A lot of people lost a lot of money because of their negligence unfortunately. Though it does seem to be returning some power/profits to the individual miner.

Application has been submitted. All we can do at this point is wait for the listing to occur.

ATTENTION

The Umine.org pool has been ddosed and doesn't seem to have recovered yet.

If you are on that pool, please move your miners to one of the other available pools:

http://pool.minertopia.org/

http://yiimp.poolofd32th.club/

https://blocksuckernation.com/site/mining


EDIT: It seems to be back up now.

I can see where you might be able to misconstrue that. We'll put it on our list to revise the language to make it more understandable. Thank you for spotting that!

I would also be appreciative if you can provide proof. If there are clear cut facts that this is occurring, I will remove them from our list of pools.

If not, please don't slander honest pool operators unless you have physical proof to back it up.

On our discord in the #masternodes room there is a guide that should help you configure a masternode. If you have issues, somebody in there should be able to help you.

We do not have a five year PoW period. The Proof of Work and Masternodes phase only lasts approximately one year. After that, it will switch to Proof of Stake and Masternodes.

The reason is that your public IP gets posted in the wallet when you run a masternode unless you put it through TOR(we have this available, I'm the wrong person to ask regarding how to utilize this service though). I'm sure you can appreciate the sentiment behind us not suggesting you host it locally where people could potentially ddos your home network.

Whereas if you do it on a remote rented VPS and it gets attacked. You can just destroy it and set up a new one no problem.

I would suggest renting a linux VPS on a website like www.vultr.com

I'd use Ubuntu 16.04. The cheapest server is $5/month and you can preload your account with bitcoin after you put in verified credit/debit card information.

I'd be hard pressed to believe they steal coins. I've mined on their pools many times in the past and have never had an issue.

Thank you very much for the kind words. If you'd like to see one of the most recent updates, check the #announcements page on our Discord.

We recently added ten full TOR nodes to provide an onion only network for Bulwark.

Bulwark Update!

Have added ten(!) full bulwark TOR nodes.  In addition to providing an onion-only network for bulwark, these ten nodes are also ten mode nodes strengthening the TOR network.
bulwarkwonkzwrej.onion:989 | bulwark75xzrzrxi.onion:989 | bulwarkkaoobpxep.onion:989 | bulwarkiuj3zzcsm.onion:989 | bulwark4ikozi2oy.onion:989 | bulwarkigpmgxqem.onion:989 | bulwarkaehtph3bz.onion:989 | [RUSSIA]bulwarkp6cl6bmgn.onion:989 | [RUSSIA]bulwarkinjcdwz7o.onion:989 | [RUSSIA]bulwarkqjzowfyqc.onion:989

Links
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https://torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html (TOR Browser bundle)
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en (TOR FAQ)
https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en (TOR Debian/Ubuntu Guide)
bulwark.conf example (TOR only)
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rpcuser=foo    # changeme
rpcpassword=bar    # changeme
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
onion=127.0.0.1:9050 # Assuming your TOR proxy is running on default port
#onlynet=tor    # Only connect to .onion nodes and drop IPv4/6 connections.  Uncomment if you want this option, but be aware until our onion network is more robust this might lead to sync issues.
listen=0    # We don't open a port locally, unless we're creating an onion full node or onion masternode
discover=0    # 0=Do not run ipv4/ipv6 stack.
        # 1=Run full ipv4/ipv6 stack as well as tor stack (exposing your ipv4/ipv6 address to the network)
        # Keep in mind with traffic analysis, enabling dual stack will allow someone to discover and link your clearnet IP to your onion address
        # If we use 1 here, it's possible that traffic analysis
addnode=bulwarkwonkzwrej.onion:989
addnode=bulwark75xzrzrxi.onion:989
addnode=bulwarkkaoobpxep.onion:989
addnode=bulwarkiuj3zzcsm.onion:989
addnode=bulwark4ikozi2oy.onion:989
addnode=bulwarkigpmgxqem.onion:989
addnode=bulwarkaehtph3bz.onion:989
addnode=bulwarkp6cl6bmgn.onion:989
addnode=bulwarkinjcdwz7o.onion:989
addnode=bulwarkqjzowfyqc.onion:989
Create a hidden service to run full Bulwark/TOR node or to anonymize your IP for your masternode
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Add to /etc/tor/torrc
ClientOnly 1
SOCKSPort 9050
SOCKSPolicy accept 127.0.0.1/8
Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log
ControlPort 9051
HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/bulwark/
HiddenServicePort 52543 127.0.0.1:52543
HiddenServiceStatistics 0
ORPort 9001
LongLivedPorts 52543
ExitPolicy reject *:*
DisableDebuggerAttachment 0
NumEntryGuards 8
tor only bulwark masternode/fullnode - no ipv4/ipv6 stack. (bulwark.conf)
--------------------
rpcuser=foo    # changeme
rpcpassword=bar    # changeme
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
onion=127.0.0.1:9050 # Assuming your TOR proxy is running on default port
#onlynet=tor    # Only connect to .onion nodes and drop IPv4/6 connections.  Uncomment if you want this option, but be aware until our onion network is more robust this might lead to sync issues.
listen=1    # We listen.
bind=127.0.0.1    # Since we're using hidden service, we don't need to be net reachable
discover=0    # 0=Do not run ipv4/ipv6 stack.
        # 1=Run full ipv4/ipv6 stack as well as tor stack (exposing your ipv4/ipv6 address to the network)
        # Keep in mind with traffic analysis, enabling dual stack will allow someone to discover and link your clearnet IP to your onion address
        # If we use 1 here, it's possible that traffic analysis
daemon=1    # Run daemonized
###### Masternode configuration
#masternode=1    # Uncomment if you're running a masternode
#masternodeprivkey=yourkey
#masternodeaddress=<your onion address>:52543
addnode=bulwarkwonkzwrej.onion:989
addnode=bulwark75xzrzrxi.onion:989
addnode=bulwarkkaoobpxep.onion:989
addnode=bulwarkiuj3zzcsm.onion:989
addnode=bulwark4ikozi2oy.onion:989
addnode=bulwarkigpmgxqem.onion:989
addnode=bulwarkaehtph3bz.onion:989
addnode=bulwarkp6cl6bmgn.onion:989
addnode=bulwarkinjcdwz7o.onion:989
addnode=bulwarkqjzowfyqc.onion:989

We're still frequently seeing 400Gh/s nethash without counting nicehash mining power. We are very happy to see this kind of attention and support.

608,094.9985 at the moment

It is not a percentage exactly.

Once we go into PoS, block rewards will then begin getting split up with 45% going to PoS Stakers, 45% going to Masternode Operators, and 10% being allocated to a community fund for  a variety of different uses.

We employ the See-Saw Rewards mechanism which means that as there are more Masternodes on the network, profitability will shift slightly towards favoring stakers (For example, 50% PoS / 40% Masternodes). As Masternodes are taken off the network and more people are PoS, the rewards will shift to favor the remaining Masternode Operators instead (For example, 40% PoS/ 50% Masternode)

The way this system is designed is that it will provide fluid block reward structures that will allow for both masternode hosting as well as coin staking to continue being profitable while providing liquidity to help promote trading.

We are also listed on stocks.exchange 

Pricing on both pools would seem to reflect more around the 16-20k satoshi price point, not 100,000 sats. It seems to be stabilizing more around 19,000 satoshis. Both exchange listings for the coin are still very new so it wouldn't be out of the question to believe it will take a few more days for a more solidified starting price point to show itself.

@Angelo
I'm unsure how an unassociated project having a custom algorithm makes Bulwark "smell" like it. Could you elaborate?

Is it because the Bulwark team is comprised mostly of miners at heart and we have been in the cryptocurrency world for a while, meaning we have mined many different kinds of coins, one of which happened to be Polytimos.

If so, I apologize that a few of us mining a coin you do not particularly like has caused you to view this coin with any sort of similarities. If you wouldn't mind, I would love if you could go read the Polytimos ANN and then read the Bulwark ANN and provide some legitimate reasons as to why you think they could be connected or similar in any way.

@OGTeamCrypton

One could also argue that the only good things that came out of the sigt project were a direct result of the efforts of people from our team, not the "official" team. We've long since disassociated with the cancerous people that ran that coin into the ground and set out on a many months long journey to build our own coin that had all the strengths of a great coin and none of the shortcomings. I apologize that my past efforts to help a project turned out to be run by a scammer and that we split from the project when we realized development was never going to go anywhere we believed the community deserved it to. We are all on Bulwark for the long game and will be continuing to work our hardest to make it the best project it possibly can be. Of this I can happily and confidently assure all of you.

Not at this moment. Our marketing guy, Jack, has quite a few fantastic events planned over the next year.

Edit: Looks like he deleted his comment. I'll leave this anyways in case somebody else has the same question.

It is on both:

https://stocks.exchange/trade/BWK/BTC

and

https://coinsmarkets.com/trade-BTC-BWK.htm#