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Masari (MSR) is a scalability-focused and privacy-ensured cryptocurrency based on Monero.
One of the first major contributions is a necessary update implementing one of the best known difficulty algorithms in order to mitigate flash mining issues as a new altcoin. MSR will track most changes upstream from Monero, as well as contribute back whenever possible (such as the WHM difficulty algorithm). Future features will include uncle mining (using the DECOR+ protocol) and a pending whitepaper regarding a Blocktree protocol which is aimed at solving on-chain scalability.
Specifications
Most specifications are equivalent to Monero's:
* PoW algorithm: CryptoNight
* Max supply: ~18.5 million (with tail emission)
* Block reward: Smoothly varying recurrence relation starting at around 35 MSR per block, block_reward(block_height) = (2^64 - 1 - total_supply(block_height - 1)) * 2 ^ -19 * 10 ^ -12
* Block time: 120 seconds
* Difficulty: Re-targets at every block
* Genesis block: Saturday, 2 September 2017 21:20:46 UTC
Exchanges
https://tradeogre.com/exchange/BTC-MSR (listed on April 11 2018)
https://www.southxchange.com/Market/Book/MSR/BTC (listed on Sep 30 2017)
https://stocks.exchange/trade/MSR/BTC (listed Nov 6 2017, withdrawals now working again, verified Feb 1 2018 [exchange wallet wasn't working for months of Dec-Jan 2018])
Market Indicators
https://coinlib.io/coin/MSR/Masari (market price tracker)
https://www.cryptunit.com/ (profitability metrics)
https://www.cryptoisme.com/ (profitability metrics)
Funding
* No crowd funding has been done, and won't be for the foreseeable future unless deemed absolutely necessary.
* Everything so far (infrastructure costs, exchange listing fees, etc.) has been paid out of personal funds.
* While there is no pre-mine, there is a 4-5 day gap between the genesis block and this announcement on Bitcointalk (~4k blocks) that has gotten me around 100k MSR which is roughly ~0.5% of the total supply (excluding tail emission). The network was publicly available from the genesis block, and other miners were present pre-announcement.
* This approximated amount above has been transferred to the donation wallet (tx 8e6802d4557ec2fcfd64a68a92c7ee4390e90a49423700e8725ccadc3fbfd8cf, viewkey available below) and this wallet will be used transparently to help with the project's budget (i.e. developer bounties).
* Work for hire is available to be paid for in MSR or BTC (the landing page is an example, paid for with 1k MSR, and a mini marketing campaign paid for with 400 MSR).
Games
Masari Dice - https://www.southxchange.com/Market/Book/MSR/BTC
Research
https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0005.pdf - Ring Confidential Transactions (transactions use RCT by default in Masari)
https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf - CryptoNote v2.
One of the longer term goals for Masari will require a whitepaper that is yet to be drafted.
Discussion Forums
Slack: invitation disabled, please use Discord
Open invitation link for Discord: https://discord.gg/sMCwMqs
Telegram: https://t.me/masaricurrency
Telegram Announcements channel (deprecated): https://t.me/msrann
Pools
The following pools are promoted ones that donate:
http://www.masaripool.com
https://masari.superpools.net
http://id.masari.network/
https://get.masaricoin.com/
Other pools can be found in these community maintained lists:
https://cryptoisme.com/coin/masari
http://masaripools.org/
Community Projects
Web-based pool miner: http://msr.cpufan.club
Web-based wallet (still in early development): https://masari.network/
Update 2017-09-13:
This coin has some versioning changes that will lead original cryptonote pools to not work unless you use the patched cryptonote-util package.
To set up a pool using node-cryptonote-pool, change your cryptonote-util path in package.json to use the Masari patched version:
You'll need to set it up such that it pays the miners in the pool either automatically, or manually, both requiring masari-wallet-rpc configured, and ensure your config has a mixin of 12.
Block Explorer
https://www.msrchain.net/
Release Notes
* The fork is based off Monero's latest v0.11.0.0 versioned code, which is set to be the hard fork version for September 2017.
This release cleans up and refactors all legacy Cryptonote implementations that are superseded by Monero's RingCT (for example: splitting amounts and dust outputs related code is removed), therefore Masari only uses RCT transactions.
* All core tests have been re-written to support RingCT code coverage.
* RCT outputs are randomized (sorted by amount in original Monero implementation), as well as tx fee sources.
* The default mixin is set to 12, and in contrast to Monero is static and cannot be changed. This is something that the end user does not need to worry about, is relatively inexpensive in storage and computational costs, and a homogeneous mixin increases anonymity of transactions.
* Fluffy blocks are on by default. This has been in Monero's testnet for quite some time, is mature, and is now optional in the latest release.
* New WHM difficulty algorithm implemented to solve flash mining issues stemming from high hashrate volatility.
Sources
Source - https://github.com/masari-project/masari
Binaries
https://github.com/masari-project/masari/releases/tag/v0.2.3.0
GUI Wallet
This is a port made available for use while we develop our web wallet.
These GUI binaries are old and will soon be replaced with updated binaries for v5, but can be used in conjunction with the CLI binaries above (masarid)
https://github.com/masari-project/masari-wallet-gui/releases/tag/v0.1.4.0
Screenshot:
Funding
If you'd like to show your support, please donate:
Masari: 5nYWvcvNThsLaMmrsfpRLBRou1RuGtLabUwYH7v6b88bem2J4aUwsoF33FbJuqMDgQjpDRTSpLCZu3dXpqXicE2uSWS4LUP (viewkey: 99e21e00cce073c126e9aed800c9e2e82518534b3924b035a29436ff4f75bc0c)
Monero: 4A57eA3so6bEE8FUcaN1KtMXD3sxjjbvcKD3MF1pUgRi5PNHTpB7sYN2DmJv3EXxtZCWeG88tsVLzdfZJcmUFm52SbrfJWr (viewkey: c7a7c141581ac4436ba8bfb81dd67234720c565c696ef154a25c7e7314ce4b08)
Bitcoin: 1J1he4qtTuNpCxyEBozkeKfDpoeYxfE3rj
This announcement page is still under development.
Please feel free to download and start mining some Masari!
Best regards,
Thaer
getmasari.org
Russian translation - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2266147.0
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Masari Fork Block has been announced: block #170,000. Masari switching to CryptoNight Variant 1 (Monero alias CryptoNightv7)
https://github.com/masari-project/masari/releases/tag/v0.2.0.0
thaerkh released this
This is a major release that includes upstream features.
I'd like to thank cryptochangements34 for his contributions in this major release.
The following can be used to verify that you have downloaded the correct file (using sha256 checksums):
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