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[coinpricetoday]

Post a review about LOKI, and help new traders With investment



https://coinpricetoday.com/coin/loki-network/

Could you please update the total supply statistic on your page. Loki does NOT have a total/max supply.

so its CN coin

[lungdoge]

Post a review about LOKI, and help new traders With investment



https://coinpricetoday.com/coin/loki-network/

Could you please update the total supply statistic on your page. Loki does NOT have a total/max supply.

so its CN coin

What do you mean, CN coin?

Cryptonote? If so, yes. It's based on Monero, and similarly, has no max supply.

[lungdoge]

Weekly Dev Update #64

Hey Y’all,

This week we worked hard developing features for a number of upcoming releases, including finally nailing down some issues which have drastically increased the stability of Lokinet, adding lots of new UX features to Loki Messenger, and the continued testing of Service Node checkpointing for Loki core. If you like releases, September is going to be an exciting month with lots of new tools for users to test and play with!

Loki Core

Add storage server reachability field; test it with quorums: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/820.
Make get_checkpoints_range faster by using LMDB cursor as iterator: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/819.
Update testnet and stagenet seed nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/818.
Update transaction fees to appropriately mitigate spam attacks in preparation for next release: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/816.

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 went on last week with Lokinet:

After implementing the new wire protocol to replace libutp, we’ve seen a significant improvement to the performance and stability of Lokinet. We’re now putting the final touches on for a public 0.5.0 release.

PR activity:

New wire protocol: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/783.
Various minor fixes to shadow, build systems: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/784, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/785, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/786.
Reduce excessively verbose logging: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/788.
Improve path building behaviour: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/789.
Fix timeout hook not being called properly: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/792.
Reduce router CPU usage: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/796.

Loki Messenger Desktop

Add QR code display to desktop devices: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/461.
Simplify local profiles: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/453.
Lower PoW difficulty on testing clients and add export to build-release yarn call: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/462.
Save the last retrieved message for public chats on the conversation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/460.
Fix loading during registration: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/459.
Move initialisation of public and RSS conversations to fix early load: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/458.
[multi-device] Share primary device profile name upon secondary registration: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/457.
[multi-device] Secondary registration UX changes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/456.
Support deleting messages in public chats: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/455.
[multi-device] Shorten TTL for message pairing requests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/454.
Fix feed reader for single element results: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/449.
[Public Authentication] Add identity token retrieval functions to public chat API: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/448.
[Public Authentication] Authenticate sending: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/447.
[Public Authentication] Add crypto helpers and public errors: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/446.
[Public Authentication] Add database tables and helper functions for public server Authentication: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/445.
[multi-device] Format message details to show secondary pubkey properly: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/443.
[multi-device] Change Signal outgoing messages to support multiple pubkeys: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/441.
[multi-device] Display incoming messages in the primary device conversation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/440.
[multi-device] Prevent showing inbox if secondary registration is ongoing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/439.

Loki Storage Server

Book-keeping of storage server reachability and auto reporting to lokid for node that fail reachability tests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/268.
Periodically ping other storage servers: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/265.

Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

What went on last week with Loki Messenger:

Loki Messenger for Android and iOS continues to be brought in line with the latest features on desktop. We’re gearing up for a new release which will publish these new features to beta testers.

Loki Messenger iOS

Support for RSS style update feeds, initially from the Loki team: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/41.
Message deletion for group chats: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/40.
Refactoring of message deletion: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/44.
Allow user to initiate deletion request: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/43.

Loki Messenger Android

Localisation changes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/17.
Add support for RSS style update feeds: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/16.

Thanks, 

Kee

[Loki Alex]

Weekly Dev Update #66

Hey Y’all,

Last week we stepped up work on Loki Core, with the final set of changes being merged in ahead of the testnet fork, enabling protections against checkpointing edge cases. Loki Messenger got a new release too – there’ll be many more over the next few months. Finally, Lokinet shifted gears into investigating and implementing various performance optimisations, decreasing CPU and Bandwidth usage for clients and routers.

Loki Core

Merge upstream changes from Monero to bring us inline with the latest features: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/836
Fix GCC warnings: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/840
Check wallet is connected before entering exception functions: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/838
Rescan difficulty periodically, fix incorrect timestamps/difficulties in rescan: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/835
Don’t verify checkpoints until after hardfork 13: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/834
Add section for hardfork dates https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/833
Don’t process unsupported transactions in wallet2: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/832
Disallow duplicate state changes for IP addresses across blocks: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/831
Clean and refactor Core tests to make testing checkpointing easier: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/830
Check checkpoints along alt chain if missing from alt db: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/829
Store alternate checkpoints in the database to be applied on reorganisations: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/827

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 Went on Last Week with Lokinet:

We officially released the public beta (v0.5.1, with a couple of last-minute fixes to the tagged-but-not-announced v0.5.0 release). Please test out this Lokinet release and let us know how things are working for you!

Focus is now shifting to various performance improvements and other enhancements for a 0.6.0 release sometime next month. We’ve opened a slew of github issues to track various issues we want to address either in the 0.6 release or beyond on the issue board: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/issues. We’re also internally working with marketing to improve the information available on Lokinet.org – so expect to see changes there in the near future.

PR Activity:

Disable RC expiration – this makes a Lokinet that hasn’t been used in a few days still usable with re-bootstrapping: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/814
Eliminated some superfluous log messages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/815
Prune DHT peers – this fixes a bug where a router that appears for a while and then goes offline wasn’t being properly forgotten by the network: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/819
Remove some ugly pre-built windows binaries from the repository (building them during compilation instead): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/818
Include libuv in the macOS package for systems that don’t have it: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/822

Loki Messenger for Desktop

Filter duplicate messages in the public chat: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/508
Shorten displayed public keys in replies: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/503
Pass server ID back to Server: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/502
[Multi-device] Search returns primary device conversation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/501
Fix unnecessary link preview fetches: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/500
[Multi-device] Auto friend request to sync contacts: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/499
Give moderators badges: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/498
[Multi-device] Ensure API objects are inited only once: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/497
[Multi-device] Ensure the latest contact signed prekey is used: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/495
Fix last hash all being NULL in database: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/494
Make sure we are always updating the last deleted id: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/493

Loki Storage Server

Fix crash when expire() was called: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/276

Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

What Went on Last Week with Loki Messenger:

Last week we released a platform wide update here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/releases/latest. This introduced a number of requested features, including link previews, specific-message replies, conversation searching, and moderator tags. Stay tuned for more updates coming soon!

Loki Messenger for iOS:

Add Moderator tags: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/50
Stop polling group chat upon deletion: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/49
Loki Messenger for Android:

Correctly show reply author: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/23
Fix infinite sends: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/24
Various bug fixes: Fix link preview messages not being deleted in group chats; Fix constant group update notifications being show; Disable notification triggers on group messages; Stop pollers once user has left group chat: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/22


Thanks, 

Kee

[tbct_mt2]

I am a fan of LOKI project, and I actually mined the coin in 2018, within early days and months after it started, before the LOKI Service Node activated. I propose the LOKI team to stick with only one account, which will be reponsible for the project's information update here.
If I am correct, updates so far published by different accounts, that might cause messy impression from new visitors, who are not familiar with what happened in the ANN thread.

[Kang TB]

Finally, Lokinet shifted gears into investigating and implementing various performance optimisations,
decreasing CPU and Bandwidth usage for clients and routers.

What Went on Last Week with Lokinet:
Loki officially released the public beta (v0.5.1, with a couple of last-minute fixes to the tagged-but-not-announced v0.5.0 release)

read the full updates here https://loki.network/2019/09/16/weekly-dev-update-66

[Loki Alex]

I am a fan of LOKI project, and I actually mined the coin in 2018, within early days and months after it started, before the LOKI Service Node activated. I propose the LOKI team to stick with only one account, which will be reponsible for the project's information update here.
If I am correct, updates so far published by different accounts, that might cause messy impression from new visitors, who are not familiar with what happened in the ANN thread.

I do absolutely agree with you on this. Ideally, we would only be using Loki_Project. Unfortunately, at the moment this isn't possible. We are working on a solution, but for now I will be posting all of the updates in this thread. Hopefully we will be able to post from the original account in the future.

[Bowtiesarecool]

Just finding out that LOKI can be staked on Kucoin and beating myself on the head for somehow missing out on this. Time to make up on lost time. Never been so happy paying someone bag drops on me... plz...

[U]

OKEX begin to delist anonymous coins,such as XMR,DASH,ZEN and so on,
Coinbase En also delist XMR
Many exchange will follow the trend IMO
So,how do this affect LOKI list and trading?

[Kang TB]

OKEX begin to delist anonymous coins,such as XMR,DASH,ZEN and so on,
Coinbase En also delist XMR
Many exchange will follow the trend IMO
So,how do this affect LOKI list and trading?

for now Loki doesn't listed on Okex mate
so, the impact will not huge
because today the price of Loki growing more than 40% in bitcoin terms and more in USD terms

[cryptomaxsun]

what caused the pump?
without a reason?

[qiwoman2]

what caused the pump?
without a reason?

TIKA TEEWARI pumped it, it's one of his recommendations, hence that caused a buying frenzy and the pump. He says it shows great promise and that it will be really good to invest in as more and more people want access to freedom and privacy etc etc. Anyway he is a big advocate of Crypto, making a ton of money himself and is recommending some more smaller-cap coin projects which will probably make a few more people rich over the coming years. I don't have a lot of money right now but I guess just buying a small bag and holding it for the longer term won't hurt, especially if supporting a good and solid project that is going to benefit a lot of people through its services.

[Loki Alex]

OKEX begin to delist anonymous coins,such as XMR,DASH,ZEN and so on,
Coinbase En also delist XMR
Many exchange will follow the trend IMO
So,how do this affect LOKI list and trading?

As Kang already said, Loki is not listed on OKEX, so the impact should be minimal.

[U]

OKEX begin to delist anonymous coins,such as XMR,DASH,ZEN and so on,
Coinbase En also delist XMR
Many exchange will follow the trend IMO
So,how do this affect LOKI list and trading?

for now Loki doesn't listed on Okex mate
so, the impact will not huge
because today the price of Loki growing more than 40% in bitcoin terms and more in USD terms

seems so,LOKI is not there.

Ubit also delist some privacy coins:
Notice of Ending Support for Transactions (Ends September 30, 19) Monero(XMR), Dash(DASH), ZCASH(ZEC), Haven(XHV), BitTube(TUBE), PIVX(PIVX)
https://sg.upbit.com/service_center/notice?id=2256

[stubora]

As exchanges fold, another pulls a straight flush.

https://www.binance.com/en/trade/XMR_BTC
https://www.binance.com/en/trade/ZEC_BTC
https://www.binance.com/en/trade/DASH_BTC

Looks like they won that hand!

[Loki Alex]

Weekly Dev Update #67

Hey Y’all,

Last week we released a new LIP discussing ‘Pulse’: a proposed proof of stake protocol for Loki. You can read that here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-improvement-proposals/blob/master/LIPS/LIP-5.md. We also continued to move towards the 5.0.0 release for Loki Core, which adds checkpointing and a number of other features. Keep your ear to the ground for the testnet announcement…some bounties will be available.

Loki Core

Quorum Net (Communication framework for Blink): https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/844
Don’t form invalid block_extended_infos: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/852
Add testnet checkpoints and enable checkpoints with .json file formatting: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/851
Switch to using validators for checkpoints: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/850
Fix bans taking ports into account: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/849
Update Service Node + Governance reward core test: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/848
Print height in checkpointing errors: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/853
Include tip of chain when recalculating difficulty: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/847
Use pre-penalty base reward for calculating non-miner block rewards: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/846
Increase robustness of uptime proof relaying: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/845
Report potential decommissions and recommissions for a node: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/843
Enforce checkpoint quorums min size and soft fork it for testnet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/842
Make empty quorum if height is checkpointable but insufficient nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/854


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 Went on Last Week with Lokinet:

We finally fixed an issue that had been plaguing Lokinet for several weeks! Connections to a remote Lokinet node would timeout for a few seconds every 10 minutes when a Lokinet client changed to a new path (particularly noticeable on long-running pings)…We’re putting out a minor point release (0.5.2) to address this. The Lokinet devs are also set to conduct their first ever weekly dev meeting using voice chat over Lokinet.

PR Activity:

Statically link release binaries by default: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/829
Major refactoring work to improve performance for 0.6: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/830 (the PR was closed but is still being worked out and will be back)
Handover drop fixes causing the timeouts mentioned above: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/834, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/836
Finish removal of libutp (most of it was already removed before the v0.5.0 release): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/833
Prepare 0.5.2 for release: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/837, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/838
Change how webhooks are invoked to make them spam the discord channel less: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/839
Ongoing work to batch packet acknowledgements to reduce bandwidth used by Lokinet traffic (particular for asymmetric speed connections)  (No PR yet)


Loki Messenger for Desktop

Custom UI rendering of mentions: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/520
Add annotation endpoint and LokiFIleServerAPI: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/518
Sign public chat messages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/517
Only display signed messages in group chat: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/517
Add support for using and displaying messages with Markdown formatting: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/516
Add analytics collection for Loki Messenger for Desktop: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/512
Remove rejected authorisations from database: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/519
Add UI elements for searching and selecting members in a group chat: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/513
Show paired devices menu: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/509

Loki Storage Server

Fix inactive nodes not responding to reachability tests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/277


Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

What Went on Last Week with Loki Messenger:

Multi-device is now mostly finished on desktop, and last week our primary focus was on integrating that work into our mobile platforms. We also looked into some ways to support attachments and share multi device mappings, which should be integrated over the next few weeks/months. 

Loki Messenger for iOS:

Begin code changes necessary for Multi device support: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/55, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/54, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/53, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/52
Allow rendering of GIF’s thorough Giphy: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/51
Loki Messenger for Android:

Add multi device database support: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/26
Add support for GIF rendering through Giphy: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/25


Thanks, 

Kee

[vamp8]

what about coins on cryptopia there were a lot of coins, are they still there?

[patoshi]

reasons for the massive moves in the past 2 weeks?

[Loki Alex]

what about coins on cryptopia there were a lot of coins, are they still there?

As far as I know, it was only ETH and ERC20 tokens that were stolen in the Cryptopia hack, not LOKI.

I can't speak for what is going to happen for people who had holdings on Cryptopia, this is the latest on what they had to say.

[Loki Alex]

reasons for the massive moves in the past 2 weeks?

We are very active in development, constant updates in Loki Messenger, core, and Lokinet. Loki Messenger especially has gotten some really big updates lately, so I think this has generated a lot of confidence.

Service node numbers are going up and up too, we are sitting at 879 (which I think is an all time high) as of this post.