57 PM
your project is great and your bounty program is interesting. hopefully, there will be many bounty hunters and investors interested to support your project.


What are you babbling about? There is no bounty program. Did you even read up on the project?
Check his posts.. he is most likely a bot.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: BuE22 on August 05, 2018, 11:29:17 AM
that is amaze me or bitter reality that you gave asourty on 100 percent privacy content.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 05, 2018, 11:59:47 PM
Binaries for macOS have been released.   You can find the executables via a download link at https://blur.cash or via the releases page: https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: chengyz on August 06, 2018, 06:26:18 AM
no exchange


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 09, 2018, 05:52:38 AM
Thread updated with current wallet links, social media moved to top of post, and infographic replace with banner.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 09, 2018, 10:32:31 AM
Pushed changes to Github master branch for v0.1.7 ‘Lustrous Nebula’... compiling binaries for all platforms today.

2/3 PRs for Bisq listing have been merged. Once the third is merged, you will be able to trade BLUR on Bisq. Additionally, talks regarding a listing on MapleChange have resumed. Expect updates in the coming days on status of both listings.

Lightpaper (Whitepaper v1.0) will be released in 24-36 hours (Aug 10th).


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 10, 2018, 12:30:41 AM
New releases have been posted at https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases.  Hardfork scheduled for block 80,000.  Please update before the hardfork if you are running a node.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: leonar76 on August 10, 2018, 08:53:15 AM
i trust this coin, I believe, it will be one of the finest cpu coin.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 10, 2018, 06:17:59 PM
Preview of lightpaper.. just the cover ;)

 https://preview.ibb.co/nHNOy9/Lightpaper_cover.jpg (https://ibb.co/m0DkBU)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 14, 2018, 04:06:00 AM
MapleChange listing has been confirmed. I’ve been told the kind folks over there are syncing up their node as we speak, and we will begin testing deposits promptly.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 14, 2018, 06:36:12 AM
ANNOUNCEMENT: Blur Network is now listed on MapleChange with a BTC pairing.  Deposits are confirmed working properly, and you may freely trade.  Thanks for supporting Blur Network

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkigboeUwAEX5uV.jpg:large


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 15, 2018, 07:41:33 AM
An Official Subreddit for The Blur Network has gone live at https://reddit.com/r/blur_network !  Head on over to Reddit and check it out.  Post some content & Share benchmarks, etc....


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 15, 2018, 07:42:31 AM
doublepost


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: vlad230 on August 15, 2018, 09:16:50 AM
This looks like an interesting project :)

Any news about the pool being setup by someone?  If not done already?

How about the roadmap? I see we should have the GUI wallet by now.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: KnyazED on August 15, 2018, 10:07:26 AM
MapleChange listing has been confirmed. I’ve been told the kind folks over there are syncing up their node as we speak, and we will begin testing deposits promptly.

great news. This indicates the responsibility of the team. active development of ideas and creation of all conditions for implementation.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 15, 2018, 08:36:13 PM
Hardfork v7 went smoothly, chain is stable and hashrate dropped by the amount expected.  No surprises = stability :)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: captaindz on August 17, 2018, 08:18:50 PM
Is there a simple windows wallet for Blur because the current wallet is bit complicated , too much files etc..


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on August 18, 2018, 12:41:39 PM
Is there a simple windows wallet for Blur because the current wallet is bit complicated , too much files etc..

"blurd.exe" is a daemon and "blur-wallet-cli.exe" is a wallet. You only need those two files, you can ignore the others.
Once "blurd.exe" is running and is fully synced with network you can power up "blur-wallet-cli.exe" and do stuff in your wallet.
Remember, "blur-wallet-cli.exe" needs "blurd.exe" running.

I hope it is a bit simpler now :)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 18, 2018, 04:46:20 PM
Is there a simple windows wallet for Blur because the current wallet is bit complicated , too much files etc..

Download the binaries from https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases for windows, and extract the folder.  Open the extracted folder and double click
Code:
blurd.exe
That is the daemon executable. You will need to wait for it to synchronize with the network.  Once that is complete, double-click
Code:
blur-wallet-cli.exe
. Follow the prompts to create your wallet.  Type
Code:
help
into either of those terminals, and that will output a list of commands, syntax, and their functions.  

If you'd like to speed up the syncing process (considerably, I might add), you can open a Powershell by Pressing (Windows Button + X) on your keyboard. You should see a blue command prompt.  That is the powershell.  Start with the command
Code:
cd Downloads/blur-v0.1.7-win-x86_64
to switch your current directory to the folder into which you've extracted the binaries. Once you've done that, type:
Code:
./blurd.exe --seed-node 178.128.180.136:14894 --seed-node 178.128.186.101:14894 --seed-node 178.128.191.245:14894
Your daemon will begin syncing very quickly.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 18, 2018, 07:54:00 PM
UPDATE:Explorer has been recompiled for new binaries v0.1.7, with some cosmetic changes.  A subreddit for Blur Network is now live over at Reddit.  (https://reddit.com/r/blur_network)   Lightpaper to follow....


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: captaindz on August 18, 2018, 11:13:57 PM
Is there a simple windows wallet for Blur because the current wallet is bit complicated , too much files etc..

"blurd.exe" is a daemon and "blur-wallet-cli.exe" is a wallet. You only need those two files, you can ignore the others.
Once "blurd.exe" is running and is fully synced with network you can power up "blur-wallet-cli.exe" and do stuff in your wallet.
Remember, "blur-wallet-cli.exe" needs "blurd.exe" running.

I hope it is a bit simpler now :)

All is clear now , thanks.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: captaindz on August 18, 2018, 11:17:21 PM
Is there a simple windows wallet for Blur because the current wallet is bit complicated , too much files etc..

Download the binaries from https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases for windows, and extract the folder.  Open the extracted folder and double click
Code:
blurd.exe
That is the daemon executable. You will need to wait for it to synchronize with the network.  Once that is complete, double-click
Code:
blur-wallet-cli.exe
. Follow the prompts to create your wallet.  Type
Code:
help
into either of those terminals, and that will output a list of commands, syntax, and their functions.  

If you'd like to speed up the syncing process (considerably, I might add), you can open a Powershell by Pressing (Windows Button + X) on your keyboard. You should see a blue command prompt.  That is the powershell.  Start with the command
Code:
cd Downloads/blur-v0.1.7-win-x86_64
to switch your current directory to the folder into which you've extracted the binaries. Once you've done that, type:
Code:
./blurd.exe --seed-node 178.128.180.136:14894 --seed-node 178.128.186.101:14894 --seed-node 178.128.191.245:14894
Your daemon will begin syncing very quickly.

Thanks for your detailed explanation dev.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: smikadoshi on August 19, 2018, 06:34:49 PM
Great project! Connecting my cpu at this very moment!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: trekkie1701 on August 20, 2018, 02:55:24 PM
I'm impressed with this coin so far; very few hiccups since release. Needs some publicity though, to keep the momentum going (bounties paid with the premine perhaps?).


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 20, 2018, 10:21:48 PM
I'm impressed with this coin so far; very few hiccups since release. Needs some publicity though, to keep the momentum going (bounties paid with the premine perhaps?).

While bounties are something I'm open to, talks of marketing are underway currently.  Glad things have been smooth for you and others!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 22, 2018, 09:09:27 AM
Blur Network has been added to the coin list at Coinlib.io (https://coinlib.io/coin/BLUR/Blur+Network)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on August 22, 2018, 10:48:35 PM
Blur Network has been added to the coin list at Coinlib.io (https://coinlib.io/coin/BLUR/Blur+Network)
Sweet, congrats! :)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 23, 2018, 10:42:10 PM
Pushed quite a few code changes to GitHub master branch. (Https://github.com/blur-network/blur)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 24, 2018, 08:17:41 AM
Link to MapleChange and promo for prospective listing on Bisq have been added to the website.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 30, 2018, 05:18:29 PM
Preview of GUI wallet under heavy delelopment currently:

https://preview.ibb.co/nx53cp/7_D6_C85_A3_3_B43_401_B_9088_5_D3_E27_BDAA82.jpg


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blur-network on September 07, 2018, 06:55:14 PM
UPDATE: Progress as of Sept. 7th, 2018

The GUI, while still technically under development, is finished from a design standpoint. Testing and adjustments will take place over the next two days.  Multisig will not be supported, yet. The same is possible of subaddresses, but those will undergo further testing...

Decision has been made to release the GUI wallet before the Lightpaper v1.0 release, for the purpose of keeping releases steady.

The GUI wallet will feature a 1-click miner, QR codes for ease of sending, a full address book, transaction proving and checking, and a bunch more cool features. It’s pretty handy. Aesthetically, very much based on the Monero GUI design. Built on QT for cross-platform purposes.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: thang long on September 09, 2018, 08:51:12 AM
You posted a video in telegram. That wallet looks sexy!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Plumpkatt1 on September 09, 2018, 09:24:31 AM
I downloaded the files for windows. I sync'd and created a wallet. Then I typed start_mining. Then what? How do I check the hashrate?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v400/Plumpkatt1/blur_zpsl2kl6ypa.png (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Plumpkatt1/media/blur_zpsl2kl6ypa.png.html)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on September 09, 2018, 09:34:01 PM
I downloaded the files for windows. I sync'd and created a wallet. Then I typed start_mining. Then what? How do I check the hashrate?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v400/Plumpkatt1/blur_zpsl2kl6ypa.png (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Plumpkatt1/media/blur_zpsl2kl6ypa.png.html)

Use command "show_hr" in daemon.
Use command "help" to check other usefull commands.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Saresutas on September 09, 2018, 09:43:56 PM
I'm taking part in the bounty, I already raised a lot of coins, especially without spending time. In the future I plan to actively invest in this plan, the prospects are visible not with an armed eye.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on September 10, 2018, 04:51:30 AM
I'm taking part in the bounty, I already raised a lot of coins, especially without spending time. In the future I plan to actively invest in this plan, the prospects are visible not with an armed eye.


There has not been a bounty announced.  This post (quoted above) is from a bot.  Just to clarify for lurkers


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on September 10, 2018, 05:36:17 AM
Updated some stuff on the first post of this thread.  Bringing the rest current later on this evening...


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: TwinBird23 on September 10, 2018, 05:39:05 AM
I just saw this platform, I think there are many interesting things but I don't know yet. This platform wallet has been launched as proof of great team performance. I guess don't hesitate to join this platform which will provide good benefits for its users.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: Venphipabu on September 10, 2018, 05:43:44 AM
Don't understand the definition of this coin, can you introduce it easily and plainly? And, by the way, why did you choose such a name for your coin? Thanks in advance


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on September 10, 2018, 01:29:13 PM
Don't understand the definition of this coin, can you introduce it easily and plainly? And, by the way, why did you choose such a name for your coin? Thanks in advance

The goal of Blur Network is accessibility for anyone interested in preserving their privacy.  Far too many projects now rely on special-interest groups with specialized hardware, solely, for the security of the network.  Our efforts center upon enabling anyone with a computer to contribute significantly enough to the network hashrate, to have a fair probability of mining a block, independently... not just those with a kickass GPU or enough spare change to buy a couple dedicated mining rigs.    

BLUR aims to be accessible to nearly anyone with a computer, enabling them to stand and join the fight for financial freedom. It's time to dispell the idea that privacy coins are primarily for illicit use... Privacy is a choice, and it will be a fight.

You send someone money with a debit card or money transfer — do you want them seeing your bank balance? That information is readily available to the other party (and the rest of the world) when you send anyone Bitcoin. We’ve become dangerously comfortable with trusting our personal information to be known by others. Often, this is disguised as a means to "protect" your assets.  But, it comes at a steep cost.  Suppose you're someone who would like their financials, online habits, or any piece of their digital footprint to stay private? Who do you trust with that privacy?  Do they really have your interests in mind?

We’re completely dependent on companies and institutions who have zero regard for these aspects of our financial reality. A change starts with establishing exactly where we need transparency and privacy, respectively.  Change continues only by making it easier to align ourselves with that stance, and supporting our own security and privacy, not entrusting it to others. This is where Blur becomes very useful...

The name was chosen to depict the network, in concept.  The idea of obfuscating balances and transaction participants, while embedded in a selectively-transparent system, sounded... blurry. The ledger is made obscure to those who may attempt to spy on others' transactions.  Still, it remains transparent to the parties needing verification of amounts sent, received, etc.  Crystal clear, and frustratingly murky.... In just the right spots.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: Rabinovitch on September 12, 2018, 02:04:14 AM
Use command "show_hr" in daemon.
Use command "help" to check other usefull commands.

I'm in, this project sounds nice. What are the differences from XMR besides the algo?

Can I mine from several PCs using one daemon? Will the option " set_daemon <host>[:<port>]" in blur-wallet-cli help me in such mining?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: olddarkstar on September 12, 2018, 11:09:25 AM
first of all congrats to your new coin!
second what differs BLUR from NERVA?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: Rabinovitch on September 14, 2018, 11:17:59 AM
Silence...


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: wosoku on September 14, 2018, 11:28:48 AM
Hi  I'm interested in this plan because it could be a turning point when it will be realized. It isnecessary to help to promote it. A modest sum is sufficient to make it concrete


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on September 14, 2018, 10:23:41 PM
Use command "show_hr" in daemon.
Use command "help" to check other usefull commands.

I'm in, this project sounds nice. What are the differences from XMR besides the algo?

Can I mine from several PCs using one daemon? Will the option " set_daemon <host>[:<port>]" in blur-wallet-cli help me in such mining?

No, you can not mine from several PCs using one daemon. Miner needs full blockchain to re-configer itself.
As for what the differences are, I think it would be best to read up ANN post and look up cryptonight-adaptive algo. There is no point in writing it twice ey...


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: ldcomp on September 17, 2018, 12:43:51 PM
yesterday I sent a balance from wallet to maple exchange
only a few confirmations, lost themselves and no deposit history
my balance is lost  ???


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: kyriores on September 17, 2018, 07:01:37 PM
yesterday I sent a balance from wallet to maple exchange
only a few confirmations, lost themselves and no deposit history
my balance is lost  ???

Exactly the same happened to me. Was some bad timing, as I sent Blur right before the website went down for maintenance. I even received the e-mail notification for the deposit but when the site came back up my balance was still zero. I have an open ticket with support and they've asked for the txid. We'll see how it goes. I guess it's a good way to test whether the exchange is legit now that the $ values are still small.

Edit: Support resolved the issue. You should probably contact them too.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on September 18, 2018, 09:11:51 PM
first of all congrats to your new coin!
second what differs BLUR from NERVA?

Blur’s supply is a little under half of NERVA’s. Total supply is 9,223,300 BLUR. Nerva’s emission rate has it exhausting non-tail emission after about 3 years (emission factor of 18) BLUR emission will continue at the current trajectory to hit tail emission around day 1740 which equates to roughly 5 years (emission factor of 20). When NERVA hits that point, it will be the first cryptonote currency to reach 100% emission. We don’t know what will happen once it does, but I expect NERVA will survive and subsist. It’s a bit of a test case scenario, though. In that regard, BLUR will watch closely to observe and see what modifications may be necessary to solve whatever issues arise. NERVA's emission rate translates into over 60% of total supply currently circulating (over 10M coins).  Contrast that with BLUR's current circulating supply of less than 1.4M BLUR, roughly 1/6 of total supply.  Small changes to metrics at launch can make a big difference, months/years down the line.  There are some other metrics that were changed from the launch of the Blur Network, which are smaller and have less of a visible impact. One of these is the mined money unlock window. NERVA's mined money unlock window was 10 blocks, at launch. They have since increased it to a value of 20, while Blur’s is still 25 blocks, and has been since launch.  

Apart from emission and supply, we are targeting a different userbase as usability and accessibility are our focus. We want to break down the barriers that stand in front of entry to crypto use and cryptoassets in general for non-techies.  Our listing on Bisq, who is adding support for Paypal, Zelle, and a few other payment processors, is part of that effort.  The GUI wallet, once available for Mac and Windows, will be furthering that goal as well as a few other things we have in store.  

Should anyone like to check out the emission profile and tool around with the formulas themselves, there is a spreadsheet located at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12PcagebZLTjgf-aTmpKZX5Ck-p3QHOa834CKVyKy1m4/edit#gid=0


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on September 18, 2018, 10:52:52 PM
yesterday I sent a balance from wallet to maple exchange
only a few confirmations, lost themselves and no deposit history
my balance is lost  ???

Best way to get into contact with them is on their Discord server.  Flavius (their dev) has been AWESOME about any issues that have arisen for our users. 

Alternatively, you can send a support ticket.   

I know that spamming all contact methods is a particular point of pain for them as Flavius also is their support contact... So please don't contact on discord and spam support...  Discord will result in fastest response time.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on September 23, 2018, 07:34:52 PM
The extraction is too complicated!
When will there be a pool?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: DogeInSheepsClothing on September 24, 2018, 01:02:16 AM
The extraction is too complicated!
When will there be a pool?

If you're having trouble getting your miner set-up, drop by the Discord, there are plenty of people there who can help you out. Pools are not going to be coming for a long time, there antithetical to the whole idea.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on September 25, 2018, 12:52:57 PM
A pre-release Linux GUI wallet has been posted to github.  Head over to https://github.com/blur-network/blur-network-gui/releases to grab it in the form of a .deb package. 


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on September 26, 2018, 12:20:22 PM
The extraction is too complicated!
When will there be a pool?

If you're having trouble getting your miner set-up, drop by the Discord, there are plenty of people there who can help you out. Pools are not going to be coming for a long time, there antithetical to the whole idea.

This complexity of extraction is impossible to extract new blocks
And too heavy a process of extraction - installation of a purse, synchronization, its adjustment: all this makes the extraction process very difficult and sends new people away from the coin, since a very high threshold of entry into it.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: Mnemonikkk on September 27, 2018, 03:18:29 PM
When Windows GUI with one-click miner?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on September 28, 2018, 05:18:15 AM
The extraction is too complicated!
When will there be a pool?

If you're having trouble getting your miner set-up, drop by the Discord, there are plenty of people there who can help you out. Pools are not going to be coming for a long time, there antithetical to the whole idea.

This complexity of extraction is impossible to extract new blocks
And too heavy a process of extraction - installation of a purse, synchronization, its adjustment: all this makes the extraction process very difficult and sends new people away from the coin, since a very high threshold of entry into it.



Don't feed the trolls.  Dobro has been mining nearly since launch  ;)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on September 28, 2018, 05:18:57 AM
When Windows GUI with one-click miner?


Very soon.  Still on schedule with the roadmap  located here (https://blur.cash#roadmap).  Website has also been revamped a bit and optimized by device.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on September 30, 2018, 12:17:19 AM
GUI Wallets for Mac and Linux have been uploaded for pre-release at https://github.com/blur-network/blur-network-gui.  Stop over there, or our website to grab one or both.  (https://blur.cash)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on October 04, 2018, 12:33:49 PM
The topic of the pool is not disclosed


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 04, 2018, 08:58:45 PM
The topic of the pool is not disclosed

If this is a question, please phrase it more adequately. I'm not sure what it is that you're saying/asking.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: platzdubble on October 06, 2018, 02:30:01 PM
CNAv1 is known to be vulnerable to pool-creation with some simple mods. That being the case, does Blur intend to fight against pools or to embrace them and keep the GPU resistance?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: KaptainBlaZzed on October 06, 2018, 04:56:58 PM
This coin has potential, i will be watching this one.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: ip888 on October 08, 2018, 03:23:11 PM
good project! keep workin on it!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 09, 2018, 11:10:06 AM
CNAv1 is known to be vulnerable to pool-creation with some simple mods. That being the case, does Blur intend to fight against pools or to embrace them and keep the GPU resistance?


Pool resistance was not the objective with the algorithm changes... more so, a welcomed byproduct of them.  Pooled hashing is something that will become a part of the project further down the line, with a limit on poolsize based on % of net hash.  This achieves the goal of decentralization without exposing miners to the unbalanced "luck" of solving for the correct block hash ... Although, luck and randomness are *technically* more fair.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 10, 2018, 04:41:03 AM
Blur Network is now listed on CoinGecko.com! Check out the page here: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/blur-network and they have a bunch of cool  tools and widgets, also. (http://"https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/blur-network/tools")


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: colassalentry on October 11, 2018, 08:51:16 PM
Whats to prevent people from creating a Cluster and mining with that?

Side note, Can I mine this with a raspberry PI?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 12, 2018, 07:23:47 PM
Whats to prevent people from creating a Cluster and mining with that?

Side note, Can I mine this with a raspberry PI?

No prevention on cluster mining, so to speak.  There is a limit of 5 nodes behind a single IP Address.

ARM code is not yet supported. 


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 12, 2018, 09:55:36 PM
CLI Tools for Ubuntu 16.04 are now available via the Github Releases Page (http://"https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases")!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: cool-pool on October 17, 2018, 08:04:20 AM
We can mine without a pool, just sync the blurd, then run cli, you can command: start_mining (walletaddress) (#thread)
example:

start_mining bL39m2uQi8fTVpukYbHeKEQVKTfae2hvyLrkq8gxzMqeh8mHWoJkG8xQUVTpt6XUhf66zQKkLv2HGEe 9DEG2qvX232WioZewe 4

Good luck,

Best Regards,

Okane Satoshi

[wallet bL4Wmc]: start_mining bL4Wmch3q5R1KuoA2VjEaML3uTCZsZBZ4WNzMvGSJaSbTeEQpz7kb6HXc4uGTmqGrP1pdjVkE21Lsdr QeQtgrzEc2yxdgC2xn 4
Error: invalid argument: must be either 0/1, true/false, y/n, yes/no

Why ?
Hi,
i think that when you are in the blur-wallet-cli console, you don't put your wallet adress since it's already in your wallet.
if you start mining in blurd, you would add your adress.
At least it is what I do and it seems working.
Hope it help,


You need use : ./blurd start_mining bL35xi6e7D9hjp8Gtg6THhebqstYereqBh7oM3Gz8q4h14qoS81bZQF4jK3aGzycEQQZmaU6Rfe9zhd RGZoeCWHP2nvahjPqX 4


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 18, 2018, 01:13:32 AM
feature on Blur Network was posted at https://whalereports.com/intro-to-blur-network


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: DogeInSheepsClothing on October 18, 2018, 10:54:07 PM
CNAv1 is known to be vulnerable to pool-creation with some simple mods. That being the case, does Blur intend to fight against pools or to embrace them and keep the GPU resistance?


Pool resistance was not the objective with the algorithm changes... more so, a welcomed byproduct of them.  Pooled hashing is something that will become a part of the project further down the line, with a limit on poolsize based on % of net hash.  This achieves the goal of decentralization without exposing miners to the unbalanced "luck" of solving for the correct block hash ... Although, luck and randomness are *technically* more fair.

As someone who is not intimately familiar with how the cn-Adaptive algo works, would you be able to give a simplified explanation of how the algo manages to be GPU and pool resistant?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 19, 2018, 12:30:27 AM
CNAv1 is known to be vulnerable to pool-creation with some simple mods. That being the case, does Blur intend to fight against pools or to embrace them and keep the GPU resistance?


Pool resistance was not the objective with the algorithm changes... more so, a welcomed byproduct of them.  Pooled hashing is something that will become a part of the project further down the line, with a limit on poolsize based on % of net hash.  This achieves the goal of decentralization without exposing miners to the unbalanced "luck" of solving for the correct block hash ... Although, luck and randomness are *technically* more fair.

As someone who is not intimately familiar with how the cn-Adaptive algo works, would you be able to give a simplified explanation of how the algo manages to be GPU and pool resistant?

Definitely.  It's really not all that complex, to be honest. Explaining it can be, though.   NERVA's implementation currently adds a few more layers for randomness.  We'll be adding some of that on our own in the next network update which should be this week sometime.  Essentially, the algorithm runs a base number of iterations in the cryptonote algorithm... then dynamically adds an additional number of iterations (which differs each block) to that base number.  That dynamic portion is based on the previous block's height.  The way it is written, the iterations in a block cycles up and then back down to make a pattern of difficulty that looks like a sawtooth.  

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/0*QzO4ri8pb-saN4rW

if you notice hashrate gradually increasing, before dropping sharply, and then repeating the cycle... this is why.

There are two files that hold the algorithm's nuts and bolts, as they are present in BLUR's algorithm currently. These two files that we are going to look at, are located at the following locations in the source code:

Code:
blur/src/crypto/slow-hash.c
and
Code:
blur/src/cryptonote_basic/cryptonote_format_utils.cpp

The slow-hash.c file has a few pieces of information that are important and differentiate CN-Adaptive from other variants of cryptonight.  The first of which is on line 46:
Code:
#define MEMORY         (1 << 20) // 1MB scratchpad

As annotated, this parameter defines the scratchpad size for the algorithm's rounds of iterations. A 1MB scratchpad is also seen in Cryptonight-Light.  This size allows for less iterations in a round, and fits within the cache of lower end CPUs, enabling older hardware to still mine somewhat effectively.  

Now within the cryptonight algorithm, there is an added parameter in CN-Adaptive, for iterations.  This parameter defined as iters, and you can find the implementation on Line 570 of the same slow-hash.c file:

Code:
void cn_slow_hash(const void *data, size_t length, char *hash, int variant, int prehashed, size_t iters)

As well as lines 645-662:

Code:
    if(useAes)
    {
        for(i = 0; i < iters; i++)
        {
            pre_aes();
            _c = _mm_aesenc_si128(_c, _a);
            post_aes();
        }
    }
    else
    {
        for(i = 0; i < iters; i++)
        {
            pre_aes();
            aesb_single_round((uint8_t *) &_c, (uint8_t *) &_c, (uint8_t *) &_a);
            post_aes();
        }
    }

This variable "iters" calls out to a function in the second file I mentioned, to determine its value in the block being mined.   So head over to blur/src/cryptonote_basic/cryptonote_format_utils.cpp if you're following along.  

Within that file, on lines 891-901, you'll find the calculations for the number of iterations.  Before elaborating on the code, I would like to note that in its current state this code could be optimized with a GPU.  However, you  would still need a CPU present in some form, to direct the GPUs hashpower.  BLUR's goal is being too resource intensive for GPU/ASIC miners to pursue.  In its current state, and at the current value of BLUR... this has sufficed.  However, we are hardforking to a new implementation shortly, for the purpose of maintaining that as the project grows.

With that said, on lines 891-901 of cryptonote_format_utils.cpp we have:

Code:
  //---------------------------------------------------------------
  bool get_block_longhash(const block& b, crypto::hash& res, uint64_t height)
  {
    blobdata bd = get_block_hashing_blob(b);
    int cn_variant = b.major_version >= 5 ? 1 : 0;
int cn_iters = b.major_version >= 6 ? ( b.major_version >= 7 ? 0x40000 : 0x20000 ) : 0x80000;
    cn_iters += ((height + 1) % 1024);
    crypto::cn_slow_hash(bd.data(), bd.size(), res, cn_variant, cn_iters);
    return true;
  }
  //---------------------------------------------------------------

The lines here that we are primarily looking at, are the ones that declare and calculate the variable "cn_iters". Starting with the first mention (where we calculate the base number of iterations):

Code:
int cn_iters = b.major_version >= 6 ? ( b.major_version >= 7 ? 0x40000 : 0x20000 ) : 0x80000;

The code above breaks down into two parts...

Code:
 b.major_version >= 6 ? (x) : (0x80000)
and
Code:
 b.major_version >= 7 ? (0x40000) : (0x20000)

The "x" variable in the first part, is simply swapped out for the entire "second part" in the actual code.  For the purposes of explaining, its easier to break it apart this way.  The "?" symbol in C++ is what's known as a ternary operator. It essentially serves as an "if" statement directed by the ">=" operators that come before it, in this instance.

So it means to say "If the block version number (hardfork version) is greater-than-or-equal-to 6, define the iterations as the value on the left-hand side of the colon.  If it is not, define as 0x80000 or the value following the colon.  

The number 0x80000 is in hexidecimal, and translates to the human-readable number (in decimal format) 524288, for our base # of iterations.  Assuming we are above block version 5... we then move to the next conditional statement
Code:
 b.major_version >= 7 ? (0x40000) : (0x20000)
.  

We use the same logic here, to say if we are on block version 7 or higher, we use 0x40000 or 262144 for the base amount of iterations.  If we are not (i.e. less than 7 but greater than 5), we use 0x20000 or 131072 for the base number.  Now, ONTO THE DYNAMIC PART.  That's much simpler:

So far we have iterations (for current hardfork) = 262144 + (dynamic portion). The dynamic part is found on line #897, directly after the calculation for the base number:

Code:
cn_iters =+ ((height +1) % 1024)

This means to say: "Add to the base number of iterations, the calculated value for the function (current block height) Modulo (1024).  A modulo just means divide the height by 1024, and look at your remainder.  That remainder is actually then the solution to the equation.  So, (1025) % 1024 would equal 1. Just the same, (2047) % 1024 would equal 1023, because 2047 = 1024 + 1023...



Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 19, 2018, 12:40:17 AM
Lol, I hope some of that is explained clearly enough :) thanks for the great question.   

Edit: Oh, and in regards to the pools: currently, we are not "Pool-resistant"... Just incompatible with the pool software that is for generic cryptonote coins.  I think that avoiding the pools may be an exercise that is simply not worth pursuing down the line... as I said, its merely a positive byproduct of the algo change.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: luksbit on October 19, 2018, 12:52:25 AM
Besides mining with CPU, can it be mined with AMD GPU or NVidia? In no way will it be possible to trace the transaction, thus ensuring privacy?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 19, 2018, 02:13:37 AM
Besides mining with CPU, can it be mined with AMD GPU or NVidia? In no way will it be possible to trace the transaction, thus ensuring privacy?

Please see Legal (Terms of Use) on our website and the license on github.  We can't guarantee any of our technologies' functions.  Bugs are possible, and privacy could be rendered non-existent by a bug or the price driven to zero for the same reason, at any time.  This is experimental software, just the same as Monero.  We are pursuing the scientific goal of these features. But, at the end of the day, neither Blur Network nor monero can guarantee error-free code


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 19, 2018, 02:19:01 AM
Besides mining with CPU, can it be mined with AMD GPU or NVidia? In no way will it be possible to trace the transaction, thus ensuring privacy?

In regard to GPU mining, please read the post above yours.  I address that exact topic, to the best of my knowledge.

Quote
Before elaborating on the code, I would like to note that in its current state this code could be optimized with a GPU.  However, you  would still need a CPU present in some form, to direct the GPUs hashpower.  BLUR's goal is being too resource intensive for GPU/ASIC miners to pursue.  In its current state, and at the current value of BLUR... this has sufficed.  However, we are hardforking to a new implementation shortly, for the purpose of maintaining that as the project grows.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on October 19, 2018, 07:21:19 AM
Lol, I hope some of that is explained clearly enough :) thanks for the great question.   

Edit: Oh, and in regards to the pools: currently, we are not "Pool-resistant"... Just incompatible with the pool software that is for generic cryptonote coins.  I think that avoiding the pools may be an exercise that is simply not worth pursuing down the line... as I said, its merely a positive byproduct of the algo change.

Yes Yes
The topic of pools is not disclosed.
I need a pool for mining
Since my celeron can not find a single block


Title: Re: [ANN] Blur Network (BLUR) - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: annapotpot on October 19, 2018, 11:20:18 AM
Lol, I hope some of that is explained clearly enough :) thanks for the great question.   

Edit: Oh, and in regards to the pools: currently, we are not "Pool-resistant"... Just incompatible with the pool software that is for generic cryptonote coins.  I think that avoiding the pools may be an exercise that is simply not worth pursuing down the line... as I said, its merely a positive byproduct of the algo change.

Nice explanation. Very detailed.

Aside from this
Code:
NERVA's implementation currently adds a few more layers for randomness.
the algo is the same as Nerva? Can you explain how nerva added more layers of randomness so I already know how it works when you add it to blur.

Edit: I just found out that nerva has a v3 version of the algo already. Blur is using the v1 right?

Thanks


Title: Re: [ANN] Blur Network (BLUR) - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 19, 2018, 11:42:54 PM
Lol, I hope some of that is explained clearly enough :) thanks for the great question.  

Edit: Oh, and in regards to the pools: currently, we are not "Pool-resistant"... Just incompatible with the pool software that is for generic cryptonote coins.  I think that avoiding the pools may be an exercise that is simply not worth pursuing down the line... as I said, its merely a positive byproduct of the algo change.

Nice explanation. Very detailed.

Aside from this
Code:
NERVA's implementation currently adds a few more layers for randomness.
the algo is the same as Nerva? Can you explain how nerva added more layers of randomness so I already know how it works when you add it to blur.

Edit: I just found out that nerva has a v3 version of the algo already. Blur is using the v1 right?

Thanks

Currently, I don't have the time to get into it too much.  I'll post a more detailed explanation later on, tomorrow probably, on exactly where these things play into the algo vs ours.  We are two versions behind because I saw that our algorithm had been stable for NERVA and Blur Network.  Once they HF'ed instability was a major issue and they wound up with inadvertent 51% attacks happening as a result of many miners not downloading the new software... I'm not positive that was the reason... but it's what was the most obvious answer.  of course, we won't ever know.  For that reason, we have stayed back on our variant, since.  I've also been watching the swings on their nethash lately (over 1MH swings on a 3MH nethash)... which serves to cause some concern, on my end.  Their current v3 variant was a fork, correct me if I'm wrong here, due to expanding those layers for randomness a bit, and to regain stability.  While they regained control of the network, stability doesn't support that 1MH swing.... thats a LOT of cpus...


Title: Re: [ANN] Blur Network (BLUR) - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 20, 2018, 01:20:06 AM
Quote

Currently, I don't have the time to get into it too much.  I'll post a more detailed explanation later on, tomorrow probably, on exactly where these things play into the algo vs ours.  We are two versions behind because I saw that our algorithm had been stable for NERVA and Blur Network.  Once they HF'ed instability was a major issue and they wound up with inadvertent 51% attacks happening as a result of many miners not downloading the new software... I'm not positive that was the reason... but it's what was the most obvious answer.  of course, we won't ever know.  For that reason, we have stayed back on our variant, since.  I've also been watching the swings on their nethash lately (over 1MH swings on a 3MH nethash)... which serves to cause some concern, on my end.  Their current v3 variant was a fork, correct me if I'm wrong here, due to expanding those layers for randomness a bit, and to regain stability.  While they regained control of the network, stability doesn't support that 1MH swing.... thats a LOT of cpus...


For these reasons, I'm thinking about changing something much smaller, to make our algorithm dependent not on height of the block before it, but instead on a metric that is more intelligent and that can't be pre-determined just by looking at the algo and coding that into a miner.  NERVA's implementation did just that, and that may be the cause of their diff swings, more than bad-actors. They added a random component that has a lot of possibilities, and I don't know how those factor into hashrate.  However, their implementation shortened the window for diff swings to include (height) mod (64) as opposed to (height) mod (1024)... so that portion of the changes is not where that swing is coming from, because that would actually make the diff swing less.  I'll write more when I'm more educated on the changes myself.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on October 21, 2018, 09:12:23 PM
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Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 23, 2018, 09:16:56 PM
The algorithm has been updated to use Cryptonight Variant 2 in conjunction with the already implemented changes.  Hardfork is scheduled for Block 185,000 for this change, which will put the chain on hardfork v8. 


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: qq386437050 on October 24, 2018, 02:42:41 PM
Same wallet address, can many PC be able to mine at the same time?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: revenant2017 on October 25, 2018, 06:23:39 PM
Same wallet address, can many PC be able to mine at the same time?
Also thinking the same. And since i'm using windows, this is the first time i'm going to use the command line interface. Any way for us to import_privkey on CLI?

Will try if copying the wallet file will be a workaround.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 25, 2018, 09:13:30 PM
Same wallet address, can many PC be able to mine at the same time?
Also thinking the same. And since i'm using windows, this is the first time i'm going to use the command line interface. Any way for us to import_privkey on CLI?

Will try if copying the wallet file will be a workaround.



Yes, I believe there is a limit of 5 behind a single IP address, though.  All you need to do is modify the .bat file in the "utils" directory, to suit your needs.  

The string
Code:
blurd.exe --start-mining <address> --mining-threads <# of threads> 
should do the trick.


Title: Re: [ANN] Blur Network (BLUR) - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 25, 2018, 09:17:02 PM
Lol, I hope some of that is explained clearly enough :) thanks for the great question.  

Edit: Oh, and in regards to the pools: currently, we are not "Pool-resistant"... Just incompatible with the pool software that is for generic cryptonote coins.  I think that avoiding the pools may be an exercise that is simply not worth pursuing down the line... as I said, its merely a positive byproduct of the algo change.

Nice explanation. Very detailed.

Aside from this
Code:
NERVA's implementation currently adds a few more layers for randomness.
the algo is the same as Nerva? Can you explain how nerva added more layers of randomness so I already know how it works when you add it to blur.

Edit: I just found out that nerva has a v3 version of the algo already. Blur is using the v1 right?

Thanks


ANNOUNCEMENT (10/25): Binaries for v0.1.7.5 have been released! Please update to the latest version by Block 185000 if you wish to stay on the main chain This is the first of two upcoming hardforks. Since we are just past block 182,000, that means the Hardfork will occur near/around 9:00:00 UTC-8 (9pm pacific time). on 10/27. Please make sure that you are running the new set of binaries by that that block. Block # takes precedence over my rough time estimate, so that time is entirely capable of being incorrect  ;)

 This update is in response to a 100%, increase in Network Hashrate. This occured within just a few hours, on October 20th, 2018. As a result the algorithm has been updated to include changes from CNv8, while maintaining the dynamic portion of the algorithm. This update is mandatory for all nodes, and implements Hardfork v8... placing us on an entirely different algorithm-base than NERVA. Another hardfork will follow, around 7 days afterward, which will serve to modify the dynamic portion of the mining algorithm, separately. So check back later in the week to ensure your software is still up-to-date.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on October 27, 2018, 04:43:28 PM
Make me a pool!
Oh yeah, the link for downloading the windows wallet version is not working yet.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 27, 2018, 11:27:06 PM
Make me a pool!
Oh yeah, the link for downloading the windows wallet version is not working yet.


I'm not sure what you have against our network, but the wallet posted on https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases works for Windows.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 27, 2018, 11:32:25 PM
Make me a pool!
Oh yeah, the link for downloading the windows wallet version is not working yet.

With the amount of time you spend on our thread, trying to spread false and negative information, I do have a strong feeling you are simply upset at the fact that we continue to improve our stability & pursuit of our mission.

You should probably spend your time elsewhere and utilize your time more efficiently.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on October 28, 2018, 05:06:54 AM
I sent 2000 coins to the exchange
But they didn’t come and the wallet didn’t write that the transaction was completed, but I had lost the coins.
How can I find my coins? Where to begin?

my last tx: https://pastebin.com/vfBCcVGa


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: kurbeks on October 28, 2018, 06:59:39 AM
Make me a pool!
Oh yeah, the link for downloading the windows wallet version is not working yet.


I'm not sure what you have against our network, but the wallet posted on https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases works for Windows.

Link to win wallet on ANN OP is broken. There is one  letter 'u' missing after 0.1.7.5, 

You can download wallet from git repository or here is direct link - https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases/download/v0.1.7.5u/blur-v0.1.7.5-win-x86_64.zip

Also dev any plans for win GUI wallet?

Thanx


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 28, 2018, 07:51:12 AM
I sent 2000 coins to the exchange
But they didn’t come and the wallet didn’t write that the transaction was completed, but I had lost the coins.
How can I find my coins? Where to begin?

my last tx: https://pastebin.com/vfBCcVGa


They're in the process of updating their software.  Your coins will be show up once they do.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 28, 2018, 07:51:53 AM
Make me a pool!
Oh yeah, the link for downloading the windows wallet version is not working yet.


I'm not sure what you have against our network, but the wallet posted on https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases works for Windows.

Link to win wallet on ANN OP is broken. There is one  letter 'u' missing after 0.1.7.5,  

You can download wallet from git repository or here is direct link - https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases/download/v0.1.7.5u/blur-v0.1.7.5-win-x86_64.zip

Also dev any plans for win GUI wallet?

Thanx


Link on the website is now working once again.  Apologies for the omission.  


Yes, a GUI for Windows is currently under development, nearing a release.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on October 28, 2018, 05:10:02 PM
I sent 2000 coins to the exchange
But they didn’t come and the wallet didn’t write that the transaction was completed, but I had lost the coins.
How can I find my coins? Where to begin?

my last tx: https://pastebin.com/vfBCcVGa


They're in the process of updating their software.  Your coins will be show up once they do.

So everything is fine?
When the exchange updates the wallet, will my coins appear on it?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: kurbeks on October 28, 2018, 07:45:57 PM
Anyway to check mining speed and network speed?

Thanx!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on October 29, 2018, 01:27:50 PM
What's up with the network? Why not only to the exchange, but also between my wallets it is impossible to transfer coins? Wallet not working correctly?

Error: transaction <...> was rejected by daemon with status: Failed
Error: Reason: invalid output
[wallet xxx]:


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: im_not_dazzled on October 29, 2018, 01:32:01 PM
Where is lits of all available pools to mine BLUR?
I can not find pools in the OP.
Please help me.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on October 29, 2018, 01:35:26 PM
Why do you need a pool? Solo! Honest solo! :-)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on October 29, 2018, 01:43:41 PM
In connection with the burglary of the maplechange.com is interested in the question: what other options were worked out to promote the Blur to the markets?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: lupinjhon on October 29, 2018, 01:51:49 PM
good project and very nice team ...i hope all the best ...!! your hardwork give you a well result..thank you


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 29, 2018, 08:30:52 PM
In connection with the burglary of the maplechange.com is interested in the question: what other options were worked out to promote the Blur to the markets?

Can you please clarify what it is you're asking?  

We are as disappointed as our users that MapleChange.com has stolen funds from all of its users.  However, we have another exchange listing on Bisq (https://bisq.network) coming up with the launch of their new release.  I would like to stress how much I like Bisq as a very useful piece of software. I believe their mission to be directly in line with ours.  Let me explain:

Bisq is a decentralized exchange, where there is no central headquarters, no company running things, and no one holding your coins.  It is a global network that facilitates p2p transactions, allowing people to purchase and sell, directly to and from each other.  They take privacy seriously, and all of their network's traffic is routed through the Tor network.  There is no exchange website to go on, but rather a software client that you download.  No hosting is necessary, because again, there is no central website.  That, and they have a volume of around $400,000 per day in Monero/Bitcoin transactions.  XMR/BTC makes up around 98% of their daily volume.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: captaindz on October 29, 2018, 11:16:18 PM
maplechange was hacked and exchange is down , is Blur coins also got stolen by the hacker?

https://twitter.com/MapleChangeEx/status/1056907827078299648


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on October 30, 2018, 12:22:09 AM
What's up with the network? Why not only to the exchange, but also between my wallets it is impossible to transfer coins? Wallet not working correctly?

Error: transaction <...> was rejected by daemon with status: Failed
Error: Reason: invalid output
[wallet xxx]:
All the same, why not send coins from wallets? Tested on different wallets by different users.
https://i.postimg.cc/85Yb2XQL/764.png (https://postimages.org/)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 30, 2018, 04:59:52 AM
What's up with the network? Why not only to the exchange, but also between my wallets it is impossible to transfer coins? Wallet not working correctly?

Error: transaction <...> was rejected by daemon with status: Failed
Error: Reason: invalid output
[wallet xxx]:
All the same, why not send coins from wallets? Tested on different wallets by different users.
https://i.postimg.cc/85Yb2XQL/764.png (https://postimages.org/)

Edit: Nevermind, reproduced the error.  Thanks for reporting the error. Fixing now.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on October 30, 2018, 05:44:51 AM
What's up with the network? Why not only to the exchange, but also between my wallets it is impossible to transfer coins? Wallet not working correctly?

Error: transaction <...> was rejected by daemon with status: Failed
Error: Reason: invalid output
[wallet xxx]:
All the same, why not send coins from wallets? Tested on different wallets by different users.
https://i.postimg.cc/85Yb2XQL/764.png (https://postimages.org/)

What operating system are you on? I've had no reports of this from anyone else... So please, file an issue report on github, and explain the circumstances required to reproduce.
All actual operational systems: Win 10 x64, Win 8 x64, Win 7 x64.
blur-v0.1.7.5-win-x86_64
What can be described if sending of coins from three people does not work? The conditions for sending are standard, just as before everything was sent to the exchange in version 0.1.7.0.
I am not registered on the githaba and can’t even imagine where to write there.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on October 31, 2018, 04:41:17 AM
Edit: Nevermind, reproduced the error.  Thanks for reporting the error. Fixing now.
Please tell me, when will the updated version of the software appear with a fixed bug allowing you to send funds from the wallet to the wallet?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 31, 2018, 09:04:51 AM
It's been fixed. Re-download the archive(s): https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: Rabinovitch on October 31, 2018, 09:59:56 AM
OK, then why can't I even start blurd?

http://screenshot.ru/89ec029007494539cd9289a8fbb53c20.png

My *.bat file:

Code:
blurd.exe --seed-node 178.128.191.245:14894 --seed-node 178.128.180.136:14894 --seed-node 178.128.186.101:14894 --p2p-bind-port 14894 --rpc-bind-port 14895 --rpc-bind-ip 127.0.0.1  --data-dir=K:\blur
pause

Where K:\blur is an empty newly-created folder.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on October 31, 2018, 10:04:54 AM
shit MapleChange
I lost 0.03 BTC!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on October 31, 2018, 06:03:40 PM
It's been fixed. Re-download the archive(s): https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases
Thank you, Win 10 works.
And there is no Win 7: https://i.postimg.cc/SnR5kBV3/5642532.png (https://postimg.cc/SnR5kBV3)
Cигнaтypa пpoблeмы:
  Имя coбытия пpoблeмы:   APPCRASH
  Имя пpилoжeния:   blurd.exe
  Bepcия пpилoжeния:   0.0.0.0
  Oтмeткa вpeмeни пpилoжeния:   5bd9298c
  Имя мoдyля c oшибкoй:   blurd.exe
  Bepcия мoдyля c oшибкoй:   0.0.0.0
  Oтмeткa вpeмeни мoдyля c oшибкoй:   5bd9298c
  Кoд иcключeния:   c000001d
  Cмeщeниe иcключeния:   000000000046c637
  Bepcия OC:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
  Кoд языкa:   1049
  Дoпoлнитeльныe cвeдeния 1:   5056
  Дoпoлнитeльныe cвeдeния 2:   505614abf15c923b7d26ec9a0287aad8
  Дoпoлнитeльныe cвeдeния 3:   3e36
  Дoпoлнитeльныe cвeдeния 4:   3e367d7ef35e9562bb8251cc33ad1fa5

Oзнaкoмьтecь c зaявлeниeм o кoнфидeнциaльнocти в Интepнeтe:
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0419

Ecли зaявлeниe o кoнфидeнциaльнocти в Интepнeтe нeдocтyпнo, oзнaкoмьтecь c eгo лoкaльным вapиaнтoм:
  C:\Windows\system32\ru-RU\erofflps.txt


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on October 31, 2018, 06:17:09 PM
No, the new version of the wallet does not work. 5 times the wallet tried to send a transaction, in the end the coin came back. I waited half an hour.
https://i.postimg.cc/gXxtP8Dh/543543543231.png (https://postimg.cc/gXxtP8Dh)
Win 10 x64.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 01, 2018, 03:28:44 AM
No, the new version of the wallet does not work. 5 times the wallet tried to send a transaction, in the end the coin came back. I waited half an hour.
https://i.postimg.cc/gXxtP8Dh/543543543231.png (https://postimg.cc/gXxtP8Dh)
Win 10 x64.

That is due to no one updating. The transactions will clear as people update. We have a new release that is being uploaded tonight, regardless. Join our discord if you would like to troubleshoot anything in real-time


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: im_not_dazzled on November 01, 2018, 05:26:48 PM
maplechange was hacked and exchange is down , is Blur coins also got stolen by the hacker?

https://twitter.com/MapleChangeEx/status/1056907827078299648
Has it been really fixed till now?
This is why I tend to stay away from young, strange exchanges.
Mapple exchange gives crypto enthusiasts one more valuable lesson.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: captaindz on November 01, 2018, 06:22:43 PM
maplechange was hacked and exchange is down , is Blur coins also got stolen by the hacker?

https://twitter.com/MapleChangeEx/status/1056907827078299648
Has it been really fixed till now?
This is why I tend to stay away from young, strange exchanges.
Mapple exchange gives crypto enthusiasts one more valuable lesson.

maplechange still down, i lost all my blur coins, it look like an exit out more than hack , let hope maplechange back again.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 01, 2018, 08:38:39 PM
maplechange still down, i lost all my blur coins, it look like an exit out more than hack , let hope maplechange back again.
Granted, it looks more like the work of the owners of the exchange. The link to discordapp.com did not work from the second day, if not from the first. I registered there without invites, wrote, I was told that they could not help, that this application is for communication.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 01, 2018, 08:42:12 PM
That is due to no one updating. The transactions will clear as people update. We have a new release that is being uploaded tonight, regardless. Join our discord if you would like to troubleshoot anything in real-time
And how can you update if it doesn't work? I do not work under Win 7 new client version 0.1.7.5, closes with an error. I returned to the original version 0.1.7.5.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: Rabinovitch on November 02, 2018, 04:24:05 AM
No, the new version of the wallet does not work. 5 times the wallet tried to send a transaction, in the end the coin came back. I waited half an hour.
https://i.postimg.cc/gXxtP8Dh/543543543231.png (https://postimg.cc/gXxtP8Dh)
Win 10 x64.

That is due to no one updating. The transactions will clear as people update. We have a new release that is being uploaded tonight, regardless. Join our discord if you would like to troubleshoot anything in real-time

So how about Win7?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 03, 2018, 11:48:46 AM
Version 0.1.7.5.1 behaves strangely. I tried to send 1 coin, the transaction was not completed in 18 hours. Miner tried to send all this time, but he did not succeed. At the same time, for 18 Ryzen 1700X I found only one block, and it disappeared after the wallet was restarted. At the same time, other processors found 8-10 blocks each at 0.1.7.5. Win 10 x64.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 03, 2018, 05:21:15 PM
The result of the daily experiment with 0.1.7.5.1: the transaction was not sent, the system did not find a single block, which in principle is not possible. All the while trying to complete a transaction. Returning to the old version 0.1.7.5, the database also rolled back.
Someone was able to send a transaction using a wallet 0.1.7.5.1?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on November 04, 2018, 01:31:23 PM
The result of the daily experiment with 0.1.7.5.1: the transaction was not sent, the system did not find a single block, which in principle is not possible. All the while trying to complete a transaction. Returning to the old version 0.1.7.5, the database also rolled back.
Someone was able to send a transaction using a wallet 0.1.7.5.1?

Due to not enough people upgrading to new version the main chain is basically overdriven with alternative chain.
Transactions will not work till more than 50% of miners update to latest release.
If this does not happen soon the word is that there will be a roll-back to fix the unfairness to those miners who did update.
Transaction itself from 0.1.7.5.1 seem to work, it is sent out to network but gets stuck, due to non updated miners. It remains in txpool


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 04, 2018, 08:19:24 PM
Due to not enough people upgrading to new version the main chain is basically overdriven with alternative chain.
I would be happy to switch to 0.1.7.5.1, but this version also does not work under Win 7.
Cигнaтypa пpoблeмы:
  Имя coбытия пpoблeмы:   APPCRASH
  Имя пpилoжeния:   blurd.exe
  Bepcия пpилoжeния:   0.0.0.0
  Oтмeткa вpeмeни пpилoжeния:   5bd9298c
  Имя мoдyля c oшибкoй:   blurd.exe
  Bepcия мoдyля c oшибкoй:   0.0.0.0
  Oтмeткa вpeмeни мoдyля c oшибкoй:   5bd9298c
  Кoд иcключeния:   c000001d
  Cмeщeниe иcключeния:   000000000046c637
  Bepcия OC:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
  Кoд языкa:   1049
  Дoпoлнитeльныe cвeдeния 1:   5056
  Дoпoлнитeльныe cвeдeния 2:   505614abf15c923b7d26ec9a0287aad8
  Дoпoлнитeльныe cвeдeния 3:   3e36
  Дoпoлнитeльныe cвeдeния 4:   3e367d7ef35e9562bb8251cc33ad1fa5



Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on November 04, 2018, 10:38:21 PM
Could you please also tell what CPU(s) are you running?

Meanwhile I'd suggest you to try with linux. (Ubuntu, Live usb, download pre-compiled binaries, transfer blockchain from current windows machine to avoid syncing).


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: CaVO32 on November 04, 2018, 10:44:23 PM
Could you please also tell what CPU(s) are you running?

Meanwhile I'd suggest you to try with linux. (Ubuntu, Live usb, download pre-compiled binaries, transfer blockchain from current windows machine to avoid syncing).

is this coin still profitable in cpu mining? the network difficulty is a lil bit high for me. i wonder if you can still get a good share via cpu mining. and no exchange yet? how can you tell if this is worth to spend your hashrate if there's no value yet in the market? they have been here in the forum for few months now.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on November 04, 2018, 11:08:01 PM
Could you please also tell what CPU(s) are you running?

Meanwhile I'd suggest you to try with linux. (Ubuntu, Live usb, download pre-compiled binaries, transfer blockchain from current windows machine to avoid syncing).

is this coin still profitable in cpu mining? the network difficulty is a lil bit high for me. i wonder if you can still get a good share via cpu mining. and no exchange yet? how can you tell if this is worth to spend your hashrate if there's no value yet in the market? they have been here in the forum for few months now.

Coin is CPU only and solo only. Difficulty actually lowered a bit last few weeks.
There was maplechange exchange, which either exit scammed or was hacked. Price span was at that moment around 0.0000035 BTC.
The coin is going to be listed (or already is- I have not checked) on next release of bisq.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: CaVO32 on November 05, 2018, 02:19:28 AM
Could you please also tell what CPU(s) are you running?

Meanwhile I'd suggest you to try with linux. (Ubuntu, Live usb, download pre-compiled binaries, transfer blockchain from current windows machine to avoid syncing).

is this coin still profitable in cpu mining? the network difficulty is a lil bit high for me. i wonder if you can still get a good share via cpu mining. and no exchange yet? how can you tell if this is worth to spend your hashrate if there's no value yet in the market? they have been here in the forum for few months now.

Coin is CPU only and solo only. Difficulty actually lowered a bit last few weeks.
There was maplechange exchange, which either exit scammed or was hacked. Price span was at that moment around 0.0000035 BTC.
The coin is going to be listed (or already is- I have not checked) on next release of bisq.

okay, let me see if this gonna work on me. yeah, mapleexchange was crap. they need to look for a trustworthy exchange at least. even small one.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 05, 2018, 05:32:26 AM
Could you please also tell what CPU(s) are you running?

Meanwhile I'd suggest you to try with linux. (Ubuntu, Live usb, download pre-compiled binaries, transfer blockchain from current windows machine to avoid syncing).
i5-2500, i5-2500K, i7-2600K, FX 8320E.
Linux does not suit me for many reasons.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 05, 2018, 12:07:51 PM
I compared the creation dates and the size of the files of version 0.1.7.5 (second edition) and 0.1.7.5.1 - they are the same! 10/31/2018. In vain I spent time on testing 0.1.7.5.1. Therefore, the launch of the daemon on 7-ke was not fixed.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 06, 2018, 03:05:40 PM
Binaries for v0.1.7.6 have been released.  This update doubles hashrates to amplify the differential between different CPUs and their performances.  It prepares the network for Hardfork v9, which will be launching on testnet in the next couple days.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 06, 2018, 03:07:47 PM
I compared the creation dates and the size of the files of version 0.1.7.5 (second edition) and 0.1.7.5.1 - they are the same! 10/31/2018. In vain I spent time on testing 0.1.7.5.1. Therefore, the launch of the daemon on 7-ke was not fixed.

Daemons for windows are now functioning once again, and sync is much faster.  Wallets can now launch without the cp850 encoding error they were encountering prior to the update.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 06, 2018, 05:00:56 PM
Dear developers!
Tell me please, do you test your glitches at all, or do your clients do it for you for free? I personally got tired of testing your raw software for 1.5 weeks for free! The wallet does not open. At all! After entering the password, the console closes!
https://i.postimg.cc/FKfD4xdW/7643.png
I enter the password correctly!
Everything worked fine, then just broke everything. How was it possible? How was it possible to change the algorithm, even if elementary things do not work?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: bitpotter on November 06, 2018, 05:10:19 PM
I compared the creation dates and the size of the files of version 0.1.7.5 (second edition) and 0.1.7.5.1 - they are the same! 10/31/2018. In vain I spent time on testing 0.1.7.5.1. Therefore, the launch of the daemon on 7-ke was not fixed.

Daemons for windows are now functioning once again, and sync is much faster.  Wallets can now launch without the cp850 encoding error they were encountering prior to the update.

Right, I also feel the same as you. The wallet works quickly and without obstacles. Making performance lighter and easier. Hopefully there will be more updates that can make users feel happy.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: toyo87 on November 06, 2018, 05:11:59 PM
Hello Dev, how about windows wallet?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: qq386437050 on November 06, 2018, 06:54:47 PM
Dear developers!
Tell me please, do you test your glitches at all, or do your clients do it for you for free? I personally got tired of testing your raw software for 1.5 weeks for free! The wallet does not open. At all! After entering the password, the console closes!
https://i.postimg.cc/FKfD4xdW/7643.png
I enter the password correctly!
Everything worked fine, then just broke everything. How was it possible? How was it possible to change the algorithm, even if elementary things do not work?

I encountered the same situation.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 07, 2018, 04:02:21 AM
Dear developers!
Tell me please, do you test your glitches at all, or do your clients do it for you for free? I personally got tired of testing your raw software for 1.5 weeks for free! The wallet does not open. At all! After entering the password, the console closes!

I enter the password correctly!
Everything worked fine, then just broke everything. How was it possible? How was it possible to change the algorithm, even if elementary things do not work?

This is occurring because of Microsoft's use of ANSI & wide-set characters in their codepages, and not utf-8 like the rest of the world.  As our entire codebase relies on unicode, things get particularly wonky on Windows, at times.  If you research, Monero, and every other cryptonote coin also experienced this issue and others.... again, only on Windows.  Linux Wallets and Mac wallets have never had errors like this.  If you know a Windows developer, kindly, refer him or her our way :)

As for whether or not the software is tested for free... No, it is not, it is tested at the cost of my time and effort -- just the same as yours.  Only, I don't test stringently on Windows because I have spent 5 months developing software for you to bash .... for free.


You will need to import your 25-word seed that was given to you with the wallet, when you created it.  You should have this backed up.  Open a Powershell and start with the flag
Code:
.\blur-wallet-cli.exe --restore-deterministic
and follow the prompts.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 07, 2018, 04:09:16 AM
Quote
I encountered the same situation.

Please join our Discord (link is in the first post of this thread) for troubleshooting in the future.  I am active on there almost all day, and we have a few hundred active community members participating in discussion and helping each other troubleshoot, or work out simple mistakes.  Very helpful for everyone involved.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 07, 2018, 06:52:39 AM
Dear developers!
Tell me please, do you test your glitches at all, or do your clients do it for you for free? I personally got tired of testing your raw software for 1.5 weeks for free! The wallet does not open. At all! After entering the password, the console closes!

I enter the password correctly!

This is occurring because of Microsoft's use of ANSI & wide-set characters in their codepages, and not utf-8 like the rest of the world.  As our entire codebase relies on unicode, things get particularly wonky on Windows, at times.  If you research, Monero, and every other cryptonote coin also experienced this issue and others.... again, only on Windows.  Linux Wallets and Mac wallets have never had errors like this.  If you know a Windows developer, kindly, refer him or her our way :)
I will reveal a little secret: my password consists only of numbers. Does the keyboard layout affect passwords from numbers? And why did everything work in versions 0.1.7.0 and 0.1.7.5, and now the Windows developer was to blame?

Linux is certainly great, but not everyone can use it and not everyone wants to use it.
And the prevalence of Linux leaves much to be desired.
https://cdn.comss.net/img/012017/2018-09-03_12.02.15.png (https://cdn.comss.net/img/012017/2018-09-03_12.02.15.png)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 07, 2018, 07:46:50 AM
I will reveal a little secret: my password consists only of numbers. Does the keyboard layout affect passwords from numbers? And why did everything work in versions 0.1.7.0 and 0.1.7.5, and now the Windows developer was to blame?

Linux is certainly great, but not everyone can use it and not everyone wants to use it.
And the prevalence of Linux leaves much to be desired.

There is no Windows developer. I am the only core developer working on this entire project, currently. Anyone can contribute code on Git but very few do so.  We are always open to working with new developers, too.

It is not a keyboard layout that the issue concerns.  Rather, its the way your text is rendered.  Windows uses Wide-set UTF-16 (which is no longer backwards compatible with ASCII). So the fact that it is composed of numbers holds zero difference, as it is still a string of text, not bytes.  Just because you read a number doesn't mean that a machine reads it at all.

Our code runs on UTF-8 so that means that anywhere that Windows has to process text, necessitates a special condition and conversion into windows-compatible text.  Your machine reading text differently than you do, and needing to convert it, is the reason your password is showing as incorrect.  

For those who use computers for devops or anything in compsci really, Windows is nothing more than a huge headache with restraints.  Due to this, Windows developers are harder to come by. Windows is intentionally unwieldy.  Microsoft's doing.  (My opinion, although I'm certain many would agree)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 07, 2018, 07:54:51 AM
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/Intl/unicode

Further reading if you care to learn more about it. ^^^


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: Rabinovitch on November 07, 2018, 08:32:48 AM
Dear developers!
Tell me please, do you test your glitches at all, or do your clients do it for you for free? I personally got tired of testing your raw software for 1.5 weeks for free! The wallet does not open. At all! After entering the password, the console closes!
https://i.postimg.cc/FKfD4xdW/7643.png
I enter the password correctly!
Everything worked fine, then just broke everything. How was it possible? How was it possible to change the algorithm, even if elementary things do not work?

I have the same issue with newest cli wallet.

http://screenshot.ru/10544e92d78b76e042f97ed1fb8bfbb6.png

The wallet can be opened with the same password in previous versions (blur-v0.1.7-win-x86_64 to be exact).


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 07, 2018, 09:50:51 AM
Clearly. It is very a pity, that you develop the product for 1,5 % of users while more than 70 % of users have remained without your support.
It is a pity to me of the spent tens hours on this coin and thousands hours of machine time. About the coins it is possible to forget simply. In a week there will be any 0.1.7.7 version, and at it also it can not appear compatibilities with earlier created purses.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on November 07, 2018, 03:28:56 PM
Clearly. It is very a pity, that you develop the product for 1,5 % of users while more than 70 % of users have remained without your support.
It is a pity to me of the spent tens hours on this coin and thousands hours of machine time. About the coins it is possible to forget simply. In a week there will be any 0.1.7.7 version, and at it also it can not appear compatibilities with earlier created purses.

In new projects some issues are expected. Small team means slower problem solving but in most cases more robust design. It is normal.
For one that is less computer-literate this can present a bigger problem, I agree. But a working solution is avaliable for anyone and community would be there to help you set up temporary solution if only you'd present them your problem. Visit discord once in a while, it is there for a reason.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: TheVeteran on November 07, 2018, 05:04:14 PM
The note to restore the Windows wallet in version 0.1.7.6 with the seed worked like a charm. As long as I don't have to do that every time a new wallet version comes out I don't mind.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: kyriores on November 07, 2018, 07:09:07 PM
In case you didn't write down your 25-word mnemonic, here's how to get it back and restore the wallet under the new version:

* Open the blur-wallet-cli.exe of an older version
* Sign in to your wallet
* Type encrypted_seed and hit enter
* Enter your password again and hit enter
* Hit enter twice (unless you have an optional seed encryption passphrase)
* Copy the 25 words
* Go to the folder where you saved the files of the newest version
* Type powershell in the address bar of that folder and hit enter
* Type .\blur-wallet-cli.exe --restore-deterministic and hit enter
* Create a wallet file and paste the 25 word mnemonic when prompted (it asks you to paste it line by line)
* You should have the new wallet files in the folder


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 07, 2018, 10:58:15 PM
The note to restore the Windows wallet in version 0.1.7.6 with the seed worked like a charm. As long as I don't have to do that every time a new wallet version comes out I don't mind.


You shouldn't have to now that the code has been updated with specificity for Windows cases.

Credit to the RYO currency guys for their code which I ported over for these changes.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 07, 2018, 11:00:48 PM
Clearly. It is very a pity, that you develop the product for 1,5 % of users while more than 70 % of users have remained without your support.
It is a pity to me of the spent tens hours on this coin and thousands hours of machine time. About the coins it is possible to forget simply. In a week there will be any 0.1.7.7 version, and at it also it can not appear compatibilities with earlier created purses.

In new projects some issues are expected. Small team means slower problem solving but in most cases more robust design. It is normal.
For one that is less computer-literate this can present a bigger problem, I agree. But a working solution is avaliable for anyone and community would be there to help you set up temporary solution if only you'd present them your problem. Visit discord once in a while, it is there for a reason.

In case you didn't write down your 25-word mnemonic, here's how to get it back and restore the wallet under the new version:

* Open the blur-wallet-cli.exe of an older version
* Sign in to your wallet
* Type encrypted_seed and hit enter
* Enter your password again and hit enter
* Hit enter twice (unless you have an optional seed encryption passphrase)
* Copy the 25 words
* Go to the folder where you saved the files of the newest version
* Type powershell in the address bar of that folder and hit enter
* Type .\blur-wallet-cli.exe --restore-deterministic and hit enter
* Create a wallet file and paste the 25 word mnemonic when prompted (it asks you to paste it line by line)
* You should have the new wallet files in the folder


Thank you both for supporting the project and helping others find solutions :)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 07, 2018, 11:41:06 PM
For the errors when running blurd.exe with startup flags on Windows:

If you are seeking to run the daemon with start-up flags (i.e. --start-mining or similar) the argument for the flag must be passed with an = sign instead of a space.  Such that, what would have previously been written --log-level 3 must now be written --log-level=3.  Similarly, to start mining to an address in daemon, the following is an example of the correct syntax:
 
Using cmd.exe:
Code:
blurd.exe --start-mining=<address> --mining-threads=<# of threads>  
Fill the bracketed areas with your subjective values, omitting the brackets.

Using powershell:
Code:
.\blurd.exe --start-mining=<address> --mining-threads=<# of threads>


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 08, 2018, 04:40:07 AM
Now the blurd.exe is not synchronized after restarting with the network. Brilliant! Removing the database did not help. she just shakes nothing. In the system, nothing has changed. Tested on 5 computers with different users, with different providers in different cities.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: rattle99 on November 08, 2018, 04:51:36 AM
How are the earnings on this?
How much are you guys making with what CPU?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 08, 2018, 06:32:16 AM
How are the earnings on this?
How much are you guys making with what CPU?
Price = 0.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 08, 2018, 07:01:30 AM
Now the blurd.exe is not synchronized after restarting with the network. Brilliant! Removing the database did not help. she just shakes nothing. In the system, nothing has changed. Tested on 5 computers with different users, with different providers in different cities.

Sounds like the issue is on your end.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 08, 2018, 07:02:34 AM
How are the earnings on this?
How much are you guys making with what CPU?


We are currently awaiting listing on Bisq.  Join our discord for p2p trades until then.  We are hopeful with some other prospects for listing as well.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 08, 2018, 07:04:55 AM
Now the blurd.exe is not synchronized after restarting with the network. Brilliant! Removing the database did not help. she just shakes nothing. In the system, nothing has changed. Tested on 5 computers with different users, with different providers in different cities.

Sounds like the issue is on your end.
Tested on 5 computers with different users, with different providers in different cities.
At the same time, on computers where the wallet was not restarted, there is a connection, blocks are searched.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 08, 2018, 11:06:38 AM
Well, there's a 5 node limit per person.  So it sounds like you hit that limit.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: senbojiaju on November 08, 2018, 11:08:15 AM
https://tradeogre.com/markets
I hope to appear here.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 08, 2018, 11:09:23 AM
A testnet for Hardfork v9 (scheduled for mainnet launch with v0.1.8 'Shift'), with the new algorithm is live.

You can start a testnet node by running the daemon with the following flags for linux/mac:
Code:
./blurd --testnet --seed-node 206.189.163.61:11111 --seed-node 104.248.69.152:11111 --seed-node 104.248.182.234:11111

On windows:
Code:
.\blurd.exe --testnet --seed-node 206.189.163.61:11111 --seed-node 104.248.69.152:11111 --seed-node 104.248.182.234:11111 

You will need to start blur-wallet-cli or blur-wallet-cli.exe with the --testnet flag as well, to generate a testnet wallet address to mine to.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 08, 2018, 06:36:19 PM
In case you didn't write down your 25-word mnemonic, here's how to get it back and restore the wallet under the new version:

* Open the blur-wallet-cli.exe of an older version
* Sign in to your wallet
* Type encrypted_seed and hit enter
* Enter your password again and hit enter
* Hit enter twice (unless you have an optional seed encryption passphrase)
* Copy the 25 words
* Go to the folder where you saved the files of the newest version
* Type powershell in the address bar of that folder and hit enter
* Type .\blur-wallet-cli.exe --restore-deterministic and hit enter
* Create a wallet file and paste the 25 word mnemonic when prompted (it asks you to paste it line by line)
* You should have the new wallet files in the folder
I made this instruction, I restored only transactions for approximately 5 or 6 November. The wallet was created on October 27, it should be more than 600 coins. Where are they?
https://i.postimg.cc/Rq0MLr1C/09876.png (https://postimg.cc/Rq0MLr1C)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 08, 2018, 11:32:04 PM
In case you didn't write down your 25-word mnemonic, here's how to get it back and restore the wallet under the new version:

* Open the blur-wallet-cli.exe of an older version
* Sign in to your wallet
* Type encrypted_seed and hit enter
* Enter your password again and hit enter
* Hit enter twice (unless you have an optional seed encryption passphrase)
* Copy the 25 words
* Go to the folder where you saved the files of the newest version
* Type powershell in the address bar of that folder and hit enter
* Type .\blur-wallet-cli.exe --restore-deterministic and hit enter
* Create a wallet file and paste the 25 word mnemonic when prompted (it asks you to paste it line by line)
* You should have the new wallet files in the folder
I made this instruction, I restored only transactions for approximately 5 or 6 November. The wallet was created on October 27, it should be more than 600 coins. Where are they?
https://i.postimg.cc/Rq0MLr1C/09876.png (https://postimg.cc/Rq0MLr1C)

Please join the discord for troubleshooting.  This is not what this thread is for.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 09, 2018, 05:58:35 AM
An optional update (v0.1.7.6.1) has been uploaded for all platforms on our releases page! https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: qq386437050 on November 09, 2018, 10:38:22 AM
Why is Bisq listed so slowly


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: Rabinovitch on November 10, 2018, 02:50:07 AM
An optional update (v0.1.7.6.1) has been uploaded for all platforms on our releases page! https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases

Exciting.

http://screenshot.ru/3ee8f67fa784c5ad34b9ccd790bc5caf.png

That's when I start blurd with .bat file from GitHub:

Code:
blurd.exe --add-priority-node=178.128.191.245:13894 --seed-node=178.128.180.136:13894 --add-priority-node=178.128.186.101:13894 --p2p-bind-port 13894 --rpc-bind-port 13895 --rpc-bind-ip 127.0.0.1  --data-dir=K:\blur
pause

But it start and run ok with my simple .bat:

Code:
blurd.exe --data-dir=K:\blur


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: Rabinovitch on November 10, 2018, 03:18:50 AM
In case you didn't write down your 25-word mnemonic, here's how to get it back and restore the wallet under the new version:

* Open the blur-wallet-cli.exe of an older version
* Sign in to your wallet
* Type encrypted_seed and hit enter
* Enter your password again and hit enter
* Hit enter twice (unless you have an optional seed encryption passphrase)
* Copy the 25 words
* Go to the folder where you saved the files of the newest version
* Type powershell in the address bar of that folder and hit enter
* Type .\blur-wallet-cli.exe --restore-deterministic and hit enter
* Create a wallet file and paste the 25 word mnemonic when prompted (it asks you to paste it line by line)
* You should have the new wallet files in the folder

--restore-deterministic-wallet


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 10, 2018, 07:29:26 AM
--restore-deterministic-wallet
Unfortunately, this does not help. Coins are restored only from November 6 (77 pcs.).


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 10, 2018, 07:44:24 AM
Please join the discord for troubleshooting.  This is not what this thread is for.
Why is the curvature and dampness of your software not a topic for discussion here? I lost 95% of my coins due to the incompatibility of the wallets version 0.1.7.0 (0.1.7.5) and 0.1.7.6 and the broken recovery mechanism.
It’s not for me that the wallet recovery does not work, just not all of them write here.
And this is not about lost 600 coins - I have a lot of wallets, everywhere the situation is similar. Of the 700 coins, for example, only 21 recovered. What is it like?
In version 0.1.7.6.1, none of these problems are fixed.
Is there any guarantee that I will get my coins back? I left the coin, I see no reason to dig what I can lose at any moment due to the fault of the developers. I already had the sad experience of losing 900000 SIA in incompatible wallets. Where there was the possibility of export, but it did not work.
And about the various encodings: I created a wallet without a password at all, just pressed ENTER instead of a password. This wallet also does not open in 0.1.7.6.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 10, 2018, 10:39:31 PM
In case you didn't write down your 25-word mnemonic, here's how to get it back and restore the wallet under the new version:

* Open the blur-wallet-cli.exe of an older version
* Sign in to your wallet
* Type encrypted_seed and hit enter
* Enter your password again and hit enter
* Hit enter twice (unless you have an optional seed encryption passphrase)
* Copy the 25 words
* Go to the folder where you saved the files of the newest version
* Type powershell in the address bar of that folder and hit enter
* Type .\blur-wallet-cli.exe --restore-deterministic and hit enter
* Create a wallet file and paste the 25 word mnemonic when prompted (it asks you to paste it line by line)
* You should have the new wallet files in the folder

--restore-deterministic-wallet

The wallet understands either input.  Omitting the last word is accepted just the same. 


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 10, 2018, 10:48:25 PM
Please join the discord for troubleshooting.  This is not what this thread is for.
Why is the curvature and dampness of your software not a topic for discussion here? I lost 95% of my coins due to the incompatibility of the wallets version 0.1.7.0 (0.1.7.5) and 0.1.7.6 and the broken recovery mechanism.
It’s not for me that the wallet recovery does not work, just not all of them write here.
And this is not about lost 600 coins - I have a lot of wallets, everywhere the situation is similar. Of the 700 coins, for example, only 21 recovered. What is it like?
In version 0.1.7.6.1, none of these problems are fixed.
Is there any guarantee that I will get my coins back? I left the coin, I see no reason to dig what I can lose at any moment due to the fault of the developers. I already had the sad experience of losing 900000 SIA in incompatible wallets. Where there was the possibility of export, but it did not work.
And about the various encodings: I created a wallet without a password at all, just pressed ENTER instead of a password. This wallet also does not open in 0.1.7.6.


I say to join our discord because that is where we announce 100% of our announcements first.  That was where the announcement was made that miners should stop mining.

The wallets also handle passwords with a more secure container than previously.  The wallets on Windows are not compatible with previous versions in probably almost any manner due to that fact, and the encoding handling.  However, your coins are still there.  You will need to restore from your 25-word mnemonic seed.  To do so, start up blur-wallet-cli.exe with the command prompt, and using the following flag:

Code:
blur-wallet-cli.exe --restore-deterministic

We have our avenues of contact (main one is discord), and our way of doing things.  I can't/won't force you to do anything, but I can tell you the most reliable ways to make sure that you are aware of everything going on within Blur Network, in a perfectly transparent manner. If you choose to not use the tools and channels for communication we have available, you are free to do that.  I'm just explaining the best way to get genuine help with issues.  

This thread is not where we handle troubleshooting.  If that is what you seek, Discord is a superior option, by many orders of magnitude.

I am sorry that I'm not able to provide more options.  But the ones that exist are helpful, if utilized.


With regard to
Quote
In v0.1.7.6.1, none of these problems are fixed
can you elaborate on what isn't fixed?


Also, the best way to get a solution for a bug you notice, would be by submitting an issue report on Github.


Title: Re: [ANN] Blur Network (BLUR) - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: qq386437050 on November 11, 2018, 02:56:00 PM
If Windows is not compatible, stop mining. I've lost more than 10K coins in version 0.1.7.5. I'm angry and don't want to talk.

Or please provide windows system recovery method.


Title: Re: [ANN] Blur Network (BLUR) - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on November 11, 2018, 11:25:36 PM
If Windows is not compatible, stop mining. I've lost more than 10K coins in version 0.1.7.5. I'm angry and don't want to talk.

Or please provide windows system recovery method.

What happened? Did you loose your wallet recovery info or did you missed the information on rollback?
Windows works fine... use discord if you have any troubles- community is there to help you.

So, regarding your problem.. if you lost your wallet, do you have wallet recovery seed?
When did you mine those coins? Are you aware of rollback that happened short after V8 and was announced on discord?
After rollback announcement nethash was incredibly low... if you mined during that time then of course those coins are gone- as it was announced.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: Rabinovitch on November 13, 2018, 03:33:31 AM
--restore-deterministic-wallet
Unfortunately, this does not help. Coins are restored only from November 6 (77 pcs.).


Sounds strange... My coins seems to be OK with this new wallet version. I have restored the wallet using 25-words phrase.


Title: Re: [ANN] Blur Network (BLUR) - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: senbojiaju on November 14, 2018, 10:11:55 AM
If Windows is not compatible, stop mining. I've lost more than 10K coins in version 0.1.7.5. I'm angry and don't want to talk.

Or please provide windows system recovery method.
You can add my QQ.
2458421782


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: kurbeks on November 14, 2018, 02:54:49 PM
Atm it can only traded at BISQ, right? As Mapple pulled their exit scam.

Thanx!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 17, 2018, 03:21:00 AM
Atm it can only traded at BISQ, right? As Mapple pulled their exit scam.

Thanx!

We are not yet on Bisq, but will be included in their next release!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: kurbeks on November 17, 2018, 09:32:01 AM
Atm it can only traded at BISQ, right? As Mapple pulled their exit scam.

Thanx!

We are not yet on Bisq, but will be included in their next release!

So atm can't buy it anywhere. Just mine, right?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on November 17, 2018, 01:34:29 PM
Atm it can only traded at BISQ, right? As Mapple pulled their exit scam.

Thanx!

We are not yet on Bisq, but will be included in their next release!

So atm can't buy it anywhere. Just mine, right?

Well at the moment there are p2p trades announced in discord channel. Middlemans are also avaliable


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 19, 2018, 11:14:21 PM
Atm it can only traded at BISQ, right? As Mapple pulled their exit scam.

Thanx!

We are not yet on Bisq, but will be included in their next release!

So atm can't buy it anywhere. Just mine, right?

Yes, currently peer-to-peer (handled entirely between those two individuals), or mining are the only ways to acquire BLUR.  But why buy what you can mine for free? Also it helps us secure the network!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 21, 2018, 09:34:42 AM
Binaries for Blur v0.1.8 'Shift' have been released.  Please update by block 211,000 if you wish to remain on the main chain. Download the binaries here (https://github.com/blur-nettwork/blur/releases)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 23, 2018, 02:28:29 AM
The hardfork is now less than 700 blocks away (Under 12 hours), make sure you are running v0.1.8! A hardfork typically means hashrate will drop... so you are likely to mine quite a few more blocks thank usual if you update beforehand, and are mining through the fork!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: Rabinovitch on November 23, 2018, 04:08:44 PM
Binaries for Blur v0.1.8 'Shift' have been released.  Please update by block 211,000 if you wish to remain on the main chain. Download the binaries here (https://github.com/blur-nettwork/blur/releases)

Sure we have updated uor BLUR binaries. But for a God's sake, WHY the blurd crashes after mining start?.......


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: senbojiaju on November 24, 2018, 12:19:18 PM
Discord The channel is closed.???


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: 4everaerial on November 24, 2018, 12:23:31 PM
Discord channel is alive and well.  https://discord.gg/XrV6k8S


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on November 24, 2018, 08:50:26 PM
Community based block explorer with mining calculator was released:  http://blur.observer


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 24, 2018, 09:04:48 PM
Please upgrade to v0.1.8.1 ! Crashing bug has been fixed


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 24, 2018, 09:43:57 PM
--restore-deterministic-wallet
Unfortunately, this does not help. Coins are restored only from November 6 (77 pcs.).

I tried to restore the wallet in version 0.1.8.1. Everything also recovers 77 coins out of 600 approximately.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on November 24, 2018, 10:09:40 PM
--restore-deterministic-wallet
Unfortunately, this does not help. Coins are restored only from November 6 (77 pcs.).

I tried to restore the wallet in version 0.1.8.1. Everything also recovers 77 coins out of 600 approximately.

Recovery works just fine.
There are few possible scenarios why this happened:
a) coins were moved from your wallet- check transactions history
b) you mined those coins on some side-chain that was not the main chain and therefor disapeared when you synced to main chain
c) you have 2 wallets and forgot about it


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 25, 2018, 06:47:25 AM
Recovery works just fine.
There are few possible scenarios why this happened:
a) coins were moved from your wallet- check transactions history
b) you mined those coins on some side-chain that was not the main chain and therefor disapeared when you synced to main chain
c) you have 2 wallets and forgot about it
I dug in several wallets. I controlled the complexity of the found blocks so that the chain was the main one. A friend from another city has exactly the same story: 90-95% of coins are lost. In version 0.1.7.5 they are, in the later there is not. For this reason, I stopped getting a coin: I lost about 5000 BLUR.
The representative of the wallet developer refuses to recognize the problem. Presumably, the problem exists only in the windows version of the wallet.
Another chain is impossible: on each machine had its purse and couldn't they all prove the alternative chain.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 25, 2018, 06:52:24 AM
Let me remind you, the problem began with the wallet version 0.1.7.5 simply ceased to be opened in later versions, allegedly entered incorrect password, but the password was very simple and consisted only of digits. That is why decided to restore a purse.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on November 25, 2018, 02:06:10 PM
Let me remind you, the problem began with the wallet version 0.1.7.5 simply ceased to be opened in later versions, allegedly entered incorrect password, but the password was very simple and consisted only of digits. That is why decided to restore a purse.

Yeah I remember. I tried to reproduce the issue on my end but never mannaged to. Meanwhile I did reproduce wrong password issue the recovery from seed allways recovered correct ammount of coins.
As I said before, please check transactions history. It could be that you were not the only one having access to it.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: economist2000 on November 25, 2018, 06:08:37 PM
Yeah I remember. I tried to reproduce the issue on my end but never mannaged to. Meanwhile I did reproduce wrong password issue the recovery from seed allways recovered correct ammount of coins.
As I said before, please check transactions history. It could be that you were not the only one having access to it.
Here is an example of one of the wallets:
https://i.postimg.cc/bs83sBPg/357.png (https://postimg.cc/bs83sBPg)
As for the transactions for November 6 (if I'm not mistaken), I have doubts, because I was getting the old version of the wallet, because I did not know about the next fork. But transactions from October 27 to November 5 inclusive should be in this wallet. At the end of November 5, there were 627 coins in it. It was produced mainly with version 0.1.7.5, since in 0.1.7.5.1 there was a problem with sending transaction: while the wallet was trying to send 1 BLUR (more than a day) not a single block was found.
A вoт чтo я вижy в кoшeлькe 0.1.8.1 (0.1.7.6, 0.1.7.6.1):
https://i.postimg.cc/p9RtXZTn/3579.png (https://postimg.cc/p9RtXZTn) - transactions only for October 26-27. No outgoing no.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on November 25, 2018, 10:43:02 PM
Yeah I remember. I tried to reproduce the issue on my end but never mannaged to. Meanwhile I did reproduce wrong password issue the recovery from seed allways recovered correct ammount of coins.
As I said before, please check transactions history. It could be that you were not the only one having access to it.
Here is an example of one of the wallets:
https://i.postimg.cc/bs83sBPg/357.png (https://postimg.cc/bs83sBPg)
As for the transactions for November 6 (if I'm not mistaken), I have doubts, because I was getting the old version of the wallet, because I did not know about the next fork. But transactions from October 27 to November 5 inclusive should be in this wallet. At the end of November 5, there were 627 coins in it. It was produced mainly with version 0.1.7.5, since in 0.1.7.5.1 there was a problem with sending transaction: while the wallet was trying to send 1 BLUR (more than a day) not a single block was found.
A вoт чтo я вижy в кoшeлькe 0.1.8.1 (0.1.7.6, 0.1.7.6.1):
https://i.postimg.cc/p9RtXZTn/3579.png (https://postimg.cc/p9RtXZTn) - transactions only for October 26-27. No outgoing no.
Thanks for provided info. Now I can confirm that you were affected by a rollback.
It happened at height around 198986 and was rolled back to 186026 (9 days or so). This means you "lost" all coins mined in this block-height window.
In other words coins mined within timewindow 28.10.2018 and 05.11.2018 were "lost". This is notable in your second screenshoot (last coins received on 27.10.18 at block 185833).

Compare block hashes at specified height given in your wallet screenshoot (bigger one) and block hashes for that same block provided by block explorer. They are not the same.
Example: blockchain height 186960
block hash provided by explorer: 5d097eb79a0780608ec1df38803b97bda1b49488f4bcb72d666331f4e5a9b4ff  (http://explorer.blur.cash/search?value=186960)
your block hash: 914becdcbe84b692d44468ca46139991df31e7512cdc2acbe06e3ade502a3e6b

Sadly, it looks like you did not get information about roll-back soon enough and keep mining on.
Information was released at least in discord channel.
Nothing is wrong, all is exactly as it is supposed to be.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 25, 2018, 10:57:44 PM
Thanks for explaining @pomartin. I will reiterate once again, that joining our Discord and/or Telegram would be very helpful in ensuring you don’t waste time mining on a chain that is irrelevant to the network. Alternatively, if you checked the front page of this thread it was displayed in bright red letters to update your software. Please follow our guidance. I’m not looking To waste anyone’s time or computing power but as I can’t control your processors, or what you do with them, you wil have to pay attention to one of our main channels for communication if you don’t want to be wasting your own time and/or electricity.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 26, 2018, 12:18:29 AM
Recovery works just fine.
There are few possible scenarios why this happened:
a) coins were moved from your wallet- check transactions history
b) you mined those coins on some side-chain that was not the main chain and therefor disapeared when you synced to main chain
c) you have 2 wallets and forgot about it
I dug in several wallets. I controlled the complexity of the found blocks so that the chain was the main one. A friend from another city has exactly the same story: 90-95% of coins are lost. In version 0.1.7.5 they are, in the later there is not. For this reason, I stopped getting a coin: I lost about 5000 BLUR.
The representative of the wallet developer refuses to recognize the problem. Presumably, the problem exists only in the windows version of the wallet.
Another chain is impossible: on each machine had its purse and couldn't they all prove the alternative chain.

You did not update your binaries, which put you out on a chain that was not the main chain.  It sounds like your friend did the same with untimely updating.  There have been 3 releases since v0.1.7.5 --  4 if you count the most recent update. With regard to this statement:

Quote
. I controlled the complexity of the found blocks so that the chain was the main one.

This logic does not hold up to reason.  You can find blocks on any blockchain, and if a superior proof of work is found to your own, the valid blocks you found, or "uncle blocks" will be reorganized out of the chain.  I do feel that is a bit unfair, which is why we are considering implementing some of the changes Masari did with uncle mining.  However, that's not going to be any time "soon" in all likelihood since our reorganizations are never longer than 2 blocks, historically speaking. 

Quote
The representative of the wallet developer refuses to recognize the problem. Presumably, the problem exists only in the windows version of the wallet.

I believe I have addressed nearly all of your concerns.  The problem could be solved using a solution I've offered a few times now. Join our channels for timely announcements (we have reddit, telegram, twitter, and discord) all of which receive every announcement we make -- reddit and twitter often are the last to receive those announcements, so I would recommend Telegram or Discord for real-time information.  I am active on both every day.   

This issue doesn't affect only Windows.  We've only had one issue which affected only Windows.  The wallet incompatibility from v0.1.7.5.1 and up was a result of a more secure password container (which means your coins get stolen less easily).  Security of your coins is our paramount concern, there... Actions taken by our network are always going to reflect that.  99% of our users have not experienced any issue with keeping valid coins.  The coins you mined are not valid on our network because changes have been made.  This happens with every hardfork.   If you upgrade prior to the fork height, you will remain mining on the main chain. 


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pdiogo on November 26, 2018, 01:27:51 AM
Any community-driven blockchain.raw we can download from? Would speed up initial blockchain sync...
Thank you and keep it up!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 26, 2018, 07:26:35 AM
Any community-driven blockchain.raw we can download from? Would speed up initial blockchain sync...
Thank you and keep it up!

Yep! the file titled blockchain_bootstrap.zip at https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases/v0.1.8 should work.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on November 29, 2018, 07:11:41 PM
Please make sure that you are running the latest release from https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases/v0.1.8.1!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: Jazekx on November 30, 2018, 04:30:57 AM
Why each time i try to open wallet-cli with my wallet and i put my password it closes inmmediately?

If i try this:

Open Windows Powershell (Windows Key + X, then click powershell (non-admin) and type cd Downloads/blur-v0.1.8.1-win-x86_64 to switch to the directory you extracted the binaries into. Launch the daemon executable with the following options:

blurd.exe --add-priority-node=178.128.191.245:13894 --seed-node=178.128.180.136:13894 --add-priority-node=178.128.186.101:13894 --p2p-bind-port 13894 --rpc-bind-port 13895 --rpc-bind-ip 127.0.0.1


I get this error:

2018-11-30 04:33:16.947 20680   INFO    global  src/daemon/main.cpp:292 BLUR 'Shift' (v0.1.8-8230253)
2018-11-30 04:33:16.947 20680   INFO    global  src/daemon/protocol.h:53        Initializing cryptonote protocol...
2018-11-30 04:33:16.947 20680   INFO    global  src/daemon/protocol.h:58        Cryptonote protocol initialized OK
2018-11-30 04:33:16.948 20680   INFO    global  src/daemon/p2p.h:63     Initializing p2p server...
2018-11-30 04:33:16.949 20680   INFO    global  src/daemon/core.h:103   Deinitializing core...
2018-11-30 04:33:16.950 20680   ERROR   daemon  src/daemon/core.h:108   Failed to deinitialize core...
2018-11-30 04:33:16.950 20680   INFO    global  src/daemon/protocol.h:75        Stopping cryptonote protocol...
2018-11-30 04:33:16.950 20680   INFO    global  src/daemon/protocol.h:79        Cryptonote protocol stopped successfully
2018-11-30 04:33:16.951 20680   ERROR   daemon  src/daemon/main.cpp:300 Exception in main! Failed to initialize p2p server.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on November 30, 2018, 02:39:01 PM
Why each time i try to open wallet-cli with my wallet and i put my password it closes inmmediately?

If i try this:

Open Windows Powershell (Windows Key + X, then click powershell (non-admin) and type cd Downloads/blur-v0.1.8.1-win-x86_64 to switch to the directory you extracted the binaries into. Launch the daemon executable with the following options:

blurd.exe --add-priority-node=178.128.191.245:13894 --seed-node=178.128.180.136:13894 --add-priority-node=178.128.186.101:13894 --p2p-bind-port 13894 --rpc-bind-port 13895 --rpc-bind-ip 127.0.0.1


I get this error:

2018-11-30 04:33:16.947 20680   INFO    global  src/daemon/main.cpp:292 BLUR 'Shift' (v0.1.8-8230253)
2018-11-30 04:33:16.947 20680   INFO    global  src/daemon/protocol.h:53        Initializing cryptonote protocol...
2018-11-30 04:33:16.947 20680   INFO    global  src/daemon/protocol.h:58        Cryptonote protocol initialized OK
2018-11-30 04:33:16.948 20680   INFO    global  src/daemon/p2p.h:63     Initializing p2p server...
2018-11-30 04:33:16.949 20680   INFO    global  src/daemon/core.h:103   Deinitializing core...
2018-11-30 04:33:16.950 20680   ERROR   daemon  src/daemon/core.h:108   Failed to deinitialize core...
2018-11-30 04:33:16.950 20680   INFO    global  src/daemon/protocol.h:75        Stopping cryptonote protocol...
2018-11-30 04:33:16.950 20680   INFO    global  src/daemon/protocol.h:79        Cryptonote protocol stopped successfully
2018-11-30 04:33:16.951 20680   ERROR   daemon  src/daemon/main.cpp:300 Exception in main! Failed to initialize p2p server.

I have seen P2P initialization error before. Turned out it was due to permissions set in system. Try running itas administrator and you should be fine.

Try executing wallet in already opened cmd/powershell, perhaps this way you'll get some error output.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: tf2addict on November 30, 2018, 06:56:30 PM
My daemon stopped syncing sometime earlier today and I'm now 680 blocks behind.  Anyone else having trouble?  And yes I'm running the latest.  I'm also getting many "host blocked" messages.

And I just noticed that the last block I received is the one after I mined the two previous blocks.  That can't be a coincidence.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on November 30, 2018, 08:41:15 PM
My daemon stopped syncing sometime earlier today and I'm now 680 blocks behind.  Anyone else having trouble?  And yes I'm running the latest.  I'm also getting many "host blocked" messages.

And I just noticed that the last block I received is the one after I mined the two previous blocks.  That can't be a coincidence.

How many nodes are you running from same IP address?
Which nodes are you connected to?
There are few possible issues, please join discord channel to troubleshoot in real-time. Trubelshooting on a forum is slow and ineffective.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: tf2addict on November 30, 2018, 09:42:08 PM
My daemon stopped syncing sometime earlier today and I'm now 680 blocks behind.  Anyone else having trouble?  And yes I'm running the latest.  I'm also getting many "host blocked" messages.

And I just noticed that the last block I received is the one after I mined the two previous blocks.  That can't be a coincidence.

How many nodes are you running from same IP address?
Which nodes are you connected to?
There are few possible issues, please join discord channel to troubleshoot in real-time. Trubelshooting on a forum is slow and ineffective.

I deleted and resynced the entire blockchain and it's working now.

Strange that it broke right after I mined two consecutive blocks.  On the newly synched chain I did not receive those two blocks.  I'm guessing I forked myself to a new chain :)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pomartin on December 01, 2018, 08:13:28 PM
My daemon stopped syncing sometime earlier today and I'm now 680 blocks behind.  Anyone else having trouble?  And yes I'm running the latest.  I'm also getting many "host blocked" messages.

And I just noticed that the last block I received is the one after I mined the two previous blocks.  That can't be a coincidence.

How many nodes are you running from same IP address?
Which nodes are you connected to?
There are few possible issues, please join discord channel to troubleshoot in real-time. Trubelshooting on a forum is slow and ineffective.

I deleted and resynced the entire blockchain and it's working now.

Strange that it broke right after I mined two consecutive blocks.  On the newly synched chain I did not receive those two blocks.  I'm guessing I forked myself to a new chain :)

Nice to hear you mannaged to solve it. Consider checking your connection to wan- make sure firewall is not blocking daemon as even if you forked to alternative chain, you should get re-organized when your daemon figures out that he is not on the same chain as the other nodes your daemon connects to.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on December 02, 2018, 06:21:10 AM
My daemon stopped syncing sometime earlier today and I'm now 680 blocks behind.  Anyone else having trouble?  And yes I'm running the latest.  I'm also getting many "host blocked" messages.

And I just noticed that the last block I received is the one after I mined the two previous blocks.  That can't be a coincidence.

Host blocked messages typically mean that your node is falling outside of the ruleset of others, and vice versa.  Something caused your miner to act outside of the iterations count for hash calculation, probably.

Because we use both timestamps and height as arbitrary numbers in the equation for our iterations, the mutual blocking (other nodes were likely blocking you too) could be caused by you falling out of sync with height, or through anything that would look like timestamp manipulation to other nodes.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on December 02, 2018, 10:23:40 PM
PLEASE CHECK YOUR MINERS. It seems that AV is either falsely detecting the blur daemon on Windows, or that some sort of DoS is occurring.  Nethash is low as a result.  the quicker you check and restart, the more blocks you'll mine!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on December 04, 2018, 01:41:16 AM
Blur Network CLI tools (Wallet and Daemon) are now available as a snap package on the Ubuntu Software Store.  Search "Blur" in the store to find it.  

You can start the daemon with the command "blur.blurd" and the wallet with "blur.blur-wallet-cli"


https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-black.svg (https://snapcraft.io/blur)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on December 09, 2018, 09:33:50 PM
After speaking with MXShine, we have decided not to pursue a listing there.  We have done the same with FirstCryptoBank (FCB), despite the offer for a free listing.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: lesoleil on December 09, 2018, 11:19:51 PM
tried to download cli for win10. got a virus notification and system stopped me from completing download...?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on December 11, 2018, 07:49:57 AM
After speaking with MXShine, we have decided not to pursue a listing there.  We have done the same with FirstCryptoBank (FCB), despite the offer for a free listing.
:-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[

Our decision not to go with FCB was due to affiliation with suspicious going-ons surrounding the MapleChange scam.  MXShine left much to be desired with their ability to communicate.  Our chief interest is the security of our users, even if that means waiting for a proper listing.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on December 11, 2018, 11:40:36 PM
The Blur Network is expanding to a multi-chain model!  This is the announcement and unveiling of the new architecture that is marked on the roadmap.  You can read about where things are headed here: https://whalereports.com/blur-network-fractal-multichain/


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on December 12, 2018, 04:18:13 AM
https://i.ibb.co/k6zHtGf/blur-fractals-promo.jpg (https://whalereports.com/blur-network-fractal-multichain/)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on December 14, 2018, 01:12:10 AM
https://i.ibb.co/ft08ScF/fractalchainsandbox2.png


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: Rabinovitch on December 20, 2018, 11:07:40 AM
So what is the price of BLUR now? I can't start a BISQ client for some reason...


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on December 24, 2018, 08:59:53 AM
So what is the price of BLUR now? I can't start a BISQ client for some reason...

what operating system are you on?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on December 24, 2018, 09:01:04 AM
Please upgrade your nodes to v0.1.8.2!  This update is strongly recommended for all nodes.

Get the update here: https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases.   An updated GUI Wallet is available for Linux -- Windows and Mac to follow.

While not updating shouldn't find you out on a orphaned chain... the bug fixes and improvements are ones that you will want to update for, where possible.  Changelog is included on the releases page.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: Rabinovitch on December 25, 2018, 06:23:32 AM
what operating system are you on?

Win7 x64 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4509053.msg48779021#msg48779021)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on December 29, 2018, 11:34:05 AM
what operating system are you on?

Win7 x64 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4509053.msg48779021#msg48779021)

Can't say why that wouldn't be working, sorry.  I don't often run Windows.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on December 29, 2018, 11:35:33 AM
Visit our subreddit for details on our rolling-basis weekly AMA (https://www.reddit.com/r/blur_network/comments/a91e8v/rollingbasis_weekly_ama_thread_for_the_blur/)!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: rankguide on December 29, 2018, 12:06:32 PM
The project on the one hand looks very attractive. On the other hand, there is very little information. I would like to know more details to assess the prospects.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on December 29, 2018, 03:26:17 PM
The project on the one hand looks very attractive. On the other hand, there is very little information. I would like to know more details to assess the prospects.


What would you like to know? 

Introduction to our roots: https://whalereports.com/intro-to-blur-network/

Where we are headed: https://whalereports.com/blur-network-fractal-multichain/


Ask some questions on the AMA thread on our Subreddit!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: ICOcountdown.com on January 02, 2019, 09:58:41 AM
Can you the Blur community stop dragging Nerva through the mud when you guys forked and can't make a reliable chain.

Thanks.

https://twitter.com/ICOcountdown/status/1080400519909142528


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on January 03, 2019, 11:29:16 AM
Can you the Blur community stop dragging Nerva through the mud when you guys forked and can't make a reliable chain.

Thanks.

https://twitter.com/ICOcountdown/status/1080400519909142528

Responded to this on Twitter. Can you all from Nerva stop commenting on everything Blur so obsessively? Appreciate it.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: misterwiggles9 on January 05, 2019, 12:12:25 AM
So this doesn't get lost:

Quote
michael-herwig | 3 points | 1 hour ago
For everyone looking into this thread, asking themselves if there is anything reasonable on these claims I will shortly state my understanding.

1: Nerva was GPU mineable in Adaptive v1 until v3. Over time it grew more and more GPU mineable, suggesting that it was designed that way to look like actual growth, possibly.
The claim is that the number of iterations will not change drastically on given heights because of the modulus operation. Thus the number of iterations will always be 0x40000+[1..63]. The author claims that a much faster, or even GPU, implementation could be made for each different value which would yield a drastically performance boost.

This is incorrect. The suggested solution of loop unrolling is not applicable. Compilers have a built-in limit of how many loops can be unrolled at max. For GCC8.2 this is 16. I have coded a simple example here, simply increase the iterations by 1 and you will see the assembler implementation switches to jumps.

Regarding the GPU claim, incorrect. The number of iterations is not the hard breaking edge for GPUs. It is the memory consumption/random access and memory critical path. For example, the initial version of CryptoNight has a fixed iteration for all hash computations and that does not make it faster or slower in any way. Please have a look into their specification if you want to read more about the idea.

General Suggestion: If you claim to know performance improvements you better benchmark first. Many C++ programmers tend to think they know how to write the faster code and in the end, it does not matter. There is a great talk about it on youtube you may want to check that out.

2: The typo is returning a value by reference to a function... If we return the wrong type, we get an error. If we do not return an incorrect type, we don't get an error, and the program thinks we have the correct value (when it could have changed between calls)
What do you mean by hacks? Returning by const reference is a performance optimization and it is known to easily introduce errors, that is correct. But what do you want to achieve by 'hacking' it? You will have an invalid version of the hash try to submit it and other daemons will not accept it. The project is open source and everyone can look into these changes. Thus if you want to 'hack' someone you would have to force them to update their versions with your injected one and that's where a real hack starts, in my opinion. You may want to distinguish compilation and runtime more, next time.

3: Nerva claims to "DDoS pool operators" with 4kB of random data, sent with each block. This data is derived using Mersenne Twister. Except that the block size (on their explorer currently) is only 85 bytes.
Incorrect, again. First Nerva queries multiple blocks, second, it is a very common technique to expand more pseudo-random data out of small memory chunks (like kinda every password hashing algorithm does). The Mersenne Twister is a random number generator to help for this regard.

In General
These claims are misleading at least and it looks like you threw them out of nowhere without any researched evidence. In my opinion, it is always fine to do so and ask for feedback if you think something could be wrong but I would encourage you to step a bit back and be more careful with your claims because you may be wrong, like in this case. As a result, stating these claims may hurt your reputation and the reputation of the blockchain you are working on. Finally please read you're COC.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on January 05, 2019, 05:28:50 PM
In response to recent events and the way they were handled, Blur Network now enforces a code of Conduct, effective 01/04/2018: https://github.com/blur-network/blur/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md. Please read and abide by the code. It will be enforced in all project spaces.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on January 09, 2019, 01:44:25 PM
CNAv1 is known to be vulnerable to pool-creation with some simple mods. That being the case, does Blur intend to fight against pools or to embrace them and keep the GPU resistance?


Pool resistance was not the objective with the algorithm changes... more so, a welcomed byproduct of them.  Pooled hashing is something that will become a part of the project further down the line, with a limit on poolsize based on % of net hash.  This achieves the goal of decentralization without exposing miners to the unbalanced "luck" of solving for the correct block hash ... Although, luck and randomness are *technically* more fair.

As someone who is not intimately familiar with how the cn-Adaptive algo works, would you be able to give a simplified explanation of how the algo manages to be GPU and pool resistant?

Definitely.  It's really not all that complex, to be honest. Explaining it can be, though.   NERVA's implementation currently adds a few more layers for randomness.  We'll be adding some of that on our own in the next network update which should be this week sometime.  Essentially, the algorithm runs a base number of iterations in the cryptonote algorithm... then dynamically adds an additional number of iterations (which differs each block) to that base number.  That dynamic portion is based on the previous block's height.  The way it is written, the iterations in a block cycles up and then back down to make a pattern of difficulty that looks like a sawtooth.  

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/0*QzO4ri8pb-saN4rW

if you notice hashrate gradually increasing, before dropping sharply, and then repeating the cycle... this is why.

There are two files that hold the algorithm's nuts and bolts, as they are present in BLUR's algorithm currently. These two files that we are going to look at, are located at the following locations in the source code:

Code:
blur/src/crypto/slow-hash.c
and
Code:
blur/src/cryptonote_basic/cryptonote_format_utils.cpp

The slow-hash.c file has a few pieces of information that are important and differentiate CN-Adaptive from other variants of cryptonight.  The first of which is on line 46:
Code:
#define MEMORY         (1 << 20) // 1MB scratchpad

As annotated, this parameter defines the scratchpad size for the algorithm's rounds of iterations. A 1MB scratchpad is also seen in Cryptonight-Light.  This size allows for less iterations in a round, and fits within the cache of lower end CPUs, enabling older hardware to still mine somewhat effectively.  

Now within the cryptonight algorithm, there is an added parameter in CN-Adaptive, for iterations.  This parameter defined as iters, and you can find the implementation on Line 570 of the same slow-hash.c file:

Code:
void cn_slow_hash(const void *data, size_t length, char *hash, int variant, int prehashed, size_t iters)

As well as lines 645-662:

Code:
    if(useAes)
    {
        for(i = 0; i < iters; i++)
        {
            pre_aes();
            _c = _mm_aesenc_si128(_c, _a);
            post_aes();
        }
    }
    else
    {
        for(i = 0; i < iters; i++)
        {
            pre_aes();
            aesb_single_round((uint8_t *) &_c, (uint8_t *) &_c, (uint8_t *) &_a);
            post_aes();
        }
    }

This variable "iters" calls out to a function in the second file I mentioned, to determine its value in the block being mined.   So head over to blur/src/cryptonote_basic/cryptonote_format_utils.cpp if you're following along.  

Within that file, on lines 891-901, you'll find the calculations for the number of iterations.  Before elaborating on the code, I would like to note that in its current state this code could be optimized with a GPU.  However, you  would still need a CPU present in some form, to direct the GPUs hashpower.  BLUR's goal is being too resource intensive for GPU/ASIC miners to pursue.  In its current state, and at the current value of BLUR... this has sufficed.  However, we are hardforking to a new implementation shortly, for the purpose of maintaining that as the project grows.

With that said, on lines 891-901 of cryptonote_format_utils.cpp we have:

Code:
  //---------------------------------------------------------------
  bool get_block_longhash(const block& b, crypto::hash& res, uint64_t height)
  {
    blobdata bd = get_block_hashing_blob(b);
    int cn_variant = b.major_version >= 5 ? 1 : 0;
int cn_iters = b.major_version >= 6 ? ( b.major_version >= 7 ? 0x40000 : 0x20000 ) : 0x80000;
    cn_iters += ((height + 1) % 1024);
    crypto::cn_slow_hash(bd.data(), bd.size(), res, cn_variant, cn_iters);
    return true;
  }
  //---------------------------------------------------------------

The lines here that we are primarily looking at, are the ones that declare and calculate the variable "cn_iters". Starting with the first mention (where we calculate the base number of iterations):

Code:
int cn_iters = b.major_version >= 6 ? ( b.major_version >= 7 ? 0x40000 : 0x20000 ) : 0x80000;

The code above breaks down into two parts...

Code:
 b.major_version >= 6 ? (x) : (0x80000)
and
Code:
 b.major_version >= 7 ? (0x40000) : (0x20000)

The "x" variable in the first part, is simply swapped out for the entire "second part" in the actual code.  For the purposes of explaining, its easier to break it apart this way.  The "?" symbol in C++ is what's known as a ternary operator. It essentially serves as an "if" statement directed by the ">=" operators that come before it, in this instance.

So it means to say "If the block version number (hardfork version) is greater-than-or-equal-to 6, define the iterations as the value on the left-hand side of the colon.  If it is not, define as 0x80000 or the value following the colon.  

The number 0x80000 is in hexidecimal, and translates to the human-readable number (in decimal format) 524288, for our base # of iterations.  Assuming we are above block version 5... we then move to the next conditional statement
Code:
 b.major_version >= 7 ? (0x40000) : (0x20000)
.  

We use the same logic here, to say if we are on block version 7 or higher, we use 0x40000 or 262144 for the base amount of iterations.  If we are not (i.e. less than 7 but greater than 5), we use 0x20000 or 131072 for the base number.  Now, ONTO THE DYNAMIC PART.  That's much simpler:

So far we have iterations (for current hardfork) = 262144 + (dynamic portion). The dynamic part is found on line #897, directly after the calculation for the base number:

Code:
cn_iters =+ ((height +1) % 1024)

This means to say: "Add to the base number of iterations, the calculated value for the function (current block height) Modulo (1024).  A modulo just means divide the height by 1024, and look at your remainder.  That remainder is actually then the solution to the equation.  So, (1025) % 1024 would equal 1. Just the same, (2047) % 1024 would equal 1023, because 2047 = 1024 + 1023...




Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀The Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Adaptive CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on January 09, 2019, 02:23:20 PM
oops


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: skybar on January 11, 2019, 11:08:49 AM
The knee jerk adoption of a Contributor Covenant derived COC is the most disappointing thing to have happened to this project.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on January 21, 2019, 04:38:16 PM
The knee jerk adoption of a Contributor Covenant derived COC is the most disappointing thing to have happened to this project.

Do you dislike respecting other people and their opinions? We believe that good ideas come in all shapes and sizes. Except those that marginalize without basis :)

We also believe you can like chocolate, strawberry, AND vanilla!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on February 02, 2019, 07:58:56 PM
The latest release (v0.1.8.3) has been uploaded to GitHub!  You can download binaries here , as well as read the changelog, which details all changes that have occurred since the previous release. (https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases/tag/v0.1.8.3) This update is mandatory for all nodes, and patches two very important vulnerabilities, as well as giving miners a hashrate boost across the board.  Please upgrade as soon as possible.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on February 04, 2019, 04:36:55 PM
Please update your software if you have not yet!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on February 15, 2019, 07:05:00 AM
Update:  The changes for v10 hardfork will be done this week.  After those are pushed to GitHub, I'll be comfortable finalizing the Lightpaper and releasing that as well, as the v10 hardfork changes will then be set in stone.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: netto7 on February 15, 2019, 07:18:33 PM
Following this coin


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on February 19, 2019, 06:36:29 PM
Blur v0.1.9 'Radiant Flux' has been released! Grab binaries for all platforms on our releases page on GitHub. (https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases)

You must update by block 342,000 if you wish to remain on the main chain.  At the fork height, anyone mining on v0.1.8.x will cease to be relevant to the network.


This update brings with it the improvement and upgrade of our PoW algorithm to CryptoNight-Dynamic v2.  These changes provide for greater resistance against pools, as well as GPU.  The calculation for dynamic iterations now uses the block difficulty as an arbitrary number in the calculation.  Previously, PoW hash was only checked against the relative difficulty to ensure block hash fell within the required threshold.  The same check is still performed; however, using a different value as the block difficulty will now result in a different number of iterations, thereby breaking of consensus, if not mining at the same difficulty as the larger network.  Additionally, the window for dynamic iterations has been further increased from 4096 to 32868.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on February 22, 2019, 06:29:48 AM
Repost from Discord:

ANNOUNCEMENT (20 Feb. 2019): GUI for v0.1.9 has been released for Windows, as well as a set of Linux Binaries for the GUI, for purposes of remaining somewhat distribution-agnostic.  Additionally, the snap package on the Ubuntu software store has been upgraded to the latest v0.1.9 for the CLI tools.

Updates are now released for every platform that we officially support, and for every UI and/or package type we offer. The network will fork in roughly 4 days, so be sure to update your nodes prior to block 342,000! This is the last time I’ll announce this here, so I can quit blowing up your notifications :wink:

Should you wish to help us benchmark the new v10 algorithm changes, you can do so by starting the wallet with the --testnet flag to generate a testnet address (these begin with the prefix b8...).  Then, once you have a testnet wallet address, launch the daemon with the startup flags --testnet --offline.  Your daemon will not sync to the testnet, but you may start mining immediately. At block 40, the testnet forks to v10.  After this block has been mined, any point thereafter will be a fairly reliable benchmark.  To start mining simply issue the command start_mining <testnet address> <# of threads>.  Post your results over in #benchmarks if you care to share.

Thanks for updating to support the network.  Here's to a smooth fork!


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on February 22, 2019, 06:33:11 AM
Website will be down for 2 hours while we update/improve some things.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on March 01, 2019, 05:12:56 PM
A new release for Blur v0.1.9.1 'Radiant Flux' has been uploaded to github. This update is MANDATORY for all nodes, as it revises the algorithm for CryptoNight Dynamic v2.  The code from v0.1.9 is not compatible with the new v0.1.9.1 network... so an update is required.  Please update as soon as possible.  I will be posting a summary of the algorithm changes here in a moment. CLI Wallet (https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases) || GUI Wallet (https://github.com/blur-network/blur-network-gui/releases)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: cqqjmzzx on March 22, 2019, 12:02:32 AM
GUI wallet is no longer in use. What should I do?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on April 04, 2019, 08:33:41 PM
BLUR is now listed on txbit.io with BTC, ETH, and XLR Pairs!

https://i.ibb.co/F0m78Q2/txbit.png (https://txbit.io/trade/BLUR/BTC)
BTC, ETH, XLR Pairs

Also, please make sure you are running the latest v0.1.9.5 release (https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases), as it includes updates that are necessary to maintain your privacy.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on April 06, 2019, 03:42:05 AM
BLUR has been listed on Altilly with BTC & XQR Pairs!

https://i.imgur.com/5UXuJg3.jpg (https://altilly.com/market/BLUR_BTC)
BTC, XQR Pairs

Trading can begin immediately.  Deposits, withdrawals, and order creation are all confirmed working.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on April 06, 2019, 03:50:52 AM
Posting here since I forgot to do so when it was initially released:

A new release for Blur v0.1.9.5 'Radiant Flux Primed' has been uploaded to github. This update is STRONGLY recommended for all nodes, as it includes privacy updates (to protect from timing attacks allowed in XMR's code, by default), as well as patching the the most recent vulnerabilities found in XMR.

The v0.1.9.5 release is backwards-compatible with nodes running v0.1.9.1.  However, nodes running v0.1.9.1 will drop connections to v0.1.9.5, if the daemon from v0.1.9.1 is the one who initiates the connection.  Otherwise, the connection is allowed if v0.1.9.5 initiates the connection.  However, an update is recommended due to old daemons not being protected against the cache-timing vector, and a couple other bugs.   Please update as soon as possible. 

You can find the changelog for the new release on the CLI tools release page (https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases).  Updated GUI's are also available here. (https://github.com/blur-network/blur-network-gui)

Note:  There is known bug in the GUI that requires starting the daemon (blurd in Mac/Linux, blurd.exe on Windows) externally for syncing.   Launching from the "Start Daemon" link in the GUI will not work.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on April 06, 2019, 03:57:29 AM
As far as the most recent changes go, the two patches of concern are within:
1.) Handling of additional tx public keys, and their (lack of) inclusion in a transaction.
2.) P2P protocols allowing transmission of any peer's host OS, along with other info, that collectively or separately could make memory timing attacks a lot easier.


Both of these have now been patched in v0.1.9.5. Prior to this, additional transaction keys were not always included in a transaction, in all scenarios where they should have been. Now, if they are present, and the boolean need_additional_txkeys is not evaluated as true, they are included as well.  This is a bit overly conservative, but we will shave the logic down to an XNOR-case in the next release.

The second fix seems to have been necessary due to what appears to be a leftover from Bytecoin.  However, it was commented out in XMR's original code.  That changed in XMR, 5 years ago, and the flag for ALLOW_DEBUG_COMMANDS appears to have been set by default ever since.  This is a bit of an issue, as the P2P commands involved with that flag are not secure, and give up a decent amount of information about the node's host computer

Some background on memory-timing attacks...  Worth noting that these are nearly impossible to defend against, but some things make them much easier, if they are known about the host computer.

Spectre and Meltdown were two recent vulnerabilities that made use of this.  Intel and AMD had to completely rethink their architecture design to mitigate.
Dan Bernstein's paper which proved these attacks' feasibility: https://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/502984274589384714/559369626031751173/unknown.png

Prior to their removal, the conditional flag, and associated P2P pubkey:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/502984274589384714/559370270222057472/unknown.png

And the associated conditional (in one place, anyway)
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/502984274589384714/559371755882283008/unknown.png

Why this is dangerous:
That P2P_REMOTE_TRUSTED_DEBUG_PUB_KEY is the same as a known cipher text, that gets hashed by every daemon who connects and performs a handshake, prior to our latest update. Such is the case currently in XMR, and every fork of it, excluding BLUR.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/502984274589384714/562335349628469258/chosenciphertext.png

Nodes on v0.1.9.5 no longer include this functionality.
The relevant function doing this can be found here: https://github.com/blur-network/blur/commit/482631942c187d47c02d3cd42651ad87801ccebe#diff-c02157891426370c008d7076b723128cL1416 and is called proof_of_trust


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: lorenz2356 on April 06, 2019, 04:43:40 AM
Hi! Do you have a bootstrap for the old blocks? thanks


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on April 06, 2019, 06:52:14 AM
Hi! Do you have a bootstrap for the old blocks? thanks

Yes, we do. Link: https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases/download/v0.1.9.5/blur-blockchain-bootstrap.zip

There are also instructions here: https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases#bootstrap


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: qq386437050 on April 08, 2019, 02:51:31 AM
How to import coins from old wallets into new graphic wallets


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: chengyz on April 16, 2019, 04:41:53 PM
hello,
    please help me ,My wallet can be opened on both 0.17 and 0.175, but after updating to 0.19.5, I can't open the wallet file. I am prompted that the password is wrong. I am sure the password is correct. What do I need to do?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: boomboom on April 17, 2019, 01:56:22 AM
Is there a paper wallet generator?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on April 21, 2019, 11:38:44 PM
Is there a paper wallet generator?

Yes, on the website, under CLI Wallets. (Lock symbol)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on April 21, 2019, 11:41:17 PM
How to import coins from old wallets into new graphic wallets

hello,
    please help me ,My wallet can be opened on both 0.17 and 0.175, but after updating to 0.19.5, I can't open the wallet file. I am prompted that the password is wrong. I am sure the password is correct. What do I need to do?

Please see the procedure here: https://github.com/blur-network/blur/issues/24 ...

alternatively, you will be able to open that wallet with the v0.1.7.5 release or below.  However, you need to connect to the network by using the daemon from v0.1.9.1 or newer.  Old wallets connect just fine with new daemons. It's the password handling that changed in a non-backward compatible way. When you get the wallet open using v0.1.7.5's blur-wallet-cli, you will need to type the following command:

Code:
set_daemon http://localhost:52542

then your daemon should connect to the wallet, and you can send the funds to a wallet created using v0.1.9.1 or newer.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on April 27, 2019, 08:37:39 PM
If you missed it this past week: we have started development efforts on integrating chain security from Komodo’s DPoW, which will allow for securing BLUR with BTC through notarized transactions.

You can read about the beginnings of this collaboration here: https://komodoplatform.com/tt2019-16-synthetic-positions-prices-blockchain-financial-instruments

https://i.ibb.co/QMrQgSG/099-B458-E-158-C-4410-A776-6-F5-B8-ECB1-E45.jpg


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: qq386437050 on May 17, 2019, 06:12:28 AM
Where did the people go?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: boomboom on May 17, 2019, 07:35:36 AM
Where did the people go?

Some are accumulating, and prefer not to have too much attention on BLUR until they finish.

dPoW will be big news if it succeeds


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on May 30, 2019, 07:25:13 AM
Where did the people go?

Some are accumulating, and prefer not to have too much attention on BLUR until they finish.

dPoW will be big news if it succeeds

You can follow the progress on DPoW integrations here: https://github.com/blur-network/dpow-blur. And on the projects board here: https://github.com/orgs/blur-network/projects/1

I just finished implementing the RPC calls that will enable (eventually) things like cross-chain clusters and interactions with other assetchains in komodo’s network. All of the bitcoin compatibility dependencies have been integrated and placed in a separate  “bitcoin” library.  The goal when DPoW is launched, we’re shooting for full interoperability between XMR-based chains, and KMD’s ecosystem.

The exciting part, outside of the security that will be gained with KMD’s work: This means that BTC-based and XMR-based chains will be able to communicate by simply porting the changes. Still a lot to do, but things are taking shape.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: qq386437050 on June 10, 2019, 07:05:51 AM
Whether coins are successful or not, people are far away and trading volume is close to zero, which makes it difficult to arouse interest.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on June 17, 2019, 05:46:06 PM
An update on the state of DPoW integrations for BLUR:

Porting all of the BTC-derived code is taking a while, but things are moving along smoothly... particularly as of late.  Things finally beginning to click between XMR-BTC, mentally speaking.

At the following repo you'll see some recent changes (not all have been pushed yet, as I am trying to keep that repository in a state that actually builds without treating warnings as errors): https://github.com/blur-network/dpow-blur

Among those changes that have been pushed are:

- There is now a binary that builds with the set of blur-specific bins that is titled `blur-notary-server-rpc`.  This will become the binary that will create the notarization transactions on BLUR's chain, once  the data has been written to into a raw btc transaction.
- That raw BTC data is going to be affixed to the 'extra' field of an BLUR transaction.  This subfield in the `tx_extra` will be prefixed by a leading byte of `0x05` which will be unique to notarization transactions.  I am going to attempt to keep that an authenticated field, meaning only NN secret keys will be able to create this type of transaction (ideally).
- Can't promise the authentication, since this field is not verified for content by any node (as far as consensus goes). But since we are making changes to consensus anyway, I figure its worth a shot (really just mitigates performance hit from verification happening too often).
- If you wish to compile that repo on your own you can also use the JSON-RPC calls for `notarization_data`, `height_MoM`, and `calc_MoM` to make a call to each of those three methods on the daemon.  I'll be adding documentation for these later on.
- The above RPC calls will eventually be populated with data from the komodo state files, iguana's methods for merkle tree calculations, and all that good stuff.
- The backbone of the RPC calls and the notarization server are built.  So, what's left is a matter of actually plugging these functions into the RPC calls and making sure they work properly once that's complete.

Integrations are looking like they’ll be done around the end of June. Possibly a week or two into July.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 18, 2019, 05:25:19 AM
Blur v0.1.9.8.1 'Radiance' has been released!

Grab it here: https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases or via the links on the website.

Please update as soon as possible, as the update patched a critical wallet vulnerability.  Please see changelog for relevant information, as well as the picture attached below.  Opening old wallet files on the new wallet will mean that your mined rewards will not show up in your wallet balance until the steps below are followed:


https://i.ibb.co/WWwsTxR/discord-wallets.png


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 18, 2019, 05:35:17 AM
GUI wallets have also been released for all platforms.  Grab those on the GitHub releases page (https://https://github.com/blur-network/blur-network-gui/releases) as well, or via links on the website.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 18, 2019, 06:23:39 AM
Voting for the next coin to be listed on qtrade.io has begun!

If you want to see us listed on qtrade -- vote for Blur, here: https://qtrade.io/listings

Qtrade only lists innovative projects, so they would be a great exchange to get onto, if we can muster the community support.  Voting requires an e-mail verified account.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 18, 2019, 01:48:11 PM
Another update on the state of DPoW integrations: (Repost from Komodo Discord)

1.) Notary Node  addresses & wallet building is underway. You can see the beginnings of the address work  here: (https://github.com/blur-network/dpow-blur/commit/1d4397c4da4b70eb3a66a911c4e3c78b1c138b53).

Understanding how this will work with NN pubkeys, requires a little background on XMR addresses.  In monero's ecosystem, each wallet address consists of two separate keypairs (4 keys in total, 2 public, 2 private). These consist of a viewkey pair, and a spendkey pair.  If keys are truly independent (they are deterministic in XMR, but will not be for notary nodes), the private viewkey can be used by third parties to transparently view the transactions. This is possible without the viewer having any way to actually compromise the funds of the wallet in question.

 jl777 and I spoke about about ways to employ the existing BTC pubkeys that notary nodes currently use, and avoid requiring submission of private keys of any kind... What we settled on was repurposing the current btc pubkeys as private viewkeys for  notary nodes on BLUR.  For the other keypair (spendkey), a new crypto library, built on Ed25519 and GIMLI permutations, called libhydrogen will be used to generate a high entropy secret spendkey.

This means that NN operators will only have  to provide their pubkey on startup of blur-notary-server-rpc, and a unique wallet address will then be generated.

2.) An extra parameter for dpowconfs has been added to the wallet, and notary wallets: (https://github.com/blur-network/dpow-blur/commit/38d8a482302a57479d1b4e174d6b74145171e6d7).

3.) All of the types, classes, etc necessary from bitcoin have been consolidated into the directory external/bitcoin (which compiles as a static library).

 I've also added a couple helper functions in src/common/hex_str.cpp for conversions between the two codebases. Converting from BTC style uint256 to cryptonote's crypto::hash is pretty simple this way, and we don't have to do any crazy type-punning.

4.) Unique ntz_txn tags & fields in the extra have been added, and have preliminarily been given a buffer of 4kB or so. (https://github.com/blur-network/dpow-blur/commit/f6deef44d41847c7e8125e40c606379cc325af27 & https://github.com/blur-network/dpow-blur/commit/6ade53a6548c983dae100ef24159548ba188c999)

5.) komodo-related DPoW functions have been built with main lines into cryptonote::core via the komodo_core class.  This class has a constructor that initializes m_core and m_p2p as references to cryptonote::core and node_server.  These are the two handlers that dictate consensus, effectively.

 - Here, core will allow us to load in state files, checkpoints, etc.  There are already placeholder functions (without bodies) for this.  You'll find all of komodo_core located in src/komodo/komodo_validation.cpp & .h

In BLUR consensus decisions begin in core and p2p as far as network communication goes.  These decisions are then finalized in src/cryptonote_core/blockchain.cpp where they are added to the blockchain, or rejected based on verification & hard fork rules


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 24, 2019, 03:58:38 PM
Implementation of addresses with non-deterministic view/spend key pairs is complete.  See the README.md at https://github.com/blur-network/dpow-blur for details on how to use the notary-server-rpc to generate an address.  These addresses are LIVE and will be able to spend/receive funds.  Only do so if you are an experienced user.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on July 31, 2019, 05:18:08 AM
Libbtc has been added to the DPoW-Blur repository for Bitcoin transaction parsing.

Timeline has shifted back slightly on the DPoW integrations, as some may have noticed. Patching the vulnerability from the XMR wallet bug necessitated the immediate attention. DPoW code should be done in roughly two weeks, as a result.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: bokieie on August 16, 2019, 10:07:45 AM
Hope you will be doing good and this is going to be a success story :) I've heard something about this project from outside of this forum.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: cuttie018 on August 16, 2019, 05:13:06 PM
Hey, guys, good idea! Do you have a crypto-development background? Checked repository. It's straight-forward. How are people in your team?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 27, 2019, 07:43:01 PM
UPDATE: For those interested in progress on the DPoW integrations, the README in the DPoW-Blur repository has been updated!

You can access the repository here: https://github.com/blur-network/dpow-blur

Please note that the RPC methods included there are unfinished currently, but have partial functionality.

The ntz_transfer command issued to blur-notary-server-rpc will currently generate a single Tx with 64 destinations.  Subsequently, this transaction (signed by a single notary node) is relayed to the network as a request for more signatures.

Once the count for signatures reaches 13, the transaction will be relayed. You can simulate this behavior by changing sig_count to 13 in either RPC call:

1.)  request_ntz_sig sent to the daemon with a signed tx_blob

or

2.) ntz_transfer with sig_count = 13

Further functionality of authenticated tx creation, and automatic signing will be implemented in the next few days.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on August 27, 2019, 07:45:23 PM
Please be advised: Terms & Conditions, and the Privacy Policy on the website have been updated. Please take the time to refamiliarize yourself with the existing terms & policies, as well as getting acquainted with the new ones

You can access the "Terms and Conditions" agreement here: https://blur.cash/terms-and-conditions

And the website's "Privacy Policy" here: https://blur.cash/privacy-policy

And as always, our "Mission Statement" is available here, for completeness: https://blur.cash/mission-statement

Note that these are also all accessible from the footer of the website's main page.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: pi314s on August 30, 2019, 02:12:28 AM
Would be nice to see the exchange coin. Will this be pump-and-dump coin, or a serious project, guys?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: edmoffo on September 01, 2019, 04:49:02 AM
Have you ever had similar project here at BCT? Seems like I've alreday seen such projetc here. Maybe i am mistaken though...


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: Stratobitz on September 11, 2019, 05:25:23 PM
Recent jump in hashrate / difficulty... roughly 3x from a few weeks ago. Any news on this?

Strato


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: bibonix on September 11, 2019, 11:01:05 PM
I look forward to the bounty program. I think this will statr as logical as I have very little information about the project.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on September 25, 2019, 08:09:09 AM
Recent jump in hashrate / difficulty... roughly 3x from a few weeks ago. Any news on this?

Strato

Sorry, I have not been checking bitcointalk often, as the development work on DPoW has been keeping me busy.  Things are at a very discernible point of functioning, from a wallet, daemon, and protocol-level standpoint.  I'll post an update here in a bit, on the development progress.  It's been a while since I updated everyone.  But have exciting things to share from code :)

Still a bit more work to go, but things are quickly getting closer to being done.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on September 30, 2019, 07:44:00 AM
Good afternoon.
I have an old daemon and wallet version blur-v0.1.7-win-x86_64.
I used to update your binary file without any problems and transfer my wallet to it - there weren’t any problems.


I downloaded your new version - blur-v0.1.9.8.1-win-x86_64.
But my password from my old wallet does not work now.
What is the problem? What should I do and how to get my coins?
Thank you in advance.


I went into the old wallet and got my seed.
Then he tried to restore the wallet through his seed, but received an Error: Multisig seed failed verification error.
What am I doing wrong? How do I get my coins?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 02, 2019, 02:23:17 PM
Good afternoon.
I have an old daemon and wallet version blur-v0.1.7-win-x86_64.
I used to update your binary file without any problems and transfer my wallet to it - there weren’t any problems.


I downloaded your new version - blur-v0.1.9.8.1-win-x86_64.
But my password from my old wallet does not work now.
What is the problem? What should I do and how to get my coins?
Thank you in advance.


I went into the old wallet and got my seed.
Then he tried to restore the wallet through his seed, but received an Error: Multisig seed failed verification error.
What am I doing wrong? How do I get my coins?

Use the flag --restore-deterministic


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 02, 2019, 02:29:37 PM
UPDATE: DPoW development on Blur is nearing completion.

You will find, below, an update on the progress so far:

1.) Code for keeping track of notary node signatures (sig_count), and an index for keeping track of which nodes have signed the pending_tx (signers_index), is complete and functional.

2.) The code to start creation of ntz txns is mostly complete, and is functional. Some refining still needed. To create a ntz tx, notary wallets will call the RPC method create_ntz_transfer

- The first two times that this method is called (performed automatically on notary wallet launch), the wallet paces the resulting pending_txinfo into a container. Since this RPC call takes between 5-15 seconds to complete, the cache will be used to speed up response time to the NOTIFY_REQUEST_NTZ_SIG protocol command, which is relayed automatically each time signatures are added, or upon creation of a new pending_tx

- Creation of  a notarization request is authenticated, and checked against the hardcoded pubkeys located in src/komodo/komodo_notaries.h.

3.)  Each notary node is given a signers_indexvalue, corresponding to their specific node. This value is appended to the index (which is an array, holding 13 values). Before signatures are appended, this field holds a default value of “-1” as a placeholder.  A partially signed transaction with a single signature will look like:
Code:
51 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1

4.) An RPC method append_ntz_sig has been added to perform the act of appending further signatures/outputs to a pending_tx, relayed by NOTIFY_REQUEST_NTZ_SIG

Currently, relay messages via protocol are fully working for requests.

You can find more details on these methods, etc.  As well as how the mempool treats pending ntz txns differently from regular txs, in the README.md located here: https://github.com/blur-network/dpow-blur/blob/dpow/README.md

If you wish to help test these additions, and the new difficulty algorithm (Monero's DAA with 1 minute block times) which will both be added at the next hardfork (v11)...  a version 11 testnet is currently live and running with these changes.  You will need to compile the dpow-blur source to run a node on the testnet.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 02, 2019, 03:49:17 PM
Have you ever had similar project here at BCT? Seems like I've alreday seen such projetc here. Maybe i am mistaken though...

You must be mistaken. This is the first project I’ve created. Planning on it being the only one as well.


It’s a part of why we are choosing to confine things to a single enclosed ecosystem. I feel that a lot of what goes on with CryptoNote clones is bad for crypto in general. We don’t need more copy coins. I think that if one is going to do so, there should be an expectation of it being made known that the developer has multiple projects... and I think that they should be confined to the same ecosystem, in that event. But this is just my personal ethical compass


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: tippytoes on October 11, 2019, 11:08:46 PM
Have you ever had similar project here at BCT? Seems like I've alreday seen such projetc here. Maybe i am mistaken though...

You must be mistaken. This is the first project I’ve created. Planning on it being the only one as well.


It’s a part of why we are choosing to confine things to a single enclosed ecosystem. I feel that a lot of what goes on with CryptoNote clones is bad for crypto in general. We don’t need more copy coins. I think that if one is going to do so, there should be an expectation of it being made known that the developer has multiple projects... and I think that they should be confined to the same ecosystem, in that event. But this is just my personal ethical compass

No more trading volume in altilly dev? What is happening? But there is a long list of buy and sell orders though. I checked this to see if I can cpu mine this coin because the price is not bad as compared to other cpu mineable coin. However, I want to check the current difficulty but your explorer is not up :

https://i.ibb.co/cJDSH5z/Screen-Shot-2019-10-12-at-7-08-01-AM.png


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: JoenNL on October 12, 2019, 10:08:46 AM
Have you ever had similar project here at BCT? Seems like I've alreday seen such projetc here. Maybe i am mistaken though...

You must be mistaken. This is the first project I’ve created. Planning on it being the only one as well.


It’s a part of why we are choosing to confine things to a single enclosed ecosystem. I feel that a lot of what goes on with CryptoNote clones is bad for crypto in general. We don’t need more copy coins. I think that if one is going to do so, there should be an expectation of it being made known that the developer has multiple projects... and I think that they should be confined to the same ecosystem, in that event. But this is just my personal ethical compass

No more trading volume in altilly dev? What is happening? But there is a long list of buy and sell orders though. I checked this to see if I can cpu mine this coin because the price is not bad as compared to other cpu mineable coin. However, I want to check the current difficulty but your explorer is not up :

https://i.ibb.co/cJDSH5z/Screen-Shot-2019-10-12-at-7-08-01-AM.png

explorer is working here?


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: DobroFenix on October 13, 2019, 04:32:31 AM
Why my wallet not sync? :(

blurd.exe --add-priority-node=66.70.188.178:52541 --add-priority-node=66.70.189.131:52541 --add-priority-node=66.70.189.183:52541 --p2p-bind-port=52541 --rpc-bind-port=52542 --rpc-bind-ip=127.0.0.1

Quote
C:\Users\Пoльзoвaтeль>ping 66.70.189.178

Oбмeн пaкeтaми c 66.70.189.178 пo c 32 бaйтaми дaнныx:
Oтвeт oт 66.70.189.178: чиcлo бaйт=32 вpeмя=153мc TTL=46
Oтвeт oт 66.70.189.178: чиcлo бaйт=32 вpeмя=153мc TTL=46
Oтвeт oт 66.70.189.178: чиcлo бaйт=32 вpeмя=153мc TTL=46

Cтaтиcтикa Ping для 66.70.189.178:
    Пaкeтoв: oтпpaвлeнo = 3, пoлyчeнo = 3, пoтepянo = 0
    (0% пoтepь)
Пpиблизитeльнoe вpeмя пpиeмa-пepeдaчи в мc:
    Mинимaльнoe = 153мceк, Maкcимaльнoe = 153 мceк, Cpeднee = 153 мceк
Control-C
^C
C:\Users\Пoльзoвaтeль>ping 66.70.189.183

Oбмeн пaкeтaми c 66.70.189.183 пo c 32 бaйтaми дaнныx:
Пpeвышeн интepвaл oжидaния для зaпpoca.
Пpeвышeн интepвaл oжидaния для зaпpoca.
Пpeвышeн интepвaл oжидaния для зaпpoca.
Пpeвышeн интepвaл oжидaния для зaпpoca.

Cтaтиcтикa Ping для 66.70.189.183:
    Пaкeтoв: oтпpaвлeнo = 4, пoлyчeнo = 0, пoтepянo = 4
    (100% пoтepь)

C:\Users\Пoльзoвaтeль>ping 66.70.189.131

Oбмeн пaкeтaми c 66.70.189.131 пo c 32 бaйтaми дaнныx:
Пpeвышeн интepвaл oжидaния для зaпpoca.
Пpeвышeн интepвaл oжидaния для зaпpoca.
Пpeвышeн интepвaл oжидaния для зaпpoca.
Пpeвышeн интepвaл oжидaния для зaпpoca.

Cтaтиcтикa Ping для 66.70.189.131:
    Пaкeтoв: oтпpaвлeнo = 4, пoлyчeнo = 0, пoтepянo = 4
    (100% пoтepь)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 14, 2019, 02:38:30 AM
Have you ever had similar project here at BCT? Seems like I've alreday seen such projetc here. Maybe i am mistaken though...

You must be mistaken. This is the first project I’ve created. Planning on it being the only one as well.


It’s a part of why we are choosing to confine things to a single enclosed ecosystem. I feel that a lot of what goes on with CryptoNote clones is bad for crypto in general. We don’t need more copy coins. I think that if one is going to do so, there should be an expectation of it being made known that the developer has multiple projects... and I think that they should be confined to the same ecosystem, in that event. But this is just my personal ethical compass

No more trading volume in altilly dev? What is happening? But there is a long list of buy and sell orders though. I checked this to see if I can cpu mine this coin because the price is not bad as compared to other cpu mineable coin. However, I want to check the current difficulty but your explorer is not up :


Sorry! Explorer was down for a few hours. It is back up now. 99% of BLUR’s trading volume  is on Txbit.io. I would prefer that some of the volume move over to Altilly as well, so please place an offer there if you want! However, you may have better luck on Txbit.


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: blurnetwork on October 14, 2019, 02:43:00 AM
Why my wallet not sync? :(

blurd.exe --add-priority-node=66.70.188.178:52541 --add-priority-node=66.70.189.131:52541 --add-priority-node=66.70.189.183:52541 --p2p-bind-port=52541 --rpc-bind-port=52542 --rpc-bind-ip=127.0.0.1


(outdated info removed)


Title: Re: [ANN] 🌀 Blur Network (BLUR) 🌀 - PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic || Solo-Mine/CPU-Only
Post by: tippytoes on October 26, 2019, 10:05:56 PM
Have you ever had similar project here at BCT? Seems like I've alreday seen such projetc here. Maybe i am mistaken though...

You must be mistaken. This is the first project I’ve created. Planning on it being the only one as well.


It’s a part of why we are choosing to confine things to a single enclosed ecosystem. I feel that a lot of what goes on with CryptoNote clones is bad for crypto in general. We don’t need more copy coins. I think that if one is going to do so, there should be an expectation of it being made known that the developer has multiple projects... and I think that they should be confined to the same ecosystem, in that event. But this is just my personal ethical compass

No more trading volume in altilly dev? What is happening? But there is a long list of buy and sell orders though. I checked this to see if I can cpu mine this coin because the price is not bad as compared to other cpu mineable coin. However, I want to check the current difficulty but your explorer is not up :


Sorry! Explorer was down for a few hours. It is back up now. 99% of BLUR’s trading volume  is on Txbit.io. I would prefer that some of the volume move over to Altilly as well, so please place an offer there if you want! However, you may have better luck on Txbit.

Explorer is up now. Yes, no more trading volume in altilly, you might get delisted if this will continue. Will try to mine this coin and let's see if I can still get something. Never used that Txbit before but you have better price on that exchange than altilly and of course there is active trading.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: Stratobitz on November 24, 2019, 07:50:09 AM
Here we go... Nearly unminable at this point, compared to just a few months back.

Nice chart.

https://txbit.io/Trade/BLUR/BTC


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: fart-master on November 25, 2019, 09:35:36 AM
So this coin can now be gpu and pool mined. The blur team did not believe me when i said their coin could easily be both gpu and pool mined. So i did it to prove to them how easy it was and to demonstrate how the recent nethash gains could be gpu miners.

So here is a pool for y'all
http://167.86.119.62:8080

and you can get a miner (nvidia only, amd is wip) by building the source code at
https://github.com/fart-master/blur-miner

BTW, how is dpow going? I saw this
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Integrations are looking like they’ll be done around the end of June. Possibly a week or two into July.
it is now the end of November


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: trackingcryptos on December 07, 2019, 05:38:12 PM
dev f*cked the community by abandoning the project.   no revival attempt will succeed.  stay away from this scam.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: oblox on December 08, 2019, 01:53:49 AM
dev f*cked the community by abandoning the project.   no revival attempt will succeed.  stay away from this scam.

Indeed. Their discord is quite interesting... dev leaves, comes back not even a day later, says the project isn't supposed to be a currency nor have monetary value, won't prove he didn't dump his premine funds, largely writes off the KMD dpow implementation he was working on in an effort to secure directly with BTC, and then leaves again. The project is in complete disarray... when you have an unstable dev like this, especially the sole dev, it's hard to have faith in the project. Glad I'm observing as an outsider. Good luck to all those still stuck in this dumpster fire.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: boomboom on December 08, 2019, 04:28:27 AM
dev f*cked the community by abandoning the project.   no revival attempt will succeed.  stay away from this scam.

Indeed. Their discord is quite interesting... dev leaves, comes back not even a day later, says the project isn't supposed to be a currency nor have monetary value, won't prove he didn't dump his premine funds, largely writes off the KMD dpow implementation he was working on in an effort to secure directly with BTC, and then leaves again. The project is in complete disarray... when you have an unstable dev like this, especially the sole dev, it's hard to have faith in the project. Glad I'm observing as an outsider. Good luck to all those still stuck in this dumpster fire.

Wait for the dust to settle, the original dev leaving might be the best thing that ever happens to Blur, seriously, if the community steps up like what happened with Monero after their original dev left, Blur could attract a lot of new talent, like XMR did.

Fluffypony, smooth moneromooo tacotime etc, none of those guys started Monero, they came after the genesis dev left


Edit, none of these guys are the dude who started monero
https://web.getmonero.org/community/team/

Blur community is open for new talent looking for opportunities, so many other cryptos have gate keepers blocking who can do things, Blur doesn't have that problem, and either did monero after the genesis dev left.

Funny, a top 20 crypto that I use for years and I can't even remember the Monero genesis devs name ... That's a selling point  ;D


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: morningstar88 on December 08, 2019, 09:27:19 AM
dev f*cked the community by abandoning the project.   no revival attempt will succeed.  stay away from this scam.

Indeed. Their discord is quite interesting... dev leaves, comes back not even a day later, says the project isn't supposed to be a currency nor have monetary value, won't prove he didn't dump his premine funds, largely writes off the KMD dpow implementation he was working on in an effort to secure directly with BTC, and then leaves again. The project is in complete disarray... when you have an unstable dev like this, especially the sole dev, it's hard to have faith in the project. Glad I'm observing as an outsider. Good luck to all those still stuck in this dumpster fire.

Wait for the dust to settle, the original dev leaving might be the best thing that ever happens to Blur, seriously, if the community steps up like what happened with Monero after their original dev left, Blur could attract a lot of new talent, like XMR did.

Fluffypony, smooth moneromooo tacotime etc, none of those guys started Monero, they came after the genesis dev left


Edit, none of these guys are the dude who started monero
https://web.getmonero.org/community/team/

Blur community is open for new talent looking for opportunities, so many other cryptos have gate keepers blocking who can do things, Blur doesn't have that problem, and either did monero after the genesis dev left.

Funny, a top 20 crypto that I use for years and I can't even remember the Monero genesis devs name ... That's a selling point  ;D

I don't think it will recover and i don't think any other dev will join.
Everyone who opens his mouth in there gets banned.
It will get worse now because the current mods are complete idiots, even more so than biz was.

This is a Haven like exit scam and it is going into round 2 now.
I pitty those who have not sold yet.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: fart-master on December 08, 2019, 09:32:34 AM
Except blur is broken software that offers nothing over monero, which it forked from. Trouble syncing, trouble staying connected to the network. multiple chain rollbacks. Not to mention it was taken offline on txbit because coins were locked and they didn't know why. I did have a pool, but it became too much work to maintain because the node wouldn't keep connections and even the rpc wallet failed to stay connected to the node. Massively broken piece of software, with an undisclosed amount of coins locked and presumably burned. a coin whose original vision of multiple chains for different devices being totally destroyed by gpu miners running rampant on what was meant to be a "cpu only" chain.

Then on top of all that we have a dev saying this coin isn't meant to have any value, burning bridges with his new komodo friends and throwing away his new found dpow vision (which was 5 months behind his own deadline anyway). Blur is just another dead monero shitfork at this point. why would anyone revive this over the thousand other dead monero shitforks that exist?


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on December 23, 2019, 07:20:38 PM
Except blur is broken software that offers nothing over monero, which it forked from. Trouble syncing, trouble staying connected to the network. multiple chain rollbacks. Not to mention it was taken offline on txbit because coins were locked and they didn't know why. I did have a pool, but it became too much work to maintain because the node wouldn't keep connections and even the rpc wallet failed to stay connected to the node. Massively broken piece of software, with an undisclosed amount of coins locked and presumably burned. a coin whose original vision of multiple chains for different devices being totally destroyed by gpu miners running rampant on what was meant to be a "cpu only" chain.

Then on top of all that we have a dev saying this coin isn't meant to have any value, burning bridges with his new komodo friends and throwing away his new found dpow vision (which was 5 months behind his own deadline anyway). Blur is just another dead monero shitfork at this point. why would anyone revive this over the thousand other dead monero shitforks that exist?

I'm not sure what you're talking about, with trouble syncing or trouble staying connected to the network. We also haven't had a hardfork since over 400,000 blocks ago, much less a rollback.  (Check the current chain height: 760,000+ ... last fork was block 342,000).   Further, if you're uncomfortable with bleeding-edge technology, and occasional lack of stability... You should probably focus on some other project.  Innovation isn't the most stable goal in software development.  I've said many times that BLUR is experimental by design.   If you're not comfortable with us pushing the envelope... definitely best to find another point of interest in crypto.

Quote
offers nothing over monero

Simply untrue.  Our daemons have had OpenAlias, ZeroMQ, MiniUPnP, and all DNS-related functionality completely removed from our codebase.  You'll have a much more secure experience running a Blur node as a result (Monero just had a vulnerability related to ZeroMQ) than you will running a Monero node.  Couple that with the recursive DNS server those nodes run, and well... you could wind up as an unsuspecting DNS cannon in DDoSes, or worse.

Quote
coins locked and burned


No idea what you're referring to here.  If you can cite an actual issue, I can properly address it.  But I'm not sure if you're just pulling nonsense out of a hat, or what.

Quote
gpu miners running rampant


I've said many times that we won't play the game of pointless "hardware resistance".  Such a thing simply does not exist.  A separate GPU chain will be launched relatively soon, with a custom algorithm and standard emission curve.  This launch (in-tandem), should serve to incentivize GPU miners to take their devices over to that chain, as the block rewards from early-adoption-biased emission will exceed those on the main chain, for a period of time.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on December 23, 2019, 07:25:14 PM
dev f*cked the community by abandoning the project.   no revival attempt will succeed.  stay away from this scam.

Indeed. Their discord is quite interesting... dev leaves, comes back not even a day later, says the project isn't supposed to be a currency nor have monetary value, won't prove he didn't dump his premine funds, largely writes off the KMD dpow implementation he was working on in an effort to secure directly with BTC, and then leaves again. The project is in complete disarray... when you have an unstable dev like this, especially the sole dev, it's hard to have faith in the project. Glad I'm observing as an outsider. Good luck to all those still stuck in this dumpster fire.

Wait for the dust to settle, the original dev leaving might be the best thing that ever happens to Blur, seriously, if the community steps up like what happened with Monero after their original dev left, Blur could attract a lot of new talent, like XMR did.

Fluffypony, smooth moneromooo tacotime etc, none of those guys started Monero, they came after the genesis dev left


Edit, none of these guys are the dude who started monero
https://web.getmonero.org/community/team/

Blur community is open for new talent looking for opportunities, so many other cryptos have gate keepers blocking who can do things, Blur doesn't have that problem, and either did monero after the genesis dev left.

Funny, a top 20 crypto that I use for years and I can't even remember the Monero genesis devs name ... That's a selling point  ;D

I don't think it will recover and i don't think any other dev will join.
Everyone who opens his mouth in there gets banned.
It will get worse now because the current mods are complete idiots, even more so than biz was.

This is a Haven like exit scam and it is going into round 2 now.
I pitty those who have not sold yet.


This is kind of funny, because I wrote the first article predicting the Haven fallout that would come around a year afterward.

Link: https://whalereports.com/the-munnypot-2-haven-protocol-xhv-a-critical-review/


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on December 23, 2019, 07:27:57 PM
dev f*cked the community by abandoning the project.   no revival attempt will succeed.  stay away from this scam.

Indeed. Their discord is quite interesting... dev leaves, comes back not even a day later, says the project isn't supposed to be a currency nor have monetary value, won't prove he didn't dump his premine funds, largely writes off the KMD dpow implementation he was working on in an effort to secure directly with BTC, and then leaves again. The project is in complete disarray... when you have an unstable dev like this, especially the sole dev, it's hard to have faith in the project. Glad I'm observing as an outsider. Good luck to all those still stuck in this dumpster fire.

Wait for the dust to settle, the original dev leaving might be the best thing that ever happens to Blur, seriously, if the community steps up like what happened with Monero after their original dev left, Blur could attract a lot of new talent, like XMR did.

Fluffypony, smooth moneromooo tacotime etc, none of those guys started Monero, they came after the genesis dev left


Edit, none of these guys are the dude who started monero
https://web.getmonero.org/community/team/

Blur community is open for new talent looking for opportunities, so many other cryptos have gate keepers blocking who can do things, Blur doesn't have that problem, and either did monero after the genesis dev left.

Funny, a top 20 crypto that I use for years and I can't even remember the Monero genesis devs name ... That's a selling point  ;D

We are very much open to new contributors and any assistance that the community can volunteer.  Contributions are evaluated based on their merit, and we don't ever say "no" to ideas.  

Thanks for the support and for believing in Blur!  We have only been able to keep going, thanks to the massive response we got from community members willing to help out.  While we do now have enough hands on deck to keep things properly decentralized on the administrative-side of things... We can always use more. Drop by our discord chat, post a message, and we'll see how your skills might fit into our current committee.

Please note: We are driven entirely by volunteer efforts.  Unfortunately, we can't provide bounties for work, etc.  Community funding can be inquired about, directly to the community members in-chat, though.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on January 06, 2020, 09:14:28 PM
A snap package for the Blur Network GUI (Graphical Wallet) has been released, as well as an update to v0.1.9.9.2 for the CLI Tools snap package!

This packaging makes the GUI available on most distributions of linux, and retains all functionality of the blur-network-gui repository's releases.  Snap packaging seems to make networking/connectivity markedly smoother, as well as potentially making the GUI more private and secure.  This is due to the unique confinement feature of snaps.

Grab the package here: https://snapcraft.io/blur-wallet

Or simply install it with a sudo snap install blur-wallet

Once you've downloaded it, you can run the package with the command blur-wallet from a terminal.  That command will launch the GUI interface.  Support for standard desktop launchers may not yet work.  Please let us know if they (i.e. Start Menu) work for you!

Command-Line Interface:
https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases
Blur Network CLI Tools Snap Package:
https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-black.svg (https://snapcraft.io/blur)
Or install with: sudo snap install blur
When launching the snap, include the startup flag blur.blurd --p2p-bind-port=52541 for the best network connectivity.

Graphical Wallet:
https://github.com/blur-network/blur-network-gui/releases
Blur Network Graphical Wallet Snap Package:
https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-black.svg (https://snapcraft.io/blur-wallet)
Or install with: sudo snap install blur-wallet
Run with 'blur-wallet' from a terminal, once installed


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: REDVGREAT on February 28, 2020, 06:22:42 AM
dpow has been transplanted successfully, hope everything goes well, very great project


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: boomboom on February 28, 2020, 11:30:49 AM
dpow has been transplanted successfully, hope everything goes well, very great project

This is great news, time to back up the truck and fill the bags!


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on March 16, 2020, 10:05:52 PM
DPoW development is indeed coming along nicely :)

Very close to completion, at present.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: Djurica on March 20, 2020, 12:23:44 AM
So this coin can now be gpu and pool mined. The blur team did not believe me when i said their coin could easily be both gpu and pool mined. So i did it to prove to them how easy it was and to demonstrate how the recent nethash gains could be gpu miners.

So here is a pool for y'all
http://167.86.119.62:8080

and you can get a miner (nvidia only, amd is wip) by building the source code at
https://github.com/fart-master/blur-miner

BTW, how is dpow going? I saw this
Quote
Integrations are looking like they’ll be done around the end of June. Possibly a week or two into July.
it is now the end of November


Dear all,
Can you please send us cpu miner for windows.

Thank you,

Djurica


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on March 28, 2020, 06:55:05 PM
So this coin can now be gpu and pool mined. The blur team did not believe me when i said their coin could easily be both gpu and pool mined. So i did it to prove to them how easy it was and to demonstrate how the recent nethash gains could be gpu miners.

So here is a pool for y'all
http://167.86.119.62:8080

and you can get a miner (nvidia only, amd is wip) by building the source code at
https://github.com/fart-master/blur-miner

BTW, how is dpow going? I saw this
Quote
Integrations are looking like they’ll be done around the end of June. Possibly a week or two into July.
it is now the end of November


Dear all,
Can you please send us cpu miner for windows.

Thank you,

Djurica


Miner is embedded in the daemon. There are instructions in the README here: https://github.com/Blur-network/blur


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on May 08, 2020, 07:12:01 PM
DPoW has entered the testing phase with Komodo (KMD).  See here for details: https://github.com/KomodoPlatform/dPoW/pull/126


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: Volzhanin on June 11, 2020, 03:10:14 AM
guys stay away from this coin ,it doesn't smell like decentralization,the developer is not sure that he has the right to warn the exchange about the upcoming update and as a result ,people lose their assets, and when you tell them about it directly, you are simply banned.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on June 26, 2020, 01:48:27 AM
guys stay away from this coin ,it doesn't smell like decentralization,the developer is not sure that he has the right to warn the exchange about the upcoming update and as a result ,people lose their assets, and when you tell them about it directly, you are simply banned.

I’m not sure what this is about. We will be contacting all exchanges to ensure that they update by the TBD fork date (we haven’t had a network-wide update in around a year).

No one has lost assets on an currently listed exchange that I’m aware of. All of the exchanges we are currently on, are extremely active in terms of support.

That said, if you feel you’ve been mistreated or have lost coins, provide some proof and we’ll help out in what ways we can do so.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on June 26, 2020, 11:23:00 PM
BLUR was recently featured on a MineYourBiz video interview!

Check it out at the following link to hear our lead developer Biz talk with Seth Estrada about DPoW, BLUR, privacy, crypto, and much more!

https://mineyour.biz/blur-network/


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on June 27, 2020, 08:23:13 PM
Blur was recently featured on the first ever episode of Gigacast, on The Daily Chain!

Check it out here: https://thedailychain.com/gigacast-episode-1-meet-biz-lead-dev-of-blur-network/

This podcast is only about 30 minutes in length, but packed full of information about Blur, DPoW, current development progress, and our collaborations with other projects!

The podcast with MineYourBiz was over an hour, so for those who might not want to listen to that long of an interview, this one might be more your speed.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on July 30, 2020, 10:02:01 PM
Binaries for Blur v0.1.9.9.5 'Radiance' have been uploaded to GitHub!

Grab them here: https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases/tag/v0.1.9.9.5

Notable changes include:
- Simplification and speedup of dynamic portion of proof-of-work algorithm
- Quicker connection with the network due to seed node addition on daemon initialization
- Auto-resizing of database while running (no restart required)
- More efficient use of space on disk by DB, and more efficient resizing mechanics

Changelog has more details on the above.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on August 01, 2020, 08:13:07 PM
A graphical wallet for BLUR is now available in a snap package!

Complete with desktop integrations, and one-click mining!

Grab it here: https://snapcraft.io/blur-wallet

Or with snap install blur-wallet


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: Palkakapalka on August 20, 2020, 08:39:45 PM
guys stay away from this coin ,it doesn't smell like decentralization,the developer is not sure that he has the right to warn the exchange about the upcoming update and as a result ,people lose their assets, and when you tell them about it directly, you are simply banned.

I’m not sure what this is about. We will be contacting all exchanges to ensure that they update by the TBD fork date (we haven’t had a network-wide update in around a year).

No one has lost assets on an currently listed exchange that I’m aware of. All of the exchanges we are currently on, are extremely active in terms of support.

That said, if you feel you’ve been mistreated or have lost coins, provide some proof and we’ll help out in what ways we can do so.
there is no decentralization here, for that the risen 1700 gives 1 $ per day ha ha ha


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on August 26, 2020, 08:21:41 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT: Snap packages for v0.1.9.9.5 have been released!

These upgrades incorporate the changes from latest point release to each package.  

Links to Snapcraft pages:
Command-Line Tools: https://snapcraft.io/blur
Graphical Wallet: https://snapcraft.io/blur-wallet

How to upgrade your current installation:
Command-Line Tools: snap refresh blur
Graphical Wallet: snap refresh blur-wallet

How to install:
Command-Line Tools: snap install blur
Graphical Wallet: snap install blur-wallet

Additionally, the icon for the GUI's desktop integrations has been changed from a PNG to an SVG, since the former was not scaling properly.  This led to a pixelated icon in desktop menus/launchers.  You'll find things much crisper looking upon updating.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: fart-master on September 22, 2020, 02:27:12 AM
DPoW?

There is a post here from march that says it is near completion. So 6 months from "near completion" and still no announcement? And that announcement was a year past the self imposed deadline.

Time to call time of death on this one


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on November 09, 2020, 08:49:12 PM
DPoW?

There is a post here from march that says it is near completion. So 6 months from "near completion" and still no announcement? And that announcement was a year past the self imposed deadline.

Time to call time of death on this one

Please check our channel in the Komodo discord.  You'll find that development is still quite active, and we are working with multiple devs/notary node operators from KMD.

Timelines are difficult when designing interoperable solutions.  Real tech takes some time to build.  Sit tight :)


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on November 09, 2020, 08:54:14 PM
For those who are specifically interested in our work toward interoperability with BTC-like chains and Komodo's iguana...

There is a compatibility layer currently under development here: https://github.com/who-biz/blur-api-cpp.
Alternatively, it's also forked on the Blur Network org github: https://github.com/blur-network/blur-api-cpp.

A big part of the delay and time estimation errors were reconciling not only different elliptic curves (in XMR-based code, vs BTC-based code), but also different JSON-RPC specifications.  The blurapiserver (which can be built by compiling one of the repositories above) does the work of translating between JSON-RPC specs, as well as imitating bitcoind rpc responses.  When "mocking" the responses over RPC, we simply plug in the data from our blockchain required for notarization ... and use mock values to pass iguana's validation, elsewhere.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on February 05, 2021, 03:46:00 PM
We just published "51% Attacks for Newcomers: Blockchain's Majority Problem Explained" on Medium!

This article is a "no-prior-knowledge-necessary" detailing of 51% attacks and the building blocks necessary to understand them.

We wrote this with newcomers in mind,. We sought to provide a resource for those wishing to learn more about what 51% attacks are, and how they are performed. This article is the first in series that will culminate in a spotlight on Delayed Proof of Work as a means to mitigate these attacks.

Additionally, you can now follow Blur on Medium at https://blur-network.medium.com.

If you don't have a Medium account, worry not! Click the "friends" link below, to guarantee that you can read the article, even without a Medium account.

https://blur-network.medium.com/51-attacks-for-newcomers-blockchains-majority-problem-explained-580cd8f96f18?source=friends_link&sk=535ff3f5b68fa46a4c0f75c6a6b1689c

Feedback is encouraged as we continue writing!


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: Stratobitz on February 17, 2021, 05:37:31 AM
Price jumping around, up 120% or so on Citex.me Exchange. What's up with txbit.io?

Cheers,

Strato


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on March 02, 2021, 09:53:43 PM
Price jumping around, up 120% or so on Citex.me Exchange. What's up with txbit.io?

Cheers,

Strato

Hey strato.  We are no longer listed on Txbit.  We were included in a round of delistings they did due to low volume (KMD and a handful of other larger networks were also included in that delisting round).  It appeared that our users were no longer satisfied with trading on their exchange after they implemented KYC.  We were delisted sometime in the beginning of January.

Citex, not sure. But we are still listed there.  My guess would just be low liquidity.

Cheers.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on March 19, 2021, 12:39:42 AM
Progress Report for Week of March 1st - March 7th 2021

Development Work Completed During Week


Repositories Updated:
- https://github.com/blur-network/dpow-blur
- https://github.com/blur-network/blur-api-cpp
- https://github.com/who-biz/dPoW

Development Milestones Reached
- Successful completion of Blur-side checkpointing scheme for eventual completion of DPoW
- Thorough regression testing of blur notaries and consensus rules (~950 notarization cycles completed to date)
- Fine-tuning of `blur-api-cpp` compatibility layer for interfacing with Komodo network
- Mock bitcoin-like RPC calls between `blurd` and KMD's `iguana` for notary network testing functionally
- Testing in conjunction with QA team at Komodo for future deployment and proper functionality

Community Work Completed

- Added a #github-activity channel in Discord for piping of github commits in major repositories to Discord
- Established #weekly-updates-and-milestones channel in Discord for weekly progress reports and future goal setting
- Began investigating bridge between Komodo discord's #blur channel, and our own
- Looking into ways to automate these weekly progress reports and publish as press releases on both https://blur.cash and https://medium.com/blur-network
- Opened dialogue with STEX exchange regarding possible listing, sent applications to a handful of other exchanges

Goals for Week of March 8th - March 14th

- Continued testing with Komodo and amongst BLUR notary network
- Automation of press release publishing
- Update roadmap on website for 2021
- Further exchange outreach
- Get full notarization cycles working with `iguana` and a completed notarization to `KMD` chain
- Make communicatin through `blur-api-cpp` bi-directional so that `blurd can fetch information from iguana to embed in blur transactions


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on March 19, 2021, 12:52:12 AM
Progress Report for Week of March 8th - March 14th, 2021

Development Work Completed During Week:


Repositories Updated:

- https://github.com/blur-network/dpow-blur - Testnet repository for v11 network hardfork
- https://github.com/blur-network/blur-explorer - Testnet explorer with v11 changes
- https://github.com/blur-network/blur-api-cpp - Compatibility layer for cross-chain comms with KMD
- https://github.com/who-biz/dPoW - Fork of Komodo's DPoW repository
- https://github.com/who-biz/nntools - Notary node monitoring tools

Development Milestones Reached:

- Testnet explorer with real-time display of pending notarization in ntzpool/txpool is now live at https://testnetexplorer.blur.cash
- Completed approximately 100 successful notarizations to KMD mainnet blockchain (partially valid)
- Improvement of `dpow-blur` testnet synchronization speed by minimizing expensive calls to database
- Added support for importing bitcoin-like public keys to blur daemon via `--btc-pubkey` commandline option
- Addition of `scriptPubKey` generation for for valid mocking of BTC `P2PK` scripts(necessary for iguana transaction-handling)
- Surpassed 1100+ notarizations on Blur Network testnet
- Added support for pending notarizations to Blur Network Explorer
- Forked https://github.com/who-biz/nntools from https://github.com/webworker01/nntools, for notary node data monitoring on Komodo
- Successful testing with Komodo of blur<->kmd cross-chain comms
- Resolved crashes in `blur-api-cpp` due to concurrent RPC calls for Blur chain data coming from iguana

Community Work Completed During Week:

- Discord bridge between Komodo Discord and Blur Network Discord has been created in channel #kmd-bridge, for live feeding of messages from their chat to ours
- Began planning for participation in Komodo 2021 NN tesnet
- Researched with help of Telegram community Member "Ultimate": ways to automate press releases for weekly/monthly progress reports (plan to use Zapier to post WordPress blog posts to Medium/Twitter)

Goals for Week of March 15th - March 21st:

- Continued testing wtih Komodo
- Shore up deployment procedures for Blur Notary Node setup
- Improve procedure instructions, consolidate full setup into single deployment script
- Add `sig_count`/`signers_index` fields to explorer's Pending Notarization Pool
- Make communication through `blur-api-cpp` bi-directional so that `blurd` can fetch information from iguana to embed in blur transactions
- Update Roadmap for 2021, input milestones from 2020 not currently reflected on Roadmap
- Set up section for *Progress Reports* on https://blur.cash, automate publishing of these releases to Medium/Twitter
- Decoding of `OP_RETURN` data posted to Komodo's blockchain for BLUR notarizations, fetch data for publishing data to BLUR blockchain in back-notarization portion of feedback loop
- Add `decoderawtransaction` to `blur-api-cpp` compat layer, make `signrawtransaction` functional rather than just a dummy method


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on March 23, 2021, 10:00:11 PM
Progress Report for Week of March 15th - March 21st, 2021

Development Work Completed During Week:


Repositories Updated:

blur-network/dpow-blur - Testnet repository for v11 network hardfork
blur-network/blur-explorer - Testnet explorer with v11 changes
blur-network/blur-api-cpp - Compatibility layer for cross-chain comms with KMD
who-biz/nntools - Notary node monitoring tools

Development Milestones Reached:

• Base58 encoding/decoding functions added to `dpow-blur` from bitcoin core
• `blur-explorer` display style changes, code style updates to `dpow-blur` with recent btc-base58 additions
• Efficiency improvements under-the-hood in notarization-related functions/operations in blur daemon
       ‣ Sync speed improved, by minimizing calls to expensive functions (notarization data is only polled when we add a new notarizing block to blockchain/DB successfully)
• LMDB map resizing mechanics updated in `dpow-blur` to now match those present in `blur` core repo since v0.1.9.9.5
• Version for `dpow-blur` updated to `v0.2.0.0-testnet`
• Fixed a bug which ignored incoming `ntz_sig` requests from peers if `target_height = 0` in `cryptonote_core` class
       ‣ This can happen, and is normal at `init`, and at points during protocol sync (particularly when we remove a peer connection)
• Resolved a consensus bug in testnet which resulted from `komodo_update()` not being called at proper points in blockchain sync
• Added support for `sig_count/signers_index` display for tracking of NN signer identities in Pending Notarization Pool of `blur-explorer`
• Added support for graceful display of lengthy `tx_extra` field to Blur Explorer for notarization transactions
• Successfully decoded `OP_RETURN` data from KMD notarization txs with embedded BLUR data

Community Work Completed During Week:

• Began participation in Komodo's 2021 Notary Node testnet
• Began lightning Network research in conjunction with CHIPS project (KMD ecosystem)



Goals for Week of March 22nd - March 28th:

Development Goals:


• Add proper `decoderawtransaction`/`signrawtransaction` methods to `blur-api-cpp` compat layer
• Ensure that `OP_RETURN` data being posted to KMD (for BLUR ntz txs) is correct
       ‣ Need to embed more data than `(genesis_block | height | BLUR | 0x00)` (currently what is being displayed in each)
       ‣ Above correction of `blur-api-cpp` methods should accomplish this
• Make communication through blur-api-cpp bi-directional so that blurd can fetch information from `komodod` to embed in blur transactions
• Continued testing wtih Komodo Community

Community/Housekeeping Goals:

• Further participation in 2021 NN Testnet, LN research with Chips
• Shore up deployment procedures for Blur Notary Node setup
• Improve procedure instructions, consolidate full setup into single deployment script
• Update Roadmap for 2021, input milestones from 2020 not currently reflected on Roadmap
• Set up section for Progress Reports on https://blur.cash/, automate publishing of these releases to Medium/Twitter


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: senbojiaju on May 12, 2021, 02:57:15 PM
Is he still alive?


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: coinman76 on February 10, 2022, 06:10:02 AM
Just in case any of you here expect a refund from Altilly. If you don't have all their deposit confirmation emails, they give you nothing. That's a scam.

Altilly Exchange FAKE Refunds, Possible Exit Scam (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5385112.0)


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: blurnetwork on February 09, 2023, 06:42:21 PM
ANNOUNCMENT: Binaries for Blur v0.1.9.9.6 ‘Radiance’ have been released!

Executables have been uploaded to GitHub, for all platforms.

Notable changes include:
- Began adding supporting files for dpow-blur
- Fixes a long-standing issue with sync, that was causing nodes to stall
- Cross-compilation now working for all platforms (compiled from Ubuntu 20.04 host)
- Updated workflows to compile on Ubuntu 20.04, as 18.04 has hit EOL
- Changes to depends build system
- Removal of expat package as optional dependency
- Database modifications for storing of BTC transactions, parsed from BLUR tx extras
- Compilation fixes for newer versions of GCC
- Compilation fixes for newer versions of Boost (ASIO)
- Resolves numerous compiler warnings

Grab them here: https://github.com/blur-network/blur/releases/tag/v0.1.9.9.6 or by following the links at https://blur.cash

Changelog may be expanded on Releases page at a later date.

Snap package for CLI tools, and GUI wallet have also been updated.

CLI Tools Install: snap install blur
CLI Tools Update: snap refresh blur

GUI Wallet Install: snap install blur-wallet
GUI Wallet Update: snap refresh blur-wallet


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: cqqjmzzxx on October 01, 2023, 10:06:44 AM
I am preparing to make a transaction, but when charging, the following message appears and the address given is different from the address in my wallet: BLUR charging only supports Ethereum transfer and transferFrom methods, and charging using other methods cannot be credited at the moment. Please understand. Please help me solve it.


Title: Re: [ANN]🌀 Blur Network(BLUR) 🌀 | PoW Cryptonight-Dynamic | CPU/Solo Mining | DPoW
Post by: Andersen_KMD on April 11, 2024, 03:11:15 PM
Exchanges

https://xeggex.com/market/BLUR_USDT
https://infinex.cc/spot/BLUR_USDT
https://www.sevenseas.exchange/market/BLUR-USDT


 Real-Time Supply  https://explorer.blur.cash/supply