[ANN] Optical Bitcoin (oBTC) Mainnet

[kazumi_opow]

What is Optical Bitcoin (oBTC)?


Optical Bitcoin [oBTC] is a Bitcoin fork using oPoW, a proof of work algorithm for optical computers developed by PoWx (www.powx.org).

We originally published an experimental net in March https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5324899.0

The network has proved stable after the initial adjustment to the genesis block difficulty. We're excited to announce that going forward, oBTC is running as the mainnet, not an experimental net.

More about Optical Bitcoin:

What has been changed in the Bitcoin codebase?

The Proof of Work has been swapped for oPoW and the halving period has been doubled.

What is oPoW?

Optical Proof of Work, a hashcash derivative that is compatible with existing optical computers developed for AI.

Who is Behind PoWx?

The founders of PoWx are Michael Dubrovsky and Bogdan Penkovsky, however, there are many contributors. More details are available on Github: https://github.com/PoWx-Org/obtc-core/blob/master/README.md

Technology

See https://powx.org/opow

oBTC Codebase

https://www.powx.org/obtc

https://github.com/PoWx-Org/obtc-core/releases


Individual Github links:
https://github.com/PoWx-Org/obtc-core/
https://github.com/PoWx-Org/obtc-pool
https://github.com/PoWx-Org/obtc-miner
https://github.com/PoWx-Org/obtc-bluewallet (Also available on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.bluewallet.obtcwallet)
https://github.com/PoWx-Org/obtc-esplora
https://github.com/PoWx-Org/obtc-electrs


Current State of the Blockchain


The chain was fair-launched on bitcointalk as a live experimental net with an empty genesis block and has been running for some time now with miners all over the world contributing hashpower. The current block height is 30111.

Explorer:

https://explorer.powx.org/

Website:

Www.opticalbitcoin.org

Project Goals


We outlined the value proposition of oPoW in our paper, blog posts, etc. over the last several years. The long-term goal is to shift the PoW ecosystem to low-energy computing, making the hashrate more resilient and enabling a much broader geographic distribution of mining. Please see www.PoWx.org

Disclaimer


This is a completely decentralized network, which comes with it's risks and advantages.

Mine oBTC on the official pool:

http://pool.obtc.me/

Happy Mining!

Includes NVIDIA windows miner and CPU miner

oBTC NVIDIA Miner: https://github.com/PoWx-Org/obtc-GPU-miner/releases



Community-run websites, forums, exchanges and other links (these were all created by miners/pool owners/enthusiasts and are not run by PoWx, we cannot guarantee anything about these links):

opticalbitcoin.com

https://discord.gg/Re69prZK

https://coinpaprika.com/coin/obtc-optical-bitcoin/

https://miningpoolstats.stream/opticalbitcoin

https://www.exbitron.com/trading/obtcusdt

Explorer: https://obtc.txrat.com/

Mining Software :

SRBminer MULTI 0.7.8 : https://github.com/doktor83/SRBMiner-Multi/releases/tag/0.7.8 ⛏️
(CPU,AMD GPU)

Suprminer 2.3.1 : https://github.com/ocminer/suprminer-releases ⛏️
(NVIDIA GPU)

[emwiz]

Is this the next bitcoin?
Buying some from an available exchange.

[PeterP4rker]

RxRAT.com
PROP | 0,5% fee


Link:
https://rxrat.com/#/pools/obtc/dashboard



Low Diff - 0.01 - [CPU|LOW-GPU]:

Code:

stratum+tcp://obtc.rxrat.com:8000 

Medium Diff - 0.2 - [GPU]:

Code:

stratum+tcp://obtc.rxrat.com:8001

High Diff - 1 - [RIG]:

Code:

stratum+tcp://obtc.rxrat.com:8002

Check your stats here :
https://rxrat.com/#/pools/obtc/wallet



Discord :
https://discord.gg/KR5FSyB7Qg

[MinersMine]

Mining pool for Optical Bitcoin. MinersMine.com

Download easy to use mining software with bat files! https://github.com/MinersMine/minersmine.com/releases

Stratum config:

Code:

 -a obtc -o stratum+tcp://minersmine.com:5136 -u yourwalletaddress -p c=OBTC

[furcalor]

Available for mining at https://solopools.net (PROP/SOLO) & https://solopools.org (PPLNS/SOLO) - USA East - 0.25% PROP/PPLNS - 0.5% Solo - Payments every hour, with 0.0001 minimum.

Shared:

Code:

Solopools.net: -a heavyhash -o stratum+tcp://pool.solopools.net:5136 -u <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p c=OBTC

Code:

Solopools.org: -a heavyhash -o stratum+tcp://pool.solopools.org:5136 -u <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p x

Solo:

Code:

Solo Solopools.net: -a heavyhash -o stratum+tcp://pool.solopools.net:5136 -u <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p c=OBTC,m=solo

Code:

Solo Solopools.org: -a heavyhash -o stratum+tcp://pool.solopools.org:15136 -u <WALLET_ADDRESS> -p x

Discord: https://discord.gg/2Y6CBXXnQp | E-mail: solopoolsnet .at. gmail . com | Twitter: https://twitter.com/SoloPools | Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/solopools

[PeterP4rker]

Amazing project!

The team seems to be really serious and very skilled.

I'm in

[gameparadise007]

Looks great !!!
Optical mining seems to be a very good option which will save a lot of electricity and solve a lot of problems.

This looks like a rebirth of bitcoin.
I checked the teams behind the coin. It is worth to check this coin.
Thanks to the developer hard work and come with something innovative.

[RUKA-_-]

I am honestly impressed with the quality of this project, I have rarely seen a community so determined to send a cryptocurrency to the moon.

The real question is: Why invest and mine Optical Bitcoin (oBTC)?

My answer is very simple! Because it is the future of Bitcoin and probably of crypto-currency in general.

Many people are concerned about the ecological impact of crypto-currencies in general and... WOW, this one is really exceptional.

The developer team is doing everything to release a quality Optical Miner and the community is really putting in the work, it's great to see people working day and night for such an important project.

I'm proud and happy to be part of this growing community. Together we WIN.

Optical Bitcoin (oBTC) is going to solve a lot of problems for a lot of people.

If I had to bet on one cryptocurrency, this is it, 100%.

If you're still hesitating, stop. This is the future.

[MMOStars]

Based on the dying hashrate is this asic stuff? https://miningpoolstats.stream/opticalbitcoin

[MinersMine]

Based on the dying hashrate is this asic stuff? https://miningpoolstats.stream/opticalbitcoin

There is no ASIC miners on oBTC.

[ttl99]

someone who decides to sell me some coins

[emwiz]

Wow, 650ghs and climbing.

[photonresearch]

Buying 200,000 oBTC @ $.25, Make counteroffer, DM. We will just use the exbitron exchange though.

[--Lu--]

Buying 200,000 oBTC @ $.25, Make counteroffer, DM. We will just use the exbitron exchange though.

Price going up I suggest buy before 10$

[mtmtmt]

Whats this for fuckin Difficulty? Makes mining Dead...

[wanganxiu]

Liar team, refer to here. . After the mainnet was launched before, the team saw that everyone had mined some coins, so they changed the main chain and didn’t exchange it. The team with no credit would plummet after their mining machines were sold.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5324899.0
The mainnet just written at the beginning. . . Later, you modified it into a testnet. . It’s just a team of scammers, without credibility

[MinersMine]

The mainnet just written at the beginning. . . Later, you modified it into a testnet. . It’s just a team of scammers, without credibility

That is absolutely false. This is probably the most fair mined coin you can find. The chain was reset right in the beginning to give everyone a fair chance to mine because of low difficulty. The difficulty was increased doing so.

Optical Bitcoin is stronger than ever.

And no mining machines were sold, they are still in development.

[cryptomaxsun]

Are there nodes for synchronization? My wallet doesn't want to sync without them?
Unexpectedly, trading on 1 exchange and the price is already over $ 2.
Who is behind the development?

[gameparadise007]

Are there nodes for synchronization? My wallet doesn't want to sync without them?
Unexpectedly, trading on 1 exchange and the price is already over $ 2.
Who is behind the development?

It's already on the OP
The founders of PoWx are Michael Dubrovsky and Bogdan Penkovsky, however, there are many contributors. More details are available on Github: https://github.com/PoWx-Org/obtc-core/blob/master/README.md

[Zoff]

The coin looks great. There is every chance of community recognition

[emwiz]

$3.7 per coin wow
Hashrate at 1.9Th/s.
This coin is going to the moon.

[24Kt]

$3.7 per coin wow
Hashrate at 1.9Th/s.
This coin is going to the moon.

It may be increasing for now, but it is not clear for me what exactly is their main goal for this coin? They are saying this will solve problems for a lot of people but how? I may not be seeing the picture here. Because if the coin is not available in several exchanges, how will people use it? So please enlighten me how this coin will solve all the other problems that bitcoin failed to address?

[cryptomaxsun]

Synchronization nodes:

Code:

addnode=163.180.121.64:9901
addnode=195.201.244.39:9901
addnode=207.180.226.93:9901
addnode=107.155.92.42:9901
addnode=65.21.89.182:9901
addnode=49.234.67.236:9901

Russian translation - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5373557.0
I will follow the development of the project.

[Digitaleconomy]

The future looks very promising.

[hicks21]

wait and see .

btw difficulty is raising quickly and solo mining with 1 gpu is nearly dead
some big farms already in .

this coin could reach a major exchange on 2022 if the dev team provide a good work

time to buy some and stock into sleeping wallet . 2$ is the cheap time

[emwiz]

$3.7 per coin wow
Hashrate at 1.9Th/s.
This coin is going to the moon.

It may be increasing for now, but it is not clear for me what exactly is their main goal for this coin? They are saying this will solve problems for a lot of people but how? I may not be seeing the picture here. Because if the coin is not available in several exchanges, how will people use it? So please enlighten me how this coin will solve all the other problems that bitcoin failed to address?

The team is developing optical processor which consumes low energy compared to existing high power consuming mining devices.

The coin is getting listed on bsc and avalanche on 12.12.21 which will give high exposure.

$3.7 per coin wow
Hashrate at 1.9Th/s.
This coin is going to the moon.

Hashrate to 3.5Th/s
Buy more now.

[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]

[Roidz]

wait and see .

btw difficulty is raising quickly and solo mining with 1 gpu is nearly dead
some big farms already in .

this coin could reach a major exchange on 2022 if the dev team provide a good work

time to buy some and stock into sleeping wallet . 2$ is the cheap time

I think so
This is a great time to buy a coin" which we think is worth fighting for in 2022.
We hope that the performance of the development team will continue and work very well.

[finder]

Prepare other exchanges?

[cryptomaxsun]

Yes, other exchanges are needed.
1 exchange is too little.
And besides exchanges, you also need to use the coin, services so that people know about the coin and start using it.

[aruldaroy]

I will wait and also want to see if this coin can reach the main exchanges in 2022 if the development team provides.

[emwiz]

Traderjoe & pancake on 12.12.21

[hicks21]

Cant join discord , invitation link is not valid

[Butterflyman]

I've been following this project since March and I am convinced this is going to be huge in the very near future. Here's a link about the technology the project plans to use for their algo HeavyHash mining.
https://www.wired.com/story/chip-ai-works-using-light-not-electrons/

There's a lot being talked about in their discord channel which I highly recommend joining to keep up to date.
It is currently traded on the Exbitron exchange and a Binance Smart Chain wrap, known to be as wOBTC, is coming on the 12th December along with Avalanche, meaning Pancake swap and so on!

On YouTube, there's a recent interview (talk only) with community leader 'Just A Dude' which you'll find here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oidTBpMPjR4&t=2s

[vVxiliVv]

I just got banned from the discord server and i do not know why...
I was just passing by in an argument when someone with a Rick avatar got banned and i got too after i typed "ummm hello".
(My username is the same at discord if you would unbann me please... )

[TacoSimp]

I just got banned from the discord server and i do not know why...
I was just passing by in an argument when someone with a Rick avatar got banned and i got too after i typed "ummm hello".
(My username is the same at discord if you would unbann me please... )

Same man.  I just got banned myself.  No idea why, tried to reach out and I just got banned again.  Still wish the project well, and it'd be a shame if they decided not to ship my miners to me.  A real shame indeed.  Oh well, I'll just support it with my hashrate and be on my way.  GL oBTC team!!!

@Just a Dude: You're the best man.  Keep up the hard work!

[Butterflyman]

Why are you all banned? There must be a good reason why? I'm curious?

[murilobast]

I just got banned from the discord server and i do not know why...
I was just passing by in an argument when someone with a Rick avatar got banned and i got too after i typed "ummm hello".
(My username is the same at discord if you would unbann me please... )

Same situation, a dude was trash talking about adjustable diff, I was defending the project and got banned when he got. I remember taco explaining why it wasn’t that simple. Sad to see he also got banned later.

[vVxiliVv]

I just got banned from the discord server and i do not know why...
I was just passing by in an argument when someone with a Rick avatar got banned and i got too after i typed "ummm hello".
(My username is the same at discord if you would unbann me please... )

Same man.  I just got banned myself.  No idea why, tried to reach out and I just got banned again.  Still wish the project well, and it'd be a shame if they decided not to ship my miners to me.  A real shame indeed.  Oh well, I'll just support it with my hashrate and be on my way.  GL oBTC team!!!

@Just a Dude: You're the best man.  Keep up the hard work!

I remember you, your avatar is a cat beeing high

[Butterflyman]

For those of you wondering... oBTC is the only oPowX supported heavyhash coin. Any clones, forks and new projects based on Heavyhash are all by products from oBTC and opowx.
Nothing wrong having multiple projects. That just proves how important the ORIGINAL oPoW coin is in the future. Members of the community, including myself know that the future of mining should be highly power efficient.
Just remember who started the future of optical mining - Optical Bitcoin!  

[emwiz]

Will the optical miner work for coins other than OBTC optical bitcoin?

[PeterP4rker]

Will the optical miner work for coins other than OBTC optical bitcoin?

Logically yes, this should work on all projects that run on heavyhash.


Guys we need your vote on https://coinsniper.net/coin/21656
It takes two minutes to create an account and validate your vote.

It is very important!
Thanks for your support 

[cryptomaxsun]

A new project has appeared PhotonicBitcoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5375854.0
This is a copy Optical Bitcoin.
There seems to be an instamine there.
We should expect the appearance of new forks-copies of this coin.

[pinpins]

Yea, you can mine both on zergpool now.

[gameparadise007]

This is getting popular, already there is a fork of oBTC in the market.

[doktor83]

New SRBMiner out for AMD miners, faster 'heavyhash' algorithm.
https://github.com/doktor83/SRBMiner-Multi/releases/

[Butterflyman]

Less than 24 hours to go for BSC wrap. 15th December

Anyone thats new or needs more info, join Discord and check out their updated website at https://opticalbitcoin.com

Also please vote for oBTC on https://coinsniper.net/coin/21656

Cheers  

[hughbt]

Really interesting idea. This coin deserves more recognition.

[Sir_Astral]

Block explorer needs rich list at least.

[gameparadise007]

Block explorer needs rich list at least.

There are two explorers -
One is from powx team -
https://explorer.powx.org/

One is build by a community member-
https://obtc.txrat.com/

This one has richlist.

[cryptomaxsun]

A new project has appeared PhotonicBitcoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5375854.0
This is a copy Optical Bitcoin.
There seems to be an instamine there.
We should expect the appearance of new forks-copies of this coin.

Having been a miner in both projects, I can tell you this is not true at all, there has not been instamine.

I can also say OBTC project is very fishy.
1) They will ban anyone in their discord talking about PBTC or being in PBTC discord
2) They will delete all discussions about difficulty algo change or pBTC
3) They claim PBTC is malicious even though they have no proof of it
4) They spam PBTC bitcointalk with BS
5) They denied TradeOgre listing, I believe this is because they want to manipulate Exbitron exchange prices
6) They already have FPGAs running in network, and they release a close source miner that has 30%dev fee dated "21 08 15" which could be 2021 08 15 or 21 08 2015, and is recognized in virustotal here:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dafa0bbb82261ab49aa4fe05360a7f42c5bc2c96730c730536b6c800674ab5d2?nocache=1
New miners are not recognized, so they either have been mining for some time already without public knowledge or are using some existing miner and just put their name and dev fee on it.
7) OBTC has no interest in community development, so Exbitron exchange made their discord server
8. Official explorer has removed rich list, while the rtrax one has it. Top 3 wallets all have 100k coins+.
Lastly, the OBTC project has been silent mined since March 28, until some strange valuation explosion in November for no reason.

Probably these are some of the reasons PBTC decided to fork, even one of OBTC community devs seems to be in PBTC now instead, kev9, who created website for OBTC when OBTC devs didnt give a shit.

Thanks for the comprehensive answer.
I will follow the development of both projects.
I also mined both coins, I will not make any hasty conclusions, time will tell.
Both projects seem interesting to me.

[gameparadise007]

A new project has appeared PhotonicBitcoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5375854.0
This is a copy Optical Bitcoin.
There seems to be an instamine there.
We should expect the appearance of new forks-copies of this coin.

Having been a miner in both projects, I can tell you this is not true at all, there has not been instamine.

I can also say OBTC project is very fishy.
1) They will ban anyone in their discord talking about PBTC or being in PBTC discord
2) They will delete all discussions about difficulty algo change or pBTC
3) They claim PBTC is malicious even though they have no proof of it
4) They spam PBTC bitcointalk with BS
5) They denied TradeOgre listing, I believe this is because they want to manipulate Exbitron exchange prices
6) They already have FPGAs running in network, and they release a close source miner that has 30%dev fee dated "21 08 15" which could be 2021 08 15 or 21 08 2015, and is recognized in virustotal here:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dafa0bbb82261ab49aa4fe05360a7f42c5bc2c96730c730536b6c800674ab5d2?nocache=1
New miners are not recognized, so they either have been mining for some time already without public knowledge or are using some existing miner and just put their name and dev fee on it.
7) OBTC has no interest in community development, so Exbitron exchange made their discord server
8. Official explorer has removed rich list, while the rtrax one has it. Top 3 wallets all have 100k coins+.
Lastly, the OBTC project has been silent mined since March 28, until some strange valuation explosion in November for no reason.

Probably these are some of the reasons PBTC decided to fork, even one of OBTC community devs seems to be in PBTC now instead, kev9, who created website for OBTC when OBTC devs didnt give a shit.

I think you are just spreading hate for a new project which is having a unique idea of optical miners.
Secondly there are real people with their identity open on twitter and LinkedIn and if any new project like pbtc will use the name or idea from obtc or opow then definitely they need to protect themselves by giving disclaimers about other copy projects to protect their names if in future there is a fake project.
What you say about no community developement. I think you have not been to discord. There is a community site, explorer, wildrig dev has given support to develope miner, many other people are helping here like helped in bridging to BSC chain. The core team is busy with the actual development of miner and other softwares.Go and check the GitHub, check the optical miner prototype. It, is people who believe and mine, they should work on community part and not development team, as they should be busy with core and other dev part.
There is no coin where the richlist don't have top wallets, check ravencoin or any coin they recently have boomed. Go and check the richlist.

[gameparadise007]

Indeed you are a full member, and Kazumi is a newbie, so maybe it would be more correct to call Kazumi your alt.
Myself am a newbie, and only started to be more involved in crypto last spring (ETH surprisingly) and have had no reason to be in bitcointalk when development and majority of miners are in Discord.
Last post I made was about ETH, and now I felt like posting after reading all the BS in OBTC discord, and getting banned for existing in another discord, and the bitcointalk BS.
I still hold a fair share from mining in November.

I just want to end my opinion here. You can assume whatever you want, if that makes you happy. I am following both the projects from day 1. If you want to discuss more, join discord.
I am too a holder in both the coins and not against pbtc, they have their own plans. But creating hate is not good for both the project , it is even not good for pbtc which is a fork of oBTC.
In both projects, I am in under 25 richlist, but I am nowhere blaming any project and following both.
If you have any confusions, discord is best place to discuss.

[matejbilahora]

Started to mine today. Is there any way how to calculate how much is one able to mine thru the day?

[TacoSimp]

Is something going on with the network? The last block found was 5-6 days ago, the network hashrate has 1+ TH/s of uknown hashpower, my rig isn't being recognized on the miner.  Is the network in some state other than fully operational?


Edit: Looks like difficulty started clinching down on the network about 1 month ago.  It went from the standard number of blocks per tokenomics to 1 or 2 a day and then further infrequent blocks found since then.  Looks like the dev team is making strides to correct this issue.  They have a test net after determining a best course forward.  No ETA it doesn't seem, but the project is far from abandoned it appears.

[TacoSimp]

Is something going on with the network? The last block found was 5-6 days ago, the network hashrate has 1+ TH/s of uknown hashpower, my rig isn't being recognized on the miner.  Is the network in some state other than fully operational?


Edit: Looks like difficulty started clinching down on the network about 1 month ago.  It went from the standard number of blocks per tokenomics to 1 or 2 a day and then further infrequent blocks found since then.  Looks like the dev team is making strides to correct this issue.  They have a test net after determining a best course forward.  No ETA it doesn't seem, but the project is far from abandoned it appears.

2016 block difficulty adjustment was warned about already in March 19th before mainnet launch in 2021, even Doge fixed this in 2014.
The latest wallet release is from 28th of March 2021, from launch day - no bugs fixed this entire time. Think what you like.

Oh I'm aware, they saw this coming from a mile away.  This difficulty issue is precisely why PBTC was forked and created (though that projects seems to be dead now).  The OBTC devs were warned way in advance, and they absolutely refused to fix this in early November even because they didn't want to change the blockchain.  And here we are, almost two months later with this stupid problem of 1 or 2 blocks every several days. 

That being said, don't look at the wallet release but the github checkins instead.  They have to test it first. 

I have to remember that there are many people who aren't tech savvy or software devs who are into crypto. 

[theSloosh]

FYI I've seen in the discord that the difficulty issue has been fixed, it is now lowering very well 

[Digitaleconomy]

I like the project... HODL oBTCoBTC

[murkapool]

Optical Bitcoin now available on:

MurkaPool.it

Website:
https://www.murkapool.it/

Stratum:
stratum+tcp://murkapool.it:5136

Miner Command Line:
-a heavyhash -o stratum+tcp://murkapool.it:5136 -u <walletaddress> -p c=OBTC

Fees:
0.2 % - Shared Mining
0.4 % - Solo Mining

Payout:
Min. 5 OBTC every 30 minutes

Peers list:
addnode=46.4.98.180:9901
addnode=54.37.81.148:9901
addnode=62.171.188.236:9901
addnode=95.217.19.164:9901
addnode=65.21.57.150:9901
addnode=78.109.130.97:9901
addnode=159.69.123.165:9901
addnode=45.241.201.175:9901
addnode=87.110.170.237:9901

[LaaMos Seeth]

Another abandoned shit?
Dev Last Active:    March 18, 2022, 01:21:39 PM

[MMOStars]

Another abandoned shit?
Dev Last Active:    March 18, 2022, 01:21:39 PM

People moved to Kaspa that is running modified heavy hash with a lot more solid foundation and solid exchanges.

[igotek]

https://discord.gg/Re69prZK

discord link is invalid.

[chigualao]

I like this, will mooon, 1000+