Thanks!  Its total supply is missing, so our market cap is 0.  It would be nice to see it in 600th place .

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I’ve been trying to workout how to use crypto to fund orphanages and free slaves internationally. I work with a couple of orphanages. How does bible pay convert token to on the ground assistance for orphans in somewhere like the Congo or Haiti?"

Here is another good use case for BiblePay - funding to free slaves internationally.

I like it!

Psalm128 -Lawrence

Yes, Im a little surprised also that the behavior of 1081 didnt kick them off abruptly also, the behavior is quite different than our wild west upgrade (the night the Sanctuaries went live).

But Im watching 'exec versionreport' closely to see what the 1.0.7.1 botnet is doing, and it has shrunken from 60% down to 39% overnight.  All I can say is maybe some of those nodes are upgrading to 1.0.8.1 and solo mining.

The reason I say that is I can see every block from our cutover was solved on 1.0.8.1 (if you look at the block itself), but the pool only solved about 25% of them (raising our pool percentage up slightly over night but, not to 50% as I expected).

Things have improved slightly but not nearly to the level I expected.
So I measured the avg block time between 25910 and 25978 (thats 12 hours of being live on 1.0.8.1) and we still only solved 68 blocks, that is about the same as we were before the upgrade (IE 10 minute blocks instead of 7).  But lets not make a judgement on that yet, as its a very small sample, lets check over a 2 week period next.

Things could drastically change as soon as 1.0.8.1 has 51% hash power on it.  We've got 35% on it now, lets hope that next milestone helps us rocket the pool forward.

Why do you say we wont be on any exchange?  I think CCEX will put us back in within a few days of the 20th.  Im sure hes going to be extremely busy, but I think he will squeeze us in.

In addition, Im still in talks with another deal, I should know more within 8 days.

Ill notify coinsmarkets now.

The old watchman-on-the-wall is fine, but the sancs have to be upgraded- since we have the new 7 minute block target in 1.0.8.2.

Diff is recalibrating now, Im going to let it run all night then take a sample of the avg block solve time.

Thanks Tiras, well this version does not have it yet, you know PIVX went through quite a lot to make a real stakeminer, so we have to do some more due diligence and add some originality before we can officially code it for testnet.  

We were discussing that issue in slack regarding the balance staked if pool mining.  I am thinking we will have to do something like have the miner alternate to solo when it accrues enough to stake with, make an attempt to solo mine for an hour, then revert to pool mining with no stake.  I'm thinking the user can set the threshhold if they want, they can say once we have XY coin-age available, lets stake for Z hours, then revert.  

I think the pool would have pure hashers against it.

But one thing we can discuss is making a small amount of coin-age available to the pool to completely stave off botnets.  (IE some feature that makes it hard to solo POW mine this coin without some coin-age in the block).  Maybe even 100 BBP drops the hashtarget considerably, but 10,000 coin-age is reserved for solo-stakemining etc.

Technically it looks like 90% have not upgraded to 1.0.8.0, so this should provide quite a boost, I pray to God we go through without a hitch.

BiblePay - 1.0.8.1
Mandatory Upgrade for entire network
Cutover Height: 25910

- Filter botnet
- 7 minute block targets
- At block 25910, old clients fork

** Windows is Ready **

Alright guys, this has to be our last mandatory for a few months.

This is a pre-release notification for Linux only, if you are on linux you can start upgrading:

BiblePay - 1.0.8.1
Mandatory Upgrade for entire network
Cutover Height: 25910

- Filter botnet
- 7 minute block targets
- At block 25910, old clients fork


Windows is compiling...

As far as what technically happens, we will release 1.0.8.1 in about 3 hours (30 minutes for linux), and everyone will be required to be on 1.0.8.1 before block 25900.  After block 25900, we will reject blocks from pre 1.0.8.0 clients.

Actually while we are doing this, why dont we go to 7 minute blocks also?  We might as well fix that now so that we can have more reliable superblocks and have the ability to pay compassion.com every 30 days?

Hang on guys... Ill push it back a little further and fix that now.

Guys, I hate seeing 3100 pool users hitting the pool and only solving 10% of the daily blocks, so that added to the motivation to do this.
I know this is just a game of cat & mouse with the botnet, but we might as well give them one more night of "chasing us" since they now will have to recompile at least 500 PCs in my estimation and will at least be running the latest software with instantsend.

But yes, I agree, I am not really going to play this game of cat and mouse much longer.  It happened with Darkcoin (they eventually abandoned PC mining algorithms, it happened with Vertcoin - they had a botnet take over the supermajority of their hashpower, and now, this botnet is trying to do it to us).  Im pretty sure we will need a hybrid proof-of-bible-stake algorithm mixed in next, but it needs to be done with more patience and testing this time around.

Tom, I understand where you are coming from, but I already went ahead and coded it, I think we can just go ahead and bite the bullet with one more upgrade, sorry for the inconvenience...  At least in 3 hours, the botnet will be gone and we will be the wild west over here for the night!

Alright, let's kick off the botnet.

The release will be ready in 4 hours.

I'll be back in about an hour when linux is ready to compile.

Get ready for one more release.

This next release is just going to accept blocks > 1.0.8.0 and not do anything new with POS-POBH.

That future feature really has to be developed with care and tested in testnet for a couple months, then we can put it in the June release, as long as everyone likes the design.

Thanks, updated the OP to refer to 19.5% compounded and deflationary and added the wiki link.

There is a post on this forum explaining the compounding effect - I think it is about 10 pages back.

To you, Tiras, Slovakia, and the others complaining about the low hash power of the pool, yes I agree- maybe we should boot the botnet off.

I don't like the fact that a botnet has basically taken over the majority of the hash power here and refuses to run the latest code, which in some cases, is dangerous, as we are really a cutting edge community here.

The biggest issue I have with this is Id hate to just kick them off so they are forced to upgrade (by issuing a mandatory that refuses old blocks) and then have them upgrade and just do it again- then we are back at square 1 for our next upgrade.

The only way we can really do this properly is to make Biblepay a partial Proof-Of-Biblehash/Proof-of-stake hybrid, in the sense that you have to stake some of your balance in order to mine.  That would tend to kick off the botnets, the ones who have zero or low balances, and force the PC to re-stake old coins; it also requires a PC to create the block.

The idea here is lets say we make your (coin-age * coin-amount-staked) equal to the hash-target-boost you receive for that block.  Then we would tend to reward our loyal community with solutions, and not bot nets.  

I'm willing to research the solution tonight and see if we can potentially put this in testnet, as long as this can be done as a mandatory before c-cex reopens.  Otherwise we should probably deal with the botnet until June and explore the option for potential future release.

Ok, sounds like you are very passionate about this project, thats what we need!  Sweet.  Yeah, we will back you when we need to put the proposal in, awesome.

Ok, thanks a lot, credited.

Ok, credited you the BBP to your pool account.

The commands to do it from the chain are actually in the pool source code, its not easy, but its not rocket science.  It requires dumping 6-7 fields in notepad, creating a hex proposal with rpc commands, sending money to escrow in the chain, recording txid, sending the thing into the chain as a proposal with escrow, so yes it can be done manually.

I would not worry about this centralization too much right now, as I think the weed and feed nature weeds out corruption and is a greater benefit than spending time on the issue, we have a lot to do, and technically its still decentalized anyway.  I think we should take a look at creating a spreadsheet of third world countries and filling fields with attributes for the unbanked, and starting an initiaitve to add a bbp feature taht services the unbanked and somehow, provides food to starving children in that area.  We could ask Webster to make us a mobile electrum wallet, and lets try to be the creator of some high technology that lets you buy a loaf of bread in that area, or use bbp like a checking account.

The stragglers will come on the board and beg you to enter a proposal, not a problem.

Thanks, you should be set!

Good point, lets take a moment to Thank God for providing the Creation of the Entire Universe, all living things and all moving atoms, and our strength, intelligence, wisdom, health, dexterity, and charisma to solve daily problems like this and realize nothing is possible without God.

Take time to thank him for your peace and safety, that we are not in WWIII currently, and we are dealing with "easy" things like being hot or cold and living in a glass house, and not dealing with starvation or being in the tribulation.

Thank you Jesus!


EDIT: I pray for Slovakia to have meek, and sweet and stable personality.

Please send it to the pool; it can use the money still:

B74TWhTE5aCXc2WfPfZUcgQ3mnvcqFXm7J


Let me know your handle in the pool and Ill credit you?
Thanks dude.