[ANN][ARG] Argentum || A New Begining || UPDATE YOUR WALLET ||

[minerja]

Guys
If anyone wants any ARG, forget the $20 a coin the other guy wants, i'll happily accept $1 a coin. Will sell in multiples of 5 coins upto 200 coins

J

I proposed ARG at price 20.63 USD/ARG, not 20 USD/ARG.
Price is high, because I was been scammed by dirty rat's on WavesPlatform.
So who want to help me, can buy this coin, and do whatever they want with this, then.

By the way, how much can you sell, at all?

I have 200 coins to sell, @ $1 per coin

[shotgun1969]

does anyone have the current blockchain files for argentum.    if so i would like a copy and  thanyou in advance.

[crypto_trader#43xzEXrP]

does anyone have the current blockchain files for argentum.    if so i would like a copy and  thanyou in advance.

Hi. You can connect to sync-nodes, and sync blockchain:

addnode=183.109.166.89:13580
addnode=46.105.63.132:13580
addnode=85.15.179.171:13580
addnode=91.206.16.214:13580

[dbkeys]

does anyone have the current blockchain files for argentum.    if so i would like a copy and  thanyou in advance.

https://www.chainetics.com/nodes/arg.php

If you care to compile a node with working DNS Seeders:

https://github.com/dbkeys/argentum.git

[dbkeys]

Argentum Block Explorer

https://explorer.argentum.cc

[dbkeys]

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[dalaocoin]

now need exchange

[dbkeys]

Argentum is trading on https://FreiExchange.com

[Plutus47]

Hello Everyone,

I'm preparing a new release of argentum based off of Bitcoin v26.2

Many new things coming including Segwit, Taproot, Dandelion++, and more.

I will terminate lyra2, yesscrypt, and argon2d mining as all those algo's are dead within the mining community. The new release will have those algorithms block generation disabled, but will accept blocks from the old client until a determined fork height.

I will be adding VerusHash in their place.

I have not yet found a good GPU algo that is nicely compatibly with BTC based coins AND SPV. We will stick with MYR-Groestl for now.

Currently, we are at around 9.6% inflation per year, forever, which is not sustainable.

I'm proposing a new reward structure as follows

bootstrap phase (3ARG) is roughly one year from the fork height with 45s blocks. The following steps are roughly 73 days, and the floor is "forever".

phase   blocks    reward   ARG/yr      epoch emit   supply after   inflation
boot    700,800   3.0      2,102,400   2,102,400    23,902,400     9.64%
step1   140,160   2.0      1,401,600     280,320    24,182,720     1.17%
step2   140,160   0.75       525,600     105,120    24,287,840     0.43%
step3   140,160   0.25       175,200      35,040    24,322,880     0.14%
step4   140,160   0.125       87,600      17,520    24,340,400     0.07%
step5   140,160   0.0625      43,800       8,760    24,349,160     0.04%
floor         ∞       0.047         32,938          ∞            →∞         0.14%→0

The terminal supply would be roughly 24.3M, depending on fork height, with a maxmoney supply of 47,000,000 which is basically pure vanity as it would  take over 700 years to reach. The block subsidy floor will be 0.047 in two years from implementation of the fork. I'm definitely open for comments on this new reward structure. I want to give new miners a fair chance to join the new argentum ecosystem.


If you are one of my SHA or Scrypt miners, please let me know. Does anyone here have a contact with current miners, or potential miners, please let me know.

I will reach out to Freiexchange via their ticket system.

Once we nail down this new Reward Subsidy, the release should be right around the corner.

I might make a new thread.

[minerja]

erm, Thanks, but no Thanks...

I have been mining this coin steadily for over 7 years, specifically using lyra2, yesscrypt, and argon2d , predominantly argon2d4096, so please do NOT remove those algos.

If you want to add new algos, great but leave the old algos in there.

They are one of the reasons this is a great coin....SHA256d, SCRYPT, phaw makes it the same as every other coin out there....at least with these 3 algos any home miner can mine the coin.
I get blocks with 1-3 threads on an old cpu, exactly satoshi's vision of mining...no stupidly expensive hardware, just good simple mining....

As for Verushash, it is completely dominated by mining farms and FPGAs, absolutely the last thing a coin needs....
Or is that why you are forking it, because you already have a huge farm?

Alternatively, you could just fork into a new coin, new name, and leave this one alone on Freixchange......

J


Links to check out..
https://argentum.cc/index.html
https://argentum.cc/tech_specs.php
https://argentum.cc/tokenomics.html

live nodes
51.83.11.113
85.15.179.171
91.206.16.214

[HCLivess]

Nice to see you guys maintaining this. At one point I will take a look. Is it possible to add executables or should I compile them myself?
Oh it does not compile for me. Let me fix it.

[Plutus47]

erm, Thanks, but no Thanks...

I have been mining this coin steadily for over 7 years, specifically using lyra2, yesscrypt, and argon2d , predominantly argon2d4096, so please do NOT remove those algos.

If you want to add new algos, great but leave the old algos in there.

They are one of the reasons this is a great coin....SHA256d, SCRYPT, phaw makes it the same as every other coin out there....at least with these 3 algos any home miner can mine the coin.
I get blocks with 1-3 threads on an old cpu, exactly satoshi's vision of mining...no stupidly expensive hardware, just good simple mining....

As for Verushash, it is completely dominated by mining farms and FPGAs, absolutely the last thing a coin needs....
Or is that why you are forking it, because you already have a huge farm?

Alternatively, you could just fork into a new coin, new name, and leave this one alone on Freixchange......

J


Links to check out..
https://argentum.cc/index.html
https://argentum.cc/tech_specs.php
https://argentum.cc/tokenomics.html

live nodes
51.83.11.113
85.15.179.171
91.206.16.214

I hoped you would show up, and am very glad to hear your opinion.

"They are one of the reasons this is a great coin....SHA256d, SCRYPT, phaw makes it the same as every other coin out there....at least with these 3 algos any home miner can mine the coin.
I get blocks with 1-3 threads on an old cpu, exactly satoshi's vision of mining...no stupidly expensive hardware, just good simple mining...."

Not necessarily,

"At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to specialists with server farms of specialized hardware."

But yes, I agree we should always have CPU/GPU algos for anyone to mine.

When planning out this new upgrade I started looking into the most popular (large community) CPU and GPU algorithms with the hope that we can bring in some new miners and hopefully turn them into long term community members. The 4 algos Lyra, Argon, Groestl, Yes, are mostly dead, pretty much everywhere. Terminating them would open new opportunities by adding a popular CPU ASIC resistant algorithm that any home miner can use. The newest version of verushash is still asic/fpga resistant.

But the case for lyra2 and groestl since they are vulnerable to FGPA's/ASICS, in your opinion should they be removed under that premise? At some point, all these extra algos going largely unused is no longer beneficial for the coin. If someone wants to spin up some asics/fgpas on a low difficulty dead algo, its not beneficia to solo miners. Unfortunately there is no asic/fpga resistant GPU algorithm that is also SPV friendly, so I decided to keep groestl as the one "GPU" algo for now. By your point of view, I would be inclined to disable lyra/groestl, and add verushash in their place.

Happy to keep algorithms that people are using, and have a net overall benefit to the network. Right now our argon2d/yes are not asic resistant, it's just that nobody has bothered to create one for them. Safe, for now.

I think we should disable some of the outdated and/or fpga/asic captured and vulnerable algorithms, we really only need SHA and Scrypt in that regard. Do we need 3 dedicated CPU algorithms, two of which are not asic resistant?

Moving on to economics. I would love to hear input.

Too much reduction too quickly? Not enough? We're fighting an uphill battle with regards to value proposition, so cutting subsidy too soon helps nobody, non auxpow miners go elsewhere.

~9% inflation is where we are at right now, not even BTC could survive that, and it's emission schedule reflects that from the beginning. In 3 years with a 3 block subsidy we will be at 8%. Still too high.

We have a one year bootstrap to build out the ecosystem, grow the community, miners, long term investors and then start inflation reduction, this is the proposition. Should we cut inflation bit slower after the initial bootstrap year? My thoughts with a quick cut is argentum has well establish supply and letting the inflation run wild has no benefit.

[HCLivess]

Check this, I left everything in place, all algos, zero hardforks, just some convenience and modernization updates. I will keep working on it based on feedback. Also adding a build pipeline for all OS so it is easier to compile and spread:

https://github.com/hclivess/argentum/releases

Let me know what you think. Here is a compacted checklist:

Argentum 4.14.5.1

A modernization release: Argentum now builds and runs on current toolchains and ships multi-platform binaries (Linux and Windows), including the Qt5 wallet GUI. No consensus rules were changed.

What's new in 4.14.5.1

Build & toolchain modernization
The tree previously required a ~2017 stack (OpenSSL 1.0.x, Boost ~1.58, GCC 5, C++11) and would not compile on a modern system. It now builds cleanly on GCC 13 / Clang, OpenSSL 3.0, Boost 1.83+, BerkeleyDB 5.x, C++14. Notable fixes:

• Rewrote CBigNum (bignum.h) to wrap a heap BIGNUM* — OpenSSL 1.1+ made BIGNUM opaque and removed BN_init(). Arithmetic is byte-for-byte unchanged (it feeds the multi-algo geometric-mean chainwork calc).
  
• Boost 1.74+: const-qualified multi_index comparators; boost::placeholders for _1/_2; boost::signals2 disconnect via saved connection objects; modern boost::filesystem (is_absolute, copy_options, path().filename()).
  
• Added missing <list>/<functional>/<array>/<deque>/<stdexcept> includes (libc++/mingw).
  
• Replaced C++17-removed std::random_shuffle; version-guarded the pre-1.1 OpenSSL threading callbacks; UPnP UPNP_GetValidIGD for miniupnpc API ≥ 18.
  

Qt5 wallet GUI

• Ported the GUI from Qt4 to Qt5 (argentum-qt).
  
• Added a CMake build for the GUI so it builds on MSYS2/Windows.
  

Multi-platform releases (CI)

• A GitHub Actions pipeline builds and publishes Linux and Windows argentumd, argentum-cli, argentum-tx, and the Qt5 GUI (self-contained, DLLs/plugins bundled). macOS is best-effort (subject to GitHub Intel-runner availability).
  

Networking

• Baked in three new fixed seed nodes: 51.83.11.113, 85.15.179.171, 91.206.16.214.
  

Localization

• Czech (cs) fully re-localized from Bitcoin to Argentum, with correct Latin neuter (-um) declension and apposition.
  

Security / hardening (non-consensus)

• Added LOCK(cs_main) to the chaindynamics and getblockspacing RPCs (they walked the block index unlocked — a data race / potential use-after-free vs a reorg).
  
• Removed leftover developer debug-logging.

Tests

• Restored the regtest genesis block (its creation was commented out upstream) and refreshed stale test vectors — 54 / 56 unit suites pass.
  

Credits

• Modernized build and multi-platform packaging by hclivess.
  

Downloads

File	Contents
argentum-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	Linux argentumd + argentum-cli + argentum-tx + argentum-qt (GUI)
argentum-windows-x86_64.zip	Windows argentumd + argentum-cli + argentum-tx
argentum-qt-windows-x86_64.zip	Windows Qt5 wallet GUI (self-contained)
SHA256SUMS.txt	checksums

Known issues

• macOS binaries are best-effort (GitHub Intel-runner availability).
• Two unit suites (auxpow_tests, miner_tests) require a consensus change and are intentionally left failing (no hardfork).
  

Previous releases

4.14.4.1

• LOW_S and NULLFAIL are now mandatory.
  

4.14.4

• Speed up Initial Blockchain Download.

4.14.3

• Adds 4 new mining algorithms (activates at block 2,977,000): Lyra2RE2 (GPU), Myr-Groestl (GPU/ASIC), Argon2d (CPU), Yescrypt (CPU/GPU).

4.14.2

• BIP112 (CheckSequenceVerify) soft fork
• BIP146 hard fork at block 2,977,000 (≈ March 13, 2018)
• Signature validation via libsecp256k1
• Direct headers announcement (BIP130)
• Automatic Tor hidden services
• ZMQ notifications
• BIP9 soft-fork deployment
• Linux ARM builds
• Compact block support (BIP152)
• Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) wallets
• Substantially faster client load time

[Plutus47]

Really nice work

[HCLivess]

I'm really happy that it was possible to compile Qt wallet on the codebase you guys have forked and maintained
Thank you for keeping the network alive!

[Plutus47]

Argentum is trading on https://FreiExchange.com

Any thoughts on my proposal?

[HCLivess]

Do you mean the hard fork? I am not sure whether this is adequate with consideration to the character of the project. This is a fork of Myriadcoin and I think that is how most people view it. We would need quorum on the hardfork decision and as you can see, some people have already expressed their disagreement. This remains an open question. There are a lot of changes that can be done which actually help everyone and do not go against anyone. We should focus those.

[Plutus47]

Do you mean the hard fork? I am not sure whether this is adequate with consideration to the character of the project. This is a fork of Myriadcoin and I think that is how most people view it. We would need quorum on the hardfork decision and as you can see, some people have already expressed their disagreement. This remains an open question. There are a lot of changes that can be done which actually help everyone and do not go against anyone. We should focus those.

It doesn't matter which coin argentum was rebased on 10 years ago, it all descends from bitcoin.

I have a modern client basically ready to go with a game changing feature in the pipeline (although far out from seeing any real use as we have a lot of work to do increasing or value and userbase), but we need to harden the network NOW, not later.

We need modern algorithms that are asic resistant. Lyra2v2 is the worst offender with regards to asics and 51% attack bot networks. Anyone mining lyrav2 can mine Equihasg 2G just as easily and not be subject to botnets taking their well earned rewards. Anyone who is mining yescrypt or argon can mine verushash and get the same rewards they are getting now.

Argon, Lyra2, and yescrypt are effectively dead algorithms and a liability.

Groestl is also asic compromised, so there's no reason too keep that as a second "gpu" algorithm. It's important to have huge hashrate for security, which we have with sha/scrypt auxpow. What we need are asic resistant algorithms everyone can mine, which is verushash and Equihash 2G. When we are at $20m market cap we dont want people spinning up asic farms and taking all the rewards from our miner friendly algo's, or even worse, attempting 51% attacks and disrupting the network.

We also need a modern emission schedule, one that is proven to work (BTC), and that is deflationary. But until we get everything rolled out and assume a proper valuation we want our miners to keep gathering well earned supply until the price discovery offsets subsidy deflation. This is why there is a one year bootstrap before the deflationary mechanism begins.

People need to look to the future. The narrative we have here is amazing, and I'm looking far beyond people bottom selling 0.00000001 SAT.

argentum was pitched as "Modern Digital Currency" by its founder AlphaC4, so lets deliver on that.

[Plutus47]

I have made some important revisions.

Argon2d, Lyra, yescrypt, Myr-groestl stay minable in v26 until the set network upgrade block height.

It's very important for everyone to check out this new release and see the potential we have with a modern client.

argentum is Silver and I'm making it my goal to showcase this with our minor lore/branding updates and easter eggs. You might notice a few now, with more to come later after some very important network upgrades.

We have two ASIC dominated algos, by design (AUXPOW security). We will have one CPU (Verushash) and one GPU (Equihash 144,5) both are ASIC resistant. Groestl and Lyra are both "GPU" algorithms dominated by ASICS. YESCRYPT and Argon2d have no ASIC protection, and no legitimate coin uses them. Verushash and Equihash are extremely well battle tested.

I see no point in keeping a 5th algorithm, especially if it's ASIC dominated and eating away at our ASIC proof CPU/GPU miner rewards. Added bonus, sha256 and scrypt miners have more incentive as well.

I have thoroughly revised the emission schedule to a 5 year plan. This will further rewards miners during our period of growth, and keeps inflation respectably under 1%.

boot    3.0     yr 0–1    9.64% (inflation)
step1   2.0     yr 1–2    5.86%
step2   1.5     yr 2–3    4.15%
step3   1.0     yr 3–4    2.66%
step4   0.5     yr 4–5    1.30%
floor   0.25    yr 5+     0.64% → trending to 0

Terminal supply ~27.41M slowly moving towards MAX_MONEY 47M (referencing the atomic number of Silver)

[Plutus47]

I have performed an in depth of analyses from the last two years which clearly explains how and why argentum's 6 algo setup is broken. This is the best proof of why argentum need a total algo revamp for todays era of mining.

An algo reduction, followed by new, modern algorithms, and lastly a slight difficulty retarget adjustment. It is all explained very clearly here.

The number one fix, and the data proves it, is a reduction to 4 algos to CONCENTRATE the mining power to help stabilize wild hashrate swings and deliver stable block times.

Everything is completely verifiable on-chain.


https://plutus47.github.io/ARG-algo-upgrade/
https://github.com/Plutus47/ARG-algo-upgrade