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Hi Rob,

2) That would seem like a reason it had to be on a DM block, which could have been set to a DM block 1 week away, which would allow everyone to update in the meantime. I may be missing something though.
3) Thank you, I realized that after the wallet finished updating. The blockchain explorer is apparently not updated, so it was not showing there.
4) Where would I see such messages? I did not see any message, and there are none in the My Messages tab. I am subscribed to the update emails.
5) Glad to hear such a short upgrade time window is not the norm. I think though that the more stable blockchains normally have longer than 1 week though.
6) I would suggest that if there is a mandatory upgrade it should be posted to github immediately. If it needs another update due to an issue, it can be updated.

Is there a guide to the trust wallet integration? It is not clear how to set it up. I found Portfolio Builder, which mentions Trust wallet integration, but then says you can use any wallet, which is how it was before the update.

Regarding the press release: I think it is a great idea to have a press release. However, the website/wiki should be updated before it is released in order for it to be effective. That way new users are not turned away by confusing/conflicting information. As it stands now, the press release points you to the post about the update, which does not explain how it works. The website does not have the information either, and still points to DWS which was disabled a while ago. And PODC, which was disabled even further ago. I know I spent many hours trying to get PODC working only to discover it was disabled.

I hope my comments / suggestions are not taken the wrong way. I like BiblePay and think you have spent a lot of time improving it. I am especially looking forward to the wallet integration. I want BiblePay to be successful and think that the new user experience is currently a significant hinderance.

Blessings,
Jo

Hi Jo--

On #2, the problem with that method is you are making the assumption that if everyone is ready to upgrade in the future block, that everything will go well on that particular day.  I chose to start the upgrade as soon as we were in maintenance, in case we needed another emergency update in between.  Without causing any arguments over this, the real deal killer was that our classic chain was already in dip3 mode, and no new pool blocks could be mined in the pool unless they were upgraded FIRST.  That set an extraordinary problem ahead of us meaning we had to upgrade both pools first in order to mine, and in order to mine new clients already had to be running (as users).  So no, dash would not have had this problem because they were not in dip3 mode when they upgraded. 

On #3, I had to wait for my internal green light before releasing the Mandatory notice for BX's and exchanges.  Its going out right now.

On #4, there are two ways.  First be sure you have Notify clicked on this thread.  Our foundation.biblepay.org will Tweet you an upgrade notice if you are subscribed here.  The other way is triggered *after* the mandatory is checked in to github.  So I recommend both until we start our social media platform.

On #5,  I agree with you here, but to clarify my position, I was referring to exchange minimums.  Basically we should give a 30 day upgrade notice to our users in general, but a 10 day exchange minimum to our partners.  We do have a history of doing this, but we were not organized well this quarter.  I like to set a very accurate date in testnet as we close on our testing (and we did, but again I didnt KNOW that our pools would cause an emergency honestly until it became an emergency).  I think what we should do is add a phase at the end of testing to start to notify everyone that the upgrade is *coming* in only 21 more days .. etc.. We can definitely do a better job in that area;  thank you for the suggestion.

On #6, Yes, we always will in all normal circumstances.  In this case it was not possible.  A mandatory upgrade in github triggers our partners to upgrade and we did not want that in phase #1.





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Thank you Rob for the hard work. I published notes in Telegram, Discord, Twitter and LinkedIn

Users are asking about when the SouthXchange wallet is going back online.

On my side, I added some entries in the investment portfolio section and it works nicely!

I hope these exciting new features catch the attention of many new users.

Thanks.

As far as SX,  we will be releasing the github release later today and then our block explorers and SX will be notified to upgrade; I would tell them ~48 more hours.


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Hi Rob,

Ah ok, that explains it. Thank you.

I put a notice at the top of the wiki PODC, PODC Setup, DWS pages about them being disabled so it does not cause confusion for new users. And the UTXO Mining page about Portfolio Builder. The Main wiki page needs updated with new Block reward, remove exchanges that are not recommended, etc. I do not have access to update it. Same with pages on the website.

Blessings,
Jo

Hi Jo--

On #2, the problem with that method is you are making the assumption that if everyone is ready to upgrade in the future block, that everything will go well on that particular day.  I chose to start the upgrade as soon as we were in maintenance, in case we needed another emergency update in between.  Without causing any arguments over this, the real deal killer was that our classic chain was already in dip3 mode, and no new pool blocks could be mined in the pool unless they were upgraded FIRST.  That set an extraordinary problem ahead of us meaning we had to upgrade both pools first in order to mine, and in order to mine new clients already had to be running (as users).  So no, dash would not have had this problem because they were not in dip3 mode when they upgraded. 

Ill be back..

Hi Rob,

Ah ok, that explains it. Thank you.

I put a notice at the top of the wiki PODC, PODC Setup, DWS pages about them being disabled so it does not cause confusion for new users. And the UTXO Mining page about Portfolio Builder. The Main wiki page needs updated with new Block reward, remove exchanges that are not recommended, etc. I do not have access to update it. Same with pages on the website.

Blessings,
Jo

Hi Jo,

Thanks, as you know Im kind of pressed today because of BBP issues coming in (someone is writing a press release for us), I would be happy to give you access so you can help us with this; could you email me your username to [email protected] and Ill edit the wiki perms?  Let me know if thats the only system you need unless you want to do biblepay.org web editing also.

Thanks!

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** Next Steps **

Alright everyone, I've been testing 1.6.2.4 with NFTs, Portfolio Builder, Greeting Cards, DWU, etc, trying to find any last minute "cracks" that need fixed before we release our actual github 'release' (this is the release that BX's and exchanges will use).

I did find one small issue that we have the luxury of fixing right now:  Currently the portfolio builder is not displaying the DWU% on the screen (its 0).
And the double click (of your entry in the leaderboard) is also displaying 0%.  (Its because Bitcoin is being squared).

My intent is to fix this right now, so everyone please look forward to upgrading to 1.6.2.5, and this will be our release.

Please be on the lookout for the Production version.


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Nice work Rob. I am definitely looking forward to the prod version. All of the features look really nice, and I am confident that this is a really solid upgrade to the previous edition. I will now be looking into contacting the businesses, Youtube channels, and other organizations that I have a list of pertaining to the acceptance of this currency, and I will let you all know as soon as I finalize what I will say. I want to make sure that the wallet is fully in prod before I send them, and possibly get a few of the other wiki related features updated like Jo was referring to earlier. Again, really nice work, let me know if you want to do another testnet equivalent, or what usecase the tbbp have at this point. Also, I will be doing a cross custom NFT in varying color schemes as a sort of set soon, and all of the BBP that the set makes will be donated immediately. Be on the lookout for it in the next few days if you all are interested! Thanks, and may God bless you all.
twinkle
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Also, let me know whenever you get the press release done, I will probably send that out to the companies along with the actual info I have on the coin whenever I get that together.

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Sorry, one last thing, what is the DWU on TrustWallet staking?
Thanks, and may God bless, I will be back later to test some features, and work on that NFT plus company letter I referenced.
twinkle
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BiblePay Core Wallet
1.6.2.5 - Mandatory Upgrade for Entire Network at height 278014


- https://github.com/biblepay/biblepay/blob/master/changelog.md (See changes from 1.6.0.1 - 1.6.2.4)
- New Montserrat font (smooth font for non windows OS), new CSS background
- LLMQ Instant Send + ChainLocks
- BiblePay Portfolio Builder (Retirement Accounts) with Ten major cryptocurrency staking options in "Misc | Portfolio Builder" including Stellar and Ripple!
   b.  Add Ripple and Stellar support for UTXO staking (v1.0), and modify getpin for this also
   c.   Add Trust Wallet Integration (Allows the user to use ONE trusted mobile wallet for all of their crypto, including our 10 currencies and earn UTXO rewards on the portfolio)
   d.  Add the BiblePay Cryptocurrency Index - this is an index of 10 major currencies.  To view it, click Misc | Portfolio Builder.
    e.  Fixed the DWU % display.
- Block Subsidy changes:  Increased Portfolio Builder emissions and Less for Sanctuaries : Sanctuaries (20%), monthly budget (5%),  UTXO (50%), RANDOMX (25%), with a calling for New Users
  b. Enhance listutxostakes to actually be JSON
- NFT 1.0 (Non-Fungible Tokens) and NFT marketplace.  Dedicated marketplace for Orphans and for Digital Goods
   b. Add NFT Auctions (Buy It Now Amount and Reserve Price)
- Referral Codes 1.0 (allows user to generatereferralcode, listattachedreferralcodes, checkreferralcode, claimreferralcode).  This type is used for viral PR.
  b. Note: referralrewards bonuses decay over 2 years similar to RAC (this keeps our emissions schedule perfectly aligned and phases out viral rewards over time).
- BiblePay Greeting Cards and phrase protected virtual gift cards - to use click Misc | Greeting Cards
   b.  Add Christmas, Easter and Kittens Greeting cards.  Make the greeting card fields customizable by the user.
   c.  Add CSV Greeting Card generate process
- BBP Transaction Fees have increased to small levels from dust levels (should be about 1 bbp per 1K of size now)
- Added Tier2 payment for non POOS sancs. This gives tier2 a 250bbp reward to run a sanc that does not sponsor an orphan, simply for network stability and voting rights
- Recaption Duffs to Pence (This gives a name to our microcoins) (Purely in honor of the archaic currency).
- Coin Control: Display gift icon when it is a gift from a gift card
  b. Auto unlock the gift if they run 'acceptgift', secondly, lock gifts on wallet boot by default (this prevents gifts from being spent by the giver).
  c.  Add gift key to givers wallet so they can recall the gift if it is never redeemed.
- Add Alpha Invoicing and Payments and Statements v1.0 (This is mostly integrated but still disabled and in alpha).
- Unchained feature: Add DSQL to server side (this supports an insert and a read) in alpha.  This feature is still in Alpha (see our unchained project: https://unchained.biblepay.org/).
   b. Add rest pushtx, getaddressutxo. This is also for unchained, allowing a decentralized client to relay a tx, allowing a c# consumer to query utxos, and query DSQL data.
- Add rpc getvalue command - Allows you to convert from BBP to USD
- Remove Randomx calls on MAC making it an SPV client (this allows us to notarize the mac software)
  b. Update build instructions for mac cross compiling
- Add erasechain UI (to wallet tools)


1.  All sanctuaries need to be re-created (because we have transitioned to DM blocks, and our old sancs were created inside non-dm blocks).
    a.  You must re-create your sanctuary as a deterministic sanc.  Please see this guide:
         https://wiki.biblepay.org/EasySanc
    b.  Please contact cameroon-one with your new public key (copy the orphan bio from the Sanctuaries UI page and send to cameroon) so that your bio can be updated.
2.  All leaderboard UTXOs need to be re-created as Portfolio Builder positions.  Note that we now monitor Cryptocurrency Addresses (in contrast to individual utxos).
    a.   We still use pins.  Since the leaderboard is empty, I will explain how to jumpstart some position easily and then you can move to the more elaborate positions later.
    b.   To easily create a BBP position, simply click Misc | Portfolio Builder.  Select BBP from the Coin Ticker dropdown.  Populate an Amount.  Click Send.  BBP will allocate that much into your position (which is equivalent to our old easybbpstake command).  Then you will be in the leaderboard.
3.  When you upgrade, if you are running QT, you will need to click Tools | Erase Chain and restart (this will start with a clean chain).  If you are running a full node, start with -erasechain=1.
     The reason why is we have added the timestampindex and the addressindex as a default option to our chain which consumes two more database index positions therefore a rescan is required.  The address index is Required for all sanctuaries.  (If you do not erase the chain you will go out of sync).
4.  Both pools need to upgrade immediately (these DM blocks are not backwards compatible).  Foundation.biblepay.org has upgraded already and fun has been notified.
XMRig miners are not affected as the miner will seamlessly mine through the mandatory upgrade.
5.  Note to self compiled nodes:  You will need to cd depends, and rebuild the dependencies, rerun autogen.sh and rebuild.  (We have a new set of dependencies in this branch).  Follow Build Biblepay for more information:  https://github.com/biblepay/biblepay/blob/master/BuildBiblePay.txt




Guides:

NFTs:
https://wiki.biblepay.org/NFT

NFT Marketplace:
http://foundation.biblepay.org/NFTBrowse

NFT Orphan Sponsorship Area:
http://foundation.biblepay.org/NFTOrphans

Direct Mail Delivery and Greeting Cards:
https://wiki.biblepay.org/Direct_Mail_Delivery

Greeting Cards:
https://wiki.biblepay.org/Greeting_Cards

Creating a DM Sanc from Scratch:
https://docs.dash.org/en/stable/masternodes/dip3-upgrade.html

Upgrading a Sanctuary to Deterministic Mode:
https://wiki.biblepay.org/EasySanc

Referral Codes for creating Viral PR and Referral Gift Codes:
https://wiki.biblepay.org/Referrals

Portfolio Builder:
https://wiki.biblepay.org/Portfolio_Builder



Press Release #1:

https://foundation.biblepay.org/Press/PressRelease1624.htm




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Sorry, one last thing, what is the DWU on TrustWallet staking?
Thanks, and may God bless, I will be back later to test some features, and work on that NFT plus company letter I referenced.
twinkle

Hi Twinkle be blessed as well by God!  Yeah, DWU% is equiv. to the banking industry APR% and its displayed in Portfolio Builder.  The new release fixes it.




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Nice work Rob. I am definitely looking forward to the prod version. All of the features look really nice, and I am confident that this is a really solid upgrade to the previous edition. I will now be looking into contacting the businesses, Youtube channels, and other organizations that I have a list of pertaining to the acceptance of this currency, and I will let you all know as soon as I finalize what I will say. I want to make sure that the wallet is fully in prod before I send them, and possibly get a few of the other wiki related features updated like Jo was referring to earlier. Again, really nice work, let me know if you want to do another testnet equivalent, or what usecase the tbbp have at this point. Also, I will be doing a cross custom NFT in varying color schemes as a sort of set soon, and all of the BBP that the set makes will be donated immediately. Be on the lookout for it in the next few days if you all are interested! Thanks, and may God bless you all.
twinkle

Thanks a lot Twinkle;  This plan of attack you lay out sounds excellent.  I look forward to our new relationships as God opens more doors for us.
I will have the press release ready within an hour; she is finishing it now, praise God.
Sounds great on creating a prod NFT; that will be sweet.  On a side note, I did add the ability to switch between TestNet and Prod chains in Foundation.biblepay.org (in your account settings you can populate TestNet CPK and Prod CPK, and you can choose to switch chains with the two buttons) -- so now we can create (and "see") both testnet NFTs and Prod NFTs.   (See the NFT marketplace menu items on the left menu bar in the pool).

Btw, the marketplace is now in Prod so people can go ahead and start making prod nfts right now!

On another side note:  Greeting Cards have been enabled in Prod, so if anyone wants to send a greeting card to a relative in the United States go for it - it will be physically delivered to their house.  I suppose we need to block mail delivery in other countries    (with an error code!).


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Is there a guide to the trust wallet integration? It is not clear how to set it up. I found Portfolio Builder, which mentions Trust wallet integration, but then says you can use any wallet, which is how it was before the update.

Blessings,
Jo

First let me clarify Trust Wallet vs. Light wallets:  You *can* still use our portfolio builder along with a light wallet and create a position, as long as the amount suffix matches the BBP pin, yes.  The idea with Trust Wallet is to additionally bring biblepay a facility to store an entire portfolio in one place, provide a cryptocurrency index for our users (that match the prices on those 10 currencies in Trust Wallet), and as a starting point to "bring in" more future 'vetted' currencies directly from trust wallet (assuming that they add their currencies to trustwallet based on very popular demand).

So yes you can do both.  If I could ask you and others here in the community to gather the top 5-10 difficulties with portfolio builder then I can go ahead and write a dedicated wiki page for trust wallet.  For now we don't have a dedicated doc for it, Im here to help answer questions until we establish some positions and I will take a stab at creating one soon.



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*** BIBLEPAY PRESS RELEASE - COIN QUORA ***




https://coinquora.com/biblepay-is-set-to-release-its-new-upgrade-this-week/



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If we missed the mandatory upgrade, is an erasechain required? or try exec reassesschains?


If I do an erasechains, are all my utxo mined transactions forgotten or unlocked? should I give it a day or two to see if get a utxo mining payment without doing anything further?
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If we missed the mandatory upgrade, is an erasechain required? or try exec reassesschains?


If I do an erasechains, are all my utxo mined transactions forgotten or unlocked? should I give it a day or two to see if get a utxo mining payment without doing anything further?

The erasechain is still required, because we added two more databases to the index.
Note from the QT wallet you can now just do it from the Wallet Tools menu, instead of command line.

Your wallet tx's will not be erased - erasechain only erases the blocks and reloads them.


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