[ANN] Ergo: A Resilient Platform for Contractual Money [PoW - Autolykos]

[mxxxxxx]

Mining Ergo on AMD Cards

https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/2018_08_08_amd/

[edmoffo]

Do your pools run? I can connect. I cant connect. Anyone who ever answers in support?

[kushti]

Do your pools run? I can connect. I cant connect. Anyone who ever answers in support?

Do you mean the ergoplatform@protonmail.com inbox? I'm there and do not see anything about pools. You can PM me here on the forum, thanks!

[VGATE]

Hi, ERGO team!
VGATE is going to list ERO very soon.
Welcome to trade here https://vgate.io/
https://image-1257137467.cos.ap-hongkong.myqcloud.com/discover/ergo.png

[kushti]

Ergo Reference Client 3.0.7 released!

https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/releases/tag/v3.0.7

This release is introducing new API methods and bugfixes, and also a new consensus rule for testnet only. Details are  below.

The new /script API path is about providing access to scripting possibilities of the node and ErgoScript compiler.

* /wallet/with_unconfirmed renamed into /wallet/withUnconfirmed
* /wallet/p2s_address and /wallet/p2sh_address API methods are moved into /script/p2sAddress and /script/p2shAddress
* new /script/addressToTree method to get serialized script for a box from address

* Fix for #853 : "when trying to send transaction during the synchronization process, it is possible to achieve negative balance in wallet"
* Fix for #875: improper UI description for "inputsRaw" parameter in transaction generation methods
* Fix for #876: a filter for to prevent double spending of unconfirmed boxes introduced in 3.0.6 also filtered out user-provided boxes

Before mainnet launch difficulty got high in the testnet so now dev team can not generate blocks with our few GPUs. Thus we introduce the following breaking change in consensus for the testnet only.
 
* weaker difficulty validation rule for testnet: if there's not block for 5 minutes then difficulty for a new block is set to 1

[kushti]

"$ERG is alive. Welcome to VGATE. Exchange link: http://x.vite.net/assets"

https://twitter.com/VGATE2/status/1163718592505925632

[kushti]

Ergo listing PR has been merged into Bisq https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/pull/3125 . So Ergo will be listed in next Bisq release which is planned for mid-Sep.

[kushti]

Someone made Arabic translation of the whitepaper, please provide feedback on translation quality https://www.docdroid.net/WichSr6/ergo-ar.pdf

[mxxxxxx]

Ergo Mainnet 3.1.0 released - This release is introducing an improved database layer - faster bootstrap, reduced storage size and memory footprint. Full resync is needed

https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/releases/tag/v3.1.0

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1166380590955995137

[kushti]

Persian translation of the whitepaper is now available also, thanks mhs : https://www.dropbox.com/s/wwhs9ihcls2d0vc/ergo_whitepaper.pdf?dl=0

[kushti]

We are doing first small crowdfunding campaign on Ergo blockchain (so with no any website or other third-party collecting funds & doing refunds in case of failure), Please join!

So I propose to raise 500 Ergs before block 50,000 for developing command-line scripts (in Python) for organizing and participating in crowdfunding campaigns after EIP-1 implementation. Command-line scripts are more suitable than doing requests manually, and also could be used for building graphic interfaces on top of them.

The treasury provides half of the funds, so others need to give other 250 collectively. In case of campaign failure refunds will be got automatically. As collecting pledges is not trivial at the moment, I will lead the project role, so please use the key 9gBSqNT9LH9WjvWbyqEvFirMbYp4nfGHnoWdceKGu45AKiya3Fq (controlled by me).

To give money, please follow “How To Donate” section above with replacing backerPubKey with your public key, and pledge amount with a proper value (please note that it is in nanoErgs, 1 Erg = 1000000000 nanoErgs).

Full description is on the ErgoForum: https://www.ergoforum.org/t/simple-crowdfunding/70

One developer already willing to get the tools done in case of successful crowdfunding.

[kushti]

How many people in your project? How many developers are there? What's your background?

My background:

Publications list (a couple of new papers is not there): https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=AG_OSPgAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&gmla=AJsN-F5o5GtNWf8RUeKnFORRLq58S5ekxmN3ia8nu2s2H-q3bymsw0_tloGPKOzf6kE_6rpzMAL9awNo1ueXp0Mh_8hASM7e295cAZFn-cvp0LeH7EbItWw

Blockchain development:
 2013 - some Bitcoin-related apps
 2014-15 - Nxt core development and smartcontract.com (now ChainLink)
 2016-17 - IOHK (iohk.io)
 2017-now - Ergo development (but initial design was born in 2016)

The team is at https://ergoplatform.org/en/team/ , but we also had and have external collaborators (from both academia and industry).

And we would be happy to get more contributors onboard!

[kushti]

The first smart contract based crowdfunding campaign on top of Ergo intended to raise funds for developing a CLI tool to do crowdfunding campaigns is already successful and continues! https://www.ergoforum.org/t/simple-crowdfunding/70/4

[mxxxxxx]

"We are happy to announce upcoming listing of ERGO"

https://twitter.com/Hotbit_news/status/1169883351093694464

[kushti]

I've decided to give Friday updates again:

So current listings: Tidex, WavesDex, Vite

Upcoming listings: Bisq, P2PB2B, SWFT

And today HotBit integration was announced! https://twitter.com/Hotbit_news/status/1169883351093694464

Crowdfunding for developing crowdfunding CLI has raised enough! So we'll have tools to do crowdfunding soon! https://www.ergoforum.org/t/simple-crowdfunding/70/

And first set of CLI tools was for file notarization on Ergo blockchain has been released today (by Sininen Taivas  team) https://www.ergoforum.org/t/ergo-notary-command-line-tool/


Asian tour is coming! Next week I'll give a talk @ RAMICS2019 conference (Session 6D, program is at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1omymhVG_wu6mLRoCbCK_A4SMkbMJLKE6/view ).

Then meetups will be organized in the following cities:

Mon.   16th  - Tokyo
Wed.   18th  - Seoul.
Thurs. 19th  - Hong Kong
Sat.     21st  - Ho Chi Min City
Mon.   23rd  - Shanghai


Then on September, 28-29th I'll visit Iran Blockchain Summer School (@ Sharif University) and give a keynote talk there: https://iranbss.ir/pages/ibssconf/

[U]

As a project launched by previous co-founder of smartcontract.com,when do you guys consider to integrate decentralized oracle ChainLink for fully interacting with real world?

[kushti]

As a project launched by previous co-founder of smartcontract.com,when do you guys consider to integrate decentralized oracle ChainLink for fully interacting with real world?

I'm not in touch with the guys anymore. First oracle is coming in Ergo, maybe next week. What "decentralized" oracle means btw ?

[mxxxxxx]

Alex Chepurnoy will be a special guest of the Iranian blockchain conference https://iranbss.ir on September 28-29th

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1169711147991347202

"This September, we are glad to be an event partner of co-hosts Ergo and ProximaX on the discussion forum Driving Mass Adoption in Blockchain."

https://twitter.com/twogap_official/status/1168823313717547008

Ergo Seoul Meetup, Sept. 18th

https://twitter.com/chepurnoy/status/1171765632410341377

[Glider_X]

"$ERG is alive. Welcome to VGATE. Exchange link: http://x.vite.net/assets"

https://twitter.com/VGATE2/status/1163718592505925632

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECWVmx2XsAAgwqf?format=jpg&name=900x900

that's a real interesting exchange!

[mxxxxxx]

Ergoプラットフォームの初東京ミートアップ Ergo Tokyo Meetup, 16th of September

https://ergo-tokyo-meetup.peatix.com

"Second presentations session of the day. Still questioning cryptocurrencies for social change with various case studies."

https://twitter.com/ramics_asso/status/1171971207794528258