[ANN][MN][$LOKI] Loki - Private Transactions & Comms

[mr.relax]

I expect an even higher rise of price for loki, as it will become a proof of stake coin.
More need of lokis for staking.

[MingMining]

Interesting. I am using xmrig to mine Loki now with a 3900x amd chip. It seemed i can't make it run in full steam. It is running at 3.8G while when mining XMR it is 4G. And the speed is only 9000h.

Anyone has idea how to config it?

[mineroph]

How to sync ios wallet quicker? Is there a node to add? thanks

[Loki Alex]

How to sync ios wallet quicker? Is there a node to add? thanks

It's possible the remote node you are connected to is slow, so you can try changing it. Otherwise, if you are restoring from a seed, try to make sure that the block height you restore from is from just slightly before you generated the wallet.

For example, if you generated a wallet 3 weeks ago, set the restore block height to 357,000, which is roughly 4 weeks ago

[mineroph]

How to sync ios wallet quicker? Is there a node to add? thanks

It's possible the remote node you are connected to is slow, so you can try changing it. Otherwise, if you are restoring from a seed, try to make sure that the block height you restore from is from just slightly before you generated the wallet.

For example, if you generated a wallet 3 weeks ago, set the restore block height to 357,000, which is roughly 4 weeks ago

Synced now, thanks!

[Loki Alex]

How to sync ios wallet quicker? Is there a node to add? thanks

It's possible the remote node you are connected to is slow, so you can try changing it. Otherwise, if you are restoring from a seed, try to make sure that the block height you restore from is from just slightly before you generated the wallet.

For example, if you generated a wallet 3 weeks ago, set the restore block height to 357,000, which is roughly 4 weeks ago

Synced now, thanks!

No worries at all! Glad it's all working.

[Loki Alex]

Weekly Dev Update #70

Hey Y’all,

Last week we released the Trusty Tyr 5.1.1 Binaries. All Service Nodes, mining pools and exchanges will need to update to these new binaries before block height 385824 (est. 7PM AEDT, 2019-10-23). Currently, approximately 78% of Service Nodes have upgraded, so if you are operating a Service Node, make sure you update in the next week so you stay on the correct chain.

In other news, the Loki Messenger team has sidelined multi device work for now since a key team member is on holidays. Instead, the Loki Messenger team are working on File attachments, profile pictures and @mentions, which should be delivered in a new release shortly. 

Loki Core

RPC updates for ed/x25519 keys https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/880
Simplified get_transfers and fix segfault https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/890
Ubuntu Xenial build fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/889
Travis CI/build fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/888 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/887
Fix versioning https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/886
Increase uptime proof credit to a maximum cap of 48 hours (from 24 hours) https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/882
Enforce new uptime proof versioning https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/881
Change operator fee prompt during setup https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/879
Turn staking requirement into integer math variant https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/877
Dont send an uptime proof until lokid hears from Storage Server https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/874
Upstream RandomX simplifications https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/873
Backports from Quourmnet branch https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/872


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 merged a significant batch of performance improvements for Lokinet, which should allow for better performance scaling, particularly on multi-core machines.

Work continues on implementing a Lokinet GUI, which will allow desktop users to easily control and view their Lokinet connection stats. This requires the underlying Lokinet daemon to be securely controlled by another process (the GUI), so we will need to do some rearchitecting of the Lokinet internals to allow for that. The plan here is for the interface to be used in both the GUI and also via a `lokinetctl` command-line tool that will allow command-line users (such as Linux greybeards and SNApp admins) to control some portions of Lokinet without having to edit config files.


PR Activity:

Huge PR for performance improvements including: multithreaded cryptography, public key pinning, multi-acknowledgement commands. This PR ended up being much larger than intended. It took a long time to review, so Jeff has promised to try to avoid such big PRs in the future. Note that this PR also introduces a protocol change that will make 0.6.x lokinet connections incompatible with 0.5.x lokinet connections  (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/850)
Another multithreaded performance improvement (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/861)
Work continues on developing a GUI interface for controlling Lokinet from the desktop (no PR yet).
Reorganized cmake to better split up cmake scripts into multiple appropriate directories, and rename lokinet-rcutil to lokinetctl (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/856)
Added ability to retrieve own address via lokinetctl (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/857)
Fixes to support building on Ubuntu 16.04 (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/863)
Export info on number of known nodes via rpc (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/862)
Make Windows installer include required utilities, and other Windows build fixes (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/864, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/859)
Improve code documentation (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/860)


Loki Messenger for Desktop

Check against null message body when detecting metions https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/559
Add ability to join custom public chat servers  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/557
Prevent chat members public key from overflowing https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/558
Cherrypick start multi2 commits https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/556


Loki Storage Server

Version 1.0.7 Released https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/releases/tag/v1.0.7


Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

Loki Messenger for iOS:

Mentions version 1 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/56
Add ability to join custom public chat servers https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/57
Loki Messenger for Android:

Add ability to join custom public chat servers https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/35
Mentions version 1 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/33


Thanks, 

Kee

[Loki Alex]

The Loki Foundation has approved LIP-5.

The Loki team will work on transitioning to a full Proof of Stake consensus mechanism throughout 2020.

We're still gathering feedback on how to distribute the remaining mining reward.

Have your say: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-improvement-proposals/issues/10

[MingMining]

my 3900x can't reach 12k h/s. Does it have to use 3600 ram? my 3900x @.38 g with 3200 ram gets only 11400 on a vii hero, another @4.0g with 2400 ram get the same but on a cheap gigabyte ab350. really strange.

[Loki Alex]

my 3900x can't reach 12k h/s. Does it have to use 3600 ram? my 3900x @.38 g with 3200 ram gets only 11400 on a vii hero, another @4.0g with 2400 ram get the same but on a cheap gigabyte ab350. really strange.

I am actually not entirely sure of the answer to this one, but if you join our mining group on Telegram, you will be able to get some help there.

[Loki Alex]

Loki has its very first Tether pairing on Bihodl!

Now you can trade LOKI with USDT.

https://bihodl.com/#/exchange/loki_usdt

[toogoody]

List of known Loki pools (LOKI) :

https://miningpoolstats.stream/loki

Live hashrate distribution, pool fees & minimum payment comparison.

[True Spartan]

Very interesting project. Anyone know how this coin compares to Piratechain, in terms of privacy technology?

[Loki Alex]

Very interesting project. Anyone know how this coin compares to Piratechain, in terms of privacy technology?

Obviously I can't speak for Piratechain, but Loki does have private-by-default transactions. We use ring signatures, stealth addresses, and RingCT to serve private transactions. I am happy to explain any of these concepts if you need, or you can find them in our white paper. A lot of these features have been pulled from Monero, so if you are familiar with that project then a lot of these concepts will be familiar. A key difference is that our ring sizes are fixed (whereas in the past Monero's have been dynamic), which helps to prevent users from getting fingerprinted.

We have also recently enabled checkpointing. Checkpointing further secures the blockchain and helps to protect it from 51% attacks.

[philipma1957]

Looks good to mine.  Maybe I try tomorrow.

[mineroph]

How to resolve this issue? I cannot send Loki from my electron wallet.



Thanks guys!

[doktor83]

SRBMiner-MULTI now supports RandomXL algorithm

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5190081.0

[BoozyTalking]

I think this coin or used algo RandomXL is scam. And this is why:
stats from herominers.com:
pool hashrate - 41.2MH, pool workers - 552.
Everage speed for one worker is 5000 h/s.
552*5000=2760000 h/s (~2.8MH)

As we see there already are private GPU or FPGA miners which have ~ up to x10-15 bigger hashrate then ryzen 5/7.

[Rabinovitch]

Hi all! I'm getting 7800 H/s on Ryzen 7 3800X (Ubuntu Server 19.10, MB ASRock B450 Pro4, RAM Patriot Viper Steel (PVS416G360C7K) DDR4 2x8Gb 3600MHz on XMP, hugepages enabled, xmrig miner compiled by myself).

Are you getting the same results?

[BoozyTalking]

I think this coin or used algo RandomXL is scam. And this is why:
stats from herominers.com:
pool hashrate - 41.2MH, pool workers - 552.
Everage speed for one worker is 5000 h/s.
552*5000=2760000 h/s (~2.8MH)

As we see there already are private GPU or FPGA miners which have ~ up to x10-15 bigger hashrate then ryzen 5/7.

Please stop being a turd.

Please stop call people turd without any reason or proofs.