[ANN][2POW] Luck - A new consensus algorithm to eliminate large mining pools

[Sherlock.Holmes]

This may be my friend, he has 200 units

@somebody who owns 0x104be85bfd4b0151d61a647bfb1d24d9ee57a19e2683cd7fb0.

We have detected that you deployed a large number of machines.
Our project is still in the early stage and it is not recommended to engage in an arms race.
If you see this message, you can stop some machines appropriately. thank you very much.

If you have other comments, you can leave a message here, or send emails to us.

Thanks to your friend, as our nodes are gradually increasing, your friend can deploy nodes at a normal speed.

[Sherlock.Holmes]

Hello Sherlock do You have any plans for exchanges many ppl asking about it also at discord many successful trades.

The project has only been launched for a short time, and the number of tokens mined is very limited, the stability and reliability of the project still needs time to verify. In the near future, we have no specific plan to list it on any exchanges. However, we still welcome high-quality exchanges to help us promote the project. If you are an exchange, you can also list it on your exchange freely.

[wolfwolf]

This may be my friend, he has 200 units

@somebody who owns 0x104be85bfd4b0151d61a647bfb1d24d9ee57a19e2683cd7fb0.

We have detected that you deployed a large number of machines.
Our project is still in the early stage and it is not recommended to engage in an arms race.
If you see this message, you can stop some machines appropriately. thank you very much.

If you have other comments, you can leave a message here, or send emails to us.

Thanks to your friend, as our nodes are gradually increasing, your friend can deploy nodes at a normal speed.

0x104... It should be a proof of pools resistance.

[Sherlock.Holmes]

There have been some fake anns recently, please don’t trust the wallet link inside.

[Sherlock.Holmes]

you're right
Under the traditional proof-of-work mechanism, for example, there are two groups of miners. The first group has only one node, and the second group consists of 9 nodes forming a small mining pool. the probability of the first group winning is 1/(2^ 9)=1/512.
Under the 2POW mechanism, for the same two groups of miners, the probability of the first group winning is 1/10.

[angrybirds.allen]

There have been some fake anns recently, please don’t trust the wallet link inside.

I recently found a lot of similar fake ann, I obviously know the file in it is malicious, but I am curious what it is.

[sky-white]

I want to know how to use multi-core mining on a single machine. I set miner.start(2) or miner.start(4), which has no effect.

[Sherlock.Holmes]

hello all
For the questions that you have paid more attention to recently, I will answer briefly

1 How to start multi-core mining on a single machine?
Considering that a single node is mining at a medium luck value, more power consumption is wasted. For machines with multiple cores and large memory, we recommend that you start multiple nodes, and each node runs the mining program independently, which is equivalent to the way that each independent program occupies one core. The method of starting multiple nodes on a single machine is as follows:
Linux: Specify different ports and different data directories when starting the process luck --port=<PORT_X> --datadir=<DATADIR_X>. Note that to start multiple processes on a single machine, make sure to specify different ports and different data directories.
Windows: After decompressing the wallet file, you will see the luck/luck.exe file, which is a binary command-line program whose operation is the same as that of the Linux system and requires you to operate in the command-line mode. For example, you enter luck.exe --datadir=<DATADIR_1> --port=<PORT_1> in a command line terminal, and then open another terminal and enter luck.exe attach <DATADIR_1>/luck.ipc. For specific commands, please refer to https://github.com/luck-coin/luckcoin/blob/master/wiki/luck_linux.md.

2 How to optimize the mining network to increase the winning rate?
Since all mining nodes are now connected to the seed nodes, all messages are transfered through the seed nodes. With the gradual increase of network nodes, the transfer efficiency of seed nodes will continue to decline, which will affect the stable operation of mining nodes, especially for miners with multiple nodes. For miners with multiple nodes, it is recommended to deploy a transit node to connect to the seed nodes. The internal nodes directly interact with the transit node. If these nodes are on an intranet, this will greatly increase the message forwarding speed.
Start the wallet node directly, and connect directly to the seed nodes by default. If you want the node to connect to your own transit node by default, you need to specify in the command line parameter --bootnodes=lnode://<NODE_1>@<IP_1>:<PORT_1>, where NODE_1 is your transit node ID, you need to use admin.nodeInfo to view it on the transit node. IP_1 is the IP of your transit node. If it is on the internal network, it is recommended to use the internal network IP. PORT_1 is the port of the transit node, which is 30009 by default. In the Linux system, you only need to add the command line parameter. Under windows system, you need to start your wallet node in command line terminal mode to specify the --bootnodes parameter. In order to confirm that you are indeed connected to your transit node, you can check the connection through the command admin.peers.

[Sikkan666]

Is it posible to ellaborate mining in windows with several instances?

[gigabyted]

Hi Sherklock,

  I've noticed that when you look at explorer or mine a block there's no transaction, block have none, like this one:

{
  basis: "0x6d404275e3492d614c49cc50798c75c8fab144dbefb",
  difficulty: 11331153760054,
  difficultyAlpha: "0x2ddb3df951149918e31abc1246cea760129b4193e0239e",
  difficultyBeta: "0x1dbb9c57b56b45833f52e8e36f7e9906faa96e3361455",
  extraData: "0xd98301090d846c75636b89676f312e31332e3130856c696e7578",
  firstNonce: "0x6c214a00792f0ee7",
  gasLimit: 8000000,
  gasUsed: 0,
  hash: "0x81054c27c9218b7a4a9c7ec9c08eecbc10e01080849a983448361109f272cc1a",
  logsBloom: "0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000                                                                                                                                                     0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000                                                                                                                                                     0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000                                                                                                                                                     000000000000000000000000",
  luck: "0xa7e2473",
  miner: "0x0f714de37856ebd5f3a42a3b6efaa0045630c0468ace042bbb",
  mixHash: "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  nonce: "0x0000000000000000",
  number: 78102,
  parentHash: "0xac028f1cdaa0508703d341ec53760fd4298fa248647c44ee1e8578f1fdc7386b",
  receiptsRoot: "0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421",
  secondNonce: "0x6dac63f93b8536ad",
  sha3Uncles: "0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347",
  size: 642,
  stateRoot: "0x36d994555f15b1ca03e07aae1c02cad9608d8a4dc347bf2a521f202e01d25a9a",
  timestamp: 1597352050,
  totalDifficulty: 293993214247037332,
  transactions: [],
  transactionsRoot: "0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421",
  uncles: []
}

How come?  I see the balance grow but i see no tx for minted coins.

Thanks for answering that

[gigabyted]

Hi Sherklock,

  I've noticed that when you look at explorer or mine a block there's no transaction, block have none, like this one:

{
  basis: "0x6d404275e3492d614c49cc50798c75c8fab144dbefb",
  difficulty: 11331153760054,
  difficultyAlpha: "0x2ddb3df951149918e31abc1246cea760129b4193e0239e",
  difficultyBeta: "0x1dbb9c57b56b45833f52e8e36f7e9906faa96e3361455",
  extraData: "0xd98301090d846c75636b89676f312e31332e3130856c696e7578",
  firstNonce: "0x6c214a00792f0ee7",
  gasLimit: 8000000,
  gasUsed: 0,
  hash: "0x81054c27c9218b7a4a9c7ec9c08eecbc10e01080849a983448361109f272cc1a",
  logsBloom: "0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000                                                                                                                                                     0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000                                                                                                                                                     0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000                                                                                                                                                     000000000000000000000000",
  luck: "0xa7e2473",
  miner: "0x0f714de37856ebd5f3a42a3b6efaa0045630c0468ace042bbb",
  mixHash: "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  nonce: "0x0000000000000000",
  number: 78102,
  parentHash: "0xac028f1cdaa0508703d341ec53760fd4298fa248647c44ee1e8578f1fdc7386b",
  receiptsRoot: "0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421",
  secondNonce: "0x6dac63f93b8536ad",
  sha3Uncles: "0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347",
  size: 642,
  stateRoot: "0x36d994555f15b1ca03e07aae1c02cad9608d8a4dc347bf2a521f202e01d25a9a",
  timestamp: 1597352050,
  totalDifficulty: 293993214247037332,
  transactions: [],
  transactionsRoot: "0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421",
  uncles: []
}

How come?  I see the balance grow but i see no tx for minted coins.

Thanks for answering that

It looks like the block rewards are added to a state channel

[hextobig]

Hi Sherklock,

  I've noticed that when you look at explorer or mine a block there's no transaction, block have none, like this one:

{
  basis: "0x6d404275e3492d614c49cc50798c75c8fab144dbefb",
  difficulty: 11331153760054,
  difficultyAlpha: "0x2ddb3df951149918e31abc1246cea760129b4193e0239e",
  difficultyBeta: "0x1dbb9c57b56b45833f52e8e36f7e9906faa96e3361455",
  extraData: "0xd98301090d846c75636b89676f312e31332e3130856c696e7578",
  firstNonce: "0x6c214a00792f0ee7",
  gasLimit: 8000000,
  gasUsed: 0,
  hash: "0x81054c27c9218b7a4a9c7ec9c08eecbc10e01080849a983448361109f272cc1a",
  logsBloom: "0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000                                                                                                                                                     0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000                                                                                                                                                     0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000                                                                                                                                                     000000000000000000000000",
  luck: "0xa7e2473",
  miner: "0x0f714de37856ebd5f3a42a3b6efaa0045630c0468ace042bbb",
  mixHash: "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  nonce: "0x0000000000000000",
  number: 78102,
  parentHash: "0xac028f1cdaa0508703d341ec53760fd4298fa248647c44ee1e8578f1fdc7386b",
  receiptsRoot: "0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421",
  secondNonce: "0x6dac63f93b8536ad",
  sha3Uncles: "0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347",
  size: 642,
  stateRoot: "0x36d994555f15b1ca03e07aae1c02cad9608d8a4dc347bf2a521f202e01d25a9a",
  timestamp: 1597352050,
  totalDifficulty: 293993214247037332,
  transactions: [],
  transactionsRoot: "0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421",
  uncles: []
}

How come?  I see the balance grow but i see no tx for minted coins.

Thanks for answering that

It looks like the block rewards are added to a state channel

This is based on the account model, the same as ethereum, so there is no coinbase transaction.

[Sherlock.Holmes]

Is it posible to ellaborate mining in windows with several instances?

In the windows wallet, you will find a directory "luck", which contains file "luck.exe" with a size of 50M. You can use the command line terminal to start it. The operation method is the same as in the linux system. You only need to use  different ports --port and different data directories --datadir to start multiple instances.

[Sherlock.Holmes]

Hello everyone
We are still looking for seed node providers. As the number of nodes increases, according to our estimation, we need to start 6-8 seed nodes in the near future. The configuration of the seed node server is as follows:
CPU: 2 core or more.
RAM: 4GB or more.
HardDisk: 100GB
Other: Public IP, open port 30009.

For users who provide seed nodes, we will give each node a continuous reward of 100luck/month.
Users who provide seed nodes can email us individually with the server's IP and login permissions, we will have professional engineers to deploy it.  Thank you.

[jslv587]

win10 I want to know more detailed operation instructions

hello all
For the questions that you have paid more attention to recently, I will answer briefly

1 How to start multi-core mining on a single machine?
Considering that a single node is mining at a medium luck value, more power consumption is wasted. For machines with multiple cores and large memory, we recommend that you start multiple nodes, and each node runs the mining program independently, which is equivalent to the way that each independent program occupies one core. The method of starting multiple nodes on a single machine is as follows:
Linux: Specify different ports and different data directories when starting the process luck --port=<PORT_X> --datadir=<DATADIR_X>. Note that to start multiple processes on a single machine, make sure to specify different ports and different data directories.
Windows: After decompressing the wallet file, you will see the luck/luck.exe file, which is a binary command-line program whose operation is the same as that of the Linux system and requires you to operate in the command-line mode. For example, you enter luck.exe --datadir=<DATADIR_1> --port=<PORT_1> in a command line terminal, and then open another terminal and enter luck.exe attach <DATADIR_1>/luck.ipc. For specific commands, please refer to https://github.com/luck-coin/luckcoin/blob/master/wiki/luck_linux.md.

2 How to optimize the mining network to increase the winning rate?
Since all mining nodes are now connected to the seed nodes, all messages are transfered through the seed nodes. With the gradual increase of network nodes, the transfer efficiency of seed nodes will continue to decline, which will affect the stable operation of mining nodes, especially for miners with multiple nodes. For miners with multiple nodes, it is recommended to deploy a transit node to connect to the seed nodes. The internal nodes directly interact with the transit node. If these nodes are on an intranet, this will greatly increase the message forwarding speed.
Start the wallet node directly, and connect directly to the seed nodes by default. If you want the node to connect to your own transit node by default, you need to specify in the command line parameter --bootnodes=lnode://<NODE_1>@<IP_1>:<PORT_1>, where NODE_1 is your transit node ID, you need to use admin.nodeInfo to view it on the transit node. IP_1 is the IP of your transit node. If it is on the internal network, it is recommended to use the internal network IP. PORT_1 is the port of the transit node, which is 30009 by default. In the Linux system, you only need to add the command line parameter. Under windows system, you need to start your wallet node in command line terminal mode to specify the --bootnodes parameter. In order to confirm that you are indeed connected to your transit node, you can check the connection through the command admin.peers.

[AllForOneA41]

Hi Sherlock I recently create the project for 2 seed nodes located in US and Russia send You an invitation to VPS provider so You can simply manage it and also mail with login details if something will don't work. Just please reply to mail that You got it and all is ok. Cheers

[Sherlock.Holmes]

Hello everyone
We are still looking for seed node providers. As the number of nodes increases, according to our estimation, we need to start 6-8 seed nodes in the near future. The configuration of the seed node server is as follows:
CPU: 2 core or more.
RAM: 4GB or more.
HardDisk: 100GB
Other: Public IP, open port 30009.

For users who provide seed nodes, we will give each node a continuous reward of 100luck/month.
Users who provide seed nodes can email us individually with the server's IP and login permissions, we will have professional engineers to deploy it.  Thank you.

For all,
Thank you very much for your warm help, we have received enough seeds, these seeds will be put in the next version.

[gigabyted]

Sherlock, any chance to release the complete code with these news seeds, so we can build from source, i know several of us arent a big fan of running binaries...

Don't trust, verify!  Remember?

Thanks alot!

[Sherlock.Holmes]

Sherlock, any chance to release the complete code with these news seeds, so we can build from source, i know several of us arent a big fan of running binaries...

Don't trust, verify!  Remember?

Thanks alot!

We have fully released all the codes. If you are familiar with Ethereum, you should know how to compile it.
In addition, we have updated new wallets on the official website , added the new seeds. This update is not mandatory, and users can freely choose whether to update.

[MonsterV]

well i saw there is premine about 300k luck, when the coin will be planned to use or will we have any bounty to promote the coin on this forum, because i dont think that people know enough about this coin, signature campaign is the best for now to spread about the luck coin to bitcointalk community like how idena coin did, i hope there is planned bounty in short time, ive seen the premine only has been used about 600 luck for the guys who contribute seeds.