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Active Discussions / June 2022 - TestNet Release - Exodus

« on: April 13, 2022, 01:12:19 PM »

June 2022 Release - Exodus



Welcome to TestNet - Exodus!



Testing commences: April 1st, 2022
Testing Ends: June 2022



In this thread we will be testing:

- Dash 0.17.2.2+ changes:

- POVS (proof-of-video-streaming)

- Verify emissions for core subsidy, daily governance, and monthly governance

- Time Locked Trusts

- View sanctuary streamed video(s) from user perspective and sanc operator perspective

- BBP Drive



Explain Changes to Entire BiblePay Network:   

- Explain transition from POOS to POVS

- Explain usage instructions from customer and user perspective



Wiki Articles:

Time Locked Trusts:
https://wiki.biblepay.org/Time_Locked_Trust

Create a Sanc:
https://wiki.biblepay.org/Create_Sanctuary

BBP Drive:
https://wiki.biblepay.org/BBP_Drive

Installing BMS:
https://wiki.biblepay.org/Install_BMS




Starting Version:    0.17.2.2:

(Please ensure your version is greater than this, in order to sync.  See post #2 for current hash.


Testnet Download Links:


Ready:
     Windows 64-bit:      https://biblepay.org/biblepaydevelop-1.exe
     Linux 64 bits II (QT/biblepayd/biblepay-cli) zip:  https://biblepay.org/bbp-lin-develop-64.zip
     (not ready - inquire first) MacOS QT: https://biblepay.org/biblepay-harvest-develop.dmg


To self compile:
git pull origin develop

https://github.com/biblepay/biblepay/blob/develop/BuildBiblePayDevelop.txt


TODO during release:
Move Mobile Endpoint for mobile wallet unchained:
From foundation.biblepay.org to         https://unchained.biblepay.org/BMS/MobileAPI






CONFIGURING FOR TESTNET:

Create a biblepaytest.conf file with the following contents:
testnet=1
(optional:  debug=1)

Place the file in ~/.biblepay



Start testnet by typing:
./biblepay-qt -conf=biblepaytest.conf

(Note the blocks and chainstate will sync into the ./biblepay/testnet3 folder.

NOTE: If you only have one machine, you can run in testnet side by side a prod node.

To create a TestNet Sanctuary:

https://wiki.biblepay.org/Create_Sanctuary

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                                                                   OUR BIBLEPAY CORE TESTERS



#1 - Earlz 

#2 - Pat Buckley

#3 - Rob Andrews

#4 -

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BiblePay Current Discussion / Re: BiblePay | 10% to Orphan-Charity | RANDOMX MINING | Sanctuaries (Masternodes)

« on: April 13, 2022, 12:32:38 PM »

*** Forum Database Corruption Issue ***


Hi everyone!  We just lost some of our recent forum posts due to database corruption.

Last night I backed up the forum.biblepay.org server (which actually handles our wikipedia server too) and somehow, I corrupted the state of the database itself and the backup.
So I had to roll back to the end of November (the last working snapshot).

And I did try to go the extra mile today with the corrupt myIsam files, I actually dumped the Isam files to a text file by removing the special characters and what is very strange is I cant find our exodus testnet thread in that clear text anywhere.  So I feel something went wrong with the actual ISAM files on the hard drive.  The good news is I started a brand new server so now we have a new drive etc.

Anyway, it looks like we need to recreate :  Time Locked Trust, Creating a Sanctuary, Exodus Testnet Thread, Water Well Initiative for April 2022, Mandatory Upgrade for Q1 2022, etc.
I'm working on recreating the wiki information now.

God bless everyone.

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TestNet Discussion Archive / Re: BiblePayCore - Next Release

« on: November 02, 2021, 12:47:59 PM »

Question: What exactly does the Service Provider Demo do? I ran it but didn't know how to interpret the output.

Another side issue, the BBP did not show up until I logged out and back in. I don't think this is a bug, just rather confusing to me.

In the greeting card page, I could not enter Virtual Gift Card Amount $

I got another error when trying to submit it:

Server Error in '/' Application.
Cannot implicitly convert type 'double' to 'string'
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException: Cannot implicitly convert type 'double' to 'string'

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[RuntimeBinderException: Cannot implicitly convert type 'double' to 'string']
   CallSite.Target(Closure , CallSite , Object ) +137
   Unchained.GreetingCard.Event(BBPEvent e) in B:\BiblePay\BiblePayUnchained\GreetingCard.aspx.cs:200
   Unchained.BBPPage.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in B:\BiblePay\BiblePayUnchained\Code\BBPPage.cs:415
   System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e) +0
   System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +97
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +61
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +693

Hey brother--

First of all I want everyone to be aware that Stack traces are temporarily enabled while we are in beta simply so we can debug this easier.  Once it goes to prod we can mask those again (dont want anyone to think we are n00bs).

Anyway:  On the Service Provider demo:  The idea behind this is to give us a service on the side-chain similar to Bitcoin lightning.  Bitcoin acts as the heavy duty method of transfer, but they can be high in tx fees and slow.  Lightning otoh, is fast with low fees.  So biblepay is fast with low fees for chain transactions, but, we can still offer something extra for people who want to write apps.  Think of if you wanted to charge for every hit to your web page.  We can do that with service provider tx's.  This shows the ability to accept a microtransaction on the side chain, or bill for those, and handle 50TPS.   We have the underlying ability to do that however the demo page was a little hard to understand so I removed that from the menu for now.

Moving on to the Greeting card:
It looks like that thing got busted in a few ways during the last round of changes.  I had to fix the Pay wizard and the URL display, and the virtual gift card textbox amount.
It should be ready to re-test again:  Go for it.

Thanks,
Rob

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TestNet Discussion Archive / Re: December 2021 Release - Barley - TestNet - BiblePayCore - Next Release

« on: October 24, 2021, 11:03:43 AM »

Yes, I do need to create a proposal also... Thanks for reminding me.

Could you send some bitcoin to yd3SVvSHxDZE3yMDJ2QiCDgcbdNqnKp4ws so I could create a proposal and a NFT. I could also do the greeting card again, although I did that already.

By the way, I did create a proposal using my old account - the one I lost the password to.

1) I sent 5MM tBbp to you.
2) On the proposal, I see the ice cream proposal in testnet, but as I mentioned in the previous reply, its for too much bbp (10MM bbp), so now that bug has been fixed (validation), therefore, needs tested again.
3) I see you created a greeting card once on page 5, but only posted one line about it - then when I asked for the test results:
https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=788.msg11450#msg11450
What we basically need is properly formatted test results so when I come back through to pay everyone, people are paid for the test cases that pass.

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TestNet Discussion Archive / Re: Biblepay Unchained Mobile Wallet Thread

« on: October 24, 2021, 10:23:58 AM »

I noticed unchained has had a major overhaul. I created an account and sent myself some bbp and then sent some back. I have a couple questions:

Are the fees intentionally high? 3.34 bbp to send some back seemed high.

I noticed afterwards that there is a testnet thread on it. Does that mean it should not be used/tested on mainnet?

1) The tx fees are intentionally still high; we will definitely lower them to almost normal when we go into production with our next mandatory core wallet (I think this is realistically expected ~ March 2022).
2) Mainnet mode is OK to use, but still in beta (I intend to have a Beta slogan up at the top, but for some reason it was recently hidden, I just added that to my todo list again), but its been behaving pretty well so dont be alarmed; I havent had any reports of issues with prod since the overhaul.  But yes, in beta we should keep the funds below 70K or so in prod until we actually make it to prod... 
3) The testnet thread is there to sort of push all this to be integrated by our next release (IE roll out a stable product), so feel free to join us there.  We are paying this time so if you sign up as a tester you will be rewarded $30 an hour; just reply in that thread please.

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Sanctuary Discussions / Re: Fractional sanctuary (shared masternode)

« on: October 24, 2021, 08:15:36 AM »

Hi Rob,

Someone on discord alerted me to the fact that fractional sanctuaries is not working. They said the last payment they got was on the 16th. Looking at it, it says that a sanctuary gets 0 bbp per day, which is not the case. So I am guessing something is broken / stopped with it. Thought you would want to know.

Blessings

Ok, the problem is fixed now (some key sancs needed to be rebooted that were hung). 

I doubled the sanc reward for a while until I see everyone is overpaid for the loss.

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Sanctuary Discussions / Re: Fractional sanctuary (shared masternode)

« on: October 23, 2021, 04:04:29 PM »

Hi Rob,

Someone on discord alerted me to the fact that fractional sanctuaries is not working. They said the last payment they got was on the 16th. Looking at it, it says that a sanctuary gets 0 bbp per day, which is not the case. So I am guessing something is broken / stopped with it. Thought you would want to know.

Blessings

Thanks, will look at this next.

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Production Proposals / Re: Hello everyone, we updated our proposal with the first phase due to biblepays bu

« on: October 20, 2021, 09:15:28 AM »

Hello brother and sisters,
Receive much greetings from Kenya family. We did with our first phase which had Mattresses, blankets and digging of the bit latrine. We seek to start our phase II construction of the latrine after digging. We need to buy building materials.
Sand
2 Lorries @17,000=34,000

Ballast

2 lorries@ 12,000=24,000
Total                     58,000                   
seeking 2.4MM bbp for this Phase II project. $ 580
May the Lord richly bless you and multiple the work of your hands.
Pastor Joshua - kenya

Congratulations on finishing Phase 1, Pastor!


I wish you the best on receiving funding for Phase 2's governance proposal.

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TestNet Discussion Archive / Re: December 2021 Release - Barley - TestNet - BiblePayCore - Next Release

« on: October 11, 2021, 07:46:39 AM »

Rob I was able to log in. I created a NFT called Great is the Lord, then realized that I don't have any balance since this is a new account. So I shouldn't have been able to create a NFT right?

Hi Bro Andy,

Thats cool; but remember if you have a balance in Prod, always send it out because I cant recover lost funds from the sidechain (the keys are private).
But I can replenish your testnet balance if you give me your address.

Regarding creating an object, upvoting and creating comments in testnet with a 0 balance:
You can do that, yes, and you can create an NFT simply because we have this model called the 'content creator economy' which allows new users to do things for free (and the server pays for it).  Of course they cant Send Tips or spend bbp, but they can perform actions.  The idea is that a content creator, who made a new video, should be able to upload it and share it.

Later Im going to create a wiki doc and ask the community to help me finish off the rules - but basically I envision that Tippers will be in general, keeping the system alive.

One thing that you should not be able to do with 0 is create a new UTXO record (I believe we charge 500 bbp for that).  Also greeting cards charge a fee.

You were going to create a proposal in Foundation.biblepay, right? (Not sure if you've read my replies to you).

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TestNet Discussion Archive / Re: December 2021 Release - Barley - TestNet - BiblePayCore - Next Release

« on: October 10, 2021, 12:23:26 PM »

Evenin Brother Rob.

Test Case #5

Q1. What is the name of your NFT so we can buy it?


The name of my NFT is called: Take me home, country roads


Q2. Did you buy the NFT successfully, and you can see the NFT in your nft list?


Indeed, bought back  footprints in the sand.

Code: [Select]

Success


You have successfully purchased NFT 25cf90e3d9f4ed22abf3010f44d8536c59261ca6ab2ac5c09b91547336b1d3d4 on TXID 25cf90e3d9f4ed22abf3010f44d8536c59261ca6ab2ac5c09b91547336b1d3d4!
Q3. Were you able to Edit your NFT and can you see that your NFT is now visible in the NFT marketplace?


Edited worked just fine changed the prices aswell as reposted the NFT to the marketplace.

I noticed that someone bought another of my NFT "take me home, country roads" 
well my balance went from 200 000tBBP to 225 000tBBP so it looks successfull to me.
It showed up in invoices aswell.

Nice, looks like we are getting closer...

My sancs started up llmq again; you can test a send to yourself and it should change back to a lightning bolt quickly again.

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TestNet Discussion Archive / Re: December 2021 Release - Barley - TestNet - BiblePayCore - Next Release

« on: October 09, 2021, 10:20:18 AM »

I wanted to send Biblepay to my new test account. I couldn't log into my testnet account, although the mainnet is working fine. Am I doing something wrong here?

When I bid on a NFT, sometimes my bid will show but sometimes it will not. I was able to increase the high offer for the "cat v1" but when I bid for "test3" it didn't increase the high offer.

Hi Andy,

Yeah, your right there was a problem with bidding on NFTs; every other bid got erased... (IE the browser was Alternating in what it was accepting from the user).


FIXED.

Please try bidding now.

Also the NFTs have been improved to show a better gallery, and they also send out an email when you buy one now.

This is especially important when you sponsor an orphan NFT, so both the buyer and seller can receive an email.

Todd from Cameroon-One is creating an orphan NFT in testnet for us over the next few days.

Andy, would you like to create an orphan NFT in testnet?  You can use one of your production orphan bios.

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TestNet Discussion Archive / Re: December 2021 Release - Barley - TestNet - BiblePayCore - Next Release

« on: October 09, 2021, 09:11:00 AM »

Hmm you should be able to log in i just log in to testnet unchained a few hours ago.  Let me test again.

A "bug" that i noticed is that pushing "Enter" on the keyboard dosent log you in have to use the mouse  to  hit the log in button.

Looks like enter works just fine for me now to enter unchained.

Andrew, i tested both on desktop computers that i  have and chromebook and cellphone with opera browser and i can log in just fine.

Are you still having trouble to log in ?

Yeah, LOL, they asked for that ENTER button to work, from the Login page, so thats why its working now, lol.

Thanks for testing.

Ill continue to look at the NFT bid and buy now.

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TestNet Discussion Archive / Re: December 2021 Release - Barley - TestNet - BiblePayCore - Next Release

« on: October 09, 2021, 09:09:29 AM »

I wanted to send Biblepay to my new test account. I couldn't log into my testnet account, although the mainnet is working fine. Am I doing something wrong here?

When I bid on a NFT, sometimes my bid will show but sometimes it will not. I was able to increase the high offer for the "cat v1" but when I bid for "test3" it didn't increase the high offer.

I think I know what this is- and let me explain why Id like to leave it like this because it will be more convenient in Prod.
We have another testing group testing our system (they are a potential client), and they requested a new feature to make it easier to log in from prod (they basically dont want to have to type in the password every time they come to our site even if the session expires).  So what we have is an auto-login with cookie, as long as you havent Hit "LOG OUT".  If you hit "LOG OUT" we erase the cookie...

So whats probably happening is every time you come to our site, we log you into MAINNET.  Simply click LOG OUT of mainnet first... then once you see "GUEST" in the top left, THEN switch the chain and log in again to TESTNET.

Ill look at NFT Cat.  On a strange side note, a lot of our nfts looked badly formatted this morning and I fixed all that code, but its not related to bidding on an nft , so ill look at that.

EDIT: Ok, on the login issue, I made it so when you click Change Chain, it also clears that cookie, so that should be resolved now.  Plz try testnet again.

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TestNet Discussion Archive / Re: December 2021 Release - Barley - TestNet - BiblePayCore - Next Release

« on: October 06, 2021, 08:37:30 AM »

*** TESTING IS NOT OVER ***

Someone asked me if testing was over, No, its far from over, we need help with testing so we can have a quality release.

Feel free to join us.

I believe testing is 40% complete.

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TestNet Discussion Archive / Re: December 2021 Release - Barley - TestNet - BiblePayCore - Next Release

« on: October 02, 2021, 04:18:43 PM »

Hey bro. Earlz, Thanks for testing man.

Alright I will go in and create a DOGE ASAP and see if there is a problem, and try to see whats up with ETH too.

Thanks,
Rob

Yeah we did have a few little kinks, in testnet to work through...
I just realized something, for us to remember in the future.. Although we automatically lock the sanctuary collateral on boot, I discovered that if you erase the blockchain and restart, the collateral is not locked (which makes sense because the code is already past the lock point).  So I accidentally deleted all of my prod sancs (which blew out the LLMQ quorums).  Thats OK, because these will re-form after 48 hours , so that explains why all the transactions are slower (because instantsend is off).  I recreated 3 of my 4 sancs and they are running (but LLMQ is still forming).  (Why did I resync; only because remember we were testing that windows build a while back, and I resynced to prove I could sync from scratch, but my big mistake was I sent a transaction out which spent all 3 of my sancs LOL).

Anyway moving on to todays issues:  In testnet, the server was actually running out of money (it has to have a DSQL balance in order to read or write sidechain tx's).  So that explains part of the problem; where it was not pulling up a couple of the non BBP tx's... However I did find a bug while I was in there, which helps us in the long run thanks to Earlz tx for ETH.  It turns out we dont regard the last zero in 5 digit pins ending in 0 so we needed a little more sidechain code (FIXED).   So thats really why it didnt find your ETH tx in the leaderboard (I see you are in there now man).

Btw thats a good transaction to test with, because it shows you are only 1.55% 'covered'. Another words, it shows that if you increase your position in BBP, you will earn more per day (exercising that condition).  So first lets of course make sure you actually receive the reward, then if you could please Up your BBP stake some and verify the 100% coverage works etc, and of course let me know if you need more tBBP?

So I created a DOGE and an ETH and an LTC position and they appeared, praise God.

Let me know guys if you see any other bugs in Testnet....

I went into foundation to see if anyone recreated more proposals in TESTNET and I didnt see any yet; so I assume Andy didnt get to that yet.