Obyte: Totally new consensus algorithm + private untraceable payments

[tarmo888]

Where to trade BB now,any exchanges?
Or the current client support BB trading with bot?

Same exchange bot as before, just different name https://blackbytes.io

[tarmo888]

I have to give my Iphone to Apple assistence for changing the battery, and I'm having an attested multisig wallet on the iphone - which of course I wouldn't like lo lose. Of course I'd empty that address containing bytes, but how to avoid that some rogue Apple employee makes a backup of the wallet for himself? One solution seemed to backup the wallet and erase Obyte entirely, but after I've made the backup I didn't find any way to restore it since iphone cannot locate the file.
Is therefore the Obyte app for Iphone actually useless, since you'll have to delete it with all its addresses first time you need to change the phone's battery?

You can set the "Request password" from "Spending Restrictions" section on Settings screen, then they can clone your wallet, but they won't be able to do much with it.
Restoring the backup should be in the same places where making the backup is, in the app on Settings screen. Make sure you have the latest version because earlier iOS versions didn't have fully fleshed out backup system, but it should work on recent systems. Try to save the backup in folder that can be accessed.

[bobq]

I have to give my Iphone to Apple assistence for changing the battery, and I'm having an attested multisig wallet on the iphone - which of course I wouldn't like lo lose. Of course I'd empty that address containing bytes, but how to avoid that some rogue Apple employee makes a backup of the wallet for himself? One solution seemed to backup the wallet and erase Obyte entirely, but after I've made the backup I didn't find any way to restore it since iphone cannot locate the file.
Is therefore the Obyte app for Iphone actually useless, since you'll have to delete it with all its addresses first time you need to change the phone's battery?

You can set the "Request password" from "Spending Restrictions" section on Settings screen, then they can clone your wallet, but they won't be able to do much with it.
Restoring the backup should be in the same places where making the backup is, in the app on Settings screen. Make sure you have the latest version because earlier iOS versions didn't have fully fleshed out backup system, but it should work on recent systems. Try to save the backup in folder that can be accessed.

Thanks. Since by now my phone is already in their hands, with just emptied wallets, would it work all the same if I'll password protect the wallet later, before loading it again with coins? Would a backup of an unprotected wallet stay unprotected? IE is the password protection local or dag stored, affecting that address wherever it is?
As for the backup, we are talking about Iphone, not Android, I'm not aware of any folder you can access on Iphone. Before giving an answer you should have tried it successfully yourself. I have tried it for almost an hour, without any success. So either there is a way - in which case I'd like to read a precise tutorial - or there is no way, in which case you'd better remove the backup function from the Ios wallet.

[tarmo888]

I have to give my Iphone to Apple assistence for changing the battery, and I'm having an attested multisig wallet on the iphone - which of course I wouldn't like lo lose. Of course I'd empty that address containing bytes, but how to avoid that some rogue Apple employee makes a backup of the wallet for himself? One solution seemed to backup the wallet and erase Obyte entirely, but after I've made the backup I didn't find any way to restore it since iphone cannot locate the file.
Is therefore the Obyte app for Iphone actually useless, since you'll have to delete it with all its addresses first time you need to change the phone's battery?

You can set the "Request password" from "Spending Restrictions" section on Settings screen, then they can clone your wallet, but they won't be able to do much with it.
Restoring the backup should be in the same places where making the backup is, in the app on Settings screen. Make sure you have the latest version because earlier iOS versions didn't have fully fleshed out backup system, but it should work on recent systems. Try to save the backup in folder that can be accessed.

Thanks. Since by now my phone is already in their hands, with just emptied wallets, would it work all the same if I'll password protect the wallet later, before loading it again with coins? Would a backup of an unprotected wallet stay unprotected? IE is the password protection local or dag stored, affecting that address wherever it is?
As for the backup, we are talking about Iphone, not Android, I'm not aware of any folder you can access on Iphone. Before giving an answer you should have tried it successfully yourself. I have tried it for almost an hour, without any success. So either there is a way - in which case I'd like to read a precise tutorial - or there is no way, in which case you'd better remove the backup function from the Ios wallet.

If somebody clones your unprotected wallet then it doesn't matter if you add password-protection later, they would already have the copy, which is not protected.

Don't know how iPhones work, I know it offers you to "Save to files" or share it to email or Cloud Drive or what not. If it doesn't have folder or directories, does it have different locations? Like Documents, Download and so on? Try to save it to Cloud Drive and see if you can restore it from there. Full backups are password protected so, it should be safe to send it outside of the device.

[tarmo888]

I have to give my Iphone to Apple assistence for changing the battery, and I'm having an attested multisig wallet on the iphone - which of course I wouldn't like lo lose. Of course I'd empty that address containing bytes, but how to avoid that some rogue Apple employee makes a backup of the wallet for himself? One solution seemed to backup the wallet and erase Obyte entirely, but after I've made the backup I didn't find any way to restore it since iphone cannot locate the file.
Is therefore the Obyte app for Iphone actually useless, since you'll have to delete it with all its addresses first time you need to change the phone's battery?

You can set the "Request password" from "Spending Restrictions" section on Settings screen, then they can clone your wallet, but they won't be able to do much with it.
Restoring the backup should be in the same places where making the backup is, in the app on Settings screen. Make sure you have the latest version because earlier iOS versions didn't have fully fleshed out backup system, but it should work on recent systems. Try to save the backup in folder that can be accessed.

Thanks. Since by now my phone is already in their hands, with just emptied wallets, would it work all the same if I'll password protect the wallet later, before loading it again with coins? Would a backup of an unprotected wallet stay unprotected? IE is the password protection local or dag stored, affecting that address wherever it is?
As for the backup, we are talking about Iphone, not Android, I'm not aware of any folder you can access on Iphone. Before giving an answer you should have tried it successfully yourself. I have tried it for almost an hour, without any success. So either there is a way - in which case I'd like to read a precise tutorial - or there is no way, in which case you'd better remove the backup function from the Ios wallet.

User on Discord said that they tried to backup and restore on iPhone and it worked as it was suppose to work by either saving the backup to "files" or to cloud service (Dropbox).

[wwzsocki]

In the meantime 800 GB ($16000) is spent every month on a silly lottery.

I enrolled a long time ago, but got demotivated witht he bad odds if I refused KYC, so I never checked back. There's a very small chance I won, but since my wallets are in a VM and probably need an update, I didn't check anymore...

I keep watching Obyte from so long and don't know anything about these promotions mentioned above. How to find info about them?

What for promotions are ongoing for Obyte and how is the rest distributed now? I see discussion about this above but no facts.

[jhenfelipe]

In the meantime 800 GB ($16000) is spent every month on a silly lottery.

I enrolled a long time ago, but got demotivated witht he bad odds if I refused KYC, so I never checked back. There's a very small chance I won, but since my wallets are in a VM and probably need an update, I didn't check anymore...

I keep watching Obyte from so long and don't know anything about these promotions mentioned above. How to find info about them?

What for promotions are ongoing for Obyte and how is the rest distributed now? I see discussion about this above but no facts.

Most likely they are talking about the Weekly Draw. It was announced here in the thread and on a Medium post last December 2018. If you are curious about the details, you are free to visit the given links.

They are actively posting updates on their social media accounts, you better follow them there too.

[wwzsocki]

Most likely they are talking about the Weekly Draw. It was announced here in the thread and on a Medium post last December 2018. If you are curious about the details, you are free to visit the given links...

Thanks for this very fast and detailed answer. As always I am too late because Weekly Draw was planed only for 6 months and started in December 2018.

Weekly draw is a new distribution method that rewards Byte holders...

How long will this distribution last?

We plan to run these draws weekly. There is no specified end date but we hope to run the draws for at least 6 months. Needless to say, the weekly draws cannot last forever (only 1 million GB of Bytes and 2.1111 million GBB of Blackbytes will ever exist)... The first draw is on Friday Dec 14 at 12:00 UTC...

I thought it was for all holders but there was an additional requirement to whitelist the Obyte address to be eligible for the Weekly Draw.

So I understand that not much left to distribute?

[barborrico]

Thanks for this very fast and detailed answer. As always I am too late because Weekly Draw was planed only for 6 months and started in December 2018.

Nope, you are not: http://draw.obyte.org/

I thought it was for all holders but there was an additional requirement to whitelist the Obyte address to be eligible for the Weekly Draw.

So I understand that not much left to distribute?

https://stats.obyte.org/Top100Richest.php

263000 GB left to distribute

Open to everyone

[jhenfelipe]

Most likely they are talking about the Weekly Draw. It was announced here in the thread and on a Medium post last December 2018. If you are curious about the details, you are free to visit the given links...

Thanks for this very fast and detailed answer. As always I am too late because Weekly Draw was planed only for 6 months and started in December 2018.

As stated, "there's no specified end date" and "at least six months", not at most As long as they didn't announce an end date, the weekly draw continues. If you want to participate and willing to comply with the rules, you still have a chance.

https://twitter.com/ObyteOrg/status/1169208745743867908

[tonych]

The winners of the 4th round of the developer contest are announced:

https://medium.com/obyte/fourth-round-of-obyte-atonomous-agents-developer-contest-430891f9cf4b

1st prize 140 GB and 422 GBB:
hey_monkey — “Offer reward to get triggered in the future (THAANKS)”
https://github.com/pascalSAINVITU/THAANKS

2nd prize 70 GB and 147.7 GBB:
barborico — “Ownerless AA Registry”
https://github.com/jldevelops/o-waar

3rd prize 35 GB and 73.85 GBB:
Whoisterencelee — “Red vs Blue game”

Best tutorial 55 GB and 116.05 GBB:
hey_monkey — “Understanding AA Structures”

The contest continues and the deadline for entries is September 26th, the winners of round 5 will be announced on September 29th.

[tarmo888]

Most likely they are talking about the Weekly Draw. It was announced here in the thread and on a Medium post last December 2018. If you are curious about the details, you are free to visit the given links...

Thanks for this very fast and detailed answer. As always I am too late because Weekly Draw was planed only for 6 months and started in December 2018.

Weekly draw is a new distribution method that rewards Byte holders...

How long will this distribution last?

We plan to run these draws weekly. There is no specified end date but we hope to run the draws for at least 6 months. Needless to say, the weekly draws cannot last forever (only 1 million GB of Bytes and 2.1111 million GBB of Blackbytes will ever exist)... The first draw is on Friday Dec 14 at 12:00 UTC...

I thought it was for all holders but there was an additional requirement to whitelist the Obyte address to be eligible for the Weekly Draw.

So I understand that not much left to distribute?

No, it was said that it will run AT LEAST 6 months. It started only with 1 draw every week, then changed to 2 draws every week and now is 2 draws every 2 weeks. Next draw is on 20.09.2019 http://draw.obyte.org/

There are half a million addresses on Obyte, distributing to all addresses doesn't make any sense because we don't know, which addresses people still have access and which ones not. Also, if you add a Real Name attested address or Steem attested address with more than 60 reputation then you have bigger chances to win on next draw.

[wwzsocki]

... if you add a Real Name attested address or Steem attested address with more than 60 reputation then you have bigger chances to win on next draw.

Thanks for all these answers, I already registered with my old Real Name address for the next draw.

There are half a million addresses on Obyte, distributing to all addresses doesn't make any sense because we don't know, which addresses people still have access and which ones not...

That was easy because you could accept only active addresses with last transaction not older as 3 months or any other amount of time. This would limit not used addresses to a minimum.

Anyways, now is too late.

[Crytodon]

Its a wonderful tech

[scambust]

Its a wonderful tech

Oh, I watched that movie, it is a classic rerun every Christmas time. George Bailey and Clarence - it's similar to the story "A Christmas Carol." Lol, I'm just kidding. I still use Obyte for the World Grid project.

[tonych]

Version 2.8.0 released and it brings a few nice updates https://github.com/byteball/obyte-gui-wallet/releases

* Witnesses are now shown with their names and a URL to learn more information about them and make an informed choice:






* Dollar amounts are now displayed when sending coins.  It works for Bytes and other tokens for which exchange rates are available:




* Badges are now displayed on history tab when new payments are received:




* Arabic translation added, other translations improved:




* Fixed a bug that prevented the app from starting on Android 4.4.


The updates are not big, most of the development efforts currently go to autonomous agents on testnet.

[gogxmagog]

I'm interested in testing some coins. Which are the methods to gather some?

[vanchain]

i be told the private coins unlisted from the exchange 

[tarmo888]

i be told the private coins unlisted from the exchange 

Blackbytes never listed on centralized exchanges, only listed on https://blackbytes.io/

[ePesoInitiative]

i be told the private coins unlisted from the exchange 

Blackbytes never listed on centralized exchanges, only listed on https://blackbytes.io/

I often wonder when will blackbytes have a decent trading volume in that site you mentioned. I personally like blackbytes, but how can I pay someone with it when it is not easily convertible. And anything needing a private transaction is very valuable and expensive. Maybe Obyte lead team should look into it - re: trading and adoption.