[ANN] [VIA] ★ Viacoin ★ ~ the future of digital currency ~ ★

[romanornr]

Been really busy with Viacoin !
But just pushed a few updates to the master branch for a new Viacoin version 0.10.11

This is not 0.13.2 (in development) but 0.10.11 contains a lot of security fixes. I also updated the Viacoin seeder with a security fix.

I will write about all of it later. It just has been a busy week.
Getting the old Viacoin to compile the window binaries was a pain since the source code was so old. So yeah I also updates Viacoin with newer versions of dependencies. (new Qt, Boost, Cache etc)

[dranster]

nice job roamano


keep up the good work

[hollandvan]

Viacoin is good, long term it will be trading on poloniex if you keep the decent volume, therefore we will have profits in long term

[dbt1033]

Good job Romano.  It's not an easy task you've taken on.  Good to see via making some headway.  Rooting for you man.

[Barbatos]

That's great Romano. I can't wait for the release!

[stereotype]

I also hope to gain a bit more trust by the people who are just watching from the side line  

Just generally, or was there someone specific, in mind?

[Aaron22]

nice job roamano


keep up the good work

yes sir this is very nice job and we can make it more useful for your facility but your coopration will be must and appriciated.

[romanornr]

Fixes have been made to the Viacoin-Seeder


What is the Viacoin-seeder ?
============================

Viacoin-seeder is a crawler for the Viacoin network, which exposes a list
of reliable nodes via a built-in DNS server.

Features:
* regularly revisits known nodes to check their availability
* bans nodes after enough failures, or bad behaviour
* keeps statistics over (exponential) windows of 2 hours, 8 hours,
  1 day and 1 week, to base decisions on.
* very low memory (a few tens of megabytes) and cpu requirements.
* crawlers run in parallel (by default 24 threads simultaneously).

Fixes & Optimization
============================

1. The DNS parser of the Viacoin seeder was vulnerable to a dos attack.
A crafted DNS req could trigger infinite recursive function calls.
This exploit could lead to a stack overflow.

The vulnerability is fixed.
However I noticed a lot of Altcoins if not the majority that have seeders are vulnerabile.
Most altcoins use a seeder. Bad altcoins don't have seeders & you usually have to add nodes.

2. The protocol timeouts have adjusted to improve the seeder.
A commit has been made to avoid connecting to non valid ipv4 ranges.

3. a bug fix to fix negative responses.
Previously if the resolver was asked for a record it didn't have, it would return a response with a NS-record in the authority section.

4. Increase the TTL

5. Wait for more than 1 single address to respond

6. DNS will listen on ipv6 instead of ipv4


Seeder dos exploit that could have been used.


* exploit example by jonasnick

[romanornr]

Today all the updates for Viacoin 0.13.2 got pushed to the Viafresh repository.
However as most of you know, merged mining is a task that requires another developer who is specialized in merged mining & familiar with 0.13.2&Segwit.

I found a developer who is able to do it for a decent payment.
$5.1k aka $5100 worth of Bitcoins || BTC6.5

Now this will be huge when Viacoin adopts SegWit & will be released.

I would appreciate it if some of you could donate to reach $5.1k as target.
Developer fund donation address: 19Vh7WnR6KuiHhdi3d9oxuz7YbCqKAnzy5
Current balance (0.13946 BTC)

Remember that this is good news. A strong other developer will be great for Viacoin !


 

[IconFirm]

I found a developer who is able to do it for a decent payment.
$5.1k aka $5100 worth of Bitcoins || BTC6.5

That's insanely expensive - who is this dev?

I know of an experienced dev who is familiar with AUXPOW who I'm sure can do it at a much more realistic price.

[romanornr]

I found a developer who is able to do it for a decent payment.
$5.1k aka $5100 worth of Bitcoins || BTC6.5

That's insanely expensive - who is this dev?
I know of an experienced dev who is familiar with AUXPOW who I'm sure can do it at a much more realistic price.

Interesting. Dm me who it is & what his price is. I am very careful because your btctalk account shows negative trust

[Xosihc]

I found a developer who is able to do it for a decent payment.
$5.1k aka $5100 worth of Bitcoins || BTC6.5

That's insanely expensive - who is this dev?
I know of an experienced dev who is familiar with AUXPOW who I'm sure can do it at a much more realistic price.

Interesting. Dm me who it is & what his price is. I am very careful because your btctalk account shows negative trust

Keep us posted on what the decision is moving forward with a dev & whether you are still shopping around. It's hard to say $5.1k is expensive because I don't know the amount of work/hourly cost that goes into this. What is the projected amount of hours/cost per hour that the $5.1k quote is providing?

I'd be more than happy to contribute at least .25 BTC to the fund assuming there is a game plan here and good people working on it.

[Barbatos]

Romano, did you try contacting reorder? He is the one who did the auxpow implementation for Viacoin back in 2014 and I believe he's experienced enough to do it again.

[romanornr]

Romano, did you try contacting reorder? He is the one who did the auxpow implementation for Viacoin back in 2014 and I believe he's experienced enough to do it again.

His price was higher.

So kind of stuck with not much option.
Everyone who send a direct message has a similar price.
I ran a background check on some who are significantly cheaper but very "suspicious" & having my doubts when checking background.

If someone donates that would be great.

But Viacoin 0.13.2 will come with or without donations & that's a promise. So don't worry if there's a donation or not.
But investing a significant amount of the development funds is counter productive.

Btw Viacoin 0.10.11 Is planned to be released. This version will have a lot of security vulnerability & bug fixes.
Also an optimized wallet & more stable wallet. Yes Windows binaries will be available. I noticed Viacoin current version 0.10.9 doesn't even has Windows binaries.

After that Viacoin 0.13.2

[stereotype]

But Viacoin 0.13.2 will come with or without donations & that's a promise. So don't worry if that 6 BTC doesn't get raised, I don't even expect 2 BTC to be raised.

[cough]drak[cough]

[romanornr]

Expect Viacoin Core 0.10.11 to be released this week.

If you run a wallet, make sure to backup everything and export your private keys. Follow the regular process when you normally update the wallet for a coin you hold.

[Xosihc]

Romano, did you try contacting reorder? He is the one who did the auxpow implementation for Viacoin back in 2014 and I believe he's experienced enough to do it again.

His price was higher.

So kind of stuck with not much option.
Everyone who send a direct message has a similar price.
I ran a background check on some who are significantly cheaper but very "suspicious" & having my doubts when checking background.

If someone donates that would be great.

But Viacoin 0.13.2 will come with or without donations & that's a promise. So don't worry if there's a donation or not.
But losing a significant amount of the development funds is counter productive at these prices and market.

Btw Viacoin 0.10.11 Is planned to be released. This version will have a lot of security vulnerability & bug fixes.
Also an optimized wallet & more stable wallet. Yes Windows binaries will be available. I noticed Viacoin current version 0.10.9 doesn't even has Windows binaries.

After that Viacoin 0.13.2

I have some additional deposits coming in at the end of this week and will make a small donation to the fund. If the top 20 holders each donated .25 BTC we'd be in pretty good shape.

There is always going to be a market for the Trump/Putin/Pot/Kanye/Doge style coins where people invest solely because of P&D nature of them. So be it.

Looking forward to the new update(s)

[logictense]

U got AuxPOW, so be happy with it. I havent seen any improvements to the code for a long time. Do u have any new features to supplement the older ones, originally planned for the new revision of Via?

[grv]

https://twitter.com/viacoinprice/status/821205423516696576

looks like we got a message from the future

[Barbatos]

I am now the proud owner of 2% of all VIA in existence. I'll keep buying at these prices and hold till 10k and beyond. VIA is going to have a very bright year.