[ANN] AEON [2018-07-12: update to 0.12.5.0+]

[bbc.reporter]

@overboost. RingCT is still a long way out there as far as Aeon is concerned. Smooth needs to concern himself with the code rebase first and hopefully implement LMDB together with it.

In any case, the rebase will require thorough audits on the testnet. That would mean RingCT development will come after 2 to 3 years at the current workrate done on Aeon.

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[stoffu]

@overboost. RingCT is still a long way out there as far as Aeon is concerned. Smooth needs to concern himself with the code rebase first and hopefully implement LMDB together with it.

In any case, the rebase will require thorough audits on the testnet. That would mean RingCT development will come after 2 to 3 years at the current workrate done on Aeon.

FWIW the preliminary code for RingCT was already added to Aeon: https://github.com/aeonix/aeon/pull/38
I guess it's not a matter of implementing it, rather a matter of testing and deploying it.

[bbc.reporter]

No, deploying RingCT without deploying LMDB first would be a bad mistake. RingCT increases the block size, so RAM requirements of at least 8GB for nodes will only increase exponentially, which is not good.

I also assume that LMDB will be implemented together with the code rebase. That means the wait for RingCT will be longer than expected.

[overboost]

@overboost. RingCT is still a long way out there as far as Aeon is concerned. Smooth needs to concern himself with the code rebase first and hopefully implement LMDB together with it.

In any case, the rebase will require thorough audits on the testnet. That would mean RingCT development will come after 2 to 3 years at the current workrate done on Aeon.

FWIW the preliminary code for RingCT was already added to Aeon: https://github.com/aeonix/aeon/pull/38
I guess it's not a matter of implementing it, rather a matter of testing and deploying it.

@stoffu, i wasn't aware of that, but if ringct will be succesfully implemented, aeon will look even more promising.

@bbc.reporter, thank you.

[overboost]

In other news, has anyone else had problems staying connected to aeon-pool.com in the past couple of days? We keep getting Error Socket Closed messages and haven't been able to mine on the majority of our CPUs.

On my linux desktop xmrig runs 24/7 (mine.aeon-pool.com:5555), no issues.

[Elder III]

In other news, has anyone else had problems staying connected to aeon-pool.com in the past couple of days? We keep getting Error Socket Closed messages and haven't been able to mine on the majority of our CPUs.

On my linux desktop xmrig runs 24/7 (mine.aeon-pool.com:5555), no issues.

We switched to sumominer pool and so far have not had any disconnects (about 36 hours now). We are using the most recent version of aeon stak cpu miner for what it's worth. We had this same issue on aeon-pool a couple of months ago, but it cleared up on it's own within a day back then.

[zlatabanica]

I am using the xmrigCC and it is the best cpu miner for cryptonight and cryptonight-lite. With other miner I was doing around 1700h/s on aeon but with the xmrig mining with 2080h/s. The dev is really good and he know his stuff and the optimization is too good. The miner even got dashboard on which it it easy to keep track on the miners and you can chage config files without even connecting to the miner itself. So I highly recommended it.

https://github.com/Bendr0id/xmrigCC/releases

[Durins Bane]

I am using the xmrigCC and it is the best cpu miner for cryptonight and cryptonight-lite. With other miner I was doing around 1700h/s on aeon but with the xmrig mining with 2080h/s. The dev is really good and he know his stuff and the optimization is too good. The miner even got dashboard on which it it easy to keep track on the miners and you can chage config files without even connecting to the miner itself. So I highly recommended it.

https://github.com/Bendr0id/xmrigCC/releases

There is a new version on XMR Stak out by FireIce not sure if you have seen that. All in one miner bother CPU and GPU
https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak/releases


https://www.DurinsMine.com - looking for more miners, 0.3% pool fee - Pool lottery, chat with integrated user system, forums

[bbc.reporter]

@overboost. Not a problem. But read my latest post above yours. So until we see LMDB implemented, then do not expect RingCT to be deployed.

But I reckon there is a reason for that. Smooth may have other plans for Aeon. He might be willing to sacrifice privacy for more portability on mobile devices.

@smooth. Care to comment?

[purgs08]

not supported to my linux error to lunch the program . what happen ? it is have an error

[bbc.reporter]

@purgs08. What kind of errors are you having? Give us the full details so we can help you. But from what you are saying, I reckon you are having a problem of compiling it from source.

What distribution of Linux are you using?

[realediston]

I am looking to buy 1500 Aeon for 0.25 BTC

Can anyone help please?

[Durins Bane]

Why do we seem to not get blocks on time as the difficulty rises?

Whats causing this? it seems like a pretty bad issue? My pool is at 250-300% for a block

Been up to 500% before and I have even seen it at 700%

I have seen blocks not being found for over 45 minutes in the past. Right now it is the same?

Anyone able to give insight into why this happens?

[thehihoguy]

Why do we seem to not get blocks on time as the difficulty rises?

Whats causing this? it seems like a pretty bad issue? My pool is at 250-300% for a block

Been up to 500% before and I have even seen it at 700%

I have seen blocks not being found for over 45 minutes in the past. Right now it is the same?

Anyone able to give insight into why this happens?

https://www.hiddenjadestone.com/2017/09/22/aeon/botnet-affect-difficulty/

This might answer your question:)

[Durins Bane]

Why do we seem to not get blocks on time as the difficulty rises?

Whats causing this? it seems like a pretty bad issue? My pool is at 250-300% for a block

Been up to 500% before and I have even seen it at 700%

I have seen blocks not being found for over 45 minutes in the past. Right now it is the same?

Anyone able to give insight into why this happens?

https://www.hiddenjadestone.com/2017/09/22/aeon/botnet-affect-difficulty/

This might answer your question:)

Thanks seems we really need to get above 100Mh/s as a network to fight against these attacks

[HedgehogNSk]

I have not enough space on system disk.
How I can change cache storage of blockchain.dat?

[Durins Bane]

I have not enough space on system disk.
How I can change cache storage of blockchain.dat?

Open notepad, type "aeond --data-dir <D:\DIRECTORY\YOU\WANT\TO\STORE\BLOCKCHAIN\TO>" without the <> and "", save as, change .txt file type to all, change the name of the file to "anything.bat" and save it to the folder you have aeond in, run it and it should start syncing the blockchain to that directory.

Just run that instead of aeond whenever want to use your wallet. It might be forward / instead of \ I am not sure

[awesome0p0ssum]

Hey guys,

I know I could have posted this on reddit too but decided to post here since if it is something critical smooth might take a look.

So long story short this morning(11:10 in the log file) I had the aeond and simplewallet open was checking my balance but executed shutdown command without exiting both.

Now  a couple of hours later(19:02) I tried to log into my wallet and I get the following errors in the log file:

Code:

2017-Dec-16 11:10:42.928536 Block is already in blockchain: ***********************
2017-Dec-16 11:10:42.928658 Refresh done, blocks received: 19, balance: 9.541041913272, unlocked: 9.541041913272
2017-Dec-16 11:10:42.928669 Refresh done, blocks received: 19
2017-Dec-16 11:10:42.928695 balance: 9.541041913272, unlocked balance: 9.541041913272
2017-Dec-16 11:10:42.928708 **********************************************************************
Use "help" command to see the list of available commands.
**********************************************************************
2017-Dec-16 11:29:44.091411 Failed to read line.
2017-Dec-16 11:29:44.091450 Read command:

2017-Dec-16 19:02:38.063657 aeon wallet v0.9.14.0()
2017-Dec-16 19:02:45.596201 Loaded wallet keys file, with public address: *****************************
2017-Dec-16 19:02:45.596635 ERROR /home/helpme/Downloads/aeon-master/src/common/boost_serialization_helper.h:108 Exception at [unserialize_obj_from_file], what=input stream error
2017-Dec-16 19:02:45.596652 ERROR /home/helpme/Downloads/aeon-master/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp:566 !r. THROW EXCEPTION: error::file_read_error
2017-Dec-16 19:02:45.596666 /home/helpme/Downloads/aeon-master/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp:566:N5tools5error15file_error_baseILi2EEE: failed to read file "Aeonwal"
2017-Dec-16 19:02:45.596880 Error: failed to load wallet: failed to read file "Aeonwal"
2017-Dec-16 19:02:45.596897 ERROR /home/helpme/Downloads/aeon-master/src/simplewallet/simplewallet.cpp:402 could not open account
2017-Dec-16 19:02:45.596904 ERROR /home/helpme/Downloads/aeon-master/src/simplewallet/simplewallet.cpp:1216 Failed to initialize wallet

It seems my wallet file is 0 bites:
 ll -ltrh
total 113M
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 helpme helpme 3.6M Oct 12 21:43 aeond
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 helpme helpme 2.8M Oct 12 21:43 simplewallet
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 helpme helpme 868K Oct 12 21:43 simpleminer
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 helpme helpme 936K Oct 12 21:43 connectivity_tool
-rw-r--r--. 1 helpme helpme  289 Oct 13 10:15 AECC.keys
-rw-r--r--. 1 helpme helpme   97 Oct 13 10:15 AECC.address.txt
-rw-r--r--. 1 helpme helpme    0 Dec 16 11:29 AECC
-rw-rw-r--. 1 helpme helpme 461K Dec 16 19:01 aeond.log
-rw-rw-r--. 1 helpme helpme 104M Dec 16 19:04 simplewallet.log

I am running Fedora 25, some more info:
[Phoenix_0.9.14]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 25 (Twenty Five)
Linux localhost 4.13.16-100.fc25.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 27 19:52:46 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[Phoenix_0.9.14]$ ulimit -l
64


I do have backup of the wallet so it is not critical or anything. Just figured out if it is a bug I could draw smooth's attention to check it.

[americanpegasus]

You're entitled to your opinion but the way I see it the code is less broken than it has ever been (many important bugs have been fixed, and nodes are very reliable, despite some annoying noise messages).

As someone who played with Monero back in the early days, I was honestly shocked at how easy Aeon was to setup and use on a range of operating systems.  Having very little knowledge of Mac OS I was still able to get a node up and running with very few steps, and setting up a Windows instance is absurdly simple, literally a few button clicks.  
  
I think if Aeon wants to find new ways to differentiate itself from Monero, a "really really ridiculously easy" design philosophy seems to be something that a.) traditionally is met with great love by the market and b.) can help advance the art is unexpected ways and c.) already seems to be a direction this project is taking.  
  
I just wanna thank everyone who has worked on the Aeon code these past couple of years streamlining and improving it. 💜 It's work beyond recompense, when one considers the awesome scope of Cryptonote and how crucial it will become as the years go on.  I think once rebase is launched and the dev floodgates are opened, we are going to see Aeon evolve quickly in some really neat ways, perhaps even diverging from Monero at times.
 

Also, yes, this account is back under my control, and thanks for the community banding together to deincentivize the theft of highly recognized accounts like this one.  Also thanks to the anon who returned this to me - don't care if it was the person who cracked it, bought it, or a benevolent: it is very big of you to return such a valuable thing to the rightful hands. 💕

[bbc.reporter]

@americanpegasus. Thank you for that post. In these hard and tough times, we need someone like you to wake up the community and direct the way in these times of murkiness.

I admit that I am feeling a little discouraged with Aeon and smooth. Sorry, but I was assuming that the code rebase was coming this year.