Hello my wonderful readers users and community,
Recently we had two hard forks in rapid succession, I'd like to explain how that happened. Basically, the first hard for, hard fork 3, was a bad merge. I only merged code developed by JGA when I had intended to merge code developed by both JGA and cryotomancer.
This resulted in hard fork 3 lacking the security updates as well as the economic updates designed by @rycharde.
I put all of this into hard fork 4.
Initially, I missed one variable when I modified cryptomancers hard fork three code. This meant that the hard work for upgrade initially failed, throwing many many strange messages because it was putting in code changes when it hit hard fork 3 instead of putting in those changes when it hit hard fork 4. I eventually figured that out, upgraded the code, and deployed the chain.
The witnesses are getting better and better and better over time at rapidly deploying these upgrades.
raspberry Pi upgrades did not go smoothly for hard fork 3, but did go smoothly for hard fork 4. I found a bug, that was pushing the testnet docker image to the location where the main net docker image was supposed to be for the raspberry pi. That's why there were some issues. Now that that has been resolved, the last thing that I'm going to do in this development Sprint is put together images that start nodes instantly for rpc and witness nodes.
@chopchopstar is helping to craft a strategy for expansion in vietnam.
The new front end is called optic, and I'm going to try and lay out a clearly defined schedule for my various endeavors.
The security issues at blurt have come in a pretty high personal cost for me, when the chain is sad, I must stop and fix it. I believe that the chain is now in a place where it is much harder to attack.
I want to thank the witnesses.
I want to thank the developers, JGA and cryptomancer, who put work into the hard fork.
I want to thank Ricardo and richard, for their constant and continuous support of our work.
I want to thank the investors and user community, for their faith in our efforts technically and to build a better and more positive decentralized content community.
I did that economic review a while back, and I believe that farming is the last critical issue to having impact on the price of blurt.
In my view, Farmers contribute nothing to the community or platform and are effectively leeches, so we have developed economic changes that will prevent them from further harming our system.
This will ensure that there is more funding available for quality content, coming from the pool, which will not be being drained by farming activity.
Thank you @jacobgadikian @megadrive and the others for your hard work to keep the Blurt platform alive and thriving :D
Thanks to you and everyone for the work and dedication, but above all with firmness and passion that everything will be fine. We go step by step but safe.
They all add value to the chain, they are all important for that, thank you, for expressing your gratitude.
GO, GO, GO.
Good vibes.
This is great. Although I didn't know until a few hours earlier that there was an HF. I observed my posts didn't go through so I suspected. Also glad to see Blurt in a Bull run just when the HF happens. Hope this HF comes with so much more greatness for Blurt. Great Job Guys!!!👍👍
Many thanks to the whole crew!!!
I am very excited to see what happens next.
I just let my Pi run the last few weeks, now it is certainly not up to date. Could you please tell me which image I should use now to support the blockchain in the best possible way?
And it would be great if you (or someone) would explicitly list what exactly (visible for the "simple" blogger) has changed due to the HF. Thank you!
We appreciate the effort and dedication to carry out such an interesting project, it is true that it has been difficult to move forward, fighting against so many attacks, but with God they will succeed in moving forward and overcome all difficulties and obstacles, as "Don Quixote says, if the dogs bark it is because we are doing well", so the greatest of success with this new effort and that everything they implement is for the good of the Blurt Community. We have faith in the project and I see it strong and stable, do not lose heart, you can do it, you are a team with a huge heart.
You speak from the heart of many bloggers! Thank you!
I would also like to receive information about this...
cheers 🤠
Congratulations for the job well done. I'm so sorry the RPI squad couldn't help with this double fork. Our witnesses are still not in the game even today and so we were unfortunately only part of the astonished audience.
Thank you all very much for your work.
Was there a small rollback during hf4 or are some posts created during hf not displayed?
Big Thanks to everyone involved.
I wrote recently about what will happen to votes, but really, users need to wait so that all the Blurt front-ends change their own internal calculations.
perhaps most people don't realise that what they see as pending rewards are NOT directly from the blockchain but are simulated calculations done by the front-end script - only things like rshares and curation-weights are lifted directly from the blockchain.
Hence, nobody freak out. Don't panic!
reality will resume once all front-ends are using the same formulas as the new HF4 chain.
Any problems with reality after that, are a different issue ;-)
I have seen people raising issues on this. Thanks for clarifying this. I am glad you are involved in the development of Blurt especially on the economics part of the platform. I have more confidence for this all to get better and things to happen. Thanks for your work.
Thanks very much. The slight holdup now is that there is more than one fix. I have, on my side, analysed and fixed the zero-payout issue - it's now a matter of coding the very fiddly matter of a HF5. Blockchains really ARE fiddly because cannot change their history - it is not like changing an app. Thanks for your support.
This proves that Blurt is alive!!
I try to test all functions and not any bugs. Thanks for your success.
Oh! Great. Smooth now. Thank you so much dear.
Success for your hard work.
They have worked hard for the platform and you can see the progress little by little, all the effort that many people put into this is admirable. Thank you for always keeping us informed and above all for your support. I'm sure Blurt will be very successful.
Thanks a lot for your work and time!
Great to see the Blurt Website back up again today, and thanks for the HF explanation @JacobGadikian ~ I have always had faith in the Blurt Project, but there will inevitably be some problems along the way ~ These are best solved with innovation & trying new techniques to improving old issues... 👍
Thank you so much @jacobgadikian, @megadrive and the rest of the Blurt team working behind the scene. HF is a hard work and I know all of you are sacrificing your time, resources and most of all your family for such undertakings. I strongly believe that all security measures will soon be resolved and with your dedication in making these loopholes (if you may) closed, all of us Blurters will have peace of mind. THANK YOU, THANK YOU for a great job well done!
@mers
Many thanks to all of them who have worked tirelessly to bring Blurt to this position. Their loves for work dedication encourages us very much. I think our greater blurt community is much happier today.I pray and hope that BLURT is bigger and user-friendly more.Thanks a lot @jacobgadikian @megadrive and every blurter. GO GO GO Blurt Far away GO.
Thank you so much sir an the rest of the team who spent time and much effort for the betterment of the blurt ecosystem.
I hope you got some whiskeys and take a break, we can wait.
Many thanks to @megadrive, @rycharde and especially @jacobgadikian for all the hours they have sacrificed to push the platform forward, make it more secure and make the necessary improvements. Also to each and every one of the developers and witnesses who were at the foot of the cannon attentive to the instructions to get the HFs done in a few hours. This is Blurt a united community working as a team to move forward and I love being a part of it. Thanks to all of you
Thanks for writing this update. Now, I get it why everything was down a few days back. I use Blurtter a lot because it is often up when the rest are down but even Blurtter was not working then. Hardforks are good news, because they mean development and getting the system better. Thanks for all you do for Blurt, we appreciate all that for sure. Most of all, I am pleased to know that you are taking action in the areas that really need improvement in this platform. I wish us and Blurt all the best!
Since the hardfork no one has been paid rewards for post or curation.
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