[ANN][ARQMA] ArQmA RandomARQ coin

[kurbeks]

Watching this thread for future development.

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[toogoody]

List of ArQmA mining pools with live stats & hashrate distribution

https://miningpoolstats.stream/arqma

[holycowforever]

i love the completely 100% anonymous team.
it really instills confidence from investors.

[ArqTras]

We are not anonymous, anyone can meet us in real live.
But yes everyone want faces and contact details. Sure we are working on it.
PS. More updates soon, because we are working at fork release.
Cheers

[ArqTras]

Short update about Devils Gate v0.2

DAEMON
* ArQmA - verify code - only binaries compiled from our source get correct release and commit version allowed in network. Which means any custom modified code compiled will cause dropped connection from the network. Version is verified in DNSSec and commit and seeds. This is tamper proofing that all of Cryptonight needs to prevent some future hacks
* LWMA 3 more effective for network difficult pump and drop hash rate
* Speed up synchronization and upload / download values rised
* BlockchainDB migration from v2 to v3
* Unlocked daemon mining threads

WALLET
*All keys are stored, crypted and locked, when needed are unlcoked in memory (on-the-fly) and after use just wiped from memory
*Password refresh need password each time

MOBILE

We are introducing mobile beta versions of wallet available for download at
https://mobile.arqma.com/

PAYMENTS FOR MERCHANTS

Testing payments in less 10 sec
https://pg.arqma.com/

Incoming futures:

DNS-Crypt
Correcting issues with myarqma.com webwallet
Mobile wallets

Q1/2019 We start working at MN and integration with bank systems and because its under negotiations we keep details for myself

REBASE

We are testing already solutions described if anyone interested to join
https://arqma.com/arqma-stagenet.zip
https://arqma.com/arqma-static-stagenet.tar.gz
https://rebase.arqma.com/
https://stageblocks.arqma.com/

[ArqTras]

https://arqma.com/news/fork-v10-annoucement/

ArQmA Network Fork Announcement:

What: Arqma is transitioning to software and network version 2.0, called "Devils Gate".

Jingle: More secure, faster, more robust, new features, and a payment gateway.

Motto: "When you want something done right, do it yourself. We coded it better for you to do it right."

When: Approximately at block 61250 on 12/4/2018 0230 GMT
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This update is a mandatory update. If you do not update the daemon, wallet application, or pool daemon, you will be disconnected from the network.

Your coins are still on the blockchain where there are stored. If you have coins on the exchanges, they stay there until you do something with them. The coins on their exchanges are their responsibility.

You should not need to update your mining software. Contact your pool owner if you have trouble mining. They will escalate if necessary.

If you mine on a proper pool after the fork, any additional coins you acquire are still stored on the block chain.

You should at the very least update one of your wallet applications to transmit and receive coins in your wallet application.

​Over 100+ changes, 359 source code files changed in total.

The ArQmA devs and support added 23533 lines of code and deleted 8998 lines of code. That's more than a novel sized book if it were printed out.

​You can download the binary executable releases at https://arqma.com/download/

The source code and github at: https://github.com/arqma

​Support on Telegram and Discord as usual 24/7 365 days a year.

Discord at: https://discord.gg/s9BQpJT

Telegram at: https://t.me/joinchat/HNpOMRIiNSoCn0zYrAOofw

​Pool operators: Please join the "#pool_ops" channel in ArQmA discord chat to help confirm any changes or need help in installing the new daemon for pools.

If you do not update your daemon, you will be disconnected from the ArQmA network, until you have updated. That puts your pool miners on halt also.

Set mixin minimum 6 for pool operators, and most importantly change block time 120 in your settings!

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Exchanges:

The two exchanges, TradeOgre and Crex24 have been notified and supplied the updates.

ArQmA devs and support already tested the daemon connection before the fork so everything should go smoothly.

You should be able to transact with them as soon as you can connect to the new network.

​A brief list of changes:

Fork Version 10, also called V10 for short.

Block mining time change to 120 seconds from 240. This changes the emission curve and more blocks and coins for you.

The block reward stays the same for each block.

Faster blockchain downloads with the daemon on local node support for the GUI wallet. Much faster than other coins.

Additional support for the ArQmA Payment Gateway.

Security updates, new daemon security, new wallet security internal checks within the application and the wallet files are decrypted/re-encrypted as you use them.

The new smaller blockchain database will be converted from v2 to v3 when you run the new daemon, allow some time for the conversion.
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After the blockchain database conversion, it takes less diskspace than before.

The wallet application asks you to enter your password to refresh balance even when idling every time now.

Added URI Payments to the wallets.

Lowered ringCT tx_size from 13KB to just under 4KB.

LWMA 4 Difficulty algorithm with a mod to it.

Bulletproof Transactions and RingCT stay as is

We are stil nicehash resistant, and ASIC resistant.

This major release 2.0 is the first step to prepare a solution for daemon source code verification, and dnscrypt which will be released in next release

2.1. Version 2.1 will have self checking executable code to prevent executables compiled from bad and altered code on the network.

[CryptoAtom]

Good work guys.

[SmajeNz0]

Dear All,

The christmas update just before Santa.

The ArQmA Team worked hard to bring you the new GUI which is a lot faster among other things.

Just try and give us your feedback.

Discord: https://discord.gg/s9BQpJT
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/HNpOMRIiNSoCn0zYrAOofw
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArQmA_Network


UPDATE v0.2.2:


Daemon and CLI: https://github.com/arqma/arqma/releases

• New GUI Wallet
• macOS compilation fix
• parse_uri reworked
• system improvements and more

Windows and macOSX GUI: https://github.com/arqma/arqma-gui/releases/tag/v0.2.2

• qr code scanner
• lock wallet on inactivity
• hide balance option
• qr code generator for receive payments
• system improvements and more

Updated pool list:
https://pool.arqma.com/
https://arq.pool.gntl.co.uk/
https://arq.multiminer.us/
https://arqma.herominers.com/
https://cryptoknight.cc/arq/
https://arqidium.smartcoinpool.com/ (merged mining)
http://arqma.disjampools.us/
https://arqma.pool.private-locker.com/
https://webarq.semipool.com/ (merged mining)

Cheers,

[Iamtutut]

I confirm it's much faster, tried it yesterday just after the release. With my RYzen 2400G (vega cores enabled and used as display), sync is 40 blocs per second.

[mach123coin]

The ArQmA Network Status Report for December 2018 / January 2019

Seasons Greetings fellow ArQmA community! We hope you had a great holiday and rang in the New Year well. Some of the ArQmA team worked the weekends and some late night hours to get all the huge amounts of code changes completed.

The fork on 12/4 went well here's a brief list of changes that improved the ArQmA network.

0. A large amount of internal wallet security checks, locks, encryption while the application is running to prevent hacks and surveillance attempts.

1. A two minute block time which increases the transaction rate for faster confirmations of coins sent and received. This also helps speed up the payment gateway when it reaches test release.

2. The daily emission is about 14150 ARQ coins a day, so there is an expansion of the supply of coins. Smoothly decreasing on the same curve setting similar as before.

3. The fork included the release of Devil's Gate .2.2 with a CLI wallet release, a GUI release, and updated source for Linux. Over a 100 changes internally in the code which makes it more robust and capable of supporting the payment gateway, and less of the limitations of Monero.

4. Sorry for the delay in releasing the GUI for Mac OS. But it's available on the main ArQmA download site.

5. QR code scanning and generation was added to the GUI wallet.

6. New options to hide your balance from shoulder surfers, and a timer lockout requiring a password re-entry was added.

7. Hardware wallet, cold storage wallet support was added to the GUI wallets.

8. A few bugs related to the lwma-4 difficulty algorithm tuning and the RPC wallet services were rectified within a few days of the 12/4 release of Devil's Gate .2.1.

9. A new method of merged mining appeared on two pools which allow mining of multiple coins if you mine ArQmA there. They produce Iridium coins (IRD) for you as you mine ArQmA currently. The two pools that offer this so far are Smartcoinpool, and Semipool.
Consult with those pools that offer this option it for specific configuration. Technically, there are other similar coins you can get additional rewards on that use the same algorithm, cn-lite variant 1. At last count, it appears that also Turtle coin, BitcoiNote, Worktips, BBScoin, and others can be merge mined. Please do consider evening the distribution of hash rate to prevent centralization on the network. ArqTras is experimenting with merged mining also as possibly an adjunct to the development pool.

10. The draft of the white paper is almost complete illustrating in more detail about the payment gateway and it's impact and adoption on e-commerce systems. Argonator compiled most of the information, at nearly 50 pages. He also gives credit to SmajenZ0, Pizza Mind, and Bob also for suggestions and critique.

11. With all the updates for the GUI wallet and underlying structure of code have been tested, development of the Android and iPhone wallet is continuing by Michal and ArqTras. The private repository and auto build system is being fine tuned further to generate public source releases.

12. The web wallet was taken down, it's being rebuilt on a fresh install on a faster server. We apologize for the inconvenience. It will eventually come back online. You can still use the GUI wallet or CLI wallet to access your coins. No coins are lost since they are stored on the blockchain.

13. An ArQmA GUI manual in wiki html format is being worked on by Argonator. It's a skeleton draft at this moment, but he is listening for ideas from the community on suggestions to include. Once it is fleshed out in a majority, it hopefully will become an editable tree of instructions, guides, tips, how-tos, and expert level reading on advanced transactions.

Happy New Year! Thanks for supporting us and participating. The ArQmA Team.

[ArqTras]

ArQmA Network status for January.

Hello ArQmA community.

1/27/2019 ArQmA mined the 100,000th block . Congratulations to the miners, pools, and developers who made this possible.

We would like to share things we are working on.

* The redesigned web wallet is in it’s final testing phase. Improvements to the speed of synchronization have been made, we hope you enjoy! PS don’t forget about mobile view implementation.
* ArQmA GUI has been completely reworked for the future, which will allow conversion to android /iOS devices. Michal vel M@lbit working is hard on improvements. I hope you will be positively surprised. Featuring a new language bar, mobile view, password change, auto hide balance and much more to come.
* New pools have arrived and some of them offer merged mining. Using merged mining and spreading hash power can help push decentralization and promote stability and speed of our network. We are in touch with most of the pool owners. Available pools list : https://pools.arqma.com/
* Argonator will be pursuing and contributing to the GitHub issue that Monero listed which involves reporting to the antivirus companies on the security of the applications for mining, daemon, wallet, and utilities. This will hopefully prevent ArQmA and other Cryptonight coin software being reported with false positives and reduce the hassle of antivirus software blocking crypto currency in general
* ArQmA Team have created https://arqma.github.io where you can find and add information about ArQmA Network project. There are important links, FAQ, videos and docs. The most important thing is that everyone can contribute. Just fork https://github.com/arqma/arqma.github.io create own documents and files then send PR. This page belongs to You and everyone is free to make their own improvements.
* For faster synchronization we have also shared the raw file of the ArQmA blockchain available on https://raw.arqma.com which is updated every 2 hours.

The ArQmA Team have considered making an in-house cn-arqma algorithm. Keep your eyes peeled for more updates.

Don’t forget about our payment gateway at (https://pg.arqma.com) where merchants can easily connect their own wallet to receive online payments in a matter of seconds. An FAQ will be prepared soon to help with implementation.

Offline wallet generator is available on https://generate.arqma.com

We at ArQmA are always hard at work making improvements to our blockchain and systems, while other a lot of coins have stagnated during the crypto winter.

We hope the hard work we are putting in pleases you all, it is with your valued support and trust in us that keeps us going.

Thank you everyone!

The ArQmA Team

[communitypool.org]

New pool available, only 0.2% fees. Welcome!
https://communitypool.org/arqma/
https://discord.gg/88sZqyd

[ArqTras]

Hello community.
Small update for today.

We have made an allowance that integrates payments using the arqma currency
Demo you can see at https://shop.arqma.com
Plugin is available here https://github.com/arqma/arqma-payments-woocommerce-gateway
Small wiki https://github.com/arqma/arqma-payments-woocommerce-gateway/wiki

We made also repository with logotypes and stuff related to ArQmA
https://github.com/arqma/arqma-logo

So ArQmA Accepted Here
Cheers,

[ArqTras]

Update for today :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arqma.Droid

First public version of arqmaDroid wallet for ArQmA currency:
- Remote node connection
- Service in background
- Hide sweep amount in street mode
- QR code scan
- NFC payments
- OpenAlias support
- Hardware Ledger Wallet Support

[ArqTras]

ArQmA status update 22 February 2019.

Summary:
We can say clearly now that our ArQmA code base is much different than Monero. It is now evovled beyond the base.
Here's a brief list of new additions to the features of the ArQmA Network:

- ArqmaDroid wallet released and available on the Google play store.
- The woocommerce plugin for wordpress passed our tests and it is safe to implement on other e-shops as a payment method.
- Improvements to GUI are still under hard coding, soon you will get faster and secure tool to keep your ArQmA safe.
- Important updates related to core, mostly speed up the network, buffered rpc calls.
- Since the past fork we have RingCT 4kB size instead of 14kB(smaller blockchain, faster, better).
- Cn-lite PoW variant 1 is more effective at every hash-round we are saving 20 -25 cycles than the original code implementation.
  That's a lot of extra capacity of work divided by your clock speed of your CPU and GPU while mining.

What is going behind scenes:

The team is working hard to implement/improve features coming up:
- Started implementation full SSL TLS_1.2 (minimum with 4096 bit keys) to daemon and wallet rpc, with possibility to have Self-Signed Cert and custom HardCoded Ciphers, on top of it - only allowed trusted hash-whitelist.
- The important core configuration files will be checked by sha256sum at sources validated by IN TXT@DNS-SEC - no more custom modified daemons will be allowed on the network as target goal. This will be checked at daemon at compilation process. If the code isn't the same across all the daemons it won't connect to the network. However, configuration of the code for pool and daemon integration will be explained to the pool operators and exchanges that use it. Regular wallet users of the daemon won't notice any difference in the operation.
- Gitian builds which require validation made by multiple GPG indentification keys. If any key goes invalid it will be not possible to build binary executables.
- Implementing arqma-rpc-javascript for daemon and wallet and also coded rpc calls in to daemon and wallet rpc.
- Hardcoded checkpoints with auto updated on dnssec.
- The block explorer blocks.arqma.com will be improved to fast display tx transactions in the mempool waiting for block mining and confirmation in it's refresh cycle.
- The BISQ network has been code pull requested via Github. Code integration is underway for DEX which will allow auto exchange of differing coins in ArQmA coins for purchases or transmission.

More details soon
Cheers

[ArqTras]

ArQmA now has a community site called Arqma labs.
Stay tuned for content and media contributed by our users.
https://labs.arqma.com
Everyone counts and is important to us
https://labs.arqma.com/2019/03/03/miners-are-expendable/

Ever suddenly realize the coin you’ve been passionately mining for and whole-heartedly believed in has suddenly thrown you under the bus? You suddenly realize that you’ve been backing an endeavor that never cared an iota (pun intended) for what you’ve contributed to their project? I’ve experienced that. Several times.

My experience with ArQmA has been entirely different. I do feel appreciated, not only by the dev’s, but by the community as a whole. I’m actually part of something and not just another miner with a few GPU’s. My opinion matters. Most, if not all coins I’ve been involved with have treated hobby miners like myself as a readily replaceable commodity. They pretend to listen, but their minds are on bigger and better things. We’re nothing to them but an easy way to get hash while they’re busy figuring out the best way to attract mega-hash power with large corporate farms and even ASIC’s in some instances. Their short-sighted drive for success has blinded them to those like myself who set them on that road to begin with, the small guys like us that have small farms but huge passion and belief in this tech.

ArQmA is different. Small miners are appreciated and recognized as a vital part of the ecosystem. We have a say in decisions that ultimately define the value of the coin, not just monetarily but also in the eyes of the end user. These guys realize that success is gained in small increments over a period of time, and that the end user will be the true marker of that success. This mentality of growth in small bytes (did it again!) and taking the time to do things right and in a professional manner are the stepping stones to a very successful future in this ever-changing business of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

The future success of ArQmA will come as a result of the developer’s passion for the technology, the ability to implement it, and the wisdom to know that we, the small guys, make up the big picture, bit by bit., hash by hash.
ArQmA is set to help define the future of how crypto will ultimately become the preferred method of payment for the world. Fast. Reliable. Private. And most importantly, available hassle-free to all!
So come join us. We’d love to share the future with you.
Author: 4thKor

Join, feel free to ask, made contribution. Here in ArQmA are ppl who respect others.
Help creating something bigger, what community want to do.
Cheers.

[ArqTras]

Hello,

Small update for today.
ARQ is listed on bisq.network, now you have 3 ways to buy/sale ArQmA

Exchanges
https://bisq.network/
https://crex24.com/exchange/ARQ-BTC
https://tradeogre.com/exchange/BTC-ARQ

[ArqTras]

ArQmA Devils Cauldron release-v0.3.1 Hardfork v11 on block 131650

Human time (GMT): Tuesday, 12 March 2019 around 22

It’s a major update, everyone needs need to update to the new release

https://github.com/arqma/arqma/releases/tag/v0.3.1

- fix mishandling rct outputs in coin base tx
- enable pruning
- network throttle tweak
- Better error when sending a tx with a too large extra field
- search for syncing peers in cruise mode
- Allow submitting tx as hex blob over ZMQ
- wallet-rpc: get balance/transfers for all accounts and subaddresses
- new seed-nodes and many depends fixes

There is no algorithm change YET but its major update, so please use newest version.

Binaries are available to download
arqmaDroid updated
GUI builds under way

[ArqTras]

Hello

We did some extra updates in short term:

- SSL Support for both P2P and RPC protocols
- SSL-TLS v1.2 minimum supporting with strong CIPHERS hardcoded to sources
- Capability to automatically generate SSL-Certificate
- Bug fix related to alt-chains during sync
- Fix for sync from block 0
- Pruning enabled

Sources available here
https://github.com/arqma/arqma/releases/tag/v0.3.2.1

Due this changes we have temporary disabled myarqma.com, its under rework.
Also new version of gui is under development.
arqmDroid wallet is available to download from playstore

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arqma.Droid

Community run own website called labs
https://labs.arqma.com
You can find there information's related to project and support

Cheers

[ArqTras]

Spring has come, both in the weather and in coding advancements.

The silence is around, but the development daemons didn’t sleep. Our Robocoder, Michal vel Malbit has recharged his batteries, and is ready to make new implementations for the ArQmA Network and as usually for the team crypto security matters

You may wonder what happened to ArQmA’s price and the devs are silent … The answer is simple, we don’t comment price moves and we are deeply focused on coding to deliver the best for the ArQmA network. We are sorry to not be as active as in the past on discord and telegram. In the last weeks we started to experiment with new algorithms and we compared some interesting solutions like argon2, CryptonightR, K12 and cuckaroo among others.

Finally we decided to make our own version of trtl-pico. We are trying to optimize it and gain even more efficiency. We think that the algorithm change will enforce the network security and help decentralization by keeping the ArQmA Network ASIC resistant. We are trying to hold the compatibility with Turtlecoin and their forks to mine them as child coins.

When upgrading to a new algorithm, we will also have the opportunity to implement Poisson anti 51%+ attack solution and a more effective difficulty algorithm. As usual the wallets and services will be updated and ready to go around the time of the hard fork to prevent any issue.

Most people won’t even notice the difference except the pool and exchange operators who have to deal with the technical details.

On the research front we are dealing with programmable debit cards for cold storage. It is really in an early stage, but our goal is to allow every user to load their own keys into a card using the GUI and keep their wallet secure as hell. That idea is OPEN SOURCE and if anybody wants to cooperate, he is as always welcome. These solutions are likely to be very competitive compared to others actually on the market.

ArQmA Labs has been started by a group of enthusiasts and is open for suggestions about ads, artwork, articles and other community related communications. Some very good postings, articles, and videos have already been rewarded with bounties.

Stay tuned, there is more to come!

https://medium.com/@ArQmANetwork/spring-has-come-both-in-the-weather-and-in-coding-advancements-eba67f8ebe5a