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

[bible_pay]

I e-mailed Jimmy Mellado, president of Compassion this morning with a new idea (proof-of-orphan-sponsorship).  I went into details about how we could integrate Compassion into BiblePay, using the Compassion API (for multiple uses, one being governance receipt reimbursement, and one being mining). 

I'm looking forward to conference calls with Compassions IT team.

Nice! Very curious about this plan.

Will you give us an update on what you and April are doing with PR?

I think Tom was directing this at Jaap; yes Jaap is handling that project.

[bible_pay]

same here, wcgrac=0
no changes with setup so far, problem must be somewhere else

Alright - I see the problem- we are going into Disaster Recovery Mode to temporarily only honor Rosetta credits.

Please standby.

I will update with a resolution shortly.

[bible_pay]

** Resolution for World Community Grid Credit Handling **


The root cause of the WCG credits tallying as zero is that our sanctuaries are not handling the WCG daily credit export file properly.  A hotfix has been programmed and tested.  

1.1.5.6 has just been released.  In order to fix the problem, we need Sancs to upgrade.  (Users do not need to upgrade until the next mandatory release).

Sancs, please upgrade to the latest version.


EDIT:  The pool superblock view report will be fixed within an hour; the problem can be fixed if the pools upgrade to the latest version.  Purepool, I believe you will also need to upgrade to the latest version.  BiblePay Pool will upgrade now.

EDIT2: Windows is building.

[sunk818]

An article about Bitcoin power usage (almost the same as the Ireland!) written here.

We could use your help with your thoughts on why BiblePay utilizing power better than Bitcoin:

https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(18)30177-6?code=cell-site#comments-heading

[Sparks1956]

I received some replies from Mintnodes that raise the credibility somewhat, although I still want to say "INVEST AT YOUR OWN RISK - Dont send capital you cant afford to lose":

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Rob,

Our system will create and teardown masternodes as needed, all of this is automated to keep costs down to maintain our $1/month/masternode fee.

Well Exchanges and Shared Masternodes are two different things, as you know we have to have coins stored somewhere in collateral amounts.  We are always honest and transparent.

I don’t want to go into too much detail of our architecture as it is proprietary information that belongs to Mintnodes LLC, but the wallet coins are stored remotely away from the masternode servers. The coin wallets are on an isolated network from the internet.  We use PCI compliance practices, as I have been the last 15 years.

Mintnodes was started by our family and only 2 people of our family have access to the coins.

I don’t know if it was you but someone from BBP was asking the same questions in our discord server.

Steve.

I was asking primarily about liability. If they were hacked and somehow lost funds, what would they do to make us whole. He was not able to answer. They certainly have better countermeasures in place with PCI compliance (although I didn't ask if they are Level 1, 2, or 3 compliant -- Level 3 being the most robust and arduous for big companies). Still, it is concerning there is no insurance in place to handle such an issue. Given that they charge only $1/mo worth as fees, they'd really have to scale a lot and keep a portion of their profit for this rainy day scenario.

Anyway, if you got a spare 100k BBP, please support them.

I still have some of my BBP on Mintnodes. I see that people pulled their BBP from there, because a Masternode was first started and Mintnodes tore it down again. I would indeed never advice anyone to put more BBP in there than they're willing to lose (not your keys, not your BBP), but it seems like an easy system and you get some 'interest', so it could be worth the risk.

Also, I will vote 'yes' on Togo's proposal on this.

I put about 150k BBP (realising there is certainly a risk in doing that...)  in it. However I was quite surprised there was only 11 % and it was still  the first MN, while I had the impression there was already a MN launched. So all of the first MN was withdrawn again?
Anyway, I will wait a bit and hope we will reach 100 % within a few weeks.

[bible_pay]

** Resolution for World Community Grid Credit Handling **


The root cause of the WCG credits tallying as zero is that our sanctuaries are not handling the WCG daily credit export file properly.  A hotfix has been programmed and tested.  

1.1.5.6 has just been released.  In order to fix the problem, we need Sancs to upgrade.  (Users do not need to upgrade until the next mandatory release).

Sancs, please upgrade to the latest version.


EDIT:  The pool superblock view report will be fixed within an hour; the problem can be fixed if the pools upgrade to the latest version.  Purepool, I believe you will also need to upgrade to the latest version.  BiblePay Pool will upgrade now.

EDIT2: Windows is building.

1.1.5.6 for Windows is released;  upgrading the Pool and Sanctuary 1 now.

[bible_pay]

** Resolution for World Community Grid Credit Handling **


The root cause of the WCG credits tallying as zero is that our sanctuaries are not handling the WCG daily credit export file properly.  A hotfix has been programmed and tested.  

1.1.5.6 has just been released.  In order to fix the problem, we need Sancs to upgrade.  (Users do not need to upgrade until the next mandatory release).

Sancs, please upgrade to the latest version.


EDIT:  The pool superblock view report will be fixed within an hour; the problem can be fixed if the pools upgrade to the latest version.  Purepool, I believe you will also need to upgrade to the latest version.  BiblePay Pool will upgrade now.

EDIT2: Windows is building.

1.1.5.6 for Windows is released;  upgrading the Pool and Sanctuary 1 now.

Ok, the pool has been upgraded, now you can see the Reports | Superblock View report, and the WCG RAC should be correct.

Please let me know if you see any missing WCG rac.

As far as the next superblock payment, the payouts are based on the winning contract.  Most likely the contract will be similar to yesterdays:  Primarily Rosetta based.

The quicker the sancs upgrade, the more likely that tomorrow's superblock will contain all of the WCG magnitude.

[jaapgvk]

I e-mailed Jimmy Mellado, president of Compassion this morning with a new idea (proof-of-orphan-sponsorship).  I went into details about how we could integrate Compassion into BiblePay, using the Compassion API (for multiple uses, one being governance receipt reimbursement, and one being mining).  

I'm looking forward to conference calls with Compassions IT team.

Nice! Very curious about this plan.

Will you give us an update on what you and April are doing with PR?

Yeah, sure.

We've been compiling a list of contact-data (e.g. email-address or twitter) of journalists that have written about charity-related crypto-news before (or anything that has the same 'feel' as BiblePay really). This takes a lot of time. I posted a post here and on Reddit to ask anyone to help me compile that list by mailing me related articles they find. Sadly no one has mailed me a single article as of yet, so I feel quite alone in this endeavor. So consider this post an invitation to help me with this.

Anyway April also has via-via access to a database with journalists which we can hopefully use, and will make this endeavor easier.

I've also updated the website to make it SEC-complaint and added a better Press Kit.

Also, we are looking for someone who can be a charismatic representative for the PR-side of BiblePay (someone journalists can talk to). I've asked the team, but we haven't found anyone as of yet. You can also consider this post a request for anyone who has experience with being interviewed and who knows BiblePay well to contact me

Next, April will show me how to best write a pitch to journalists. Hopefully that will be this weekend. Then, next weekend the first pitch can probably be sent to all journalists on the list. There are different lists actually, depending on the news-outlet (could be charity, investment, Christian, crypto, etc.).

The first pitch will basically be an overview of what we have achieved thus far. Other pitches will depend on key points in our development. If anyone has input on possible pitches, please contact me. Also, maybe we could open a subforum about the pitches, and maybe we could all come together and discuss what pitch should be best when. The idea is to have one news-pitch each month. We basically send the pitch to journalists and give them time to write an article, and then we will push the news from all our social channels.

As far as I'm concerned this specific PR is a community effort btw. As I said before: I don't even like doing PR. The original team has also shrunken a bit today unfortunately. Basically it's just April and me at the moment, so we could use any help.

[jaapgvk]

** Resolution for World Community Grid Credit Handling **


The root cause of the WCG credits tallying as zero is that our sanctuaries are not handling the WCG daily credit export file properly.  A hotfix has been programmed and tested.  

1.1.5.6 has just been released.  In order to fix the problem, we need Sancs to upgrade.  (Users do not need to upgrade until the next mandatory release).

Sancs, please upgrade to the latest version.


EDIT:  The pool superblock view report will be fixed within an hour; the problem can be fixed if the pools upgrade to the latest version.  Purepool, I believe you will also need to upgrade to the latest version.  BiblePay Pool will upgrade now.

EDIT2: Windows is building.

I've sent an upgrade alert to subscribers on biblepay.org

[secoccular]

I've left my wallet open the last couple of days. I notice every few hours there's a PODC update in Transactions. I don't understand why my BBP balance is reduced at every PODC update?

[bbptoshi]

The balance on your main address will change with how much you must stake based on your total RAC, but the overall balance in your wallet shouldn't change.

I've left my wallet open the last couple of days. I notice every few hours there's a PODC update in Transactions. I don't understand why my BBP balance is reduced at every PODC update?

[sunk818]

Give me your address and I'll send you 1 bbp to cover

[secoccular]

Give me your address and I'll send you 1 bbp to cover

Haha, thanks. It's a very minor fraction, but I may take you up on it in a few months if it starts to eat into my balance.

It's hard on a young biblepayer!

[sunk818]

Give me your address and I'll send you 1 bbp to cover

Haha, thanks. It's a very minor fraction, but I may take you up on it in a few months if it starts to eat into my balance.

It's hard on a young biblepayer!

It could probably be made 0 tx fee but it's a small fee for podc.

[togoshigekata]

Stratis Q4 Development Roadmap
https://stratisplatform.com/2018/09/26/q4-dev-roadmap/

Weekly CryptoBridge Development Update
https://crypto-bridge.org/2018/09/25/development-update-september-26-2018/

FoldingCoin Donation Website
https://twitter.com/FoldingCoin/status/1044979132625555458

Bitrefill (Buy food with Bitcoin at these 6 restaurants)
https://blog.bitrefill.com/feast-like-a-beast-buy-food-with-bitcoin-at-these-6-restaurants-226aba20483a

The Power of a Volunteer Computer Network
https://dzone.com/articles/the-power-of-a-volunteer-computer-network

[secoccular]

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?

addnode=node.biblepay.org
gen=1
genproclimit=1
minersleep=0
pool=https://pool.purepool.org
workerid=B8jZq62uoPr1aVhtPfw13LdKXC48CzqP8L


Only get invalid/illegal CPID

https://www.purepool.org/main/miner/B8jZq62uoPr1aVhtPfw13LdKXC48CzqP8L/

[daemonko]

** Resolution for World Community Grid Credit Handling **


The root cause of the WCG credits tallying as zero is that our sanctuaries are not handling the WCG daily credit export file properly.  A hotfix has been programmed and tested.  

1.1.5.6 has just been released.  In order to fix the problem, we need Sancs to upgrade.  (Users do not need to upgrade until the next mandatory release).

Sancs, please upgrade to the latest version.


EDIT:  The pool superblock view report will be fixed within an hour; the problem can be fixed if the pools upgrade to the latest version.  Purepool, I believe you will also need to upgrade to the latest version.  BiblePay Pool will upgrade now.

EDIT2: Windows is building.

1.1.5.6 for Windows is released;  upgrading the Pool and Sanctuary 1 now.

Ok, the pool has been upgraded, now you can see the Reports | Superblock View report, and the WCG RAC should be correct.

Please let me know if you see any missing WCG rac.

As far as the next superblock payment, the payouts are based on the winning contract.  Most likely the contract will be similar to yesterdays:  Primarily Rosetta based.

The quicker the sancs upgrade, the more likely that tomorrow's superblock will contain all of the WCG magnitude.

sorry, it didn't help, i see wcg rac = 0

[totikk]

sorry, it didn't help, i see wcg rac = 0

Yes, me too!

Code:

07:45:55

exec getboincinfo


07:46:00

{
  "Command": "getboincinfo",
  "CPID": "8207d91142045cb6d7a81b8e91d264a8",
  "Address": "BHfGTogcn36yUY4VH5uEnd1ocT3oXWZnt7",
  "CPIDS": "8207d91142045cb6d7a81b8e91d264a8;",
  "CPID-Age (hours)": 427228,
  "NextSuperblockHeight": 73605,
  "NextSuperblockBudget": 1093468,
  "8207d91142045cb6d7a81b8e91d264a8_ADDRESS": "BHfGTogcn36yUY4VH5uEnd1ocT3oXWZnt7",
  "8207d91142045cb6d7a81b8e91d264a8_RAC": 305.9,
  "8207d91142045cb6d7a81b8e91d264a8_TEAM": 15044,
  "8207d91142045cb6d7a81b8e91d264a8_WCGRAC": 0,
  "8207d91142045cb6d7a81b8e91d264a8_TaskWeight": 100,
  "8207d91142045cb6d7a81b8e91d264a8_UTXOWeight": 1000,
  "Total_RAC": 305.9,
  "Total Payments (One Day)": 0,
  "Total Payments (One Week)": 0,
  "Total Budget (One Day)": 1093468,
  "Total Budget (One Week)": 7654276,
  "Superblock Count (One Week)": 8,
  "Superblock Hit Count (One Week)": 8,
  "Superblock List": "73400,73195,72990,72785,72580,72375,72170,71965",
  "Last Superblock Height": 73400,
  "Last Superblock Budget": 1093468,
  "Last Superblock Payment": 0,
  "Magnitude (One-Day)": 0,
  "Magnitude (One-Week)": 0
}

[coinsinspect]

Yes, me too!

WCG is still zero here also

[nsummy]

Couple of questions:

A.  How do I stake my entire balance?  Or does the wallet handle this automatically?

B.  So I cannot research for WCG exclusively?  I need to have some rosetta@home work in there also?  What is the reason for this?


I saw a post on reddit about some changes (they seem positive) coming.  If I could offer one piece of advice it would be to completely update the documentation and centralize it before making any more changes.  This entire project has turned into spaghetti code.  Features added, features removed, some info on bitcointalk, some on the bbp forum, some on the website, some on the wiki.  The wiki is also worthless as there are no links to any pages.  Its impossible for anyone to keep up with this coin without a significant time suck.  And to find out where things stand it feels like I have to read 30 pages of old forum posts.  Like it was sheer luck that I saw the thing about needing to research for R@H too.  I have been doing strictly WCG.

Also I would recommend looking at Curecoin and how they handle Folding@home payments.  Their process is dead simple.