Obyte: Totally new consensus algorithm + private untraceable payments

[giga4less]

My wallet corrupted because of my mistake and I found I only have a backup of ~/.config/byteball before the last airdrop, and therefore the last airdrop(Nov 2017) of blackbytes could not be recovered. Anybody knows is there a way to recover it? Thank you.

I can still open the old sqlite database. Are there any tables I can merge into the backup in order to recover the blackbytes?

Normally, your balances should update once you have recovered from your backup. There is a possibility that your address did simply not receive the blackbytes, this has happened in the past. Verify that your Byteball address was indeed linked (to a Bitcoin address) before the distribution, and if so, contact Tony, he is the only one who can resend the blackbytes.

I did received the blackbytes in the wallet that is now corrupted(whenever it is opened, it asks me to create new address). I can still open the sqlite db file in the corrupted wallet and find those airdrop outputs that pays to me. However those outputs does not exist in the backup, and when I open the backup, airdrop bytes are updated without problem, but blackbytes are not shown. I guess something in the corrupted db must be merged into the backup but not sure which ones.

If I copy the db file byteball-light.sqlite from corrupted wallet directory into the backup, and open it, there is an error:
Uncaught exception: Error: user version 19 > 18: looks like you are using a new database with an old client
Looks like some versioning issue.

[giga4less]

My wallet corrupted because of my mistake and I found I only have a backup of ~/.config/byteball before the last airdrop, and therefore the last airdrop(Nov 2017) of blackbytes could not be recovered. Anybody knows is there a way to recover it? Thank you.

I can still open the old sqlite database. Are there any tables I can merge into the backup in order to recover the blackbytes?

Normally, your balances should update once you have recovered from your backup. There is a possibility that your address did simply not receive the blackbytes, this has happened in the past. Verify that your Byteball address was indeed linked (to a Bitcoin address) before the distribution, and if so, contact Tony, he is the only one who can resend the blackbytes.

I did received the blackbytes in the wallet that is now corrupted(whenever it is opened, it asks me to create new address). I can still open the sqlite db file in the corrupted wallet and find those airdrop outputs that pays to me. However those outputs does not exist in the backup, and when I open the backup, airdrop bytes are updated without problem, but blackbytes are not shown. I guess something in the corrupted db must be merged into the backup but not sure which ones.

If I copy the db file byteball-light.sqlite from corrupted wallet directory into the backup, and open it, there is an error:
Uncaught exception: Error: user version 19 > 18: looks like you are using a new database with an old client
Looks like some versioning issue.

Looks like the problem is solved after I manually set user_version back to 18 by opening the db file in sqlitebrowser, execute: PRAGMA user_version=18, and save it.

[barto123]

Been running the World Community Grid app for like a week now and no Byteball payments, anyone got the same issue?

Previously I was receiving payments once a day.

[thh2899]

I need help, I'm trying to pay the real name attestation but the bot doesn't receive my paynent and the money came out of my account

[GiGa#]

Been running the World Community Grid app for like a week now and no Byteball payments, anyone got the same issue?

Previously I was receiving payments once a day.

WCG had 25 months to prepare for the EU GDPR and waited at the last moment to write their legal documents. While they lawyers are writting.... the API used by Tony to provide the daily reward, is closed.

Hello Tony,

Thank you for taking the time to contact us.  As you've noticed, access to the APIs is now restricted to people who obtain a token. To get the token, you must first sign our Data Processing Agreement to ensure that you're willing to comply with certain requirements about how the API data must be processed. We are still finalizing the text of this Agreement and will email you as soon as it's ready.  We have just implemented the release which allows members to access their own API stats: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=582183

Please note that volunteers now have the option of making their data private, which would exclude it from the API export files and by default, all new volunteers' data will be private. You may want to hold on to the latest export files you have, and once you gain access through the token, you can compare the data to figure out the currency distribution retroactively.

Thanks for your patience as we continue to work aggressively to ensure compliance with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation and the protection of our volunteers' data.

Thank you for your support,

World Community Grid Support Team
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World Community Grid

[BlackPanda]

I have sent Gbytes for 6 hours and the process is still unconfirmed. does this have the same issue?

This is the first time I made a deposit in Gbytes android app.
Your help will be greatly appreciated. thanks .

[thd26bct]

I have sent Gbytes for 6 hours and the process is still unconfirmed. does this have the same issue?

This is the first time I made a deposit in Gbytes android app.
Your help will be greatly appreciated. thanks .

Really? Are you serious, mate?
Today, I have not sent my bytes, but in the past everything done very very fast.
By the way, Cryptopia exchange got troubles with Byteball transactions in the last few weeks, so please be carefull if you have intention to send your coins to the one.
There are lots of users, especially Byteball signature participants complained about Cryptopia exchange's deposits.

[BlackPanda]

I have sent Gbytes for 6 hours and the process is still unconfirmed. does this have the same issue?

This is the first time I made a deposit in Gbytes android app.
Your help will be greatly appreciated. thanks .

Really? Are you serious, mate?
Today, I have not sent my bytes, but in the past everything done very very fast.
By the way, Cryptopia exchange got troubles with Byteball transactions in the last few weeks, so please be carefull if you have intention to send your coins to the one.
There are lots of users, especially Byteball signature participants complained about Cryptopia exchange's deposits.

I am serious and try to do it. I do not use exchange. oh it turns out I've found the problem that happened at this time.
Apparently there is maintenance on the server byteball. I opened the group and finally saw much clearer information.

[cryptocastle007]

I have sent Gbytes for 6 hours and the process is still unconfirmed. does this have the same issue?

This is the first time I made a deposit in Gbytes android app.
Your help will be greatly appreciated. thanks .

Really? Are you serious, mate?
Today, I have not sent my bytes, but in the past everything done very very fast.
By the way, Cryptopia exchange got troubles with Byteball transactions in the last few weeks, so please be carefull if you have intention to send your coins to the one.
There are lots of users, especially Byteball signature participants complained about Cryptopia exchange's deposits.

I am serious and try to do it. I do not use exchange. oh it turns out I've found the problem that happened at this time.
Apparently there is maintenance on the server byteball. I opened the group and finally saw much clearer information.

what group? on fb or...?

[afbitcoins]

GBYTEBTC chart with 1day candles



This looks like a good area for the bottom. Bitcoin rising vs fiat helps because all alts become more buoyant too in that environment. 

First rising trendline didn't hold but next one looks more solid. Divergence between RSI and price with lower low not reflected on RSI. Also RSI looks oversold on this scale.

[BitcoinArsenal]

We have not received WGC tokens and bytes for more than a week. Will the coins earned in the meantime be reimbursed later when the token from WorldGridCommunity was received? Regardless of this, I will continue to participate. I'm only interested.

[MrDom2]

https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/05/23/look-no-3-icos-watch-q2-2018/

[altcoinb]

Another bot added to the Bot Store:

Private chat room bot

This chatbot allows several persons to chat together using the Byteball messaging system. The bot decrypts messages and relays them to other users after reencryption. For best privacy, run your own instance of this bot using the source code below, any cheap VPS is enough to host it.

Developer: Papabyte, https://github.com/Papabyte/Private-chat-room

Very nice, thank you for this feature.
In next time i try it with my own server.

[Freefactomizer]

We have not received WGC tokens and bytes for more than a week. Will the coins earned in the meantime be reimbursed later when the token from WorldGridCommunity was received? Regardless of this, I will continue to participate. I'm only interested.

Yes. When the bot will have access to stats again, it will take into account the points earned while stats were unavailable.

[barto123]

Yes I have this same issue with WCG, just contacted them about it. I'll let you know what their response is. My only thought is that they want to pay less frequently...

[HCP]

Yes I have this same issue with WCG, just contacted them about it. I'll let you know what their response is. My only thought is that they want to pay less frequently...

You haven't been reading the thread lately have you? It's been mentioned several times what the issue is.

It's all related to the European Union's GDPR ("Global Data Protection Regulation") that came into recently. As a result of this, the WCG is unable to release the API data to organisations that have not signed an agreement to operate within the bounds of the GDPR etc.

Unfortunately, the WCG were VERY slow... And didn't get their agreement set up (ie. Approved by lawyers etc) prior to the GDPR coming into effect... So there was literally no way for ANY organisation to actually sign the agreement!

The result of this is that, currently, the Byteball WCG team have no way to access the API to determine how much work has been completed by individual team members and therefore, how much they need to pay out.

Once WCG get their shit together... And allow the Byteball WCG team to sign an agreement... The Byteball team will once again be able to access the data (no doubt this will be dependent on the the individual team members "opting-in"). Once they have the data, they will be able to do the calculations and distribute bytes.

It's not a matter of Team Byteball not wanting to pay (or pay less often)... It's simply that they cannot access the data to work out how much to pay because WCG messed up.

TLDR; WCG messed up => No API data available for Team Byteball => no payments for participants.

[Ahsankhan130]

Any bounty for translation?

[harnorno2]

It is so sad that nobody realizes the potential of Byteball, and most people go for the 'hyped' ICO coins which may or may not give out multiple folds of returns. Nobody realizes that Byteball had probably the fairest distribution in the history of the crypto world. I would very much like to see this succeed.

[layer1gfx]

I have sent Gbytes for 6 hours and the process is still unconfirmed. does this have the same issue?

This is the first time I made a deposit in Gbytes android app.
Your help will be greatly appreciated. thanks .

Byteball wallet in Bittrex has been under maintenance.
Hope that Bittrex will finish and enable transactions of Byteball in their platforms soon.

no worries, it is back to normal, deposits and withdrawals can be done again!
usually maintenance on bittrex is done in a timely fashion.
happy trading!

[StandingTall]

Byteball is interesting in features it enables but we should not forget its sins:

- the Byteball system is essentially a shared database between 12 witnesses and the rest of nodes
- it is a trusted system - you need to trust that witnesses behave honestly and are not colluding to form a cartel
- it is easily susceptible to hostile takeover. A rogue third party only needs to take control over 11 witnesses which is rather easy at government/court/police gunpoint
- for that reason the entire system can be shut down at any time