HEAT Discussion and Technical info

[quimastero]

We all gonna have a great Christmas present

[memberberry]

Wow so you losers achieved nothing and didn't meet your goals  in any way. Wow good job keep on going guys! Oh and the support email is Svantje the scammer who is too incompetent to deal with payouts in a reasonable way. Of course this unmet incompetence in leadership gets spined from a bad thing into a good thing in the latest update post. Never seen such incompetence and such a losing project. Price is reflecting the same.

[Crapsy]

Very curious to see how and when the coming updates/marketing and growing interest begins to reflect in the price. It is still very cheap to get into HEAT.

[Crypto-capitalist]

Dev, where is your team?

[Eliphaz Fimk]

Dev, where is your team?

Me and financial advisors / crowdfunding and licensing guys, plus accounting are in Helsinki area. Lead dev Dennis works mostly from the Netherlands. 2nd core developer Alexey works in Russia remotely, as does our main frontend / mobile developer from elsewhere. Various freelancers for design work / marketing / other tasks are hired from around the world as needed. Recruitment for full time technical and marketing members to the team in Finland is again ongoing, after being paused for approx. 6 months as it became evident the core product must be in more finalized form before a fresh team can work on it.

[Crapsy]

The knowledge of the new upcoming server release (maybe already today) has brought action with it. Seems like HEAT is slowly recovering from the silence. Great job team.

[verymuchso]

Although I've hinted at releasing the new HEAT server today and given the fact it's weekend and not all our team members are at standby to guide this process.
We would like to announce a new but this time final release date which will be coming monday.

This release will be a mandatory update and older nodes will not work after Sunday October 22'th 2017, because of the hard fork at that date.
This is the first mandatory update (hard fork) since JUNE 2017, we expect the coming updates after this one to not be mandatory for a good while again.

Finally check out what I got today...

[GTTIGER]

Although I've hinted at releasing the new HEAT server today and given the fact it's weekend and not all our team members are at standby to guide this process.
We would like to announce a new but this time final release date which will be coming monday.

This release will be a mandatory update and older nodes will not work after Sunday October 22'th 2017, because of the hard fork at that date.
This is the first mandatory update (hard fork) since JUNE 2017, we expect the coming updates after this one to not be mandatory for a good while again.

Finally check out what I got today...

Awesome! Haha, so cool. Looks yummy

[verymuchso]

HARDFORK AT BLOCK 777,777 (~ october 22'nd)

Heatledger 2.0.0

This is a mandatory update, all nodes on the network need to run this version
or higher.

A hard fork will happen at block 777,777 which is approximately two weeks from
the moment we do this release (somewhere around 2017-10-22).

UPGRADE FROM 1.1.0

The following applies **ONLY** if you run in 'non-light' mode. (when you've added `heat.replicatorEnabled=true` to your configuration).

While you can re-use your existing `blockchain` which can be found in the `blockchain` directory in your previous 1.1.0 installation.

You now need to DELETE THE DIRECTORY CALLED `heat_db` before starting heat 2.0.0, doing this will force HEAT to rescan the blockchain and rebuild its replicator database model.

API Documentation

Please look here for API docs https://heatwallet.com/api

Balance Leasing

By sending a LEASE transaction you transfer your forging power (so thats your
effective balance or stake) to a different account.

The amount you lease is always your full stake at any given moment, you also
provide a period expressed in blocks after which the lease ends. The period has
to be between 1,440 and 300,000 blocks. 

While your stake is leased you can still move your HEAT to another account or
receive HEAT in your account. The same rules that applied before for how to
calculate your effective balance apply now. Whenever you add HEAT to your account
those funds will add up to your leased balance after 1440 blocks. At the same
time whenever you transfer HEAT out of your account that will immediately be
deducted from your leased stake.

An account to which balances are leased can start forging as usual, when determining
the account stake during block creation and broadcasting we add up all leased
stakes to come to that account current forging power.

After sending a LEASE transaction and before that lease period is over you can
send any number of follow up LEASE transactions each one overwriting your 'next lease'
which takes effect automatically the moment your first lease ends.

Use case for balance leasing is two fold.

    1. It allows accounts with small stakes to group together to form forging
       pools. This way increasing your chance of forging blocks.
    2. It's a security measure where you lease your (large) stake to a proxy
       account. Meaning you no longer have to expose your secret phrase of
       your main account to the server you use for foring blocks.

As is the case with forging blocks without leasing your balance, we require a minimum of
1,000 HEAT in order for your stake to be counted as leased stake.
       
List of updates/fixes/features.

- fixed placeAsk, placeBid unknown asset bug
- replicator model schemas now support MYSQL
- new replicator schema version manager based on external property files, please
  see 'resources' directory for all sql schemas
- server side order book running total and sum calculations
- changed the default logger to daily rollovers, logs are archived for 30 days
  and automatically deleted
- forger rewards are traced by a new replictor
- forger rewards can be returned by the API
- order cancellations are now traced by a new replicator, now the UI can display
  order cancellation details including asset, currency, quantity and price
- blocks generated per account are now traced in a new replicator and are availble
  in the UI and from the API
- improvements/optimizations of replicator SQL and where needed combining SQL
  based solutions with custom caching solutions. this is an ongoing process,
  major updates to the way we deal with our rather unique replicator mechanism
  are to be expected
- thread safety improvements

When the hard fork happens only servers running this version or higher will be
able to connect.

HEAT SERVER 2.0.0

https://github.com/Heat-Ledger-Ltd/heatledger/releases/tag/v2.0.0

HEAT WALLET 2.2.0 [DESKTOP WITH SERVER]

https://github.com/Heat-Ledger-Ltd/heatwallet/releases/tag/v2.2.0

HEAT CLIENT 2.2.0 [DESKTOP LIGHT VERSION - NO SERVER]

https://github.com/Heat-Ledger-Ltd/heat-ui/releases/tag/v2.2.0

[statdude]

Are there going to be improvements to Price History Charts?

[Eliphaz Fimk]

Are there going to be improvements to Price History Charts?

Yes, some time after mobile wallet release.

We hope the users will learn to like the features Heatledger 2.0 will be offering in the next weeks and months. It's been prepared with long lasting love to cater for

- improved stability
- balance leasing
- microservices
- mysql support
- embedded HEAT server (more about this later)

[acorcos]

Will there ever be a relaunch of the HEAT DEX in the near future?

Exchange is so not really looking good. If you need some help of an experienced front end designer with focus on conversion optimization. Just let me know ;-)

[Eliphaz Fimk]

Exchange is so not really looking good.

Thanks for the opinion. It's correct https://heatwallet.com isn't optimized for conversions at all, but your comment is the first stating the 2.0 is looking visually less than good. Tastes differ I guess.

[Mjbmonetarymetals]

When will the HEAT Client 2.2.0 be available for mac? Thanks

[LemonAndFriesOne]

Exchange is so not really looking good.

Thanks for the opinion. It's correct https://heatwallet.com isn't optimized for conversions at all, but your comment is the first stating the 2.0 is looking visually less than good. Tastes differ I guess.

Wallet design is good, it screams more for the younger generation which is where the technology will find a home.

Only issue is that the wallet does not resize properly when resizing the window in Windows 8.

[airgonomike]

Exchange is so not really looking good.

Thanks for the opinion. It's correct https://heatwallet.com isn't optimized for conversions at all, but your comment is the first stating the 2.0 is looking visually less than good. Tastes differ I guess.

Wallet design is good, it screams more for the younger generation which is where the technology will find a home.

Only issue is that the wallet does not resize properly when resizing the window in Windows 8.

When the mobile client will be released, it will all look much better on any device and this is supposed to happen before the end of the year according to the roadmap.

[Crapsy]

I've been running the new version nicely on my comp. No problems so far. Looks like a steady and stable release, and I speak for windows 10. Looking forward to the hard fork and enabling of balance leasing.

[verymuchso]

Meanwhile over at Slack:

2.0.0 nodes are now the green-labelled ones (right column) on https://heat.fabco.tech/

So that means LOTS AND LOTS of 1.1.0 nodes folks.
Remember:

When block 777,777 comes and knocks ... you won't be getting da blocks!

So make sure you update to 2.0.0 - https://github.com/Heat-Ledger-Ltd/heatledger/releases

[verymuchso]

When will the HEAT Client 2.2.0 be available for mac? Thanks

We are working on that.
An IMac for exactly this purpose was purchased recently and we are working on expanding our target platforms.
Unfortunately until that time if you want to use HEAT on your Mac we recommend the webwallet or if you want to run a node you would have to use the 2.0.0 HEAT server.

[GTTIGER]

When will the HEAT Client 2.2.0 be available for mac? Thanks

We are working on that.
An IMac for exactly this purpose was purchased recently and we are working on expanding our target platforms.
Unfortunately until that time if you want to use HEAT on your Mac we recommend the webwallet or if you want to run a node you would have to use the 2.0.0 HEAT server.

You guys are awesome. Truly a hidden gem.