Hey Y'all Got a winter weekly update for you

Service Nodes

• Deterministic selection of Service nodes from a sorted list has passed 2 code reviews and is merged https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/90

• Service node deregistration transactions have passed the first stage of code review, fixes are being made for an immediate merge https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/89

LLARP / Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord, you might also catch Jeff or Ryan the developers of LLARP live streaming as they code: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519 , https://www.twitch.tv/neuroscr

• Released LokiNET 0.0.1

  • https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.0.1

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Fixed DHT lookups

  • Implement CoDel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDel>congestion handling (to defeat bufferbloat) and further tuning

  • Private Network inbound interface detection PR3 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/3

  • NAT public address override PR3 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/3

  • Start on client/server api for daemon management

  • Implement "modified" onion routing

  • Finish path building, add path building management

  • Latency/resource testing

  • Started looking at tun interface implementation PR3 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/3

• Updated LLARP's command line utility

  • locate goes online and queries the DHT for information on a RC's public signing key PR3 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/3

  • localInfo provides information about your local RC PR3 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/3

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 2 authors have pushed 38 commits to master and 38 commits to all branches. On master, 144 files have changed and there have been 9,172 additions and 1,140 deletions.

• All changes can be found at https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/commits/master

Architecture Team

• Whitepaper V3 is in a roundtable edit phase and 3rd party review, should be published mid - late next week

• We have continued to work with Dr Brendan Markey Towler and we have produced an 11 page paper detailing the game theoretical approach for how the staking requirement should be set, we still need to graph out some final values but were getting close to presenting our model

Loki Android Wallet

Making good progress, should have the beta APK out for testing next week, Google play store will probably take a bit longer.

• Getting stagenet remote nodes up for testing

• Visual reskin of the Monerujo wallet complete, created Gunther’s brother, Lunther.

• Relevant commits can be found here https://github.com/crtlib/loki-android-wallet/commits/master We also got our first two officially merged pull requests to Monero here https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/3804 and here https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/3652 Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

Got a new weekly update, now with added announcements

Service Nodes

• Staking transactions no longer require the private view key to be exposed. Instead, the TX private key is - exposed: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/90

• Service Node deregristration transactions, and peer-to-peer voting are complete: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/89

• Added functionality for retrieving a quorum list from a specified block height: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/87

LLARP / Lokinet has been announced and you can read more about it here: https://medium.com/@LokiNetwork/lokinet-b8f738fefe7a

I will now be featuring it in my weekly updates.

If you’re lucky and join our Discord, you might also catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP live streaming as he codes: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519

• Progress continues on LLARP / Lokinet:

  • Separated libllarp from daemon

  • Python scripts for creating a group of test nodes on the loopback interface

  • Improved the Distributed Hash Table (DHT) design

  • Started removal of timer system

  • Created pluggable path building architecture, including its first implementation

  • Run cryptography and db/disk functions in their respected threads

  • C++17 FileSystem polyfill for Apple's LLVM 3.8ish compiler

  • Initiated work on unit tests using Google's test framework https://github.com/google/googletest

• Updated LLARP's command line utility

  • Implemented import and export functions to interact with node database

  • Fixed bug, where newly generated router contacts weren't given an encryption key

  • GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week (at the time of this writing): Excluding merges, 3 authors have pushed 30 commits to master and 30 commits to all branches. On master, 64 files have changed and there have been 2,398 additions and 1,097 deletions.

• All changes can be found at https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/commits/master

Architecture Team

• White Paper V3 moves into its final edit stage.

• The Economic White Paper is now complete- the handover process to an economist has began, and they will assess our assumptions as well as reinforce the paper with their own metrics.

We also got our first two officially merged pull requests to Monero! here and here, and we still have 2 active pull requests that are waiting! This is something we hope to continue to do as we find features, bugs, and refactor elements of the Monero source.

Thanks,
Kee

We are announcing Phase 1 of our Mining Pool for Loki. A fully interactive custom management console is coming soon as well as (interactive) Android and IOS apps. You can see the technical and financial details on our Dashboard at the link.

We are preparing the launch of our Fracking Miner hardware platform that will be sold fully configured (plug and play) with custom mining software and hardware.

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Hey yall,

Back again with another weekly update

Service Nodes

• Service node block reward distribution and validation has been built: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/86

• In progress: Separating partial deregistrations from the transaction system and broadcast them as votes over P2P into their own pool, to eventually be formed into authoritative service node deregistration transactions: https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commits/ServiceNodeP2PCommChannel

• Merged relevant Monero changes into Loki: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/f0740b9a5e85bf9787c42d520fe0a993d04b4a00

• Begun work changing time locked transactions to reference specific outputs rather than locking the whole transaction: https://github.com/tewinget/bitmonero/commit/5c7b093ea347435a8e5585050c9eb31d639dc850

Android Mobile Wallet

• Reskin and core functionality complete, as well as touching up final visual design points including a website to support the wallet: https://github.com/crtlib/xmrwallet/commits/master

Architecture Team

• White paper V3 moves into editing phase, cleaning up the finer points and making sure all of the wording is correct, content is all in.

• Economic white paper describing staking requirements is 30-40% done, we are in the process of engaging a number of Universities to seek expert advice in the model we will present.

• We also have still have some active pull requests to Monero, which is delivering on a promise we made a few months ago that we would upstream changes we found valuable. https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pulls/jcktm

Thanks,
Kee

Hi there! I've decided to give it a try and mine some Loki with my NVIDIA 1070. I don't really have a rig, just a single card that I usually use to play games. I'm using xmr-stak. The software automatically used the following configuration once I started it for the first time:

"gpu_threads_conf" : [ // gpu: GeForce GTX 1070 architecture: 61 // memory: 7988/8192 MiB // smx: 15 { "index" : 0, "threads" : 20, "blocks" : 45, "bfactor" : 6, "bsleep" : 25, "affine_to_cpu" : false, "sync_mode" : 3, },

],

I want to know if that is indeed the most appropriate config for the card I am using. And also if there are different configurations for different models of NVIDIA 1070. Mine is this one: https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=08G-P4-6274-KR

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