This is not just “another coin” this has been in development for 4+ years by developers that are highly talented and with a track record of creating successful, innovative projects.

I suppose only time will tell which becomes the next “PayPal” and which becomes the next “pets.com.”

We are intimately familiar with the history. I suggest you dig deeper. you might really like what you find.

I have emailed with him several times over the recent months. He is very aware, and you can let him know that my offer stands.

From our whitepaper:

You can download the full whitepaper here: https://zano.org/


1.2 Zano’s PoS Implementation

Ring signatures allow the transaction creator to provide a set of possible public keys for signature verification, thus keeping their identity indistinguishable from other users. The concept of an anonymous, secure PoS mechanism seemed to be unachievable.

The basis of PoS is a so-called kernel, which is a data structure that depends on the transaction output and includes:

• Current timestamp with 15-second granularity.

• Key Image, which corresponds to each transaction output. A keyimage is comprised of 32 pseudorandom bytes derived from the key in such a way that it is impossible to reconstruct the key, given only its image.

• Stake Modifier. An additional 64 pseudo-random bytes derived from the last PoS and PoW blocks, which disallows any predictability of the stakemodifier in the blocks ahead.

During mining, a user is allowed to sign a block, if Hash(kernel) < CoinAmount ∗ PosTarget, where CoinAmount is the amount of coins in a particular output, and PosTarget is an adaptive parameter that works to keep the block creation rate constant.

The PoS miner iterates the timestamp (within the allowed boundaries) for each of their unspent outputs (UTXO) and checks to see if they possess a UTXO that’s keyimage satisfies the PoSTarget formula above. In the event of a ”winning” result, they spend this particular output, anonymously, with a ring-signature.

Note: The signature includes the keyimage (used in the kernel), but not the key itself, which is why it does not compromise anonymity. The miner signs both the transaction and the block and broadcasts the new block to the network.

Knock knock.......  Be careful what you ask for.....

https://zano.org/

Please read the white paper.

https://github.com/zano-project/zano/blob/master/resources/Zano%20WP.pdf

Uses key images, amount of the UTXO’s KI and stake modifier to prevent against stake grinding with 15 second granularity. If you possess a KI that satisfies the difficulty it spends the output and you receive the coinbase reward and that spent utxo back.

This process maintains anonymity and security.

In case there is still any confusion. A wallet can contain 100’s or 1000’s of utxos. A utxo containing 10 coins will have to achieve a difficulty that is 10 times lower than a utxo with 1 coin.

Join telegram and I’m happy to send more detail.

Johnny

I can confirm that the ratio will be 1:1. Since we have a hybrid, and possibly mining on 2 chains during the swap window,  we are working through emission curve details. The max supply will remain the same, but there is a possibility of a tail emission  that would be similar to what other projects have employed and for good reason. 

Please join our telegram chat rooms to get more immediate feedback to any questions that you may have.

t.me/zanocoin

t.me/boolberry_bbr

Thanks for your patience everyone. It’s christmas on Monday in certain parts of the world, but expect much more news, clarity, and additional features etc. to be announced in the coming weeks.

Happy New Years to everyone, and we are very excited about regaining our pioneer status in the privacy vertical.

JohnnyT

We are actively working on new exchanges. Should be able to make an announcement in the next week to 10 days.

In the meantime, btc-alpha has been the most reliable and supports integrated addresses.  To store Boolberry in a local wallet you can find the latest binaries here:

https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/boolberry/releases/tag/v0.3.0.86

We are very proud of the fact that full synchronization of blockchain can be acheived in under 20 minutes. The results are shown in this medium post and all “predownloaded” functionality is enabled in the latest  GUI wallet release (v0.3.0.86), therefore you can simply run the GUI wallet and sync up in about 20 min depending on your PC’s processor.

https://medium.com/@BoolberryBBR/boolberry-v0-3-0-80-release-notes-96cdab3a6084

Other medium posts can be found here:

https://medium.com/@BoolberryBBR

Zano Telegram Links:

News Channel:

https://t.me/zanonews

Main Chat:

t.me/zanocoin

Mining Chat:

t.me/zanominers

We will get discord and other platforms set up soon.

This will most likely remain the primary chat for now:

t.me/boolberry_bbr

But join our channel to stay up to date on all important announcements.

https://medium.com/@BoolberryBBR/what-is-project-z-b96f2e94cfe0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5090272.0

Zano.org

Wild Keccak is also very energy efficient, and there are no ASIC's!  Boolberry's scratchpad is currently around 400mb, which requires it to be stored in global memory vs Cryptonight which is 2-4mb depending on original or "heavy" version.  Wild Keccak PoW calculation is <1ms and cryptonight is 30-100ms.  (Eth is roughly 3-4ms iirc). So I'm not sure what you mean when you say efficient, but WK beats CN at every metric we've considered.

In summary,  WK is not only faster, but much more ASIC resistant than cryptonight.  We will be modifying WK and be releasing WK2 which will make it even more ASIC resistant going forward.

Here is a link to a spreadsheet that was created a while back.


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sYgIYu_31avZJdvJVkIltu2jk8LvH2BC84j9oyceTdU/edit?usp=sharing


If you guys want to fill in what your results are, once they are confirmed, I will add them to the top section.


Hope this is helpful, but I do not have any experience with a GTX 1050.


Also, you can probably get much faster responses in our telegram chat for miners at:

https://t.me/BBR_miners


Johnny

Boolberry uses Wild Keccak. 

Here is the link to miner thread that most people are using.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4589691.0


Here is a guide to get started at mining.blue:

http://mining.blue/#getting_started


We have a chat on Telegram specifically for miners, and there are people of all languages there:

https://t.me/BBR_miners


Hopefully this helps, and join the mining group on telegram if you need any assistance.


Johnny

One last thing:

In addition to twitter, we will be making announcement through our telegram channel at:

https://t.me/boolberry

(This is the best option for people that only want to be notified of important announcements)


We also have a Boolberry general chat:

https://t.me/boolberry_bbr


and a mining specific chat (for all levels!):

https://t.me/BBR_miners


Official Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/BoolberryBBR


Thank you again!


Johnny

Hello Boolberrians!


Here is a short guide and real test results from the V0.3.0.80 Wallet on Medium:

https://medium.com/@BoolberryBBR/boolberry-v0-3-0-80-release-notes-96cdab3a6084


Also a link to the twitter post:

https://twitter.com/BoolberryBBR/status/1047731843171147776


In the August update, we made some lofty promises of 1 hour (down from 24 hours +/-), but today's test shows 22 minutes for full blockchain synchronization!

So another 3X improvment on top of what we had promised.  Should be nostalgic for anyone that was here back in 2014!


More coming soon!


Johnny


Join us on Telegram:

https://t.me/boolberry_bbr

Update:

The "Burning Bug" as reported by a member of the Monero community has been patched and merged to master.

https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/boolberry/commit/57063dbcbeb0f2ab9269988ec7cfca04d74d0346

Additionally, we have scanned the Boolberry blockchain, and confirmed that this hypothetical attack was not exploited.


Exchanges, please compile from the updated source files:

https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/boolberry


Thank you.


Johnny

Here is the link to the August Dev update on medium:

https://medium.com/@BoolberryBBR/boolberry-bbr-monthly-progress-report-august-391d00e2616a

We are working with a couple of new exchanges, and waiting to get responses.  We will keep you apprised as these discussions progress.  Also, we also have quite a bit of exciting news to announce in the next several weeks, we have code named the next generation of improvements "Project Z."

We will announce on twitter when phase III of the roadmap on boolberry.com is updated, so that everyone is made aware at the same time.

Make sure you follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BoolberryBBR

Cheeers!


JohnnyT

Copy of text from reddit post at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/boolberry/comments/98pkmg/while_boolberry_was_almost_the_monero_before/

Interesting observation, and I absolutely agree. There were a couple of important things that happened around that time in April / May of 2014. Aside from the fact that Monero was "rush launched" which gave it status as the 1st fork from BCN, it also had 1 minute block times for the first 2 years, and therefore a much faster emission curve, even though they both had the same emission factor. This faster emission curve allowed coins to be accumulated and gave people an incentive to organize and work as a team, similar to the effect that DASH's instamine had. If you look at the old OTC threads on BCT, Boolberry actually traded at a premium to Monero in May 2014 prior to listings on Polinex and Bittrex.

BBR OTC: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=616391

XMR (MRO) OTC: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=578192.0

Its important to note that the lag between the pre-ann and genesis block for Boolberry included some changes that have stood the test of time. The change in the hashing algo Wild Keccak, was never shown to have any unfair advantage like we saw with Monero. (see link)

https://da-data.blogspot.com/2014/08/minting-money-with-monero-and-cpu.html

Additionally, other features that were challenged by the Monero community, namely, Smooth, were later incorporated such as pruning of ring signatures and eventually changing the hashing algo to V7 (supposed to be ASIC resistant), which might change yet again! Monero uses a 2MB scratchpad, where Boolberry has a scratchpad that is now about 340MB and grows at about 90MB per year. Even if there were FPGAs mining BBR, the Xilinx VCU1525 only has 346MB on chip memory, so that should be passed in the next couple of weeks.

Cryptozoidberg, was churning out code in mid 2014 at a pace that was unprecedented. There was a funny post from CZ aimed at FluffyPony as they were blindly merging commits. (see link)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577267.msg8960248#msg8960248

Also during this time there was a chess match between Monero and Boolberry. (see link)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1190988

The competition during 2014 was fierce and the fact that cryptozoidberg was 1 person trying to compete against a group of old bitcoin guys that took over Monero from thankful_for_today.

Here is the original Bitmonero thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=563821

Current Monero thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.0

In December 2014 Cryptozoidberg announced that he was going to be working on a new project code named Louid'or. (see link)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=887482.0

In his absence there were several attempts by unrelated parties to bring changes to Boolberry, which ultimately led to its de-listing from both Polinex in April '17 and Bittrex in August '17.

For a period of almost 3 years, CZ would periodically surface to reiterate his commitment to return. Finally earlier this year, He DID return, and has implemented a number of improvements over the past several months. Improvements include, off-line signatures (a requirement for exchanges like Binance), LMDB (which took monero a year to implement) integrated addresses, which eliminates the confusion for people sending coins to exchanges which requires a payment ID, and a long list of optimizations and bug fixes.

If you look on cryptomiso.com, and choose ranking by previous 3 months, Boolberry is listed among some large name coins, and at the moment BBR is ranked #114 vs XMR at #86.

https://www.cryptomiso.com/months_3.html

There is not much information out regarding what is planned, but on the website https://boolberry.com/ if you look at phase 3 of the road-map, it say "Big news to come in the year ahead."

Hope this helps connect some of the dots and gives a better overview of history.

Here is the link to the Boolberry Telegram Group: https://t.me/boolberry_bbr

And "the official" Twitter: https://twitter.com/BoolberryBBR

You have seen the brisk pace of development progress in the past 3 months.  For those of you who were around in 2014, or at a minimum have read the thread, this progress and pace is nothing new.  Zoidberg has always been synonymous with innovation in CryptoNote, and he epitomizes hard work.

Boolberry’s cryptomiso.com ranking for the past 3 months is 102nd of all projects, yet market cap is 375ish.  Some notables between 85th and 100th were Monero, Zcash, among other Billion +/- $ projects.

https://www.cryptomiso.com/months_3.html

Zoidberg is a crypto unicorn. 

Teaser: Zoidberg wasn’t not working the past 3 years... (intentional double negative)

We are very excited to announce our Public Beta Version LMDB wallet client.  This milestone has been long anticipated and the focal point of discussion over the past several years.  The implementation of LMDB started just over 8 weeks ago and exemplifies the commitment and diligence with which Zoidberg and our entire team works each day.  We are very excited to share this milestone and look forward to exploring the opportunities that LMDB will avail.   

The previous Boolberry client had system requirements with a minimum of 8GB RAM.  The latest release, v 0.3.0.54, uses a lightning memory mapped database (LMDB) and the RAM requirements are reduced to an amount such that any modern Windows 7 or newer PC will suffice.  The blockchain synchronization speed will improve throughout future releases and the addition of new seed nodes.  Synchronization speeds will depend on CPU speed and should be expected to take between 2 and 12 hours.

Also, in this beta build, we are introducing integrated addresses.  This new address format will simplify transactions by requiring a single field of information that will incorporate both the wallet address and unique payment ID.  Our users have expressed some confusion and difficulty over the past several months, and we felt that this was a priority to build reliability for incoming and outgoing transfers to exchanges and minimize the possibility of user error when sending coins to an exchange.

We expect the Release Candidate should be ready after another week of testing and feedback from the community.

Here is the GitHub link to the LMDB public beta version 0.3.0.54:

https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/boolberry/releases/tag/v0.3.0.54

If you have any questions, please visit our Telegram group and someone will be able to assist:

General Boolberry Group:      https://t.me/boolberry_bbr
Boolberry Mining Group:        https://t.me/BBR_miners

Follow us on Twitter:             https://twitter.com/BoolberryBBR

Thank you, and we appreciate your interest and feedback!


Boolberry Core Team.

BEST INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO / MINING GUIDE FOR BOOLBERRY (WILD KECCAK) USING MINERD (AMD CARDS ONLY)

• Video should include Benchmarking for popular video cards such as RX470, RX580 etc. showing both nominal hash rate (Kh/s) and efficiency (Kh/watt).
• Overview of pools available (explorer.mining.blue)
• How to mine to local wallet or direct to exchange (BTC-Alpha.com) using payment ID.
• How to track performance by rig, using local wallet with payment ID (64 digit hex)
• Suggestions for ROM / memory strap modifications
• Ideal OC settings
• Explanation of all command line parameters / Example of command line / batch file.
• Recommended platforms (windows / SMOS / Linux)

Prizes:

• 1st place will receive 500 BBR
• 2nd place will receive 200 BBR
• 3rd place will receive 100 BBR

BEST INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO ON HOW-TO GET ALIAS GUIDE FOR WINDOWS (MUST INCLUDE INSTRUCTIONS TO INSTALL CLIENT / CREATE WALLET ADDRESS)

• Use http://mining.blue/#register_alias link for processing requests
• Explain not to use exchange address and why
• Include limitations on what can be used in alias
• #define VALID_ALIAS_CHARS     "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-."
• Include max length rule for alias’
• Address false positive in anti-virus software with SHA-256 sum 4d1cb5155cb5ba7b9602ef532429f2107fd89a46d129f3bcf98e7f41bb97e6c3
• Reference BTC-Alpha.com as exchange to purchase Boolberry

Prizes:

• 1st place will receive 500 BBR
• 2nd place will receive 200 BBR
• 3rd place will receive 100 BBR

BEST INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO ON HOW-TO USE FORUM FUNDING SYSTEM TO MAKE NEW PROPOSALS AND VOTE ON EXISTING PROPOSALS

• Refer to How-To get alias guide  (needs to be created)
• Show how to make new proposal on https://funding.boolberry.com
• Include steps to sign text in Boolberry wallet to verify alias ownership, which allows creation of new proposals and the ability to vote
• Explain the purpose of using aliases to prevent or detour spamming
• xplain that aliases create a permanent link or association with a wallet address on the blockchain and eliminate the need to remember a long base 58 address.  In the future, it will be possible to change the address that is linked to an alias by verifying ownership through the text signing feature

Prizes:

• 1st place will receive 500 BBR
• 2nd place will receive 200 BBR
• 3rd place will receive 100 BBR

If you have any questions, please join our Telegram channel or send us a message on Twitter!

Winners of each contest will be chosen by the core team with input from the community and assessed on accuracy, clarity, popularity, and of course achieving the intended objective.  

Please submit all videos by posting them to YouTube and adding a link in this thread.



Good luck!