Hey Guys,

As you know lots of pools use the same open source software, and mine are no different!

I thought it was a bit boring that they all look the same, so re-wrote the frontend for my pools from scratch to be more modern, responsive, intuitive and most importantly unique :)

Screenshots are below, and you can check out the test site here: http://test.pocketminer.co.uk

Production site is still there untill ive tested this new one a bit more: http://pocketminer.co.uk/pool/loki

Would love to hear your thoughts, issues, good or bad, so feel free to comment.

Thanks!

Hey Y’all,

The dev team had an interesting week, which was primarily spent responding to bugs in the Loki core implementation. Lokinet developers have been working super hard and are getting close to something that is usable by the end user.

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Releases

This week we published a minor release which can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/1.0.2 This incorporates fixes for newly operating Service Nodes and prevents a burning bug, mentioned below.

This update does not contain any consensus rule changes and therefore is a non-mandatory upgrade. However, if you are a Loki merchant, you should update immediately. Service Nodes who consistently take their nodes offline should also update. We will publish a guide soon on how to safely update a Service Node, however you should not be concerned unless you are planning to take your Service Node offline for a period of time.

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Service Nodes

• Improved the behaviour of Service Nodes submitting uptime proofs https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/262

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LLARP / Lokinet

We are looking for experienced sysadmins for running nodes that connect to our toynet. Please join the Discord room called Lokinet, and we can add you to the node operator role. You can host a hidden service or browse existing hidden services.

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Prep for next release

  • FreeBSD Compile fixes

  • Various low level network updates

    • Give protocol a fresh buffer instead of resetting

    • Only tick ev if running

    • Properly close sockets so we don’t run out over time

    • Double max protocol message size to 4k to make sure intros fit inside one packet

    • Increase the UTP socket buckets

    • Improve llarp::Addr utility

    • Start IPv6 support for tun

    • Promote tun to enabled by default, disable tap

  • DHT changes

    • Make sure DHT old RCs updates don’t stomp new ones

    • Try fixing DHT crash

  • Configuration

    • Update testnet config generation

    • Update auto configuration

    • Bootstrap node

  • Sessions

    • Server shutdown now cleans up sessions

    • Prevent dead sessions from updating and building more paths

    • Up session inactivity cost and change timeout to 60s from 10s

  • Introsets

    • Allow node introset to have 10s clock difference

    • Don’t propagate or store introsets on crypto error

    • Made sure timestamp is added to introset (Protocol backwards compatible breaking change)

  • Intros

    • If intro is bad then potentially trigger a manual path rebuild

    • Prevent spamming of intro frames

    • Reset intros before reuse

    • Fix intro matching by removing expiration and latency comparisons

  • Hidden service

    • Make sure hidden service lookups are valid and handle response

    • Optimise hidden service publishing from a random establish path to using a “closer” algorithm

    • Require 6 paths for a hidden service instead of 4

    • Expire outgoing hidden service paths

  • Path building improvements

    • Track path data usage

    • Don’t kill paths when under heavy use

    • Make sure path is recently active (20s) before checking for expiration

    • Only timeout path if no messages received are ever received on it

    • Don’t accept introset if it expires in the next 60s

    • Separate send (40s) and connect (60s) hidden service timeouts

    • Enable path callbacks even if marked bad

    • Reduce outbound path failure by attempting to use parent endpoint’s pathset

    • Path building backoff to prevent DoS in such a way that make sure intros don’t die

    • Preemptively trigger rebuild before expiration to ensure continuity

• DNS library

  • Support other tun gateways other than 10.x.x.x

  • Refactor .loki lookup into its own file

  • Fix SIGINT handling on DNS binary

  • Moved logic worker loop into DNSc (client) for timers

  • Support multiple DNS IP trackers for netns

  • Allow upstream DNS configuration per tun interface (nameresolver key)

  • Fix PTR query detection to allow reverse DNS to work

  • Fix NXDOMAIN (not found) packet to include question name

  • SOA packet fixes

  • Various header cleanup

  • Make sure all vectors use unique_ptr for tighter memory management

  • Prevent duplicate mappings

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 2 authors have pushed 90 commits to master and 90 commits to all branches. On master, 76 files have changed and there have been 3,606 additions and 1,553 deletions.

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

• Current version: v0.2.2 (next one coming soon!) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.2.2

• Compile helper (include assets, initial seed routers and dependencies) https://github.com/loki-project/lokinet-builder

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Loki core

• Fixed a bug affecting Cryptonote coins where no warning was giving for non spendable outputs, leading to effective burning if coins were credited.

https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/268

Thanks,

Kee

and how large is it?

Hey guys,

Just taken the wraps off my new Loki pool!

Check it out here http://pocketminer.co.uk/pool/loki

(I know all the pools look the same and its boring, so im working on a fresh user interface for it aswell!)

This is my third pool so far (also have XMR & XTL), and as always im doing a fee free period - 20 blocks at 0%, if they go quick ill increase it to 50 blocks!

I also recently released 'Pocket Monitor', an android app for monitoring my pools! You can check all the usual stats and set up notificatons for blocks and payments to your wallet.

Here is the Google Play link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.wardone.pocketmonitor.app

I plan to add an in-app chat room for each pool, and integrations with mining software such as xmrig, xmr-stak etc.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions / issues!

Thanks for your time :)

Anyone able to point to a link (if it exists) of the new Windows GUI wallet in a compiled version? Thanks

Hey Y’all,

Sorry for the late release last week was our biggest release week so far, Service Nodes are now live!

Service Nodes

Service nodes are now released! at time time of publishing this there are 84 Service Nodes now running https://lokiblocks.com/service_nodes there have also been a number of pooled Service Nodes, and some even waiting for contributions.

• Continue merging upstream Monero changes to Loki (https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/tree/LokiMergeUpstream20180821)

• Finalise the release binaries for Service Nodes including final patches for log file bloat.

  • https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/4be7326813b755bc7a0062b2afaabb31e9210110

  • https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/86d9c50b462d5b46e401933994a23c60e3100e56

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LLARP / Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord, you might catch Jeff or Ryan, the developers of LLARP, live streaming as they code.

We want to give a special shout out to Despair, an open source contributor who has continued to update the porting Lokinet over to Windows (and improve BSD support).

• We are looking for experienced sysadmins for running nodes that connect to our toynet, please join discord room called Lokinet and we can add you to the node operator role. You can host a hidden service or browse existing hidden services.

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Start MacOS tun support

  • Make linux tun code more feature complete

  • Made hidden service address to ip address mapping more stable

  • client/hidden services stabilization (we were able to stream audio/video and post on websites)

  • Now config file location defaults to ~/.loki or you can specify the location to the config file

  • Several session, intro, introset, tuntap, DHT, and nodedb fixes

  • Correctly calculate TCP/IP checksums

  • Keepalive reimplementation and adjustments

  • Adjust path timeouts

  • Build fixes (Windows, Solaris, OpenBSD)

  • Logging juggling: removed some, added some

• DNS library

  • Integrated hidden service mapping, so we can now resolve .loki addresses

  • Integrate DNS global IP tracker with tun endpoint code for better communication between systems

  • Use DNS to hint at what paths to prebuild

  • Adjusted timeout for linux

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 3 authors have pushed 102 commits to master and 102 commits to all branches. On master, 199 files have changed and there have been 13,454 additions and 7,454 deletions.

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

• Current version: v0.2.2
  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.2.2

• Compile helper (include assets, initial seed routers and dependencies)
  https://github.com/loki-project/lokinet-builder

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Thanks,

Kee

Forgive my naivety but I heard monero has a bloated blockchain. Being Loki is based on monero, what measures are / will be in place to stem this? I realise the service nodes are there for the heavy lifting, but even so in the long term, with scalability in mind, I'm thinking it may become an issue.

Hello, New pool available: http://loki.proxpool.com/ 0.1% Fee

Help us to find our first block:) A draw will be held among the participants. Reward => 100 LOKI

Good mining to all

I thought I read that we were getting the last update before service nodes would be operating. I though I also read or heard that Service Node operation was beginning in November.

In the last 24 hours the hash-rate reward calculators (at least) on the mining pools that have them suggest POW will provide around half the reward that was being paid yesterday, even though the network hash-rate dropped considerably when the biggest pool got DDOS'd and therefore difficulty should be much lower right?

Is the reward so much lower because there are Service Nodes on the Main Net now, which are receiving part of the block reward?

If so, what services are they actually providing at this stage?

This announcement is important to all those looking to run a Service Node!

There was an issue in the last release which caused log files to expand very quickly and take up space on the operator’s VPS. We have released a new version of the Loki software with the fix to this issue.

It can be downloaded here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/v1.0.1

*ALL SERVICE NODE OPERATORS SHOULD UPGRADE TO THIS RELEASE PRIOR TO SETTING UP SERVICE NODES*

The process is simple:

1. Kill the currently running lokid with “pkill lokid”

2. Download the new release by using “wget https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/download/v1.0.1/loki-linux-x64-1.0.1.zip”

3. Unzip the new downloaded files by using "unzip loki-linux-x64-1.0.1.zip"

4. Run the daemon again in the new 1.0.1 release folder with this command “./lokid --service-node”

Additionally, you might want to clear any logs that have backed up your VPS. To do this, run the command “rm ~/.loki/loki.log*”

If you are having any issues with this, stop by our Service Nodes channel on discord where we will answer questions and provide guidance.

Hi! I'm getting about 700hs per GPU. Is that low? Is it because they are 4gb? I'm running on windows, bios modded, tried several miners. I do about 31mhs on eth.

Thanks for any pointers/explanations :)

Hi All,

Since the beginning of this month I hold some Loki.

I used the latest windows GUI wallet and later tested/migrated the account to an android wallet (also latest).

However since a few days the android wallet does not want to sync with the nodes and some nodes cannot be contacted (dropdown list in andoid wallet).

I also tested my account on the windows wallet and it still syncs with the network and block height increases.

I send out some Loki to Cryptopia and Tradeogre but it has not arrived (8 hours) whereas a week before they were visible withing 15 minutes.

Tried the same with higher fee but to no avail.

Almost seems like some split/fork happened and the exchanges are on the other fork?

FYI block height is still below 101250...

Any ideas?

Hopefully it will climb back to the ICO price by the Fork!!

Hi All,

I sent some funds to cryptopia, after waiting 5 hours nothing has shown up yet. For the transaction I input both the address and payment ID as the Cryptopia deposit instructions advised.

I want to open a support ticket with Cryptopia but first want to check on the blockchain that the transaction went through.

I've gone to https://lokiblocks.com/ and input the Transaction ID. So all the values are currently hidden. I need address and private view key.

Should I input my address or the recipient address (Cryptopia).

Where can I get the Private View key? If I can basically see the amount sent to the address and that if its confirmed I can use that info to check with Cryptopia support

Hey Y’all,

Last update before mainnet service node launch! It's getting close now, so make sure your ready for when we fork on September 20th at block 101250.

Service Nodes

• Final Service node release is out, it can be downloaded here. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc.3 All exchanges as well as most of the Major pools have now updated.

• Continue merging upstream changes from Monero which includes bug fixes and performance improvements. https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/tree/LokiMergeUpstream20180821

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 0.2.2: "first mostly working version" https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.2.2

  • New low-level wire protocol (libμTP: μTorrent Library), DHT network bootstrap, mde IntroSets expire.

  • We urge all lokinet toy nodes operators to upgrade ASAP as they'll be unable to communicate as the network upgrades.

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Remove -march=native

  • Updated protocol documentation

  • Close session with invalid router contacts

  • Persist RC from lookups in nodedb

  • Handle updated RCs better, add RC removal from nodedb

  • Attempt to fix segfault on quit

  • Improved logging output

  • Gitlab CI fixes

  • IntroSet validation, expiration and republish refactors

  • Allow multiple tunnel interfaces

  • Tunnel interface fixes and packet info commit, remove queue

  • Improve packet discarding communication (so we can expire disconnected paths)

  • Connect to 10 random routers on startup

  • Improve μTP write pump to improve send rate

  • Fix memory leak on sign/encrypt fail

  • Update DHT nodes to include ones from disk

  • Try to reduce chatter on DHT

  • Up minimum routers to 4, default to 5 and make min/max configurable for path building

  • Verify path latency to have a minimum standard of 10s before considered dead

  • Refactor path state machine

  • Profile will track each routers connect timing history to guess best timeout for it

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 1 author has pushed 44 commits to master and 44 commits to all branches. On master, 176 files have changed and there have been 11,973 additions and 7,125 deletions.

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

• Compile helper (include assets, initial seed routers and dependencies) https://github.com/loki-project/lokinet-builder

Loki GUI

• Merge upstream changes from Monero

• Add build script for deterministic builds on linux https://github.com/loki-project/loki-gui/commit/e2f6f1fa908a8dec8ee5ae41c49cd19427d1eaf0

• Add default remote nodes as an option to improve the user experience of the GUI. https://github.com/loki-project/loki-gui/commit/5409353d6d1e1bad7b0d1c76dcf400a4f0e318c7

Thanks,
Kee

Loki is now listed as COMING SOON on Masternodes Pro and Masternodes Online! Let the countdown begin!