[ANN][PIRATE CHAIN](ARRR) A zk-SNARKS only blockchain, secured by dPoW

[grewalsatinder]

Where to next from here?

As PIRATE is a finished project from it's core functionalities and features point of view, what we need now is community's involvement for marketing.

What I suggest:

Please join others in #pirate channel under Komodo Platform Discord: https://komodoplatform.com/discord

Form a team who can manage marketing side of PIRATE.

SHossain and I have added 10,000 PIRATE each to a bounty pool. That means there's a pool of 20,000 PIRATE which can be used for PIRATE related tasks and bounties.

I guess more bounties can be raised as tasks are discussed and decided to work on.

So come join the other pirates in Komodo Platform Discord.  

[jl777B]

current price for PIRATE is bid 0.02 KMD and ask of 0.05 KMD

so the 8000 PIRATE from the airdrop is worth 160 KMD!

congratulations to those who participated.

[grewalsatinder]

I tried the tor settings in the simplest way with PIRATE blockchain.

Just started Tor Browser as normal and used this command to start PIRATE blockchain:

./komodod \
-ac_name=PIRATE \
-ac_supply=0 \
-ac_reward=25600000000 \
-ac_halving=77777 \
-ac_private=1 \
-addnode=37.9.62.186 \
-addnode=136.243.102.225 \
-daemon \
-proxy=127.0.0.1:9150   # Connect through TOR SOCKS5 proxy \
-listen   # Accept connections from outside (default: 1 if no -proxy or -connect) \
-listenonion   # Automatically create Tor hidden service (default: 1) \
-maxconnections=25 \
# -onlynet=onion  # Optional. If you only want to connect to peers via Tor network. If enabled no clearnet/internet IPv4/IPv6 addresses will connect as peers.

Tested this on MacOS. It must be exactly same on Linux as well.
For Windows, just use the single line command, and remove the comment line after "#" too.

Remove the command line parameter or change it accordingly.

I just tested PIRATE over TOR in the most simplest and easiest setup way possible. Bit more advanced users can find this help link very useful which describes setting up "bitcoind" with Tor settings:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/70069/how-can-i-setup-bitcoin-to-be-anonymous-with-tor

Linux admins and PIRATE miners can also help by setting up Tor PIRATE nodes, and share on this forum your .onion address and port for your PIRATE peer.
Once we have good amount of .onion based PIRATE peers we can add them to "-addnode=" list, and can have more privacy added to PIRATE.

The Tor support request has been shared with Agama Wallet developers. Let's hope we get Tor Support in Agama Wallet soon. Once done, setting up Tor for a coin or assetchain would be easier.

Hope this post helps some who wants to try running PIRATE over Tor.

[jl777B]

What Tor support without an entire hype cycle?
more private than XMR and ZEC
secured by BTC

If you are interested in marketing PIRATE fulltime, contact me.
Salary and bonus available

[B1tM@n555]

Hi! Give please links to the latest wallets for windows and linux.

 

[TakeItEasy]

Hi! Give please links to the latest wallets for windows and linux.

All is here, Windows, Linux, OSX.
https://docs.komodoplatform.com/komodo/install-Komodo-manually.html
Also you can use daemon from Agama
\Agama-win32-ia32\resources\app\assets\bin\win64\
But Komodo daemon for Windows is not updated yet as you can see.
https://artifacts.supernet.org/latest/komodo/windows/

Don't know about linux is it update or not. When I get home I'll try it.

And don't forget that

Latest News/Update

ALL PIRATE users and miners MUST update your Komodo to latest code as soon as possible (before PIRATE block 77777)

Now we are at Block Height: 38212

[Flexatron]

+- 9.8 million PIRATE "circulating" now.

Who's selling under a dollar?

[Flexatron]

current price for PIRATE is bid 0.02 KMD and ask of 0.05 KMD

so the 8000 PIRATE from the airdrop is worth 160 KMD!

congratulations to those who participated.

Saw a 0.025 KMD bid today i think

[jl777B]

hashrate is about half of KMD's now
6Msol, 20million+ diff

recent trades at around 0.025 KMD per PIRATE

[Flexatron]

New PIRATE pool with ZERO FEES:

https://pirate.komodopool.xyz/stats

BETA release of AGAMA including PIRATE support:

https://github.com/KomodoPlatform/Agama/releases/tag/multios-0.2.42c

[TakeItEasy]

New PIRATE pool with ZERO FEES:

https://pirate.komodopool.xyz/stats

BETA release of AGAMA including PIRATE support:

https://github.com/KomodoPlatform/Agama/releases/tag/multios-0.2.42c

Nice!
Block Height: 38809
Network Hash/s: 5.95 MSol/s
Difficulty: 21724815.11

[Acura3600]

WTB 100K Pirates or less , can offer DEX  Asset / JumblR / KMD

Pm me the offers

[boomboom]

WTB Pirates , can offer DEX / JumblR / KMD

I want to buy some PIRATE also but it is very hard, we all have to wait for the release of the PEX , PIRATE Exchange , which is being discussed on discord. Early miners aren't selling much OTC but good news is since the fork the mining emission has been extended so best way to get PIRATE now is probably rent some Nicehash and join a pool, very simple, even I could do it!

[boomboom]

Can I run two instances of agama wallet on the same PC? I have the verus wallet staking, but can I also run PIRATE agama based wallet also? I know agama is a multi coin wallet, but I don't know if it's possible to stake/mine verus, and sync PIRATE from the same agama instance, so should I run both wallets at the same time separately.

[TakeItEasy]

I'll sell 50 000 PIRATE when the price will 0.1 KMD per 1 PIRATE.
So 5000 KMD or 96.5 LTC or 0.875 BTC.

[boomboom]

I'll sell 50 000 PIRATE when the price will 0.1 KMD per 1 PIRATE.
So 5000 KMD or 96.5 LTC or 0.875 BTC.

I think if you have patience you will make that trade, if you build a better privacy coin they will come, and PIRATE is the best anon crypto now, supported by one of the most active dev communities in the cryptosphere, so It's just a matter of time.

Z only by default with dPoW is just magic!

[TakeItEasy]

I'll sell 50 000 PIRATE when the price will 0.1 KMD per 1 PIRATE.
So 5000 KMD or 96.5 LTC or 0.875 BTC.

I think if you have patience you will make that trade, if you build a better privacy coin they will come, and PIRATE is the best anon crypto now, supported by one of the most active dev communities in the cryptosphere, so It's just a matter of time.

Z only by default with dPoW is just magic!

Agreed with you. I will hold the main part of my PIRATE.


Somebody, tell me please, what is the average price at the trades in the discord now (I don't use it)?
I want to sell another 10 000 PIRATE.

[jl777B]

I'll sell 50 000 PIRATE when the price will 0.1 KMD per 1 PIRATE.
So 5000 KMD or 96.5 LTC or 0.875 BTC.

I think if you have patience you will make that trade, if you build a better privacy coin they will come, and PIRATE is the best anon crypto now, supported by one of the most active dev communities in the cryptosphere, so It's just a matter of time.

Z only by default with dPoW is just magic!

Agreed with you. I will hold the main part of my PIRATE.


Somebody, tell me please, what is the average price at the trades in the discord now (I don't use it)?
I want to sell another 10 000 PIRATE.

0.05 KMD is recent prices

[jl777B]

The onboarding funds are all gone!
over 15 onboarded at 15KMD for 777 PIRATE

this is below market price so it explains the popularity.

PIRATE whales, please donate to help us onboard more pirates

[jl777B]

Let me explain a bit about the PIRATE privacy.

It is based on the excellent zcash zksnarks tech with a twist. only zaddrs are allowed as destinations for funds. (we can ignore the small amount of PIRATE that notaries are using in taddr for dPoW as other funds are not commingled with those)

What this means is that after the coinbase is shielded it goes into a zaddr, that is the only t->z that will exist. And coinbase is already anonimized to a degree by mining randomness. However the true power of PIRATE is after the t->z. All the following tx must be z->z.

Each z->z breaks links with all prior transactions
Each z->z increases the overall anon set

XMR has a mixin of 10. also a lot of it was deanonymized during the early days due to bugs.

here is an example of a z->z tx: http://pirate.explorer.dexstats.info/tx/cc50541b912a9be18b0e6adcb6a99ec6dc659e63c7a626db245e2dad484924c7

Public input JoinSplit

• -> 0.0001 PIRATE Public output

That's all the info available. Some amount of zfunds were sent from some zaddr to another zaddr and a 0.0001 txfee was paid.



There can be no richlist, only people who monitor transactions coming in can even confirm if they received funds. This is the ultimate in privacy. all tx are basically the same z->z tx as above

As long as you are not announcing to the world via twitter that you just did a PIRATE transaction with the txid, nobody would even know you did a PIRATE transactions, let alone the amount or destination.

And the unexpected hashrate that is already close to KMD hashrate is helping secure the post notarization blocks (usually about 10 blocks) and with dPoW active, PIRATE is being notarized and secured by BTC hashrate.

What this means is that PIRATE is the most private coin in all of crypto and it is also secured by BTC hashrate.

I dont expect any central exchange will be allowed to list PIRATE, so I made a 1BTC bounty for an exchange that can accept zdeposit and do zwithdraws for KMD and PIRATE. We will then have the most private central exchange also!

Unlike any of the other zcash forks, PIRATE is noob friendly. It wont be possible to make a mistake to lose the PIRATE privacy, unless you are announcing publicly to the world about your txid details. And even if you do, the counterparty is still well shielded. In the event your wallet is confiscated then it would be possible to determine what zaddrs funds were sent to, but you cant lookup a zaddr on an explorer and unless there is public postings of the zaddr, there is no linkage

So, still some care is needed regarding disclosure of your zaddrs, but with a proper management of zaddrs for each party you transact with and not posting it publicly, then there is very good privacy. Once you transfer funds to another of your zaddrs, then even such weak linkages are broken.