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

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The Ergo Cast: Understanding Ergo One Episode at a Time. The Ergo ecosystem’s premier podcast https://ergocast.io 🔥

https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/2019_12_16_podcast/

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1207253475026972672

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

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1207339456220585984

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Ergo Mainnet 3.1.5 released - Node UI (/panel) updated, cross-build for Scala 2.11 and few fixes. Details in the description of the release

https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/releases/tag/v3.1.5

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1207716918116978690

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New tutorial: "Mining Ergo for Fun and Profit"

https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/wiki/Mining-Ergo-for-Fun-and-Profit

Updated manual: "How to set up and configure a full Ergo node"

https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/wiki/Set-up-a-full-node

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"Make Your Own Ergo Wallet: Managing Ergo Coins with ErgoTool"

https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/2019_12_31_ergo_tool/

https://twitter.com/avslesarenko/status/1211956953083240448

"Coinbarn wallet now has its desktop version"

https://twitter.com/coinbarn/status/1211026427686064133

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Ergo Mainnet 3.2.0 released

Attention! This version contains breaking changes in database structure, so please remove "state", "history", "wallet/registry" in your data folder (.ergo by default), and do re-sync. If you did not make derived keys, you can delete the whole folder and recover from mnemonic. Please unlock wallet before the height of the first tokens retrieval!

Main changes:

PR #969 , #1011 - LevelDB is used now for storing the state (UTXO set + authenticated AVL+ tree on top of it)
PR #1004 - a fix for light mode with blocksToKeep set (pruning switched on)
Additionally (fixes for minor issues not related to client functionality):

PR #1010 - support for native-image generation in ergo-wallet
PR #997 - from now every new release will be checked for bootstrapping in 3 full-node regimes (w. UTXO set, w/out UTXO set, w/out UTXO set and blockchain pruning)
PR #1014 - improvements and fixes in ergo-installer.sh
PR #1015 - fix for Docker build
PR #1016 - fix for empty gitHeadCommit (minor building issue)


https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/releases/tag/v3.2.0

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1214608612288585730

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Security Audit (by Jean Philippe Aumasson)

https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/2020_01_12_security_audit/

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Bypassing Non-Outsourceable Proof-of-Work Schemes Using Collateralized Smart Contracts: A Chepurnoy, A Saxena

https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/044

Introducing the Ergo Foundation, a community-driven entity

https://ergoplatform.org/en/foundation/

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1218174658521989120

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Ergo Platform Research Fellow Amitabh Saxena is joint author of papers on cryptographic e-cash since 2005

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1219176302969790465

ErgoScript 3.2.0 for Ergo Mainnet has been released- This release introduces optimization of serialization and SCoverage enabled for CI

https://github.com/ScorexFoundation/sigmastate-interpreter/releases/tag/v3.2.0

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1219191622702895104

Daily Ergo Fact

"Ergo's support for sigma-protocols (aka generalized Schnorr proofs) is truly unique. As building bricks for composable statements, Ergo support Schnorr protocol and proof-of-Diffie-Hellman-tuple, but more can be added via soft-forks"

https://ergoplatform.org/docs/ErgoScript.pdf

https://twitter.com/chepurnoy/status/1219164353087311872

First Ergo transaction spending a coin protected by Diffie-Hellman-Tuple

https://explorer.ergoplatform.com/en/transactions/24f6996bea6b914d3dab7d645cd5e5b9a57e3ac88b2774d34a2be26bdf708d28

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Alex Chepurnoy participated in the "Insights from the Top Minds of Crypto"

https://medium.com/gains-associates/compilation-of-insights-from-the-top-minds-of-crypto-ec11f037221c

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1219903734467170304

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Ergo Platform Discord Server has been created. You are welcome to join us

https://discordapp.com/invite/gYrVrjS

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1220231552669491200

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Ergo is a hidden gem 

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Ergo is a hidden gem 

Exactly! Time to uncover it!

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ErgoCast #2, 2019 in review: https://ergocast.io/episode/2019-year-in-review/

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Some guy told recently in the Ergo discord ( https://discord.gg/3M3hjR ), ergopool channel :

 "Dear Ergo Community, I would like to announce that the first mining pool for Ergo is coming in the following days. This pool is using collaterals and smart contracts, and it would be almost open-sourced. Technically, we do not have control over what you mine but as an arbiter collect the money and distribute it to the miners. So, the pool is censorship-resistant and somehow decentralized. We hope this step in Ergo mining at the beginning of 2020, mitigates the obstacles of Ergo mining for small/medium miners and spreads the words of Ergo. So please follow this thread for the news."

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Ergo Platform Roadmap for 2020

https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/2020_02_02/

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1224028515340890113

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Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest - January 2020

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1224396688045023232

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Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest - January 2020




   *  Ergo Foundation has been established (https://ergoplatform.org/en/foundation/)

    * Security audit of most critical parts of the reference protocol client is done, report is available (https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/2020_01_12_security_audit/)

    * New paper is out, “Bypassing Non-Outsourceable Proof-of-Work Schemes Using Collateralized Smart Contracts” (https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/044.pdf). This paper describes how to build a pool for Ergo based on smart contracts with collaterals.

    * Public Discord server has been created (https://discordapp.com/invite/gYrVrjS), please join!

    * Ergo Platform reference protocol client 3.2.0 released (https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/releases/tag/v3.2.0). Updates are coming reguralry!

    * CoinBarn wallet is still under review in ChromeStore, but released a desktop version (https://twitter.com/coinbarn/status/1211026427686064133). CoinBarn is the simplest wallet for Ergo, and it is supporting custom tokens!

    * Ergo now has a command-line wallet also, called ErgoTool. An introductory article on the ErgoTool: https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/2019_12_31_ergo_tool/

    * ErgoCast #2 published: https://ergocast.io/

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Some guy told recently in the Ergo discord ( https://discord.gg/3M3hjR ), ergopool channel :

 "Dear Ergo Community, I would like to announce that the first mining pool for Ergo is coming in the following days. This pool is using collaterals and smart contracts, and it would be almost open-sourced. Technically, we do not have control over what you mine but as an arbiter collect the money and distribute it to the miners. So, the pool is censorship-resistant and somehow decentralized. We hope this step in Ergo mining at the beginning of 2020, mitigates the obstacles of Ergo mining for small/medium miners and spreads the words of Ergo. So please follow this thread for the news."

Ergo pool soon! 

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AMA session with Ergo on February 18 on Probit

https://twitter.com/ProBit_Exchange/status/1227159871306395648

Chepurnoy's (AKA Kushti) presentation "A New Quest for Decentralization"

https://twitter.com/fin_nexus/status/1225781259982471170
 
"Bypassing Non-Outsourceable Proof-of-Work Schemes Using Collateralized Smart Contracts will be presented by Chepurnoy at WTSC workshop associated with Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2020 in Malaysia."

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1225765799228559361

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Ergo builds advanced cryptographic features and radically new DeFi functionality on the rock-solid foundations laid by a decade of blockchain theory and development. Frontpage was updated

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1228019019392876545

Welcome to Smart Money

https://twitter.com/ergoplatformorg/status/1228019993763295232