[ANN] Woodcoin [LOG] Pure Skein POW, Logarithmic Release, No Premine nor ICO

[funkenstein]

https://github.com/Lvl4Sword/woodcoin-wallet/releases/tag/v0.6

In progress. 

Testers and developers will be rewarded as usual!

[1714236128]

1714236128

[1714236128]

1714236128

[1714236128]

1714236128

[1714236128]

1714236128

[1714236128]

1714236128

[Bawaler]

NEW! Woodcoin (LOG) pool is up at http://louhimo.club/

Connection info:

stratum+tcp://louhimo.club:8009
As workername use your LOG wallet address
Worker password can be anything

"skein2" algorithm for cpuminer and ccminer

[funkenstein]

NEW! Woodcoin (LOG) pool is up at http://louhimo.club/

Connection info:

stratum+tcp://louhimo.club:8009
As workername use your LOG wallet address
Worker password can be anything

Cool!  Thanks Bawaler.  Looking forward to seeing more chopping power emerge.  I'll repost info on your pool where I can. 

[funkenstein]

NEW! Woodcoin (LOG) pool is up at http://louhimo.club/

Connection info:

stratum+tcp://louhimo.club:8009
As workername use your LOG wallet address
Worker password can be anything

Cool!  Thanks Bawaler.  Looking forward to seeing more chopping power emerge.  I'll repost info on your pool where I can. 

Hmm, reports from choppers  are that they can't figure out how to use your pool.

Can you give us further instructions? 

[tryphe]

The pool appears to be on a fork or not working correctly. It accepts my hash fine though.

[ReiMomo]

No miners for AMD yet?

[funkenstein]

No miners for AMD yet?

Not that I know of.  I know at least one person who has put some attempt into it.  How hard can it be though?  We know AMD miners can skein because they X11, etc., right? 
Just a question of getting it to work. 

New pool however:  http://yiimp.ccminer.org/

[funkenstein]

Karu Azgal Wutrogh Gorlm

Kind woodcutters, friends, comrades, and allies.  If you wish to be a part of the KAWG fund, please find instructions here. 

http://frass.woodcoin.org/karu-azgal-wutroth-gorlm/

[tryphe]

funkenstein and the pioneers of log driving!

[Epsylon3]

any idea what could explain the increase of orphans in the last days ?

http://yiimp.ccminer.org/site/block?id=313

ive 8 connections, not enough ? takeover ? buggy v1.1 ? well, if not auto-resolved in the next days, i remove this coin from yiimp..

look like ive "sent transactions" which are not confirmed also, and i received some wood from the sky

Orcs attack!!

[funkenstein]

any idea what could explain the increase of orphans in the last days ?

http://yiimp.ccminer.org/site/block?id=313

ive 8 connections, not enough ? takeover ? buggy v1.1 ? well, if not auto-resolved in the next days, i remove this coin from yiimp..

look like ive "sent transactions" which are not confirmed also, and i received some wood from the sky

Orcs attack!!

lol!  there are definitely some shenanigans afoot. 

Since november there has been a "rogue chopper" who jumps on the network with massive power only when difficulty is below a certain level, and leaves when it increases..  and recently I have seen a few large reorgs suggesting a block-withholding attack by one or another hash whale.  However I haven't seen any TXes winding up unconfirmed..  let me know the details? 

I will do my best to convince folks to chop logs in a more civil fashion. 
In the meantime, your efforts to help us secure the network (and those of other public coins) are greatly appreciated!  Stop by #woodcoin irc sometime. 

[Epsylon3]

i tried to mine it on http://louhimo.club/ for a small test today, and all blocks were orphaned too

so, is the woodcutting season closed ?

[tryphe]

any idea what could explain the increase of orphans in the last days ?

<snip> and i received some wood from the sky

Orcs attack!!

Modern day Robin Hood?

[Epsylon3]

so, we are at 357 182... look like there was 3000 blocks stolen on the chain

[funkenstein]

so, we are at 357 182... look like there was 3000 blocks stolen on the chain

 

Wow..  3000 block reorg?!?!   

Please report any double spends or unvalidated TX.  There must be some reason for this, as somebody put effort into it.. 

[Epsylon3]

ask ccex all txs are locked since days

[tryphe]

I think you missed the point of me posting that graph, which indicates that something has been going on for ~8-9 months, not ~3,000 blocks. If you watch the chain, it's quite indicative of a netsplit as transactions are pooled from the diff attacked chain onto a "just barely longer" chain, and then attacked for 30+ blocks (the difficulty adjuster length) immediately. Mining then stops until it happens again, presumably because the "just barely longer chain" is on a netsplit with multiple nodes in contention.

Maybe their connection can't handle the onslaught of incoming blocks, or there are multiple nodes serving miners work when the attack occurs? I don't know.

so, we are at 357 182... look like there was 3000 blocks stolen on the chain

Who were they stolen from? The diff attacker? And where did they go? Like Funkenstein, I see no double spends, and I see no unconfirmed transactions. Just a diff attacker and a netsplit.

If it was a malicious attacker, I'd expect to see some extraordinarily large malicious spends, not valid reorgs with valid transactions in them. Satoshi deemed the chain with more trust (not more blocks) as the main chain, simply because a valid long-term miner will win outright simply to cover the array of strategies that people will try; including what you're seeing here. From that standpoint, neither chain is malicious and there is no attacker, but a chain with more trust that wins outright. I'll let people judge for themselves, though.

I looked on the block explorer for a large reorg, but I didn't find it. There's not many transactions on chain, so it's hard to tell where the splits occur, so I went through the last 4,000 or so blocks:
359306: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/8c5da867aeed8afd323de11e73e7b92fc90bd9d090fe5e7fd11c913b0e5cfd2e
358947: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/dbc7a64fbf3242c1d2837783925c5c90203381a7b19ff722c0fb9c9c9bb42ebd
358932: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/30e197100ae71b14242d13845d99c7d36108d8a6234a70bc28ca11b8e767ffc8
358598: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/e9182271fe244a2494a565fda1a2bcf83c217697d41332883566e12925bd9622
358560: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/ccdb8889eb82a3befda373c6e706fb0188d82421d324aea052eac2010a4e4544
357986: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/9767225db64cd68810e77160c8bdb7d7eb40dd8979b801b91bce9b641ac7c602
357391: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/b5e4b84e7266cec9ac8a3414c09c2ab85e92cda037182ece20d0b69401ab9669
357252: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/c025e43de9f27c472ff5cf3c8dd194424c27c469dce0f429e80f49a822e8782c
356860: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/85b6e1ac53743844c245d8532d3c8d767bbf5434b51b637e27cfad58ff8e011c
356602: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/8ad174df2a338014e84dea6241d2f8d23df618ec36c72acea37196b9aefc0f8e
356540: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/87d796fecc1b2493c6c273931463fe65de465ce546a6f2a786ab58956ec575dd
356333: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/6af22fad10f7b10792b7b680c6ac0bc60a475b1b45b4aee0395b21f51b55e55a
356197: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/adc12cad7092154cbef9e7027d03674bfa8713f4fff700720fe1ab4216ccae84
355892: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/ed9754c1d6f6096e006575f20e16fa7e8ad5c044a39c12bd588dcb06d22c48ed
355879: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/35b5aeae99f0c4182bf24f5297e99d2f7df0e69e2f30d45bf8239ff72775f174
355864: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/02bd02c3978b401ca1b28397a9d5ba1198e9e14763b2d21f252914225d0816df
355647: http://explorer.woodcoin.org/block/9ef99c7ba91b4fd2d8ccf3cefef69d37b4cb9da0c25475da9b96ba57e5cb27fa

ask ccex all txs are locked since days

Why not 8 months ago when the diff started roller-coastering? The diff attacker could just as easily mine for a bit longer and double spend the mined coin, but they haven't.

If anything, they should just up the amount of confirms it takes to get on the exchange, considering this kind of contention is happening, and probably has been for a while.

[tryphe]

I was looking around for more peculiar stuff. Here's an instance where cryptoguru's block explorer recorded a TX of the entire coinbase(pretty much) that tried to get spent right in the middle of the difficulty "attacks" (i.e., notice the chain is moving at half speed):



Edit: I went through this with funk and this is just a sum of multiple transactions, not a single transaction. You can see most of the blocks here:
http://explorer.woodcoin.org/chain/Woodcoin?hi=309100&count=100

[funkenstein]

On other fronts, we have a working android wallet! 

OK, so it needs a lot of work cosmetically, which is in progress, but the basic receiving and sending with an android device has been tested! 

see current progress and download it here:

http://frass.woodcoin.org/woodcoin-android-wallet/

[m4nki]

Great!

I just tried to install it but received following error when I tapped "install":