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21  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Ravencoin [RVN] PoW GPU Mining | Asset Transfer Blockchain (Updated ANN) on: March 25, 2022, 11:15:32 PM
Dev Meeting Transcripts (March 2022)

[4:00 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Channel open
[4:02 PM] Tron: Listening to a Twitter Spaces related to tZero (https://twitter.com/RavenRickGrime1/status/1499851118540558337)
[4:17 PM] Someone_2: I'm around but happen to be building a computer.
[4:39 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Has anyone tried to run the python functional tests against the develop branch? It appears to be failing 5 tests. I haven't had time to diagnose yet.
[4:47 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I have not done any testing since Fdov put out the call for volunteers on the test3 binaries. Do you have a link?
[4:52 PM] Hans_Schmidt: The procedure is documented at https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/blob/master/test/README.md Run the whole test_runner.py testset
[12:05 AM] Tron: I'm out-of-network-range tomorrow (Fri).
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[4:00 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Channel open
[4:03 PM] burix: Hi. I would like to know if there's an ETA for p2sh and if not, let's make one? referencing Hans' msg from here: https://discord.com/channels/429127343165145089/482289959261175838/931673484772376606
[4:05 PM] BadGuyTy: I think we just need to bite the bullet and get it out there unless there is some compelling reason to get more tested than what is currently tested
[4:06 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Has anyone run the integration tests and replicated the errors Hans' described last week?
[4:07 PM] BadGuyTy: I forgot i missed last week and didn't read all the comments well then we would need to solve those first.
[4:25 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): u/Hans_Schmidt is that the only thing holding up release? I can take a look at it this weekend and post an announcement for volunteer testers.
[4:32 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Those 5 functional test failures, a few remaining PR approvals (ie the fix for the bug which crashed miners- I shouldn't approve my own patch code), and some tests which Tron requested at https://discord.com/channels/429127343165145089/482289959261175838/944344833110192178
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[4:00 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Channel open!
[4:03 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Hans_Schmidt I ran the functional tests and got 6 failures, so 1 more than expected.
feature_fee_estimation
feature_maxuploadtarget
mempool_limit
mining_prioritisetransaction
rpc_addressindex
wallet_basic
[4:07 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: I also found some errors while syncing from scratch having to do with tagging addresses with sub qualifiers on testnet
[4:08 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Ill need to try and dig into the code to see whats up
[4:13 PM] Tron: I can take a look at the tests this week.
[4:16 PM] Tron: The reason for sub-qualifiers is so KYC in the token rule would work KYC/PROVIDER_A and KYC/PROVIDER_B
[4:17 PM] Tron: If it has changed AND we decide we want it changed, then it will need to be wrapped in BIP9
[4:18 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Right, but theres something on the testnet chain right now that is choking up syncing
[4:18 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Should be valid but the (new) nodes dont like it
[4:19 PM] Someone_2: Hmm, I'm synching right now, was goign to try my hand at the DPI scaling testing.  Will keep an eye on it.
[4:20 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Should be around 1270000
[4:21 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Actually i can look it up rn
[4:21 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: 1127354
[4:22 PM] Someone_2: I"m still on the headers.  Probably won't get to the blocks til tomorrow.
[4:23 PM] Someone_2: will keep an eye on it.
[4:23 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Cool ty
[4:23 PM] Someone_2: You've got me wondering what will happen 🙂
[4:24 PM] Someone_2: I plan to just leave it on and let it run straight through.
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[4:00 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Channel open
[4:02 PM] Nonprophete: I'll start with the usual, when P2SH?
[4:02 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Tron did you get a chance to look at those failing tests this week?
[4:03 PM] Nonprophete: Also, any ETA on when work will being on this?  Phase 7 - Compatibility Mode
Allows newly created assets to appear exactly like RVN, LTC, or Bitcoin for easy integration into exchanges, wallets, explorers, etc. Speeds adoption into the larger crypto ecosystem.
[4:03 PM] Tron: I'm still working on it.  I'm reconstructing the dev environment on my Mac (via Parallels) because my PC died.
[4:08 PM] Tron: I don't know how much value the compatibility mode has - now.  At the time it was proposed, most coins were Litecoin-like.  Now most tokens are Uniswap-like.  There might be more value in mimicking ERC-20 - only possible if exchanges are not monitoring the Ethereum chain directly.  Or building an abstraction layer like Rosetta.
[4:13 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): How would that look relative to a UTXO implementation? I only have a rudimentary understanding but it seems to me like mimicking LTC/BTC would be much easier and probably more secure since assets already transact similar to those chains.
[4:14 PM] Tron: It is easier, but so far there isn't demand for that compatibility layer.
[4:14 PM] Nonprophete: Fair enough.  It should probably be removed from the roadmap until a decision can be made.
[4:15 PM] Tron: PERPER might want something like that if there are exchanges that are wired for Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc.  But some of those (like Coinbase) use an abstraction layer like Rosetta anyway.
[4:16 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): So something similar to a "wrapped asset"? Would we then need a sort of Ravencoin-Asset specific smart-contract standard?
And Rosetta would be what we already did for RVN as part of the coinbase listing requirements but expanded to include assets? or is there more needed?
[4:17 PM] Tron: Agreed.  We could just mark it as deprecated (on the road map).
[4:21 PM] Hans_Schmidt: There were some problems this week on testnet during restricted asset testing which caused some nodes to stop sync'ing. Initially it was thought that the newest develop branch was to blame. But now it appears that it may be a race condition which is worse on non-statically-liked binaries of core. It is not yet known whether v4.3.2.1 also has this problem. It doesn't want to fail while running in a debugger. In any case, it would be best if people ran the latest version of "develop" on testnet so that we can continue testing what will get released.
For convenience for people who don't want to build their own statically-linked binaries, I have posted the latest "develop" code for all platforms except Mac at:
https://github.com/hans-schmidt/Ravencoin/releases/tag/v4.8.0test1
[4:39 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: For testing, it would be best to specifically deny an address with a qualifier but allow it with a sub qualifier.  Then send a restricted asset to that address
[4:40 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: I havent delved into the code, but could it be a fail fast condition?
[4:41 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Core Tester if any of you are available to test this week. What is the expected behavior kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸 ?
[4:41 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Everyones testnet node will stop syncing lol
[4:41 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Well a good portion
[4:42 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Assuming theres only one miner
[4:42 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: It may be overwritten now that theres more
[4:42 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Just keep logs open
[4:42 PM] ilaypipe: If I get a guide I can dedicate some time to testing after work
[4:42 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Syncing my testnet node built from develop branch now.
[4:42 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I can help you after I look into it myself.
[4:43 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Itll likely be a “dropped node misbehaving” error
[4:46 PM] Hans_Schmidt: kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸 put a good overview of the problem at https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/issues/1188
[4:51 PM] Hans_Schmidt: For me, an immediate "reconsiderblock" of the failing block restarts the sync with no need to do any "invalidate". It may be related to what's in the cache or how full it is, because pausing the node shortly before the expected fail and then letting it proceed, also avoids the fail. Challenging to debug under those conditions.
[4:54 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Ill try some good ol fashioned print debugging
[5:37 PM] LSJI07: im mining currently on testnet. A good 0.7Mhs. Best to stop or continue to assist testing?
[5:37 PM] LSJI07: Running Testnet v4.7.0.0-b5010492c fdovs test3
[5:38 PM] LSJI07: and hi 🤣
[5:41 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I think Hans is asking that we run the current develop branch rather than test3
[5:42 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I've re-built from develop and syncing now
[5:47 PM] LSJI07: Swapped. Node running and mining the 4.8 binaries.
[5:51 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Awesome! I'm going to go ahead and close this channel. We can continue in development
Thanks for coming, everyone!
22  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: ASIC miner for ravencoin exists? on: March 02, 2022, 03:52:25 PM
Guys is there any ASIC miner that can mine ravencoin algorithm or just only GPU? Also how lasting is ASIC miners compare to setting up graphic cards mining rig.

There are no ASICs on Ravencoin. It is best to mine with consumer graphics cards (GPU).

Ravencoin uses the KawPow algorithm - a variant of ProgPoW. To develop an ASIC for this algorithm would be cost prohibitive as efficiency gains would be minimal and your "ASIC" would essentially just be a different GPU with vastly reduced functionality.
23  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: T-Rex 0.25.6 Ethash (+LHR unlock) GPU miner (Autolykos2, Octopus, Kawpow) on: February 14, 2022, 03:40:15 PM
T-Rex 0.25.6

* Add ETH+ALPH dual mining support for non-LHR cards (see https://github.com/trexminer/T-Rex/wiki/Dual-mining for more details)
* (WebUI) Add an optional "Lock Count" column to track the number of times the GPU hit an LHR lock

Bug fixes:
* (WebUI) Login sessions are preserved between miner restarts if the watchdog is enabled


Hi! Will you please add support for solo-mining direct to a Ravencoin node?

Many users ask how to do this with trex and it would really help decentralization.
24  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Ravencoin [RVN] PoW GPU Mining | Asset Transfer Blockchain (Updated ANN) on: February 12, 2022, 04:47:05 PM

I'm familiar with Bayesian statistics. Every actual social scientist I've worked with acknowledges their near-uselessness. Probabilistic conclusions are just that. Your attempt to draw definitive conclusions from probabilities and laughably small datasets highlights your vast misunderstanding of the subject and/or reveals your obvious attempt at trolling.

Maybe you should at least consult someone with an understanding of statistics before replying with such nonsense

Take your own advice, kid.
25  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Ravencoin [RVN] PoW GPU Mining | Asset Transfer Blockchain (Updated ANN) on: February 12, 2022, 04:34:26 AM
Top gainer on Binance yesterday.

L2 development at an all-time high. P2SH release progressing nicely. Core Developer workshop last week helped introduce even more devs to RVN.

Ravencoin doing just fine.

Sure. LOL. There is nothing left but pump and dumps.

LMAO at you calling anything else a shitcoin. That is truly what RVN is right now. It is the true definition of a shitcoin.

ur a shitcoin
26  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Ravencoin [RVN] PoW GPU Mining | Asset Transfer Blockchain (Updated ANN) on: February 12, 2022, 02:42:52 AM
Using bayesian theorem and calculations I totally just did (trust me) I can 99.999% confirm you are mN, a disgruntled community member.

Sorry you got burned mining yet another shitcoin after being warned against. Shoulda just stuck with RVN instead of chasing scams.


Hi, unfortunately I cannot satisfy your confirmation. You ought to read up on Bayesian statistics - it is quite simple.
You are harboring crypto scammers; perhaps you are in the crew. Each misspelling or 'special' word is only used by a small set of people inside the whole RVN community.
I.e. one word would only match a few people, as you can see for yourself by using the search function for the specific misspellings. When you choose a set that share two same misspellings, the group is already much smaller. Taking into account all the words, there is only one person that matches the description. No-one else comes even close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes'_theorem

The evidence is crystal clear.  Let us not forget, he also admitted to it.

https://imgur.com/a/IUYYLM4
mirror:
https://ibb.co/SVLLFh2
https://ibb.co/gyZZYm2

I'm familiar with Bayesian statistics. Every actual social scientist I've worked with acknowledges their near-uselessness. Probabilistic conclusions are just that. Your attempt to draw definitive conclusions from probabilities and laughably small datasets highlights your vast misunderstanding of the subject and/or reveals your obvious attempt at trolling.



Dev Meeting Transcript (February 11, 2022)

[4:05 PM] BadGuyTy: Almost forgot again!
[4:05 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I have made a brief list of items for today. Very brief unless someone has a longer agenda.
[4:05 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: 1. Update on the Ledger progress for rvn asset support. Is anything needed from the community to help progress.
2. Progress on p2sh and next wallet release.
[4:07 PM] kralverde  : Ledger is going slow but sure
[4:08 PM] BadGuyTy: My question on the next release is if its not coming soon can we maybe squeeze in mineable assets? Not sure how much more work that would be though
[4:08 PM] BadGuyTy: I would like to see those definitly before eth goes pos
[4:08 PM] kralverde  : https://github.com/kralverde/app-ravencoin here is the repo for ledger
[4:09 PM] kralverde  : Everything works but its unstable; crashes sometimes, finding out why
[4:09 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Mineable assets would be a concensus change and bad practice imo to include more that one significant change in a release. P2SH is enough for the next release imo.
[4:09 PM] kralverde  : https://discord.com/channels/429127343165145089/819274815696797717/856684438254911529 and here is how to emulate
[4:09 PM] kralverde  : And if anyone wants to help feel free, written in c
[4:11 PM] BadGuyTy: sorry I got enough things I'm trying to do like make a pgp tag faucet and api for squawker
[4:12 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I got given a ledger recently so can help test but not programming. I know my limits at the moment.
[4:14 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Will make a community request though on as many channels as possible for devs to assist. Don't ask, don't get.
[4:15 PM] Tron: I'm back home.  I'll set some time aside next week to review PRs for inclusion.
[4:18 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Thats awesome. Thank you! I saw quite a few small prs moving on github recently.
[4:18 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Most of the PRs have already been merged into develop. There are just a few more. And some cleanup.
[4:20 PM] BadGuyTy: I'm excited to add to the rvn dev movie! I need a cleaner way of including the btc code forks though those make the image jump all over the place.
[4:20 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Also, there is one more bug fix which I want to include in the next release. In December we had a report of a nasty bug in core which caused all the pool operators to lock up at the same time and require restarting. It was caused by a case in which miners were lucky enough to find two blocks less than one second apart. I'm in the process of writing up the PR bug fix for that.
[4:21 PM] BadGuyTy: my question is how did the miners know the question that fast to find the answer that fast
[4:22 PM] Someone_2: I remember reading about that.  Somehow 3 blocks were found inside of like 40 seconds of eachother and it did really bad things.
[4:22 PM] BadGuyTy: I remember it happening for sure
[4:23 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: pure chance imo. good to have a fix in the works. surprised testnet didnt have that bug though. found lots of blocks close together there.
[4:24 PM] BadGuyTy: yeah but on test net your not fighting with others for consensus
[4:25 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Testnet has had some other issues which look like they may be related, but it's hard to tell for sure since it's difficult to reproduce and the error messages are not very helpful.
[4:27 PM] BadGuyTy: good error messages are impossible
[4:27 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Plus the two blocks have to be REALLY close together.
[4:28 PM] BadGuyTy: sub second is highly unlikely. lets say 0.2 latency total thats 0.8 for a solution which is not long
[4:31 PM] Someone_2: despite 'close' being relative.  If I remember correctly, it was roughly that 3 blocks were found in under a minute(totally screwing up the average) and then nothing was found for like 10 minutes, perhaps evening out what had just happened, and it was wondered briefly if the chain had crashed.
[4:33 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: is anyone monitoring chain tips? and the longest fork?
[4:33 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: recently?
[4:34 PM] Tron: No, but near the halving the chain for NiceHash was out-of-sync.  Possible attempt at 51% attack.
[4:35 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I personally haven't seen any significant splits longer that 10 blocks, normally hovering around 1 or 2 max.
[4:35 PM] BadGuyTy: I can't wait till the usage gets up there that that sort of thing is impossible.
[4:36 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: But that is very casual monitoring and not an in depth review.
[4:39 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Wrapping a stability fix Hans mentioned and the P2SH code sounds fine imo as long as only one is consensus related.
[4:40 PM] BadGuyTy: So what are we thinking the new release date should be around?
[4:40 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Preaching to the choir. I'll sit down.
[4:41 PM] BadGuyTy: assuming everything is approved and merged into dev what would we be looking at for a date?
[4:44 PM] Hans_Schmidt: They are both in consensus code but the bug fix is two lines of code.
[4:46 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Timing depends on multiple people to approve so it's not under any one person's control.
[4:50 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Ok, I thought they could be. So double checking. Can we do 2 releases? 1 with the stability fix only (no BIP9) and one immediately after with P2SH (with BIP9)? That way people have the choice. I know its a PITA but its fairer to ensure P2SH consensus is clear. I dont believe a BIP9 is required for the stability consensus issue (tell me if I'm wrong here).
[4:53 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: The second release contains the stability fix plus P2SH (BIP-9) for clarity.
[4:54 PM] Hans_Schmidt: It can be one release with only the P2SH stuff wrapped up in the BIP9 miner approval.
[4:55 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I like simple.
[4:58 PM] Hans_Schmidt: There are quite a few PRs that will be in the release which touch consensus code, but are not expected to have any effect on on-chain consensus. The <1sec block bug fix, for instance, is in the consensus section of code but shouldn't change what goes on the chain. The pools didn't put anything weird on the chain, they just looked up.
[4:59 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Most of those are code fixes ported from bitcoin.
[5:04 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Thanks for the info and updates. Appreciate it. Thank you all for coming! :rvn_heart_2:
[5:04 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I'm doing a runner.
[5:06 PM] Hans_Schmidt: The P2SH for assets feature needs BIP9 approval because it's a major feature change and also a massive amount of new code which affects consensus.
[5:42 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I'll go ahead and wrap this one up. Any further discussion can continue in development
Thanks for coming, everyone

[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]
27  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Ravencoin [RVN] PoW GPU Mining | Asset Transfer Blockchain (Updated ANN) on: February 11, 2022, 04:08:18 PM
Using bayesian theorem and calculations I totally just did (trust me) I can 99.999% confirm you are mN, a disgruntled community member.

Sorry you got burned mining yet another shitcoin after being warned against. Shoulda just stuck with RVN instead of chasing scams.



Dev Meeting Transcript (February 4, 2022)

[4:00 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): 👋
[4:01 PM] Someone_2: 👋
[4:01 PM] neil: I forgot about this
[4:04 PM] Someone_2: perhaps many others did too.  I had to set an alarm clock to be here.
[4:05 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): That's what I do. Fridays are tough for meetings heh. Sometimes just takes a while for people to fill in too.
[4:05 PM] Someone_2: If not I may have just stumbled in at 3:25ish or some other time like that.
[4:09 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Hi.
[4:11 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Bless everyone's snoozing.
[4:11 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Apologies. Most are snoozing. 😉
[4:18 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: question from @Raven Rebels Hi folks, does anyone know of a JavaScript-library that.
1) From 12 words can generate Ravencoin addresses ( BIP39 Mnemonic)
2) Can sign a certain message with a certain address/privkey?
[4:19 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: While its quiet.
[4:21 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Because i dont know. I though there was a lib that worked early but nothing that has had a release afaik.
[4:22 PM] Raven Rebels: ravencore-lib?
[4:23 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: yes but it was before bip39 iirc.
[4:25 PM] Raven Rebels: Would be nice if we could have a Google Chrome extension so we could sign in to web sites using unique assets, (or addresses)
For that we need JavaScript
[4:26 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): We were using pocketraven to generate a privkey from un+pw input
[4:26 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Never got signing down though
[4:27 PM] Raven Rebels: https://signin.ravenrebels.com/ this poc works, but you have to manually sign a message in Raven core QT
[4:27 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Yeah the goal was a browser extension to login to websites like you mentioned
[4:28 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): @Scotty apparently had keyvault working on RVN at one point but no one was using/testing it
[4:29 PM] Raven Rebels: Googled and found it, will check it out
[4:31 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: https://discord.com/channels/429127343165145089/429133749867905024/807016002718138458
[4:31 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Oops sorry I mentioned it in a few meetings but here is link for reference: https://demos.keyvault.app/
[4:31 PM] Raven Rebels: Thank you.
[4:34 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: https://github.com/RitoProject/bip39 this can be used to get an address from a seed.
[4:34 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: setup for rito but the same concept works for rvn.
[4:35 PM] Raven Rebels: Thanks will check that out
[4:35 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39 this is the original.
[4:37 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): @kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸 sent me this library when I mentioned our signing issue but I haven't looked at it yet since we scrapped the project: https://github.com/starkbank/ecdsa-node
[4:38 PM] Raven Rebels: Will check that one out, as well.
This works, apparently, but it is not clear HOW it works 😉
https://ravencoin.org/bip44/
[4:40 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: @Raven Rebels the keys are deterministic so the same seed can be used for multiple blockchains.
[4:42 PM] Raven Rebels: true
[4:42 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: just a different paths.
[4:42 PM] Raven Rebels: m/44'/175'/0'/0 for Raven I assume
[4:43 PM] Raven Rebels:
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[4:43 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: yes. and bip32 is m/44'/0'/0'/0
[4:44 PM] Raven Rebels: bip39 package is lovely. So getting the word list easy.
[4:45 PM] Raven Rebels: I thought m/44'/0'/0'/0 was for BTC and m/44'/175'/0'/0  was for RVN
[4:47 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: you are right.
[4:47 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: reading fast sorry!
[4:48 PM] Raven Rebels: Any news on the new mobile wallet?
[4:50 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: @WhaleStreet
[4:52 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: This is the last update I saw.
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[4:53 PM] Raven Rebels: That was almost 6 weeks ago 😉
[4:54 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Quietly waiting. Or at least trying to...
[4:54 PM] Raven Rebels: We really need solid smartphone wallets. That combined with "sign in to web apps using Ravencoin NFTs"
[4:55 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I need that for a few discords. Simply to keep bots out.
[4:57 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): People keep telling me "it's not that hard" for like 2+ years now but we still have none.
No one likes JS imo
[4:59 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I think Mango said he might consider making one eventually a few dev meetings back
[4:59 PM] Raven Rebels: Sorry, what do they say is not hard?
[4:59 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Making a browser extension to sign into web applications with RVN assets
[5:00 PM] Raven Rebels: Shouldnt be hard.
Well we have to store your secrets (phrase) in a very safe way. Well, copy how meta-mask is doing.
[5:01 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Can't you just keep it encrypted in sessionmem?
[5:01 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Tried forking metamask first and it was just a complete waste of time. Entirely different from what you'd want for BTC based chains IMO
[5:01 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): easier to start from scratch
[5:03 PM] Raven Rebels: yes we should start from scratch
[5:04 PM] Raven Rebels: The flow, to sign in by signing a message is not complicated
[5:04 PM] Raven Rebels: This demo should work https://signin.ravenrebels.com/
[5:04 PM] Raven Rebels: But you have to manually sign a message in Raven core QT (sorry for saying this twice)
[5:05 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: All the site does is verify. Shouldnt have to have anything with private keys imo. Only the public key for the user and unsigned message. Response is the signed message. Am i missing something?
[5:05 PM] Raven Rebels: This demo works like this
[5:05 PM] Raven Rebels: USER, enters the name of the NFT the user wants to sign in as
[5:06 PM] Raven Rebels: SERVER: checks the network, which address the NFT belongs to and generates a message/challenge
[5:06 PM] Raven Rebels: USER, takes the message/challenge and signs it
[5:06 PM] Raven Rebels: User sends the signed message to server
[5:06 PM] Raven Rebels: SERVER: validates that the message has been signed with the correct address (that holds the NFT)
[5:06 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: So we just need a way to verify the signed message without a wallet.
[5:07 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Yeah that part just really kills the UX and hinders adoption though IMO
[5:07 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): better to have it all in the browser
[5:07 PM] Raven Rebels: If we have a browserextension, where I have endered my phrase or my private key.
[5:07 PM] Raven Rebels: Then the browser extension can sign the message, and the ux-flow is silky smooth for the end user
[5:08 PM] Raven Rebels: Just a prompt "Do you want to sign in to...." and you click YEZZ!
[5:09 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: So extension is a hot wallet used to simply verify the login signed message. 👍
[5:09 PM] Raven Rebels: almost, its a hot wallet used to sign the message.
[5:09 PM] Raven Rebels: user never verify, only sign, server only verify, never sign
[5:11 PM] Raven Rebels: bitcore-message seems promising, will check it out right away
[5:11 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: https://github.com/raven-community/ravencoinjs-message
[5:12 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: @Raven Rebels like this.
[5:16 PM] Raven Rebels:
Image
[5:17 PM] Raven Rebels: The first example throws an error unfortunately
[5:19 PM] Raven Rebels: Seems a bit outdated.. too bad, we need this 😉
[5:19 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: https://github.com/kralverde/ravencoinjs-message has 2 new commits.
[5:21 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: @kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸 don't know if you had any joy with this?
[5:22 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: One sec
[5:24 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Ive found better luck with bitcoin-js
[5:25 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Example with an asset minting discord bot (wip) https://github.com/kralverde/RavenDiscordBot/blob/master/main.js
[5:26 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: https://github.com/kralverde/bitcoinjs-lib
[5:26 PM] Raven Rebels: Will bookmark that one
[5:26 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Thats the one i use to remove the buffer check for assets ^
[5:26 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: But yeah bitcoin-js should be fine for generic stuff
[5:27 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Awesome I think we can close the meeting now I need a liqueur coffee.
[5:27 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: 😋
[5:28 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Hope that helps.
[5:28 PM] Raven Rebels: haha, thanks for all the help!♥
[5:29 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: @kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸 thank you for sharing that!
[5:45 PM] RAVENCOIN.TIMELINE.OVH: Hi guys, I would like to monitor specific RVN ASSETS  activity through www.RVN-Dashboard.com
For this, I need to find a way to get data daily:

I need to track activity of specific assets in terms of:
- number of transactions
- transferred volume (asset, not RVN)
- paid fees
- type of tx (issue, reissue, transfer)

Can this be done through a RVN node rpc calls ?
[5:47 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: With pure node calls? No
[5:47 PM] RAVENCOIN.TIMELINE.OVH: how would it be possible ?
[5:48 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Periodically asking the node for the current height, when you see a new block, grab its data and parse it for what you need
[5:49 PM] RAVENCOIN.TIMELINE.OVH: So we need to scan each block, each minute … ?
[5:50 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Yeah
[5:50 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: But id ask for the block height every like 2 seconds
[5:51 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: zmq?
[5:51 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: You could do that
[5:51 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: But its a little difficult for the whole getting the history thing
[5:52 PM] RAVENCOIN.TIMELINE.OVH: Ideally , we would need an api whereby se enter the asset name, the date, and a summary get returned
[5:53 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Nah
[5:53 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: I mean
[5:53 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: All the data is there
[5:54 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: But building this niche case into core is not necessary in my eyes
[5:55 PM] RAVENCOIN.TIMELINE.OVH: The idea behind this project is to monitor ASSET activity, to follow a project. Ie: Stable Coin on RVN Blockchain … we could monitor to per day, transfers … then put the result on a chart and see how successful / how much it is used.
[5:55 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: I get what youre saying
[5:55 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Its going to be a fairly sizeable database tho
[5:56 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Do you wanna only store current data or by height?
[5:56 PM] RAVENCOIN.TIMELINE.OVH: I have a vps and would not mind hosting the db
[5:56 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: the database is already there if the user is storing assetindex and addressindex anyway.
[5:57 PM] RAVENCOIN.TIMELINE.OVH: Basically, I am not technical , not programmer … I have ideas … I would like to get all useful data per day that can be useful to monitor any asset names.
[5:58 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Yeah its simple enough
[5:58 PM] RAVENCOIN.TIMELINE.OVH: Then I can add them on RVN- dashboard.com…. Available for anyone
[5:58 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: I could probably write one up for you over the weekend
[5:58 PM] kralverde 🤡 🇺🇸: Just dm what you want
[5:59 PM] RAVENCOIN.TIMELINE.OVH: I will do, thanks!
[6:15 PM] RAVENCOIN.TIMELINE.OVH: Done
[7:09 PM] WhaleStreet: Getting closer, we all caught covid for two weeks. We are making good progress and everyone will be pleased with our hard work!
[7:15 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: @WhaleStreet take care! 🙏
[7:19 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I will go ahead and close the channel now. Further discussion can continue in development
Thanks for coming, everyone!
28  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: T-Rex 0.25.2 Ethash (+LHR unlock) GPU miner (Autolykos2, Octopus, Kawpow) on: February 03, 2022, 07:45:51 PM
T-Rex 0.25.2

* Add blake3 algorithm (Alephium coin)
* Add ETH+ALPH dual mining mode for LHR cards (ETH 68% / ALPH 32% by default)

NOTE: solo mining to Alephium nodes isn't supported

Could you please add support for solo mining to Ravencoin nodes?

So many users ask about solo-mining with your software there is definitely more money to be made!
29  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Ravencoin [RVN] PoW GPU Mining | Asset Transfer Blockchain (Updated ANN) on: January 29, 2022, 03:17:56 PM
Top gainer on Binance yesterday.

L2 development at an all-time high. P2SH release progressing nicely. Core Developer workshop last week helped introduce even more devs to RVN.

Ravencoin doing just fine.



Dev Meeting Transcript (January 28, 2022)

[4:00 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Channel open.
[4:04 PM] Tron: Hi everyone.
[4:04 PM] S1LVA: :tip:
[4:05 PM] qetwry: Wen moon
[4:13 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Not sure about that but @fdov hosted the first Developer Workshop yesterday in ravenqt-sig-working to great success. Myself and many others learned a lot on setting up a development environment and making changes to the code.
[4:14 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Thanks again for hosting Fdov!
[4:15 PM] fdov: hi.
[4:16 PM] Tron: Thank you @fdov.
[4:16 PM] fdov: Bitcoin moving, fyi. :market_up:
[4:19 PM] fdov: If you want to read the Workshop thread it's at: https://discord.com/channels/429127343165145089/935964849840746567
[4:22 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): If you weren't able to attend but are interested in learning I fell behind during the build process and was able to get through everything again this morning with no problems. Very helpful having everything written out like that to reference.
[4:24 PM] fdov: And if you have questions, feel free to @ me in ravenqt-sig-working  or development  - I'll answer when I can, you are not interrupting anything.
[4:25 PM] fdov: About the release: I agree with @Hans_Schmidt and his spreadsheet shows the status: https://discord.com/channels/429127343165145089/826527482815447121/935030907902001172
[4:27 PM] fdov: TLDR: If we are including everything proposed by me and Hans combined, we have 12 PRs pending 2x review.
[4:29 PM] kralverde  : Do you still need help with gitian?
[4:30 PM] fdov: Yes, I got frustrated and stopped trying some months ago.
[4:30 PM] fdov: There is a draft PR.
[4:30 PM] fdov: https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/pull/1131
[4:31 PM] fdov: It builds but it's not deterministic for anything but OSX.
[4:35 PM] Tron: I have to sign off.
[4:39 PM] Tron: Mango and I are at Satoshi Roundtable VIII this weekend w/Bruce and events are starting up.  We will probably co-moderate a session on Ravencoin and the changing regulatory environment.
[4:49 PM] fdov: Bye.
[4:56 PM] Kai.: kai wuz here
[4:57 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I'll wrap this one up then. Any further discussion can continue in development
Thanks for coming, everyone!

[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]
30  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: T-Rex 0.24.8 Ethash (+LHR unlock) GPU miner (Autolykos2, Octopus, Kawpow) on: January 24, 2022, 11:34:11 PM
Hello t-rex devs,

Over in the Ravencoin Discord we get lots of questions on how to solo mine to a node with t-rex.

Could you please add the necessary code in some release to make this possible? It would be very beneficial to decentralization.


Thanks!
31  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Ravencoin [RVN] PoW GPU Mining | Asset Transfer Blockchain (Updated ANN) on: January 14, 2022, 11:22:45 PM
Dev Meeting Transcript (January 14, 2021)

[4:00 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Hello! Channel should be open.
[4:01 PM] Sevvy /////: Hello all
[4:01 PM] Tron: Hi all.
[4:02 PM] kralverde  : Hi all, I’m working on a standalone ledger app, because ledger wants one separate from btc for assets. Will likely just be forking from the current btc app. Feel free to ping me if youd like to help. Written in C.
[4:03 PM] sirrumz: Hi
[4:05 PM] kralverde  : Also we gotta look more at https://github.com/fdoving/RavenStash/blob/main/testing-4.7.0test.md
[4:05 PM] kralverde  : Will try and check some of those off over the weekend
[4:05 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): @Tron I saw the foundation posted a $10,000 bounty for mineable assets. Is there an address assigned to this as well so that the community can donate additional funds should they choose to?
[4:07 PM] sLinuX: will try to do some test on the last version as well, as soon got a bit of time.
[4:07 PM] Tron: There isn't currently, but I can make one.
[4:08 PM] sirrumz: Yes, I am sure I would not be alone in throwing some rvn towards bounty rewards
[4:09 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Please do! There are a few of us who have voiced desire to donate already and I'm sure many more that haven't spoken up yet that would like to contribute!
[4:09 PM] Tron:
[4:11 PM] sLinuX: @Tron  can you details this please ?
Proposed Simple Standard For Asset Metadata Viewing In RVN QT
[4:12 PM] Tron: I'm not sure what that is. Could you provide more context?
[4:13 PM] sLinuX: its in the bounty list i was looking at the list
[4:13 PM] sLinuX: https://ravencoin.foundation/proposals
[4:13 PM] Jeroz: So with these minable assets. Whats the idea? Miners choose an asset to mine and they get that asset alongside the RVN they mine? Can they mine multiple at the same time?
Will a miner get a portion of ALL minable assets?
[4:13 PM] Vincent: what will that do to scalability issues
[4:14 PM] Tron: Yes, the miner gets a % of these other assets.  They are not inexpensive to create, but it allows projects to get some of their own asset, but also distribute to the miners.
[4:14 PM] Jeroz: all of them?
[4:14 PM] Jeroz: at the same time
[4:15 PM] Tron: This has been considered in that there is a RVN burn fee for every block that these additional mined assets are issued in.
[4:15 PM] Jeroz: I see
[4:16 PM] Jeroz: And if someone issues such an asset. Will they be allocated to a locked address, which then gets siphoned until its empty by miners, according to the payout schedule set by the issuer?
[4:16 PM] Vincent: can you give a good use case to understand why this is needed...?
[4:17 PM] Tron: No.  The protocol will issue coinbase rewards for the assets.  The assets come into existence during mining.
[4:17 PM] Jeroz: But if you use an address, you can actually see how many are left to mine
[4:19 PM] Tron: There have been companies that want their own token (like RVN) and would fork RVN, potentially disbursing the mining hash power.  A proposed solution is to allow the tokens to be created and mined on Ravencoin.  The rest is making sure that it works in practice and doesn't cause scaling issues, or creation of junk tokens that clog the network.
[4:21 PM] Tron: WETx is one potential user of the mined tokens, but it would be open to anyone that wants a fairly distributed token.  In lieu of issuing and airdropping.
[4:21 PM] Jeroz: so like MCO's; minable coin offerings 
[4:22 PM] Tron: It is a proposal at this point, and not a foregone conclusion.
[4:22 PM] Tron: -------------
[4:22 PM] Tron: Isn't MCO the crypto.com project?
[4:22 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Yes
[4:23 PM] sLinuX: it can have some usecase in gaming
[4:23 PM] Tron: I didn't know you could create and mine tokens on that.
[4:23 PM] Jeroz: Oh I think its a good idea to give miners a bigger incentive and thus increasing hash, and at the same time, offering a "fair" method of coin offerings.
[4:23 PM] Vincent: "There have been companies that want their own token"... isn't that what RVN is designed to do... point and click create your own tolen...?
[4:24 PM] Sevvy /////: Want it proof of work
[4:24 PM] Sevvy /////: As we were discussing in the nest there are probably regulatory motivations to have your token be POW
[4:24 PM] Sevvy /////: This is a way to accomplish that without forking raven as Tron said
[4:25 PM] Vincent: 'probably'
[4:25 PM] Sevvy /////: I'm sure Tron can explain
[4:26 PM] Tron: It makes the protocol the issuer.  I don't know all the legal ramifications, but it does make RVN different than other projects that sell tokens.
[4:27 PM] Jeroz: I just dont see how forking RVN (and thus making a new blockchain with an asset managment system) is solved by a minable asset with no such capabilities. Or do subassets on that minable asset solve it?
[4:27 PM] Vincent: i dont understand why o project 'fairly' distrubuting to moners helps the project... unless they create a miner tool that can be bought with the token
[4:27 PM] Tron: The value goes to the miners, and not $ to a company.
[4:27 PM] Vincent: so the moners will own 51% of the projec
[4:28 PM] Tron: As soon as you sell tokens, you've satisfied the first question in the Howey test.  If you satisfy the other 3, it's a security.
[4:29 PM] Tron: An investment of money
In a common enterprise
With the expectation of profit
To be derived from the efforts of others
[4:29 PM] Sevvy /////: I think this novel solution is a no brainer
[4:29 PM] Sevvy /////: Remove the lowest hanging fruit for howey
[4:29 PM] Sevvy /////:
[4:29 PM] Sevvy /////:
[4:30 PM] Jeroz: I still would need a tangible example to be able to completely grasp how this would solve a real world use case though.
[4:30 PM] Vincent:
[4:31 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Agreed. Good for miners ✅ Good for users ✅  Good for overall network health assuming cost is significant enough to prevent abuse.
[4:31 PM] Vincent: dont see how making miners market makers is in the best interest of a company
[4:32 PM] Vincent: and goes against your 'retail use' in the convo kink
[4:32 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Tron just told you, selling tokens satisfies part of the Howey test. It's a test you do not want to pass in crypto.
[4:32 PM] Vincent: doesnt answer the questions
[4:32 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): It doesn't go against my example at all, it's a different one. You've now been presented with TWO usecases for mineable assets.
[4:33 PM] Tron: I also don't want to sell this concept.  It is an idea that needs discussion and debate.
[4:33 PM] Vincent: none answer the questions well
[4:33 PM] Jeroz: Yes but how do I explain this to my father in law who taught at business school all his life?
He will ask: how should one use it? What does it solve?
[4:34 PM] Vincent:
[4:34 PM] Vincent: private companies can 'sell private investments', no...? dodnt tzero spend a lot of legal wpork on this...?
[4:35 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Maybe I want to launch a new tech platform leveraging blockchain/DLT and a tokenized economy but I dont have the resources to launch a new blockchain. Traditionally I may have had to go use a smart-chain and use centralized smart contracts to issue my tokens - this can present regulatory issues now or down the line since the distribution mechanism would most likely be an airdrop/token sale which as Tron pointed out can have regulatory complications.
With mineable assets I can issue my tokens fairly without ever handling them myself. now I can build my platform leveraging the strength of the ravencoin network but without having gone through the hassle of navigating smart contracts or jumping regulatory hurdles
[4:35 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): ^ That was the example I gave Vince
[4:35 PM] Vincent: and i asked a bunch of questions abou tthat
[4:36 PM] Vincent: (we had a convo)
[4:36 PM] Vincent: making miners marlket makers, doesn't answer any question to me... seems like a miner money grab
[4:37 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Your question has now been answered multiple times you just don't seem willing/wanting to understand.
[4:37 PM] Vincent: yup
[4:38 PM] Vincent: or it doesn't
[4:39 PM] Tron: In the US...  As crazy as it sounds, I am not allowed to tokenize a company and sell fractions of it to thousands of people without following a very expensive set of rules.  I am not a lawyer, but I may be able to create a token that distributes via a protocol so no money is invested, which could be used as a utility token in a project.  That token's value would depend on its utility.
[4:39 PM] Jeroz: Do you have any smart contract example from a group that did not want to raise money themselves with an ICO and work out an idea that gave value to the tokens so that people wanted to trade them?
[4:39 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Wouldnt the address that made the request still be essentially minting the new mineable asset with the coinbase simply distributing the reward to miners and the market? my concern would be that whoever made the request to create the mineable asset would still be considered the issuer.
[4:40 PM] Sevvy /////: But no money changing hands
[4:40 PM] Vincent: wen you start selling to 1000s of people, you're a security
[4:40 PM] Sevvy /////: You need to satisfy all elements of howey to pass it (and you want to fail to be a non-security)
[4:40 PM] Vincent: when you are building a biz, you can have dozens of partners
[4:43 PM] Jeroz: Ok so for example, I build a filecoin like system, and the token needed to buy storage is one that is fairly mined by ravencoin miners?
Something like that?
[4:44 PM] Tron: Maybe.  I don't know enough to answer that.  Would it be considered like an airdrop.  And, could an airdrop be done at the 2nd layer to the miners, without making any changes to the Ravencoin protocol?
[4:44 PM] Vincent: why would they not just accept RVN (mined on RVN network) as payment
[4:45 PM] Vincent: what would be that benefit
[4:45 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I'm not being difficult just pointing out that the issuer of the mineable asset would likely direct the purpose of the tokens and give it a value or purpose so others could also then use it. they would have to make it known via ipfs etc. otherwise whats the point. That is a point of attack against the initial issuer. I can see the logic basically gifting the tokens to the miners, but someone created the assets with a purpose and would give them some value.
[4:45 PM] Jeroz: If you look at it like that, you actually give mining ravencoin extra utilities
[4:46 PM] Jeroz: Other than making assets
[4:46 PM] Vincent: as part of a private enterprise
[4:47 PM] Vincent: RVN has a brilliant design, not sure why we would need [this] as more
[4:49 PM] Vincent: what does the decentralized chain mining private company do fo the dentralized aspects?
[4:51 PM] Tron: I don't think it changes the decentralized aspect.  One concern is that it complicates the mining pools.  Or that mining pools that don't put in the effort (development) to distribute the other tokens are at a disadvantage.
[4:51 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: This works both ways though. If someone does a mineable asset and scams their users somehow. That would affect the reputation of Ravencoin. We allowed it. And im not saying we shouldnt do it, just that we all become responsible for changing to allow it. Good and bad.
[4:52 PM] Sevvy /////: Every chain will have scams. Symptom of success
[4:52 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: We can currently easily airdrop tokens to users, no changes required.
[4:52 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: or to miners.
[4:52 PM] Jeroz: pools need to adapt. When rvn started, they had to build that stuff from scratch too.
And their incentive is getting a piece of the minable assets cake
[4:52 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): We don't really "need" anything.
But Ravencoin was built for assets and this is an additional asset feature that adds unique utility to RVN that NO PoS chain could compete with.
Ravencoin is a software platform. We need to continue to innovate.
[4:53 PM] Vincent: BTC code have built an asset layer... keep it simple
[4:53 PM] Jeroz: And Im pretty sure that miners will jump on the pool that give them the most stuff
[4:53 PM] Vincent: this should be a fork if anything
[4:53 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): And for some reason you seem intent on denying miners incentive which frankly is just stupid since miners secure our network. Anything we can do to further incentivize mining Ravencoin will only strengthen the network.
[4:53 PM] Tron: Which has the potential risk of centralizing mining -- to those pools.
[4:54 PM] Jeroz: How is this any different than launching x16r?
[4:54 PM] Jeroz: Someone made a gpu miner, and shortly was the only one
[4:55 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: We can innovate. Just need to be sure about changing the consensus, as I see it we currently dont need to. Miners could simply be issued a token for whatever purpose an issuer likes.
[4:55 PM] Jeroz: Someone makes a pool... etc
[4:55 PM] Someone_2: Is there a write up on it for a layperson?  Or something somewhere that it explains it with more contexts?
[4:56 PM] Sevvy /////: Medium article yeah
[4:56 PM] Vincent: the chain should not partner with businesses
[4:56 PM] Jeroz: https://t.co/HISS6PSEga
[4:57 PM] Vincent: they can create an asset and manage it w/o the miners involved
[4:57 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Sure but that's not a regular built-in incentive that would bring miners to our network in the same fashion.
Plus we need SegWit still so why not just fork these in at the same time?
[4:57 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): We certainly will need another hardfork.
[4:57 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): eventually
[4:57 PM] Jeroz: make an extra bounty proposal
[4:58 PM] Jeroz: speaking of. We should also have a fund raise to have a (part time) dev that manages the git. Handling of PRs, change notes, etc.
[4:59 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: We havent got P2SH sorted and coded ready to go on main net yet. This is a much larger concern than the next fork at the moment. Respectfully.
[5:01 PM] Jeroz: relates directly to my line above
[5:01 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: True.
[5:01 PM] Someone_2: I'm still trying to wrap my head aorund the mineable asset item.  I'm somewhat seeing it from Vincents viewpoint and also from a few different.  In some ways it sounds bad but, it seems like more contexts need to be given that show that RVN would not be too tied into a company issueing the mineable assets.
[5:02 PM] Hans_Schmidt: I am about half way done with reviewing all the new PRs and approving or commenting. I expect to catch up-to-date in the coming week.
[5:03 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I believe all the coding is done just waiting on review/release. And we obviously havent stopped posting bounties so it's not unreasonable to assume someone may continue building new features for Ravencoin in the meantime.
[5:03 PM] Tron: I would contribute to a fund for Hans to continue helping RVN code.
[5:03 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: @Hans_Schmidt Thank you. We just want people like yourself and the others reviewing devs to have more help.
[5:03 PM] Jeroz: was about to say
[5:03 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I would also contribute to a Hans fund
[5:04 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Thank you very much but not necessary at this time.
[5:08 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: We can respect that but if that changes, let us know. Life happens. @Hans_Schmidt
[5:10 PM] Tron: At least know that you have our gratitude @Hans_Schmidt
[5:10 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I would also contribute to a @fdov and/or @HyperPeek fund.
[5:14 PM] Hans_Schmidt: This project still has the best founding principles IMHO. It's just challenging figuring out how to compete for developer interest with all the new mega-funded DeFi projects.
[5:17 PM] Hans_Schmidt: As for the P2SH release, at some point there just has to be community consensus to release. We don't necessarily need all the newest PRs.
[5:21 PM] Tron: Agreed.  In some ways, it is a safe place to be.  If the crypto-space, spurred by more funding, more Defi, and more money keeps rapidly growing, then Ravencoin is part of the "rising tide lifts all boats".  If there is a government crackdown on DeFi, staking, and projects that were launched "incorrectly" and considered securities, then RVN's founding principles will make it thrive in a hostile environment.
[5:23 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Whats scary is when others realise DeFI is not all its cracked upto be, we may well have other problems to deal with when devs put their new skills to use in attacking the survivors.
[5:24 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: One problem at a time eh.
[5:25 PM] Tron: I'm a fan of DeFi, but I don't know if it will be allowed to continue.  It doesn't have the same survival properties as BTC or RVN.  Only toes in.
[5:28 PM] Tron: I did a "Med Talk" for Medici Ventures and dipped my toes into being a DeFi LP to learn about the tech.  It works great, but the fees on Eth make it impractical now to just dip your toes in.  The fees to get in and out will wipe out any gains unless you're playing with hundreds of thousands of dollars.  That may not be true on other platforms.
[5:31 PM] Hans_Schmidt: 2021: There have been more than 20 hacks this year where a digital robber stole at least $10 million in digital currencies from a crypto exchange or project. In at least six cases, hackers stole more than $100 million, according to data compiled by NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/bitcoin-crypto-exchange-hacks-little-anyone-can-do-rcna7870
Does anyone else think that Ethereum-style smart contract based DeFi is totally failing in the security requirements?
[5:33 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Absolutely. A few potentially catastrophic hacks were only avoided because a whitehat pointed them out to the dev team instead of exploiting a $50-100MM smart-contract
[5:43 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: The current hacks seems to be gas dependent. Once ethereum gas drops it's likely that they will have more hacks and attempts.
[5:44 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Other cheaper gas smart contract chains seems to be targets at the moment. That will change imo.
[5:56 PM] winding-coils: PoS is an attack on PoW
[6:09 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Going to close the channel now. Thanks for coming everyone!



Dev Meeting Transcript (January 21, 2022)

[4:00 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Hello
[4:00 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Hi
[4:01 PM] BadGuyTy: Lets go!
[4:01 PM] BadGuyTy: Super excited about the stuff being built on the chain!
[4:03 PM] BadGuyTy: One thing I would like to talk about is change control. In the raw transactions there is no way to control the change as you can with the regular RPC's
[4:05 PM] BadGuyTy: basically with a transferwithmessage I can specify the recipient the rvn change and the asset change. These can be all the same address and it works. This is not possible with raw transactions and thus not possible with p2sh
[4:11 PM] BadGuyTy: I can see the raw change being resolved 2 ways.
1. Through the use of fundrawtransaction and being able to specify the source utxo, the change, and the asset change.
2. Through adding p2sh specific RPC's that allow for needed arguments like the keys to sign with and the script used
[4:15 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Not sure what you mean by that- if you create a raw transaction then use raven-qt to sign and send, you have total control over every input and output. So you can create outputs which send back to yourself all the change in addition to the outputs which send to other people. Just make sure that the total specified outputs equals the total specified inputs.
[4:18 PM] BadGuyTy: The issue is the squawker protocol. In order to keep a user known you have to send from and back to the same address. The outputs are defined using json and so you can't define the same address three times once for the asset to flag the type of message, once for the asset change, and once for the rvn change.
[4:19 PM] BadGuyTy: The current implementation could work if the json accepted multiple functions for the same address. Currently it takes the first
[4:22 PM] BadGuyTy: so the output defined like such could work if it iterated over the json object
address: { transferwithmessage: { asset, amount}, transfer: {asset: amount, asset(RVN): amount}
[4:26 PM] Hans_Schmidt: This doesn't sound like a problem with core.
I'm not familiar with squawker or the json, but from the perspective of the core transaction, you can create an address for your RVN change and an address for your asset change, and then just explicitly send any change to them so that the software doesn't have any change left that it needs to deal with.
[4:28 PM] BadGuyTy: correct the issue I have is with a regular address and rpc's I can do this but I can't with the raw transactions because it dosen't fully consume the json objects.
[4:29 PM] BadGuyTy: let me put it another way say I want to transfer 4 assets to the same address. I would need 4 separate transactions to do this with raw transactions whe it should be able to be done in one.
[4:31 PM] BadGuyTy: or even if I want to send rvn and an asset it would require two separate transactions. When you try to combine raw transactions that have overlapping output addresses it also drops all but one of those outputs.
[4:32 PM] BadGuyTy: which is consistent with the json behavior I am seeing.
[4:33 PM] BadGuyTy: This will really be important for things like minable assets as you would have to send each mined asset to a different address or have multiple transactions
[4:35 PM] BadGuyTy: I get that this is a super edge case of trying to do things with raven-qt but its currently possible in rpc calls so it should also be possible to do with raw transactions which you need to do p2sh
[4:37 PM] BadGuyTy: you actually NEED this for p2sh as you could only spend the utxo's in that address once and send the change somewhere else where the others in that p2sh address can't have access to it till after it is sent back
[4:38 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): is it a consensus change? doesnt seem like it would be. have you submitted a PR?
[4:39 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): or made an issue perhaps?
[4:39 PM] BadGuyTy: I am not good with c++ but if thats what it will take I guess I will have to do that
[4:39 PM] BadGuyTy: I have made an issue
[4:39 PM] fdov: Hello.
[4:39 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Using your own custom-written software, you can compose any protocol-legal bit-string with as many outputs and inputs and IPFS addresses as you want, including sending things like change back to yourself. As long as that bit-string represents a valid serialized transaction, you can then use the core software to sign and send using "signrawtransaction" and "sendrawtransaction". As long as all the RVN and assets in inputs all get sent to outputs in the same total quantities, the transaction can as many inputs and outputs as your want. It did this when creating P2SH transactions to do cross-chain atomic swaps between RVN testnet and BTC testnet.
[4:40 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Core doesn't limit you.
[4:40 PM] fdov: Core, or bitcoin does not allow multiple outputs to the same address, with createrawtransaction
[4:40 PM] fdov: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/23877 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150473.0
[4:41 PM] fdov: Most people think it is stupid, because you should just add up the numbers and make it one.
[4:41 PM] BadGuyTy: well the issue we are running into here is you can't send both assets and rvn
[4:42 PM] BadGuyTy: let alone splitting a utxo into two
[4:43 PM] Hans_Schmidt: So is that the issue- that you need to send RVN and asset to the same address in a single transaction?
[4:44 PM] BadGuyTy: partially I would also like to send two sets of assets and rvn in the same transaction.
[4:44 PM] fdov: You can't send assets, asset change, and rvn change to the same address.
[4:44 PM] BadGuyTy: you can with the RPC transferwithmessage
[4:44 PM] fdov: yes, but you can't with createrawtransaction
[4:45 PM] BadGuyTy: I understand. I'm looking to fix that
[4:46 PM] BadGuyTy: if create raw transaction would consume a multi part json it would work. so a transfer with message as well as a transfer.
[4:46 PM] fdov: For your use case it might be worth it. Most others should not reuse addresses like that.
[4:47 PM] fdov: BadGuyTy You can create the transaction, but it will be rejected.
[4:47 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Why not create the custom serialized transaction doing anything legal that you want and then just  "signrawtransaction" and "sendrawtransaction"?
[4:47 PM] BadGuyTy: oh I get that I am completely an odd ball but with p2sh are you going to have to create a new address each time you use that address?
[4:48 PM] BadGuyTy: oh I guess with a typical p2sh you could just send the change back to the address
[4:49 PM] BadGuyTy: I guess thats the route I might have to take. I really didn't want to get that deep in the weeds with all this.
[4:51 PM] BadGuyTy: writing your own transactions sounds about as fun as my senior project to write a working compiler and a vm to display the asm in.
[4:51 PM] fdov: It will throw here: https://github.com/fdoving/Ravencoin/blob/2553b93e5ee3df44d4ee0996bb037bf693207399/src/rpc/rawtransaction.cpp#L681
[4:52 PM] neil: It's not that hard, I'm working on a C# class that will do the lot including signing right now, won't be completed for a while though - also not touching p2sh at this stage
[4:54 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I'm very impressed by and appreciative of all the work our core devs are putting in. I see some PRs have been reviewed and approved. Thanks fdov and Hans_Schmidt !
Any ideas as to when we might expect a release?
[4:55 PM] neil: I will fully document my c# efforts once it's ready - making this kind of thing trivial
[4:55 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Doing it from scratch is painful. But using a library like python-ravencoinlib definitely helps and lets you do it in python.
[4:56 PM] BadGuyTy: well that makes me more hopeful didn't know there was that library
[4:57 PM] BadGuyTy: ok I got to run to pick up the kids for school but thanks for helping me find a route forward
[4:58 PM] Hans_Schmidt: I have processed all but 2 PRs. Overall, the quality was very good. Just a few need fixing and some debate. We need to decide on which PRs to include in release.
[4:58 PM] Hans_Schmidt: And we need to get community agreement on what % approval by miners we will require for activation
[5:00 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I thought 80 percent was selected along with the longer lockin window.
[5:01 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Higher as anticipated a fairly uncontentious fork for p2sh.
[5:02 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: UNcontentious.
[5:02 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Thanks fdov for all your work generating those PRs
[5:03 PM] fdov: Thank you for finding my mistakes
[5:06 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Any other opinions on what % approval by miners we will require for activation?
[5:07 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Or how we decide whether we have collected enough feedback to make a decision?
[5:10 PM] fdov: I think about 80% should be good. If it doesn't activate on the first try, there is always a new epoch.
[5:11 PM] Hans_Schmidt: I am happy with 80% if that is the community agreement.
[5:11 PM] fdov: I don't recall what we decided last time? - i think we have concluded on this at some point earlier too.
[5:13 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Tron supported 80 percent plus.
[5:13 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: https://discord.com/channels/429127343165145089/482289959261175838/906281965374824468
[5:14 PM] fdov: About the open PRs, I think the security related ones should be top priority. Not all are exploitable. But it does not look good to make a release with known open CVE-issues, when simple fixes are available.
[5:15 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: It could be tricky to get but IMO we definitely have community agreement to adopt the changes at 80%. Perhaps not the first epoch but there are multiple opportunities.
[5:16 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Yes, that decision is easy, especially since those PRs were all straight copies from bitcoin and therefore carry very little risk by us including them.
[5:20 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: We dont need a rapid fork. We need a secure fork with community support. If it takes time so be it. The more eyes on the code during this process the better!
[5:21 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Appreciate the reviews and work done!
[5:22 PM] Hans_Schmidt: As soon as we decide which PRs to include, we need to distribute new binaries for wide-spread testing including full sync-from-zero tests.
[5:25 PM] Hans_Schmidt: I'm going to drop off for now. See y'all next time. Stay safe and healthy!
[5:25 PM] fdov: Bye.
[5:26 PM] fdov: We could try to do a SIG-meeting or something deciding the PRs at some point. Once they are selected and merged to develop I can build rc1 binaries.
[5:29 PM] BadGuyTy: Once again guys thanks

[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]
32  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Ravencoin [RVN] PoW GPU Mining | Asset Transfer Blockchain (Updated ANN) on: October 30, 2021, 04:04:51 PM
Dev Meeting Transcript (October 29, 2021)

[3:59 PM] Tron: Channel is open.
[3:59 PM] Wolfsokta: Awesome! Hey Tron
[4:00 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): Greetings all
[4:00 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): What's happening
[4:01 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: When do you all expect to merge p2sh?
[4:01 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): the question on everyone's mind
[4:03 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): uhhhhh
[4:04 PM] boatsandhoes: +1
[4:05 PM] Tron: Just a few more changes to address/fix/ignore the issues brought up by the security audit report.
[4:05 PM] boatsandhoes: Any way we can do the fork vote Nov 5th?
[4:06 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): lol, 3 years later, assets get p2sh, would be apropos
[4:06 PM] Wolfsokta: That would be cool!
[4:06 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): It's probably late though. WE would need to achieve consensus 1.4 days in advance of the 5th
[4:07 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): so that the new code would activate at a block height occurring within Nov 5
[4:07 PM] Tron: Just a reminder that there is a meetup in Ravencoin Campus tonight at 8pm ET.
[4:08 PM] Wolfsokta: Date night in Ravenland!
[4:08 PM] Tron: https://download.ravencoincampus.org/
[4:08 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): I am going to say what has been on a few peoples minds. These meetings have been very sparsely attended and haven't contained a lot of commentary on the state of development. That pattern is not one I find acceptable. Tron, can you comment on that trend? Is there simply not much development to discuss?
[4:09 PM] Tron: https://twitter.com/Humble_Miner/status/1450646655158599680/photo/1
[4:10 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): I think a lot of people would like to see a bit more commentary during these meetings, if there is any to be made. I understand that the Foundation and Ravencoin are separate things, but it could be approrpiate to discuss the state of the foundation and any events/actions you've been involved in each week, Tron
[4:10 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): For whatever reason, you have seemed somewhat laissez faire in the last several meetings
[4:11 PM] Wolfsokta: I'm really hoping that we can get some traction on developing the Mineable Assets proposal further and getting some bounties created soon.
[4:11 PM] Tron: We are at the tail end of a long development cycle.  The project is valued at over a billion dollars, not including the value of assets, and so it is, by design, a slower, more careful approach.
[4:11 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): I also recall that in the past you've at least stated things about being unable to talk about certain things due to disclosure agreements and such. As was the case with Finclusive, years ago I believe
[4:11 PM] Wolfsokta: Agreed
[4:12 PM] Tron: There is a new discussion of mineable assets.  Everyone should look at the proposal and give feedback.  This will probably be added to the roadmap soon.  Wolfsokta is writing up the specs.
[4:13 PM] M4R1M0: This "development cycle" has just been adding functionality that should have already been in place when assets were launched. Would be nice to get some discussion surrounding new innovations for Ravencoin.
[4:13 PM] Tron: The goal with mineable assets is to allow projects to mine tokens into existence with wide distribution, and keep some of the mined tokens to fund the project.
[4:14 PM] Tron: The "coinbase" space will have a cost, but for some projects, it will provide automatic distribution and awareness.
[4:14 PM] Wolfsokta: WETx was on the main stage at the Silicon Slopes tech conference in Salt Lake City. This was our first slide.
[4:15 PM] Tron: Currently, the proposal is 1 RVN per mined block that has the new mined asset.  The asset issuer can decide how frequently to have their asset in the blocks as well as a max distribution.
[4:16 PM] Tron: There will be bounties posted for both proposals after the feedback is collected and the designed refined.
[4:16 PM] Wolfsokta: I'm working on the specs now, and will likely post them as an Issue in github.
[4:16 PM] boatsandhoes: Is the goal to get minable assets in the next fork, or is this a down the line thing?
[4:17 PM] Wolfsokta: Probably not in the next one.
[4:17 PM] Wolfsokta: We'll want to really test the new feature well and have a security review.
[4:17 PM] Tron: Oh, the other proposal is for the emulation of the RPC calls to make it easier to integrate mined or issued tokens into exchanges that are used to RPC calls for Bitcoin/Litecoin/Ravencoin/Dogecoin, etc.
[4:18 PM] Tron: https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/tree/master/roadmap/compatibility-mode
[4:18 PM] Wolfsokta: That will make it easier for exchanges to list the Mineable Assets, as well as any other asset on RVN.
[4:20 PM] boatsandhoes: Is there an ETA on this?
[4:22 PM] Wolfsokta: Timing will depend on devs picking up the bounties. That's hard to estimate.
[4:22 PM] Wolfsokta: I'd like to work with the Foundation to have the bounties defined in the next week or so.
[4:22 PM] boatsandhoes: Wait there are bounties that need to be done in order to get the P2SH fork out?
[4:23 PM] Wolfsokta: I thought you were talking about Mineable Assets and Compatibility mode.
[4:23 PM] boatsandhoes: I was not
[4:24 PM] boatsandhoes: the board has not had a meeting in 5 months, I think they should get their (the non profit) affairs in order before they bite off more
[4:25 PM] Tron: I don't have a time frame.  If there are PRs, I'll review and approve them.
[4:25 PM] Tron: The board has met each month.  The notes need to be posted.
[4:27 PM] boatsandhoes: Sorry a bit foggy, what specifically needs to happen in order to initiate the fork for P2SH?
[4:30 PM] Tron: Each of the issues brought up in the security audit needs to be addressed/fixed/ignored.  By ignored, I mean that a quick write-up needs to be done as to why it isn't a real problem.  The block # start and % need to be set for the fork. The version number needs to be set.  The code needs to be merged.  All the binaries (Windows, Mac, Linux) need to be built and signed.
[4:30 PM] boatsandhoes: Thank you
[4:32 PM] boatsandhoes: Has anyone started to break down each issue of the audit yet?
[4:33 PM] Wolfsokta: It would be good to create github Issues for each of them and start knocking them out.
[4:36 PM] boatsandhoes: Indeed.  It's hard to believe that someone has not already done so.
I don't mind doing it, but don't want to do work that has already been done
[4:37 PM] Tron: There have been comments and analysis of the items in the security report, but I am unaware of any issues created or code changes.
[4:37 PM] boatsandhoes: fdov you had comments on the audit right?
[4:37 PM] Tron: Some of the issues are of a nature that the security analysis is correct, but a change (fix) will potentially cause a fork.  These need to be handled carefully, or just documented as to why the change isn't being applied.
[4:38 PM] boatsandhoes: If foundation money goes anywhere it may be best to hire a person who is capable of doing things like this, and by default (because they are being paid) has the time
[4:39 PM] boatsandhoes: ^will table that for next open foundation meeting
[4:39 PM] Tron: At least one of the issues is just completely wrong and needs to be documented as such and then ignored.
[4:40 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): what issue is completely wrong?
[4:41 PM] Tron: The issue about secure_string.
[4:41 PM] Wolfsokta:  Yeah it was pointing out a security risk in .NET...
[4:42 PM] Wolfsokta: .NET isn't used anywhere in the RVN code.
[4:42 PM] Tron: https://discord.com/channels/429127343165145089/482289959261175838/898210263831019541
[4:43 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): ah, okay I recall this
[4:43 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): and yes, it speaks to the alleged lack of utility of the auditors
[4:43 PM] boatsandhoes: Starting the github issue, will ask a mod to ping to news go get eyes on it when submitted
[4:44 PM] boatsandhoes: if only there was a rate my teacher for crypto audits ‍♂️
[4:47 PM] boatsandhoes: anything else that needs to be addressed today?
[4:48 PM] Wolfsokta: What can I do to help Tron to get the next release out the door?
[4:48 PM] shimperr: Ya have not posted in 6 months but who is counting
[4:48 PM] boatsandhoes: Wolfsokta I'll tag you with the github issue if you can help with that there are only 5 things
[4:49 PM] shimperr: Don’t think it was answered so I will ask again do we have a date on the hard fork?
[4:49 PM] Wolfsokta: Okay, I think it'd be better to have 5 issues then rather than a single big one.
[4:50 PM] shimperr: Tbh mining assets sounds fun but I think there should be a push for messages to asset holders function
[4:50 PM] boatsandhoes: Okay, I'll do it that way, np
[4:51 PM] Tron: The core protocol already has messages.  It is up to wallets or websites to publish the info.
[4:52 PM] shimperr: Can you link any info on this? I have never seen this would love to use this
[4:52 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): it's been in the console for ages
[4:52 PM] shimperr: Or anyone really
[4:53 PM] Tron: There is not a fixed date for the fork.  There will be a start date added to the code so it can start monitoring the network for actively mined blocks with the new code and counting them.
[4:53 PM] shimperr: To send ipfs to asset holders from the main asset?
[4:54 PM] shimperr: What is the time line the devs thinking this would happen
[4:54 PM] Tron: Probably late Nov to Dec for the binaries.
[4:55 PM] shimperr: Thanks
[4:57 PM] fdov: yes, the audit is useless. They have no clue how Ravencoin works. Their suggestions would create a minimum of 2 hard-forks on their own. Waste of time and energy. They found only non-issues or minor nit which has nothing to do with security of functionality. Only maintainability and cleanness.  As an example they claim we should fix at least two "issues" in code we have that is identical to bitcoin. I trust bitcoin more than I trust some random dudes writing that report.
[4:57 PM] shimperr: I will look into the messaging but I know it’s not in the GUI
[4:57 PM] boatsandhoes: Just submitted the issues/ 5 vulnerabilities
[4:57 PM] boatsandhoes: https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/issues/new
[4:59 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): waiting 10 months to implement code that should have existed on november 5 2018 because we need to wait for a company to tell us wrong stuff is embarassing
[4:59 PM] shimperr: We did have a 300 million rvn exploit because someone let the code in
[5:00 PM] boatsandhoes: In your eyes, is there anything that needs to change before the P2SH fork is put out for vote?
[5:00 PM] shimperr: Which we will not go into why that happened
[5:00 PM] boatsandhoes: agreed
[5:01 PM] boatsandhoes: but still, got to do due diligence
[5:01 PM] shimperr: But from my understanding this fork needs to happen quickly
[5:02 PM] fdov: This happens because this project has close to no developers. With only 2-3-4 guys doing any coding, the trust in the code is limited. Not much peer-review etc. The solution is to delay and pay for reports.
[5:02 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): and we recently seem to have all but lost Hans
[5:02 PM] boatsandhoes: fdov would you mind helping to comment on the audit suggestions on github so we can get the ball rolling?  I already made 5 issues
[5:03 PM] Wolfsokta: That would be awesome.
[5:03 PM] boatsandhoes:
[5:03 PM] fdov: Currently it is a hard-fork, if implemented like it is currently on testnet. So yes, if it is "activated" it will kick all the old clients off. Everyone will need to update within a limited timeframe.
[5:04 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): it needs to happen with a BIP9 and high consensus so we don't split the chain unnecessarily
[5:04 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): not "quickly"
[5:04 PM] fdov: Everyone will be gone with this pace. There are 1000 other projects for anyone interested.
[5:04 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): seems like it yeah
[5:04 PM] Sevvy (Natural 1): so what do we do
[5:04 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Based on the previous fork what timescales are we looking at between releasing the new release and starting bip9?
[5:05 PM] shimperr: 80 percent approved and we good that’s not the problem the issue is doing it when the devs feel good about the fork
[5:05 PM] boatsandhoes: Tron there is also an issue with a sizable % of those authorized to approve code changes on github being afk for years.  There really are only a couple gatekeepers( you included) for this.  If changes are going to happen, that list needs to be culled then opened up
[5:05 PM] boatsandhoes: just my 2 Sats on that
[5:06 PM] Tron: Agreed
[5:07 PM] boatsandhoes: Tron I can't find the link you posted a while ago that showed all the users who could approve code changes.  Do you mind sharing that link again?
[5:08 PM] fdov: We can select that in the code. I don't recall the consensus, or if we agreed on anyting, but I do recall I once had some opinion on how to do it.
[5:09 PM] boatsandhoes: Minable assets and stuff sounds cool (maybe) but it looks more and more like attention should be focused on Dev Ops
[5:09 PM] boatsandhoes: at least at this current time
[5:09 PM] boatsandhoes: Chatturga is that in your wheel house?
[5:11 PM] Chatturga: Minable assets, or code change approvals?
[5:11 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I remember vaguely it was set to something like 6 weeks, or close to that, and exchanges and pools were mostly done in a 2 week period. Jeroz wielded the force and did some amazing work on that imo.
[5:11 PM] boatsandhoes: code changes and logistics
[5:12 PM] Chatturga: Negative, I dont have the permissions to approve code changes.
[5:12 PM] boatsandhoes: But if you did?
[5:12 PM] boatsandhoes: SpyderDev ghosted so hard
[5:13 PM] Wolfsokta: Some DevOps work would be awesome and would speed all future development.
[5:13 PM] boatsandhoes: he ( SpyderDev ) should def be removed so someone else can take the spot.  Chatturga if you are up for that you have my nomination
[5:14 PM] Chatturga: If I had any knowledge of coding I might be inclined, but I have no idea what I would be approving, so I'm probably not the best choice
[5:14 PM] boatsandhoes: what is the url for that?
[5:15 PM] Wolfsokta: Hello Chatturga! It's nice to hear from you.
[5:15 PM] Wolfsokta: It's been too long.
[5:15 PM] boatsandhoes: you're a better choice than the current, which is basically no one
[5:15 PM] Chatturga: Heya Wolf   It's been a LONG time since Ive typed that
[5:16 PM] shimperr: Outside collaborator? Lol
[5:16 PM] Chatturga: Are we still on triangle target? 
[5:17 PM] shimperr: A beta move
[5:17 PM] Tron: New lists....
[5:18 PM] boatsandhoes: we should prob wrap it up for this week.
Tron if you could share the url to that list that would be much appreciated
[5:18 PM] shimperr: Tron does Bruce have to approve all code due to ownership?
[5:18 PM] Wolfsokta: no
[5:18 PM] Mango Farm: Of course not Joe learn how to use Github or comment in the nest
[5:19 PM] Wolfsokta: The URL is in the admin section of github so it wouldn't do much good to non-admins
[5:19 PM] Tron: I think the URLs require permission.  https://github.com/orgs/RavenProject/teams/ravendevs/members
[5:19 PM] boatsandhoes: the link is a 404
[5:19 PM] Tron: https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/settings/access
[5:20 PM] Wolfsokta: The URL is in the admin section of github so it wouldn't do much good to non-admins
[5:20 PM] boatsandhoes: Tron can you hook it up with admin read only for me please?
[5:21 PM] shimperr: Nice censorship deflection but tron has said this in the past I was just saying it again
[5:21 PM] Tron: What's your GitHub username?
[5:22 PM] fdov: corviato1
[5:23 PM] boatsandhoes: corviato1
[5:24 PM] Tron: Invited as read-only.
[5:24 PM] boatsandhoes: Thank you
[5:26 PM] Mango Farm: Tron the BTC Github repo publishes a list of the keys for the 7 people able to verify commits.  It might be a good idea to add that to the public side (rather than the admin side) of the Github repo for RVN, along with information on who has commit ability.
[5:26 PM] Mango Farm: so it isn't an invite only kind of thing
[5:26 PM] Mango Farm: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/contrib/verify-commits/trusted-keys
[5:26 PM] Mango Farm: just because that's the way github allows access to admin info
[5:27 PM] fdov: Mango FarmI don't think RVN has ever used GPG-keys or signing. We cleaned up the remains from bitcoin a few months ago.
[5:27 PM] fdov: But I agree it's a good idea, and it should be used.
[5:27 PM] Mango Farm: understood - more referring to the list that Tron posted above, in a publicly accessible place (even if no GPG keys are used)
[5:28 PM] boatsandhoes: +1
[5:28 PM] shimperr: Probably pretty good info to know people only been begging for 2 years
[5:29 PM] shimperr: Always been in secret
[5:29 PM] Mango Farm: Tron has published the list on several occasions; the list for Bitcoin is a set of seven numbers
[5:30 PM] fdov: ah, understand. Agree.
[5:31 PM] shimperr: Still not public info
[5:31 PM] shimperr: Today
[5:31 PM] boatsandhoes: I need to head out.  Hope you guys have awesome week, and we get P2SH out as timely as possible 
[5:32 PM] Mango Farm: have a great weekend Boats
[5:32 PM] Wolfsokta: Scroll up shimperr
[5:32 PM] Chatturga: See ya Boats
[5:32 PM] Wolfsokta: Thanks boatsandhoes
[5:33 PM] M4R1M0: This has been stated a few times now and keeps getting glossed over/ignored it seems. Something needs to be done about pace of development or we may soon find ourselves unable to even source developers for bounties.
[5:34 PM] Wolfsokta: I need to head out too. It was great to chat with you all again.
[5:34 PM] Chatturga: Take care Wolf
[5:34 PM] Wolfsokta: You too
[5:34 PM] Tron: I'm off too.  I hope to see everyone's avatars at the meetup tonight in Ravencoin Campus.
[5:35 PM] Mango Farm: See you there Tron
[5:35 PM] Mango Farm: I'm going to go get ready for it.  See everyone next time.
[5:35 PM] Tron: Closing the channel.



Dev Meeting Transcript (November 5, 2021)

[3:52 PM] Tron: ------------------------------------------------------------
[3:52 PM] Tron: Channel Open
[4:00 PM] fdov: hi.
[4:04 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Yo
[4:08 PM] fdov: I noticed the build-checks still does not handle .md changes well. But I noticed the PRs are made against master, could be the issue. not sure.
[4:10 PM] Hans_Schmidt: IIRC, that's something that we don't have the authority to change.
[4:10 PM] fdov: I guess if you change the target for the PR to develop, it will rebuild and hopefully work?
[4:11 PM] fdov: I don't think the latest change (#1078) is merged to master yet.
[4:12 PM] Tron: Can you make a PR for moving develop to master?  It will take approvals.  If I make it, I can't approve it.
[4:12 PM] fdov: sure, one sec.
[4:13 PM] Hans_Schmidt: I believe you are correct on both counts
[4:15 PM] Tron: Is anyone currently building on Mac (Monterey)?
[4:18 PM] fdov: I get some github error.. I'll create the PR later.
[4:19 PM] fdov: I don't have  macs. But the new M1 pro looks really nice.
[4:19 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}:
[4:19 PM] Hans_Schmidt: No macs for me
[4:20 PM] fdov: I can build -for- mac.
[4:20 PM] Tron: I just got the 16" M1 Max yesterday.  I'm setting up the build environment and running into a few issues.  If anyone has slogged through the issues already, let me know.
[4:21 PM] fdov: I guess there are tons if you try to use the depends/ system. - I'm pretty sure that does not work.
[4:24 PM] Tron: Yeah, so far it hasn't worked.  There is info on the ones I've run into so far, so I'm just documenting the issues and solutions as I go.  Then we can either update the build docs, or fix the make system to compensate for the environment changes.
[4:25 PM] fdov: do you install the depends with brew?
[4:26 PM] Tron: Some of both so far.  Apple has moved the default location for the SDK, so I'm working on that now.
[4:27 PM] Tron: The SDK can't legally be added to the repo.  Installed with XCode, or downloadable from Apple.
[4:29 PM] fdov: You can download it to your machine. I've made some builds scripts look for it in /tmp/SDKs - that is for cross-compiling for osx.
[4:29 PM] fdov: Fastest is probably to make docker work, and just cross-compile.
[4:30 PM] fdov: Apple are so developer-unfriendly it's insane.
[4:32 PM] fdov: Anyway, I've made some PRs i think would be good to get into the next release, if reviewed and approved. #1115 probably the most important.
[4:34 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Thanks, I saw the PRs. I will review and approve.
[4:35 PM] fdov: If the P2SH-assets-part needs more reviewing, I'm all for a release with the code in,  but not activated on mainnet. - Making a new release with activation is easy.
[4:37 PM] Hans_Schmidt: I guess that's up for debate whether people want to be cautious and release without P2SH assets
[4:37 PM] fdov: I'm fine with both.
[4:38 PM] Tron: We should set an activation date where it can begin to count  the blocks towards activation percentage -- possibility of activation.
[4:38 PM] Tron: Before or after halving?
[4:39 PM] Tron: What percentage should we target?
[4:39 PM] Tron: Super conservative 95%
[4:39 PM] Tron: Conservative 90%
[4:40 PM] Tron: Anything less than 75% seems risky.
[4:40 PM] fdov: Whatever bitcoin uses?  80-90-ish?
[4:40 PM] Tron: 80 or 85 seems right.
[4:41 PM] Tron: It will be difficult to get to 85 with the communication channels that we have with mining pools.
[4:42 PM] Tron: 75% hasn't been easy, and requires some push with translated (localized) information.
[4:43 PM] Hans_Schmidt: The down side of having really decentralized mining
[4:43 PM] fdov: Hardforking without 80+ isn't nice to the other 20-25%...
[4:44 PM] Someone_2: It seems like previous forks were at 85% but it did brush into some obnoxiousness and absurdity trying to get the word out.  80% may be more practical but then you also have a bit more risk of conspiracy stuff erupting.
[4:45 PM] fdov: Just set a long timeout, and set the "notification time" after lock in before activation to more than 1 day.
[4:46 PM] Tron: Agreed.  We can only count the blocks that are mined as a trigger for activation. All economic actors (exchanges, merchants, known users) should be notified in advance of the possibility of activation.
[4:47 PM] Tron: Most important are exchanges, swap sites, and merchants.  Users (spenders) will not be hurt if the spend on the wrong chain.  They update, and spend again.
[4:55 PM] fdov: I think we should consider the number of blocks in the retarget-period after lockin.
[4:58 PM] Tron: A longer cycle than 1 2016-block cycle?
[4:58 PM] fdov: Yes.
[4:59 PM] Tron: The cycles are inherited from bitcoin, but since the blocks are 10x faster, the lock-in to activation is 1.4 days instead of 14 days.
[4:59 PM] fdov: exactly.
[4:59 PM] Tron: Do we keep the 1.4 day counting cycle?
[4:59 PM] Tron: Or just add a 0 to the number of blocks for both, to make both 2 weeks.
[5:00 PM] Tron: 20160 blocks per cycle.
[5:00 PM] fdov: Add the 0 is easiest.
[5:00 PM] Hans_Schmidt: I agree. The current settings have never seemed appropriate to me. Add a 0 makes sense.
[5:01 PM] fdov: If we make that change, users of the old wallet will get notifications for 14 days after the count is finished, and the feature is locked-in. Before anything activates.
[5:02 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Exactly what we want
[5:02 PM] Tron: Ok.
[5:02 PM] fdov: If you are Big Exchange Inc. and ignore e-mail notification, releases on github, etc. - I hope you check logs, at least once every 14 days.
[5:03 PM] Hans_Schmidt: It also gives social media more time to hear the buzz and distribute the message
[5:04 PM] Tron: I'll start notifying exchanges and swap sites as soon as we have a signed release candidate for download.
[5:05 PM] Tron: Even before the possibility of activation begins.
[5:08 PM] fdov: The earliest time of activation will be about a month after counting starts, in this case. If the first count period hits the threshold.
[5:10 PM] Hans_Schmidt: I gotta run, so TTYL. It was a nice little mini-reunion.
[5:11 PM] fdov: yeah, long time. nice to see you. later.
[5:17 PM] fdov: @Tron PR with a merge of current develop to master created. #1119. If you review and approve, I suggest we ask @HyperPeek to merge it. He's got a routine to merge it cleanly without the "merge bla bla" messages in git history.
[5:17 PM] Tron: Nice.  Thank you!
[5:19 PM] fdov: If you find the time, reviews of #1111, #1113, #1115 and #1118 should all be simple. Mostly manual backports from bitcoin with links to upstream changes.
[5:20 PM] fdov: Most of them close CVE issues.
[5:22 PM] fdov: Looks like that's it for today? I'll stick around in thenest and development for a while.
[5:28 PM] Tron: Thanks @fdov



Dev Meeting Transcript (November 12, 2021)

[4:21 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Tron Channel open
[4:23 PM] Tron: Yay.  Thanks for opening the channel.
[4:24 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: Sorry bout that did a backend overhaul and this slipped my mind
[4:26 PM] Tron: I don't have anything specific.
[4:26 PM] Tron: Ravencoin won the battle vs. AVAX run by Security Token Market.  Thanks to everyone who voted.
[4:27 PM] Tron: The Ravencoin Meetup starts tomorrow.
[4:27 PM] Tron: It has been suggested that we do another one in Miami during blockchain week Jan 17 to 21st.
[4:28 PM] Tron: The Mayor of Miami is embracing crypto and making the week of the Bitcoin Conference into a blockchain week.
[4:29 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): That sounds like a great idea
[5:06 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Still open guys. Just a heads up thats it needs closing if done.
[5:09 PM] Blockchain John: Any code updates?
[5:22 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Tron if you're still around
[5:45 PM] Someone_2: stillll open.
[5:47 PM] fdov: Current open PRs https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/pulls
[5:47 PM] fdov: Current develop git-history: https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/tree/develop
[5:49 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Anyone can help test and make sure the code works are intended. Basic stuff as well as the more complicated stuff is all appreciated!
[5:52 PM] HyperPeek: I will finally work on the merge to develop over the weekend. After that we need to decide how to proceed with the release.
[5:53 PM] fdov: I made https://github.com/fdoving/RavenStash/blob/main/testing-4.7.0test.md - to help with the testing. It's kind of my selection of things that should be tested before release.
[6:03 PM] fdov: There is also translations at https://www.transifex.com/ravencoin/  - here you can help translate Electrum and Ravencoin Core.



Dev Meeting Transcript (November 19, 2021)

[9:08 AM] Tron: I will not make it to the dev meeting this afternoon.  I will catch up with it later.  As always, email me at tron@ravencoin.foundation if you have questions.
[4:00 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Channel open.
[4:01 PM] fdov: Hello.
[4:01 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Hi
[4:01 PM] Hedger: Hello
[4:02 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: What is the news on the release. Any progress?
[4:03 PM] fdov: Waiting for reviews of the current PRs. Some of them should be included imo. I made most of them, so I can't review and approve.
[4:04 PM] fdov: Once that part is done, I guess we just need to decide when to start counting for p2sh-asset activation. Update translations,  tag and build binaries.
[4:06 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Imo just aim for the end of the year. Give a month ish to get people swapped over.
[4:07 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: before the count starts.
[4:08 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: is the window revision set? 21600 or something else?
[4:08 PM] CallMeRichie: Hi all, Tron invited me today.
[4:08 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: 20160 apologies.
[4:09 PM] fdov: I made the PR for the change, yes. - waiting for reviews and approvals
[4:09 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Greetings! CallMeRichie
[4:09 PM] fdov: https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/pull/1124
[4:09 PM] CallMeRichie: Thanks!
[4:14 PM] fdov: We probably need to have a discussion wrt. start counting time. Personally I would say minimum a month after release. If 1124 is approved, activation won't happen for about another month.
[4:16 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: 14 day voting window plus 14 day lockin period Im happy with as a minimum.
[4:17 PM] fdov: I also plan to try to copy bitcoins guix-build-system for us. That way we can build our own versions and compare signatures, much like gitian but better.
[4:19 PM] fdov: I'm working on that right now.
[4:22 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I'm assuming you also still need help with testing? Anything people reading this later might want/need to know in order to help with that?
[4:22 PM] fdov: Yes, of course.
[4:23 PM] Someone_2: What if you don't have a github account?  And you're a lay person  ?
[4:25 PM] fdov: Most of the testing tasks are simple, like install the newest binary (or build your own) and test one or more of the features. Comment something like "It started and the boxes worked as expected", nothing fancy needed . I'm pretty sure most of the features work. But it's nice to have more people verify before we make a release. Once I get like 3-ish confirms on each task I'm happy.  Overview: https://github.com/fdoving/RavenStash/blob/main/testing-4.7.0test.md
[4:25 PM] Someone_2: (but a confident and seasoned lay person)
[4:26 PM] fdov: Someone_2 Well, All testing, even non documented testing, helps. Personally I would like comments on github. If you're a seasoned lay person you'll manage to make a github account.
[4:29 PM] fdov: If you for some reason do not want a github account, feedback from testing can be posten in ravenqt-sig-working - please @ me and link to the github-issue listed in https://github.com/fdoving/RavenStash/blob/main/testing-4.7.0test.md for the feature you're testing. I will probably screenshot or copy your feedback and post it on github to document the testing.
[4:40 PM] CallMeRichie: Nice to meet everyone.  I plan to go through your github projects to see if I can assist in any way.  Gotta run!
[5:04 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I will close the channel shortly if there are no other questions for the core devs.




Dev Meeting Transcript (December 3, 2021)

[4:00 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Channel open.
[4:00 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: HI
[4:00 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Hi (speaking normally...)
[4:00 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}:
[4:00 PM] fdov: Hello.
[4:00 PM] Tron: Hi
[4:01 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: i put together a list of items to discuss. not sure if people want to add things before we start in earnest.
[4:01 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: 1. Release date. When anticipated for P2SH and latest updates to GUI?
2. Testing P2SH and release v4.7test3 by fdov needs more testers specifically arm/osx/arch.
3. Testing P2SH I found that using the console is required. Propose adding GUI for P2SH multisig address creation (say 1 to 15 addresses only) and spending process to obtain partial hash to send to cosigners.
4. Ideally also need a demo or explanation (console or other) for multisig creation and making a transaction for the various assets. Be useful to those wanting to test and try the software.
#5 https://www.ravencoin.timeline.ovh/rvn-tokenisation-made-easy-for-any-business/
[4:02 PM] fdov: I don't think the "funding external projects part" has anything to do with development. Do that in a foundation meeting please.
[4:05 PM] Tron: Gut feel is that we don't start counting blocks until after the halvening.
[4:05 PM] Tron: Downloads can be available before then.
[4:07 PM] fdov: I was hoping to gather troops and make a release before years end. I have a lot of work until the holidays.
[4:07 PM] fdov: .. and it does not get much better once the holiday is over, for me anyway.
[4:08 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: So counting starts in beginning February essentially with releases hopefully ready by the end of december. Thats the plan at the moment anyway.
[4:08 PM] Tron: Sounds good.
[4:09 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: Yeah i can be a lot more active once the holidays come
[4:10 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Number 1 is covered imo. Anyone wandering in late please feel free to comment!
[4:11 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: or later than me...im either 12 hours early or 12 hours late.... no half measures!
[4:11 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: 2. Testing P2SH and release v4.7test3 by fdov needs more testers specifically arm/osx/arch.
[4:12 PM] fdov: Great progress in the testing the last few days. Got some ✅  on my list.
[4:12 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: I can build on my pi, i think that would cover armv
[4:12 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: 7?
[4:12 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: This and #4 are kinda linked imo.
[4:12 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: 4. Ideally also need a demo or explanation (console or other) for multisig creation and making a transaction for the various assets. Be useful to those wanting to test and try the software.
[4:12 PM] fdov: @kralverde  {CULT OF JOE} you don't have to build, you can just test the binaries. (or build if you want).
[4:12 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: Ill go the whole 9 yards
[4:13 PM] fdov: Would be nice if you also tested the binaries I made, check that my build-environment actually works.
[4:13 PM] RAVENCOIN.TIMELINE.OVH: #5 https://www.ravencoin.timeline.ovh/rvn-tokenisation-made-easy-for-any-business/
[4:13 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: i have something for console and making the P2SH addresses. spending from that address I need help with though!
[4:14 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: I wanna try and stick in torv3 support before release too
[4:14 PM] Hans_Schmidt: It would be good if someone (in addition to the tests I did) could test asset atomic transfers using P2SH
[4:14 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: Yessir
[4:14 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: Could you link your run downs regarding that again?
[4:15 PM] fdov: We could try, but I suggest releasing without torv3 first. THen make a .1 with torv3 pretty quickly after.
[4:17 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: This is what i did for making a multisig address and documented etc.
Creating a multi-signature address with Ravencoin QT 4.7.

A 2-of-3 multisig address can be created by following these steps:

1. Gather (or generate) 3 ravencoin addresses, on whichever machines will be participating, using getnewaddress or getaccountaddress RPC commands (or copy and paste from the GUI).
2. Get their public keys using the validateaddress RPC command for each address or using getaddressinfo and copying the pubkey value.
3. Then create a 2-of-3 multisig address using addmultisigaddress; e.g.,
ravend addmultisigaddress 2 '["044322868cb17d64dcc22185ae2d4493111d73244c3668f8ac79ecc79c0ba8d30a6756d0fa20157 709af3281cc721c7f53321a8cabda29b77900b7e4fe0174b114","..second pubkey..","..third pubkey.."]'
4. addmultisigaddress returns the multi-signature address. Be a little careful, the public keys are raw hexadecimal and don't contain checksums like ravencoin addresses do. You can then send funds into that 2-of-3 transaction using the normal sendtoaddress/sendmany RPC commands, or the GUI (or anything that's been updated to recognize multisig addresses).
[4:17 PM] fdov: I pretty much want the release to be close to test3 - without much code change. - If we make it and feel good about it, I can change my mind.
[4:18 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Every contribution is welcome of course. But rushing in a tor update seems risky to me in light of all the other things already in there which could use more testing.
[4:18 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: Ill work on a pr but leave it on the backburner
[4:19 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I need help with how a user can send from a multisig on RVN using assets. rawtransactions are fun!
[4:19 PM] Tron: If the Tor update doesn't impact consensus, it can be added later and without a hard fork.
[4:19 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: https://hans-schmidt.github.io/mastering_ravencoin/analysis/HTLC_P2SH_Cross-Chain_Atomic_Swaps_RVN-Assets_With_BTC.html @Hans_Schmidt this is still your latest work correct?
[4:20 PM] fdov: FYI: I'm working on gitian building, to be able to make deterministic builds, like bitcoin did. (they switched to guix). - PR is in the list as a draft. It builds and works, but only deterministic for OSX. I have not had the time to figure out why.
[4:20 PM] fdov: It does not.
[4:21 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Yes, for P2SH asset atomic swaps. It is tedious, but should provide an outline to follow for more testing.
[4:22 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: Awesome
[4:22 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: @kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}@Hans_Schmidt awesome, thanks for linking!
[4:22 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: and making!
[4:23 PM] Tron: Thank you everyone for helping on this release.
[4:27 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Item 2 done - WE NEED MORE COMMUNITY TESTERS FOR ARM/OSX/ARCH. Please.
[4:27 PM] Tron: I can put a call out on Twitter.
[4:28 PM] fdov: I found that crying on discord helps.
[4:28 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Item 3. Testing P2SH I found that using the console is required. Propose adding GUI for P2SH multisig address creation (say 1 to 15 addresses only) and spending process to obtain partial hash to send to cosigners. Any objections to this or ideas to help?
[4:29 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: this may help if we consider adding hardware wallet support later...
[4:30 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: something simple like https://coinb.in/#newMultiSig for creating a p2sh  address in wallet.
[4:31 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: That might be another thing to put in 7.1
[4:31 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: Though if its just a gui, it should be trivial…
[4:32 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: Ill take a look over the holidays
[4:33 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: its not concensus related after the p2sh fork is done. Imo it would help people using the wallet and personally use a multisig in the QT wallet .
[4:33 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I'll make an issue and see if anyone wants the challenge.
[4:34 PM] fdov: Should not be hard.
[4:34 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: I’ll just copy whatever electrum does gui wise
[4:35 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Testing on each OS is necessary to verify binary generation and dependencies. But I have never seen an alternate-OS functionality problem which risks the chain. Would you agree with that?
[4:36 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Careful. I looked quickly and to me it looked like they created a seperate seed for multisig addresses. I liked the gui though.
[4:36 PM] fdov: No, It is just to make sure binaries we release actually work.
[4:37 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I have seen more user errors and not specifically OS issues....just saying....
[4:37 PM] fdov: OSX is usually the worst.
[4:37 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Item 3 done. I'll create an issue.
[4:38 PM] fdov: I have to take a ~20min break in 10 minutes.
[4:38 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Item 4 was covered earlier.
[4:38 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Item #5 https://www.ravencoin.timeline.ovh/rvn-tokenisation-made-easy-for-any-business/
[4:39 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: i have not looked at this yet.
[4:39 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Not surprisingly, stuff worst best on the platforms which the devs mostly use.
[4:42 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: This looks like a request list for layer 2 development. Somethings mentioned can only be done by a business. Like sign ins and banking links etc etc.
[4:44 PM] fdov: I like the idea. I guess it's much like Mango isn't it?
[4:45 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: looks like a skinnable mango but the banking connections centralised around a "onramp/offramp" for want of better words.
[4:46 PM] fdov: But the request is someone makes it and share it for free to anyone on github.
[4:47 PM] Tron: Mango can be whitelabeled, but it isn't free.
[4:47 PM] mattan138: If QT essentially looked like this they'd be set for the most part.
[4:50 PM] fdov: Personally I want to focus on core+qt. And I would prefer if the foundation directs most of its attention to the core development. The core is Ravencoin. If that somehow breaks, all L2s die with it.
[4:50 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Is there a reason we don't include an IPFS viewer in the QT just for the asset creation part? to verify that you have the correct hash if nothing else?
[4:50 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): so when you check to see if the asset name is available youre also able to verify your ipfs hash
[4:52 PM] fdov: We can make a button to open it in the default browser with the configured web-viewer. But including a viewer into core, is not something I (and i think Hans) want at all. It will introduce all sorts of potential security issues.
[4:52 PM] Blockchain John: Is there any company being built on Ravencoin to help secure and protect Intellectual Property?
[4:52 PM] Blockchain John: Question: is P2SH estimated to forked into the chain in 2023? Here's the code that makes me think that.....
 LINE 165 consensus.vDeployments[Consensus::DEPLOYMENT_P2SH_ASSETS].nStartTime = 1682956800; // UTC: Mon Mai 01 2023 18:00:00
https://github.com/fdoving/Ravencoin/commit/04eba4fd84eddea5268a2d213d92e9e4a90e7117#diff-ff53e63501a5e89fd650b378c9708274df8ad5d38fcffa6c64be417c4d438b6dL165
[4:53 PM] fdov: No. This is just set to something that will never happen, for it not to activate by accident.
[4:53 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: @Blockchain John it was likely just moved far into the future... while testing other features.
[4:53 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Viewers are a main source of security vulnerability for many applications. An ability to chose an external viewer after you click a box verifying that you understand the risks would be more acceptalbe.
[4:53 PM] Blockchain John: Ahh ok. Perfect.
[4:54 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Right, I agree with that. A button would be nice so that you can view the content externally during creation much the same way that you can view it from your asset balance.
[4:54 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: yes, electrum has their own mnemonic system
[4:54 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: some may say its better than bip39, but...
[4:55 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: the rest is the same
[4:55 PM] Blockchain John: How can I become a Ravencoin IPFS Node host? From what I understand there is a script not that scans Assets and NFTs minted on RAVENCOIN. and the IPFS is pinned automatically by s community of volunteers
[4:55 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: raise an issue and if a dev wants to help ravencoin they can add it.
[4:57 PM] Blockchain John: There's been a concern from the community that some pools are getting to large and causing issues in the network. There's been a recent delay of 8 minutes with no blocks being discovered. Which was said to be due to mining pool manipulating the network. We definitely need more pools if this is the problem.
[4:57 PM] Tron: https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/blob/master/assets/tools/ipfs_pinner.py
[4:57 PM] Blockchain John: Thank you
[4:58 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: has anyone got it to work? not being cheeky. I have failed several times on windows and linux.
[5:00 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: tried qt and ravend. ipfs node fails to connect.
[5:00 PM] Blockchain John: Ruh roh.
[5:01 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: zmq running. with assetindex=1 and txindex=1
[5:01 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: and server=1
[5:01 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: and a ipfs node running Wink?
[5:01 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: lol
[5:01 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: yes.
[5:02 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: it seems like it would work to me, what was the error you had?
[5:02 PM] Hans_Schmidt: We did already do PR#901 Configurable IPFS Browser url, which defaults to https://ipfs.io/ipfs/
[5:02 PM] Tron: RPC user and  pwd?
[5:03 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: yes. i got annoyed and set it to default even to try it. i use rpc for mining on testnet and that works fine.
[5:03 PM] Blockchain John: Last question: I'm looking for the option to pull transactions from my address. I'm not about to take QT with me as it's on my computer. But I would like to know what transaction as occuring on my address. How can I pull an API
[5:04 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: that would be an open rpc from the node
[5:04 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: or 3rd parties like rvn.cryptoscope.io
[5:04 PM] Blockchain John: Thanks
[5:06 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: some of the ipfsapi stuff is deprecated in the script. if someone has it working just say so, and ill be quiet and re figure my stuff out. thumbs up if you have it working please.
[5:09 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I have to get off but appreciate all of your efforts in this community! Thank you!
[5:09 PM] fdov: We can extend that to a button in the Create Assets-view, the button can be activated around here: https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/blob/392b2becb286de0f5fd61ac84a5f2561d2460527/src/qt/createassetdialog.cpp#L515
[5:10 PM] fdov: Once a good hash is found, the button activates. On button presse, we ask the user with a popup if she wants to open this url in the browser.
[5:12 PM] Tron: I like it.  It would be nice to have a check box or option to "Don't ask me again.".  Basically a one time warning.
[5:12 PM] fdov: More work. But I agree.
[5:13 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Love it. So long as it doesn't prevent users from minting in the event no one has pinned the file.
[5:14 PM] fdov: It will basically just open the browser at a url.
[5:14 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: the issue with that is ipfs propogation time
[5:14 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: nlogn time and all that
[5:14 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: there should be an override for the button enabling
[5:15 PM] fdov: That will be the users problem.
[5:15 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: lol
[5:15 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: okay
[5:15 PM] fdov: Don't you think?
[5:15 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: your saying the button will only activate if a public gateway gets the hash right?
[5:16 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: actually
[5:16 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: yeah user problem
[5:16 PM] fdov: No, it checks for Qm and 46 chars.
[5:16 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: okay i see
[5:16 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: i was unsure of what "good hash" meant
[5:16 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: shoulda asked
[5:17 PM] Tron: We don't want the client checking for existence against server.  Just letting them click to open the browser (with a warning).
[5:17 PM] fdov: I was planning on using the sanity-check already used to activate the Create Asset button.
[5:19 PM] fdov: But I guess this is a level of detail out of the scope of this meeting. Should continue indevelopment  or ravenqt-sig-working
[5:21 PM] Hans_Schmidt: I think this makes sense as an extension to what we already did in PR#901. And browsers make good viewers because they have already evolved into security sandboxes.
[5:27 PM] Nonprophete: Didn't see it answered, but may have missed it.  What is the ETA for the P2SH hardfork?
[5:29 PM] fdov: @Nonprophete Hope to release before years end, start counting after halving, early feb, active around march if pools upgrade.
[5:30 PM] fdov: @LSJI07 - BWS Are we finished?
[5:32 PM] BadGuyTy: I came late but didn't see it mentioned did you get your help with raw transactions @LSJI07 - BWS ?
[5:33 PM] BadGuyTy: I would also like an ETA for the hardfork. I have all but decided that is going to be a requirement for squawker usability.
[5:36 PM] BadGuyTy: I'm being dumb... I'll just move to test net where it is already active with the disclaimer that nothing we do there will be carried over...
[5:38 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Just answered, expected in Feburary-March but ultimately depends on the pools/miners
[5:39 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): If there are no other questions/issues for the core devs I will close the channel shortly.




Dev Meeting Transcript (December 10, 2021)

[3:51 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: Channel is open
[3:58 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: Can confirm the latest dev branch builds on arm7l
[4:02 PM] Tron: I have invited folks from Twitter to help test.  Could you post a link to information on testing?
[4:03 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): https://github.com/fdoving/RavenStash/blob/main/testing-4.7.0test.md
[4:04 PM] Tron: Thank you.
[4:08 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: was it @LSJI07 - BWS who had the testing online meetup?
[4:08 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Yes, only two of us attended though sadly
[4:08 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: As I understand we need to look at restricted assets for p2sh and watch only addresses with assets
[4:09 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): And I of course didn't have a mic so poor LSJ just talking to himself
[4:09 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Yes I experienced issues specifically with tagging P2SH addresses and sending the associated restricted asset.
[4:09 PM] Sevvy //: I borked my testnet instance on my windows machine trying to transplant my chainstate data to an ubuntu rig
[4:09 PM] Sevvy //:
[4:10 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Was not able to get 'Watch only' in the GUI for P2SH or P2PKH Asset Balances though RVN balances display correctly
[4:10 PM] Sevvy //: I was the one who kind of compelled LSJ to even schedule the testing session
[4:12 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Also AFAIK none of us have successfully sent assets from a P2SH address yet either. More GUI support would be nice.
[4:13 PM] Sevvy //: yeah
[4:13 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: at least the basic unlocking script right?
[4:13 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): @LSJI07 - BWS opened a dedicated issue and bounty for that here: https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/issues/1142
[4:14 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: for multisig or p2sh?
[4:14 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): multisig is p2sh
[4:15 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: its an application of p2sh
[4:16 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: p2sh is kind of similar to a smart contract....
[4:16 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: kinda
[4:16 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: not really
[4:16 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: its just a more options locking script
[4:16 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): the issue is specific to GUI support for multisig p2sh
[4:16 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: Yeah
[4:16 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: I added it to my list
[4:16 PM] Sevvy //: neat
[4:16 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: of stuff to do on holiday
[4:17 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): multisig is the p2sh application I have been testing as well
[4:17 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: cool beans
[4:19 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/issues/990#issuecomment-989151364 is particularly deserving of attention though, IMO. I would expect restricted assets to be one of the more common applications for multisig p2sh so ensuring it works properly is crucial.
[4:19 PM] Sevvy //: agreed
[4:20 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: yeah, right now we just gotta try to break stuff in the testnet and add issues on gh
[4:23 PM] Hans_Schmidt: It can be confusing because there is a CHECKMULTISIG opcode which can be used on RVN just as on BTC to do "standard" multisig. But it's limited to 3 signatures and it results in a large transaction, so most multisigs are actually done using P2SH.
[4:25 PM] Sevvy //: hmmm, didn't know that
[4:29 PM] Hans_Schmidt: I want to acknowledge that there have been a few other small bugs which have been reported in the channels not related to P2SH. It takes time to reproduce, diagnose, and fix these things. But they will eventually be resolved, so it's worth thanking those people who put effort into reporting them and opening github issues when possible.
[4:31 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: the struggle has been the only way to spend from a multisig is via createrawtransaction and very few understand it imo to write a guide on how to do it WITH assets. ill have a go but its gonna take awhile.
[4:34 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: using the gui with a multisig address in the wallet and all the private keys it works to send assets. we tried issuing all the asset types into a multisig address and the sending from that address using the gui. That is obviously not how its meant to be used so kinda irrelevant other than its worth noting as interesting on the positive side.
[4:37 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): This is actually not working for me
[4:37 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: just tags though correct?
[4:37 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): When trying to send out from a multisig address and I select the asset on the dropdown menu it disappears immediately after being selected.
[4:38 PM] Jeroz: I saw the tweet. Do all points at https://github.com/fdoving/RavenStash/blob/main/testing-4.7.0test.md need testing on MacOS? Or only specific ones? "Test OSX binaries on various versions of OSX" is rather vague and broad.
[4:38 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Nope seems to apply to main assets as well at least when using the GUI. I'm specifically talking about sending an asset FROM a multisig address.
[4:38 PM] Sevvy //: holy shrimp Jeroz is here
[4:39 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: eyy jeroz is back
[4:39 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: afaik little testing has been done on mac/osx in general
[4:39 PM] Someone_2: I just noticed his pic.
[4:40 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I think it'd be prudent to test all of the new features on each OS at least once to ensure they work.
[4:40 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: that would suck
[4:40 PM] Jeroz: I have Bug Sur (11.6) and Mojave (10.14) in a virtual box.
[4:41 PM] kralverde  {CULT OF JOE}: @fdov do you know what needs to be done with respect to MacOS/OSX?
[4:41 PM] Tron: These tests should show how to use p2sh and multisig for assets.  https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/blob/develop/test/functional/feature_assets_p2sh.py
[4:41 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): I've just tested this again during the meeting and it's working now lol @LSJI07 - BWS
[4:42 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: i was firing up my testnet node to double check!
[4:42 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Yeah I tried it before posting that and got the error described but now its working.
[4:46 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: i had a few anomalies I will detail as separate issues. on creating qualifiers and sub qualifiers that the gui was different for the various asset types. just to keep them to the same process. the # was required for creating qualifier types of assets however the prefix was not required for the rest of the asset types. It was already automated in them i think.
[4:46 PM] RAVENCOIN.TIMELINE.OVH: I can do some testing on OSX latest version
[4:47 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): Right. Might be because restricted assets share the same name as the main asset theyre associated with whereas qualifier strings can have unique names
[4:48 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): But having that # added to the prefix initially would help to prevent some user confusion IMO. It got me the first time as well
[4:51 PM] Hans_Schmidt: I have noticed similar oddities on occasion. The implementation is not consistent nor the same as the documentation.
[4:55 PM] Tron: These are issues related to the speed of development at the time.  They can be fixed, but we should publish some notes for any changes that are not backwards compatible, or could break existing RPC calls.
[4:57 PM] Tron: Also the lesser used features (tagging, etc) didn't get as much user testing.
[5:09 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I see the test and see familiar console commands etc but its python and not english. Creating the multi sig is doable in console. Spending is ahem fun for me at the moment... Ill have a go at using it though in console and report back if i get seriously stuck and create something a bit more user friendly.
[5:12 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: On a side note the new gui screen for wallet creation are much better. I recently installed an atomic dex komodo wallet and a good feature they had was forcing the user to select a specific random seed word (or two) to ensure the user had recorded it correctly before letting them through...seems good practice for a future improvement perhaps.
[5:13 PM] kinkajou (SegWit Clique): exodus wallet does this too. I agree it encourages safe habits. no harm in creating an issue in case someone wants to pick it up

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33  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Ravencoin [RVN] PoW GPU Mining | Asset Transfer Blockchain (Updated ANN) on: October 23, 2021, 08:11:14 PM
Dev Meeting Transcript (October 22, 2021)

[4:01 PM] Tron: Channel should be open.
[4:06 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Is there a kawordinator for tonight or a agenda?
[4:06 PM] Tron: I don’t think so.
[4:07 PM] Tron: I’m going to address any of the security issues that haven’t already been addressed.
[4:08 PM] Tron: (From the ISE report)
[4:09 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Ok well i just finished cleaning my fish tanks and missed the last dev meeting so im out of sync at the moment.
[4:09 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: reading...
[4:09 PM] Tron: I missed the last one too.  I read the notes. I was at a school reunion.
[4:13 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: What are the main issues that still need code changes from the report?
[4:14 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I read fast and some of the issues are non issues when digging into them.
[4:15 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Respect the reviews and comments made above regarding the issues. Not sure about what still remains in the todo pile.
[4:16 PM] Tron: Some are non-issues.  Some are just code improvements where it would be better to more clearly define what happens in an ELSE section.
[4:17 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Pasting a link to the original audit message to making reading and referencing the report easier. https://discord.com/channels/429127343165145089/482289959261175838/896128735416315934
[4:26 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: With R01 and the script check assuming all other existing objects are p2pkh what happens when we start other object types in future. taproot and schnorr sigs and associate scripts come to mind. Not an issue now but thinking about the future theyll have to be clarified.
[4:27 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Not an issue in terms of this audit just reminding myself for future.
[4:31 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Like you said in fewer words sort out the else sections.
[4:31 PM] Tron: If the changes impact consensus, then we go through a similar process.
[4:39 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: So how much work is there to get to a new core qt release with p2sh for those that want to vote for it? I read and dabble but could use another point of view.
[4:39 PM] Tron: Pretty quiet here today.
[4:40 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: not kidding! i dislike hearing my voice echo as well...:Ravemoticon_Smile:
[4:43 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I was going to say that the last few dev meetings were quiet but reasoned it was more due to analyzing the audit content than anything. I would propose moving it to 2 weekly but with an imminent code change it seems irresponsible to propose that at the moment.
[4:51 PM] fdov: The reports are completely useless. They only prove ISE does not have a clue how our code works. If we followed their suggestions we would have multiple instant hardfork-issues.
[4:52 PM] fdov: Yes, they are correct in some minor nit, but that's it.
[4:56 PM] Tron: If we have a better way to vet code, I’m open to it.
[4:57 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: So basic fixes to be updated sounds like we're a few weeks (if that) away from a release once updates are coded.
[4:58 PM] Tron: The cross-check between you, Hans and HyperPeek is fantastic and very appreciated.
[4:59 PM] Hedger: How about a Bounty Reward in a Hackathon?
[5:03 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: This could be useful but need reliable organisers and judges etc...
[5:05 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I was going to say we don't have time. Then i realised i was wrong. If we got more eyes on the code its not a waste of time!
[5:05 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Getting competent eyes if the fun bit...
[5:06 PM] Hedger: I'm seeing Hackathons are getting results!
[5:10 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Need a version of p2sh code without the "nit picking" stuff in it that ise picked up on to base the hackathon code on.
[5:14 PM] Hedger: Blockchain/Crypto is developing fast and seems critical for RavenCoin to get mov'n on, if you will 🙂
[5:14 PM] fdov: Releases need to happen to keep developers interested. There are tons of competing projects to get involved in if one is interested.
[5:14 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Real test is mainnet with proper value money on the line. Be awesome to get hackathon devs motivated with rewards though to simulate that pressure and recognition for their work securing the code!
[5:17 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I dislike hackathons for exactly the same reason though as feel its unfair to the devs who volunteer their time on ravencoin and get zero rewards other than our
appreciation. Pros and cons.
[5:19 PM] Tron: Rewards are not off the table for devs that are helping. If the foundation has funds, that is a great use.
[5:20 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I feel we need a release soon and eyes on the code. Always thinking hackathons were more usecase targeted and based around that. Could get good results imo with a bug bounty on the p2sh code.
[5:24 PM] fdov: One of the earlier plans was to do a release with the P2SH-assets code disabled for mainnet. Like current develop-tree. Personally I don't think that is very risky.
[5:24 PM] theking: Yeah I agree. Things are moving very quickly and if Raven is going to remain relevant we got a move quickly as well
[5:25 PM] fdov: I disagree that we should move quickly. Slow and safe is better than fast and fail.
[5:26 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Moving quickly and staying secure is the issue. Slow and surely without tripping, is a better outcome than sprinting and tripping on the way.
[5:27 PM] fdov: But moving is essential. 😉
[5:30 PM] Hedger: Ravencoin has a great community and developers.  All have a stake, interest, time, coin, mining, current website and offerings, building a future 2nd layer...  Bounties in whatever form can Help preserve the Investment by all.  In addition to ISE.. It's a different time than when I had the pleasure meeting some in this Discord and this chat at the Peace Coliseum years ago in SLC.
[5:30 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: So Tron can no doubt see if the foundation can source some funding for a bug bounty. Community can carry that message pretty easily. Just need to point the community and devs to the right code we want reviewing ie. with or without the ise corrections.
[5:32 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Currently without ISE corrections as that's all we have to show.
[5:33 PM] Hedger: Weren't some of the prior generous donations earmarked simply to make sure RavenCoin happens?
[5:38 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Most donations have been redirected by the donation keepers to the ravencoin foundation for now. If the foundation dissolves we as a community will simply have to start again. This is something that can happen outside the development meetings to keep as much focus as possible on development and code. Volunteers don't need paying. We simply want ravencoin to be the best network for people to issue digital asset tokens on.
[5:39 PM] Tron: If we think bug bounties are better than security reports, we can do that. Or both.
[5:39 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Getting bug bounties and hackathon type stuff going though was a great idea! Reminders never hurt!@Hedger
[5:42 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Both. Bug bounties can be rather intangible so a report is useful to people.
[5:43 PM] Tron: http://www.portlavacawave.com/news/state/athlete-assets-and-matchpoint-connection-team-up-for-first-on-chain-ncaa-athlete-nft/article_c1e7dba2-5917-51bc-92ac-fea9a0ee6523.html
The Port Lavaca Wave
Athlete Assets and Matchpoint Connection Team Up for First On-Chain...
PHOENIX, Oct. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Athlete Assets and Matchpoint Connection team-up to offer the first "on-chain" digital collectible for University of Texas Defensive Back, BJ Foster. Leveraging base protocol
[5:46 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Hackathons are great as they allow a tangible gauge of developer interest. Normies don't see the code. They see people coming up with ideas and sharing them to some extent.
[5:47 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: unavailable due to legal reasons...
[5:49 PM] Tron: What?  The link doesn’t work?
[5:50 PM] Tron: First in-chain NCAA NFT.
[5:50 PM] Tron: Issued on Ravencoin and uses IPFS.
[5:51 PM] Hedger: We are in uncharted waters in many ways.  Great opportunities and risks.   Unfortunately I'm not a Developer.  Hard to find developers and lots of competition for that skill set for sure.  It's a different time.  I appreciate all you guys do 🙂
[5:51 PM] Tron: Got it from MangoFarm
[5:55 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I'm in the eu and someone is pulling that link down over gdpr for some reason.
[5:57 PM] Hedger: Let's keep helping our RavenCoin Developers with core code that allows them to have all the tools necessary to be creative.  And an UI for non developers, Public Joe, to have full features available.
[6:04 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Calling it quits for tonight. Thanks for the updates everyone!
34  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Easiest Altcoin to Mine advice on: October 21, 2021, 04:09:21 PM
Ravencoin is a solid top-100 PoW project mined on commodity hardware (GPU).

The KawPoW algo uses slightly more electricity than Ethash/Autolykos, but the added power consumption provides additional security that ASIC's won't be able to come online with an outsized efficiency advantage.
35  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Ravencoin [RVN] PoW GPU Mining | Asset Transfer Blockchain (Updated ANN) on: September 19, 2021, 04:41:46 PM
kinkajou can you give a short retelling instead of a full transcript, summarize what it is about?  
I think it would be more useful.
Are you related to the project team?

Ravencoin is a decentralized project built entirely by volunteer contributors from all over the world (like Bitcoin!) - so I'm just another volunteer supporting the project. I do try to keep up with current developments and projects of other Ravencoin developers/community members.


I don't really like summaries because I feel the whole meeting is important and only takes about 5min to read but I'll give it a shot here:
- ISE Security audit paid for, begins next week. If no problems are discovered then P2SH and related Core updates are ready to fork to mainnet.
     - Briefly discussed the future of audits - which are to continue for all major updates. The community audit fund should be sufficient for all future needs in this area.
- Discussion of cost/benefit for implementing SegWit and other Bitcoin improvements over adding new unique features to Ravencoin.
     - We are roughly 10k commits behind Bitcoin Core at the moment, so this would be quite a large task without a full-time developer assisting.
     - Getting current with Bitcoin may have the result of bringing new developers to Ravencoin and would allow us to benefit from billions of dollars in R&D.
     - SegWit is not the only solution for scalability/Tx malleability so other alternatives may be explored.
- Briefly discussed adding hardware wallet support to Core with no objections.
- Discussion of Jeroz/MangoFarms proposal for new Unique Asset not bound to main. https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/issues/996#issuecomment-919089691
     - This would be a new type of asset that costs slightly more than current Unique Assets (5RVN + Main Asset) but would not require a Main Asset to mint.
     - Much of the demand for RVN currently is in the form of NFTs, so this would likely boost adoption for that use-case.
     - This may displace current/future business models that depend on Asset Creation/Tokenization services, but the result would be increased decentralization. It is likely discussion for this proposal will continue in coming weeks as logistics/chain economics are debated.


Expect discussion to continue throughout the week on both SegWit and the new Unique Asset proposal!

Development meetings are hosted every Friday at 4PM EST in the Ravencoin Community Discord: https://discord.gg/8dArcSzA26
All community members are welcome and encouraged to attend!

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Dev Meeting Transcript (September 17, 2021)

[4:04 PM] Tron: Channel is open.
[4:09 PM] kinkajou: Hello!
[4:11 PM] theking: Hi All
[4:13 PM] JustaResearcher: Sup.
[4:15 PM] Tron: Just an update on the security audit.  It has been paid, and I had a meeting yesterday.  They should be able to start next week.
[4:15 PM] JustaResearcher: Good stuff, very nice.
[4:15 PM] theking: Thanks for the update Tron
[4:21 PM] kinkajou: Great news! What is the plan going forward for Ravencoin? Are we looking to immediately start more development on Hans' proposal or something else?
& will we continue to pay auditing companies going forward or do you foresee a point where we will have enough talented community developers to negate the need for additional security audits?
[4:25 PM] Tron: For a $1.2 billion project, security is paramount.  I suspect if we keep this project very secure that future audits can probably be funded from our existing audit fund.
[4:27 PM] Tron: Meaning, the value of a very secure chain that continues to run without incident is likely to increase in value enough that the current RVN will be sufficient for future audits.  This current audit used about 10% of the audit fund.
[4:32 PM] kinkajou: What sort of timeline are you looking at before the next set of updates for Ravencoin? I know the goal is to have as few as possible, but considering that this last one took nearly the entire year between coding and auditing (for really only one major update in P2SH for assets) I think we should start exploring that conversation as soon as possible.
[4:34 PM] kinkajou: For instance, there are a lot of updates we are missing to remain current with Bitcoin which makes it a bit difficult to share development resources IMO.
[4:36 PM] Tron: For non-major, and non-consensus related changes, they can be more frequent.  Hard forks are a big deal and should be limited.   Things that don't impact consensus (soft-fork) can be added and deployed without a flag-day or BIP9.
[4:36 PM] Tron: For example, UI improvements do not require everyone to update.
[4:38 PM] kinkajou: I assume we would still want security audits for these smaller upgrades, though?
[4:40 PM] Tron: It is much easier to review UI improvements.  If the code does not impact consensus, then it just needs to be reviewed to make sure sneaky stuff isn't being added.  Those are easy to detect.  A UI change that tries to access wallet info is a red flag.
[4:42 PM] kinkajou: Right but for this update we had one audit for the P2SH code and a second audit for the non-P2SH code. Is this just because they are part of the same fork?
[4:42 PM] kinkajou: Or was there more than just UI/UX changes in the non-P2SH code?
[4:44 PM] Tron: They should've reviewed it all together.  It was an artifact of trying to get P2SH reviewed while changes were still being added to the dev branch.
[4:44 PM] kinkajou: I only ask because given the frequency/cost of audits this year I wonder if it would make more sense for the foundation to hire another developer to help stay on top of the non-consensus related code updates.
[4:44 PM] Tron: There were more changes.  Some that impacted key generation, which is another critical location.
[4:47 PM] Vincent: any plans...
[4:48 PM] Vincent: taproot just lauched
[4:48 PM] kinkajou: I personally believe our lack of SegWit to be a major hindrance to the progress of Ravencoin since nearly all layer2 Bitcoin upgrades require witnesses.
[4:50 PM] kinkajou: Even if I wanted to build a custom implementation for Ravencoin without SegWit - why as a developer would I do this when all of my work could become wasted time in the future?
[4:54 PM] HyperPeek: The implementation would still work in the future as segwit would always be optional, but I agree that porting existing stuff gets more and more complicated with ~10k commits behind BTC.
[4:55 PM] kinkajou: Right but the difference would be building something completely from scratch vs being able to utilize existing libraries and resources
[4:56 PM] Vincent: what would it take to get this moving...?
[4:56 PM] Vincent: why does it seem like no coders care
[4:56 PM] HyperPeek: Yes, I totally agree. Problem is time -- even a tiny backport from upstream takes days including all testing and internal review we did so far. So without a full-time guy working on this it will be tricky, I guess.
[4:56 PM] kinkajou: Which brings me back to this: https://discord.com/channels/429127343165145089/482289959261175838/888525839833108480
[4:57 PM] HyperPeek: Coders for blockchain are really rare. Most go where the money is and that would not work for a small project like this.
[4:57 PM] Vincent: i will repeat my obvious claim.. if no coder has a bag worth improving this project (for self interest) than we are in trouble
[4:58 PM] HyperPeek: I agree, but I guess thats how it is...
[4:58 PM] kinkajou: Have to keep in mind the industry isn't just Bitcoin anymore. There are thousands of DeFi projects that provide devs with the opportunity to generate passive income for their work.
[4:58 PM] kinkajou: We have to compete with all of that.
[4:58 PM] Vincent: my bag is small... im here 4 yrs... funding my project... because of potential
[4:58 PM] Vincent: that's a sad claim
[4:59 PM] kinkajou: Instead of getting upset over the reality of the situation we should brainstorm ideas to compete with these DeFi projects without sacrificing our values.
[4:59 PM] Vincent: no bag holder wants to make it happen...!?!?!
[5:00 PM] sirrumz: Seems like coders need some more incentive.. and rightfully so
[5:01 PM] HyperPeek: Its not about money mostly. I run a company outside crypto and even there its almost impossible to hire devs currently. With crypto its 10 times harder.
[5:01 PM] kinkajou: Distributed systems engineers were already hard to come by and very expensive before this blockchain craze. It is going to require some resources IMO.
[5:01 PM] Vincent: rightfully so my a**... if their bag wont make them fincially secure...we have a problem
[5:02 PM] Vincent: no entreprenuers here..?
[5:02 PM] Mango Farm: I don’t want to interrupt the discussion.  I’ll drop this and we can discuss any time even next week.  I’m curious if anyone has thoughts on two things discussed this week in the nest.
1. Now that BTC core has added HW support into the core GUI, is this something folks would be interested in?  When it was raised earlier in the year there was some reluctance expressed because Bitcoin had been debating it for years, so the foundation proposal was shifted to Electrum.  Does the fact that they implemented it change the analysis?
2. There still is a lot of discussions about the expense of making unique assets.  I’m wondering if there is any appetite for having a new kind of asset, not at root, that has unique asset properties but does not require a root?  (With an open character in the regex at root).
[5:03 PM] kinkajou: I have no problems with hardware support in Core. Would only be beneficial IMO.
Also love the idea of the new unique asset assuming the cost is competitive
[5:03 PM] kinkajou: Any updates on ICE wallet? :slight_smile:
[5:04 PM] Mango Farm: Hardware done.  Software nearly done.  The proposal above would compete with ice wallet.  Ice does not use the interface that BTC core uses.  It can’t.  But I think it would be good for RVN so I remain committed to raising it.
[5:04 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: Ive been getting back up to speed in my c++
[5:04 PM] HyperPeek: I think once we got HW support working in electrum (Kralverde already did a PR to Ledger) it will technically not be a big problem to add it to core too, as the HW wallets would already have the required Firmware changes then.
[5:05 PM] Mango Farm: :thumbsup:
[5:05 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: Ill try and make some ease of use changes to core and look into what segwit entails
[5:05 PM] Mango Farm: The last BTC release included a degree of HW support.
[5:06 PM] HyperPeek: The "problem" is assets -- just rvn will probably just work, but assets require Firmware changes on the hardware wallets to work.
[5:06 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: I wanna get torv3 up an running too
[5:07 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: Yep
[5:07 PM] Mango Farm: Yes.
[5:07 PM] Vincent: HyperPeek what do you suggest about the 10k commits behind BTC
[5:07 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: Theoretically we just need to relax the checks
[5:07 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: Follow in their footsteps :p
[5:07 PM] Spicy: When the poniz die we will have more
[5:07 PM] Vincent: yeah... how
[5:07 PM] kinkajou: Biz was also interested in working on SegWit/LN if still around
[5:08 PM] Mango Farm: Trezor has specific inputs to the API they don’t take a raw transaction as I recall.  It may involve some doing here (if it hasn’t already been done) but nonetheless might be worth it.  Hardware is critical for assets of significant value.
[5:08 PM] Biz: Indeed I am still around. Still interested in the work, just been busy lately
[5:08 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: Correct, hyperpeek was looking into that
[5:09 PM] kinkajou: No worries, hope your recovery is going well! :slight_smile:
[5:10 PM] HyperPeek: This by itself is not a huge problem -- we need to pick what is possible to add without too much other cross-references and see. Asset awareness is what is the hardest part, as that need totally new code whatever we do.
[5:10 PM] Mango Farm: Thoughts on non-root uniques?  I know Vincent has had many discussions and posts on this.  I think it’s a good idea if the burn was set higher than a unique under main.
[5:11 PM] kinkajou: Link for reference: https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/issues/996#issuecomment-919089691
[5:11 PM] Mango Farm: It would be used just about immediately
[5:12 PM] kinkajou: How fast can we get it coded? :slight_smile:
[5:12 PM] Vincent: should there be a SIG created...?
[5:12 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: That would fall under qt
[5:12 PM] Mango Farm: In my comment at the bottom of Jeroz’s I raised the possibility of using a free character so these uniques were not at root, to alleviate confusion between main assets, curated uniques (uniques under a main) and this new asset type.
[5:13 PM] Tron: Another option is to have someone with a root asset create them at a small profit.
[5:13 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: ^ that was my plan :wink:
[5:13 PM] Vincent: While stillin the thought process.. i'm leaning against the non-root unique at this point
[5:13 PM] Mango Farm: That’s fine.  I lean for.
[5:13 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: Gotta get them atomic swaps working
[5:14 PM] Tron: If we do have root NFTs (unique asset), it needs to have a character to distinguish them.  #<id> is reserved for tags, otherwise it would've been a good choice.
[5:15 PM] kinkajou: That seems to be the current workaround. The main problem is, those that are not active here on Discord or Reddit/Twitter have no clue these services exist. I suspect many see the 500RVN main asset cost and simply turn away.
[5:15 PM] Vincent: My concern broght me back to the admin asset controlling the sub assets... some can own/create a harmful logofor an admin asset if they do not control the non-root
[5:15 PM] Tron: I prefer the idea of multiple (for profit) entities making root assets and allowing the creation under the root.
[5:15 PM] Mango Farm: Main asset come with all sorts of properties that a user may not want or need (ability to reissue, ability to issue subs and uniques within their namespace).  Those benefits should come with a higher cost.  But there’s a whole set of use cases out there that don’t need those properties.  In a world with $10 RVN (hypothetical) those uses remain valid.
[5:15 PM] Vincent: as i said the other night... the admin may not own the 'logo'
[5:15 PM] kinkajou: More utility/functionality never a bad thing IMO so long as it is implemented correctly.
[5:16 PM] Mango Farm: My issue with that is it is centralized.  Users shouldn’t have to rely on the mango farms of the world to make an asset.  We use the root/unique concept for RIP14 encryption tags to save cost.  But it isn’t ideal.  Same for art NFTs.
[5:16 PM] kinkajou: The two are not exclusive either. It would still be twice the cost for a unique asset not bound to root vs paying someone to do it for you. Both methods would still serve a unique purpose.
[5:16 PM] Sevvy (with New Mod Smell): We have other symbols available correct?
[5:18 PM] Mango Farm: I view it like this.  Curated assets like PICASSO#PAINTING would be significantly more valuable if the main is known good by Picasso.  So there is a use case for curated assets.  But it isn’t necessary for concert tickets.  Or whatever.  Those should be cheap and easy to issue without a third party.
[5:18 PM] kinkajou: And I agree with Mango, I think it would increase adoption of Ravencoin literally overnight. We are the best NFT platform out there yet cost remains a hindrance to some.
[5:18 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: That makes sense; getting a “brand” going
[5:18 PM] Vincent: the value of RVN (imho) is much more than an NFT factory, and this will not help as much as lead to protential trouble (someone mistake ADMIN being related to  --ADMIN
[5:19 PM] Sevvy (with New Mod Smell): It only makes sense to have root level nft to me
[5:19 PM] Sevvy (with New Mod Smell): If it's technically feasible
[5:19 PM] Mango Farm: That’s why I feel good about this kinkajou I don’t think it detracts from the value of main assets otherwise I would not like it.
[5:20 PM] Mango Farm: I know this: if we had it in the code today it would be the most used asset type almost immediately
[5:20 PM] kinkajou: I agree.
[5:20 PM] kinkajou: I would be using it myself.
[5:20 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: It would be very spammed :p
[5:20 PM] Mango Farm: So be it
[5:20 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: But i dont think thats nessissarially a bad thing
[5:20 PM] kinkajou: So lots of RVN would get burned and miners would get fees.
[5:20 PM] Spicy: I was going to say what kind of strain does that put on the network having a bunch of s*** tokens moving everywhere?
[5:21 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: Theoretically none more than rvn
[5:21 PM] Mango Farm: You mean like herpes?
[5:21 PM] kinkajou: rather have spam than empty blocks lol
[5:21 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: Since theres still tx fees
[5:21 PM] kinkajou: They are unique so there would only be one utxo per asset in any given block
[5:21 PM] Mango Farm: Not pushing just wanted to raise it I think it’s worth considering.
[5:21 PM] kinkajou: network strain should be minimal if anything
[5:21 PM] Vincent: just remember that everyone approved the potential spam issue when used against the burn rate discussion (just saying...)
[5:22 PM] kinkajou: I don't think spam could persist very long at 10rvn burn + tx fee per use
[5:23 PM] Mango Farm: The issue with the burn rate is that it goes to the fundamental economics and practically speaking getting consensus to do that change is unlikely.  But we still have the issue you raise - expensive assets and use cases - and this would address that without throwing the baby out with the bath water in terms of community consensus.
[5:23 PM] Sevvy (with New Mod Smell): Blocks are empty. We should be so lucky to have spam
[5:23 PM] Vincent: same applies to the burn rate
[5:23 PM] Mango Farm: The burn rate discussion has been raging for 3 years.  NFTs are being made now.
[5:24 PM] kinkajou: Right but this is adding something new and not changing an existing feature. It's also twice the cost of what is (in your opinion) the already too expensive uniques.
[5:24 PM] Mango Farm: Agree with this you can spam with uniques under a main cheaper.  If someone wants to spam they will.
[5:24 PM] Vincent: well, i feel the fundamental economics are very inpirtant... bit we can avoid this tangent here... just wanted to point out how many of the agruments against my position are never a concern on other suggestions
[5:25 PM] Mango Farm: Definitely but my point is changing fundamental economics is a different issue than the practical issue of a new asset type to suit an existing use case.
[5:26 PM] Mango Farm: The former is a lot more serious to a lot more people.
[5:26 PM] kinkajou: Yes, notice how Mango received exactly 0 threats to his health for his proposal :rofl:
[5:26 PM] Vincent: a lot more people who aren't building companies... they are name squating [mostly]
[5:27 PM] Mango Farm: I didn’t want to monopolize the convo on this issue.  Let’s keep discussing.  Over time it may be something people find if interest.  If not, it drops for me.
[5:27 PM] Vincent: mango is skilled at being switzerland... my life required a lot more hard love... :sunglasses:
[5:27 PM] kinkajou: name squatting wouldnt really be an issue here since they are unique and non-reissuable. this also likely wouldnt be used by business owners so much as it would be used by individual users.
[5:28 PM] Mango Farm: Not really I just like to find solutions to problems :rofl:
[5:28 PM] Vincent: so who then, economically, are against it if not the name squaters... how many businesses that you know of...?
[5:29 PM] kinkajou: I think businesses that planned to sell asset creation services may be against this.
[5:29 PM] kinkajou: Though Rikki said he is not opposed.
[5:29 PM] Vincent: so do i...i had to fire western medicine to solve qudriplegia... i learn a lot of people got in my way... and so i learned to trust very well my problem solving skills (but not switzerland skills)
[5:30 PM] Vincent: yes, than who, of the admin assets created already (burned 500 rvn $15) are gona be upset if we change the economics....?
[5:31 PM] Vincent: other than the name squaters here?
[5:31 PM] kinkajou: We aren't changing existing economics, we are adding new ones.
[5:31 PM] Vincent: we are conversing on what mango said earlier
[5:31 PM] Mango Farm: I plan to sell asset creation services (and have done it for over a year).  The question for me is what’s best for RVN not me.
[5:31 PM] kinkajou: It would still be cheaper to issue uniques attached to a main.
[5:31 PM] kinkajou: So anyone issuing in bulk would likely opt for this.
[5:31 PM] Vincent: whats best for RVN is your business becoming  ahuge success
[5:32 PM] Vincent: Mango Farm
[5:32 PM] Mango Farm: :rofl:
[5:32 PM] JustaResearcher: Don’t you think changing the burn rate has an affect on economics of the chain? It’s literally a deflation tool for holders that’s  part of what draws me to raven (scarcity)
[5:32 PM] kinkajou: hes not wrong
[5:32 PM] Vincent: and cheap assets would allow many artist to take the chance
[5:33 PM] kinkajou: This would lower the cost from 505RVN to 10RVN (or something). Many more users/artists would be able to utilize RVN.
[5:33 PM] Tron: If someone buys the NFT root asset, they can charge 6 RVN to mint and send unique assets to an address and make a profit.  NFT#WhateverYouWant
[5:33 PM] Mango Farm: Absolutely
[5:34 PM] Mango Farm: But the artist has to go through that service instead of minting their own.  There is value to having art sold by sothetby’s but not necessarily at the cost of artists who don’t want to selling at a flea market or on the street corner.
[5:35 PM] Vincent: I always go to the garage band becoming the next U2... running their business on RVN...
U2/ALBIMS/SONGS
U2/TOURS/CITY/DATES/SEATS
U2/MERCH/ALBUMART
[5:35 PM] Vincent: so true and a 20% markup... but only  1 biz model
[5:36 PM] Mango Farm: But to trusted issuers and service providers this model would still work.  PICASSO#PAINTING is known as the real deal while —PICASSOPAINTING is probably a joke.  People would pay for the main asset provenance, where relevant.
[5:36 PM] Vincent: i will repeat... that in my opinion. the brilliance of RVN is the entire biz structure can be built with the asset classes, MUCH more than the NFT creation
[5:36 PM] Mango Farm: Like a curated painting
[5:37 PM] kinkajou: I think it would be the difference for a lot of artists downloading Core and using it right away, vs getting discouraged due to high barrier to entry.
Some users may not be aware of the different asset types, and might not even know to look for tokenizaton services that only cost 5-6RVN.
[5:37 PM] Mango Farm: I own the N.F.T#WHATEVER root asset but still it would be good for regular artists to mint their own if they don’t care to use a curated service.
[5:38 PM] Vincent: and a general rule of biz is you need a 200% markup to succeed... so the unique should cost 15RVN for a subcontractor
[5:38 PM] kinkajou: Even non-artists. It's a lot easier to justify trying out new technology if it only costs $1 than if it cost $50.
[5:39 PM] kinkajou: It would be akin to buying an app on the app store.
[5:39 PM] Mango Farm: Say you want to make a birthday card NFT for your wife.  $50 or 50 cents.
[5:39 PM] Vincent: you're supporting my burn campaign if you ever want to see RVN moon
[5:39 PM] Tron: Agreed, but most users don't currently know that Ravencoin NFTs are an alternative to the much more expensive ERC-721 smart contract.
[5:40 PM] Tron: It cost about $75 to mint an ERC-721 (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethdev/comments/loq4qs/how_much_does_it_cost_to_mint_erc721_tokens/)
[5:40 PM] kinkajou: It's not just us and Ethereum anymore, though. There are many different NFT smart contract platforms. BSC, SOL, XTZ, ADA...
[5:40 PM] kinkajou: We are not priced competitively with all of them.
[5:40 PM] Vincent: and what happens when competition comes in when it cost $75 conversion on RVN
[5:40 PM] Tron: That is more than minting a root token, and 10 NFTs.
[5:40 PM] Vincent: and we are forgetting the rest of the world economics
[5:41 PM] Mango Farm: https://mangofarmassets.com/viewer.testnet/BIRTHDAY_NFT
[5:41 PM] Vincent: yes, competition... another reason for the burn rate conversion concerns
[5:41 PM] Mango Farm: I wouldn’t want to have to go to hallmark to make that
[5:42 PM] Vincent: or have a color printer.... :yum:
[5:42 PM] Mango Farm: Ha!
[5:42 PM] kinkajou: Again, let's not conflate the two issues here. We should be able to discuss new proposals without circling back to old ones.
[5:42 PM] kinkajou: If we keep doing this we will never move forward.
[5:43 PM] Vincent: other NFT coins will be having FREE, on chain NFTs... not sure we need this to be a major ficus
[5:43 PM] Vincent: focus
[5:43 PM] kinkajou: They are not mutually exclusive ideas.
[5:44 PM] kinkajou: And while other chains may now be cheaper, Ravencoin still leads in UX/ease of use.
[5:44 PM] Vincent: agree...we spent a lot of time on the topic the other night... that said, when problem solving, i believe the forest view is importANT
[5:44 PM] Mango Farm: I didn’t mean to open a can of worms.  Let it percolate.  Personally I’m not pushing but I do think it would get a ton of use almost right away.  And wouldn’t undercut the value or benefits of main assets.  At least as I see it.
[5:44 PM] Vincent: always good to have these convos
[5:44 PM] Mango Farm: Agree
[5:45 PM] Mango Farm: But for today I think it’s a dead horse
[5:45 PM] Vincent: yes...back to the BTC 10k comits... should therebe a taks force finding the important ones... including segwit...?
[5:46 PM] kinkajou: Probably a good idea. It may be best just to do it all in one go, though. Rather than picking and choosing.
[5:46 PM] kinkajou: Don't want to leave out some stuff and then figure out later you actually wanted/needed it.
[5:47 PM] Vincent: over my head... but seems to make sense
[5:47 PM] kinkajou: well, like right now we have tiny bits of segwit left in the code - but none of the important stuff :slight_smile:
[5:48 PM] Vincent: seems weird everyone goes silent on this topic haha
[5:49 PM] kinkajou: Maybe we should figure out a way to raise funds for it then
[5:49 PM] Vincent: ugh
[5:49 PM] Vincent: map out a plan first (imo)
[5:50 PM] Vincent: does the foundation see it as important piece of the puzzle..?
[5:50 PM] Mango Farm: I’ll leave that to Tron. I don’t need segwit or taproot for anything I do.
[5:51 PM] Tron: There are two questions here.  The first, and most important, is how important is the capability.  Segwit doesn't add anything valuable unless there is also going to be a lightning layer.  It helps with scaling (up to 2x) but that isn't currently an issue. It could be in the future.  The second question is the funding for development, which has several options.  One that was proposed earlier and largely rejected was to use part of the block reward.  The other options are donations, or volunteer development.
[5:51 PM] kinkajou: Tx malleability will also need fixing.
[5:52 PM] Vincent: what is involve for segwit and lightning...?
[5:52 PM] Mango Farm: They both (segwit and taproot) seem like solutions to problems RVN doesn’t have.
[5:52 PM] Tron: Tx malleability can be fixed without segwit.
[5:52 PM] Tron: You just have to tighten the rules on a signature formats.
[5:53 PM] kinkajou: I think it's a losing strategy to put scalability on the back-burner when it is the largest issue facing decentralized cryptocurrencies today. Sure, blocks are empty right now - but none of us are here because we think they will remain empty forever.
[5:53 PM] Tron: Lightning doesn't need segwit.  Lightning needs guaranteed signatures.
[5:53 PM] Vincent: (shameless self promoting not intended)... i hope to have my prototype live befire yr end... it will expose what i see as the brilliance of RVn and also show a scalable concern.... it may help you all see where my thoughts come from and why this all concerns me
[5:55 PM] Mango Farm: I agree kinkajou but every RVN asset currently sits on a hot wallet so addressing scaling seems to me like the cart before the horse.  Imagine putting a million dollar NFT on a hot wallet - you have bigger concerns than how much it costs you to send it in 3 years.
[5:55 PM] Tron: Like Bitcoin, Ravencoin would benefit from a fee market.  Not an issue today, but will become more important as we have a few more halvenings.
[5:56 PM] Vincent: in a dev meeting, aren't we planning for tomoorow..?
[5:57 PM] kinkajou: Well I also don't see RVN as just an NFT/stock chain. We have lots of web3 potential. For example, the trustless authorization/authentication we've discussed previously. I'm fine if we want to push SegWit back a bit, but I don't like to entertain the idea that Ravencoin blocks will remain empty indefinitely.
[5:57 PM] Tron: Yep, planning for 2032 as block reward shrinks.
[5:57 PM] Mango Farm: Same page
[5:57 PM] kinkajou: And if we're going to continue delaying upgrades that do have value, whether or not that value is immediately apparent, we should work on something else instead.
[5:59 PM] Vincent: yeah,... let's wait till its a problem is not a good methid imo
[5:59 PM] kinkajou: I know we are a "slow and steady" chain as opposed to a "move fast and break things" project, but we have to keep moving. I don't want development to stall after the great year we've had. We should continue to build off our momentum.
[6:00 PM] Mango Farm: Segwit was really just an offshoot of the block size debate though.  Aside from one way to address transaction malleability I don’t know that it is a superior solution to address block size and throughput, but others would be better to gauge that than me.
[6:00 PM] Vincent: (btw mango, liked the new wallet, played a lil)
[6:00 PM] Mango Farm: Ethereum is jammed up for other reasons
[6:02 PM] Vincent: dont know much abou tit but we can stay slow and steady but Solona came out of nowhere is may be putting us to shame in the NFT world.
[6:02 PM] kinkajou: We will never have to worry about those reasons without smart contracts, though.
And it is more then just scalability - it's about being able to share resources with Bitcoin since they receive the equivalent of billions of dollars annually for R&D.
[6:02 PM] Vincent: you werent supposed to be taged on that mango
[6:02 PM] Mango Farm: It also could be said that it breaks the chain of signatures (at least for nodes that don’t retain the witness)
[6:03 PM] Mango Farm: Yes this is what I see as the main benefit eventually all the BTC tools are going to leave the old transaction structure, scripting and signatures behind.
[6:05 PM] kinkajou: I think it's fair to speculate that every major technological upgrade to BTC from now on will likely depend on SegWit in one way or another.
[6:06 PM] Mango Farm: Taproot was a pretty major change too.  P2TR and MAST etc.
[6:06 PM] Vincent: does taproot need segwit..?
[6:07 PM] Mango Farm: I don’t have the answer to whether it must but I believe it does.
[6:07 PM] Vincent: seems to my naiveness that the benefits of segwit are worth putting time into it
[6:09 PM] Mango Farm: I don’t know enough about it to have an informed view.  I’m learning now.
[6:09 PM] Mango Farm: (Taproot)
[6:10 PM] kinkajou: If not SegWit then we should seriously consider Mango's proposal for new unique assets. Again I am fine if a decision is made not to prioritize SegWit at the current moment but if that's the case then it should be tabled in favor of something else that will benefit RVN even more.
[6:11 PM] Vincent: i'm overdue for a shower and dinner... enjoy the weekend
[6:11 PM] Mango Farm: It was really jeroz’s proposal with a twist
[6:11 PM] Mango Farm: Have a great weekend everyone I have to go too.  Lively and informative discussion this week.  Thanks for that.  This makes my week.
[6:21 PM] Tron: Thanks to everyone for participating.  I'll close the channel.
37  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Ravencoin [RVN] PoW GPU Mining | Asset Transfer Blockchain (Updated ANN) on: September 10, 2021, 09:52:09 PM
Dev Meeting Transcript (September 10, 2021)

[4:00 PM] brianmct: Channel open!
[4:02 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: Howdy
[4:02 PM] kinkajou: Hello! :wave:
[4:03 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: I hear p2sh is officially ready? Just waiting on an audit?
[4:05 PM] Sevvy (CIO of THE GROUP): Hi
[4:06 PM] Tron: The audit will be paid for on Monday from the audit fund and the needed funds are already in USDC.  There is a meeting with ISE.io on Tuesday.  They can start the code audit on Sept 20th.
[4:10 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: Whens the audit expected to end?
[4:10 PM] Tron: I expect 2-3 weeks, but I'll have better info after the meeting on Tuesday.
[4:14 PM] kinkajou: What's next for Ravencoin after that is completed? Has there been more thought given to Hans_Schmidt Evermore proposal?
[4:17 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: Yeah id imagine segwit and hans’ proposal
[4:20 PM] Vincent: My [general] thoughts hans proposal... we should keep RVN simple... BTC could have created an asset layer, but they didn't... Evermore should be a new coin
[4:20 PM] JustaResearcher: Segwit would be nice.
[4:21 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: We can definitely experiment on some kind of testnet fork
[4:23 PM] kinkajou: Agreed. We are missing out on a lot of potential functionality not being current with Bitcoin. One of the main advantages of being a Bitcoin code fork is being able to utilize their development resources to improve Ravencoin's technology. Bringing our codebase up-to-date could potentially bring a lot of new developers to RVN.
[4:24 PM] kinkajou: Though the new features of Evermore might very well have the same result.
[4:24 PM] push: Hey all
[4:24 PM] Tron: We should talk about this.  There are some parts of the proposed roadmap that could put Ravencoin in a category that could prevent Coinbase, and Kraken from listing it.
[4:24 PM] push: I'm working on the next release of RavencoinOS and I wanted to ask, when the next binaries could be expected to be released for Ravencoin?
[4:25 PM] Sevvy (CIO of THE GROUP): I think the community has largely rejected the dev fund element but wants added functionality
[4:25 PM] kinkajou: Which parts specifically do you think might be a problem? I assume the funding mechanism, but are there any others?
[4:25 PM] Vincent: yeah, that's why i said 'general'... maybe cherry pick some features
[4:25 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: If you trust the code w/o the audit, its frozen on gh rn
[4:26 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: The qt sig repo
[4:26 PM] Sevvy (CIO of THE GROUP): Dev fund concept is basically a non starter
[4:26 PM] push: thats great kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE} well, I could potentially preload that and wait for the audit to give it a pass
[4:26 PM] push: thanks :PES_ThumbsUp:
[4:26 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/tree/develop
[4:26 PM] Sevvy (CIO of THE GROUP): Whalest offered to pay for evermore development if raven can reclaim some higher price levels
[4:27 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: if
[4:27 PM] push: when
[4:28 PM] Sevvy (CIO of THE GROUP): Perhaps the community could also coordinate to fund it
[4:28 PM] Tron: We're probably looking at about 5 weeks out if there are no serious issues found in the security audit.  The P2SH feature activation will take longer.
[4:28 PM] push: thanks Tron I appreciate the answer. great
[4:29 PM] Tron: The stablecoin proposals are up at https://ravencoin.foundation/stablecoin_proposals
[4:29 PM] push: someone brought up again the mobile wallet problems, and the way android wallet treats asset utxo. thought id remention it if nobody else did earlier
[4:29 PM] Tron: The donation addresses are being funded.
[4:29 PM] Sevvy (CIO of THE GROUP): Another of our key benefactors was apparently not even aware that the proposal existed
[4:29 PM] Sevvy (CIO of THE GROUP): I suggest translating it into korean
[4:30 PM] Tron: There are mining pools contributing.
[4:30 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: How solid is google translate :thinking:
[4:30 PM] Sevvy (CIO of THE GROUP): This goes for evermore and other proposals
[4:30 PM] Sevvy (CIO of THE GROUP): Sorry. Bad reception. Messages are lagging behind their own context
[4:30 PM] push: not that solid with korean hehe
[4:43 PM] push: I'm proud to announce Ravenclause released another IPFS uploading service a few days ago, a link can be found on the rvnclause twitter. Big thanks to CryptoLifeCrisis and Rikki RATTOE - RVNFT.art for their encouragement.
[4:45 PM] CryptoLifeCrisis: Seriously , great work Push! :mechanical_arm:
[4:45 PM] push: appreciate it man, much more to come ahead. :PES_ThumbsUp:
[4:46 PM] push: go ravencoin nft's, ravencoin business, ravencoin wallstreet
[4:46 PM] push: excited for the what the next months and years hold ladies and gentleman. Thanks to all for keeping the dream alive
[4:48 PM] Tron: Thanks Push.  It's great to have you back.
[4:48 PM] push: Thanks Tron, I feel the same way.
[4:54 PM] dan99abram: Tron  what current projects is Raven working on? When do they plan on being released?
[4:55 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Hi y'all
[4:56 PM] Tron: Focus at the moment is making sure there are no security issues with the current changes (for P2SH and new improvements) and getting that into everyone's hands.
[4:56 PM] Tron: We might be too cautious, but there is over $1 billion on the line.  It's worth some extra effort.
[4:57 PM] dan99abram: Thanks for answering!  Tron
[4:59 PM] push: $1 billion on the line indeed. I remember when people told me several years ago, when Ravencoin mcap was only a few million, it was absurd to anyone to believe that ravencoin could make a $1bn market capitalization. Less surprised today are the people I spoke to then, at my then suggestion the chain will one day be double or possible triple digit in billions of its market capitalization. It is well known that the US bonds market alone commands about $100tn of capitalization. Ravencoin is much more than a way of life, it is a new way of doing business.
[5:00 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Yes, the regulatory climate is getting tricky. I still love Ravencoin and I believe that RVN can do Defi better without Ethereum or the EVM. But if the SEC insists that paying interest on a coin is illegal, then all of Defi is illegal.
[5:06 PM] Tron: This video explains the current regulatory climate, and this is from a crypto guy (Gary Gensler - SEC chair - formerly MIT). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tusQLLCgrDs  Ravencoin currently has the advantage in this environment because it was launched cleaner than ETH, EOS, SOL, XRP, etc.
[5:12 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Ravencoin's "purity" does have strength.  I just want to do good engineering. But we also need to navigate the legal minefield. Lots to think about.
[5:12 PM] push: Hans_Schmidt agreed, EVM is not necessary for securities. There is in fact many reasons why one might not want EVM. Bitcoin has a simplicity which makes it unique for currency and asset issuance that is instep with regulatory requirements that already exists, including restricted assets, etc. Even if a persons 'type of usage' of a chains tools is not considered proper or authorized by some government entity thru other asset types or uses, certainly Ravencoin chain provides ample and intentional functionality for replication of legacy securities and bond and traditional dividend issuance in what will likely be close but in fact more efficient, better regulated, and potentially SEC compliant means, of operating in international markets.
[5:12 PM] push: amen
[5:16 PM] JustaResearcher: If we do get segwit, we will have to make sure it’s implemented. Hopefully we can use LTC as an example and not BTC.
[5:16 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸 {CULT OF JOE}: How do you mean?
[5:17 PM] JustaResearcher: I mean BTC segwit wasn’t super quick to be adopted as a TX type. Many fell back on legacy for awhile.
[5:17 PM] JustaResearcher: Last I heard it was still close to 70% of tx
[5:21 PM] JustaResearcher: I think it wasn’t until dec 2020 that binance adopted segwit. Not sure why LTC had seemingly such quick Adoption compared to BTC but last I heard it was closer to 90% of tx in ltc were segwit
[5:22 PM] Tron: I'll be in Austin on Sept 22nd on a live-streamed panel on why Ravencoin is best for tokenized securities (conference by Vertalo) - demonstrating in a smackdown why Ravencoin is better than Hadera and BSV.  On Sept 24th, I'll be on the NiceHash episode talking about Ravencoin.  On Oct 1, I'll be presenting at the Utah Bitcoin Conference (on What is Mining (for beginners), and Ravencoin - Making your own coin in 30 seconds).  In Nov, I'll be in Miami to talk about P2SH and integration with AtomicDex (Komodo).  Then the Ravencoin meetup (cruise).  I gotta run, but I'll come back here and get caught up with the rest of the conversation.
[5:24 PM] JustaResearcher: Sounds like you got a busy schedule Tron - appreciate all you do!
[5:26 PM] brianmct: going to close up the channel in 5 mins unless folks have other stuff they wanna discuss
[5:27 PM] kinkajou: Want to mention the stablecoin proposals again: https://ravencoin.foundation/stablecoin_proposals/
In case any forgot/haven't seen them. OpenDAO in particular seems to be getting a lot of interest.
[5:27 PM] push: Thanks all :peepoBlanketThumbs: also thanks kinkajou for being such a dude
[5:28 PM] kinkajou: Thank YOU for continuing to innovate exciting new tools for Ravencoin! :rvn:
[5:29 PM] push: :PES_CowboyLove:
[5:29 PM] push: ta mate, y'all make it worth it
38  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Ravencoin [RVN] PoW GPU Mining | Asset Transfer Blockchain (Updated ANN) on: September 03, 2021, 10:10:07 PM
Dev Meeting Transcript (September 3, 2021)

[3:55 PM] brianmct: Channel open!
[4:02 PM] Tron: :wave:
[4:02 PM] kinkajou: Hello!
[4:04 PM] brianmct: @boatsandhoes are you free to coordinate?
[4:06 PM] brianmct: @Tron have you seen the Raven QT SIG's message here? Looks like the next release is ready for audit/signing: https://discord.com/channels/429127343165145089/637386139279556659/883143409643171840
[4:08 PM] Tron: I didn't.  I'll check it out.
[4:09 PM] boatsandhoes: Hello
[4:10 PM] boatsandhoes: The main thing from last week was to expand on @Hans_Schmidt proposals
[4:11 PM] boatsandhoes: I'm still working through it so don't really have any comments on it.  Does anyone else?
[4:12 PM] kinkajou: There were a few different parts to it. It may be helpful to break it down and discuss the proposal section by section.
[4:12 PM] boatsandhoes: So is this part 2 of 2 that is now ready for audit?
[4:13 PM] Tron: Ok, I signed the contract, and sent them the develop branch, and the "delta" link:  https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/compare/release_4.3.2.1...develop
[4:14 PM] boatsandhoes: which is the first one that you want to see worked on first to get it ready to be merged?
[4:15 PM] Tron: The cost of the audit is $28,000.  I converted that to USDC a while ago.  It represented about 10% of the Security Audit fund.
[4:15 PM] kinkajou: I'm personally most excited about/interested in Vault Assets, and upgrading our codebase to be current with Bitcoin (SegWit, Taproot).
[4:15 PM] boatsandhoes: Sounds good
[4:15 PM] Tron: Assuming there's nothing significant found, we can build/sign the binaries and begin the activation process.
[4:16 PM] kinkajou: Though if the aim is to capture DeFi interest, covenants/oracles may be a good thing to focus on initially.
[4:17 PM] Tron: Does anyone know the status of the Metamask-like wallet for RVN?
[4:18 PM] kinkajou: I believe @Grub was working on that. Haven't heard from him in a while.
[4:18 PM] boatsandhoes: How soon can the audit process start?
[4:18 PM] boatsandhoes: Someone else was working on it before him.  Not sure who off hand
[4:19 PM] kinkajou: @push posted the Ravenmask github article
[4:19 PM] kinkajou: @Scotty had his keyvault demo that was pretty cool and somewhat related
[4:19 PM] boatsandhoes: SegWit and Taproot have my vote for primary dev effort first.  Plus BTC devs can be tapped to do that bounty work
[4:20 PM] boatsandhoes: I'd even throw in on that bounty
[4:20 PM] Tron: Are there links to demos or code?
[4:22 PM] Tron: It may depend on their load, but the agreement says the assessment takes 5-6 weeks.
[4:22 PM] kinkajou: https://demos.keyvault.app/
I believe that is the link to Scotty's demo
[4:22 PM] Tron: Thanks
[4:23 PM] boatsandhoes: is the order going to be paid for or submitted today?
[4:24 PM] Tron: It was just signed and submitted 10 minutes ago.  The USDC has been allocated, but hasn't been paid yet.
[4:25 PM] Tron: Thank you to @brianmct for the link to the SIG Discord.  I should've seen it, but hadn't.
[4:27 PM] Tron: This develop branch should have a code freeze, and represent Release Candidate 0 and be the next release unless something significant is found.
[4:27 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): do we have enough to cover the gas fees on that 28k of USDC
[4:27 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): :weary:
[4:28 PM] Mango Farm: At this rate people will have to resort to emailing each other private keys :rofl:
[4:28 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): that is the cheapest route. I hadn't even thought of that lol
[4:29 PM] Mango Farm: :rofl:
[4:29 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): glad to see some forward momentum on the audit
[4:30 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): raven code base has evolved pretty consistently through the duration of the time I've been watching the project. Feels a little weird to have not done much tinkering for so long
[4:30 PM] Tron: Ballet Wallets can work really well for that.  It is verifiable, and provably not spendable until the tamper-evident sticker is ripped up.
[4:30 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): love it
[4:30 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): I remember Pathfinder had some single use bitcoin widget thing he posted about on twitter once
[4:30 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): I believe it actually destroys the keys after use or something
[4:30 PM] Tron: OpenDime?
[4:30 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): yes, I believe so
[4:31 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): yep that's the one
[4:32 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): I love clever implementations/utilizaitons of bitcoin and its code forks
[4:32 PM] kinkajou: We should probably talk about the future of the mobile wallet at some point
[4:33 PM] kinkajou: More complaints lately (not like they ever stopped)
[4:33 PM] boatsandhoes: Agreed.
Anyone have an update on the new mobile?  I haven't had a chance yet.  Is there a beta?
[4:34 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): this is actually a huge concern of mine
[4:34 PM] Tron: There's two - iOS and Android.
[4:34 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): I've been a bit busy this week but since I'm here I'll say my piece on it. I wish to see the moontree product from Whalestreet and Meta Stack reskinned as core and pushed as an update that imports extant user's 12 word seed
[4:35 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): I think that would take cooperation from Foundation and/or Medici (since the software is under their signature)
[4:35 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): but I find it unacceptable that a borderline deprecated product with a sub 3 star review is our top hit on the mobile stores
[4:35 PM] boatsandhoes: @Sevvy (bottled in bond)  never too late to tinker, why not take a look at moontree and make a tutorial?
[4:35 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): and we ought, as a community, reconcile the issue
[4:36 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): one option is to make a social push for users to avoid the seemingly official wallet which has known issues. Another is to pay to maintain the existing product. Or finally, with coordination of moontree SIG and Foundation/legacy wallet creators, slipstream the new reskinned wallet into the old build somehow
[4:36 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): seamlessly for the current users
[4:36 PM] kinkajou: I don't want to see any mobile wallets branded as Core, because mobile wallets are not Core.
[4:36 PM] Tron: I have access to the iOS one, but I don't seem to have credentials for the Android (Play Store).
[4:36 PM] kinkajou: I don't think we need an "official" mobile wallet
[4:36 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): let's say "de facto official mobile wallet"
[4:36 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): we all know what the lay person's perception can be
[4:37 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): my point remains, it would be best to do one of the options I mentioned above
[4:37 PM] boatsandhoes: Who has the credentials for Android?
[4:37 PM] kinkajou: Agree with this 100%. It's a bad look.
[4:37 PM] Tron: The iOS one works (for me).  I've been helping Android users move to other options.
[4:38 PM] Tron: @SpyderDev has them.
[4:38 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): To codify them:
1) Social push for use of any other wallet with full functionality and active development
2) Crowd sourced or Foundation funding for ongoing maintenance of the de facto offical mobile wallet(s)
3) Slipstream a reskinned moontree version into the existing userbase somehow. I'm too inept with code to know if that's possible or feasible. Since it would need them to import 12 words from the old code
[4:39 PM] boatsandhoes: @Sevvy (bottled in bond) do you know anything about a working beta for moontree, or a timeline?
[4:39 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): I believe anything with certain metadata types will glitch
[4:39 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): I believe they're beta soon?
[4:39 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): I do not, admittedly, have my finger as close to the pulse of raven development as I did in the past
[4:39 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: They said a few weeks in the electrum sig meeting
[4:39 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): probably because there's more of it lately
[4:39 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): and I pick up too many extra hours at the old circus peanut factory
[4:40 PM] boatsandhoes: same
[4:40 PM] Tron: I have a shared slack channel with the MoonTree devs.  I'll ask about an estimated timeline.
[4:40 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): fantastic
[4:41 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): A wide range of choices for mobile wallets, all of them with full functionality and robust features, as well as active maintenance is the ideal
[4:41 PM] boatsandhoes: Thank you.  also if there is an open beta list, it would be cool to know how to get on it
[4:41 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): However, it seems to me that the one that bears the name which the lay person will perceive as official, ought to meet those criteria
[4:41 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): or it should be deprecated
[4:41 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Moontree is getting mentioned alot. is that the blue wallet for RVN or new code?
[4:41 PM] Tron: Sorry, not a Slack channel.  A Discord server.
[4:42 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): essentially
[4:42 PM] Tron: New code.
[4:42 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: New code
[4:42 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): it's what that blue wallet project became right?
[4:42 PM] boatsandhoes: Did blue wallet conversion get abandoned?
[4:42 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Yes
[4:42 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: They said blue wallet sucked
[4:42 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: And theyre making a better backend
[4:42 PM] boatsandhoes: good to know
[4:42 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: (Paraphrasing)
[4:42 PM] boatsandhoes: thanks!
[4:43 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): yeah they picked a new base on which to build, right?
[4:43 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): or is moontree ground up?
[4:43 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: https://discord.com/channels/429127343165145089/843538032648650802/876822366611722320
[4:43 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Heres their repos
[4:43 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Ground up afaik
[4:43 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): wow my mistake
[4:43 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): cool beans, thanks for the clarification
[4:44 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Thats a channel i haven't visited much or at all. :eyes: Thanks for the reminder. I have reading to do.
[4:45 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): looks like they tore it down to the foundation
[4:45 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): unless that's outdated. Sorry not trying to split hairs. just learning out loud haha
[4:45 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Thats deprecated
[4:46 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: They were working on it but were basically like this isnt working
[4:46 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): haha I will get a clue outside of the dev meeting. I'll excuse myself :sweat_smile:
[4:46 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Its the front end and back end being worked on
[4:46 PM] boatsandhoes: Any other comments on @Hans_Schmidt proposals?
[4:47 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Mobile (moontree) being a single ios and android implementation? or targeted?
[4:47 PM] Tron: It should work on both.
[4:48 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Its a future meeting and discussion imo. There is much to discuss on that paper.
[4:50 PM] kinkajou: For those that may have missed it (like I did) the Stable Coin Proposals and donation addresses were posted on the foundation site: https://ravencoin.foundation/stablecoin_proposals
[4:50 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: definitely worth discussing just not sure an hour on discord in a several development meetings will be enough.
[4:51 PM] boatsandhoes: The same thing was said last week.  at the minimum we can figure out what specific proposals have the most favor to expand upon
[4:51 PM] Mango Farm: Jeroz passed along to me a request this morning since he is not in the RVN discord much any more.  He asked if there was a possibility to stream these meetings to telegram and Reddit as well.  Am passing along for consideration.
[4:51 PM] kinkajou: Agreed. It would be prudent to discuss what to discuss :stuck_out_tongue: IMO
[4:52 PM] kinkajou: @kralverde 🇺🇸 was working on a solution for that I think. Or did you mean literally stream - as in set up a video stream on page?
[4:52 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Im working on bot to do that
[4:52 PM] Mango Farm: I think he was mostly asking for a feed but a back and forth functionality between platforms would be pretty cool.
[4:53 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: I would love to collab if interested
[4:53 PM] Tron: I was going to mention the Stablecoin proposals.  I wanted to bring them up here first because the slide presentation from OpenDAO had $25K and it is now $50K.
[4:53 PM] Mango Farm: :fire:
[4:53 PM] Tron: I'll put the proposal page out on Twitter and other places, but I wanted to mention cost jump here first.
[4:53 PM] Mango Farm: I’ve go so many irons in the fire I don’t want to commit to things I can’t go full bore with.
[4:54 PM] boatsandhoes: open source?
[4:54 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Yes
[4:54 PM] Sevvy (bottled in bond): red hot glowing swiss army mango
[4:54 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Right now its just cross discord
[4:54 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Im trying to figure out reddit api
[4:55 PM] kinkajou: May be difficult getting back-and-forth chat functionality cross-platform. I think we have 2FA on this server now
[4:55 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: How does that effect cross platform?
[4:55 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: is there a demand from any users for a specific stablecoin?
[4:55 PM] boatsandhoes: that seems like a red flag at first glance
[4:56 PM] kinkajou: I guess it wouldn't if you're using a bot to relay everything. Ignore me.
[4:56 PM] boatsandhoes: none that i have heard
[4:56 PM] Tron: There have been requests for its use in atomic swaps on RavenTrader.
[4:57 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: i havent heard any demand per se also but I'm well aware that it could massively aid some usecases that deal predominately in fiat and we need to build bridges.
[4:57 PM] kinkajou: The informal 'thumbs-up' voting/poll 2 dev meetings ago seemed to show more interest for Stably USDS, though I'm not sure if that is indicative of overall community interest.
[4:58 PM] Mango Farm: Since you can’t even buy RVN in New York having a stablecoin option for people to use to buy assets doesn’t sound like a bad idea.
[4:59 PM] Tron: The other one (RVN/pRVN on OpenDAO) would use the RVN to incentivize others to yield farm to create USDO.  That's the reason that many of the tokens pay interest on sites like Nexo, Celsius, Abra, etc.
[4:59 PM] boatsandhoes: Has anyone stepped forward in being a liquidity provider for that asset on raventrader?
[5:00 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Theoretically the opendao proposal would mint a stablecoin asset on rvn, no?
[5:00 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Or was that the other?
[5:02 PM] Tron: The OpenDAO proposal is for RVN to pRVN, and then incentivising (with the $50K RVN) for others to mint USDO on Binance Smart Chain.  That all sounds convoluted, but the advantage is that you can borrow USDO against your RVN, and it might lead to interest-bearing RVN accounts.
[5:03 PM] boatsandhoes: Are ravencoinipfs tokenized giftcards in the works?
[5:03 PM] Tron: The Stably proposal is minting USDS as a USD backed token where the USD is 1:1 backed.  The USD would be held in a custodian.  It is Tether-like, or if you hate Tether, it is USDC-like.
[5:04 PM] Mango Farm: Will dm
[5:04 PM] Tron: The Stably proposal also generates some open-source code that they would use, but also make available.
[5:05 PM] Tron: The proposals page:  https://ravencoin.foundation/stablecoin_proposals links to both proposals.  The OpenDAO explains how it would work using one they've already done.  They would use the same model, and smart contract code.
[5:08 PM] Mango Farm: Which one do you think is the best option Tron?
[5:11 PM] Tron: I think they serve different purposes.  The OpenDAO one links RVN to the DeFi world via the Binance Smart Chain and might lead to better exposure in the Custodied crypto world.  The Stably proposal gives an on-chain USD stablecoin that can be used for atomic swaps which reduces the volatility when making an atomic ask transaction.  I like them both.
[5:12 PM] boatsandhoes: Are there any companies or people purposing to be a liquidity provider for a stable coin by way of a ravencoin asset?
[5:12 PM] boatsandhoes: other than Stably?
[5:13 PM] Tron: That's what the $50K is used for in the OpenDAO proposal.  They're not keeping the RVN, they're putting it out there to incentivize yield farming (liquidity providing for profit).
[5:14 PM] boatsandhoes: Got it.  So $50k go in and 50k USDS get issued?
[5:14 PM] boatsandhoes: If that is the case I def am down to contribute to that
[5:17 PM] Tron: I think they're providing extra RVN to those who provide liquidity.  $50K RVN should generate more than $50K USDO, but other RVN will be locked up as pRVN to make that liquidity possible.  In fact, quite a bit more, because of the over-collateralization that is required to keep USDO safely at $1.
[5:17 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I like stably as it would be by primetrust and help the institutional side making funding easier for twinned asset transactions on ravencoin.
[5:21 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: To me primetrust via stably is a route for Ravencoin into equity crowdfunding, People need tools and hand holding for that usecase. Primetrust makes the tools and holds people by the hand. Exactly what a decentralised network cannot do.
[5:23 PM] Tron: If you have questions about OpenDAO (USDO) version, you can contact Logan Fulcher Twitter: @OpenDAOLogan
[5:25 PM] boatsandhoes: does anyone want to bring up any other topics for the meeting?
[5:27 PM] kinkajou: I'd like to set a date or figure out a plan of attack for discussing Hans' proposal
[5:27 PM] kinkajou: Should we do that in the dev meeting or a separate meeting?
[5:27 PM] boatsandhoes: next week
[5:27 PM] boatsandhoes: separate then dev
[5:27 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: A set of meetings perhaps in braveland.
[5:29 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Video and voice adds some flavour to these ideas. Summary posted in text for posterity.
[5:30 PM] brianmct: I will pledge $10k to the USDS fund - who's with me?
[5:30 PM] kinkajou: just seems to me like braveland has the least engagement out of any of our platforms
[5:31 PM] boatsandhoes: +1
[5:31 PM] boatsandhoes: yep
[5:32 PM] Tron: Not dev-related, but good for Ravencoin.  I will be a guest on a radio program on 3 radio stations in Utah (105.7, 99.1, and 570 AM), and it will also be available via podcasts and iHeartRadio.
[5:32 PM] boatsandhoes: @kinkajou how about discord.  11 am PST next Friday?
[5:32 PM] boatsandhoes: voice or text, idc
[5:33 PM] S1LVA: I will stake my pooRVN lp tokens
[5:33 PM] Mango Farm: Braveland is really an underutilized resource
[5:33 PM] Mango Farm: It’s so very cool
[5:33 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: We don't have many set audio video meetings to discuss potential changes and the braveland platform is at least quiet. :jesus: Discord audio or text is fine if everyones is there.
[5:34 PM] Tron: I'm with you.
[5:34 PM] boatsandhoes: Does anyone here know how to allow the RVN mobile wallet to run in the background?
[5:35 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: ios or android?
[5:36 PM] boatsandhoes: both if possible
[5:37 PM] kinkajou: sounds good to me we just need to get the word out so people know to show up
[5:37 PM] Mango Farm: Have to get back to it.  Have a great 3 day weekend all.  Try not to labor too much on Labor Day.
[5:39 PM] boatsandhoes: Same.  Got to bounce.  Have a great week y'all
[5:40 PM] kinkajou: Perhaps we should check with @Hans_Schmidt to see if that works for him?
[5:41 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: i use android and that os has a keep in RAM function that for me beats the part of the battery optimization software in most OS's that keeps shutting Ravencoin down. iOS is not my forte.
[5:43 PM] Tron: I'm not sure about background, but on iOS, if you set the screen to never lock, keep it on the charger and RVN wallet open, it should keep syncing.  After it is synced once, subsequent catch-up syncing shouldn't take long.
[5:44 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I would go for the day after the next dev meeting. Saturday around the same time if it suits others. That way there is less work to shuffle out the way.
[5:44 PM] Tron: For non-syncing wallets that support assets, you can use MangoFarm wallet, or Zelcore, and soon MoonTree.  Stibits on iOS only.
[5:44 PM] Tron: For RVN only,  you have lots of choices.
[5:46 PM] Tron: Have a great weekend everyone.
39  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Ravencoin [RVN] PoW GPU Mining | Asset Transfer Blockchain (Updated ANN) on: August 27, 2021, 10:13:38 PM
Dev Meeting Transcript (August 27, 2021)

[3:54 PM] Kent Bull: :wave_tone1: Hello, just a bit early today
[3:54 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Howdy
[3:57 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Before stuff heats up with Hans_Schmidt ‘s proposal, Tron any update on the signing for p2sh?
[3:58 PM] brianmct: opened up the channel
[4:00 PM] kinkajou: Hello
[4:00 PM] kinkajou: Would also like to get in an early question to Biz regarding SegWit/LN - Have you had a chance to review the code further?
[4:00 PM] boatsandhoes: Hello all
[4:01 PM] JustaResearcher: Heya
[4:01 PM] boatsandhoes: who is coordinating?
[4:02 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: I can try and lead it
[4:02 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Normally its kinda of a free for all
[4:02 PM] kinkajou: We've been wingin' it with great success, Tron did most of the talking last week of course
[4:02 PM] Tron: Hi all.
[4:02 PM] boatsandhoes: that needs to be fixed
[4:02 PM] JustaResearcher: Sup Tron.
[4:03 PM] HyperPeek: Hi :slight_smile:
[4:03 PM] Tron: On mobile phone.  Internet is down.
[4:03 PM] Vincent: :popcorn:
[4:03 PM] Tron: There is a guy on my roof fixing it.
[4:04 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Here is hans’ proposal https://hans-schmidt.github.io/mastering_ravencoin/evermore_defi_roadmap/The_Evermore_Defi_Roadmap_for_Ravencoin.html
[4:04 PM] HyperPeek: Welcome to the club :joy:
[4:04 PM] boatsandhoes: Tron is there still a schedule for dev meeting coordinators like there was a while ago?
and if not can we get that going again for better flow?
[4:04 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Volunteering boatsandhoes ?
[4:04 PM] boatsandhoes: Yes
[4:05 PM] Kent Bull: Is this related to or completely separate from SegWit/LN and Signing for P2SH?
[4:05 PM] kinkajou: different but includes segwit/taproot/other btc updates
[4:05 PM] boatsandhoes: it has crossover, but its more broad
[4:05 PM] Kent Bull: I can't do every week though I'd definitely jump on a schedule if we had something. I tried every week earlier this year and I got burnt out.
[4:05 PM] boatsandhoes: its like 28 pages Kent Bull
[4:06 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Lots of contention about the proposed dev fee (im against it) but theres a lot of other stuff in there
[4:06 PM] boatsandhoes: I can take the torch if its okay
[4:06 PM] boatsandhoes: indeed
[4:06 PM] Kent Bull: do it
[4:06 PM] JustaResearcher: Dev fee = :face_vomiting:
[4:06 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Im thinking we should have some vc discussions sooner than later on it
[4:06 PM] Tron: I have thoughts on the Evermore roadmap proposal, but I'd like to get it out and get feedback on it.
[4:07 PM] boatsandhoes: need moderator status, but im able and down to do it the rest of this year
[4:07 PM] boatsandhoes: same
[4:07 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Lets talk about
1. p2sh
2. pegging/stable coin proposals
3. hans’ proposal
[4:08 PM] boatsandhoes: 4) Braveland
5) How much is the audit for the non P2SH part of the fork, and when will it be done?
6) What else is going into the fork along with P2SH?
[4:08 PM] kinkajou: 7) Kawpow miner AMD support
[4:08 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Anything else?
[4:09 PM] Tron: Great list.
[4:09 PM] kinkajou: would like that segwit update if Biz makes it here,
Cool porting dev meetings to other social media platforms
[4:09 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Lets start with 1
HyperPeek Hans_Schmidt hows p2Sh Tron signing keys coming soon?
[4:10 PM] Tron: EV Signing key (Windows) is here.
[4:10 PM] HyperPeek: A procedure is needed -- who will do the signing, how do we share keys etc.. Mac is a different story anyway.
[4:11 PM] Tron: $28K for ISE to security review code other than P2SH
[4:12 PM] boatsandhoes: Has it been paid for, and or the work started?
[4:12 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Hello
[4:12 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Thats an estimation i believe
[4:13 PM] Kent Bull: It's always an estimation with software development.
[4:13 PM] Kent Bull: Or security analysis.
[4:13 PM] Tron: I converted enough RVN from the security audit fund (10% at the time) into USDC to pay for it.
[4:13 PM] Tron: Just need a code freeze to rc0 to have reviewed.
[4:14 PM] Tron: Fixed estimate to review it
[4:14 PM] Tron: They're not fixing anything they find.
[4:15 PM] HyperPeek: Ok, that is point 6. I suggest we put in whatever is in it on develop plus maybe a few of the open merges
[4:15 PM] Tron: :thumbsup:
[4:16 PM] boatsandhoes: is ISE the same company that the community consensus said was almost worthless with the last audit?
[4:16 PM] HyperPeek: There is only 6 PRs open, 3 or 4 of which seem safe.
[4:16 PM] Tron: Yes
[4:16 PM] kinkajou: I'd like to plan a bit more ahead for the next audit. If we could get certik to do one of our audits we get a 'badge' on CoinMarketCap. Helps with credibility/image some - every little bit helps IMO!
[4:17 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: I believe Tron looked into that
[4:17 PM] boatsandhoes: in that case why not use certik for this one?  why wait?
[4:17 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: It was 7 months wait?
[4:17 PM] kinkajou: Yes I think they were booked up
[4:17 PM] Tron: I talked to Certik.
[4:17 PM] boatsandhoes: oh
[4:17 PM] Tron: I'll check my records when I get internet back, but I think they review smart contracts
[4:18 PM] kinkajou: "Slowmist" (https://www.slowmist.com/en) also seems to provide security audits with CoinMarketCap badging
[4:19 PM] HyperPeek: China :slight_smile:
[4:19 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Please elaborate
[4:19 PM] boatsandhoes: im down to explore that option
[4:20 PM] WhaleStreet: Are security audits the best use of funds?
Does requiring a security audit for all change scale well both practically and financially?
[4:20 PM] boatsandhoes: CMC badge will prob help move RVN up the ranking a lot, got to play the game to move up in the game
[4:21 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: So in short p2sh is ready, we have signing keys, now an audit?
[4:21 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Is the non p2sh code essential to chain functionality?
[4:21 PM] kinkajou: If the goal is to make changes as infrequent as possible then it's fine IMO. If not, funds would be better spent on another salaried Developer IMO
[4:21 PM] Tron: There's a few security related things in there.
[4:22 PM] boatsandhoes: Regarding the fork, P2SH needs a hard fork, but do the other things in it need one as well?  and where can an itemized list of the other things be found?
[4:22 PM] HyperPeek: No hard-fork except p2sh, but a big number of changes
[4:22 PM] Kent Bull: No, It doesn't scale well for all changes. Only consensus related things make sense to review right now.
[4:23 PM] Kent Bull: Paid security review, that is.
[4:23 PM] Hans_Schmidt: There are definitely some worth-while code bug fixes and extra things non-p2sh worth including.
[4:23 PM] Rikki RATTOE - RVNFT.art: Sorry I'm late, NO to the proposed Mandatory Dev Fee :beers:
[4:24 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Not yet lol
[4:24 PM] boatsandhoes: Then why not fork just P2SH, then schedule a review for the other stuff with Certik, and wait to push the other stuff to main net?  Why rush the other stuff for a code review from a company the community thinks isn't worth a lick of salt?
[4:24 PM] Rikki RATTOE - RVNFT.art: Oh my bad, thought I missed that
[4:24 PM] Kent Bull: What is your argument against? I'm collecting both for and against arguments so we properly understand the tradeoffs. DM me your argument pls since we're discussing something else right now.
[4:24 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: I think the idea is as few updates as possible
[4:24 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Github IS the itemized organized list
[4:24 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Or rather put as much in a review update as possible
[4:25 PM] Rikki RATTOE - RVNFT.art: Chain Centralization. Rise of a Technocracy similar to ETHs governance structure
[4:25 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: I think hans’ proposal will need a meeting of its own
[4:25 PM] Rikki RATTOE - RVNFT.art: Oh ok.
[4:25 PM] HyperPeek: Its not that easy. P2sh had quite some changes until it worked. And I am not sure how it would work / make sense without other fixes. There has been a lot work on asset's as well.
[4:25 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: But its item 3 in the list
[4:26 PM] boatsandhoes: the idea should also be to get P2SH out asap, and not waste dev funds on code reviews that are worthless, a review for the sake of review is not necessarily a good thing
[4:26 PM] Rikki RATTOE - RVNFT.art: Love most of the rest of the proposal BTW :beers: Anywho I'll shut up til it's time for that conversion to be had :grinning:
[4:26 PM] boatsandhoes: im a little confused by that, so P2SH was audited before it worked?
[4:26 PM] kinkajou: I'd like to get at least some initial thoughts out in this meeting, since it is highly anticipated. Then people have a week to sit on the discussion and process their opinions.
[4:27 PM] boatsandhoes: Agreed!
[4:27 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Reverting out code changes which have been carefully and incrementally merged in carries a substantial bug risk of its own.
[4:27 PM] boatsandhoes: whats the work on assets?
[4:28 PM] HyperPeek: Its mostly GUI fixes, just check the github history :slight_smile:
[4:28 PM] boatsandhoes: github is the all the code.  im not talking specifics.  for ex P2SH is an item, im not looking for the entire code base
[4:28 PM] HyperPeek: But there are PR's to check
[4:29 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: (https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin)
[4:29 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Each PR has a summary.
[4:29 PM] kinkajou: I think we already used our "mulligan" with respect to rushing code updates without proper review :stuck_out_tongue:
would rather not have a repeat of the same (or worse) mistake heh
[4:29 PM] boatsandhoes: yeah, will do.  it would be nice to have a list complied in a doc for all the community members not familiar with github.  I volunteer myself to make that list this week so we have something to point people to
[4:29 PM] HyperPeek: Feel free...
[4:29 PM] boatsandhoes: haha, amen to that dude!
[4:30 PM] boatsandhoes: so to be clear, that list does not currently exist?
[4:30 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Not that i know of
[4:30 PM] boatsandhoes: cool, i rather not do work that is already done
[4:31 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Is everyone good to go with our first point?
[4:31 PM] Kent Bull: Yeah, everything must be carefully reviewed. The question is on the depth of the review. Since every change to the Ravencoin codebase can potentially have compromising code then any reviewer of Ravencoin changes must at least be minimally security aware so we can make sure UI changes avoid suspicious updates to other modules that involve consensus and other secure aspects.
[4:31 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: We got 8 others…
[4:31 PM] boatsandhoes: yes and no, i think we spent enough time on it and should move on and bring it up again next week
[4:31 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Ok
[4:32 PM] kinkajou: lets move on please
[4:32 PM] Kent Bull: Wonderful. I'd like to add that list to my personal knowledge base.
[4:32 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Ill reach out to you about meetings and the like
[4:32 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Point 2: pegging / stable coins
[4:32 PM] Hans_Schmidt: No. I created lists for myself on a few occasions but ended up deciding that they were less accurate versions of the github Closed Pull Request list
[4:32 PM] Tron: This is the list.  And -- correct me if I'm wrong -- the code to be reviewed.
[4:32 PM] Tron: https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/compare/develop
[4:33 PM] kinkajou: I think it's fair to say we received an encouraging amount of interest in the USDS proposal at least. Tron could we move forward with getting an address published to receive donations?
[4:33 PM] boatsandhoes: cool, will check that out, and use as a jumping off point :slight_smile:
[4:33 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Tron can you go over the 2 stable coin/liquidity propositions again?
[4:33 PM] Tron: Yes
[4:34 PM] boatsandhoes: per Tron's point earlier, there needs to be clear documentation that crypto should not be sent from an exchange
[4:34 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Should be a simple matter with blockchain :slight_smile:
[4:34 PM] Tron: The first is stably.  They want $125K, and much of the code will be contributed back as open-source.  The code will probably only be useful for others that want to do something else, but will mint/burn tokens.
[4:34 PM] kinkajou: thats assuming refunds will be needed. Many donate without expectation of refund, though I agree people should be made aware.
[4:35 PM] Tron: The value in stably is their connections with custodians.
[4:35 PM] Tron: The USD will be held in custody with Prime Trust at 1:1
[4:36 PM] Tron: The stable coins will be minted/burned on the Ravencoin blockchain, and can be redeemed with Stably.
[4:36 PM] Tron: -----------------
[4:36 PM] boatsandhoes: yeah, but it gets messy if ppl donate for "A", and it does not reach the threshold.  would it be better if funds are returned, or if they were shifted to a different proposal.  i dont think it should be paid for with general funds
[4:37 PM] Tron: The USDO is $25K (in RVN) which will be used to incentivize the AMM, and the USDO is algorithmicly stable.  More like DAI.
[4:37 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Per the Stably proposal, you go through KYC with Prime Trust, then you give them US dollars, and they give you USDS stable coin dollar tokens on the Ravencoin blockchain. Anyone (who has gone through KYC) can get $1US at any time without fees from Prime Bank in exchange for a USDS stablecoin. So assuming that people are willing to sell you their RVN on-chain in exchange for USDS, It's like Coinbase but you take custody of the RVN on-chain instead of having to move them on-chain from Coinbase in a 2nd step. Stably will charge the Ravencoin Foundation $125K setup fee just to run a node and do the paperwork with Prime Trust. So it doesn't help individuals much. But it helps the project because now we have a $US stablecoin which can increase on-chain trading activity.
Is this correct?
[4:38 PM] Tron: RVN is minted as pRVN (by us).  There is extra RVN given out (that's where the $25K goes) to incentize the behavior of creating USDO.  The USDO would be on the Binance Smart Chain, not the Ravencoin chain.  But could be used there for loans, borrowing, etc.
[4:38 PM] HyperPeek: These are only the changes introduced since the p2sh merge. There has been a number of changes outside p2sh before May 21st.
[4:39 PM] kinkajou: Stably mint/burn code could end up being pretty useful IMO. Have to see it first
[4:39 PM] boatsandhoes: would be cool if it was on rvn, not binance, especially with all the bad pr around binance lately
[4:39 PM] RAVENCOIN.TIMELINE.OVH: Converting back pRvn to RVN cost you some rvn... So be careful... It is not a free conversion xxx
[4:40 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Good point. Thanks for the correction.
[4:41 PM] kinkajou: I don't think we could have an algo-based stablecoin on RVN due to lack of smart contract functionality, right?
[4:41 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Now theres a lot of stuff going on with stable coins legal wise
[4:41 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: At least in the Us
[4:41 PM] Tron: Are those changes (pre May 21st) already in the master branch of RavencoinProject/Ravencoin?
[4:42 PM] boatsandhoes: we could
[4:42 PM] Tron: More importantly, are we ready to code-freeze the develop branch of RavencoinProject/Ravencoin for security review?
[4:42 PM] boatsandhoes: just need a centralized service to take usd, and issue assets on rvn
[4:42 PM] Hans_Schmidt: The USDO proposal specified neither the required over-collatoralization requirement nor the interest rate on the loan.
[4:43 PM] kinkajou: I am not a fan of BSC either, but ideally when all is said and done I see us being tied to every large chain in this ecosystem. Might as well get BSC out of the way now, ya feel?
[4:43 PM] boatsandhoes: i do feel that
[4:44 PM] kinkajou: I think we should
[4:44 PM] kinkajou: Been putting it off a while (through no fault of anyone)
[4:44 PM] boatsandhoes: plus using the binance chain rvn gets exposure to metamask
[4:44 PM] Hans_Schmidt: Develop has not yet merged Ben's changes to help 2-step swaps, which we are still reviewing and probably want to include.
[4:44 PM] HyperPeek: Yes, I think so, because we needed them to have a working master. But that is not in any official version yet. So a proper diff would be between 4.3.2.1 and develop.
https://github.com/RavenProject/Ravencoin/compare/release_4.3.2.1...develop
[4:45 PM] Tron: The code will probably run on Ethereum, Solana, and others, but they would probably need to be another incentivization fee.  That causes people to "yield farm" by locking up their RVN/pRVN.
[4:46 PM] kinkajou: We need more defi exposure and this seems like a good way to get our foot in the door until better options come along.
[4:46 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Does anyone else want to add on these stable coin proposals
[4:47 PM] Tron: As far as the over-collateralization and interest...  OpenDAO is doing other projects, and so that can be a guide.  The difference is that other projects often have a "treasury" to draw from to incentivize the yield farming.
[4:47 PM] boatsandhoes: Agreed
[4:47 PM] kinkajou: I'd just like to inquire as to how we are going to move foward? It seems to me the foundation needs to take the lead in coordinating donations so when can we get that going?
[4:48 PM] Tron: HyperPeek Hans_Schmidt If you could ping me with the repo to code-freeze and have audited when it is ready.
[4:49 PM] HyperPeek: Ok!
[4:49 PM] Tron: I can post two addresses for both projects.  But if they fail to reach the goal, the funds would go into the general fund.  Unless, or until, there is a mechanism for returning funds -- which is requires that folks know not to send from a centralized custodial wallet.
[4:49 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: I think more discussion is needed on whether or not to go forwards
[4:50 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Though people can vote with their funds
[4:50 PM] boatsandhoes: agreed
[4:50 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: A go fund me esque address
[4:50 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: If the goals arent reached theyre returned
[4:51 PM] boatsandhoes: can it be made clear when those addresses are posted that should they fall short, that the funds will be shifted into the general fund?
[4:51 PM] kinkajou: That would be great. There seems to be a lot of community interest I don't think we'll have issues putting the funds together - but the earlier we can start the better. Love to ride our momentum
[4:51 PM] kinkajou: I don't care whether funds being returned or going to the general fund, just so long as people are made aware.
[4:53 PM] boatsandhoes: could even do 4 addresses.  2 for donations that will be returned should they fall short, and 2 for donations going into the gen fund should they fall short
[4:53 PM] Tron: I'm willing to do returns for a $1K minimum contribution from non-custodial addresses if we don't reach the goal, but any smaller and without automation it is too burdensome to return smaller contributions.
[4:53 PM] kinkajou: Works for me. Just need to inform people of that and there shouldn't be any issues.
[4:54 PM] boatsandhoes: that should also be made clear next to the donation address when its posted
[4:54 PM] Kent Bull: How have other coins/chains handled this sort of fundraising? Smart contract with donaters and addresses to return things to if a goal isn't met? It sounds like we're writing a smart contract as we discuss this.
[4:54 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: More like a trust contract
[4:55 PM] kinkajou: Crypto has largely been built on good-faith initiatives.
[4:55 PM] boatsandhoes: What is the status of funding for Braveland?
[4:55 PM] Rikki RATTOE - RVNFT.art: Yes please, nearly everything is better than the CZ completely owned and controlled BSC network
[4:55 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: boatsandhoes want to start your points ?
[4:55 PM] Tron: I don't know.
[4:56 PM] boatsandhoes: is the foundation paying the monthly bill?
[4:56 PM] Tron: No
[4:56 PM] boatsandhoes: okay, cool.  that was my only question on that
[4:56 PM] boatsandhoes: 5 and 6 were covered, im out of topics
[4:57 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: kinkajou
[4:57 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: I think kawpowminer
[4:57 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Do we know whos been working on that?
[4:58 PM] boatsandhoes: Who was it that made the kawpow miner?
[4:58 PM] kinkajou: Ondalf helped, right?
[4:58 PM] kinkajou: There are many complaints for KawPowminer for AMD cards. Nvidia seems to be good.
[4:59 PM] boatsandhoes: what are the top complaints?
[4:59 PM] kinkajou: Pretty much completely unusable for AMD, though. Which means we dont have a working opensource mining program for those cards.
[4:59 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Hans_Schmidt could you touch on your proposal shortly?
[4:59 PM] kinkajou: switcheroo spent ~1 week building IIRC and then ended up with 50% expected hashrate
[4:59 PM] Tron: Do the paid (via a %) miners work?
[5:00 PM] kinkajou: Yes, Teamredminer works well.
[5:00 PM] boatsandhoes: working, maybe not optimized though
[5:00 PM] boatsandhoes: t-rex is my go to, but i don't use amd so can't speak to how well it works for those cards
[5:01 PM] Tron: Same
[5:01 PM] kinkajou: working for some people sometimes, lots of people having issues building/running for amd cards though: https://github.com/RavenCommunity/kawpowminer/issues
[5:01 PM] boatsandhoes: thanks for sharing that!
[5:02 PM] kinkajou: It's mainly a concern because we do not have a viable open source miner for AMD cards, so people that only run open source (for security or other reasons) cannot profitably mine RVN.
[5:03 PM] Kent Bull: I'm headed out. It was nice chatting!.
[5:03 PM] boatsandhoes: that is an issue.  lets circle back on that next week
[5:03 PM] boatsandhoes: Got to bounce y'all.  Have an excellent rest of the week, hope to see you guys next week
[5:03 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Alright seems hans isnt around rn
[5:04 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: boatsandhoes and kinkajou ill get in touch with you about leading meetings, see if we can get some vcs and hans’ proposal going
[5:04 PM] Tron: Thanks everyone.  I'll try and get a donation page for both projects up on the foundation website.
[5:04 PM] Rikki RATTOE - RVNFT.art: The Ravencoin Official Mobile Wallet needs to be removed from the app store
[5:04 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: ^
[5:04 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Hi, quietly reading. Happy to see more full node numbers recently. 500-700 plus.
[5:04 PM] Hans_Schmidt: The Evermore Defi roadmap is intended to make Ravencoin a 1st class participant in the Defi space. I wanted the Evermore proposal to stimulate discussion, motivate code improvements, and increase Ravencoin adoption. It's up to the community to decide if it has value and what to do with it. It's too complex to get into here. It's at https://hans-schmidt.github.io/mastering_ravencoin/evermore_defi_roadmap/The_Evermore_Defi_Roadmap_for_Ravencoin.html
Evermore: A Defi Roadmap for Ravencoin
Evermore: A Defi Roadmap for Ravencoin
[5:04 PM] Rikki RATTOE - RVNFT.art: It cant handle assets that have memo hashes attached to them
[5:04 PM] Biz: Hello, feel free to dm me question! I have had a slow week recovering from surgery
[5:05 PM] Rikki RATTOE - RVNFT.art: Darn*, I'm too late, the dev fee stuff got me sidetracked about the mobile wallet, ugh
[5:05 PM] Biz: In response to this: I have not yet had a chance to dig in
[5:05 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: We haven’t talked hans’ proposal yet
[5:05 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: I think it would be best to set up a meeting especially for it tbd
[5:05 PM] kinkajou: thanks for the update! Many on reddit are asking for updates on SegWit/LN so there seems to be some interest. Hope you recover well :slight_smile:
[5:07 PM] kinkajou: Also would like to touch on porting dev meetings to other platforms (I know you kralverde 🇺🇸 have put some thought into this as have Jeroz and myself). Would be nice to engage more of the community than just the Discord crowd
[5:07 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Yes
[5:07 PM] HyperPeek: Agree. Need some more time to go through it in detail
[5:07 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Im working on a cross platform bot
[5:07 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Keen to consider this. Interested in making the existing DB's faster before adding additional metadata. Like the toll concept!
[5:09 PM] kinkajou: Could you elaborate a bit? I think you're saying we need to make sure throughput can account for the increased load on the network resultant from an additional datafield?
[5:10 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: this bit. :thumbsup: **Assets with owner-required Toll (trading fee):
Each asset will be given a metadata field indicating a required per asset Toll qty of RVN (or % of face value for Vault tokens) paid whenever that asset is transferred. Another metadata field specifies the address to which the payment is made.
The value of Toll amount and Toll address fields will be selected at asset creation time, Toll amount and Toll address can be changed during reissue unless Toll Amount is zero, in which case it will always be zero.
There is no toll charged for a "Consume" operation (consumes are not transfers), so a Wrapping token which has a toll can be "cashed in" for its associated value asset by consuming it without incurring a toll.
The Toll is paid as a RVN output to the Toll address. Meeting that requirement is enforced as a consensus item by all nodes.**
[5:10 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: yes. Han already considered this in his writeup and mentioned a few solutions.
[5:11 PM] Rikki RATTOE - RVNFT.art: Basically royalties
[5:11 PM] Rikki RATTOE - RVNFT.art: Yep, would be a great addition to the RVN Toolshed
[5:12 PM] LSJI07 - BWS:
**6) Adding new data fields to the transaction and UTXO specification will increase the on-disk and in-memory storage requirements and the sync time for full nodes, and therefore should be given appropriate consideration. However, the required increase to support most financial primitives is expected to be modest. Unlike account-based systems such as Ethereum or extended-UTXO systems such as Cardano, the changes will not be storing arbitrary persistent system state. Ravencoin core sync code has not yet been very well optimized, and future technologies such as Utreexo and Flyclient may provide additional solutions.**
[5:13 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Not looked at the funding elements. looked at what I would want tbh for the chain going forward..
[5:16 PM] Mango Farm: A few people have mentioned the absence of toll ability as one distinguishing factor (RVN vs ETH).  Artists would use that feature, among others.
[5:18 PM] Mango Farm: I was going to raise the possibility of a new RPC call for importing BIP39/44 seed words today but the discussion has been interesting and it’s pretty late so I’ll make an issue on GitHub for discussion and raise it next week.
[5:19 PM] kinkajou: Mango Farm Would love to get your thoughts on the legal implications of the funding proposal as well. I think that is an equally important conversation that should be had at some point, sooner better than later.
[5:20 PM] Mango Farm: That’s a thicket I’m not sure I will wade into for a number of reasons (most importantly because I like many of the ideas in the proposal but not that one).
[5:20 PM] Mango Farm: I wouldn’t want my objectivity to be in doubt.  Love the feature proposals.  Not in love with the fee structure.
[5:21 PM] kinkajou: I respect that. How do you think we should go about getting an unbiased expert legal opinion on the matter?
[5:22 PM] Mango Farm: The old fashioned way - Would need to hire counsel or get someone to do it pro Bono.
[5:22 PM] kinkajou: Perhaps the lawyer that did the previous foundation pro-bono work?
[5:23 PM] kinkajou: They would obviously still need to have the requisite knowledge of securities laws/regulations
[5:23 PM] kinkajou: If funding is the main point of contention it may prove difficult to find funding to review the funding proposal :stuck_out_tongue:
[5:23 PM] Mango Farm: Definitely a possibility.  He does have that knowledge.
[5:24 PM] kinkajou: Do you think yourself or someone else that worked with them before could reach out for us? Just to see if that's an option?
[5:25 PM] WhaleStreet: Yeah just like Satoshi asked the gov and lawyer if he could write his code.
[5:25 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: Its a Different age
[5:25 PM] Mango Farm: I think it makes the most sense to see what the structure is before engaging someone to analyze it.  Otherwise the cart is in front of the horse.
[5:26 PM] switcheroo: Kawpowminer doesn’t work properly at all on AMD cards. On both Ubuntu and Windows the cards get 1/5th the expected hash rate. Drivers and OS installations had no effect, the GPUs tried all hashed the same, and issue persisted across PCIE ports, motherboards, you name it. Kawpowminer worked normal on Nvidia for the same systems, but wouldn’t work for AMD (at least, the 5700xt’s I have). Full speeds on TRM, however.
[5:26 PM] Mango Farm: Satoshi was anonymous and didn’t write his code in an era where the SEC is suing developers for writing code.
[5:27 PM] WhaleStreet: #Libertyreserve
[5:28 PM] WhaleStreet: Liberty dollars
[5:28 PM] Mango Farm: Not the sec but it’s probably prudent to consider the ramifications.  I don’t have a strong view just wanted to be responsive.
[5:28 PM] kinkajou: Satoshi didn't ask his users to fund him.
[5:29 PM] WhaleStreet: He didn't have users..
[5:29 PM] WhaleStreet: It's free open source protocol
[5:29 PM] Mango Farm: Well he did have Hal :rofl:
[5:29 PM] kinkajou: His invention did so for the sake of this argument so did he (semantics aside).
[5:30 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Its important to separate the funding issues from the ideas and code. Hans_Schmidt Thank you for the hard work writing the ideas up for consideration! Not easy!
[5:32 PM] kinkajou: Yes, great work Hans_Schmidt . This is the most forward-looking development conversation we've had in ages. Your proposal has already succeeded IMO regardless of how much ends up getting coded.
[5:32 PM] WhaleStreet: Everyone likes nice things, just not everyone knows how to pay for them.
[5:33 PM] Mango Farm: Some of the stuff on there is great and answers questions I’ve had from some people who want to use the platform IRL - yes, thank you Hans.
[5:33 PM] WhaleStreet: Anyone care to express their thoughts on alternative funding ideas?
[5:34 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Ask and ye shall recieve.
[5:34 PM] kinkajou: I believe we raised over $100k in less than 24hrs for the last raise, correct? If so, should be no trouble raising 10x more than that for this one, since we've appreciated in price 10x since then.
[5:34 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: or something like that....
[5:34 PM] WhaleStreet: Two people basically paid for that. Me and one other person IIRC. Not that easy.
[5:35 PM] kinkajou: Wait a bit longer before bailing us out this time around and you may be surprised :stuck_out_tongue:
[5:35 PM] kinkajou: or I may be wrong
[5:35 PM] kinkajou: but it's an alternative worth trying before dismissing
[5:35 PM] Mango Farm: That’s not correct WhaleStreet .  While you did pay a substantial amount there were many small donors as well and other large donors who remained anonymous.
[5:35 PM] WhaleStreet: I mean, if we get to $1 I'll find the entire thing. But short of that it will be difficult.
[5:35 PM] WhaleStreet: Lol
[5:35 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: not ideal but it keeps the code imo purer than adding dev funding directly into the code
[5:36 PM] Mango Farm: I sent each of them a token so had a window into who gave what it was a pretty broad base of people.
[5:36 PM] kinkajou: If we get to $1 I will be able to bring on a full-time dev myself. There are many in this community that have donated and continue to donate to this project.
[5:36 PM] WhaleStreet: Orly?
What I was told was that an anon donated $50k and I donated $20k or so..
[5:37 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: keeping the code pure and FOSS at this stage is crucial imo.
[5:37 PM] Mango Farm: There were some others who donated decent sums as well.  Myself included.
[5:37 PM] kinkajou: donated ~1k and never got a token - wheres my refund (jk)
[5:37 PM] Mango Farm: And lots of little donations
[5:38 PM] Mango Farm: Haha I still have them I can send you one.  If you paid from an exchange there was no way to get it to you.
[5:38 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: I donated enough so that it hurt when it went up after....:jesus:
[5:38 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: happy to do it though. well worth it.
[5:39 PM] WhaleStreet: Ah I see.
So does my point still stand that the majority was donated by not many people and that it will not be easy to raise 10x $100k from said donators?
Or perhaps it's easier now that the price is higher?
[5:39 PM] kinkajou: I did. But like many others I donated without any expectation of return just because I love Ravencoin :slight_smile: I think we have one of the greatest communities (if not THE greatest) in all of crypto. It'd be a shame not to leverage that to our advantage
[5:40 PM] WhaleStreet: I'm all for the donation model and think it is better than a dev fee. Just not sure we can raise $1m
[5:40 PM] Mango Farm: If I'm remembering your donation was critical and put it over the top at an important time
[5:40 PM] Vincent: great meeting; great proposal Hans
[5:40 PM] kinkajou: I think it will be relatively easy to fund-raise $1MM if stipulated for use on Hans' proposed improvements
[5:41 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: We have to try and ask people for their support. Even special NFT sales to fund specific development areas.
[5:41 PM] kinkajou: If we start now we might even finish raising the money by the time we're done arguing over it
[5:41 PM] Vincent: it shuld be broken down...not taken in its entirty
[5:42 PM] Vincent: which i m sure will come up when it is discussed
[5:43 PM] WhaleStreet: Any other suggestions for funding?
If funding is not solved, I don't see any point in discussing the features of the proposal.
[5:44 PM] kinkajou: We don't even know how much we need to raise yet.
[5:44 PM] kinkajou: That would be a helpful first step.
[5:45 PM] kinkajou: Though it is my understanding part of the desire for this funding scheme is the incentive structure
[5:47 PM] Mango Farm: I'm not sure I agree WS.  Imagine if the Bitcoin developers waited for a chain fork to pay a bounty out of transaction fees to Lonbrozio, Lau and Wuille before proposing or discussing Segwit.  There are complicated issues in play that lots of people will have strong views on (especially miners who are not largely even in here) when it comes to the fee issues.  Whereas the functional proposals might be issues everyone would gravitate towards.
[5:47 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Special NFT sales to fund adding asset tolls as a specific development proposal would be awesome and marketed well could be :fire: . Asset tolls would be a hardfork but not massively contentious for the added functionality and transactions it would bring the network from NFT collectors and supporting the artists would be welcome imo.
[5:49 PM] WhaleStreet: I'm open to being wrong. Discussion is good, I just don't see talented devs falling out of the sky for RVN. :fingers_crossed:
[5:49 PM] kinkajou: Great idea - similar concept to the "ANCIENTS"? Those seem to be a big hit and have always sold well at auction.
[5:50 PM] Vincent: while a good indea, it is to centric... we need to get some juice for outside our little nest; real artist like mango and rikki are entertaining
[5:51 PM] Vincent: i will stick to my position that the tools to increase demand  of users is the most important
[5:51 PM] Mango Farm: Totally open to being wrong and agree about discussion.  I think it's important to very carefully consider the implications of fee/mining/etc. changes though.  Many find the greatest strength of RVN to be an ethos that isn't like the smart contract coin that shifts its issuance schedule every year based on a committee zoom call.
[5:51 PM] kinkajou: The Push Benefit NFT auction surprised all of us to the upside, I think a similar attempt at fundraising for core development would as well.
[5:52 PM] kinkajou: We don't need just one way to raise funds either, multiple different avenues simultaneously could work.
[5:52 PM] Vincent: yes, my problem with the funding proposal is it looks like a committee driven, for profit, centralized 'business'
[5:53 PM] kinkajou: We could gauge interest for this right now by minting some NFT's with IPFS data saying theyre explicitly for this proposal and listing the partials on raventrader
[5:53 PM] kinkajou: see if anyone buys em up for funding
[5:53 PM] Mango Farm: Have to go guys but thanks for another great meeting.  I missed the last couple and am glad I made today.  Have a good weekend.
[5:54 PM] LSJI07 - BWS: Wifes calling. Calling it a night also! Take care all.
[5:55 PM] kinkajou: Might be a good idea to wrap this one up kralverde 🇺🇸 and continue in #development
[5:55 PM] Vincent: :thumbsup:
[5:56 PM] kralverde 🇺🇸: :thumbsup:
40  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Ravencoin [RVN] PoW GPU Mining | Asset Transfer Blockchain (Updated ANN) on: August 27, 2021, 06:19:11 PM
New proposal submitted for Ravencoin Development: https://hans-schmidt.github.io/mastering_ravencoin/evermore_defi_roadmap/The_Evermore_Defi_Roadmap_for_Ravencoin.html

Among the items proposed are Covenants, Oracles, DEX support, new asset types, and a standing dev fund.
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