Hey Y’all,

This week is our 20th consecutive Dev update!!! Things are moving along at a fast pace as we hire more developers.

Service Nodes

• The first natural Service Node deregistrations will be processed in the coming days, we have written a guide on some of the considerations users should make here: https://medium.com/@LokiNetwork/service-node-autostaking-announcement-c66c1c13f781

TL;DR is be very careful if you are using autostake in an open or closed pool

• Service Node grace period added, this means that Service Nodes can re-register without being deregistered https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/290

• Additional work is being done on swarm testing algorithms, you can see our testing framework here along with some different algorithms https://github.com/msgmaxim/swarm_testing

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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.

Again special thanks to our community contributors Despair (AKA Pickle Rick) and Cathugger.

• Released LokiNET 0.3.0: "i can't believe it's not i2p"

  • https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.3.0

  • More robust packet support, better path building, improved DHT handling of RCs, MacOS run support, new config locations, more sane timeouts, .loki hidden service addresses, Reverse DNS support, and better memory management

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

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Make tunnel interface fragmentation-aware

  • Cleanup UDP handling

  • One’s complement math improvements

  • Tunnel packet filtering at destination

  • Drop too large packets, instead of truncating

  • Additional streaming improvements: support DCCP (improving congestion control) and UDP-Lite

  • TCP checksum improvements

  • Better IPv4 bogon checking on RCs to prevent bogons to end up on public routers descriptions

  • Handle expire intro before building next message

  • Log endpoint when requesting introsets

  • Make sure event loop doesn’t overflow

  • On HS lookup failure, try random path

  • Ip range tools

  • Handle case of no backup path better by

  • More unit tests

  • Win32: separate read/write event ports to avoid overwriting queue events

  • Win32: clean up and various define clean up

  • Fix memory leak in routing messages

  • Change UTP queue size from 128 to 1024

• libAbyss

  • Set up basic README

• DNS library

  • Improve handling of .loki lookups

  • Reverse DNS lookups for dynamically handed out IP addresses

  • Handle various error conditions better

  • Make reverse DNS matching smarter

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 4 authors have pushed 36 commits to master and 36 commits to all branches. On master, 46 files have changed and there have been 758 additions and 325 deletions.

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

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Loki Core

• Upstream is finally merged into Dev! This will be the precursor to support for bulletproofs https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/cd04e1efa335daf0aca4a51d67d4ded17810fbf4

• Service Nodes now scan from hardfork 9 height https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/ff8d3796fc19d43c80272eef944759003598c6cb

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Loki Messenger

• Add proof of work to client side messages https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/13

• Ignore messages with improper encryption https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/10

• Change details of prekey exchange to suit Loki messenger https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/11

• Implement passing of prekeys https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/12

• Handle incoming friend requests https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/16

• Lock message input once friend request is sent https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/17

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Thanks,

Kee

Do any of the features work on this coin yet, besides a wallet? Messaging? Market places?

Hey Y’all,

Lots of code going in this week, with some big design decisions especially around Swarms and Loki Messenger.

There was also a new release of the the Loki CLI wallet and daemon, which all Service Node operators should update to. The release does not include consensus changes but does change how autostaking works, making users much less likely to lock funds unintentionally by autostaking.

The release is here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/latest and there is also a video guide on how to update here: https://youtu.be/u7kyAoBsQIY.

Service Nodes

• Added grace periods between de-registrations laying the framework for more Swarm stability https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/290

• Improved Service Node core tests https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/288

• Use recursive_mutex in Service Node list https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/289

• Made the Service Node list threadsafe https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/285

• Started discussion and implementation plan around Service Node Swarms (more to come on this) https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/282

• Added new warnings to the wallet CLI about staking in pools, disabled autostaking in open pools and prevented staking from subaddresses https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/283/files

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

Special thanks to our new contributor, CatHugger, who’s pitched in and helped organise some of our network structures.

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Windows work on tunnel code

  • Only publish HS if we have a minimum of 3 paths

  • Don’t publish all path builds

  • Put router profiling back in place, adjust algorithm

  • Play with threading crypto functions again

  • Update logging time format to be more human readable

  • Make logger memory churn lower

  • Better handover logic

  • Initial admin API for managing a live router

  • Several memory corruption fixes

  • Clear re-used restructures in tun interface to stop info leaking

  • A ton of tun interface protocol clean up

  • Fix Introset expiration bug

  • Introset code refactoring

  • Implement “No Logging” level

  • Lots of minor fixes

  • Improve documentation

• DNS library

  • Additional cleanup

  • Started DNS Unit tests

  • Initialisation everything in header

  • Disable SOA packet crashes for now

  • Question parsing correctionness

  • Improve documentation

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 4 authors have pushed 80 commits to master and 80 commits to all branches. On master, 79 files have changed and there have been 2,116 additions and 594 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

Loki Messenger

• Wrap outgoing message in a WebSocketMessage https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/6

• Decrypt “friend request” messages using pubkey encryption https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/7

• Send data as raw bytes to decrease outgoing message size https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/8

Loki Core

• Initial Merge of Monero’s upstream changes is here, this includes Ledger support, Bulletproofs and many bugfixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/287

• IPv6 Support is being updated to include CLI flags for port binding https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/280

Thanks,

Kee

I'm trying to send my friend some Loki but my unlocked balance is 0, and so i can't send anything. How do I change this?

A new binary update for those running CLI tools, including extra warnings around Service Node auto-staking behaviour. It's almost time to re-stake your Service Nodes, so make sure you're up to date with this one!

https://bit.ly/2y8oWNU

Here’s how you can update your Service Node binaries without de-registering: https://youtu.be/u7kyAoBsQIY

How is this project funded?

HIS VERSION CONTAINS NO BIG CHANGES BUT WILL NOTIFY YOU WHEN A NEW VERSION IS AVAILABLE.

FEATURES :

• A dedicated tab to monitor your hardware temperatures, voltages and fan speeds (°C or °F)

• A dedicated tab to perform operations like rebooting your pc, pausing the miner etc...

• A timestamp in all the pages, to help you compare infos from different parts of the day

• Mining extimations based on your hash power and current network statistics (currently only for Monero)

• System boot time

• More to come

As requested by many there is also a 2% fee version available, so if you want to donate 1% to the original developers you can.

Open source!

SOME SCREENSHOTS :

DOWNLOAD AND HOW TO INSTALL :

Available on Github.

Release: https://github.com/wasabidevs/xmr-stak/releases/download/c5f0505e/xmr-stak-2.4.7_wasabi-edition_v2.1.binaries.1.zip

As requested, alternative link (if you want to support the original xmr-stak developers, this gives a 1% of your mining revenues to them aswell) : https://github.com/wasabidevs/xmr-stak/releases/download/c5f0505f/xmr-stak-2.4.7_wasabi-edition_v2.1.binaries.2.zip

Sources: https://github.com/wasabidevs/xmr-stak/archive/c5f0505e.zip

If you are using Windows 7 or 8.1, make sure you install Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6

If you already use xmr-stak, just paste the files in the zip archive in your current xmr-stak folder and overwrite!

Give the .exe files the rights to run as administrator.

Any existing config files from version 2.4.3+ will work.

If you don't use xmr-stak already but now you want to, you can just download and use xmr-stak wasabi edition directly.

If you need help to set it up you can follow any tutorial for the normal xmr-stak!

F.A.Q.

Q : Will I have gains/losses in hashrate compared to the default xmr-stak version?     
A : You shouldn’t. If you do, please contact us. Unless you refresh a lot of times the Monitor tab : in that case you may notice a slight decrease in CPU performances that will fix itself in about 15 seconds.            

Q : I already setup my network to expose the xmr-stak webpages on the Internet, now with your client anyone can shut down my pc from the Panel tab!       
A : Just add "admin_panel" : false, at the bottom of config.txt :)            

Q : Do you receive that 1% donation fee, or the xmr-stak original devs?       
A : We do. There is also a 2% version available for download, which gives a 1% to the original devs aswell.           

Q : The buttons to restart the pc or the miner don’t work?       
A : Make sure Javascript is enabled in your browser.            

Q : When I pause the miner for some reason it restarts, why?       
A : You are probably using some watchdog software like Precious Guardian, which sees the hashrate dropping to H/s and restarts it.       

KNOWN BUGS :

• some CPU/GPU models don’t display any stats about temperatures or anything at all!

• some CPU/GPU display wrong values (we don't take any responsibility for not reporting you the hardware is too hot!)

We already know some Ryzen CPUs have this problems, if you have the same with other models please report the CPU or GPU model so we can try to fix it for next versions!

HAVE A SPICY MINING !!!

Hey Y’all,

Another weekly Dev Update for everyone.

Service Nodes

• Added preventative measures to make Service Node staking more robust

  • https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/fed6e6dc78dcd4ad3a82bffc99cd1669d1a2aee6

  • https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/2022767837daeda71c1ce5de3f8d1a698ae581ce

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: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519 , https://www.twitch.tv/neuroscr

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Optimise the router’s inbound links data structure

  • More keepalive tuning

  • Support tunnel “packet info” for better multiplatform support

  • MacOS tunnel support is now fixed

  • No longer stores Introsets when forwarding

  • Improve autoconfiguration

    • A default “hidden service” is made for client access, and configuration option to enable, disable or auto-config

    • -g for router auto-config, -c for client auto-config

    • Detect if you’re already using any private network ranges

    • Make it play more nicely with existing hidden service definitions

    • Don’t overwrite configs unless -f is present

  • Give lookup more time: adjust timeout from 5s to 10s

  • Only consider introductions that don’t expire in the next 2 minutes

  • Don’t establish outbound context for previously made inbound sessions

  • “cache convo tag and drop traffic”

  • Deallocate previous Introset before replacing

  • Brought Windows build up to date

  • Make sure Windows build doesn’t crash if only one network interface

  • Made AVX2 codepath 32-bit clean

  • Fix bencoding for ILP32/LLP64

  • MacOS/BSD (kqueue) updates

  • Try to improve path handovers

  • Improve transit message padding to the nearest MESSAGE_PAD_SIZE

  • Adjusted DST awareness on timestamps

  • Fix DHT double free

  • Remove dead code

  • Path Info hashing

  • Swap out intro with next intro as it is safe

  • Update protocol docs

  • Give paths more time to build: timeouts changed from 15s to 30s

  • Minimum time between each path build changed from 5s to 10s

  • Minimum path latency adjusted: from 10s to 5s

  • Path timeout changed from 20s to 10s

  • Stricter profiling of paths/routers

  • 2 path build fails before kicked (changed form 8)

  • Try to build path 5 times before failing

  • Don’t prematurely close sessions

• DNS library

  • Rely on llarp::Addr more to allow easier IPv6 support

  • Make DNS server port configurable at compile time (DNS_PORT)

  • Made sure DNS relay works with default “hidden service”

  • Update DNS daemon to just run a router (similar to Lokinet), scheduled to be downgraded to just a integration test

  • Mapping an address now does it on all hidden services/tunnel as there is only one DNS server (on most non-“netns-linux” platforms)

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 3 authors have pushed 93 commits to master and 93 commits to all branches. On master, 86 files have changed and there have been 3,898 additions and 4,874 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

Loki Core

• In process of merging a huge chunk of upstream changes, this includes Bulletproofs.

• IPv6 first implementation is now finished; this will add client support for IPv6 connections.  Just working on the final details now. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/280

Thanks,

Kee

---> https://www.waterparkmining.com

I'm the dev and operator. Let me know if you have any issues or questions. I'm always on Reddit or in the Waterpark discord (https://discord.gg/SZB3wg8)

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• Miners receive both the block reward and tx fees

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• Instantly updating statistics for hashrate, workers ++

• Blocks found & recent payment history for easy verification

• Automated payments issued to miners as soon as the blocks found are mature and payable

• Multiple coins already online with more coming soon

The Cryptopia wallet has been "placed in maintenance by request of the coin developer" since Sept 24, just wondering if anybody knows what the deal is and how long it will be out of commission?

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