BiblePay | 10% to Orphan-Charity | RANDOMX MINING | Sanctuaries (Masternodes)

[thesnat21]

I did update to 1.1.3.8c but the wallet never starts. It's been sitting for more than two and a half hours at "Loading block index".
Id did the wallet cleanup process after I installed the latest.
Last line in debug.log is: 2018-07-04 10:58:09  LoadBlockIndexGuts 1530701889.000000 2018-07-04 12:37:26
Should I just revert to 1.1.3.7 for now?
The wallet seems to consume up to about 1,7GB of memory before going back down to about 1GB, and just going in circles with that.

If you had it running during the superblock bug, then the index can be corrupted.

if you delete the chainstate and blocks folders in your data dir, let it re-build them. this will take care of it.

If it's your main wallet, make sure to re-start the client after it has synced so podcupdates work again.

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[turbokongen]

Argh! Stupid me. Forgot to delete the blocks folder!
Everything fine!
Thank you.

[bible_pay]

Ahh the irony, I had to laugh when this ad came up...

[jaapgvk]

Ahh the irony, I had to laugh when this ad came up...

Haha! Google has humor.

PSA: I've set up an official alert service for when a mandatory wallet update gets released. You can sign up for it at:
https://www.biblepay.org/newsletter/

[sunk818]

Thanks but masternode wallet will never restart, it is running 24/7. Any other command to disable debug.log message?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin

I haven't tried myself, but you could try printtoconsole so all output goes to console. If you're not logged in, it won't matter... and if you log in via a different session, it shouldn't show up in your console.

Or you could set up a separate cron job that deletes debug.log once an hour:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/remove-log-files-in-linux-unix-bsd/

Good luck.

[sunk818]

Happens often, looks like they just restocked.

I just wish WCG could get their act together. Rosetta@Home is hit/miss with the Android tasks. Hopefully, they have a surplus. With Android mining, I'm between two difficult places with WCG GDPR and R@H with few tasks.

[thesnat21]

Happens often, looks like they just restocked.

I just wish WCG could get their act together. Rosetta@Home is hit/miss with the Android tasks. Hopefully, they have a surplus. With Android mining, I'm between two difficult places with WCG GDPR and R@H with few tasks.

It seems R@H limits to 10k per batch release...  Now that we are increasing the burden on them, i'm curious if they are struggling to keep up.  Happened with the PC tasks early on as well.

[sunk818]

Biblepay.org SSL cert has expired (as of today)  great timing

expired july 3, 2018
need to renew with godaddy if they are using the same certificate provider.
someone should have gotten an e-mail warning about this weeks ago...?

I hope that it's just an expired certificate and not a coordinated attack on our new website, because I would feel WAY responsible.

Renewed for two more years; we switched hosts and SSL providers thats why the e-mail didn't come in.

We're using rapidssl now.

Thanks for the quick fix. You're working very hard on a USA holiday

[dave_bbp]

A friend of mine wanted to start some POW (heat) mining because his RAC is already pretty high. He has Ubuntu 18 running and compiled from the 1.1.3.8 release. The compilation itself worked perfectly, but unfortunately the mining processes still suffer from this strange memory leak. It quite quickly went up to >500 MB per task, at which he stopped it.
Are there any of you who are running BBP on Ubuntu 18? Is the memory leak a known issue? Thanks for your efforts!

[MIP]

A friend of mine wanted to start some POW (heat) mining because his RAC is already pretty high. He has Ubuntu 18 running and compiled from the 1.1.3.8 release. The compilation itself worked perfectly, but unfortunately the mining processes still suffer from this strange memory leak. It quite quickly went up to >500 MB per task, at which he stopped it.
Are there any of you who are running BBP on Ubuntu 18? Is the memory leak a known issue? Thanks for your efforts!

When you say "per task" you mean per "setgenerate" thread?

We can give it a drive on a profiler and see who's to blame, but if it's happening on 18 and not in 16 or 17, it sounds like it could be some buggy external library packed in 18 that we are using.

[dave_bbp]

A friend of mine wanted to start some POW (heat) mining because his RAC is already pretty high. He has Ubuntu 18 running and compiled from the 1.1.3.8 release. The compilation itself worked perfectly, but unfortunately the mining processes still suffer from this strange memory leak. It quite quickly went up to >500 MB per task, at which he stopped it.
Are there any of you who are running BBP on Ubuntu 18? Is the memory leak a known issue? Thanks for your efforts!

When you say "per task" you mean per "setgenerate" thread?

We can give it a drive on a profiler and see who's to blame, but if it's happening on 18 and not in 16 or 17, it sounds like it could be some buggy external library packed in 18 that we are using.

Excellent question; I think I'll have to check back with him to get some more details. If I had to guess I would say "per task" means he is running multiple wallets (which is fine on Ubuntu 16...). I'm not sure if he altered anything else (like libs and stuff).

Thanks for checking that out. Unfortunately I currently don't have any means to compile or test it under Ubuntu 18...



Edit: All right. So he had multiple wallets running and this was "per instance". BUT running only 1 instance, but with more threads (setgenerate true 16) had the same effect. He was pretty quickly at >4GB RAM usage.

He compiled from the old install_biblepay.sh script someone posted on reddit quite a while ago (but this should still be ok). The only thing he changed was some openssl library; he isn't sure, but he thinks it was "EVP_CIPHER_CTX".

Hope that helps.

[SVK Noko]

When we are after mandatory update what is the situation with cryptobridge listing?

[togoshigekata]

When we are after mandatory update what is the situation with cryptobridge listing?

CryptoBridge was notified to move forward with our listing July 3rd,
Today, they asked for some coins to use, so I believe they have the wallet installed and are in testing

[Waves Plus]

What config change do I need if I want to switch over to the testnet?

[bible_pay]

A friend of mine wanted to start some POW (heat) mining because his RAC is already pretty high. He has Ubuntu 18 running and compiled from the 1.1.3.8 release. The compilation itself worked perfectly, but unfortunately the mining processes still suffer from this strange memory leak. It quite quickly went up to >500 MB per task, at which he stopped it.
Are there any of you who are running BBP on Ubuntu 18? Is the memory leak a known issue? Thanks for your efforts!

When you say "per task" you mean per "setgenerate" thread?

We can give it a drive on a profiler and see who's to blame, but if it's happening on 18 and not in 16 or 17, it sounds like it could be some buggy external library packed in 18 that we are using.

Excellent question; I think I'll have to check back with him to get some more details. If I had to guess I would say "per task" means he is running multiple wallets (which is fine on Ubuntu 16...). I'm not sure if he altered anything else (like libs and stuff).

Thanks for checking that out. Unfortunately I currently don't have any means to compile or test it under Ubuntu 18...



Edit: All right. So he had multiple wallets running and this was "per instance". BUT running only 1 instance, but with more threads (setgenerate true 16) had the same effect. He was pretty quickly at >4GB RAM usage.

He compiled from the old install_biblepay.sh script someone posted on reddit quite a while ago (but this should still be ok). The only thing he changed was some openssl library; he isn't sure, but he thinks it was "EVP_CIPHER_CTX".

Hope that helps.

They need to run biblepay with openssl 1.0.1k and not change the source code.  Then the wallet takes up 291K of ram on both platforms (windows and linux).

[bible_pay]

What config change do I need if I want to switch over to the testnet?

Start with -testnet or add testnet=1 to the biblepaytest.conf config file, and -conf=biblepaytest.conf.

[znffal]

BiblePay news article discussing mandatory upgrade + bounty for orphan letters.
For sharing with people who need to know.

https://medium.com/biblepay-news/biblepay-announcements-mandatory-wallet-upgrade-75ed02fbf5e1

[bible_pay]

WCG update (nothing changed yet):


Re: Data exports & status of Data Processing Agreement


We're still in regular contact with the lawyers and we are making really good progress towards ensuring volunteers won't have to sign an agreement that's more relevant to commercial engagements. While this is all taking a long time, it'll be worth it in the long term and we're hopeful that we're going to end up with a solution that's both volunteer-friendly and GDPR compliant.

As always, thanks for your patience!

[jaapgvk]

So, in our roadmap we have a September 2018 date for our 1st marketing campaign. There are several ideas floating around:

1. Google/reddit/facebook advertising (Togo)
https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=204.0

2. Airdrop (me)
https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=120.15

3. Hardcopy guide, possibly coupled with the handing out of paper wallets (me, ...?)
https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=161.msg3641#msg3641

4. We were also approached by Bitscoin from Korea. They want to do advertising for us, but I'm still not sure if it's worth it:
https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=198.0

If anyone has any feedback on these and/or is willing to contribute I'd be very happy with it!

[togoshigekata]

So, in our roadmap we have a September 2018 date for our 1st marketing campaign. There are several ideas floating around:

1. Google/reddit/facebook advertising (Togo)
https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=204.0

2. Airdrop (me)
https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=120.15

3. Hardcopy guide, possibly coupled with the handing out of paper wallets (me, ...?)
https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=161.msg3641#msg3641

4. We were also approached by Bitscoin from Korea. They want to do advertising for us, but I'm still not sure if it's worth it:
https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=198.0

If anyone has any feedback on these and/or is willing to contribute I'd be very happy with it!

1. Currently experimenting
- Reddit Ad rejected us
- Google Ads is working but Im avoiding certain keywords, set up $3/day, spent $20 so far
- Facebook Ad is waiting for approval
- Twitter Ad, just set up $3/day

1a. Crypto News/Tool Websites - Ads, Press Releases, Newsletters
https://i.imgur.com/KGzNSSP.png
- $4-10 CPM (cost for each 1,000 impressions/views) (Most popular sizes: 728x90. 300x600, 300x250)
- $350-800 Press releases
- $1,000-1,500 Sponsored Story

1b. Graphic Designers needed for Ads

1c. Writers needed for articles/stories

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IDEAS:

- Bitcointalk Banner Ad
Prove to Theymos that our Charity efforts are legitimate

- International Crypto Forums
--- 8btc.com (Chinese)
--- MiningClub.info (Russian)

- Language Translations (White Paper, Website, Mining Guide, Wallet, Bible)

- Slide Deck
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/deck-marketing-64930.html
"Slide decks are full of infographics and data optimized for "at-a-glance" viewing"

- Competitor Comparison Articles and Infographics
Example: https://i.redd.it/kw2hubw1hajz.jpg
--- BiblePay vs Gridcoin (vs all Science coins)
--- vs Christian coins
--- vs Charity coins
--- vs Masternode coins (OmniAnalytics)

- Website SEO (Wordpress, Yoast plugin)

- Youtube Videos (Mining Guides)

- Bitcointalk Signature campaign

- Bounties:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4544214

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MINOR:

- redesign Bitcointalk ANN?
--- add CPU keyword to title

- Figure out what to do with Telegram

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HAPPENING SOON:

- Masternode Tournament (credit to Luke!)
https://briandcolwell.com/2018/07/masternodemebro-tournament/.html


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What other Marketing/Advertising could we do?