Did you know that BiblePay allows you to solo mine directly from the wallet? Rob, the lead dev, has made many optimizations to increase the hash rate of the wallet miner. How does it stack up against an external cpu…
Has BiblePay block times changed after removing AntiBotNet (ABN)?
Anti Bot Net (ABN) was a feature in BiblePay that required any miner to stake 125k BBP (aged 1 day) to successfully mine a block. The idea was that any new miner would need to stake BBP. This prevents botnets…
In 1991, hs91.net came up with the distributed ledger concept.
I recommend you listen to the CryptoVoices podcast about hs91.net. They came up with the distributed ledger technology (DLT) concept in 1991 . They opine that there are simpler and easier ways to secure the blockchain. Proof of Work (PoW)…
Lynx mining and consensus rules
I asked Ben (lead developer of Lynx): Ben, I was reading up on the block creation… seems like there are few moving targets like time stamp. Someone proposed that you could “hack” the mining process by matching up the hash…
Interview with long-time BiblePay supporter Togo
We have a very special Q&A with togo a long-time community member and BiblePay supporter. He was gracious to answer enough to answer some questions. Please take a read! What country are you from? What do you like about your…
How do I solo mine with BiblePay?
To solo mine, you need two things: 1) external BBP miner, and 2) correct biblepay.conf file. To get the external BBP miner, you can follow the directions mid-way here to download the BBP external miner. You can use the wallet…
BiblePay and cryptocurrency glossary
Layman users need to understand all the different crypto keywords. We must educate our current and future users. BiblePay specific glossary BiblePay (BBP) – BiblePay is a cryptocurrency with three features: Helping Orphans: 10% of coins go directly to Charity…
What does “Stratum requested work restart” mean?
NOMP BiblePay Pool: Stratum requested work restart Recently, BiblePay released an external miner (a fork of minerd by pooler, aka cpuminer). This has been working great for solo mining with and without anti-bot-net (ABN). Now that solo mining is working…
BiblePay external miner hash rates
Below are some sample hash rates from BiblePay’s external cpu miner (cpuminer, minerd). You can either solo mine (your external miner talks to the wallet directly) or pool mine (your external miner talks to a stratum pool server). This Proof…
How do I install NOMP pool for BiblePay?
If you are a miner and just want to mine, please go this link: How do I mine BiblePay on the NOMP pool? If you are interested in being a pool operator (running a web site to host many miners,…