I would like to help you setting up the explorer. What do you think if we work on it this weekend?

Hi BitPorium,

How is the work in setting up the explorer going? When are you going to launch it?

Hi BitPorium,

I would like to add one more seed node to the network. Would you be willing to provide the ip address where the B1tes blockchain is currently running on your server, so that I can list it along with the other two seed nodes?

Now, I have no plans to approach exchanges to list B1tes. Those of you who have mined a considerable amount of B1tes, and are now willing to exchange them could approach the exchanges so that they can list B1tes. I will give all the support to exchanges willing to list B1tes.

I've checked one of the two seed nodes. That seed node is OK (it's synchronized with the network). But when I run simpewallet and execute start_mining command, it signals that mining has started, but it doesn't mine at all.

I saw that there were 6 miners in the mining pool and once the pool mined some blocks, mining in general got stuck, not only the mining pool, but also when running start_mining with simplewallet.

You're  . Great job!!!   

For linux users, instructions on how to:

1. Install B1tes blockchain
2. Create a B1tes wallet and mine B1tes

1. Install B1tes blockchain:
- open your command line terminal
- Execute the following commands to get the dependencies needed in order to setup the environment to run the B1tes blockchain:
          - sudo apt-get install build-essential
          - sudo apt-get install git
          - sudo apt-get install cmake
          - sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
- Clone B1tes source code:
          - create a directory called b1tes by running the command:
                    - mkdir b1tes
          - enter the b1tes directory by running the command:
                    - cd b1tes
     - clone B1tes source code by running the command:
                    - git clone https://github.com/b1tes/b1t.git
          - enter the b1t directory by running the command:
                    - cd b1t
          - build b1tes source code by running the command:
                    - make
          - wait until building b1tes source code is 100% complete
          - enter the build directory by running the command:
                    - cd build/release/src/
          - download B1tes blockchain by running the command:
                    - ./b1tesd  
          - leave this terminal command line open, as B1tes blockchain is being downloaded and synchronized to the network.
          - and open a new terminal command line in order to create a B1tes walled and mine B1tes. (You’ll only be able to create a B1tes wallet and mine B1tes if the B1tes blockchain is being downloaded and synchronized to the network on another terminal command line.)

2. Create a B1tes wallet and mine B1tes:
          - complete instructions 1 in order to create a B1tes wallet
          - and open a new terminal command line in order to create a B1tes walled and mine B1tes
          - enter B1tes build directory by running the command:
                    - cd ~your_directory~/b1tes/b1t/build/release/src
          - create a B1tes wallet by running the command:
                    - ./simplewallet
          - follow the instructions in order to Generate a new wallet by giving a wallet file name and password
          - finally, inside simplewallet’s command line program, start mining B1tes by running the following command:
                    - start_mining        

Yes, the nodes are up. And you've mined the first block on B1tes blockchain!

I'm working on getting the GUI wallet ready. But once it's ready, it will first be available to install only from source code. I'll look into making it available as precompiled binaries for OSX, Linux, and Windows.

Premine? No premine
POW/POS? Proof-of-Work (POW)
Block times? 120 seconds
Block rewards? 17 B1T
Algorithm?  CryptoNight - hash-based Proof-of-Work (PoW) algorithm
ETA launch?

I've just launched B1tes.

Network seed nodes: 54.232.255.65:50005; 52.15.118.78:50005

Port used by the daemon to establish connections with p2p network: 50005

Port used by the daemon to interact with simplewallet (RPC)  = 40004

B1tes source code is available at: https://github.com/b1tes/b1t

The launch of the B1tes project is purely academic. In cryptonote.org, I found a whole set of resources that I can learn from, like starting a coin, creating a GUI wallet, setting up a mining pool, testnet, processing payments, mining, interaction with the blockchain, blocks relaying, getting info about the block, peer list look up, connections look up, transaction pool information and relaying, wallet creation, financial operations, sending, receiving, checking for incoming transfers, etc. Additionally, I'm interested in storing data in the blockchain to write messages, timestamp documents, etc.

I'm the only dev in this project.

In regards to privacy B1tes is similar to Monero as both are Cryptonote based cryptocurrencies, which features untraceable payments and unlinkable transactions.

Cryptonotes's config file is by default very similar to Monero's config file.

I'm planning to launch it tomorrow.

I'll post more info. Please be patient.

Hi everyone,

The launch of the B1tcash project is purely academic. In cryptonote.org, I found a whole set of resources that I can learn from, like starting a coin, creating a GUI wallet, setting up a mining pool, testnet, processing payments, mining, interaction with the blockchain, blocks relaying, getting info about the block, peer list look up, connections look up, transaction pool information and relaying, wallet creation, financial operations, sending, receiving, checking for incoming transfers, etc. Additionally, I'm interested in storing data in the blockchain to write messages, timestamp documents, etc.

B1TCASH TIMELINE:

AUGUST 16,2017:
   The B1tes blockchain was first launched.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017:
   On September 4th, 2017, the B1tes blockchain network was stopped on Blockchain Height 8943 due to a bug in cryptonote's source code described in an article titled "Disclosure of a Major Bug in CryptoNote Based Currencies" posted on getmonero.org, here is the link: https://getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-in-cryptonote-based-currencies.html

According to the article, this bug “allows for the creation of an unlimited number of coins in a way that is undetectable to an observer unless they know about the fatal flaw and can search for it.”

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017:
   On September 18th, 2017, a New B1tes blockchain was launched based on Aeon (https://github.com/aeonix/aeon - http://www.aeon.cash), a cryptonote coin that fixed this major bug.

   9365 New B1tes blocks were premined in order to redeem users who mined Old B1tes (these users are able to exchange their balance in Old B1tes for New B1tes). Additionally, these users had exclusive access to the New B1tes source code and B1tes mining pools for a period of 3 months (which started on September 18th and ended on December 18th, 2017).

   Users who mined Old B1tes can still exchange their balance in Old B1tes for New B1tes, fulfilling the following conditions:
- only transactions timestamped until September 4h, 2017, 12:12:54 a.m. UTC will be accepted.
- only transactions timestamped up to blockchain height 8975 will be accepted.
- send an email to b1tesoldwallet@tuta.io with your OLD B1tes *.wallet file as an attachment, inform your wallet password (if there is one), and Bitcoin Forum username.
- send me a private message on Bitcoin Forum confirming that you've emailed the wallet file, so I can verify it.
- As for your OLD B1tes wallet file sent to me, its entire balance will be transferred to another OLD B1tes wallet, that will then be deleted/destroyed.

JULY 26, 2018:
   A new version of B1tes has been launched, based on Aeon's rebase to Monero code (Source code: https://github.com/b1tcash/b1t).

   B1tes has been renamed to B1tcash.

   A GUI wallet was released (source code: https://github.com/b1tcash/b1tcash-gui).

   A Blockchain explorer was launched: http://b1t.cash.

   In this current version, block times, block rewards, transaction fee, and blockchain database format have changed.

   Launch date: September 18th, 2017
   Premine: 9365 blocks
   POW/POS: Proof-of-Work (POW)
   Block times: changed from 240 to 540 seconds
   Currency ticker: B1T
   Block rewards: changed from ~15 B1T to ~100 BIT
   Algorithm: CryptoNight-Lite - hash-based Proof-of-Work (PoW) algorithm
   Max supply: ~18.4 million B1T
   Difficulty: retargets at every block
   Transaction fee: changed from 0.000001 to 0.01
   Seed nodes: 138.68.115.86; 159.65.213.51
   P2P port = 50805;
   RPC port = 50904;

   The blockchain database format has been changed from raw memory to LMDB.

   Link to Bitcash GUI's source code and instructions on how to build B1tcash GUI on Linux, Windows and IOS: https://github.com/b1tcash/b1tcash-gui

   Link to Bitcash source code and with instructions on how to build B1tcash on Linux, Windows and IOS: https://github.com/b1tcash/b1t

   Link to B1tcash's Blockchain explorer: http://b1t.cash

   Additionally, below are specifications of changes that have been adopted from Monero in this current version. These specifications can also be accessed at: https://github.com/aeonix/aeon/releases/tag/v0.12.0.0

       The following changes have been adopted:

      Per-kb fees: PR-184
      Allow miners to claim less money than allowed: PR-410
      Claim a quantized reward in coinbase & all outputs must be decomposed: PR-425
      Require miner tx to have well behaved outs: PR-763
      Reject invalid pubkeys: PR-1386
      Use new block filling algorithm: PR-1902
      Forbid duplicate ring members: PR-2188
      Checks for top block hard fork version: PR-2269
      Reject unsorted ins and outs: PR-2440
      CryptoNight variant 1: PR-3253
      This is adapted to CryptoNight-Lite, making it CryptoNight-Lite-variant1
    
       The following are Aeon's own changes deviating from Monero:

       Transactions of ring size 1 (i.e. with no decoy outputs, called non-private txes henceforth) are allowed to occupy up to ~10% of all transactions in each block. Specifically, for a block containing N txes (excluding coinbase), M non-private txes are allowed to exist as long as 10*(M-1) does not exceed N.
        The implication of non-private txes is the same as before: you can use them wisely to make transactions smaller and thus save in fees, but if you do so when there's a backlog of non-private txes in the transaction pool, your non-private txes will likely take very long time to confirm. You're advised to use normal transactions if you want timely confirmation.
       Normal transactions must have at least ring size 3. In other words, transactions with ring size 2 are entirely forbidden.
       Multisig is disabled (but will be enabled again once Aeon adopts RingCT with Bulletproofs).