🌱[ANN] SOIL | Environmental | Agriculture | Smart Contracts | Sustainable

[NextGenCrypto]

as we prepare for launch tomorrow, i just want to take a few minutes and thank everyone thats helped us get to this point so far. when we release the main net package tomorrow before launch, new wallet addresses will be generated, thus im going to need those with incoming testnet bounties to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE write me as soon as you are set up with your new SOIL wallet address. i want to be able to ensure that those bounties are paid out as quickly as possible, and be able to update the public ledger for the community reserve with those debits. ill be contacting everyone personally tomorrow after launch if i dont hear from them and get their updated wallet address, just to remind them. if i miss you, somehow... tomorrow WILL be a crazy busy day... please dont hesitate to let me know and ill get right on it.

we've also been working with the admin from c-cex and should have SOIL up on the exchange tomorrow within a few hours of launch, so therell be at LEAST one confirmed exchange for you to trade your testnet bounties on. we will also have our basic block explorer ready tomorrow as well, and ill post that link for everyone as soon as we launch.

id updated the information regarding the reserve on the genesis block on our website at soilcoin.xyz but since we've been busy as anything last few days preparing for the launch, much of that hasnt been updated on the OP. the community reserve will be referrenced in a public ledger that i will update here on bitcointalk twice a week (at least) and immediately upon any debit or credit on the website , under the "community" tab.

we are preparing a 800,000 SOIL community reserve. of that, a little over 160,000 SOIL will be paid out immediately to testnet contributors. this will help to bring volume and liquidity to the market for SOIL, bringing it into the hands of many people who are as of yet unaware of this project and the wonderful community supporting it. we have an official faucet prepared, and will be keeping that topped up from the community reserve when needed. the core development teams reserves is set at 200,000 SOIL which is nearly matched immediately upon launch by the testnet bounties. both myself and soil will have our wallet addresses publicly available on the website and you will be able to check our balances for veracity on our claims to be holding our reserves simply thru gsoil with the command:

web3.fromWei(eth.getBalance("insert wallet address here"), "soil")

we are very much dedicated to a transparent operation, and there will be nothing hidden. i will not release the names of the individual wallet holders for the testnet bounties on the community page... cryptocurrency is something that focuses on pseudo-anonymity and i respect that. the individual wallet holder will know their address and thats enough transparency regarding those debits from the community reserve. as for the development team, that anonymous protection is not needed. for the record, my name is abvhiael crowley, you can google me if youd like, im the only person on the planet with the name "abvhiael" (thanks mom..) and you can find me on facebook (abvhiael and-janet crowley) as well. just to put a public face to the name....
 
the vast bulk of the reserve will be set to bounties and further development, and thats where you, the community, will be desperately needed. we need ideas to what sorts of changes will be useful for the evolution of the system. we will move towards a one SOIL/one vote apparatus when we reach a proper threshold that ensures the distribution of SOIL has reached as many possible souls as possible. my target for this implementation is after we have minted 2million SOIL.

our first order of business after launch will be getting SOIL accepted as a mode of payment at merchants that conform to our target industry, and we've made some inroads towards that already, and will be concentrating the tech development after launch towards that goal. beyond that, it will be setting up DApps on the blockchain and making SOIL not only a currency but a stable and relevant network as well. these projects WILL take time. i envision a good year of ridiculously hard work to get this project halfway to where id like to see it go. i hope we will have each and every one of you along for the whole ride, and i hope that you make ridiculous amounts of money from mining and trading SOIL as well.

Big kudos to you, Abvhiael!   Seriously.  I'll have my rigs going solo on SOIL and look forward to things to come!

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[abvhiael]

edit from previous post.. the total testnet bounties will be 45,103.609735 SOIL amongst 24 testnet contributors, according to their testnet wallet balances, at 15% capped to 5000SOIL and 3000 to the node hosters. we'll attribute my error to a pre-launch day brain fart. or a lack of caffeine. thank you for your understanding. 4 hours to launch! we'll have the main net wallet/mining package download up before launch, if anyone would like a reminder email, let me know....

~abvhiael

[Bojcha]

Possible to use zippyshare.com for packages ?

[altsheets]

how to install and configure (testnet) soil - stepwise manual

Here is my fabulous stepwise manual how to install the testnetsoil node, with a few tricks and shortcuts to make my life easier. Shorter manuals are possible, of course - but I developed that one, because I wanted to understand each and every step, and make my system easy to use. And -yet unsolved(*)- as secure as possible, by locking down the firewall.  Perhaps this helps anyone tonight.

The firewall iptables (*) I have understood better by now, so I might create a solution for that in the next days. If you know your iptables, feel free to try. My goal was to INPUT & OUTPUT drop ALL, apart from the soil traffic (and ssh of course) ... to create a hyper-secure node.

Anyways, these are the steps that I took to get the testnet node running, attached, DAG generated, and CPU mining enabled:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12469498#msg12469498 init
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12469524#msg12469524 firewall?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12469824#msg12469824 delete chain, start anew
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12469900#msg12469900 DAG generation
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12469934#msg12469934 ready
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12469987#msg12469987 what is DAG
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12470034#msg12470034 hashrate

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12476297#msg12476297 some more iptables experiments
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12476773#msg12476773 iptables -P OUTPUT DROP (unfinished)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12476860#msg12476860 how to report your ... admin.addPeer('enode://...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12476984#msg12476984 idea how to OUTPUT DROP

If anyone wants to make a shorter manual from that - yes please.

My main net address is: 0x8da4fc05ca343e6a41646194e91931d9f413a40c - remember that giving can make you happy :-)

Good luck to everyone for the launch!

 



EDIT: shorter/newer manuals (will put more here once they are posted)
* Soil on Linux, post 12724637 by altsheets
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[sammy007]

Last commit is a total mess. Impossible to follow what changes applied. Even merge is screwed https://github.com/soilcurrency/go-ethereum/blob/master/Godeps/Godeps.json#L18

[wowow]

will a listing of nodes be provided at launch?

[abvhiael]

will a listing of nodes be provided at launch?

there are three seed nodes set into the main net package, and ill try to ensure that user-supplied nodes are updated as soon as possible

[wowow]

thank you for the quick reply. so unlike the other ether variants, i will not need to perform the add node command to install nodes to see the network once the production package is released upon launch? sorry for the clarification question.

[ZonedOutSpace]

Launch very soon

[MinermanNC]

Virus Total shows this... any reason for concerns?

From: Windows 64bit package: ​https://mega.nz/#!AwAmSZQQ!iw6hXuiXDuD-db4kvV3ehcWv8tBBvaRDKERlSJcHwDg

ESET-NOD32  a variant of Win32/BitCoinMiner.CV potentially unsafe  20151001
  
Rising  PE:Malware.RDM.21!5.1B[F1]  20150930


THX

[soil]

thank you for the quick reply. so unlike the other ether variants, i will not need to perform the add node command to install nodes to see the network once the production package is released upon launch? sorry for the clarification question.

yes, you will not need to perform the add node command.

[soil]

Virus Total shows this... any reason for concerns?

From: Windows 64bit package: ​https://mega.nz/#!AwAmSZQQ!iw6hXuiXDuD-db4kvV3ehcWv8tBBvaRDKERlSJcHwDg

ESET-NOD32  a variant of Win32/BitCoinMiner.CV potentially unsafe  20151001
  
Rising  PE:Malware.RDM.21!5.1B[F1]  20150930


THX

Check ethminer.exe from:
https://build.ethdev.com/builds/Windows%20C%2B%2B%20develop%20branch/Ethereum-win64-latest.exe
You will see the same result.

[abvhiael]

Virus Total shows this... any reason for concerns?

From: Windows 64bit package: ​https://mega.nz/#!AwAmSZQQ!iw6hXuiXDuD-db4kvV3ehcWv8tBBvaRDKERlSJcHwDg

ESET-NOD32  a variant of Win32/BitCoinMiner.CV potentially unsafe  20151001
  
Rising  PE:Malware.RDM.21!5.1B[F1]  20150930


THX

a lot of mining packages for cryptos come up with a virus false positive result, in any number of antivirus packages. the issue seems to be that on some the code for the mining software is the same as those used to create BTC mining botnets. another reason is because a hacker can infect a system so that the mining software is run without a window showing, so youd never know it was running. with a number of infected computers, a malicious miner can run these miners on a computer to use someone elses resources to mine on their behalf. general rule of thumb is to always download mining packages directly from the developers and you can do a trace log of the network traffic on your computer and see if anything suspicious and potentially illegitimate stands out.

[ZonedOutSpace]

Wow I didn't see the reward for running a node lol I've been running 2 sense I started mining looks like I'm too late for the reward but I'll bring them back on main net

[gambino]

Wow I didn't see the reward for running a node lol I've been running 2 sense I started mining looks like I'm too late for the reward but I'll bring them back on main net

I think that you will get a part of the Premine which is equal to 125000 blocks


Dev: Did you tell all your friends to mine in testnet? Why you didn't announce that there will be a bounty for all the people who mine in the testnet?
Why I should mine in mainnet when there are distributed already coins equal to 125000 blocks?
Why you made a vote poll for premine when you don't give a shit what we vote?

[xtrembash]

where are the files ?!

[Bagdar13]

Wow I didn't see the reward for running a node lol I've been running 2 sense I started mining looks like I'm too late for the reward but I'll bring them back on main net

I think that you will get a part of the Premine which is equal to 125000 blocks


Dev: Did you tell all your friends to mine in testnet? Why you didn't announce that there will be a bounty for all the people who mine in the testnet?
Why I should mine in mainnet when there are distributed already coins equal to 125000 blocks?
Why you make a vote poll for premine when you don't give a shit what we vote?

For the record I don't know these people, but I mined the test net after the announcement that it would pay value.  You can check the first block I mined was after the announcement(you seem to think it was not announced..it was) and with only one 7870 I was able to amass 30k coins and hit the cap.  So this was open to anyone really even after the announcement.

[P-Funk]

Wow I didn't see the reward for running a node lol I've been running 2 sense I started mining looks like I'm too late for the reward but I'll bring them back on main net

I think that you will get a part of the Premine which is equal to 125000 blocks


Dev: Did you tell all your friends to mine in testnet? Why you didn't announce that there will be a bounty for all the people who mine in the testnet?
Why I should mine in mainnet when there are distributed already coins equal to 125000 blocks?
Why you made a vote poll for premine when you don't give a shit what we vote?

I don't think the entire community fund is going to testnet users, probably a very small amount.

[MinermanNC]

Virus Total shows this... any reason for concerns?

From: Windows 64bit package: ​https://mega.nz/#!AwAmSZQQ!iw6hXuiXDuD-db4kvV3ehcWv8tBBvaRDKERlSJcHwDg

ESET-NOD32  a variant of Win32/BitCoinMiner.CV potentially unsafe  20151001
  
Rising  PE:Malware.RDM.21!5.1B[F1]  20150930


THX

Check ethminer.exe from:
https://build.ethdev.com/builds/Windows%20C%2B%2B%20develop%20branch/Ethereum-win64-latest.exe
You will see the same result.

Virus Total shows this for ethminer.exe

ESET-NOD32  a variant of Win32/BitCoinMiner.CV potentially unsafe  20151014

but not the  PE:Malware.RDM.21!5.1B[F1]  20150930 ?

Anyone scanned after unzipping and executing?

Just been bitten before on wallets and miners with suspicious things..... that we assumed were false positives  

EDIT: Info on PE:Malware.RDM.21!5.1B[F1] :  (Installs itself for autorun at Windows startup)

http://threatinfo.net/pemalware-rdm-215-1bf1-file-has-been-identified-by-at-least-one-antivirus-on-virustotal-as-malicious/

[abvhiael]

Wow I didn't see the reward for running a node lol I've been running 2 sense I started mining looks like I'm too late for the reward but I'll bring them back on main net

once we get the mainnet running, send me your wallet address and ill get a bounty sent out to you.