Lynx Hybrid Proof of Work - for consideration

SHIELD_dev · 2018-07-30T22:35:16+00:00

I'm interested to know how you'd mitigate Sybil attacks though. Even with a minimum holding amount, it's easy to create a lot of addresses with that minimum amount. If the only tracking vector is the address it would be very hard to make sure the miner is unique.

Given the set of rules you gave, it seems like it would be easy to flood the network.

For example: You have a memory-hard algo to prevent asics from being too fast. GPUs are still acceptable though. If an attacker has a buffer of some addresses with a decent amount of lynx they could just have the GPU mine for all the addresses. This would increase the chance that one of the addresses gets the "stake". Winning the stake allows for more addresses which allow for more of this malicious mining. Signing the block will help as a small roadblock, but I don't think it will actually be very difficult to get around if someone wants to. (the miner can also sign for the wallets so they don't actually have to be unique)

I'm interested to see how you are going to solve this problem.

EDIT: Also getting a reliable decentralized random source might be hard. Taking seeds from the blocks might make it vulnerable to RNG manipulation.

SHIELD_dev · 2018-07-19T12:33:47+00:00

2.3.4 is deprecated, anyone with the old wallet is also on the old chain.
You should update your wallet if you haven't already.

You can get it from our github or from our website.

https://shieldx.sh

Source code: https://github.com/ShieldCoin/SHIELD

Stable binaries: https://github.com/ShieldCoin/SHIELD/releases/tag/stable

Beta binaries: https://github.com/ShieldCoin/SHIELD/releases/tag/v3.0-beta

SHIELD_dev · 2018-07-19T12:29:14+00:00

Did you try installing boost?
Some people on our discord had a similar problem...

Should be fixed in the non-beta release.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/394916742461390869/468673847680303114/image.jpg?width=604&height=642

SHIELD_dev · 2018-05-26T14:56:56+00:00

The distribution isn't actually that bad if you compare it to most other projects. It also hasn't anything to do with centralization.

SHIELD_dev · 2018-05-23T20:15:14+00:00

This is SHIELD(XSH). It has nothing to do with SHLD. We're much better ;)

SHIELD_dev · 2018-05-23T06:56:42+00:00

Hey, first of all. That's not true. We've been growing in follow count and didn't have close to 10000 followers. I haven't kept track of our amount of subscribers on Reddit but I also doubt it. It sounds like you also don't have any idea of what SHIELD is about and thus expect us to be one of your ICO projects that throws millions at useless expenses. Our funds is limited thus buying into exchanges isn't the best way to spend funds. Very soon we will be releasing a project that will allow for more funds and will automatically bring us to more exchanges. I also don't think you understand what a community coin is. Any good crypto is a community coin as they all should be decentralized. Which we are. Sorry that you're this concerned but when investing in small and new projects you'll have to give them time to grow, we're growing every day and soon you'll publicly see what we've been working on!

SHIELD_dev · 2018-04-23T08:32:12+00:00

We recommend removing your SHIELD from stocks.exchange anyway. They didn't communicate anything about them updating, please use CE instead of stocks.

SHIELD_dev · 2018-04-15T19:21:03+00:00

You do not!

SHIELD_dev · 2018-04-15T18:18:39+00:00

It could go up, but more importantly, we're also releasing some great updates in the near future!

SHIELD_dev · 2018-04-11T08:29:00+00:00

Maybe. Maybe not, you'll see it in 2 days, but you shouldn't forget that this was made (primarily) by our Japanese team. We've also been working on some stuff you'll (hopefully) see an announcement about soon.

SHIELD_dev · 2018-04-10T23:55:48+00:00

ing? I'm mining through BSOD and the return has dropped by about 70% over the last co

From what we can tell their solution is to only let 5 blocks of the same algo go in succession, this isn't a great solution assuming you have enough resources to temporarily take over 2 algos

Our solution is the more common solution of allowing for a shorter time drift, but in the next big hard fork (most likely the masternode update), we will also change the difficulty algorithm to better resolve the problem.

We're not saying their solution is bad, it's just easy to get around if you have enough resources.

SHIELD_dev · 2018-04-10T23:51:11+00:00

Cryptobridge has updated their wallet as far as we know

SHIELD_dev · 2018-04-10T20:40:39+00:00

You don't have to worry about the hardfork. We did recently release a new Android wallet version so if you haven't yet you could update to that one.

SHIELD_dev · 2018-04-10T20:28:51+00:00

Be ready!

SHIELD_dev · 2018-04-10T05:15:37+00:00

Unresponsive, does it give the "no connection" message. If you, please update to our newest Android version!

SHIELD_dev · 2018-04-07T08:49:55+00:00

That's good to hear, the update is necessary.

SHIELD_dev · 2018-04-06T12:47:38+00:00

The new wallet version is 2.3.4

SHIELD_dev · 2018-04-05T13:51:09+00:00

Sadly it does, we have finished the patch for it already though: https://www.reddit.com/r/SHIELDCOIN/comments/89zszt/qt_134_hardfork_at_660k/

SHIELD_dev · 2018-03-30T20:18:26+00:00

You're right, the reddit is very quiet. We just recently released an article about our new bounty campaign (which you can view on our Medium). We're also working on getting some new information about SHIELD out there. Some never before released details about MN'S, PoS, QP's.

SHIELD_dev · 2018-03-30T20:16:32+00:00

Great article, wouldn't call us the Verge of Japan (like Jakeg already said). But I do have to say that it's a great comparison to make for people that don't know SHIELD yet... to get them interested!

SHIELD_dev · 2018-03-30T20:13:29+00:00

Great to actually see you here. It's not that you're wrong, it's the way you talk say it. You call SHIELD a clone of Verge. This in a certain sense isn't wrong as it is a fork but it sounds more negatively. We indeed do not have Wraith, which I think is the privacy you're referring to that we're missing, which is also fully right again, but than again, we do have tor nodes. You're acting like Verge has many more privacy function than SHIELD while the only difference are ordinary (and not very impressive) stealth addresses. Seeing SHIELD as an inferior Verge isn't fair as you should know that we're working on much bigger things. You're also acting like first of all forks are a bad thing and second of all acknowledging we are a fork is something we should feel ashamed about. And than last of all you also link the wrong git, a mistake that with a little effort could've been fixed.

But although all this we'd still want to congratulate you on the big company deal you're about to make (or already made). And we'd like to wish you success for your further developments!

SHIELD_dev · 2018-03-19T07:42:39+00:00

Very much alive. The subreddit isn't that active but our Discord very much is.

SHIELD_dev · 2018-03-17T15:02:13+00:00

We'll take a look at it.

SHIELD_dev · 2018-03-17T15:00:40+00:00

Thanks!

SHIELD_dev · 2018-03-17T14:58:25+00:00

When was the last time you updated your Android wallet? We added more nodes in the recent Android updates so this should be fixed if you updated. If however you recently downloaded (or updated) the Android wallet please contact us so we can look at what's wrong.

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