BiblePay
1.4.5.3-Leisure Upgrade

- Update Cameroon One receiving address

Please verify the 'exec paycameroon' works by sending a small amount to cameroon-one.

** CAMEROON-ONE WALLET ADDRESS CHANGE **


Cameroon is migrating to a new wallet (and the old key is no longer available).

Please do not use the 'paycameroon' command until the next update, and please do not send any funds to the address in 'sponsorchild'.

We will be making this an adjustable spork in the next version (our testnet version) but for now we will release a leisure upgrade to fix this in the next day or so.

The new address is:
BF6qmwBMmnmb4FbSmRGTeWQL1m3rwh5n7b

** BiblePay Prod Quick Sync **


I'm working on a quick sync script for prod to be released during our PODC 2.0 release - so Windows quick-sync is not ready yet, but in the mean time if anyone wants to test this the linux version is ready:

For biblepayd or biblepay-qt do the following for quick-sync (this is syncing fast from block 0, an alternative to -erasechain=1):

Do this part once:
cd ~/.biblepayevolution  (Be sure to cd to where your Biblepay data directory is first)
wget biblepay.org/syncblocks_prod.sh
chmod 777 syncblocks_prod.sh

Whenever you want to sync from 0:
cd ~/.biblepayevolution
./syncblocks_prod.sh


The script automatically gracefully stops biblepay first.  We do sync the prayers, blocks, llmq & chainlocks, and governance data, so theoretically the node should be stable after this.
You do have to start biblepay manually after this is done.

i like big blocks and i can not lie

download the miner here:
https://github.com/biblepay/cpuminer/tree/master/binaries

join the pool and earn BBP rewards here:
bbpminer-x86.exe -o stratum+tcp://5.135.183.202:3032 -u BEXTU6iVeBdoqgwbP8rmzYNoKhQgwz5BGs -p PraiseJesus

-u is your bbp address
-p password can be anything

other pools:

nomp.biblepay.org
leopool.biblepay.org

1) I've tested your bbpminer-x86 external miner config and it seems OK, it works for me.  I dont think you need the "-p x" at the end, but it should not be a concern.
2) I don't think its your hashrate; it doesn't sound like you ever get to the point where the miner is showing the hashmeter.  After a couple minutes you should see 'thread 1: nn KH/S'.  You can try adding "-t1" to mine on a single core (this would put more availability to one thread) and see if anything happens, but imo I dont think its the hashrate.
3) You can take out the workerid, workeridfunded, and pool settings in the biblepay.conf as currently pool.biblepay.org is out of play in favor of nomp.  Basically the internal miner in the core wallet is not being used for mining, but we are using the external miner now.  (I do have a side project to fix that, so they are equal, but for now lets all use the external miner to be equal in speed).
4) You do not need to register any workerid now, you can just use a valid BBP receive address.  Please do verify the receive address you use is valid (you get it from the core client Receiving address, or, from 'getnewaddress' . <- I would look at this as this could be the problem, nomp may be hanging up on you if its a bad address.
5) You don't need to have boinc on *yet*, but, we are going to require users to be on team BBP for WCG very soon - IE within 30 days - to earn PODC2.0 credits.  See this thread if you want to help us:  https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=465.msg6515#msg6515

6)  If none of this helps, please try the external miner on another machine and see if it works with the same settings.  If it does, you might have a bad binary on win10, just re-download it.
7) You can also try this:  telnet nomp.biblepay.org 3032
Verify the screen clears.  This shows you have a connection to the stratum port.  There is a remote chance you have a blocked firewall in win10?

I don't know if you already resolved this; but if you didnt; let me say this: In our .14 branch, we will have an addl command that lets you revive a moved sanc - but its not in our current live branch yet (.13).

The other thing:  DIP3 is partially enabled in Prod - you can have a non deterministic (legacy) sanc *or* a new deterministic sanc.  It will probably be this way for 60 more days, while we find out the status of Apollons integration.

Next, the easiest way to recover from this currently is to just destroy your sanctuary.  If you do this:

- Spend the collateral, back to yourself by unlocking it
- Create a new sanc with a new name

Later after its running again, you can do the 'upgradesanc' command on it to make it deterministic.

Good luck.

Here is a working link:
https://docs.dash.org/en/0.13.0/masternodes/dip3-upgrade.html

Are these the steps to upgrade masternode to deterministic?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.msg51695886#msg51695886
https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/clyxyc/upgrading_masternodes_sanctuaries_to/
https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=391.msg5968#msg5968

BiblePay
1.4.5.2-Leisure Upgrade

- Fix exec paycameroon feature to use current bbp price
- Fix exec price to show current bbp price

** This is the windows release.  MIP will update when linux is ready **

1) can we have lower difficulty? Even 3 diff is kind of high for some computers. Could you offer difficulty of 1 or lower perhaps?

2) Wrote some new articles:

I downloaded the Biblepay wallet but it doesn’t sync, why?
https://whitewalr.us/2019/biblepay-wallet-sync-issue.html

How do I mine on the BiblePay NOMP pool?
https://whitewalr.us/2019/biblepay-nomp-pool-mining.html

3) I get disconnected from pool sometimes. I just communicated with it so I am not sure why this is happening.

stratum_recv_line failed
Stratum connection interrupted

I tried temporarily from different networks (usa, europe, asia, etc). it seems to happen regardless of where my miner traffic originates from.. i wonder if pool can handle all the workers?

is anyone else seeing the disconnect?

4) i let some miners run overnight and I think invalid shares is high again. out of 1050 submitted / only 1010 accepted. So, something like 96.1% accept rate. saturday day worked very good. but saturday night maybe more people joined pool, i don't know.

1)  Its now : sendgscc instead of 'exec sendgscc', so you can type for example:  sendgscc pog 100, that would send a donation of 100 bbp to the foundation.
2)  If you leave the miner running on one thread with the wallet unlocked, it will send one sendgscc out every 12 hrs.
3)  You can try to type : exec join pog,  and it will throw an error if you already joined.

External CPU Miner
1.0.0.9-Leisure Upgrade

- Ensure time is encoded properly for both stratum & non-stratum modes

** Ok everyone, the 1008 version is really not a working release.  I believe this version actually addresses the problem; please try now. **

BiblePay - External CPU Miner
1.0.0.8-Leisure Upgrade

- Prevent submitting duplicate shares
- Handle time encoding correctly

** Ok guys, it appears the lions share of the problem with the pool was the time encoding and submission of duplicate shares.  Please upgrade the external miner, and try again with Nomp, lets see if the valid share percentages rise now. **

*** ABN (Anti-bot-net changes) - ABN is no longer required ***



All, we have been discussing potential future growth changes for BBP: https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=461.msg6381#msg6381
and following the suggestions from the DSS model, showing that we need a positive UPD (+1 or more new user per day), and also with the complexity of requiring people to unlock wallets and support ABNs in the pool(s) is probably not worth the benefit, since we are going to be moving to a new environment soon with stronger anti-bot-net possibilities (rewards for cancer mining/aids, limiting rewards to PODC, etc).

In light of this, I have disabled ABN (the sanctuary vote is largely pointing to this).  This is primarily being done now - so the devs can finish the NOMP pool now with simplicity in mind for the new users.

So, starting now, you no longer need an ABN to mine BBP.  The NOMP pool has been updated to pay equally. 

You may now move to the easy setup, and you no longer need to send single threaded abn's to pool.biblepay.org to mine.

The easy start guide has been modified for NOMP.

Pool.biblepay.org is being modified now to make payouts equal across the board.

(I am analyzing nomp's share rejects today, and will make a post ASAP about that).

BiblePay - Core Wallet
1.4.5.1-Leisure Upgrade

- Prevent wallet from crashing when using getblock to query a block with
missing element

** Release Ready **

For Nomp, it only takes the BBP address currently.  For example here is my command line for windows:

bbpminer-x86.exe -ostratum+tcp://nomp.biblepay.org:3008 --user=BEsraanMpV3tzQ4dhJV1y9EkdEvf8MonF8