Hi,
A new cryptocurrency called B1tes was launched on August 16th, 2017.
It's a cryptonote based currency.
The launch of the B1tes project is purely academic. In cryptonote.org, I found a whole set of resources that I can learn from, like starting a coin, creating a GUI wallet, setting up a mining pool, testnet, processing payments, mining, interaction with the blockchain, blocks relaying, getting info about the block, peer list look up, connections look up, transaction pool information and relaying, wallet creation, financial operations, sending, receiving, checking for incoming transfers, etc. Additionally, I'm interested in storing data in the blockchain to write messages, timestamp documents, etc.
I'm the only dev in this project.
Premine? No premine - first block mined on Aug. 18th, 2017
POW/POS? Proof-of-Work (POW)
Block times? 120 seconds
Currency ticker: B1T
Block rewards? 17 B1T
Algorithm? CryptoNight - hash-based Proof-of-Work (PoW) algorithm
Network seed nodes: 54.232.255.65:50005; 52.15.118.78:50005
Port used by the daemon to establish connections with p2p network: 50005
Port used by the daemon to interact with simplewallet (RPC) = 40004
B1tes source code is available at:
https://github.com/b1tes/b1tGUI wallet for windows. Only works on 64 bit versions (thanks to Bitcoin Forum member BitPorium):
http://www.mediafire.com/file/68pz4dqoal8ngb9/b1tesQT64.zipB1tes mining pools:
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http://b1tes.bpgmr.com -
http://b1tes.net - Connection details:
- Mining Pool Address: b1tes.bpgmr.com or
http://b1tes.net - Mining Ports:
- Port: 3333
- Starting Difficulty: 100
- Description: Low end hardware
- Port: 5555
- Starting Difficulty: 2000
- Description: Mid range hardware
- Port: 7777
- Starting Difficulty: 10000
- Description: High end hardware
For linux users, instructions on how to:
1. Install B1tes blockchain
2. Create a B1tes wallet and mine B1tes
1. Install B1tes blockchain:
- open your command line terminal
- Execute the following commands to get the dependencies needed in order to setup the environment to run the B1tes blockchain:
- sudo apt-get install build-essential
- sudo apt-get install git
- sudo apt-get install cmake
- sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
- Clone B1tes source code:
- create a directory called b1tes by running the command:
- mkdir b1tes
- enter the b1tes directory by running the command:
- cd b1tes
- clone B1tes source code by running the command:
- git clone
https://github.com/b1tes/b1t.git - enter the b1t directory by running the command:
- cd b1t
- build b1tes source code by running the command:
- make
- wait until building b1tes source code is 100% complete
- enter the build directory by running the command:
- cd build/release/src/
- download B1tes blockchain by running the command:
- ./b1tesd
- leave this terminal command line open, as B1tes blockchain is being downloaded and synchronized to the network.
- and open a new terminal command line in order to create a B1tes walled and mine B1tes. (You’ll only be able to create a B1tes wallet and mine B1tes if the B1tes blockchain is being downloaded and synchronized to the network on another terminal command line.)
2. Create a B1tes wallet and mine B1tes:
- complete instructions 1 in order to create a B1tes wallet
- and open a new terminal command line in order to create a B1tes walled and mine B1tes
- enter B1tes build directory by running the command:
- cd ~your_directory~/b1tes/b1t/build/release/src
- create a B1tes wallet by running the command:
- ./simplewallet
- follow the instructions in order to Generate a new wallet by giving a wallet file name and password
- finally, inside simplewallet’s command line program, start mining B1tes by running the following command:
- start_mining
Thanks to Bitcoin Forum member igotek. Good job!
