A lot of shit is going down. I wrote a book. It chronicles my experience in the blockchain industry from creating coins to working at ConsenSys and being at the center of the DAO hack in 2016. Crazy shit went down and I wrote about it. Check it out here: https://a.co/d/3IpwgLa |
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Our mint is now live!!
We are about to ramp up marketing. Get in now before that happens!
Wallet Limit set to two now. You do not want to miss this one.
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MINTING NOW @ https://mint.astralpioneers.com for 0.0888 ETH. - Astral Pioneers (AP) is a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) and metaverse project on the
Ethereum blockchain that will allow players to own their own land, mine that land for
resources, and build with those resources on 30 different planets. - Owners of land will be able to create their own planets and sell land on them.
- AP will introduce a new type of in-game governance for players using Soulbound Tokens (SBT) to represent and
ensure citizenship. - AP will have in-game decentralized finance (DeFi) functionality so players can lend tokens or lease their land to others.
- AP will introduce a number of RPG type adventures where players can earn rare resource tokens and magical item NFTs.
- AP will also act as a premier virtual venue for concerts and other events.
Total Supply of AP NFTs = 10,000 Airdrop = 50,000 APIC per AP NFT Astral Pioneers Coin Fixed Total Supply = 10,000,000,000 APIC 500,000,000 APIC @ $0.00555 per APIC for the private token sale. 3,500,000,000 APIC @ $0.00888 per APIC for the public token sale. AP States Metaverse Land Total Initial Supply = 90,000 What sets AP apart from other creator platforms is that anything built on the AP platform must burn the corresponding resource tokens to build it. There are 15 resource tokens that are ERC-20s that can be mined for on the AP States land. Some will be rare and valuable like diamonds and others like lumber will be cheap and plentiful. What else sets AP apart is our metaverse will have an actual government that citizens can participate in. Citizens and landowners can elect senators to serve and vote on legislation to spend in game tax money (APIC and resources) any way the community wants. |
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Check it out: https://godsofearth.orgI'm going to start adding a lot more detailed information soon. I just whipped this up. |
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I may be biased, but I also have an advantage of knowledge that not many have. Buy Silk before January. If you do your research, you'll see why. Mine DarkSilk -> same reason.  Have you read the whitepaper Yes of course. I am one of the Silk Network developers  |
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Final wallet testing has opened to the public. Join the above skype conversation to test DarkSilk!
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The inherent time-cost to zero knowledge proofs have been well documented for years. The fact is that, while the system is very nicely designed and written (and assuming the cryptography withstands attack vectors), practically speaking there is not a realistic long term usability.
Also, developers deserve to be PAID for their WORK. There is absolutely no problem with the Founders Fee. People in this community expect devs to create code for free so you can profit. Being paid a wage for labor performed and the philosophy of open source are not in conflict with each other.
I'm very familiar with the trade-offs involved in using resource intensive encryption schemes and I have been following this implementation of a ZKP cryptographic token for a while. It will take a lot of work to fix the inherent limitations to user experience.
More likely, the resource intensive nature of the code may possibly limit adoption outside of the open source and developer community. ZKP anonymized functionality, which is the project's defining feature and it's only real broadstrokes argument for it's consumer use case remains, unfortunately, impracticable for daily usage. This is especially true given the team's decision to remove the Qt implementation and implicitly restrict users to Unix systems. I'm quite sure the Qt matter could be resolved by changing their minimum BDB dependency (but this ma,y cause other errors), but the failure to generate proper releases including OSX and Win builds, leaves me with the sense that they are either Unix elitists (lol which I made up) or, more likely, they had nearly depleted their resources and had to launch ad hoc. I get it. And I might have some solutions in the future. Perhaps.
Overall though, there have been some unmistakable gains made to the community by the zcash team in terms of code quality and innovative genesis and build strategies/implementations among other things. Props.
Also, how the fuck is there zcash classic now? I think polo makes these fucking trader chains for their own benefit. Or perhaps polo or other exchanges are not the originators of bastard chains like (zcash classic or Ethereum classic), but they might as well be, right?
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I may be biased, but I also have an advantage of knowledge that not many have. Buy Silk before January. If you do your research, you'll see why. Mine DarkSilk -> same reason. |
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About SLK wallet and difficulty
0.01668664599815857 this is the current difficulty: as far as I remember it has always been the same. Can you explain how the SLK difficulty mechanism works?
This is the Proof-of-Work difficulty, not the Proof-of-Stake difficulty. There are no other PoS coins that use up-to-date Bitcoin source code as their code base. Most are clones of Blackcoin which is based off of ancient code (Bitcoin version 7-8). Emercoin was the first to make progress in this arena with their use of code from Bitcoin v0.10 and some of it close to v0.11, but much of Emercoin's code is incomplete, and/or does not function correctly. Emercoin hit the jackpot and went corporate and their codebase is pretty stale now, but they provided a great base for us to work on improvements. Silk's codebase is almost entirely up to date with Bitcoin v0.12 code. We have taken this even further and we have fixed the PoS functionality that separated the inner workings of the code and our ability to actually see it. In the next release we will not only have fixed the issues with the staking icon and getstakinginfo, but we will have more advanced statistical analysis tools with both graphical and csv formats (as well as RPC commands. Thank you to presstab for providing much of the inspiration and initial code for PoS blockchain analysis. But, to answer your question, I have replaced the PoW difficulty calculation with the PoS difficulty. To get a preview of the more advanced analysis tools take a look here: https://github.com/SilkNetwork/Silk-Core/pull/89. We have also added the ability to calculate your staking profits with a simple dropdown window on the Transactions tab. User defined reports and graphs are in the works now for custom blockchain analysis and presentation tools right in your wallet. Lots of improvements on the way or already here! I want Silk to be the most advanced and analytical PoS wallet, but also the most intuitive and user friendly. This next release will be a very big step in that direction. Pics or it didn't happen   |
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We are going to work on going with an easier implementation of Argon2d with CPU mining with a Spork to increase memory cost and parallelism once fast-verify is completed.
We will require some time to test and we will report back within the next 48 hours with info.
Binaries will be released and we will be forwarding this code to Bittrex.
So you guys are going to implement Argon2d differently and then change it up later? In an effort to push the release out as soon as possible? Yes, this is the plan. Argon2d will be CPU only until we have written the new PoW algorithm with much faster verification of blocks than is currently possible. The new algorithm is an improved version of Argon2d that the creator of argon calls Merkle Tree Proof (MTP). It is not yet implemented into code yet, only in math. This is what I will be focusing on until I complete it or if someone else does before me, then awesome. We haven't finalized the details yet but we will be offering bounties for a GPU Miner and also for anyone who wants to try writing a successful, working implementation of MTP. The paper, Egalitarian Computing by Alex Biryukov and Dmitry Khovratovich, University of Luxembourg, can be found here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical-sessions/presentation/biryukov and there is a nice slideshow there as well. This is the algorithm that we will be implementing, which can be examined in more detail in the paper found at the link above: MTP: Merkle-tree based Proof-of-Work.
Prover’s algorithm
Input: Challenge I, parameters L,d.
1. Compute F(I) and store its T blocks X[1], X[2],
..., X[T] in the memory.
2. Compute the root Φ of the Merkle hash tree (see
Appendix A).
3. Select nonce N.
4. Compute Y0 = H(Φ,N) where G is a cryptographic
hash function.
5. For 1 ≤ j ≤ L:
ij = Yj−1 (mod T);
Yj = H(Yj−1,X[ij]).
6. If YL has d trailing zeros, then (Φ,N,Z ) is the
proof-of-work, where Z is the opening of 2L
blocks {X[ij − 1],X[φ(ij)]}. Otherwise go to Step
3.
Output: Proof (Φ,N,Z ).
The verifier, equipped with F and H, runs Algorithm
2.
Algorithm 2 MTP: Verifier’s algorithm
Input: Proof (Φ,N,Z ), parameters L,d.
1. Compute Y0 = H(Φ,N).
2. Verify all block openings using Φ.
3. Compute from Z for 1 ≤ j ≤ L:
X[ij] = F(X[ij −1],X[φ(ij)]);
Yj = G(Yj−1,X[ij]).
4. Check whether YL has t trailing zeros.
Output: Yes/No. |
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Hey guys, some general remarks:
I have faith in the skill and dedication of the developers and other people involved. However, I do not have faith in the organisation as it operates now. As a lurker and observer I see that missing due dates is a rule rather than exception. I think I saw McDevs intelligent post on crypto developments a little back. He mentioned project managers, agile/ scrum. The problem here, imo, is that there is no project manager, no scrum master, no structure, no control in the organisation, and most important, a lack of direction. I see a group of (excellent) devs working on their ideals. Not people working on a structured project. So in short, I'm in silk and am interested in drksilk. The product I would invest in all day, especially due to the dual coin system. The organisation on the other hand, I am hesitant about. You have the skill to build this product, but I don't think your team has what it takes to sell it b2b. I think its necessary for someone to rise who can oversee all aspects of this project: ICT, but also Communication, Marketing, Sales, Legal etc. From experience I say that this is usually not a developer, as they have very specialised knowledge in one region of the organisation, but lack capacity in the others. So, any generalist business people around who can help the team out (assuming the team appreciates help)?
Peace ✌🏻️
Now this is some constructive feedback. Just as MCDev's was too. Helpful, logical, and not written in hysterical language haha. Thank you both.  Edit: It's not a definite, but I can see us launching the mainnet within a few days if all goes well. |
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So much negativity from some.  But, more importantly MUCH LOVE to those who still have confidence in us. We should have been better with communication and we should have informed the community 3 weeks ago when we realized there might be a delay. But, honestly, I code for probably 8-16 hours a day almost every day on both Silk AND DarkSilk. A lot of it is trial and error. Also, a lot of time is done preparing research for upcoming whitepapers. Then there is also working on other issues that pop up from time to time. This is my full time job and my share of the ICO funds allows me to pay my rent and eat food for the next 3 months or so... I hate when I have to sell my Silk (which I bought on Polo when it was SilkCoin) so I can eat :/ We are all working our asses off here, so for those who are getting nervous, please relax. I mean, shit other recent projects that had ICOs an entire year ago only now just released their tokens, so maybe a little more patience from anyone who is not happy right now is warranted and would be appreciated greatly. Again, I apologize to everyone and I take responsibility for our lack of adequate communication. We will have a blog up very soon with weekly updates at the least. Then people won't have to wade through all the posts (or risk exposure to trolls lol). Cheers! But you didn't and instead you took the money while knowing that you will not be issuing the refunds. The next they after the supposed launch these guys come up with the excuses saying that the project will be delayed for half a year which is eternity in crypto. Also, you insult anyone who tries to get their money back and also try to shame them giving various reasons of why this is a bad idea. And now you're asking to trust you? lmao what a joke Instead of promised launch we got a slap in the face to remind us of what a crypto world is all about. Judging by the dev comments, i don't even expect to get money back from this  So you'd rather us launch with faulty code? lol  edit: Everyone will recieve their DarkSilk as promised. We have learned not to set hard deadlines. This is software development after all. Complex systems can be finicky. |
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So much negativity from some. But, more importantly MUCH LOVE to those who still have confidence in us. We should have been better with communication and we should have informed the community 3 weeks ago when we realized there might be a delay. But, honestly, I code for probably 8-16 hours a day almost every day on both Silk AND DarkSilk. A lot of it is trial and error. Also, a lot of time is done preparing research for upcoming whitepapers. Then there is also working on other issues that pop up from time to time. This is my full time job and my share of the ICO funds allows me to pay my rent and eat food for the next 3 months or so... I hate when I have to sell my Silk (which I bought on Polo when it was SilkCoin) so I can eat :/ We are all working our asses off here, so for those who are getting nervous, please relax. I mean, shit other recent projects that had ICOs an entire year ago only now just released their tokens, so maybe a little more patience from anyone who is not happy right now is warranted and would be appreciated greatly. Again, I apologize to everyone and I take responsibility for our lack of adequate communication. We will have a blog up very soon with weekly updates at the least. Then people won't have to wade through all the posts (or risk exposure to trolls lol). Cheers! |
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