June 2024 (Q2) - Babylon Falling Release

Mandatory upgrade for TestNet
Biblepay v0.20.18

Code has been released to github.
Windows is ready for download (see link in op post).
Verify your wallet upgrades to newest version and then start with "-reindex=1".
Sync to block 215583 hash 000015d648efc77ed5f25743c388780fae99307a38aab6efe1f6641e5b7e9a3c.

Let me know if you are synced.

Hi Rob,

its working for me now fully synced. Good work.

Hi Rob,

its working for me now fully synced. Good work.

Thanks bro Budinga.

Alright, I will post a little list of the final things we need to test and start on those.

One is creating a testnet proposal, and verifying the wallet votes on it and pays it.

Ill post as soon as one is created in testnet.

PS If you want to give me your testnet address, Ill send you some BBP so you can see if instand send works.

I entered two governance proposals, and they went in successfully into the new wallet.
I voted Yes on these first two, from three sancs:

Will let everyone know if it pays after the next gov block.

Now I need to create a Temple and an altar, and verify the payments are right on all 3 flavors of sancs.

Thanks bro Budinga.

Alright, I will post a little list of the final things we need to test and start on those.

One is creating a testnet proposal, and verifying the wallet votes on it and pays it.

Ill post as soon as one is created in testnet.

PS If you want to give me your testnet address, Ill send you some BBP so you can see if instand send works.

Hi Rob,

my testnet address is yZ4LmikQgzq5q1sc9SRsyQ4JeKDw4YCSme, sorry had a busy weekend missed your message.

Hello,

I have tested two testnet governance proposals at height 216685.

One for 200K and one for 777K.
Test results: SUCCESS
If you want to see them you can browse in "TESTNET" mode in unchained, and also to see the payment you can do
getblockhash 216685, getblock _hash, note the TX #0 in the coinbase block (copy it), getrawtransaction _txid 0, and look for the two tx's and you will see a vout for 200K and vout for 777K.

Next step is to test creation of a temple and an altar, and then we can verify the rewards for those two node types.
Will be back on after my next two sancs are online.

Hi Rob,

my testnet address is yZ4LmikQgzq5q1sc9SRsyQ4JeKDw4YCSme, sorry had a busy weekend missed your message.

Hi Bro Budinga,

Sent 525K to your testnet.  If you want to make sure it went via instantsend just look for the blue lightning bolt symbol.  Also you can check the Info tab of the wallet and look for a chainlock hash on the current block.

I hope you are doing good.

Hi Bro Budinga,

Sent 525K to your testnet.  If you want to make sure it went via instantsend just look for the blue lightning bolt symbol.  Also you can check the Info tab of the wallet and look for a chainlock hash on the current block.

I hope you are doing good.

Yep it seems to be working as intended.

I'm good my friend, i hope you are well too.

Yep it seems to be working as intended.

I'm good my friend, i hope you are well too.

Heh Bro, thanks for the confirmation.
Im glad you got it.  This wallet seems to be pretty solid.  I sent myself tx's over the last 2 weeks and they all got IX'd and chainlocks is still up.
Must have been an inherent problem in the old code base with both of those things as chainlocks never worked correctly in the old wallet.
So Im very happy about that, that this will be a great blessing for us when we go live.

So I created a Temple, and received payment and it is working as intended.
In my prior wave I created an altar and it is also receiving the correct amounts.

Wallet testing is coming to a close.

However I have a really positive surprise for this release that Im on the final stretch on.
We have something additional called BiblePay Extensions.
This menu option gets included with the new EXE, and it allows our development team to release BBP "Modules" or extensions that extend the code base.
These get upgraded automatically when versions change (due to bugs found in the extensions and feature releases in the extensions).

The first actual extension or use case is RDP.  This allows you to RDP from your work to your BBP machine or your BBP machine to work etc (actually its BBP machine to BBP machine).
One real use case for the BBP network to send the traffic through a sanctuary and back to your desktop.
The traffic is encrypted and private and the sanctuary cannot see it either because of the encryption and the keys.
It uses the BBP keypair as an "RDP address" to connect to etc.

Ill get this final leg finished and let you all know when we can test RDP 1.0 and BBP Extensions.

Looks like testing passed.

Thanks to all who helped test the wallet.

Anyone who wants to test RDP, lets continue testing this feature:

https://wiki.biblepay.org/RDP

The feature is part of the MainNet wallet.

Please launch it from there and comment here.