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[lungdoge]

Service Node Operators! Make sure you know about the Service Node changes that will be implemented in the Hefty Heimdall hardfork!

Read about them here:
https://loki.network/2019/07/17/hefty-heimdall-changes-for-service-node-operators/

[proffe14]

Buy Loki - soon he will be on Finance Dex

[subG]

Buy Loki - soon he will be on Finance Dex

Binance DEX

[lungdoge]

Service Node Operators!

The Hefty Heimdall hardfork is happening in approximately 48 hours. Please make sure you have updated to Hefty Heimdall by following these guides:

Loki Launcher Users: https://lokidocs.com/ServiceNodes/SNFullGuide/#updating-your-binaries

Loki Legacy Users: https://lokidocs.com/ServiceNodes/SNFullGuideLegacy/

[lungdoge]

LOKI was born in early of 2018 (February), but the project has actually surpassed one of the hardest and most terrible period of crypto market, with a whole-year-long of bearish market. Now, bearish market went away, and I think that the hardfork will help to improve LOKI network, and might help its price somehow and at somewhat unknown-extent. I think positive things might come after the hardfork.

Very fair assessment. We're excited to see what the future holds for this project. Thanks for sticking around and supporting us for the journey!

[patoshi]

how do you mine LOKI on the randomX algo? Where to download the software? and is there a tutorial on how to mine with just CPU?

[EvlMiner]

how do you mine LOKI on the randomX algo? Where to download the software? and is there a tutorial on how to mine with just CPU?

The latest xmrig release supports it https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases

The switch to rx/loki algo happens sometime tomorrow.

[lungdoge]

Weekly Dev Update #57

Hey Y’all,


The Loki 4.0.0 hardfork is fast approaching! It’s happening in approximately 24 hours, so if you haven't upgraded your Service Node, Miner or Mining Pool, now is your chance. If you don’t update in time, you will be left on an alternate chain and won't be able to talk to the majority of the network.

A full guide on how to update can be found here: https://loki.network/2019/07/12/hefty-heimdall-mandatory-upgrade-period/


Loki Core

Suppress "transaction is locked" messages for Coinbase transactions: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/755

Store historical list of Service Node states for up to 30 blocks: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/754 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/748

Add command line option to store history of swarm assignments: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/753

Add RPC command ‘get_transfers_csv’ which prints transfers to csv file for auditing purposes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/749

Don't cull checkpoints if they bleed into the finality zone: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/744

Fix credit calculation for awaiting Service Nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/750

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Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord you might catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am-12pm Eastern (US) time.

What’s going on this week with Lokinet:

Lokinet is entering a feature freeze for an upcoming release to the public, and is undergoing heavy internal testing to see how the network performs under various types of load. We don’t have a fixed release date yet — it will depend on how testing goes this week, but look for one soon. The last several weeks of development have fixed a myriad of issues, big and small, and we think Lokinet will be ready for public testing soon. Hence, we have internally frozen the codebase* to not add anything new (just important fixes!) between now and the 0.5.0 release.
(* - There is one exception; see below)

Changelog:

DHT stale RC propagation fixes and improvements: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/721

Added a travis-ci Windows build: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/708

Make hop length and quantity configurable: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/720

Prevent some unneeded timeouts in the utp layer: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/719

Spanish documentation translations (contributed by community member https://github.com/rjmalagon — much appreciated!): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/712, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/712, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/722, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/723, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/724.

Refactored endpoint state management to a new class: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/706

Disabled shell hooks by default (for security reasons): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/699

Fix configuration bug causing configuration settings not to be applied: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/703

Merge IPv6 support branch and gut use of "auto" in config: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/686

Fix bootstrapping: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/707

Fixed non-x86 compilation (arm, ppc64le): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/713

Fixed infinite loop in network interface iteration: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/714

Reduced unhelpful logging: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/716

Overhauled matrix build system for travis-ci: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/705

Refactor endpoint state management to a new class: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/706

New Pull Requests:

More Spanish docs translation (and a promise for more to come!) from @rjmalagon: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/725

Experimentation with using a docker-based build for increased travis-ci flexibility: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/726

Fixes for Lokinet on Windows: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/715

Refactor router code to allow protocol improvements, most notably propagating path building successes/failures: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/728 (* This PR is the last PR to be merged before we feature freeze lokinet for the 0.5.0 release).

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Loki Messenger Desktop

Work continues for support for large group chats/channels: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/354

Work in progress: Loki Messenger application support for large group chats: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/353

Add ability to fetch public group chats: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/351

Fix disappearing messages bug, and make changes to what happens when a contact is deleted: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/349

Return profile name for group chats: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/347

Add Loki schema versioning and add UI options to create a new public chat: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/350

Start attempt at closing long polling connections when offline event is triggered: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/344

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Storage Server

Update Docker file: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/239

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Loki Blocks Onion Explorer

The Loki block explorer has been expanded to show a number of new things including checkpoints and their votes, and decommissioned or inactive nodes.

Show pending transactions in the mempool which are contributing to Service Nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-onion-blockchain-explorer/pull/3

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Messenger Mobile (iOS and Android)

Android Messenger work can be found in these repositories: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android-core/commits/master,

https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/commits/master.

iOS Messenger work can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/dev, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-pods/commits/master.

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Thanks,

Kee

[miner.rocks]

Hello, fellow miners!

Pool loki.miner.rocks
is on rx/loki algo mainnet and welcomes you to join

Features:
- email notifications of workers down
- stats and hashrate chart per worker
- PPLNS reward scheme for rounds shorter than hour, PROP scheme for longer rounds, PPLNS window is 60 minutes
- income history of last 24h, of each day of last 7 days, unmatured incomes
- payment id, integrated address, subaddress supported
- adjustable payment threshold
- every port supports secure SSL/TLS connection as well as insecure one
- static diff supported, see static diff calculator
- multiple daemons, to prevent downtime in case of daemon stuck
- height checks, to prevent mining on forked chain
- sample configs for rx/loki supported mining apps (xmrig 2.99 currenlty)
- ports: 5003 (cpu), 5005 (gpu), 5007 (rig)

PPLNS fee: 0.9%

Location: Europe

Welcome & Lucky Mining!

[proffe14]

Buy Loki now - or will not be able to buy at such a sweet price

[lungdoge]

Attention $LOKI Miners!!

Please update your xmrig to the 2.99.1 release. There is an issue in 2.99.0 that causes it to not properly reinitialise when the RandomX seed hash changes - which happens roughly every 3 days.

https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases/tag/v2.99.1-beta

[bobymoore]

How much Hash for Vega and ryzen 1700?

[goigiacmove]

Buy Loki - soon he will be on Finance Dex

Finance Dex has very wide spread, that is not good for trading. Because you have to buy at high, and sell at lows if the coin won't move upwards. There are more probability to get losses rather than get profits by trading on Finance Dex. I think Tradeorge and Crypto Bridge are good exchanges for LOKI.

[cryptomaxsun]

Block reward 29.6 LOKI.
What is the distribution of rewards to miners, service nodes, developers?

[bobymoore]

Loki is in random x?

[patoshi]

Loki is in random x?

Yes its the first coin to make use of RandomX mining before monero gets it in october.

It's a good test of random x in a live environment.

[lungdoge]

Weekly Dev Update #59

Hey Y’all,

This week we’ve mostly worked on bugs that were affecting Service Node operators as they transitioned from lokid 3.0.X to the 4.0.3 suite of Loki Service Node tools. We published a new release for the Loki Storage Server and Launcher, and we have also made good progress on transitioning Loki Messenger to the mainnet so it can take advantage of the ~550 Loki Storage Servers.

Loki Core

Reject new votes that can be slipped through the syncing phase at startup: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/768
Improve syncing times by storing historical Service Node list every 10,000 blocks: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/761
Don’t query the blockchain for hardfork (causes major slowdown in upgrade): https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/764
Improve duplicated non-standard tx check error messages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/763
Fix ranged quorum query: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/762
Fix off by 1 when checking state_t heights causing sync failure: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/759
Fix off by1 on blockchain detach: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/758

Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord you can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am – 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What’s going on this week with Lokinet:

All of the pull requests for the next version are either merged, or reviewed and to be merged in the next day or so. We are spinning up a distributed “toy” network to test the stability and functionality of the codebase in anticipation of a public release sometime in the next week or two (testing dependent). We also have internally-working debian packages for various recent Debian and Ubuntu versions to allow easy installation of Lokinet on those systems, and plan to release these with the public release.

Changelog:

Refactor router code to allow protocol improvements, most notably propagating path building successes/failures. This was a huge PR, making significant code improvements and fixes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/728 (plus some small followup changes and fixes in PRs #730, #731, #733).
Fix Android compilation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/729
More Spanish docs translation (and a promise for more to come!) from @rjmalagon: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/725
Debian packaging code updated and refactored to support Debian 9, 10 and Ubuntu 18.04, 19.04 releases (no PR).
New/updated Pull Requests:

Add link-relay status messages: this uses the refactored router code (see above) to allow signalling of where a Lokinet connection fails along the connection path:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/732
Add link layer delivery feedback: extends the above with additional information: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/737
Run main in its own thread and set its process name: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/734
Windows build for travis-ci: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/726
Fixes for Lokinet on Windows: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/715

Loki Messenger Desktop

Add startup disclaimer for Beta versions of Loki Messenger: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/365
Loki Messenger updates feed: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/360
Link preview fix: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/362
Fill out unregister channel stub, trigger unregister channel on conversation deletion: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/361
Group name display: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/359
Add public badge: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/358
Merge Basis for Cleartext group messaging: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/356

Storage Server

Invalid port detection: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/250
Only use IPv4 results for http, and use url for seed nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/249
Add function names for log messages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/248
Only receive stats from active Service Nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/247
Ignore swapfiles and reject localhost binding: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/246
Send storage server version number on get_stats: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/245
Fix PoW parsing, add some failure debugging: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/240

Loki Launcher

What’s going on this week with Loki Launcher:

With the launch of the Hefty Heimdall hardfork, the Loki Storage Server is now active. This week, after tracking down a number of bug reports submitted in Telegram and Discord about unexpected crashes, we found the suspect behaviour and put in a work around into the 1.0.0 release of the launcher. We also added a couple of fixes as a few new eyes were on the code, and improved its accuracy of status and startup.

Changelog:

Fix Storage Server pipe that would lock up Storage Server
Fix Storage Server stderr handler typo
SIGHUP guard fix
Double check running pid
Use SIGTERM instead of SIGINT to stop processes
Handle socket write errors better
Test socket for connectivity in status
Clear stale pid and socket files
Move uncaught exception log into var_path
Make sure Storage Server is running before startup is successful
Change version for git checkouts to be the last committed revision

Loki Blocks Onion Explorer

The Loki Block Explorer has been expanded to show a number of new things including checkpoints and their votes, and decommissioned or inactive nodes.

Add emojis to represent different types of transactions: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-onion-blockchain-explorer/pull/4
Show pending mempool transactions which contribute to awaiting Service Nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-onion-blockchain-explorer/pull/3

Loki Messenger on Mobile (iOS and Android)

We are very close to an Android release of Loki Messenger, and are now testing it internally in the office.

Work on Loki Messenger for Android can be found in these repositories: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android-core/commits/master, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/commits/master.
Work on Loki Messenger for iOS can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/dev, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-pods/commits/master.

Thanks,  

Kee

[lungdoge]

Loki Messenger BETA for iOS now live on mainnet!

Download the latest version here:

testflight.apple.com/join/3rQNQfLe

Desktop version should update auto-magically too.

Happy testing!

[lungdoge]

The Five Eyes Have Your Privacy in their Sights!

https://medium.com/@LokiNetwork/the-five-eyes-have-your-privacy-in-their-sights-loki-ff339b49c95d

[lungdoge]

Loki Messenger beta for Android is out NOW! Yes, REALLY!

Make sure to tap ‘Install Anyway’ when you download (check the image link below if unsure): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/releases/download/1.0.0-alpha.1/Loki-Messenger-1.0.0-Alpha.apk

Happy testing!