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Production Proposals / March 2023 - Cameroon One Orphan Expenses

« on: March 04, 2023, 07:45:17 AM »

We currently sponsor 35 orphans from cameroon-one, and this proposal is for the primary payment to cameroon-one.

I am seeking 8.4MM bbp (approx $600) covering a high proportion of the orphans (we pay $40 per month for each orphan).

Payout going directly to cameroon-one: BF6qmwBMmnmb4FbSmRGTeWQL1m3rwh5n7b

Production Proposals / Feb 2023 Cameroon-One Orphan Expenses

« on: February 05, 2023, 06:46:40 AM »

We currently sponsor 35 orphans from cameroon-one, and this proposal is for the primary payment to cameroon-one.

I am seeking 9MM bbp (approx $600) covering a high proportion of the orphans (we pay $40 per month for each orphan). Our monthly gov cap is currently 9.6MM bbp.

Payout going directly to cameroon-one: BF6qmwBMmnmb4FbSmRGTeWQL1m3rwh5n7b

Production Proposals / Jan 2023 Cameroon One Orphan Payments

« on: January 10, 2023, 06:41:30 AM »

We currently sponsor 35 orphans from cameroon-one, but our monthly budget will not cover the entire portfolio.

I am seeking 10MM bbp (approx $700) which should cover approx 30 orphans of our 35.

Payout going directly to cameroon-one: BF6qmwBMmnmb4FbSmRGTeWQL1m3rwh5n7b

Production Proposals / Dec 2022 Cameroon-One Orphan Payments

« on: December 03, 2022, 03:26:57 PM »

We currently sponsor 35 orphans from cameroon-one, but our monthly budget will not cover the entire portfolio.

I am seeking 11MM bbp (approx $700) which should cover approx 30 orphans of our 35.

Payout going directly to cameroon-one: BF6qmwBMmnmb4FbSmRGTeWQL1m3rwh5n7b

Production Proposals / Video Transcoder Mining - Red Sea Changes for March 2023 Release

« on: November 26, 2022, 07:30:38 AM »

This proposal summarizes the changes to be made in Red Sea for our March 2023 release:

The preproposal discussion thread was here:
https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=913.0

Summary of changes:
- Add Video Transcoding/processing to our suite of services that the sanctuary will be executing.
- Remove the necessity to have a RandomX pool.
- Remove the RX pool and the UTXO staking pages from unchained.biblepay.org.
- Make the mining non-competetive (this is so one sanctuary will not attempt to hog all of the rewards). The video transcoding will be done in a non competetive way, rewarding the sanctuaries in round robin fashion using the deterministic rewards schedule already in place (the sanctuary block reward schedule).
- Decrease the Mined block reward by 99%, while increasing the sanctuary reward by that same amount (this removes the competetiveness of mining). Two rules maintain block security: One, we have chainlocks already in place (so there is no 51% attack). Two, only sanctuaries may solve blocks, therefore the network cannot be attacked by external parties.
- Remove the UTXO staking reward, and increase the sanctuary reward by that same amount.
- Make the Sanctuary nodes assess Storage utilization (of videos and files) per BBP key, and bill for that usage monthly.
- Block emission:
10% orphan charity, 5% governance, 85% sanctuary-video-mining.
- Sanctuary min server specs: 6 core processor, 400 gb hard drive :
https://contabo.com/en/vps/vps-m-ssd/?image=ubuntu.267&qty=1&contract=1&storage-type=vps-m-400-gb-ssd
- BBP core wallet will be modified to generate storage keypairs. Anyone with a balance can store files or videos in our storage network. The sancs will still act as CDNs.

Active Discussions / March 2023 - Red Sea Release

« on: November 12, 2022, 07:51:18 PM »

March 2023 Release - Red Sea

Welcome to TestNet - Red Sea!

Testing commences: Dec 12th, 2022
Testing Ends: February 12th, 2023

In this thread we will be testing:

- HLS264 Video Conversion Mining on Sanctuaries

- Verify emissions for core mining subsidy, core sanc reward, daily governance, and monthly governance

- Generating a deterministic Read Access token, and a BBP Upload token

- Monthly file storage debit process for a storage user

- Uploading a sample video, playing a sample video as a user, accessing or removing your files independently from the BBP network (disaster recovery) or customer exit

- POVS sanc banning

Explain Changes to Entire BiblePay Network:

- Explain transition from RandomX to Video Mining

- Explain usage instructions from customer and user perspective

Wiki Articles:

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

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

Starting Version: 0.17.2.8:

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

Testnet Download Links:

NOT 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
(Inquire first before downloading) 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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Production Proposals / Dec 2022 Cameroon One Orphan Expenses

« on: November 12, 2022, 02:47:52 PM »

We currently sponsor 35 orphans from cameroon-one, but our monthly budget will not cover the entire portfolio.

I am seeking 12MM bbp (approx $1100) which should cover approx 30 orphans of our 35.

Payout going directly to cameroon-one: BF6qmwBMmnmb4FbSmRGTeWQL1m3rwh5n7b

Pre-Proposal Discussion / Sanctuary Video Transcoding Mining - 2023

« on: November 07, 2022, 06:40:36 AM »

I'm making the case for a change to Biblepay in 2023 that I believe has the potential to make us more valuable and efficient.

It's widely believed that real world use cases are the key to success in this industry and I believe if BiblePay provides a solid real-world use case, it can rise to become a top crypto.

(Aside from the fact that we do have real world use cases for Christians covered, such as funding orphan charity by sponsoring orphans, accepting tithes from crypto users and being a Christan branded wallet) but further from that:

RandomX is good in many ways, its fair and full of integrity because it provides honest rewards for any type of hashing power. But where I see the problems with POW mining: the mining concentration ends up going to these small pockets of consolidated miners in areas where electricity is cheap and ends up being a small handful of people that have the machines and power to mine (not the everyday random user we expected). The original vision was for the small time end user to simply hash the KJV bible and every small random miner gets a reward and thats clearly not happening. Partially because we have discovered you cant trade anonymity for security, and with the POW protocol, the bigger players consolidate into a monopoly because they can afford to.

Enter video-transcoding mining from sanctuaries. Video transcoding is a very popular use of computing power. Look at Transcoding Libx264 HLS transcoding APIs on the internet and see there is a lot of competition and it costs a fair amount of money per video (usually half a cent per minute etc). The idea is to accept jobs for free as a network (emphasizing Christian videos if possible that get uploaded as mp4s to our network) and our sancs process these instead of the mining function (by accessing a backlog queue) and they store these in our dec. storage network for viewing. When our partner sites use these videos and pay for storage fees we keep these otherwise they get purged. (We can discuss storage fees in a different proposal, this proposal is for mining).

The miner in the sanctuary would be modified to run at a non-competitive hashrate (so that some sanctuaries do not act in an arms race fashion to take all the rewards), the rewards would be round robin and fair based on the existing deterministic pay schedule. The mining reward would be reduced by 95% so as to remove this competetiveness but the Sanctuary standard reward would be Raised by the same amount to compensate all Sancs equally for this workload.

The wallet itself would be modified to only accept Sancs as valid miners (blocks would only be solved by sancs). The randomx pool would be retired.
New miners would need to lock funds to run a sanc to be a miner.

For the small investor who does not meet the capital requirements, we will still offer Turnkey Sancs on unchained for that use case so that even the small investors can participate for network rewards.

At the same time, to maximize ROI per sanc, we will retire UTXO staking as well, thus simplifying the IT requirements behind the scenes. Those rewards will also be added to the sancs rewards to make it very lucrative to do video mining.

Thus in the end, our block emission would be: 10% orphan charity, 5% governance, 85% sanctuary-video-mining.

Longer term picture looks like this:

- Companies use BBP to transcode videos and to Store videos
- We as a network bill for transcoding and storage fees for videos stored on our network (real world use case)
- Videos that are not paid for are purged from storage
- We set up a channel for God related videos to be encouraged to be uploaded. They are reviewed by users and if legal, the foundation continues to pay storage fees for those videos so they can be watched on our social media system.

Production Proposals / Nov 2022 Cameroon One Expenses

« on: October 22, 2022, 08:37:54 AM »

Active Discussions / October 2022 Cameroon One Orphan Expenses

« on: September 21, 2022, 07:07:46 AM »

We are transitioning back to Monthly governance proposals (from POOS).

We currently sponsor 35 orphans from cameroon-one, but our monthly budget will not cover the entire portfolio.

I am seeking 12MM bbp (approx $1000) which should cover approx 25 orphans of our 35.

Archived Proposals / September 2022 Orphan Expenses - Cameroon One

« on: August 21, 2022, 06:39:45 PM »

We are transitioning back to Monthly governance proposals (from POOS).
We currently sponsor 35 orphans from cameroon-one, but our monthly budget will not cover the entire portfolio.
(Rob is currently covering the difference).

This proposal is for the September expenses.
I am seeking 12.8MM bbp (approx $500) which should cover approx 13 orphans of our 35.

Archived Proposals / August 2022 Cameroon One Orphan Expenses

« on: July 29, 2022, 03:18:47 PM »

We are transitioning back to Monthly governance proposals (from POOS).
We currently sponsor 35 orphans from cameroon-one, but our monthly budget will not cover the entire portfolio.
(Rob is currently covering the difference).

This proposal is for the July expenses.
I am seeking 12.8MM bbp (approx $400) which should cover approx 10 orphans of our 35.

Archived Proposals / July 2022 Cameroon-One Orphan Expenses

« on: June 25, 2022, 06:54:34 PM »

We are transitioning back to Monthly governance proposals (from POOS).
We currently sponsor 35 orphans from cameroon-one, but our monthly budget will not cover the entire portfolio.
(Rob is currently covering the difference).

This proposal is for the July expenses.
I am seeking 12.8MM bbp (approx $400) which should cover approx 10 orphans of our 35 for July.

Announcements & Fundraisers / HFOC Hope for Orphans Center Kenya - Phase IV

« on: June 15, 2022, 12:45:44 PM »

Phase Iv

Hello brothers and sisters,

Receive much greetings from Kenya family. We are writing to seek for your prayers and any kind support towards our orphanage centre. You have made us achieve some 3 phases. We say

thank for all who have been of help. We look forward to do the above item.

In a number of days things have not been going well on our end. We seek from you friends a support to help in food, clothes, school supplies (books, pens and school uniforms) on this food

is the major thing to make them strong. We pray for God to open ways this phase to be complete. Once the project is done will attach all pictures

For those at heart to help here is the south exchange depositing : BMqkugTgJdEXMZa7uTxdPFsAbQTrMkqSSc

or you can do western union through; Joshua oendo Isaiah. P.o box 8 ogembo 40204 Kenya Africa. ‪+254 725 564 930‬.

May the Lord richly bless you as we look forward for a kind help.

Hope for orphans center.
Pastor Joshua.

General Support / BiblePay QT Windows Size too big - cant see SEND button?

« on: April 19, 2022, 07:43:12 AM »

This thread discusses solutions if your biblepay-qt wallet appears too large on your display, so large that the borders are cut off the screen Or if you cant see the "SEND" button when you navigate to the "SEND" menu (to send coins). Send button is supposed to be at the bottom left of the screen (below the transaction fee).

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