Uh, no. By becoming member of idena, you are validating your identity in anonymous (non-KYC) way. By validating yourself, you prove to the idena network that you are unique person and with that you can run your own idena node and receive rewards.

You can check out Hetzner.com they have better price and good hardware.



Some users reported having problem in Germany site, I used Helsinki, no problem whatsoever

Huh, thank you, I will try to simulate and fix.

How did you get that broken link? I want to fix it and improve experience.
What OS and browser are you using?



For me, Win/Firefox, if you click on link icon or title, copies this link
https://idena.site/faq/idena-node-on-raspbery-pi-4

And when you visit it, it opens and focuses you on that exact post.

Running on pi 4? What specs?
Post on idena.site is just a recolection of things that I ran into while chatting with users who tried using pi. I myself don't have one and can not tell if it works and how well.

It does not perform good under swap, its pretty much useless. 2GB is a must at this point.

If you run node on 1GB vps, low ram memory is causing it, minimum is 2GB now. Hetzner has good deals, 3e for vps with 1 core and 2GB ram.

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

https://idena.site/faq/why-is-my-idena-app-all-white

If your Desktop App worked normal and this happened after sudden computer restart or something:
1. Go here: %appdata%\Idena
2. Delete settings.json file and Quit and start Idena again
your file probably got corrupted because of sudden restart. If just deleting settings.json does not help, rename all .json files there and restart Idena App.

If it's all white the first time you have started, then read following.
Idena app uses GPU acceleration to render its graphics content. If for some reason it can't access GPU to render its view, It will show all white screen. You can try to solve this by running it with "--disable-gpu" parameter.

This is how I managed to set it up in Windows:
1. Right click on "Idena" shortcut, choose "Properties"
2. In the "Target" field, add " --disable-gpu" at the end, click OK

Yeah, very usefull, but focus of general crypto community is in defi clouds, sadly.

As I understand it 5397 can vote, 54 are required to vote so we have quorum (enough people so the voting is valid)
and from any number above 54 people, we need 51% of them, so desicion can be made. (My grammar is terrible... I hope it's understandable)

Hello friends, I'm pleased to introduce new version of idena.site

It has been reorganised to act as a Introduction to Idena blog which will explain in simple way how to start with idena for people that are not very familiar with blockchain or crypto.

- It's constructed to support multiple languages, (EN, and ex-YU are here for start)
- Dark/light mode

It will be updated with new texts and features as time goes on.

Hello, there is new oracle voting for supporting my_idena mobile app development, please check it out and place your vote.
Fine example of oracle usecase for community governance.

Do you support the Idena mobile app development by @redDwarf03?

There is Idena mobile app developed by @redDwarf03:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/my-idena/id1535914607
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.reddwarf.my_idena
It's a community-driven development that could be supported with Idena foundation wallet funds.

There are 5000 iDNA blocked at the OracleLock address:
0x7a7c9eb1ff4e7df0889637bc3b19a38b8bedcf19

In case of 51% support, the funds will be automatically unlocked in favor of the wallet of @redDwarf03:
0xf429e36D68BE10428D730784391589572Ee0f72B

Otherwise, the coins will be returned to the foundation wallet:
0xcbb98843270812eeCE07BFb82d26b4881a33aA91

I have found new hobbie. I look for YouTube channels that are covering POW mining, then I find their Discord server and start discussion about POW and how it's inferior to Proof-Of-Person. It realy gets interesting sometimes.

Happy new year guys and gals.

Hopefully we'll get flip creation in web app soon, that will open up a possibility for community to develop better guides and videos for Idena.
Better guides, easier for newcommers to understand how everything works.

Also, a reminder for all windows users, install program NetTime so you dont have problem with time sync and validation.
http://www.timesynctool.com/NetTimeSetup-314.exe

If you have problem with node syncing or internet, I suggest you switch to web validaiton over shared node.
You can inform yourself here:
https://t.me/IdenaSharedNodes

We still have lot of users that fail validation because of technical issues with their setup:
- windows operating system time is out of sync, check on www.time.is (solution install free program NetTime)
- bad internet connection (wifi is not recommended, weak routers cause problem)
- weak cpu or low ram memory (vps or home pc)

I understand, I just wanted for you to see the response since I'm not sure if you are using Telegram, didn't want you to miss it. Since the discussion went on, for me, in 5 TG groups, 3 discord servers, and here.

I'm not saying definitely it's one way or the other, because there is no definitive evidence that points us in one or other direction so I can say, this is how it is. It's just mine feeling to what this situation is about, and what is not. We are just discussing about a project. Only time will tell what was really the case and who was the sucker
Or maybe we will never find out.

Pool operator comment (in Idena Telegram) on your post


https://t.me/IdenaNetworkPublic/136698

I can mention one situation, explaining the human factor and their unability to make it on their own.

Member tried doing validation running their node on mac, i presume wifi. Failed validation, node went out of sync. Then I said, you can use web and my shared node. During last validation, member took 48 sec to answer first flip, and wasted all time of shord session on 2 flips. And I did sent all links alongside validation video. I guess, some just are not invested enough and are not paying attention.

We got some more feedback for now...

Devs spoke to him, we are yet to get response/oppinion on the situation. He came out in the open because people were talking about bots/scripts/bug/exploits, it is human pool. I guess he was afraid of getting their addresses killed and approached. Syd checked their flips, they were high quality, made with effort flips. Even used some actual memes for flips, like they are making flips because it is fun to them.



It's Dalik or Max on telegram. Funny guy.





Don't have energy to sum it up and type again after whole day typing yesterday in 10 chats, i agree with Syd, so i will quote him

Syd - Idena Gang Today at 10:39 AM
My take on that subject...
It's good that it's not an IA/exploit bug. Like Sysy said here, what happens is the "game". Sad game, but it was always a legit risk for Idena (in that sense i always thought bugs in short session were an issue but bad flips were less, because it's "part of the human game", whether we like it or not). For me, Farms were always a problem and a risk, but it's also true that I didn't expect such scale that early.

I've looked a bit at the farmers, they all seem to have done good flips, i even saw funny memes in it. It's not even like they are putting no effort. It seems really russian-based  (so i would argue, a bit less clueless atm than indian or nigerian farmers). It seems like they kinda... "care?" I dont think only one guys do all the flips, right ? Anyway, why all accept to give all the power to one person ?  well it was said, money of course. But the scale of that thing that quickly, the fact also that it's not that "careless" , all of this makes me think that it has to be some trust that started the thing. Note also that they have many "humans" status and good results, and manage to achieve to get invites. That's why i unironically think it can be a russian "village" (at least at core) or something more than low paid workers from africa. We kinda need to realize us Westerners than not all the world has that individual logic : in many conservative countries, it's normal to give your vote to a third part. Back in time in France, the village gave the vote to the priest that would then represent them toward the King.
So now what to do?
In the short term, we actually need farms to fight each others (go help johnston - if you didn't understand yet, for info, he is not the 600 guys farm owner). Farms will exist in idena, that's a certitude, we just need that it doesn't kill idena in its infancy, for that we need some kind of balance of power. Like bitcoin, that could have easily died in the very early stage, Idena is in the hardest period before we could scale and reach some turning point. I'm not that worried of the fact that a farm exist : it's more than only one guy managed to do that scale that is worrying.

In the medium term, there will be things to educate people, like watermarks, like many ideas we discussed. Make it EASY to validate. The most hardcore thing is to HF farmers like Ubi suggested. It's a big debate, kinda similar to ETH/ETC debate. Do we let only protocol decide or not ? Like Rioda said the issue is that the frontier is not everytime clear. And they will find ways to clear their marks if we do this... So i don't really like that idea. But good thing imo is that it put the business model at risk. Make CEOs doubt of the value of their organisation. Not very scientific reasoning, but to be unclear on that subject makes the business model more risky. Also that's why i liked the private key idea, even if lemoe made some good point against.
So to sum up: Educate people/Make validation ultra easy/Put the business model of farmers at risk everytime.

In the long run, we can't fight them in other manner than educate and hope for the best. And Scale, that's the only long run solution : making that even a 600 farm owner will own only a marginable part of the network. That's why the early stage are so difficult and why in some way i hope for some balance of power between farms for now...

Devs are talking and thinking about it they will tell their opinion to us soon hopefully.

Well, I wanted to try Idena web app on my Android phone using chrome browser and "Desktop site" option enabled.

I tried to do this validation after I finished with my regular validation on desktop app so I did not have much time left and I failed validation.
But the video has its purpose, to show you how the app looks and works on mobile, switch flip buttons are small for instance, but it is very usable for validation.
I was helping out untill last moment few people to switch to web validation, since they did not sync node in time, so I did not start recording from flip lottery.



Idena Web App - Short session validation on a Android

Here is a page that will guide you towards doing web validation on my shared node. You will need to contact me on Telegram so i can reserve 1/50 spots for using shared node.

https://idena.site/web/