February 2021 Testnet Thread (Tribulation)

[Rob Andrews]

1.5.4.2-Mandatory Upgrade for TestNet

- Ensure smtp outbound does not result in duplicates
- Ensure pop3 inbound does not receive empty emails
- Add timestamp to chat UI




All, lets start testing a new round of e-mails with a higher SN 13000 or higher.

I think we are 90% done with testing.  Lets try to wrap this up over the next two weeks so we can inform exchanges and make a press release.

[earlzmoade]

Hey Rob.
I tried download the new testnet version, but it looks to me like the installer is broken. (windows)

[MIP]

1.5.4.2-Mandatory Upgrade for TestNet

- Ensure smtp outbound does not result in duplicates
- Ensure pop3 inbound does not receive empty emails
- Add timestamp to chat UI




All, lets start testing a new round of e-mails with a higher SN 13000 or higher.

I think we are 90% done with testing.  Lets try to wrap this up over the next two weeks so we can inform exchanges and make a press release.

Testnet version for Mac ready

I sent a few emails, I will wait for the client to warm up and see if you sent to me.

[Rob Andrews]

Hey Rob.
I tried download the new testnet version, but it looks to me like the installer is broken. (windows)

Hi Earlz,
I redeployed it and did a quick windows test and it looks like it downloads now.

Good luck.

[earlzmoade]

Hi Earlz,
I redeployed it and did a quick windows test and it looks like it downloads now.

Good luck.

Looking good.
Im back up and running, will test send out some emails later.

[Rob Andrews]

Looking good.
Im back up and running, will test send out some emails later.

I replied and sent some to both of you guys too.

[MIP]

I replied and sent some to both of you guys too.

There must be something going on, I just received now the emails from you both sent me in 10th Feb.

The email timestamp is correct, but it has taken too many hours for me to see them in Thunderbird.

I also received the email about the youtube ban.

[Rob Andrews]

There must be something going on, I just received now the emails from you both sent me in 10th Feb.

The email timestamp is correct, but it has taken too many hours for me to see them in Thunderbird.

I also received the email about the youtube ban.

Yeah, my fault I forgot to upgrade my two sancs and I think that prevented the normal flow between nodes as they are the main public nodes.

Can we try again with a new round of new emails, with higher #s?

Ill send a couple out now!

Thanks!

[Rob Andrews]

So after we test the e-mails, I plan on finishing the wiki guides and making a press release.  We got an offer from Newsbit to publish an article about our next release for free, as long as I make a press release.

So any other last minute changes that need to be added to this version?  I think we can go live with this version of UTXO staking.

My hopes are that an influx of users from the 4 partner cryptos will cause buyers to buy and hold at least 1mm new BBP per day, and get us out of our glut within 200 days.
Of course Im starting to pray now each morning that God rescues us, as I prefer God's help (as that would help our community even more if those that want out are released asap so they can pay their bills).

So lets try to finish email testing over the next few days.  Ive been adding new college modules in the background also (Im almost done with module 2).

[sunk818]

Hello, I'm late to the party. UTXO mining looks cool. I tried a few times and it worked. Is testing done with it? I noticed some sancs are post banned and does that cause sancs to not reach consensus regarding utxo mining transactions? I'll try the user record and participate when I have time.

[MIP]

So lets try to finish email testing over the next few days.  Ive been adding new college modules in the background also (Im almost done with module 2).

I have been testing almost 3h now and I don´t seem to receive the emails.
I sent you a couple of them with #14000 series number.

[earlzmoade]

I have been testing almost 3h now and I don´t seem to receive the emails.
I sent you a couple of them with #14000 series number.

Hey MIP.

I will send you an e-mail in an about an hour.

[MIP]

Hey MIP.

I will send you an e-mail in an about an hour.

Thanks, so far I received your response to my #14000 email.

[Rob Andrews]

Hey MIP.

I will send you an e-mail in an about an hour.

I replied to some of the emails yesterday and the first issue is no one was mining so I see now why they didnt go out - my block didnt pass - so you guys should get my yesterday emails.
Regarding the ones from Before this mandatory upgrade, the hash has changed so that explains why those are no longer on the network (since the sancs were offline, they were not saved to disk).

So theoretically you guys should get yesterdays and todays from me now?

[Rob Andrews]

Hello, I'm late to the party. UTXO mining looks cool. I tried a few times and it worked. Is testing done with it? I noticed some sancs are post banned and does that cause sancs to not reach consensus regarding utxo mining transactions? I'll try the user record and participate when I have time.

Yeah I think testing is complete - we can still refine UTXO even more (as far as ease of use) in prod.

The consensus is definitely always a potential problem if sancs are down (as UTXO rewards work just like PODC rewards, if 'exec health' shows we dont have enough sancs online, the contract wont be voted in.  Then the daily payment would be missed, although as everyone knows that only happened a couple times in our history in prod. 

In testnet we only need 2 working sancs.  However, I see we have 1 successful GSC vote out of 2 for this superblock.

I think my second sanc is banned.

Let me restart it now.