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

« on: March 04, 2023, 09:16:29 PM »

10 Countries where the Bible is Banned:
The last 5 include some good dialogue:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc36tMDo8eE

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Production Proposals / Re: Can't make new post.

« on: March 04, 2023, 09:33:54 AM »

I was perusing the biblepay.org site and there are a lot of dead links.  Easy example is the Tokok link in the "get coins" -> "Exchange" section.  There are several other instances of information not having been updated for a while.  The white paper, for example, still shows PODC and PoBH mining and is from 2018.  So, it seems to me that the main website will need some updating soon.

Removed the dead links (TOKOK) and a couple more that I found to old docs on biblepay.org.

We will add a bounty for the rewrite of the whitepaper after the next release which is due out in about 45 days which includes sanctuary mining (that replaces heat heat mining).

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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

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Pre-Proposal Discussion / Re: Sanctuary Video Transcoding Mining - 2023

« on: February 18, 2023, 08:39:07 AM »

Rob,
You mentioned that this video service will be user friendly and be able to help BBP become more popular.  How is the user supposed to upload videos and pay for the service in an easy to understand manner?  Maybe theres a wiki on this and I just missed it.  Is there a GUI or website that a person can go to and easily upload the videos and then be able to link to that video on thier own website?  Are there plans to also host data other than videos?

Thanks!  I have been mining for a couple years now and am excited about the work you guys do on this crypto.  I'm just wondering if this service would be user friendly to get more attention from people who aren't invested in this project.

Ive been a little concerned about that myself, I mean, comparing the ability to share gospel videos (and prophecy videos), and provide a CDN (IE a real world valuable service) as compared to mining really when you weigh them out, Imho, the video service wins over heat mining, right.  So thats step 1.
Regarding the web site, we have "unchained.biblepay.org" and it does have a video viewer where you can view the sanctuary videos right now.  Although I admit, the ERC20 login process and register process needs to be improved.  Its a little hard to understand as a new user how to create an account (you can but its not easy to understand).  I feel that I can handle improving that.
Im really over the long term looking for more help in making BBPs timeline and social media presence better (IE more programmers).
But yes, we totally need wikis, and Im absolutely sure we can document the upload video process and the view video process, and figure out some type of staking that goes on to make BBP more valuable (maybe staking BBP on an important video for example).
In the past our devs have already written an upload UI, but its just not exposed yet so that will be available too (for the avg user to upload something).

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Production Proposals / Re: Can't make new post.

« on: February 18, 2023, 08:33:57 AM »

I was perusing the biblepay.org site and there are a lot of dead links.  Easy example is the Tokok link in the "get coins" -> "Exchange" section.  There are several other instances of information not having been updated for a while.  The white paper, for example, still shows PODC and PoBH mining and is from 2018.  So, it seems to me that the main website will need some updating soon.

Hi UC,

Yeah thank you very much, you point out very valid concerns, thank you.
I should be able to take care of the Tokok link myself, alright, I just started a todo list, I will take care of that one.
I would prefer to make a bounty for the white paper.  Im adding this bounty to my todo.  If you are interested in this bounty its probably 2MM bbp or so to give the whitepaper a facelift, let me know.
If you have more send them and we can address them, thanks.

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Production Proposals / Re: Can't make new post.

« on: February 16, 2023, 06:01:24 AM »

Hey. I can't seem to make new post! This place would be much more alive if it was easier to navigate!

I'm currently in the making of a mining how-to video. Since none of the links on the site seem to work!

Please let me know what is going on here or if it's just me.

Also I'm looking to buy 4,500,000 BBP coins. I figured the forum would be a good place to start but like I said, its like a ghost town in here!

Your first few posts need approved (due to spam attacks on the internet, just like bitcointalk etc).
Links dont work?  We would need an example and please be specific because we have multiple systems.  Ive been fixing any bad links that I know of.
To buy BBP, you can buy it on SouthXChange.

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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

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

« on: January 23, 2023, 08:48:52 PM »

Our Poem for Orphans

Orphans, children without a home
Their hearts are broken, they feel alone
No mother's touch, no father's kiss
Their childhood, forever missed

They wander the streets, with no place to stay
Hoping for love, but it's hard to pray
They dream of a family, to call their own
But for now, they're just all alone

They've seen the darkness, of this world
But they still have hope, they still unfurl
They'll find a way, to make it through
With the help of kind hearts, like me and you

Let's show them love, and give them care
Let's be their family, and show them we're there
Let's give them hope, for a brighter tomorrow
For the Orphans, let's borrow and borrow.

Let's be the light in their darkest days
Let's wipe away their tears, and chase their fears away
Let's give them a chance, at a life full of love
For the Orphans, let's rise above.

Let's give them a home, and a family too
For Orphans, let's see them through
Let's be the change, they need to see
For Orphans, let's set them free.

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

« on: January 23, 2023, 08:44:50 PM »

The Song

Verse 1:
In the beginning, there was a vision
A coin for charity and good decision
BiblePay, the name, a symbol of faith
A community united, a new path to pave

Chorus:
BiblePay, BiblePay
The coin of hope, the coin of grace
BiblePay, BiblePay
Together we'll make a better place

Verse 2:
With every block mined, a blessing bestowed
A way to give back, to those in need, to uphold
A decentralized future, a decentralized past
BiblePay's mission, to make it last

Chorus:
BiblePay, BiblePay
The coin of hope, the coin of grace
BiblePay, BiblePay
Together we'll make a better place

Bridge:
With every transaction, a prayer is said
For a world of peace, where all are fed
BiblePay, a coin of love and light
Leading the way, to a future bright

Chorus:
BiblePay, BiblePay
The coin of hope, the coin of grace
BiblePay, BiblePay
Together we'll make a better place

Outro:
BiblePay, the coin of hope
BiblePay, the coin of grace
Join us in our mission, to make a difference in this place.

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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

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

« on: December 11, 2022, 10:03:13 AM »

As you all may know, we have done a lot for a little with the small amount of funds we received donated to the foundation wallet.
We have drilled 30 water wells for children over the past two years alone.

Because of the historic flooding in Pakistan, the last 10 wells have been delayed.
But they are now being completed!

I am posting them one by one as I receive them on our water wells page:

https://unchained.biblepay.org/gospel/wells

We have 3 updated today and 3 more coming in the next day or so (will update ASAP).

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Pre-Proposal Discussion / Re: Sanctuary Video Transcoding Mining - 2023

« on: December 09, 2022, 06:18:09 AM »

Hi Rob - Good to hear about the upcoming changes. I like the idea of transcoding (CPU/GPU usage) and serving videos (storage and bandwidth?). h.264 is a well supported format. Are there plans to support newer codecs like hevc, or av1? av1 is open source and royalty free. God bless your efforts.

Hi Sun! Good to hear from you.  Hows your health and recovery from your miraculous deliverance?

So on this video mining, its on track to being released into test very soon and its working in unit test no problem.
The CPU usage is a little high when new videos come in, but I think since we have over 35 sancs that will probably not be a problem unless we ever grow to the size of rumble or something.  We've had 300 videos sitting in there for a couple years, so at this point, technically the spike in CPU usage is miniscule compared to the work ingress.
Bandwidth is even less of a concern on an upload because its done once and its over.  The bandwidth challenge will defiitely be serving customers (when they come) via our homegrown CDN.  But I think we can solve that too by blending some of the load off to a competing CDN like Fastly or cloudflare etc.

But anyway, Im supporting the HLS Libx264 at first to get off the ground.  This is because this is the industry standard for Youtube and Rumble.
The issue isnt really a simple technical choice of a codec, to explain a little more of this from an end to end perspective:
The ability to skip around when watching a video on youtube, the fast start, and the non-buffering on mobile, those are all achieved with codecs that do file splitting, like HLS (that have a manifest with the video), and then the HLS Libx264 part comes in when you talk about industry standard video players ability to play those.

So if youve seen any of our sanc videos on unchained.biblepay.org | Social | Videos you can see what I mean - the quality should be on par with the way youtube works...

But of course if we ever grow to have video demand for our 'sanctuary video widget' on third party sites, more codes can be added if they would be aligned and necessary to work with the corresponding player.  (We have a Sanctuary video player also that has to work with the format).

I'm using an open source version of ffmpeg in the sanctuary miner for dotnetcore.

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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

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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.

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General Support / Re: Wallet is not syncing

« on: November 23, 2022, 07:22:43 PM »

It's looking good.

I killled the process and launched the new wallet and it's syncing fine!

So, I guess the coins mature which finishes the first stakes you created,  and then you reinvest your balance again if you want to get more stakes?

Hi CB,

Awesome man, great to hear you synced!  Sorry that was such a hassle to get synced.



As far as earning rewards, check out https://unchained.biblepay.org.  Right now there are 3 ways to earn (randomx mining, staking or running a sanc).

To stake you should set up a portfolio builder position over at unchained, and then it earns daily rewards.  Check out the portfolio builder page, there should be a wiki link on that page to get started.