[*] 8BIT [Dark Masternodes][Anon][Roadmap Stage 4]

[Pon13]

i managed to compile 8bitd and cli with

Code:

./configure --without-gui LDFLAGS="-L${BDB_PREFIX}/lib/" CPPFLAGS="-I${BDB_PREFIX}/include/"

on the same machine as before.
(following this https://github.com/8bit-crypto/8bit-reboot/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md#berkeley-db and troubleshooting accordingly to my issues)

make completed with no errors
and sudo make install as well.

upgraded 8bitd with no errors
verified by 8bit-cli -datadir=/home/pon/.8bit/ getinfo
{
    "version" : "v2.2.3.0-gc14473d05cea9785d213ba7dd427d2dc92ca5a90",
    "protocolversion" : 60020,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
...
}

i am on

Distributor ID:   Ubuntu
Description:   Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Release:   16.04
Codename:   xenial

feeling less useless now  
no gui but didnt use it before anyway

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[brakmic]

i managed to compile 8bitd and cli with

Code:

./configure --without-gui LDFLAGS="-L${BDB_PREFIX}/lib/" CPPFLAGS="-I${BDB_PREFIX}/include/"

on the same machine as before.
(following this https://github.com/8bit-crypto/8bit-reboot/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md#berkeley-db and troubleshooting accordingly to my issues)

make completed with no errors
and sudo make install as well.

upgraded 8bitd with no errors
verified by 8bit-cli -datadir=/home/pon/.8bit/ getinfo
{
    "version" : "v2.2.3.0-gc14473d05cea9785d213ba7dd427d2dc92ca5a90",
    "protocolversion" : 60020,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
...
}

i am on

Distributor ID:   Ubuntu
Description:   Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Release:   16.04
Codename:   xenial

feeling less useless now  
no gui but didnt use it before anyway

Congrats!
The Qt compilation would only need qt5 libs and other dependencies which you can install with a one-liner from the tutorial.
But if you don't need the UI this too is ok, I think.

[Pon13]

Congrats!
The Qt compilation would only need qt5 libs and other dependencies which you can install with a one-liner from the tutorial.
But if you don't need the UI this too is ok, I think.

i've installed all the dependencies cant figure out why it doesn't find the appropriate files/folder but one step at a time i guess.
i have a spare physical machine, tomorrow i'll install ubuntu 18 and try to compile from scratch with gui.

8bitd memory consumption is still 1.1GB which is super high in comparison to other daemons.
Do you think its possible to reduce the resources (mostly ram) that 8bit daemon use?

[brakmic]

Congrats!
The Qt compilation would only need qt5 libs and other dependencies which you can install with a one-liner from the tutorial.
But if you don't need the UI this too is ok, I think.

i've installed all the dependencies cant figure out why it doesn't find the appropriate files/folder but one step at a time i guess.
i have a spare physical machine, tomorrow i'll install ubuntu 18 and try to compile from scratch with gui.

8bitd memory consumption is still 1.1GB which is super high in comparison to other daemons.
Do you think its possible to reduce the resources (mostly ram) that 8bit daemon use?

If you sync from block 0 then it's higher, but if you use a fresh bootstrap.dat (just uploaded a new one on https://8bit.cash) then it should not consume that much. I see neither high memory consumption nor many CPU cycles on my machine. And I only have a small VPS with one core (and several other daemon processes).

[brakmic]

Regarding your question of future development / optimizations: it really depends on the community and its support.

[Pon13]

Congrats!
The Qt compilation would only need qt5 libs and other dependencies which you can install with a one-liner from the tutorial.
But if you don't need the UI this too is ok, I think.

i've installed all the dependencies cant figure out why it doesn't find the appropriate files/folder but one step at a time i guess.
i have a spare physical machine, tomorrow i'll install ubuntu 18 and try to compile from scratch with gui.

8bitd memory consumption is still 1.1GB which is super high in comparison to other daemons.
Do you think its possible to reduce the resources (mostly ram) that 8bit daemon use?

If you sync from block 0 then it's higher, but if you use a fresh bootstrap.dat (just uploaded a new one on https://8bit.cash) then I should not consume that much. I see neither high memory consumption nor many CPU cycles on my machine. And I only have a small VPS with one core (and several other daemon processes).

hmm maybe its my configuration of the old 8bit installation. cant remember cause one two years have passed since then.
i just upgraded the daemon, the chain data is the same one as in my old 8bit daemon (v2.0.0.1), did not have to download anything.

i'll expirement tomorrow on a fresh install of ubuntu 18 and i'll give feedback

[brakmic]

Congrats!
The Qt compilation would only need qt5 libs and other dependencies which you can install with a one-liner from the tutorial.
But if you don't need the UI this too is ok, I think.

i've installed all the dependencies cant figure out why it doesn't find the appropriate files/folder but one step at a time i guess.
i have a spare physical machine, tomorrow i'll install ubuntu 18 and try to compile from scratch with gui.

8bitd memory consumption is still 1.1GB which is super high in comparison to other daemons.
Do you think its possible to reduce the resources (mostly ram) that 8bit daemon use?

If you sync from block 0 then it's higher, but if you use a fresh bootstrap.dat (just uploaded a new one on https://8bit.cash) then I should not consume that much. I see neither high memory consumption nor many CPU cycles on my machine. And I only have a small VPS with one core (and several other daemon processes).

hmm maybe its my configuration of the old 8bit installation. cant remember cause one two years have passed since then.
i just upgraded the daemon, the chain data is the same one as in my old 8bit daemon (v2.0.0.1), did not have to download anything.

i'll expirement tomorrow on a fresh install of ubuntu 18 and i'll give feedback

Yes, a fresh install would be a better option. Just to see how it behaves when left alone.

[Pon13]

i know that i said tomorrow but i was able to compile 8bit daemon and qt in ubuntu 18
https://imgur.com/nLk12c9

Code:

Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic

i followed this https://github.com/8bit-crypto/8bit-reboot/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md but still if you follow it you might get an error about

Code:

configure: error: Detected LibreSSL: This is NOT supported, and may break consensus compatibility!

If you get this error then do this -->  apt-get install libssl1.0-dev

So
1. git clone https://github.com/brakmic/8bit-reboot.git
2. cd 8bit-reboot/
3. sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev
4. sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
5. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin --> and press enter
6. sudo apt-get update
7. sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev
8. sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev
9. sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler  (for QT 5) or sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler (for QT 4)
10. sudo apt-get install libqrencode-dev
11. ./autogen.sh
12. i did a ./configure --with-gui=qt5 which resulted in

Code:

configure: error: Found Berkeley DB other than 4.8, required for portable wallets (--with-incompatible-bdb to ignore or --disable-wallet to disable wallet functionality)

13. so i had to build Berkeley DB 4.8 myself as in the guide so in terminal in 8bit-reboot folder i did
13.1 EIGHTBIT_ROOT=$(pwd)
13.2 BDB_PREFIX="${EIGHTBIT_ROOT}/db4"
13.3 mkdir -p $BDB_PREFIX
13.4 wget 'http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz'
13.5 echo '12edc0df75bf9abd7f82f821795bcee50f42cb2e5f76a6a281b85732798364ef  db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz' | sha256sum -c
# -> db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz: OK
13.6 tar -xzvf db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz
13.7 cd db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix/
13.8 ../dist/configure --enable-cxx --disable-shared --with-pic --prefix=$BDB_PREFIX
13.9 make install
13.10 cd $EIGHTBIT_ROOT
14. ./configure --with-gui=qt5 LDFLAGS="-L${BDB_PREFIX}/lib/" CPPFLAGS="-I${BDB_PREFIX}/include/"
i got the error i stated in the beginning of this post

Code:

checking for RAND_egd in -lcrypto... no
configure: error: Detected LibreSSL: This is NOT supported, and may break consensus compatibility!

14.1 solved it by doing sudo apt-get install libssl1.0-dev
14.2 then again ./configure --with-gui=qt5 LDFLAGS="-L${BDB_PREFIX}/lib/" CPPFLAGS="-I${BDB_PREFIX}/include/"
15. make
16. sudo make install
17. 8bitd or 8bit-qt to start daemon or qt wallet.
18. pat yourself in the back
19. If you found this useful and want to donate, then give it to dev (brakmic).
8BIT: 8JLMhnAk2koajGDjbyTREkEQXunBTuPMRX
BTC: 3MuRDxLt2L2D2XQ1hLvovLHxH3ixzucdDR

[brakmic]

Just to let everyone here know that I have contacted Cryptopia regarding re-enabling of trading.
Have given them my data (as I am public anyway this is not a problem for me), also gave data about the new sources, downloads, explorer etc.

I hope this will be enough.

[brakmic]

Currently working on PaperWallet generator.
When finished I'll put it on https://paperwallet.8bit.cash

[brakmic]

The paper wallet site is now live. Here the direct link to 8Bit settings.

https://paperwallet.8bit.cash/?currency=8Bit

There are many more currencies, just scroll down and look to the right.

[zidansz]

Not forget about this exchange if change protocol
https://yobit.net/ru/trade/8BIT/BTC

[brakmic]

Not forget about this exchange if change protocol
https://yobit.net/ru/trade/8BIT/BTC

There is no protocol/consensus change planned.
I've only updated the build mechanism and added a macOS version.
Now the coin ships with Windows and macOS + Linux source.

[drays]

Not forget about this exchange if change protocol
https://yobit.net/ru/trade/8BIT/BTC

How one can forget about Yobit..? 

Just for your information - Yobit's 8BIT wallet does not work for the last few years. The same is with majority of coins traded on Yobit - they have no connection to the blockchain. So no protocol change could ever affect Yobit.

Yobit is a parallel pseudo-cryprocurrency world, where strange people are trading some three-letter symbols which are just resembling crytocurrency coins' names...

[brakmic]

Dev team, consider utilizing CryptoHashTank POS/MN Service as listing is free

Not true. They take a portion of earnings as commission. Also, I have better things to do than going around and applying on random webpages.
What we are currently waiting for is the reactivation of trading on Cryptopia and the answer to our application from TradeOgre.

[brakmic]

Cryptopia just suspended all trading and is now officially going down.

So, one exchange less for this coin.

[drays]

Cryptopia just suspended all trading and is now officially going down.

So, one exchange less for this coin.

Its a pity... As much as I disliked the founders of Cryptopia (especially the cad known as "hex"), the exchange itself was a good one, and it had established community of traders.

From the other hand, demise of Cryptopia will open opportunities for new exchanges. Someone has to take the place of a popular altcoin exchange with biggest variety of coins and trading pairs, and someone will get its traders community.

As to 8bit, of course, with Cryptopia it would have been better than without that, but absence of exchanges is not the biggest problem of this coin. The biggest problem was the absence of developer, now after you joined, the biggest issue is the lack of community and the lack of defined direction (or ideas) for development. If we have community, we can apply for a listing on many smaller, but nice exchanges, such as Mercatox, CoinExchange or maybe ask to list it on Freiexchange. I remember some exchange offering a listing slot for all homeless coins previously listed on Cryptopia. Cannot recall which one that was, but I'll find out.

[drays]

So the main question (in my humble opinion) is how to attract more people here and keep them interested.
Some of the methods coming to my mind:
a) organize some bounty program - be it twitter, or signature campaign, or maybe give some tasks (technical or social) and pay for them in 8BIT...
b) make some 8bit-nostalgy-themed contest ..?
c) implement some simple game-like features in the 8bit blockchain, maybe a random bigger masternode payments at some round blocks, so people try to make their stake at specific moments to catch the egg the bigger payment...
d) ... and so on .. (this is the main part )

Well, it seems I am not too creative at the moment, would welcome any creative ideas.
In any case we need to involve community, wake it up and keep it interested. After all 8BIT games are all about the fun and addictiveness! So the coin should be too!

Working with community is separate task (its not for everybody - as it needs an active and communicative person.. someone unlike me ). Maybe somebody here could try the role.. or at least offer some ideas?
Crypto should be about fun, not only about money, right?

So in short - is anybody here? Wake up and speak up please!

[Pavel1979]

Where can I buy 8-bit coins?

[brakmic]

Where can I buy 8-bit coins?

Currently, there are no active exchanges for 8bit.