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

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Ergo is listed on p2pb2b

https://twitter.com/p2pb2b/status/1172593194825068549

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Ergo will be presented tomorrow (Sept, 16th) in Tokyo. Please come or inform your peers! https://ergo-tokyo-meetup.peatix.com/view

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Slides from Tokyo meetup

https://www.slideshare.net/AlexChepurnoy/ergo-presentation-tokyo

Bisq v1.1.6 has been released, with support for Ergo

https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/releases/tag/v1.1.6

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"Alex Chepurnoy, core developer and researcher at Ergo, is speaking about their latest updates and progress at the ErgoPlatform meetup in Seoul."

https://twitter.com/MonikaKCS/status/1174378361117786112

https://twitter.com/MonikaKCS/status/1174376015906271232

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Ergo meetup in Hong Kong

https://twitter.com/chepurnoy/status/1174601498094755840

“It’s not realistic to store anything for free forever”

https://twitter.com/larrysalibra/status/1174655720765001730

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Alex Chepurnoy presenting Ergo in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1175347190820155393

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Ergo Meetup in Shanghai, Sept, 23rd

https://twitter.com/chepurnoy/status/1175818607172956160

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1176122539401261056

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"A set of useful utilities for Ergo protocol starts with Path matcher"

https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo-utility/releases/tag/v0.1

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1176087124891844608

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"Multi-Stage Contracts in the UTXO Model" by Alexander Chepurnoy and Amitabh Saxena

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-31500-9_16

http://deic.uab.cat/conferences/cbt/cbt2019/resources/chepurnoy.ogv

http://deic.uab.cat/conferences/cbt/cbt2019/resources/chepurnoy.pdf

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1178577553789014016

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D. Meshkov is leaving Ergo core

https://www.ergoforum.org/t/d-meshkov-is-leaving-ergo-core/100

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An update (will do them periodically again until a new road show)

The road show was highly successful. In particular, we're now talking with some Korean and Vietnamese exchanges, there is a small team now starting decentralized pool development, we've got new fans and hundreds of business cards.

HotBit listing announced https://twitter.com/Hotbit_news/status/1179366976046714881 . Listing will take place likely within few days after holidays in China( Oct, 1st - 7th). Within few days after listing we'll have AMA session for HotBit users.

New listings are coming!

External developers are reporting that they're testing pricing oracles and non-interactive coin mixing. With the oracles we can do loan contracts, mutual credit systems and other DeFi (decentralized finance) applications.

3.1.1 is coming with simplified user-friendly interface added.

There's enough new features for 3.1.2 as well, e.g. a new version of language interpreter with much improved performance.

And please note, unlike Bitcoin and Ethereum, where formal verification techniques took years to appear around, in Ergo a crowdfunding contract used in practice has some formally verified properties just within 3 months after launch, see https://www.ergoforum.org/t/simple-crowdfunding/70/19 for details.

So everything is going well, if you want to help us, please join the community, spread the word and hodl!

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ERGO (ERG) LISTED ON HOTBIT
 
Deposit opens at: 2019-10-09 15:00（UTC+8）
Trading opens at: 2019-10-09 15:00（UTC+8）

https://twitter.com/Hotbit_news/status/1181492203035643904

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AMA on Hotbit Wechat Group at 16:00 (UTC+8) on October 10th.

https://twitter.com/Hotbit_news/status/1181528994581114880

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Ergo Mainnet 3.1.1 released - New UI available(e.g. 127.0.0.1/panel). A simplified wallet UI will be added in next versions. New API methods to get wallet status and address from a script.

https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/releases/tag/v3.1.1

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1181583225115820037

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Ergo Platform: A Resilient Platform For Contractual Money and Decentralized Finance by Alex Chepurnoy. Thanks to Genesis Block for hosting us in Hong Kong.

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1182228109694779392

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShHAHbMpzxs

Hotbit AMA transcript

https://www.ergoforum.org/t/hotbit-ama-10-10-2019-transcript/107

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A lot of news already for this week (3.1.1, HotBit listing and AMA, video from Hong Kong etc), but we have more:

* 3.1.2 is ready (in the dedicated branch https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/tree/v3.1.2) and under testing
* An oracle posting ERG/USD price is done by "Sininen Taivas": https://github.com/sininen-taivas/ergo-oracle , we are testing it. With the oracle it is possible to develop such applications as LET systems , p2p loans, rainbow channels etc
* First stage of EIP-0001 (application-friendly wallet) implementation is done and under review: https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/pull/897
* EIP-0003 (BIP-44 for Ergo) and EIP-0004 (tokens standard) are proposed : https://github.com/ergoplatform/eips/pulls
* Ergo community is on the way to get an implementation of non-interactive mixing scheme done: https://www.ergoforum.org/t/lets-play-with-ergomix/108

And now very important announcement:

* development of a decentralized pool has been started! Please note Ergo does not allow centralized pools, but decentralized pools where miners generate block candidates on their own (which is important for resistance to censorship) and cooperate with the help of blockchain contract are actually possible. Some ideas were discussed on the forum: https://www.ergoforum.org/t/creating-an-ergo-mining-pool/42, and now lead developer of AMD mining software "mhs" started the pool development! So 2-3 months later Ergo will be friendly to small miners (currently you need for 30+ GPUs to see stable income). However, collateral will be needed for decentralized mining contract (better to have 130 Ergs at least, so about 2 block rewards, even if you're a small miner), so better to buy Ergs for cheap and store them to mine later probably!

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Ergo Mainnet 3.1.2 released. This release includes rebroadcasting of mempool transactions. API route to generate P2SH address disabled

https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/releases/tag/v3.1.2

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1183738362039013376

Indistinguishable outputs of a mixing transaction

https://explorer.ergoplatform.com/en/transactions/52ba7476f4cadd2c25b53d235ae7cad06fd7c79860c521435032c1d4001e4538

https://www.ergoforum.org/t/lets-play-with-ergomix/108

https://twitter.com/chepurnoy/status/1183736638503116801

CUDA-based GPU miner for Ergo updated

https://github.com/ergoplatform/Autolykos-GPU-miner

https://twitter.com/chepurnoy/status/1183712773869572101

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Test oracle which is writing nanoErg per US cent price from CoinMarketCap into R4 register of a box labeled with the "c402..." singleton token: https://explorer.ergoplatform.com/en/addresses/9fRusAarL1KkrWQVsxSRVYnvWxaAT2A96cKtNn9tvPh5XUyCisr

Details on how to run an oracle will be published on the ErgoForum soon.

With the oracle now financial contracts such as trustless LETS and loan contracts could be developed.

On decentralized pool, currently there's controversy that a single party can control a lot of mining power hiding under many pseudonymous identities. While there are no evidences so far behind this theory, decentralized pools can make significant share of mining power visible but without possible issues of centralized pools (in regards with censorship). The Foundation also welcomes research in probing the Ergo network, finding geo distribution of mining power etc. Such research may be sponsored.

Core developers have enough material for couple of new releases, including support for wallet operations in new UI, updated (more efficient) ErgoTree interpreter, new API methods for applications development, and fixed P2SH addresses. Probably 3.1.3 will be out on Monday (Oct, 21st).

We are looking for external development teams willing to develop a decentralized exchange and a full-fledged (desktop?) wallet (with mixing and 3rd part applications support), please contact the core community members on that.

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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 ?

See it.

Decentralized oracle means many nodes to feed the same data in order to prevent single point error IMO.For Chainlink,there are 20+ nodes now.

What about Ergo oracle?