A new ETI mining pool is now available!

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

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

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

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

Etica blockchain explorer:

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

EGAZ faucet:

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

EGAZ mining pool:

http://egaz.etica-stats.org

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

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


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

Hi,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To run the wallet open a command line and run:

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

    cd etica-gui

    npm install

    npm start

Feel free to test the wallet and share your feedbacks.

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hi,

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

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

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

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

Let’s focus on Smart contracts accounts:

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

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

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

II. Etica smart contract upgrades process

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

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

Upgrade Process, example:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hi,

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

https://youtu.be/78eBl4OOxFQ

The first Etica wallet GUI will be released soon:

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

Etica Protocol and Decentralised science explained in 5 minutes:

https://youtu.be/iswq70tmyzE

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

Hi,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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