[BBR] Boolberry: Privacy and Security - Guaranteed Since 2014

[maxcan]

Man, this whole thread is about GPU mining esoterics...
Hash power is probably the least of BBR's problems.

fair distribution is always a problem for a coin.

i prefer when devs are improving the coin instead of just talking about how they can sell it.

You REALLY need to get a journalism type =  a writer...
To spend 10-20 hours/week writing promotional material for BBR...
And send it off regularily to the Alt Coin press.

i think btc-mike could advertise that we now have a working public GPU miner. i've been passing his presentation on to other people.

still, i agree. as a day trader it's no fun holding a coin that drops in value (unless you have more BTC to buy it with). and people need a reason to spend the coin places if it's going to be a long-term anonymous currency, otherwise it's just a fun project with the side-effect of people willing to trade it for BTC 

but at the same time i'm not worried about it crashing to 0, and even if it continues to drop i'll keep picking more up every other week.

it's a lot less stressful than having to ride a hype train, for me at least! might be better to stay out of the spotlight as long as possible.

[dga]

Man, this whole thread is about GPU mining esoterics...
Hash power is probably the least of BBR's problems.

You have a better coin and network than Monero...
The tx size issue seems under control unlike Monero...
But BBR has now collapsed by 50% relative to XMR and sits at a 7:1 ratio.

You REALLY need to get a journalism type =  a writer...
To spend 10-20 hours/week writing promotional material for BBR...
And send it off regularily to the Alt Coin press.

Doesn't your Ivory Tower university have a Journalism Faculty?

I think this one was important.  Not for reality - I agree with you that hash power is not a real problem - but because it solves a perception problem that opponents of BBR were using to hurt the coin when they argue against it.

To recap, with this, BBR has an open source AMD GPU miner that (people say - I haven't tried it yet) works on both nvidia and AMD;
  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577267.msg7928069#msg7928069

A working GUI wallet source & binaries for Mac, Windows, and Linux;
  http://boolberry.com/downloads.html

A more compact blockchain than other cryptonote coins;

An improved facility for long-term anonymity of mixed coins.

A nifty in-blockchain alias function that's now integrated with the wallet for easy sending to, e.g., @zoidberg

And the BBR team released a presentation last week addressing one of these cool points about BBR's improved anonymity:
  http://www.slideshare.net/boolberry/boolberry-solves-cryptonoteflaws-37055246

That's a pretty great week - kudos to the BBR team and to MBK for the miner release!

[bigj]

Man, this whole thread is about GPU mining esoterics...
Hash power is probably the least of BBR's problems.

You have a better coin and network than Monero...
The tx size issue seems under control unlike Monero...
But BBR has now collapsed by 50% relative to XMR and sits at a 7:1 ratio.

You REALLY need to get a journalism type =  a writer...
To spend 10-20 hours/week writing promotional material for BBR...
And send it off regularily to the Alt Coin press.

Doesn't your Ivory Tower university have a Journalism Faculty?

I think this one was important.  Not for reality - I agree with you that hash power is not a real problem - but because it solves a perception problem that opponents of BBR were using to hurt the coin when they argue against it.

To recap, with this, BBR has an open source AMD GPU miner that (people say - I haven't tried it yet) works on both nvidia and AMD;
  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577267.msg7928069#msg7928069

A working GUI wallet source & binaries for Mac, Windows, and Linux;
  http://boolberry.com/downloads.html

A more compact blockchain than other cryptonote coins;

An improved facility for long-term anonymity of mixed coins.

A nifty in-blockchain alias function that's now integrated with the wallet for easy sending to, e.g., @zoidberg

And the BBR team released a presentation last week addressing one of these cool points about BBR's improved anonymity:
  http://www.slideshare.net/boolberry/boolberry-solves-cryptonoteflaws-37055246

That's a pretty great week - kudos to the BBR team and to MBK for the miner release!

Besides a proper promotion, the coin desperately needs apps/software etc -- in short, an integration into the flow of daily life. Is there any BBR cell phone app around yet?

[sonoIO]

Man, this whole thread is about GPU mining esoterics...
Hash power is probably the least of BBR's problems.

You have a better coin and network than Monero...
The tx size issue seems under control unlike Monero...
But BBR has now collapsed by 50% relative to XMR and sits at a 7:1 ratio.

You REALLY need to get a journalism type =  a writer...
To spend 10-20 hours/week writing promotional material for BBR...
And send it off regularily to the Alt Coin press.

Doesn't your Ivory Tower university have a Journalism Faculty?

I think this one was important.  Not for reality - I agree with you that hash power is not a real problem - but because it solves a perception problem that opponents of BBR were using to hurt the coin when they argue against it.

To recap, with this, BBR has an open source AMD GPU miner that (people say - I haven't tried it yet) works on both nvidia and AMD;
  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577267.msg7928069#msg7928069

A working GUI wallet source & binaries for Mac, Windows, and Linux;
  http://boolberry.com/downloads.html

A more compact blockchain than other cryptonote coins;

An improved facility for long-term anonymity of mixed coins.

A nifty in-blockchain alias function that's now integrated with the wallet for easy sending to, e.g., @zoidberg

And the BBR team released a presentation last week addressing one of these cool points about BBR's improved anonymity:
  http://www.slideshare.net/boolberry/boolberry-solves-cryptonoteflaws-37055246

That's a pretty great week - kudos to the BBR team and to MBK for the miner release!

And BBR got GPU miner relatively early in terms of % of total coin supply, so that problem is pretty much closed.

[dga]

We are looking into it.

I ran the zip and all files through virustotal. They appear to be clean.

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/70db24dfa1b09d201455464ee6f04704575c8dffb0d14c17ca9344a7accb4a7d/analysis/1405802537/
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6d417055ea9bb52982275cfc80ca6d18de9d6dd37d41729e02eed11d52eaea1a/analysis/1405802602/
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/1c2f7d2d4dcbb1b80246d97295afa25791bbe0d6967ef3266011707d47e3b619/analysis/1405802865/
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/1947d655cf1a91bfa8d6737c2abe61e59c929c0dc982804ab6c44ce22466b122/analysis/1405803269/

Virustotal is worthless - the source is real, though.

Concur that the OpenCL is for real.  He spotted, for example, the round constant optimization, which I don't think I'd seen in the wild before unless it was in one of otila's patches.  I haven't looked through the rest of the code to check for any unexpected changes, though, which someone who's feeling very paranoid might do.  A diff against the main BBR source should be sufficient.

[kingscrown]

We are looking into it.

I ran the zip and all files through virustotal. They appear to be clean.

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/70db24dfa1b09d201455464ee6f04704575c8dffb0d14c17ca9344a7accb4a7d/analysis/1405802537/
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6d417055ea9bb52982275cfc80ca6d18de9d6dd37d41729e02eed11d52eaea1a/analysis/1405802602/
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/1c2f7d2d4dcbb1b80246d97295afa25791bbe0d6967ef3266011707d47e3b619/analysis/1405802865/
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/1947d655cf1a91bfa8d6737c2abe61e59c929c0dc982804ab6c44ce22466b122/analysis/1405803269/

Virustotal is worthless - the source is real, though.

Concur that the OpenCL is for real.  He spotted, for example, the round constant optimization, which I don't think I'd seen in the wild before unless it was in one of otila's patches.  I haven't looked through the rest of the code to check for any unexpected changes, though, which someone who's feeling very paranoid might do.  A diff against the main BBR source should be sufficient.

I did that round constant optimization too. While the code isn't excellent, it's a lot better than the normal garbage you see around.

Wolf0 you made your version? i know you from other miner and im sure you can make this work good

[btc-mike]

Man, this whole thread is about GPU mining esoterics...
Hash power is probably the least of BBR's problems.

You have a better coin and network than Monero...
The tx size issue seems under control unlike Monero...
But BBR has now collapsed by 50% relative to XMR and sits at a 7:1 ratio.

You REALLY need to get a journalism type =  a writer...
To spend 10-20 hours/week writing promotional material for BBR...
And send it off regularily to the Alt Coin press.

Doesn't your Ivory Tower university have a Journalism Faculty?

We certainly need more promotion. We have been spending a lot more time with this recently. The easy-to-understand presentation was just one piece of promotion.

Anyone that wants to help is welcome to do so. If you want to write something and have us check it over, let me know. Go over to our SubReddit, subcribe and make a post. If Twitter is your thing, follow us and retweet something.

[otila]

Concur that the OpenCL is for real.  He spotted, for example, the round constant optimization, which I don't think I'd seen in the wild before unless it was in one of otila's patches.

I noticed that round constant thingie on Jul 15 but it is more of a cleanup than an optimization.
However, I have a real optimization not yet published, increases speed from 121 khash/s to 252 khash/s on Sandybridge 4-core (with cryptozoidberg/cpuminer-multi).

[restless]

Open source Boolberry OpenCL miner
https://github.com/mbkuperman/boolberry-opencl.git

Read README.md for details and build instructions.

Windows x64 executables:
https://github.com/mbkuperman/boolberry-opencl/releases/download/v1.0/BoolberryOCL-20140719.zip

2% developer donation (you can change or disable it in the configuration file)

Solo version: boolbd.exe (best performance/reliability)
Pool (JSON RPC) version: simpleminer.exe (please, use solo version if you can!)

Personally, I think it doesn't make any sense to use pools while the block value is about $7. Just give enough time to the solo miner.

Tested on AMD GPUs only!

Expected performance:
6870, R270x - 500-600 khs
6970, R280X - 900-1000 khs

OpenCL code is available under the terms of the GNU Public License version 3.
Author: Mikhail Kuperman (mbk.git@gmail.com)
BBR donation address: 1EmWGnwhydr3S2vRWQbbefh1hgDKgMjdMGe43ZgdPhdARhNBRkUMuD4YzLA2nyYG8tg2HKCCBg4aDam JKypRQWW1Ca2kSV8
BTC donation address: 1Lns6UjL3sw77DJ5z1EKJZy6SnqriqvVGK

Can someone post an example start line?

[restless]

I am trying to connect to extremepool but... seems I lack something

simpleminer.exe --pool-addr=boolberry.extremepool.org:5555 --login BBR_Address --pass x --mining-threads 1

2014-Jul-21 12:27:49.606545 Connecting boolberry.extremepool.org:5555....
2014-Jul-21 12:27:49.824945 Connected boolberry.extremepool.org:5555 OK
2014-Jul-21 12:28:09.855380 Failed to invoke http request to  /json_rpc
2014-Jul-21 12:28:09.855380 Failed to invoke login boolberry.extremepool.org:555
5, disconnect and sleep....

Also, any idea how to mine from different machine to same wallet? Will i need to have blockchain on that machine too :S

[restless]

Trying to run on 750Ti

2014-Jul-21 12:56:01.052013 [miner 0][OCL 0/0] error:  CL_INVALID_VALUE
2014-Jul-21 12:56:01.054013 [miner 0][OCL 0/0] device index must me between 0 an
d 4294967295

The PC has Intel-integrated gpu + 1 750Ti.
Tried setting device_index 1 in json file... no luck

[mbk]

It supports JSON RPC protocol, connect to boolberry.extremepool.org:1111 if you really need pool.

I am trying to connect to extremepool but... seems I lack something

simpleminer.exe --pool-addr=boolberry.extremepool.org:5555 --login BBR_Address --pass x --mining-threads 1

2014-Jul-21 12:27:49.606545 Connecting boolberry.extremepool.org:5555....
2014-Jul-21 12:27:49.824945 Connected boolberry.extremepool.org:5555 OK
2014-Jul-21 12:28:09.855380 Failed to invoke http request to  /json_rpc
2014-Jul-21 12:28:09.855380 Failed to invoke login boolberry.extremepool.org:555
5, disconnect and sleep....

Also, any idea how to mine from different machine to same wallet? Will i need to have blockchain on that machine too :S

[mbk]

Try to change the platform_index to 1. Set device_index to 0 if you have 1 GPU.

Trying to run on 750Ti

2014-Jul-21 12:56:01.052013 [miner 0][OCL 0/0] error:  CL_INVALID_VALUE
2014-Jul-21 12:56:01.054013 [miner 0][OCL 0/0] device index must me between 0 an
d 4294967295

The PC has Intel-integrated gpu + 1 750Ti.
Tried setting device_index 1 in json file... no luck

[restless]

Starting with

start boolbd.exe --start-mining BBRAddress  --data-dir C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\boolb

miner_conf.json is in same dir, contents:
{
  "current_extra_message_index": 0,
  "device_index": 0,
  "difficulty": 16777215,
  "donation_decision": false,
  "donation_decision_made": false,
  "donation_descision": false,
  "donation_percent_opencl": "2.0",
  "kernel": "wild_keccak.cl",
  "kernel_type": 0,
  "platform_index": 0,
  "thread_delay": 2000,
  "work_size": 262144
}

Tried - without restarting (10min for restart....) all combinations with device_index 0,1,2 and platform_index 0,1,2
Same result

PC is i5-2500, 1 750Ti card, win7 x64, 8GB ram drivers 337.88

[sonoIO]

We certainly need more promotion. We have been spending a lot more time with this recently. The easy-to-understand presentation was just one piece of promotion.

Anyone that wants to help is welcome to do so. If you want to write something and have us check it over, let me know. Go over to our SubReddit, subcribe and make a post. If Twitter is your thing, follow us and retweet something.

Considering promotion, i just wont to point out that average new user will not be familiar with BTC and concept that merchant (or whom ever he pays something to) can see content of his address will be strange to him. Average new user will much more easily accommodate to BBR as it is just like  something he is used to: cash - public when needed and  private otherwise. Anything more than that may be too much for a new user. This is not offc important for exiting BTC users, but they may be in minority in a while.

[mbk]

Output like this

Code:

2014-Jul-21 12:56:01.052013 [miner 0][OCL 0/0] error:  CL_INVALID_VALUE
2014-Jul-21 12:56:01.054013 [miner 0][OCL 0/0] device index must me between 0 and 4294967295

actually means selected OpenCL platform has 0 GPU devices. It happens if you installed CPU only OpenCL drivers from Intel or AMD. It should be gone after you select nvidia platform. Anyway don't change device_index - it doesn't make any sense. So if you tried everything - reboot.

Tried - without restarting (10min for restart....) all combinations with device_index 0,1,2 and platform_index 0,1,2
Same result

PC is i5-2500, 1 750Ti card, win7 x64, 8GB ram drivers 337.88

[restless]

Output like this

Code:

2014-Jul-21 12:56:01.052013 [miner 0][OCL 0/0] error:  CL_INVALID_VALUE
2014-Jul-21 12:56:01.054013 [miner 0][OCL 0/0] device index must me between 0 and 4294967295

actually means selected OpenCL platform has 0 GPU devices. It happens if you installed CPU only OpenCL drivers from Intel or AMD. It should be gone after you select nvidia platform. Anyway don't change device_index - it doesn't make any sense. So if you tried everything - reboot.

Tried - without restarting (10min for restart....) all combinations with device_index 0,1,2 and platform_index 0,1,2
Same result

PC is i5-2500, 1 750Ti card, win7 x64, 8GB ram drivers 337.88

So   "platform_index": 1 should be ok?

[mvidetto]

Pulling 530khashes on my gpu, I have no idea how people can afford to sell at this price let alone anything below .001.

[jd1959]

Anyone else with wallet not connecting to network?
 Software version:0.2.0.27(7460089)
qt-boolb.txt file: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/a2802c963d56f7cc59ad

[btc-mike]

Anyone else with wallet not connecting to network?
 Software version:0.2.0.27(7460089)
qt-boolb.txt file: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/a2802c963d56f7cc59ad

It works for me on Win7. That looks like firewall issue.