[ANN] AEON: Scalable, private, mobile-friendly cryptocurrency

[Arux]

... my Senior BCT account was hijacked back on 9/19/2015, during a breach of my crappy security through a wallet download related to "Tianhe"  see here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1180005.0
...

sad to hear this...
binaries from untrusted source are a calamity

[MoneroMooo]

i will look if i  can patch the pool to authorize fixed difficulty on miner client. that way, each miner will be able to choose a difficulty matching to his hashrate (or let the pool manage it)

https://github.com/moneromooo/cryptonote-universal-pool/commit/8e5449009a81a1e1ffb7eb0c1ed45fae94441255

[nioc]

I have started running a node to help support Aeon.  It's memory usage causes no problems on my windows 8.1 and 4GB memory.

I updated to version 0.9.4.0 on 9/9 and after syncing it said I was [5384 blocks (-14 days) ahead]
Now it says [11915 blocks (-33 days) ahead]

So every day I am one more day and 1 more days worth of blocks ahead. on 9/9 I was on block 605066

My daemon says I'm on block 611496 and ChainRadar says 611495 so I guess that's ok


I'm sure this is nothing but I thought I'd let you know.

[Nik4691]

I have started running a node to help support Aeon.  It's memory usage causes no problems on my windows 8.1 and 4GB memory.

I updated to version 0.9.4.0 on 9/9 and after syncing it said I was [5384 blocks (-14 days) ahead]
Now it says [11915 blocks (-33 days) ahead]

So every day I am one more day and 1 more days worth of blocks ahead. on 9/9 I was on block 605066

My daemon says I'm on block 611496 and ChainRadar says 611495 so I guess that's ok


I'm sure this is nothing but I thought I'd let you know.

I think that it is a remnant from the last fork. It synchronizes with the correct blockchain, but it keeps tracking the old one too.

[MoneroMooo]

For all miners on my pool, it has moved to http://aeonpool2.mooo.com/ with immediate effect (both web frontend and mining). Other settings are unchanged. This is because the botnet is still busy hammering the server despite being banned, and causing a lot of connectivity interruptions.

Sorry for the trouble.

[GingerAle]

For all miners on my pool, it has moved to http://aeonpool2.mooo.com/ with immediate effect (both web frontend and mining). Other settings are unchanged. This is because the botnet is still busy hammering the server despite being banned, and causing a lot of connectivity interruptions.

Sorry for the trouble.

that sucks. You think that a botnet operator would just operate their own damn pool. If you can operate a botnet you can probably operate a pool.

Has anyone successfully built on an android device? I guess most phones don't have the memory requirements... so maybe this is a wait until DB merge.

[smooth]

For all miners on my pool, it has moved to http://aeonpool2.mooo.com/ with immediate effect (both web frontend and mining). Other settings are unchanged. This is because the botnet is still busy hammering the server despite being banned, and causing a lot of connectivity interruptions.

Sorry for the trouble.

that sucks. You think that a botnet operator would just operate their own damn pool. If you can operate a botnet you can probably operate a pool.

Has anyone successfully built on an android device? I guess most phones don't have the memory requirements... so maybe this is a wait until DB merge.

Yeah probably. Even with pruning it seems to require more than the 2 GB of virtual address space available on 32 bit ARM, although it would probably work with less physical RAM than that. With a 64 bit ARM it should be possible to do it though.

[smooth]

I have started running a node to help support Aeon.  It's memory usage causes no problems on my windows 8.1 and 4GB memory.

I updated to version 0.9.4.0 on 9/9 and after syncing it said I was [5384 blocks (-14 days) ahead]
Now it says [11915 blocks (-33 days) ahead]

So every day I am one more day and 1 more days worth of blocks ahead. on 9/9 I was on block 605066

My daemon says I'm on block 611496 and ChainRadar says 611495 so I guess that's ok


I'm sure this is nothing but I thought I'd let you know.

I think that it is a remnant from the last fork. It synchronizes with the correct blockchain, but it keeps tracking the old one too.

Yes there are a few zombie nodes out there that are stuck on old fork. When your node connects with them you get the log message.

[americanpegasus]

 
 
Hey guys,

I don't have much involvement in Aeon (even though I recognize the advantage of having successful 'alts' of a technology).  Recently though I was contacted by someone who wanted to get the ball rolling on the Aeon subreddit so you can find it over at http://www.reddit.com/r/aeoncoin 
 
This was the best name considering that /r/aeon already exists and is private. 
 
Also, any word or timeline on getting back onto Poloniex?  I only see Aeon trading on Bittrex at about a half cent each right now.

[smooth]

http://www.reddit.com/r/aeoncoin 

Thanks, I added that to OP.

Also, any word or timeline on getting back onto Poloniex?  I only see Aeon trading on Bittrex at about a half cent each right now.

No idea. Every once in a while someone mentions to me that they have been in touch with someone at Poloniex and it is possible but no timeline at this point. I do know that Poloniex has a current (post-fork) wallet (used to support customers who left coins there after the delisting), since I helped them set it up.

[Arux]

i will look if i  can patch the pool to authorize fixed difficulty on miner client. that way, each miner will be able to choose a difficulty matching to his hashrate (or let the pool manage it)

https://github.com/moneromooo/cryptonote-universal-pool/commit/8e5449009a81a1e1ffb7eb0c1ed45fae94441255

patch applied (and max diff increased at 500k BTW)
but unfortunately fixed diff (with address.diff as login) are not accepted by the pool  "Stratum authentication failed"
something is missing. i investigate, for now the pool is still running as usual with var diff only.

[MoneroMooo]

but unfortunately fixed diff (with address.diff as login) are not accepted by the pool  "Stratum authentication failed"
something is missing. i investigate, for now the pool is still running as usual with var diff only.

Ah, looking back at the code, I added a new minDiff field to varDiff in the config file. The original code was using the same minDiff from varDiff, which seemed wrong. It's probably just that needing adding to your config file.

[Arux]

i added :

Code:

    "fixedDiff": {
        "enabled": true,
        "separator": "."
    },

in my config file (i deleted the comma just after  "separator": "." to prevent syntax error)

i tried

Code:

    "fixedDiff": {
        "enabled": true,
        "minDiff": 100,
        "separator": "."
    },

without success

[Shrikez]

I don't know I might be blind but is there a way to mine this with AMD GPUs?

Thank you

[cryptrol]

I don't know I might be blind but is there a way to mine this with AMD GPUs?

Thank you

Short answer : No.

Long answer : No.

More ellaborate answer : The only (public) AMD miner for Cryptonight is from Claymore, if he does not develop Cryptonight support there is no AMD support, period. An open source AMD cryptonight miner would be awesome.

[smooth]

An open source AMD cryptonight miner would be awesome.

There are some rumblings around Monero about that maybe happening. I have no idea of a timeframe. If it does happen I'm sure we can easily modify it for AEON.

[Nik4691]

I don't know I might be blind but is there a way to mine this with AMD GPUs?

Thank you

No... Claymore didn't interested to make one. But you can reach the level of a HD7870 or a GTX750 with a good processor, say, about 850 h/s.

[opennux]

I'd suggest shifting from mega as host to something else after the take-over happened. Dotcom stated it's no longer what it should be, i.e. it's compromised.

To what alternative, I don't know.

[smooth]

Development update

I'm giving a candid update on the state of development, although it isn't necessarily great.

I've been busy with some non-crypto related work and that has prevented me from devoting the time necessary to finish up the GUI integration (the next item on the roadmap). I don't expect this to continue for much longer (maybe one or two weeks), and I'm very much looking forward to resuming active development on AEON. Meanwhile I'm still available to address any emergency issues that should arise, answer questions, etc. The project is not (at all) abandoned despite the lack of any new releases or updates over the past few weeks.

I've also been monitoring the status of Monero development including their most excellent very-low-memory database implementation (which is a great fit for our plan to target mobile and low cost devices), and that appears to be reaching a stable enough milestone to merge-rebase AEON based on that new code. Assuming no new problems arise there, that will happen immediately after the first GUI release.

[GingerAle]

Development update

I'm giving a candid update on the state of development, although it isn't necessarily great.

I've been busy with some non-crypto related work and that has prevented me from devoting the time necessary to finish up the GUI integration (the next item on the roadmap). I don't expect this to continue for much longer (maybe one or two weeks), and I'm very much looking forward to resuming active development on AEON. Meanwhile I'm still available to address any emergency issues that should arise, answer questions, etc. The project is not (at all) abandoned despite the lack of any new releases or updates over the past few weeks.

I've also been monitoring the status of Monero development including their most excellent very-low-memory database implementation (which is a great fit for our plan to target mobile and low cost devices), and that appears to be reaching a stable enough milestone to merge-rebase AEON based on that new code. Assuming no new problems arise there, that will happen immediately after the first GUI release.

lookin forward to it man! I've got some old phones waiting to be built upon. I also plan to integrate AEON into my node_pool_inabox.iso once the DB is on the HD. Of course I'll have to figure out how to run 2 pools on the same device... probably just changing the ports hopefully. I wonder how dumb/smart redis is.... are the database entries flagged as to their source? they must be. moneromoo should know.... you're running 9 bajillion pools on your home box, eh?